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1902. | MARINE REVIEW. | oS THE MARINE ENGINEERS. The national convention of the Marine Engineers' Beneficial Asso- ciation in Washington this week undoubtedly gave considerable attention to the question of wages, extent of engine-room help, etc., on the great lakes during the coming season, with special reference to the action of officials of the United States Steel Corporation in first making contracts with their men at the highest wages thus far paid in the service and then ordering the men to work on Monday last. Engineers who signed con- tracts relating to employment on the Steel Corporation vessels were receiving their pay regularly, as they were employed by the year, but in the usual course would not be called to active duty until late in March or early in April. The order to begin work is, of course, looked upon as a test proceeding. The engineers promptly obeyed the order and went to the various ports where their vessels are laid up. As far as known they all went willingly. What position the national organization will take towards the Steel Corporation engineers and what its demands will be upon lake vessel owners generally for the coming season are matters not as yet given out. It is understood that the national body is opposed, for this year at least, to affiliation with the longshoremen's association. One act of the convention having special reference to the lakes is the reported election of E. I. Jenkins of Cleveland to vice-presidency with special charge of lake lodges. Mr. Jenkins is a very capable engineer and has been in the steamer Presque Isle for some time past. He was very active on the side of the engineers in the struggle of a year ago. It is said that the lakes will be divided into five districts and a business agent selected for each district to work under the direction of Vice-president Jenkins. Officers of the national body for the ensuing year, elected at the Washington meeting, are as follows: President, George Uhler of Phila- delphia; first vice-president, Frank A. Jones of Alameda, Cal.; second vice-president, E. I. Jenkins of Cleveland, O.; secretary, George A. Grubb of Chicago; treasurer, A. L. Jones of Detroit. The advisory board of 1902 will include William Sheffer of Baltimore, Joseph Brooks of Phila- delphia and John Sterrett of New York. It was decided to meet in Wash- ington again in January, 1903. Engineers selected for the Pittsburgh Steamship Co. (Steel Corpora- tion) fleet are as follows: Steamer. Chief Engineer. Second Engineer. Bartlett 04 sccm Aubrey Rivard George Moiles IRESSCMECR: 5 fee. <b oes John B. Heyward William Clucas Blacks wee. ore John Hegemer Jay A. Popp Britone 55.5. ede cut A. G. Haig H. M: Lubahn BUNSEN. Gc. one esc oe «Richard. Masten C. L. Birtrand Cambria: ccc avesie .H. H. Learned » J. A. Bennett Colby. ee55 555 woeeee lt. HE. 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Campbell Harry Roberts Houghton ... ..J. W. McEachren F. L. Smith Hoyt 6.563 cs .-J. B. Miller J. L. Wartinbee JOUBE >. soi eee George Lynn Joseph Walker atayette 8 Levi Walder S. D. Graham a Salles. sss2. 3.66 S Joseph R. Hall ee PAM eee ce Herman Dupont Albert J. Armson Manola oo oe William Densmore James McNamara Mariska oii. so5 *..Silas H. Hunter Charles A. Tyler Marubaiec: 25... isccae George Arnold Alva W. Smith MatOa inc scc or eee EH. J. Rae Frank McDonald Marina. ()200 5 <.ccee es Gavin A: Brown A. H. Meldrum MaASADa 6.4 ks acucee ws L. F. DeMay John Cowley Maritand. s.7 ees: es John McLaughlin Thomas McKenzie Mariposa .......:.i60 W. W. Tyler John Hutty Maricopa 33.: HA; Smith Daniel D. Hayward Mataata: = oo.ae ..John Reed Charles Wiltoncox Mauna Loa... ..Frank Harringer John Hall Malietoa .... ..T. Treleaven William J. Baird Mathers: 8. ..George McLaughlin John Hoff ~ McDougall 40.45. 7.0. James Wilson William J. Davidson Morse © oes ee BE. W. Fox H. McLeod WelISON 3.247 cee. A: P. Williams Walter T. Smith PQGkS eg ee ar ae William Most J. A. McPhee Palmer 655 6s as August Dumars --_--_ Princeton: |). 