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34 MARINE REVIEW. [February 7, -- ------___ NEW STEEL WORKS. Open-hearth and steel plants projected and under construction by various independent steel interests throughout the country will increase the open-hearth steel production of the United States not less than 5,000 tons per day. This is equivalent to a production of over 1,500,000 tons per year and is an indication of the vast increase in the use of opet- hearth steel in this country. Further, the fact that this increase in capacity is being provided for by interests outside of the United States Steel Corporation shows that the independent producers are already alive to the fact that to insure the constant operation of their plants they must provide a means of securing their raw material. Never in the history of the American iron and steel trade has there been under con- struction or planned at one time steel plants of so great a capacity. Nor has the planning of open-hearth plants ceased, as a number of inde- pendent steel interests, notably the newly organized independent sheet manufacturers' association is contemplating the erection of a plant to provide sufficient raw material for all the plants in the association. Inas- much as the open-hearth plants can be operated on varying quantities of ore, pig iron and scrap material, there is little possibility of cutting off the supply of raw material from these plants. While old material has slightly advanced in price of late, due to the general advancing iron and steel market, there is little dowbt that the market will continue strong on account of the increasing demand for this material for open- hearth purposes. In addition the ore interests not controlled by other producers of steel will be amply able to supply the furnace capacity re- quired for these open-hearth plants.--Iron Trade Review. AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. Another steel steamer for J. -C. Gilchrist and others of Cleveland will be launched Saturday at the Lorain works of the American Ship Building Co. The vessel will be named C. W. Watson. John C. Silva, grand captain, and Benjamin F. Perkins, captain's clerk, national officers of the American Association of Masters & Pilots are visiting local organizations on the lakes. They were in Cleveland Thursday. Stockholders of the Upson-Walton Co. met on Wednesday of this week and elected the following officers: J. E. Upson, president; H. F. Lyman, vice-president; C. R. Doty, secretary, and J. W. Walton, treas- urer. Mr. E. B. Babbitt was added to the directory. Mr. C. O. Duncan, general manager of the Port Huron & Duluth Steamship Co., which operated the steamer Spokane last season between Port Huron and the head of Lake Superior, has chartered two medium sized steamers for the coming season for the Duluth-Port Huron trade. 3ateman, McDougall & Palmer, who have built up at the foot of Genesee street, Buffalo, within the past two years, quite a large business in vessel repairs, are still making extensive additions to their plant, which is very well equipped for work on steel as well as wooden ves- sels. This firm is now engaged, of has been engaged since the close of navigation, on repairs to as many as thirty large lake freighters. They have recently leased additional water front property and now have about 750 ft. A new machine shop will be erected in the spring. A change is announced in one of'the well known admiralty law firms of Detroit. Charles