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but with a south wind vessels draw- ing that cannot reach the dock. The shoal spot is between the car dumping machine and the piers. Capt. Harris H. Baker, successfully raised the steamer C. W. Elphicke, stranded on the eastern breakwater of Cleveland recently, and after the re- maining portion of its cargo was lightered upon the Magnetic, was towed to dry dock. The repairs upon her will take about six weeks. The Pittsburg Steamship -- Cors boats are being rushed to the limit, many of them making four trips a month, but it happened recently at Ashtabula that the steamer Ericsson was delayed four days. When she did get away one of the men aboard declared he would paint her stack black on account of the delay. Capt. L. B. Cummings, mdster of the steamer Anna C. Minch, is the envy of all the captains onthe lakes on account of a swell-looking glass top he has had built on the Minch's pict Mouse. itis on the order ofa shelter from the elements, but steam heat and other conveniences make -it an extension of the pilot house proper. Officials of the Pittsburg Steamship Co. do not claim to have any yachts in their big fleet, but it is a fact that Capt. F. C. Watson, of the steamer Maruba, made the residents of Ashtabula think last week that he is sailing a yacht. The Maruba looked nice enough in a new coat of red paint to be classed that way. Some said she is the "nicest looking boat in the fleet.' That it is natural for some families to take to the water, is indicated by the fact that there are three Girardins in skippers' berths. Capt. David Gir- ardin sails the H. H. Brown, Capt. David Girardin Jr., sails the Fayette Brown and Capt. Walter Girardin sails the barge Hartnell. It is sel- dom that a father and his two sons sail three boats in one line. The Union Wrecking Co. is raising the steamer John Duncan, which lies in filty feet of «water just off the dock at North Point. The Dun- can was damaged in a collision with the Anchor liner Lehigh on Lake Michigan about two months ago, and went to the bottom soon after getting into North Point. The Duncan is owned by J. H. Pauley of Milwaukee. On account of the car shortage, the steamer Queen City was held over Sunday at Ashtabula to the disap- pointment of the entire crew. It ap- Pears that she has been making the Tivers every Sunday and this makes a break in such a good record. Capt. Tae MARINE REVIEW Geggenheimer, Fred Jones and L. O. Sturtridge are the master, mate and second mate of the Queen City. Albert B. Bailey, second mate on the 'steamer Pathfinder, is one of a score or more young men who made the jump from a wheelsman's to a second mate's: berth this year. Mr. Bailey is related to Capt. Al. Mahan, of the City of -Bangor; Capt. Walter Mahan, of the Tom Adams, and Joe Mahan, mate of the Edwin F. Holmes. Sailing the lakes comes natural for all four. Assistant U. S. Engineer Howard E. Smith has planned to go out from Ashtabula this week in the tug Ariel to search for a sunken crib, reported by the steamer Helena, sixteen miles off the harbor. Mr. Smith will be ac- companied by 1. €. . Frame, Tom Hanrihan, James and Chauncey Gold- Smith and O. ©. Jones: .The Ariel was recently fitted out with a new compass. Captain James Reid of Sarnia, who fad the contract for. faisine "her has floated the Monkshaven. The Monkshaven was driven ashore at Pie Island in Thunder Bay in the storm of last November while on her way to load grain at Port Arthur and it was thought at one time that she had been injured beyond any hope of saving her. The wreck will probably be brought to the head of the lakes for repairs. Col) ©.) &.. i. - Bo Davis, .- United States government engineer, Detroit, has been advised from Washington not to close the contract for widening the canal at the Soo until the depart- ment of justice passes upon the legal technicalities in the case. This prob- ably means the passing by the depart- ment of justice upon the recent grant 'of land to the government by the Chandler-Dunbar Co. Capt. C. G Allen, one of the: best known masters on the lakes, died at his home in Cleveland last week. Capt. Allen was born at Amherstburg fifty-nine years ago, and has followed 'the lakes since boyhood. He _ had been in the employ of Harvey H. 'Brown for the past thirty-two years. He brought the steamer Cascader out in 1890, and sailed her until his_ re- tirement two years ago. : The steamer D. J. Morrell, built for the Cambria Steel Co., was launched from the Bay City yard of the Amer- ican Ship Building Co., and was named by Mrs. Frank Jeffrey, wife of the general superintendent of the yard. -The Morrell is a duplicate of the Townsend, launched at Superior last week, and is 602 feet over all, 582-ft. keel, 58-ft. beam and 32 ft. deep. She 23 will: be commanded by Capt. P. L. Millen. Most of the skippers on the lakes have some particular pleasure they like to revert to best. Capt. David Girardin, of the steamer Harvey H. Brown, is one of them. When he strikes home after lay- ing his boat up, he does not wait to get his grip unpacked before he takes his gun and goes hunting. If there is any- thing he likes best, it is a muskrat or a "blue bill." - Capt. Dave, who is com- modore of the N. W. 1.-Co 7s feet, lives at Amherstburg, Ont. Some of the lake captains have been discussing record-breaking trips late- ly. According to one animated dis- cussion, Capt. John Noble, who now sails the Maritana, took the steamer Cort from Ashtabula to Ashland to Fairport, towing the barge Malta in six, days 20 hours and 20 tinctes Jt is said he would have done better if the elements had not conspired against him. This record was made last year. : me ~The wooden package freighter Gov. Smith, owned by the Rutland Transit Co., was sunk in collision with the Gilchrist steamer Uranus eight miles off Pointe Aux Barques in Lake Huron. The Smith was bound down with a cargo of merchandise. So quickly did the Smith sink that the crew had barely time to scramble on board the Uranus. Her cargo was valuable and the loss was therefore great. The Smith was built by the Detroit Dry Dock Co. in 1889 and was 240 ft. keel and 42 ft. beam, = It is announced that the Detroit & Cleveland line will place the steamer 'City of Cleveland on the Mackinac run next season, when the new pas- senger steamer, now building at the Wyandotte yard of the American Ship Building Co., comes out. During the winter the City of Cleveland will be completely overhauled and operated as: an express steamer from Cleve- land to Mackinac. It will only stop -at Detroit and Alpena en route. This will place the Mackinac service on a far more practical basis for Cleveland- ers than formerly. Of all the fleets on the lakes, it is doubtful if there are any which can equal the record of the North West- ern Transportation Co. as training ships forthe rising generation of sailors. Most of the boats have been sailed by men.from Amherstburg, Ont., otherwise known to sailors as "Malden, Mich," and it is a fact that at least fifty captains on the lakes got their start out of Amherstburg on such boats as the Forest City and R. J. Hackett. Both of these boats