Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Marine Review (Cleveland, OH), 28 Mar 1907, p. 22

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22 AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. The report generally circulated in the newspapers that masters -whose licenses are five or six years old would have to be re-examined, is without foun-. dation. A new McMyler coal loader has been installed on the Wheeling & Lake Erie dock at Cleveland, having a _ ca- pacity of loading twenty-five cars per hour from dock to vessel. Capt. Henry Leisk, of Milwaukee, one of the best known masters on the Jakes, has decided to quit sailing. He has opened an office at Milwaukee and will make surveys and look over re- pair work. / Hutchinson & Co., of Cleveland, have sold the schooner Emma C. Hutchinson to Capt. Wm. Strong of Tonawanda. The schooner was built at Port Huron in 1873 and is 1096 ft. long. The deal for purchasing all the lum- ber yards and docks of the Eastern Lumber Co. of Tonawanda by the Cloquet Lumber Co. of Cloquet, Minn., of which Frederick Weyer- hauser is the principal owner, has been closed and the new firm will take over the business on May 1. The International Brotherhood of Steam Shovel, Dredge, Firemen, Deck Hands and Scow Men of America elect- ed the following officers: President, W. B. Jones, Detroit; secretary, Claude Wirth, Detroit; vice presidents, B. F. Disbrow, Cleveland; B. Fenaughty, Buf- ~ falo; Albert Eagle, Sault Ste. Marie, and Hip Thomas, Superior. Much satisfaction is expressed in marine circles over the promotion of Capt. Alex J. McKay, who will bring out the new steamer City of Cleve- land, to the rank of commodore of the Detroit & Cleveland Co.'s fleet. This office has not been effective since Da- vid Carter died. Capt. McKay has _ been with the D. WO. Co; for 31 years. The Milwaukee - Western Steamship Co. has been incorporated with the fol- lowing incorporators: Charles W. Moody and Edward A. Uhrig of the Milwaukee Western Coal Co., and Carl C. Joys, who has been identified with lake navigation for many years. The steamer Manchester has been purchased. The purpose of the company is to enter the coal trade. After investigating the collision be- tween the liner Binghamton and the government steamer Hancock which resulted in the sinking of the MHan- cock above Grosse Point lightship, Aug. 16, 1905, local inspectors Galway and Meno of Detroit find no willful violation of the rules of the steamboat inspection service and dismissed the case, THe Marine Review The Duluth, Mesabi & Northern Rail- road is to erect a coal dock on its prop- perty immediately east of ore dock No. t at Duluth. Contract for the structure has been awarded to the Barnett & Rec- ord Co. The towers and bridge will be furnished by the Mead-Morrison Manu- facturing Co., Chicago, and the electric equipment by the Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Co. of Pittsburg. The Craigs of Toledo have entered into contract with the Los Angeles Dock & Terminal Co., Los Angeles, Cal. to establish a ship building plant at Long Beach, Cal. The dock and terminal com- pany deeded to the Craigs 43 acres of land as a bonus; in return the Craigs bind themselves to spend $250,000 on the plant during the first year. It is under- stood that contracts for two ships have already been secured. Major Charles Kellar, of Detroit, lighthouse engineer in charge of the eleventh district, has been placed in charge of the work of the United States Lake Survey which had previ- ously been under the direction of Col. G. J. Lydecker, division engineer, re- tired. Major Kellar's work on rivers and harbors extending from Monroe to Cheboygan has been turned over to Gol, Charlies i): B, Davis. About 1,730,000 bushels of grain have been loaded into vessels at Chicago for shipment at the opening of navigation. Of this amount, 1,100,000 bushels is corn, 300,000 is oats and the balance is wheat. The vessels are the Western Star, W. L. Brown, Saturn, W. P. Rend, England, Black Rock, Morley, R. R. Rhodes, Parks Foster, Oglebay, and Lewiston. The grain is consigned to Buffalo with the exception of the Parks Foster cargo, which will go to Collingwood. The 2. & ©. Co. 'is ready to open navigation, its steamers City of De- troit, and City of 'Cleveland, having been completely overhauled. Naviga- tion between the two cities will open as soon as the weather makes it pos- sible, which will be in a few days. As soon as the new steamer City of Cleveland comes out, the present City of Cleveland will go on the Mackinac Island run under her new name, City of St. Tenace: Le © eWaldo,.. manager ot, sthe Northwestern and Roby Transporta- tion Companies, has returned to De- prot trom "Wis: trip abroad. © Mr. Waldo's pleasure was marred by a painful accident which befell him while crossing the English channel. He was thrown to the deck of the vessel a small bone in his right leg was broken. He is, however, recovering rapidly. Mr. Waldo was accompanied on. his trip abroad by VW. A. Prime, of New York. General Manager Schantz, of the D. & C. line has appointed Capt. John Lightbody as master of the steamer City of St. Ignace and Capt. Eugene Hayward as master of the steamer State -of Ohio. For several years Lightbody has been pilot on the steamer City of Cleveland and Hay- ward pilot on the steamer Eastern States of the Dy & Bi Ling Peter Shaughnessy will act as pilot of the steamer City of Detroit under Capt. Archibald McLachlan. J..W. Norefoss, Port Culborne, Oat., has given an order 'to Wm. Dobson & Co. Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, for a steamer of Canadian canal dimen- sions. The steamer will be 256 ft. over all, 43 ft. 'beam and 26 it. deep. Her engines will be triple-expansion with cylinders 19, 32 and 52 in. diam- eters by 36-in. stioke. She will have a double deck with six hatches on the upper deck and seven hatches between decks, with three gangway doors on each side. The river and harbor bill carries appropriations for several lighthouses to be erected on the great lakes, one on White Shoal, Straits of Mackinaw, at a cost of $150,000; another at Split Rock, north shore of Lake Superior, ata cost of $75,000 and 'a. third 'at Rock of Ages, Lake Superior. An ap- propriation was also secured for a light-ship for the easterly end of North Manitou Island, Lake Michi- gan, but the effort. to secure an ap- propriation for a lighthouse on Gull Island failed. Supt. Charles Morton of the twelfth life saving district has received orders from Washington relative to the Hol- land life saving crew which had been under fire since the breakwater inci- dent of last November when four men lost their lives in a storm within a few hundred feet of the station without proper effort being made to rescue them. Sipt..Morton's orders are to keep only Robert C. Smith of Hol- land. 'He was not present at the early hours: of 'the crib affair, but was praised for the work he did later. The Welin Quadrant Davit, White- hall Bldg, 17 Battery Place, New York, | have just issued new folders descriptive of their davit and also of the Mills En- gaging & Disengaging Gear for life- boats. The descriptions are quite com- plete and well illustrated, and will be mailed to anyone requesting them, Among the boilers for export sold to New York exporters by the Roberts Safety Water Tube Boiler Co. recently are one for Messrs. Hurgerford Bros. & Co., and one for Messrs. Fox Bros. & Co. : . 3 ig y 2 ¥ ! , a

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