B. Warren, until recently the second member of the firm of Dickinson, Warren & Warren, has withdrawn from that firm and has entered into a co-partnership with John C. Shaw, Byron S. Waite, William B. Cady and Herbert K. Oakes of the firm of Shaw, Waite, Cady & Oakes. The firm name has been shortened, for conveni- ence, and a general law business will be done under the name of Shaw, Warren & Cady. Mr. Waite will assume the position of counsel to the firm, and [Mr. Oakes will give special attention to admiralty practice. Another vessel from the Atlantic seaboard will be brought to the lakes next spring iby Clergue interests of Sault Ste. Marie. The ves- sel is the Montauk, one of the Long Island sound passenger iboats. On the lakes she will be operated in connection with the Algoma Central railroad. She has accommodations for about 100 passengers. She was built in 1891 by the Harlan & Hollingsworth Co., Wilmington, Del., and is 190 it. long, 31 ft. beam, 9.6 ft. depth of hold, and of 570 gross tons. Her width over the guards is 50 ft., which will mean that there will be some difficulty experienced in getting her through the Cana- dian canals, the smallest locks being only about 45 ft. in width. CUYAHOGA CONTRACTING CO. This is a new Cleveland concern, that will shortly prove quite a fac- tor in contracts for public works, as well as in all kinds of dock work, dredging, pile driving, steel and concrete bridges, piers, submarine work and wrecking. The company's first contract is one amounting to about $90,000 and involves. the construction for the city of Port Huron of a canal for sanitary purposes that is to run from Lake Huron to Black River. This canal will be 5,800 ft. in length and 25 ft. at the bottom, carrying 6 ft. of water. Officers of the company are: R. K. Pelton, president; Thomas E. Young, vice-president; B. P. Faragher, secretary and treasurer, and R. Rosenstock, chief engineer. Mr. Pelton represents extensive capital available for the new company. (Mr. T. E. Young is in charge of the coal business of M. A. Hanna & Co. Mr. Rosenstock, the chief engineer is the practical head of the concern. 'Mr. Faragher is also an engineer. Offices of the company are in the Rose building, Cleveland. A pile driver, now under construction for the company, involves several unique features, and, it is claimed, will be the best device of its kind on the lakes. A wrecking outfit, to tbe built at once, will be of 300 tons capacity. All appliances planned by the' company are to be modern in every way. a _ The United Telpherage Co., Nos. 20-22 Broad street, New York, has issued a little catalogue devoted to telpherage as applied to docks " pier sheds, freight stations, warehouses, store yards and the conveying ot mis cellaneous freight. It will be sent to any one who writes for 'it. Pod Pico eg ' ee cy rt For navigation charts apply to the Marine Review. Seta r OFFICERS OF LAKE VESSELS FOR 1902. (Continued from page 1%) MONROE, THOS., Muskegon, Mich. Str. G. C. Markham.... Capt. A. Christensen ...Engr. A. Smith, Schr. 1. M. Davis...-.- « =H. Hermanson. SHARP, W. H., Bay City, Mich. Str. J. P. Donaldson. ...Capt. Jas. Connally ....Engr. John Fettig. Schr AoW Whelt..:. ooo Thes, Thorkildsen FRANCOMBE, J. A., Detroit. Str. W. R. Stafford..... Capt. B. C. ChamberlainEngr. J. A, Francombe, Schr. Ed, McWilliams . Alex Sharron. CHARLEVOIX LUMBER CO.,Charlevoix, Mich. Six Pine ake ...:..