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'was towed' from: Petoskey to Chicago by the wrecking. tug Favorite, The steamer Joshua Rhoades, build- ing at the Lorain yard of the American Ship .:Building -Co,- for --Mr.: -W.. Becker, of Cleveland, will be launched at noon Saturday and will be named by Miss Helen. Bartow. 'Capt: Thonias Simmnions: will sail 'her. : Capt. John_D. Green, of the Haw- good steamer Wisconsin, was taken sick at Ashtabula, Tuesday. with a se- vere attack of hemorrhages. He was attended by Dr. Dorman, the marine surgeon at the harbor. Capt. Green belongs in Buffalo. The Western Transit Co. has estab- lished a large lighter in Duluth- Super- 'ior harbor to transfer merchandise for the company's boats. The lighter is named Faith and was towed to the head of the lakes by the Amazones. The steamer Henry .B. Hawgood, ore laden, ran aground near the north pier, Buffalo, last Thursday. Piss heavy .fog she missed the channel. Her cargo was lightered and within a few hours she was able .to proceed into _ port. Boats are. eo ge held: up at Ashta- bula by the car shortage: The delays -have not thus far been long, but .they are: noticeable on both the -Pennsyl- vania and Lake Shore sides of the river. This is the earliest the shortage has been felt there. . The July lumber oe at: the 'Teas awandas exceeded all predictions. Fig- ures compiled by: the customs Officials show that more than 62,000,000 feet of lumber was received. This exceeds the amount received in July, 1905, by 7,000,000 feet, Capt. John 'Lowe will bring out the new steamer Peter A. B. Widener, now building at the South Chicago yard of the American Ship Building Co. for the. Pittsburg Steamship. Co. ~-Capt. Lowe is master of the steamer Samuel _F,_B,-Morse. - Napoleon' Grignon,.of Duluth, will "attempt to fecover the tug Alfred W., of the Dulutl-Superior Dredging Co.'s fleet, wrecked on a reef near Pie 'island. He' will obtain his wrecking outfit from the Great Lakes be 0G at 'Port Arthur. Mr. Thomas 'Durkin, shore engineer of. the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co., has recovered from his illness and has re- turned to the yard of the Great Lakes 'Engineering Works where he is super- © intending the construction of the ma- chiriery for the steamer J. H. Sheadle. 7 Capt. Samuel B. Massey, of the steamer John Stanton, and Capt. John . Massey, of the steamer. G. Watson. TAE MarRINE. REVIEW French were able to exchange fraternal courtesies at Ashtabula Jast week.- It seldom happens that two bvothers strike the same port at the same time. Charles Thrasher, mate of the steam- er Empire City, left her on the last trip down so he could proceed to Black Rock, N. Y.; and move his fam- ily from there to Ashtabula, O. In his absence, John D. Oliphant will act as mate and Wm. McDonell as second mate. The high-pressure cylinder of the White Star line- steamer City of To 'ledo broke last week as she was turning around in Toledo harbor. She was towed to. Detroit and will be repaired at the yard of the Detroit Ship Build- 'ing Co. The steamer Sappho has been chartered to take her place. Clarke Byers, Detroit, who has heen acting as second mate on the steamer B. F. Jones will be given a. mate's be:th on that ship when Capt. F. T: Simmons leaves her to take charge of © the new steamer Joshua Rhoades of the Becker fleet. Capt. Simmons has been acting as mate on the Jones. The steamer. John Harper,® of the Gilchrist Transpo"tation. -Co.'s* fleet; struck an obstruction in Lake Erie near Colchester reef this week. The steamer' had to be beached on Bar point to prevent sinking. Steam pumps were sent to her from the lighter New- man. ao : The steamer John Sherwin was. in collision with the steamer Sahara as the former was coming out and the lat- ter going into the -Missabe ore docks at Duluth. The Sherwin's anchor .was driven through the bow plates of the Sahara below the hawse pipes, but above the loading line, A man prominent in the cane of "the lake seamen's union declar ed last week at Ashtabula that 'there are. as many wheelsmen and watchmen work- ing ashore for high wages this year as there are on the boats. The men -on the boats are breaking all records by holding one boat down most of the season, The steamer 'Crescent oe . was floated out of dry dock at Lovain on Wednesday of this week, making un- usually good time, as 140 plates had to De, removed and over 250 frames - taken 'out and replaced. There is, of course, considerable work to be' done on her yet, but the company expects to deliver her within ten days. : Business men at Ashtabula . harbor and marine men whose boats put in there have expressed themselves lately against having the harbor part of the - upper town of Ashtabula. They de- clare there is great confusion resulting 'to remark; -sailing on the lakes for twenty-six :23 from. it. For prompt delivery, mail. or anything else should be addressed to the harbor. Capt. B, R. Walker, of the steamer Roumania, distinguished himself at Ashtabula last week by turning to in 'the galley to cook breakfast for his -- crew. The cook vamoosed the night before and the skipper served beef- steak, potatoes and coffee in his ab- sence. The captain says everyone .en- ' joyed the meal, but a cook was secured soon after. One 'of Capt. Fred D. Galton's - "friends who was watching the steamer Moses Taylor pass up through the Ashtabula draw last week' was heard "Captain Fred Has been years ahd in all that time he has never had an accident, Love for the water was born in him because he ran away at an early agé to go 'before the mast' - on an old timer at Chicago," Thomas P. Kelly, the oldest en- gineer in the fleet of the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co., who retired last fall, has. purchased a farm near Painesville. Mr. Kelley says. that he has never worked so hard in his life as during tie pz -esent year, getting 'up at 4. a. m. daily, but adding that he never slept more soundly- or felt better in all his life. .Mr. -Kelly's last. steamer was 'the Centurion. He was, in fact, part owner of the Kaliyuga | and Centurion. At a special meeting of the hoard of directors of the Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Co. and the Detroit & Buffalo Transit Co., dividends - of four and .three per. cent respectively were: declared. The dividend of- four per cent is a semi- -annual declaration upon the. stock of -the~ Detroit & Cleveland line. . -The three per. cent dividend is the first that has been de--- clared upon stock of the Detroit & Buffalo line since it was started three years ago, This puts the latter. stock upon a six per cent basis. . The United States court of ook at St. Louis has just handed down: its - decision in the case of the owners of the schooner Thomas Gawn against the steamer John Harper, in which the former was awarded $3,200 damages, The Harper was towing the Gawn on the night' of Nov 9, 1903, and tried to enter Duluth ship canal in a gale. The schooner landed against the south pier. . Judge Morris, of the United. States court at Duluth, awarded the Gawn $1,600, one-half the amount de- manded. The court of appeals, ee the Gawn the full. sum, Le The two ore unloading machines at the Hocking Valley dock at Toledo fell on the steamer Cadillac, of the