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Mees 24 CAPT. H. J. REAGAN. Gt H. J. Reagan, one of the most popular captains of the Pittsburg Steam- ship Co.'s fleet, will sail the reconstructed steamer Mataafa this season. Capt. Reagan was born at Walkerville, Ont. During the Boer war he enlisted in the Gordon Highlanders and went to the é CAPT. H, J) REAGAN: front with the first Canadian contingent with whom he served through some of the fiercest engagements of that. sanguin- ary conflict. On his return to the lakes he shipped as mate in the Bessemer line and served in that capacity until pro- 'moted to sail the John B. Trevor. After- wards he sailed the Matoa and the Cor- sica, AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. Capt. Charles Motley opened the life saving station at Cleveland on Tuesday of the present week. The wooden steamer Walter Vaile has been sold by H. J. Pauly of Milwaukee, to J. A. Calbick ot Chicago. The plant of the Jenks Ship Building Co. at Port Huron, was damaged to the extent of $4,000 by fire recently. Manager Frederichs of Traverse City has purchased the excursion steamer Chequamagon for use on Traverse Bay. Sydney O. Neff has' bought the freight steamer Omaha from Frank W. Smith, and the steamer Wm. E. Fitz- gerald. Nelson J. Gaylord, Ludington, Mich., has been awarded contract for repairing the south pier of Muskegon harbor. His bid for the work was $15,852.86. >The Marine REVIEW The dredge hull which the Port Huron Construction Co. is building is for the St. Lawrence River Powet Co., of Pitts- burg. The steamer Fred Mercur has been sold by the Tonawanda Iron & Steel Co. to John Hall of Ogdensburg, N. Y. Mr. W. B. Linsey, superintendent, and W. F. Look, dock agent for the Chi- cago Northwestern Railroad at Escanaba, were in Cleveland last week. Beginning April 15 the clearance oe fice at Buffalo will be open twenty-four hours a day. This will be a great ac- . commodation to shippers and vessels. Capt. W.:D. Brent, of the Susque- hanna Coal Co.'s, tug Tacony, reports hearing Boston. light-vessel. submarine bell seven miles, on March 11, in a snow- storm. [he direction was good and he ran to the lightship by the bell. The Moore & Scott Iron Works, San Francisco, were the lowest bidders at $18,623 for repairing the French bark Boieldien. Other bidders were Boole & Sons, $30,550; Risdon Iron Works, $25,- 989; Union Iron Works, $25,455. The C. Reiss Coal Co. will rebuild and enlarge the coal dock of the Chi- cago-Northwestern Railway at Manito- woc after navigation closes. The struct- ure will have a storage capacity for 500,- 000 tons and will be the fourth big mod- ern dock for Manitowoc. The lumber carriers at a meeting of the association held at Detroit, fixed the rate of lumber from the head of the lakes at $2.50. A profitable season is looked forward to by the owners. of these vessels, owing to the wastage of the fleet caused by the elements and the subtraction of available tonnage caused by purchases from the coast. The steamer N. J. Nessen has fut- nished the first marine disaster of the season. Coming down the south arm from East Jordan with hard wood lum- ber the Nessen was cut through by the ice and went down in two minutes. The wreck is about a mile above Ironton and is in 30 ft. of water. The Nessen was owned by J. O. Nessen & Co., Manistee, Mich. Her cargo of lumber was owned by the East Jordan Lumber Co. The Nessen was built in 1880 and was 137 ft. long and 37-ft. beam. The fleet engineers of the Lake Car- riers' Association are in session this week with Capt. James Stone, supervising in- spector of steamboats. At the annual meeting of the board of supervising in- spectors a year ago some regulations were made which the fleet engineers be- lieve to be onerous when applied to lake ships. One of them is the placing of a large hand pump on all steamers for- ward. The fleet engineers claim that this pump is wholly unnecessary. CAPT. WILLIAM MOREHEAD. Capt. Wm. Morehead is to sail the steamer Livingston the coming season. This is Capt. Morehead's first command, he having been mate in the United States Transportation Co.'s fleet the past four years. Like many another steamboat man, he was born at Sombra, Ont. Te. CAPT. WM. MOREHEAD, began his sailing career on the steamer Isaac' May as second cook. In 1898 he 'retired and turned from plowing the raging main to plowing the fertile soil of Kansas. A few years on the farm, however, proved sufficient, and he re- turned to the more congenial occupation of steamboating. The Empire Ship Building Co. has secured the contract for the cutting off of 30 ft. from the bows of the steamers Bombay, Baroness and Bay City for their journey through the Canadian ca- nals to the coast. These vessels with nine other whalebacks were sold a couple of years ago by the Pittsburg Steamship Co. to the Boutell Steel Barge Co.,; which has subsequently disposed of them to coast interests. BIDS FOR REVENUE CUTTER TUGS. .Bids were recently opened for the con- struction of an ocean-going tug for the north Pacific coast by the revenue cutter service. The bids were as follows: The Pusey & Jones Co., Wilmington, Del., $189,057; The Maryland Steel Co., Spar- tow's Point, Md., $226,200. sie a Mao = ie See