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erected, but the hand of time has wrought so many changes some of the elevators which were considered mam- moth a few years ago are now limited on account of their location to cer- tain sizes of boats. The 550-footer is restricted to houses like the Niagara, Erie, Export, Eastern and Mutual. A boat like the William P. Snyder will cover up three houses like the Union, Bennett and Evans. It might be said in this connection that if the 600-foot grain carrier is to come, some radi- cal changes in Buffalo harbor will have to be made. The Snyder, Laughlin are now winded out in the lake, causing big tug bills. According to figures furnished by the Western Elevator association, the receipts of grain at Pe have been as follows: 1836, 543,461; 1846, 6,491,522; 1856, 20,123,567; 1866, 51,820,242; 1876, 44,- 207,121; 1880, 105,133,000; 1886, 72,349 236; 1896, 163,025,324; 1898, 221,383,945; 1899, 153,393,184; 1900, 157,655,969;.1901, 132,641,828; 1902, 124,626,438; 1903, 140,409,429; 1904, 100,880,795; 1905,126,- 664,126. Although 1905 was a big year, the present year will offset it by many millions. ' ee Joseph «Dart: and» cis a 2,000-bu. hourly capacity, but this ap- pears insignificant when it is known that the Mutual can elevate 30,000; the Dakota, 25, 000, and the Eastern 20,000 an hour. Buffalo has pecare: 2. big harbor since 1842, and the storage capacity of the houses in the Western Elevator association, alone, is over'twenty mil- lion bushels. In 1884, the grain men congratulated themselves. on having enough: elevators to handle 3,500,000 bus. of grain a day. The most important additions to the original Evans' elevating principle are the portable legs and the steam shovel. The latter has made good dispatch pos- sible when the car service is good and the elevators are not filled up. Bertrand Vroman, of Put-in-Bay. who got first class pilot's papers last "winter after studying with,,,.Capt. Gould, goes second mate of the Arun- dell on the St. Lawrence route when she starts in June. He is now wheeling on the S. J. Murphy. Carl Ryberg, of Rush City, Minn., who lives on the banks of Rush Lake, is expecting to build a naphtha launch 'next winter. steamer Lake Shore. He has sailed - two seasons, decking one year on the Fairbairn. Jones, or. supporters thought they were fortunate in having | He is an oiler on the "TAE Marine REVIEW AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. The Cleveland Furnace Co. 'has pur- chased a large tract of lime stone on ~ Kelley's Island. The steamer Black: Lock pulled into Milwaukee last. week with a broken wheel. and _ will go into dry dock: A revised .chart in colors of Eagle harbor, Lake Superior, has just been i As-: sued by the United States lake survey and .is for, sale. by the. MARINE REVIEW. Construction work of the new coal dock. to "be erected: by the Pickands, Mather. &€o., at Sweet's: Point near Detour has been started. . will be 750 ft. long and 150 ft. wide. The Reid Wrecking Coys: of Port. the contract to raise Huron: has. taker the 2 steamer M a the: "Cleveland & Buffalo Co.'s fleet, eight boats were dropped overboard and manned in five minutes. A McMyler derrick crane, property of the Gillen Construction Co., top- pled over at Racine last week. For- tunately no one was hurt. The steanver Phoenix of the Phoenix Transportation Co.'s fleet is undergo- ing extensive repairs at the ship yard of James Davidson, Bay City. The steamer Js T. Hutchinson is at Buffalo receiving repairs to her. star- board quarter caused by with the steamer Degas in ake Su- perior. © The steamer - City of Grand Rapids, owned by John W. Averill, was sold last week for $3,275 to Wm. H. Fitz- patrick of the firm of Tarnsney & Fitz- pare. ae ' The steamer Saxon which was stranded at Caribou Island has been placed in dry dock at Toledo. She has thirty damaged plates and it will take about ten days to make repairs. President Livingstone of the Lake Carriers' Association, has wired that up bound vessels may load to 18 ft. 10 in. and down bound vessels 19 ft. 6 in. for passage through the lime kilns. M. E. Farr has been elected presi- dent of the Detroit Ship Building 'Co: to sutceed the late Wm. C. McMillan. He will continue as treasurer. Philip H. McMillan was elected vice "presi dent. . The- steamer Byron Whitaker 'which the lime kiln, sank in collision near been floated' by, Wrecking . Master W. Baker and' has been taken: aa Ecorse yard of the Great La Engineering Works for repairs, ag The. Detroit Trust Co. as trustee for the new issue of the $75, 000 steamship bonds on the steamer Midland Prince owned by the Midland Navigation Co. The dock. otte sunk at her. dock. Ion the City, of ne a collision - ciation. were aboard. and builtteby =the Collingwood Ship Building Co.,. Collingwood, Ont. -The report published in the news- papers that the steamers Nottingham and Monroe- C. Smith, beached at Buf- falo, had been abandoned -by the un- derwriters, is erroneous. Favorable progress is being made in releasing the steamers. "The Canadian ola given notice that a line of buoys chas ~ been placed 200 ft. eastward of the eastern end of the western breakwater at: Port Colborne, Lake Erie, to mark a ridge thrown out by dredging. Mariners are warned to keep to the eastward of the buoys. There is a channel. over 300 ft. wide between the buoys and the end of the eastern breakwater. ° Se The. steamer J.. €. Pringle owned by the Olga Steamship Co., has been libeled by .A. Hoffman, Tonawanda, owner of the schooner Buffalo, for $2,000. A claim for the same amount _ was filed against the Buffalo by' the City of Duluch. The Buffalo was at Duluth last" November in tow of the Jo, Pringle when the anchor of the Buffalo dropped to the bottom of the harbor dragging up the city oe line, hence the claim. The steamer 7. F. Cole, the "sea freighter on the great lakes, and the most superbly equipped in point of accommodation for invited guests, left the Ecorse yard of the Great .Lakes Engineering Works on Sunday last_ on her maiden trip for ore. President | Harry Coulby of the Pittsburg Steam- ship Co., and President William Liv- ingstone -of the Lake Carriers' Asso- She was given a noisy reception as she passed up the river. 'She is 605 ft. 5 in. over all. The eee fate of four members of the crew of the steamer Naomi who were burned to death in the fore- -- castle of that steamer in plain sight of the rescuing party has again called attention to the necessity of enlarg- ing the port. holes to promote the - passage of a human body. The fire had cut off their escape through the natural opening» and the port holes were too small .for them to go through. "Quite - a number of steam- ers on: the. great lakes . have dead © lights of ample . orifice to permit the passage of a human being in the case of emergency, | notably, the City of Buffalo andthe City of Erie, the Juni- ~ and 'Tionesta. Geuerat Manager 'Schantz_ of the Detroit & Cleveland line, now announces - that the steam- ers 'of the. Detroit & Cleveland line and | the Detroit . & Buffalo line will have their port holes. enlarged at the - close of the present season.