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the current year as follows: H. C. Hammond; President, vice president, W. J. Sheppard; secretary-treasurer, C. E. Stephens; other directors, J. S. Hendrie, I'. A. Lett, W. D. Matthews, H. P. Smith and H. Y. Telfer. LAWRENCE & CHICAGO STEAM NAVIGATION CoO. At the annual meeting of the St. Law- rence & Chicago Steam Navigation Co., held in Toronto recently, the old board of directors was re-elected as follows: President, W. D. Matthews; secretary, J. H. G. Hagarty;' superintendent, S. Cran- age; C..H. Gzowski, E. B. Osler: G. F. Hagarty, Toronto; J. Carruthers, Mon- treal; G. R. Crowe, Winnipeg. It was dec:ded to issue $187,000 of new stock, offered to present shareholders at par, for the purpose of completing pay- ment on the new steamer now being con- structed at the yard of the Canadian Ship Building Ca. The following financial statement was submitted: ST. ASSETS, Four steamers, Rosedale, Algonquin, Iroquois, W. D. Matthews ...... $560,000.00 New steamer (expended to date).. 40,120.25 Due: by underwriters: . 3.2.04 3. <<, 5,000.00 Balanee inc bank 8 ao eee 74,176.35 $679,296.60 LIABILITIES Capital eae ee $563,300.00 Balance of profit carried forward.. 115,996.60 $679,296.60 PROFIT AND LOSS, Balance forward,' Jan 2. 1906-2.2.4 $ 80,057.27 Steamships' earnings. S17. 400.81 \ Due by underwriters. . 5,000.00 ANterest «eee ce 2:649- 303232 5 : 125,050.11 $205,107.38 Insurances. oe $19,941.00 Cost of management, viz.; directors' and auditors' fees, sala-- aries, taxes, office TEN, tera cae 12,839.78 ! $ 32,780.78 Dividend, 10 per cent, payable Jane 2,5 1907S) on Ok See aa 56,330.00 Balance, carried forward.........% 115,996.60 $205,107.38 AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. J. T. Waters, Port Huron, has been appointed agent of the White Star line with headquarters at Port Huron. The schooner Sweetheart of the Olga Transportation Co.'s fleet has been sold to James O'Connor of Tonawanda. The Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. has been awarded the contract for dredg- ing on the Cuyahoga river at Cleveland. A revision in colors of Chart No. 1; St. Lawrence River, has just been is- sued by the United States Lake Survey and is for sale by the MARINE REVIEW. The Arnold Transit Co., Mackinac Island, has purchased the passenger steamer Columbia from Charles A. Webb of Traverse City. M. B. Olds, Cheboygan, Mich., has purchased a coal dock at Cheboygan, and contemplates . installing modern ment for unloading and fueling. equip-_ "TAE MarRINE. REVIEW The freighter D. O. Mills, building for Pickands, Mather & Co., at the Ecorse yard of the Great Lakes Engineering Works, will be launched on Saturday NeXt, A revised chart in colors of Beaver Island Group, Lake Michigan, has just been issued by the United States Lake Survey office and is for sale by the Mar- INE REVIEW. The steamer H. P. McIntosh, build- ing at the Bay City yard of the Ameri- can Ship Building Co. for the Gilchrist Transportation Co. will _ launched March 2. The steamer building at the yard of the Toledo Ship Building Co. for the United States Transportation Co. will be launched March 9, and will be named in honor,of Charles Hubbard. Capt. Frank Root, local manager of the Great Lakes Towing Co. at the Sault, reports the ice to be 30 in. thick there and does not believe that navigation a" open before, April 20. The Kensington Steamship Co. filed a certificate of incorporation at Buf- falo. John J. Boland, Fred W. Ealey, Wm. Brooks, Adam E. and. I. E. Cor- nelius, all of Buffalo, are directors. ' Gol. Charles E. L. B. Davis; United 'States. district engineer at Detroit, is asking for proposals for removing lime stone bed rock at the Lime Kiln cross- ing. Bids will be opened March 18. 'Senator Burrows has sticceeded in passing in the senate a bill to appropriate $50,000 for a lightship to be stationed at the easterly end of Southeast Shoal near North Manitou Island, Lake Michigan. Capt. Harry May of Cleveland, who was master of the steamer 'Dobbins last year, has bought the little steamer Ar- cadia from the Milwaukee tug boat line. He will operate her in the lumber trade. The steamer G. J. Grammer of the Seither fleet, which was driven ashore at Buffalo during the windstorm last month, was successfully released after a fair part of her grain cargo had been light- ered. The Miami Lumber Co.' of Calitorniz has purchased the steamer C. F. Curtis from the Tonawanda Iron & Steel Co. of Tonawanda. The Curtis was built at Marine City in 1882 and is 196 ft. long, 32 ft: beam.and 13 ft. «deep... The Manitowoc Dry. Dock Co. Manitowoc, Wis., has been given a contract to construct a stone scow for the Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., of . Chicago. The scow will be 200 ft. long, 38 ft. wide and 13 ft. deep. The Detroit river tunnel is sche- duled to be completed on June 1, 1909. Any delay after that date' will cost the contractors $1,000 per day. They will, however, receive $1,000 for every' day's ek has: time that it is completed before that date. Capt. J. B. Watt, commodore of the Cunard line, who brought the Carmania out, is to have command of the express liner Lusitania. The American section of the Interna- tional Waterways Commission will meet next Saturday morning at the Federal building, Buffalo. The subject under consideration is the form of permit for users of water from the Erie canal for power purposes. 'Judge Humphrey, Of Chicago, 'has decided: the case arisitig from the col- lision' of thé little wooden schooner Mills and the package freighter Mil- waukee, in St- Clair river last fall, which resulted in the sinking' of. the Mills. The court finds both: steamers equally to blame. ' The old wooden steamer 'Minnie: E. Kelton has been sold by the International Salt Co. to the Miami Lumber Co. of San Francisco. The steamer will be fit- ted for salt water service at once and will be employed in the lumber trade of the Pacific. It is understood that nego- tiations are on-for the purchase of sev- eral small lake steamers for Pacific trade. A passenger license has been obtained "by the Marquette & Bessemer Dock Go. owners of the car ferry Marquette & Bessemer No. 2. Crew's quarters are be- ing constructed aft of the boat so" 'that the' deck cabins may be used: for passen- gers. A new service from ca to Port Stanley will 'begin April 15. The steel steamer Hugoma, which was built by the Detroit Ship Building Co. in 1901 for the Morleys' of Marine 'City, was sunk in collision with the French cruiser Kleber ' off 'New Orleans last week. Several firemen and coal 'passers were drowned. The Hugoma_ 'was sold some time ago to the New ro Rico Steamship Co, -- " i Upon a libel of $6, 250,000 filed by Capt Hagrris' W. Baker of Detroit, the' wooden steamer H. B. Tuttle has been' seized by a United States' marshal. After the Tut- tle was wrecked at, 'Sandusky last seas n the vessel and cargo were sold by Con Benham of Cleveland to Amos Smart of Detroit. Capt. Baker raised her and took her to Detroit. He now sues to recover his: salvage claim. The Bessemer Steamship Co. has won the suit against the Northern Steamship Co. and has been awarded $34,871.06 by Judge Hazel in the United States cits cuit court at Buffalo. The Bessemer Steamship Co., owner of the steamer Sir Wm. Siemens and the barge Alexander Holley, sued the Northern Steamship Co., owner of the steamer North Star, for damages as the result of a collision. Since that time the Siemens.and Holley have been taken over by the Steel Cor- poration.