3o.03.. M. Toner Bernard Cassady Queen City <...45.. F. G. Carey Ray T. Snyder Rensselaer. .......s0 John F. Walsh A. J. Dwyer Rockefeller ...<....0. Thomas Kelly Frank Sweeney PROVEN: 2055 65s. awe .9. A. Wells William Dornbrook Saxon 6 ...F. A. Steadley E. H. Pelton Stemmons"... 33s <a: -e-Duncan McVicar Charles B. Culver Stephenson ..... ...-5. W. Armstrong William Morrow Superior City ... Frank Schwartz James D. Stewart 'EHOMSBON 2 hoes: J. H, MceGlenn Eugene Gunther PROVOR. vec ce cc ae ...Walter J. Harsant John Mraz Van Hise osc sce W. J.-Gervin Harry Flood WALG oro. oa as ene! Arthur W. Armson H. E. Schmidt Wawatam <.:...-.45 William P, Tindall W. B. Clarke WII8On 6 cocci ees C. A. Fletcher John A. Larmer Wolvin®. 4 es54e E. E. Stimson W. D. Killett Zenith City 2.0.6. Ge R. W. Hunter Andrew Jackson NAMES FOR NEW LAKE FREIGHTERS. Names have already been selected for most of the new freighters that are to enter lake trade in the spring.. Mr. Henry A. Hawgood has deé- cided to give the name Etruria to the» steamer which the American Ship Building Co. is building for him at Bay City. The other steamer' under construction at Bay City to be managed by W. A. Hawgood, will be named Bransford. Arthur Hawgood's vessel, building at Lofain, is to be christened J. M. Jenks, and one of T. A. Tomlinson's steamers, building at Superior;. will bear the name Sultana. The Gilchrist steamer still on the stocks at/Lorain, will be christened' E. N. Saunders... 35 4~One of the 6,000<ton Mitchell steamers building:at the Cleveland works of the American Ship Building Co. will be launched Saturday, Feb, 1, ST SS. and named W. H. Gratwick, in memory of the late W. H. Gratwick, lumber dealer and vessel owner, of Buffalo, who was very largely inter- ested in all of Capt. Mitchell's early business undertakings. A steel steamer, W. H. Gratwick, is already in service on the lakes, but some plan of distinction will probably be devised. A 5,000-ton freighter for W. C. Richardson and others of Cleveland will be. put down on the stocks vacated by the Gratwick. This vessel will be named W. C. Richardson. Her machinery is well advanced and the hull will go up very rapidly after a start has been made. Redondo is the name selected for the steamer building at the works of the Craig company, Toledo, for Swayne & Hoyt of San Francisco. A smaller steamer at the same yard, building for Cleveland paries and for Charles Beatty of Buffalo, will be named Charles Beatty. It has been said that the large freighter which the Craig company is building for Thomas Adams and others of Detroit will be named William McKinley, but this announcement is not made by either builders or owners. Names have been selected for all five of the steamers building at Chi- cago, Bay City and Buffalo works of the American company for the United States Transportation Co., of which Capt. W. W. Brown of Cleve- land is manager. The names are A. G. Brower, H. S. Wilkinson, W. W. Brown, William Nottingham and L. C. Smith. These are names of stock- holders in the United States company. A steamer of the 5,000-ton kind, just launched at the West Superior works of the American company for Frank Seither of Cleveland, Capt. England of Detroit and others, has been named G. J. Grammer. Mr. Grammer is general traffic manager of the Lake Shore Ry. Co. AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. _ Capt. Thomas Brown, eighty-five years old, for many years identified with lake traffic as owner and captain of vessels, died at his home in Chicago Tuesday. | Com'dr Wilson, lighthouse inspector in the Lake Superior district, has recommended the establishment of gas beacons on the ends of* the breakwater at the entrance to Portage Lake ship-canal and also on the breakwater at Two Harbors. Officers of the Wilson Transit Co. of Cleveland, elected at the annual meeting on Tuesday last, are: President and treasurer, J. E. Upson; vice-president, Robert McLaughlin; secretary, H. D. Goulder; assistant secretary and assistant treasurer, A. W. Thompson. The