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article portray the havoc clearly than words could. much more The steamer was the largest, and probably the most palatial, ever constructed for fresh water service.; She was designed by Frank E. Kirby, who took an especial interest in "'TAE Marine REVIEW It is not known yet how €reatly the ma- chinery suffered from the heat? naturally burned with great rapidity, none of the steamer's own pumps or fire fighting apparatus being available for use. The _ vessel Had the steamer been LOOKING AFT ON UPPER DECK. her creation and in which he had em- bodied all the ripe experience of his ca- reer as a naval architect. The elaborate scheme of her decorations. had been worked out in great detail by Louis Kiel. While the work of reconstructing the steamer will be proceeded with at once, it will be impossible to get her ready for 1907 service. She will come out. in the spring of 1908. The ship building company was carry- 4 | in service the fire would doubtless have been confined to the immediate quarter in which it occurred. Steamers like the City of Cleveland carry a fire equipment fully equal to that maintained by a small city. - FI ENRY. = W.. HOVTS POSITION. Henry W. Hoyt, of Evanston, IIl., has been made vice president of the Great NEW LOOKING AFT. ing $700,000 insurance upon her during the period of construction, and the loss will be fully two-thirds of this, making it altogether the heaviest single blow that lake underwriters have had to meet. Lakes Engineering Works, Detroit, and has already entered upon the discharge of his new duties. George H. Russell also continues as a vice president of the company. For the present Mr. Hoyt will 25 be connected with the cost department, and his appointment is in keeping with the original plan contemplated at the time of the organization of the company, in which he was a prominent factor. Mr. Hoyt has served the industry in the past in the capacity of a director, but the business has grown to such an extent as to require his active participation in the management of the company's affairs. After engaging in the newspaper busi- ness and later in a hotel venture, Mr. Hoyt, in 1887, in conjunction with Phile- tus W. Gates, purchased an interest in the Gates Iron Works, Chicago, manu- facturer of rock and ore crushing ma- chinery. From a small plant employing less than 50 men, the institution grew HENRY W.-HOYT, until over 600 men were on its pay-roll, and Mr. Hoyt as its secretary and gen- era] manager was an active figure in this expansion. In 1901 the Allis-Chalmers Co. was organized and purchased the Gates Iron Works, the latter's secretary and general manager becoming its sec- ond vice president in charge of the sales department, a post which he held for three years. Leaving that company in 1904, Mr. Hoyt has been engaged up to. the present time in carrying on his per- sonal investments as well as the joint interests of Hoyt & Gates, a partnership extending over 23 years, which has now been dissolved. He filled in a most ac- ceptable manner the position of president of the National Founders' Association for 1901, and previously served on the administrative council of that organiza- tion during the year 1900. F. H. Weeks, marine broker, has moved from 32 Broadway to the Chesebrough building, 17 State street, opposite Battery Park, New York.