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"24 'Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co.'s fleet, last week. Fortunately the injury to the steamer was slight. The Cadillac was directly under the rigs but the only injury sustained was the splintering _ of her rail cap and the staving in of two hatch covers. Her rail was below the level of the dock and consequently when the unloader fell it struck the dock first, breaking the force of the blow. Twenty men were working un- der the rig but managed to escape without 'injury. | _ A decision dismissing the libel of the Great Lakes Towing: Co. Worthington & Sill, marine insurance agents at Buffalo, has been handed down by United States Judge Hazel. The steamer Craig went ashore on ~"Simmon's reef 'on July 25, 1903, and was abandoned to the -- underwriters. She was towed to Detroit by the Great . Lakes Towing Co. who brought suit against Worthington & Sill to recover the cost of services: Judge Hazel holds that the firm were merely agents and that the services rendered were not on their personal credit. All the steamers of the Cleveland- Cliffs fleet are now owned by a hold- _ing company known as the Grand Is- land Steamship Co., the capital stock being practically nominal. The three new steamers building for the com- pany are being built entirely upon bonds, there being no issue of stock whatever. The bonds are guaranteed by the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co., which ' makes them independent of the ves- sels' earnings. The bonds are redeem- able annually in to per cent lots and therefore it is expected that the vessels will have paid for themselves in that time. : Mr. C. H. Menmuit, chief engineer of the steamer Michigan of the Cleve- land Cliffs Line, has been transferred to the Ishpeming. 'Mr. Menmuir su- perintended the construction of the machinery of the Ishpeming during the last few days, just prior to her delivery from the builders. He was also on her trial trip and reported that the machinery | behaved splendidly throughout the test. Mr. Menmuir was in the Andaste when Capt. C. E, Sayre commanded her. Both are to- gether again in the Ishpeming. The Ishpeming went into commission on Saturday last. One of the Pittsburg Steamship Co.'s greyhounds, the 'steamer Sir William Siemens, was equipped with a new idea in life lines last week at 'Ashtabula--new, at least, in so far as it has not been used on lake boats be- fore. It consists of a cable aft of the pilot. house running to the main mast with rings to which are spliced lines 'boats, against | however, - from Presque Isle to Detour last sea- .toward the bottoms of TAE /wRINE. REVIEW with a noose at the other end. The. common idea of a life line is where a boatswain's chair is used by a sort of trolley from either end of the boat. This is already installed.on several including. the Cleveland-Cliffs and Becker boats. The new idea is an improvement on this because it gives the crew a chance to save themselves in an emergency or- to watch the hatches. The deck lines swing clear of the hatches. It is said the United States inspectors are urging this sort of safety appliance aboard ship in pref- erence to the "trolley" idea, because it enables a skipper to send his men on deck to watch or fix the hatches with almost certain safety. With the "trolley" a man must go to either end before getting out. A noose at the end of the lines to run a hand through makes it impossible for a sea to carry a man overboard. The Siemens is in the greyhound class because she can knock off better than 9 miles with a big barge in tow, or 14 miles running light. "She has done better than this, because she made the run son in 3 hours 6 minutes, a distance of 47 miles. »Capf. M. K. Chamberlain is the Siemen's skipper, Thomas Zea- Jand is mate and Wm. Dodge is sec- 'ond mate, Duncan McVicar' and L. H. Smith are chief and second en- gineers. Norman Miller and Robert F. Pyette are wheelsmen on her. AT THE HEAD OF THE LAKES. Duluth, Aug. 6, 1906--Grain at upper lake ports is getting well . the bins. Trading is easing up, but shipping has been pretty active this week in wheat, oats and flax and promises to con- tinue so through next week. The rate has remained at 2%4 cents without vari-~ ation. The receipts and shipments of grain from this port have been as follows for the past week: Receipts. Shipments. July 28 Aug. 4 July 28 Aug. 4 Wheat- .1g8,012 244,691 626,134 750,077 Corn 6,701. 3,023 204 34,057 Oats . .312,509 253,300 315,575 524,672 Barley .150,365 144,168 62,526 142,679 Rye 2... 5,88t 17,982 ee ch y343 Flaxs'd 505,323 428,377 426,149 635,346 The ore boats have been moving well though not. unusually so: Just how big a month July has been at the head of the lakes in the matter of ore shipments is shown by the follow- ing record and comparison of the fig- ures for the past month. The figures show _ that July was ahead of any previous period, of the same length and that the total ship- ments from the Vermillion and Me- sabi rafiges are a little more than a million in advance of. last. year's rec- ord. This is practically the gain in the total carried down the lakes as -the lower ranges in the aggregate are , not doing more than holding their own. The steamers John Sherwin, of the Gilchrist Transportation Co.'s fleet, Capt. W. G. Stewart, and Sahara, of the Tomlinson line, Capt. C. C. Tous- ley, collided at the .Missabe - docks Thursday of last week and both boats were somewhat damaged. The Sher- win was. loaded and coming out of the docks and the Sahara was light. In maneuvering to get in the dock the bow of the Sahara swung around and struck the bow of the Sherwin, driving the anchor of the Sherwin, which was hanging outside, through her bow plating, stoving quite a hole above the load line. The Sahara had a couple of plates bent. After being inspected the Sherwin proceeded on her trip. The new suction dredge Enterprise, owned by the Duluth-Superior Dredge Co., left Duluth Sunday night in tow of the tug Schenck, Capt. Thomas Hogan, for Ogdensburg, a distance of 1,300 miles. This is the third 'dredge that the Schenck has towed to that port. The Enterprise is a 22-in. dredge, her hull is 120 by 4o ft. and she has triple-expansion engines of 900. HH. P. The Deutschland, of the Hamburg- American line, collided with a pier at Dover on. July 13. The accident is attributed to the present unsatisfactory state of the harbor-works and Dover will temporarily be abandoned as a port of call by the company. Hereafter the steamers of this company will call at Southampton. Two Harhors. Gross tons. July' 21-31, '06,... fea 431,930 OUty 20-35%, 'Os... ..... 405,750 Ueteade 26,174 Jui 1000. ee 1,288,625 fo te eS 1,210,916 Baten 77;/09 ete, 1906... i ose. 1,176,982 PCs oy cs 111,643 otal to Aug. 1, 1906... 3,865,153 Total to Aug. 1, 1008.. 3,766,093 orease se 98,160 Duluth. Superior. Total. Gross. tons, Gross tons. Gross tons. 584,860 296,848 1,313,638 440,174 258,270 1,104,200 144,686 38,578 209,438 1,783,086 917,761 3,989,472 1,394,828 885,588 3,491,332 388,258 32,173 498,140 1,656,831 885,588 3,719,401 126,255 32,173 270,071 4,932,508 2,671,536 11,469,197 4,114,376 2,519,991 10,401,360 818,132 151,545 1,067,837