-- Capt. Eph. S. Small.... Engr. John Chemock, Sche Naiad =. ti. .i 0 "Chris. Edwardson. ERICKSON, CAPT. JAMES, Managing Owner, Milwaukee. Schr. Lake Forest .... Capt. Jas. Erickson, Tide Hitt .....- Martin Mathison. CROSBY TRANSPORTATION CO., Muskegon, Mich. Str Nydth soe Capt. Chas. A. Lyman. . Engr. Carl Halberg. * (Naomi 4.20205. 6% € iP hos: Franko. A. A. Green, MYLES TRANSPORTATION CO., Ltd., Niagara Falls, N. Y. Sit Nivies .3.ic aes Capt. J. S. Moore...... Engr. C. J. McGorley. RARDON, J. J., Chicago. Str. Phenix... ies Capt. E. C. Vanpatten.. Engr. Wm. Frazier. LITTLE, JOHN, Port Huron, Mich. Str. George Dunbar ...Capt. John W. Little... Engr. John S. Brown. HURLEY, T., Detroit. Str Majestic 9.004. oi. Capt. M. G. McIntosh.. Engr. T. J. O'Connor, ALGER, SMITH & CO., Detroit. Sir, Geityebute ..5....3 Capt. Wm. Jagenow ...Engr. Wm. P. Wenner. BLODGETT, W. C., Buffalo. Ste JOSeplt ceca Capt. Frank Conlin ....Engr. J. A. Braman. BIGELOW BROS., Chicago. Str. «Madagascar... ....- Capt. Jolin Jetiks ... 3. Engr. Chas. Nerreter. BROWN STEAMSHIP CO., H. H. Brown,, Prest., Cleveland. Sip Castaliae 5 2 Capt, ©... Allen. oo. ..- Engr. E. E. Dempsey. CANDLER, H. & J., J. W. Candler, Mgr., Detroit. Schr Senator 6... ioe Capt. Chas. Anderson. i DRIESKE & CO., WM., Chicago. Schr. Ralph Campbell..Capt. Peter Hansen. FARWELL, J. H., Detroit. Ste. J... Farwell nce. Capt. J. A. Duncanson. Engr. John Johnston. GREEN, JOHN, Buffalo. Str, Wewisteh .. 0 6..6e Capt. D. F. McKenzie..Engr. James Green. HARLOW, W. J., 706 Madison St., Toledo, O. Sir. Harlow... 4... Capt. W. J. Harlow.....Engr. N. M. McNamara SEITHER TRANSIT CO., R. W. England, Mer., 961 Third Ave., Detroit. Str. G. J. Grammer::.... Capt. R. W. England... Engr. Geo. B. Milne. SEITHER, FRANK, R. W. England, Mer., 961 Third Ave., Detroit. Str. V. H. Ketchum....Capt. Ed. D, Gatfield...Engr. John J. Booth. ; FOSTER LUMBER CO., Milwaukee. Str. Normandie'. 1.20... Capt. Wm. Ingalls .....Engr. Hiram Fuller, WELLS, E. L., Port Huron, Mich. Schr. Hattie Wells ..... Capt. Sylvester Ray. GRAND ISLAND STEAMBOAT CO., St. Albans, Vt. Str. Remdeer255.2.0.. Capt. Wm. Newton ....Engr. 2.:2..... 7.43 ee McCORMICK, H. W., Bay City, Mich. Schr (ineehta .o.4.... Capt. Patrick Gordon. | MILLER, J. B., Toronto, Ont. Str. Sesin: G05. 275 Capt. Ji BeeSymes. oo. 5% Engr; Ed. Welch. PEDERSON, K.,; Tonawanda, N. Y. Schr. Commoadore...... Capt. K. Pederson. ROBY TRANS. CO., L. C. Waldo, Mer., Detroit. Str b. Co Waldo. 222. Capt. J. W. Duddleson.. Engr. N. E. Allen. UNITED STATES & ONTARIO STEAM NAV. CO.,Wm.Wollett, Mgr., Conneaut, 0. Str. Shenango No, 1....Capt. R. R. McLedd:).. Ener. E. Weed STEWART TRANSPORTATION CO., A. E. Stewart, Mgr., Detroit. Str. C.F Bielman...... Capt. Fred Stewart .... Engr. Robt. Lacey. ROBERTSON, GEO., Grand Haven, Mich. Str. Sidney O. Neff.....Capt. Geo. Robertson .. Engr. Frank Greilick. aN ASHLEY & DUSTIN, Detroit. Sin. Fo Kinyo. Capt A. J. Ox, se. | Engr. H. L. Lewis. . 8S. W. TRANSIT CO., Chas. T. Williams, Mgr., Cleveland. Str, AoC. Lindsay: ad 'Capt. C. H. Woodford... Ener. C. Burne: i BYRON WHITAKER, Detroit. ely, Bo Wittaer ....... Cant 1. jowes = os... Ener. D. W. Blauvelt. MEYER, W. H., Milwaukee. bic. Clitistophier .-.,... Capt. W. E. Wright.... Engr. 5S, Prav KING, A. B., Port Huron, Mich. Schr FM. Knaop.-... Capt: A. B. King. FARR, M. E., Managing Owner, care Detroit Ship Building Co., Detroit. i Sit, Yosemite 2)... . Capt. John T. Hutton.. Engr. Jno. W. McClut (Te SYLVESTER BROS., Toronto, Ont. Schr. St Lows 3 .....; Capt. Geo. Williamson. . |