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22 CONTRACT WITH FISHERMEN. Lake Erie fish dealers and representa- tives of the fishermen and tugmen's um- ions have reached an agreement after a conference lasting one week in Cleve- land. The wage schedule adopted is slightly higher than that of last year. The captains, who received $100 a month last year, will be paid $110 per month at all ports except Erie, where they will re- ceive $115.50, as: against $105 for last year. Wages of tug firemen were ad- vanced from $75 to $82.50 per month, - with 50 cents an hour for overtime, as against 35 cents last year. The wages of the firemen were advanced about 15 per cent, the men to be paid $2.75 up to Oct. 1 and $3 per day during the balance of the season. The agreement includes all ports between Buffalo and Toledo, and was signed by President Keefe and Sec- retary Joyce on behalf of the Interna- tional Longshoremen's Association. OFFICERS FOR PASSENGER BOATS. A. A. Schantz, general superintend- ent, announces the following appoint- ments of officers for the steamers of the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. and Detroit & Buffalo Steamship Co., for the season of 1907: 'Steamer City of Detroit--Captain A. _ J. McKay; pilot, Malcolm McLachlan; chief engineer, William Huff. ' Steamer City of Cleveiland--Captain Archie McLachlan; pilot, John Light- body; chief engineer, John Hall. Steamer City 'of Alpena--Captain Mathew Lightbody; first officer, Wil- liam McKenyon; chief. engineer, Al- fred Phillips. oe _ Steamer City of Mackinac--Captain B.. J, Simpson: first. officer, . Peter Schonisen; chief engineer, William McDonald. Steamen City of the Straits--Cap- tain, Salem O. Robinson; pilot, Peter Ferguson; chief engineer, William Stem: ) "Steamer Eastern States--Captain, Duncan | Welacnian: "pilot, Eugene Haywood; chief engineer, J. P. Wells. Steamer Western States--Captain, F. G, Stewart; pilot, J. V. Brown; chief 'engineer, A. Carter. co "When the new steamer City of Cleveland is in commission Capt. A. J. McKay and forward crew will take charge of her, and Capt. Archie Mc- Lachlan and his forward crew will be transferred to the steamer City of Detroit. Appointment of masters for the steamers City of St. Ignace (the 'old City of Cleveland) and State of Ohio will be announced later. Chief Engineer J. P. Wells of the steamer Eastern States takes charge of the machinery in the new City of TRAE MARINE REVIEW Cleveland, and his present assistant M. E. Sickelsteel, will then become chief engineer of the Eastern States. COL. LYDECKER TO RETIRE. President Roosevelt has nominated Col. Garret J. Lydecker for the retired list with a rank of brigadier general. During the past two years Col. Lydecker has been at Detroit as division engineer, in addition to which he has been in charge of the Lake Survey. Col. Lydeck- er is a graduate of West Point, and has served with distinction for nearly forty years. His first assignment was at New Orleans in 1868. He then became as- sistant professor of engineering at West Point, then chief engineer at San Fran- cisco, and later did lake duty at Mil- waukee and Chicago. For several years following he was stationed at Washing- ton, being assigned to Detroit in 1893 as successor of the late Gen. O. M. Poe. In 1902 he took command of the central di-. vision and fourteenth light-house dis- trict, with headquarters at Cincinnati, re- turning to Detroit in 1904.. EQUIPMENT ON SCHLITZ COAL DOCKS. Ole Johnson, 932 Kenesaw St., Milwau- kee, Wis., is installing electric coal un- loading machinery on the Schlitz Brew- ing Co.'s dock at Milwaukee. There will be two electric traveling cranes arranged so as to widen according to the variation of the width of the dock. . These cranes will be suspended over an area of 200 ft. by 600 ft. and will be able to unload the largest coal carriers on the lakes in fast time. Each crane will be of Io tons ca- pacity and will be equipped with John- son's 2-ton automatic balance clam-shell buckets. The hoisting trolleys from which the buckets are suspended will have three electric motors each, allowing the trav- eling and hoisting at the same _ time, thereby causing the buckets to make the shortest routes possible. The cage for the operator is suspended from the trol- ley, giving the operator complete control of the bucket. The rigs will be equipped with automatic registering scales, which will weigh and record the weights of the coal- as it- is unloaded. Only. one man is required to operate each rig, and owing to the balanced buckets the de- sign is expected to be very economical in the use of electric power. The equip- ment will be ready by the opening of navigation. DEEPENING KINGSTON HARBOR. Kingston, Ont., Feb. 27.--The Can- adian government is taking steps to clear Kingston harbor of a large shoal that exists down the center of the lower end. Engineer Fuller, of the marine department, is here taking the necessary soundings. The government recognizes that Kingston harbor must be rendered perfect in every respect if the largest boats are to continue coming here. If vessels followed the ranges carefully, there would be no trouble, but many times they run on the shoal referred to. Delay is the chief result, as they seldom receive any damage. However, the harbor re- quires to be freed of the obstruction and the government is acting. Kingston affords the best harbor on the great lakes for trans-shipment of grain and more grain is trans-shipped here in river barges to Montreal than from any other, Canadian port. Last year the amount was 14,000,000 bush- els, Kingston is on the chain of direct waterways to England, and also affords direct connection by rail with Halifax, the winter port of ocean shipment; hence Kingston is also suitable for winter storage. The marine department has now in- structed Engineer Fuller' to take soundings in the lower end of Kings- ton harbor below Cataraque bridge, over a distance of a mile and a half, to see what dredging would be re- quired to make a 2¢-ft. channel. The government has been asked to build a breakwater at the western end of the harbor to protect that section from the southwest gales. NORTHERN NAVIGATION CO. A point of interest in the annual re- port of the Northern Navigation Co. is that the company believes that two new steamers of the Huronic type should be added to its fleet to take care of an in- crease in business which is bound to come. The company has purchased the steamer Tadousac to replace the Mon- arch lost on Isle Royale last year. The Tadousac is now being fitted up as a package freighter. In August last the company added the iron package freight steamer Cuba, now the Ionic, to its fleet. The Ionic was on Dec. 7, blown ashore under White Fish Point, and is now at Sault Ste. Marie. She will be taken to Duluth for repairs at the opening of navigation. The gross earnings of the company were $606,950.20, and the expenditures $471,876.63, leaving a net balance of $135,073.57, which added to the balance at the end of 1905 makes a total of $183,- 216.23. Maintenance, repairs and inciden- tal expenses reduce this balance to $135,- 827.41, upon which a dividend of 6 per cent and a bonus of 1%4 ner cent was de- clared. Bonuses amounting to $3,728.00 were also distributed among the officers and office staffs. Officers and directors were elected for