directors are Rober McLaughlin, W. D. Rees, J. E. Upson, Geo. L. Quayle and J. J. ullivan. \ ; Detroit lodge, No. 7, of the Shipmasters' Association, has appointed a committee consisting of Capts. A. J. McKay, Enos Burke and Hugh Mc- Kenzie, to co-operate with George P. McKay of Cleveland, chairman of the committee on aids to navigation of the Lake Carriers' Association, in securing additions where needed, and a more satisfactory adjustment of present lights. Detroit lodge, No. 87, of the Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association recently elected the following officers: President, Wm. J. Macdonald; vice-president, Thomas Braundt; corresponding and financial secretary, Geo. B. Milne; treasurer, Wm. McKittrick; chaplain, Richard Langford; conductor, Arthur Carter; doorkeeper, Geo. Gilbert; trustees, John Taylor and Charles Scott. bei : Officers of Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, No. 5, of Che- boygan, Mich., elected recently, are: President, Alfred Vincent; vice- president, John Lowery; recording. secretary, Jas. W. Brown; correspond- ing secretary, Archie Stalker; financial secretary, John McLaughlin; treasurer, Patrick Eustace; chaplain, Charles Chapman; conductor, Dur- ham Elliott; doorkeeper, John Lighthall. Duluth harbor, No. 4, of the American Association of Masters and Pilots recently elected the following officers: Capt. H. J. Hawkes; first pilot, Joseph Jacobs; second pilot, Lawrence Roy; captain's clerk and purser, C. D. Hibbard; purser's clerk, Wm. Jones; starboard quarter- masters, Fred Winter and Daniel Neville; port quartermasters, L. M. Stapnos and A. M. Jones; chaplain, A. C. Majo; saloon watch, Arthur S. Osborn; forward deck watch, Wm. A. Cooley; trustees; John Grady, A..C. Majo and W. H. Hawkes. Capt. Frank D. Root will have charge of the Great Lakes Towing 'Co.'s business at the Sault during the coming season. Capt. Root was master of the steamer Mataafa of the Steel Corporation fleet last season and for a number of years sailed steamers of the Minnesota fleet. Capt. E, T. Rattray, master of the steamer Rensselaer, also of the Steel Cor- poration, has resigned and he will sail one of the new steamers that are building for the W. W. Brown syndicate. Capt. G. W. Pierce, another of the masters in the big fleet last season, will be in a new boat during the coming season. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Great Lakes Towing Co. in Cleveland Wednesday the regular quarterly dividend of 134 per cent. on the preferred stock was declared, payable Feb. 20. No action was taken regarding a large steel lighter with derrick equipment, which the company proposes to order, but the lighter will probably be built at the Milwaukee works of the American Ship Building Co. and completed in time for wrecking work next season. The matter of making additions by purchase to the wrecking plant of the company was referred to President Newman and General Manager Sinclair. The annual meeting of stock- holders of this company will be held in Jersey City, N. J., Feb. 19. The United States circuit court of appeals (New York) does not support Judge Coxe of the district court in the Livingstone-Grand Traverse collision case. On Oct. 19, 1896, the steamer Livingstone, owned by Wm. Livingstone and others of Detroit, collided with and sank in open lake near Colchester, Lake Erie, the steamer Grand Traverse, owned -by the Lackawanna Transportation Co. of Buffalo. The case was heard before Judge Coxe at Utica, N. Y., and on May 30, 1898, he entered a decree holding both vessels at fault and dividing the damages. The case was taken to the circuit court of appeals and that court finds the Living- stone solely at fault. The opinion is not yet at' hand. *It will Be ee prove quite interesting. Damages claimed by the Grarid Traverse amount to about $58,000. The principal lawyers in the case:wére C. E. Kremer of Chicago and F. H. Canfield-of Detroit for the Livinmgstorié, and Goulder, Holding & Masten of Cleveland for the Grand Traverse,