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DEATH OF GEORGE PRESLEY, SR. One of the grand old men of the great lakes, George Presley, Sr, died very suddenly last week while making a call at the home of a friend. It is a singular fact that the old gentleman always said that he would die away from home. He had been troubled with heart disease for many years, and it was his conviction that it would seize upon him at some un- expected time. For this reason he always carried a heart stimulant with him, but the call was so swift that he was taken while his fingers were fumbling for the medicine. He had made his home with his son, George Presley, Jr., at No. 140 Clinton street, for the past two years, but he died at.the home of Mrs. Rose Richards, a widow, who lives at No. 681 Gor- don avenue. Mr. Presley was eighty-two years old. He came to Cleve- land in 1843 and at once engaged in ship building. He was at first a mem- ber of the firm of Stevens & Presley, builders of a number of the large lake carriers. He built the Globe dry docks and until his retirement was the head of the Globe Dry Dock Co. Four years ago Mr. Presley. and his wife celebrated their golden wedding, but the wife passed away two years ago. IMPROVEMENTS IN NORTHWEST AND NORTHLAND. Rapid progress is being made at Buffalo with the alterations in the big Northern line passenger steamers Northwest and Northland, which include new Scotch boilers and other changes, estimated to reach a cost of nearly half a million dollars. The Buffalo Forge Co. of Buffalo will do a part of the work. On each boat there: will, be in«duplicate generating sets for electric lighting, consisting of two horizontal tandem compound en- vines made by the Buffalo company, direct-connectéd 'with General Elec- tric marine type 75 K. W. generators. The engines are of the Buffalo company's latest type, and are especially designed for this contract, the space available being limited. The engines are to be delivered in an ex- tremely short time. The steamers are also being fitted with improved ventilating apparatus for maintaining the air in all portions of the vessels uniformly cool and pure at all times. Six Buffalo steel plate fans with direct-connected General Electric motors will be installed in each steamer with an elaborate network of galvanized iron ducts for delivering the air. This system will be when completed in perfect accord with the balance of the magnificent equipments of these splendid vessels. - George H. Hitchings has laid the keel of a wooden schooner at his ship yard in Hoquiam, Wash. She will be a duplicate of the A. F. Coates. Her dimensions will be 195 ft. over all, 37.5 ft. breadth of beam and 13.5 ft. depth of hold." She will carry 750,000 ft. of lumber. She will be owned by the E. K. Woods Lumber Co. Thomas W. Lawson is the name selected for the seven-masted 'steel schooner, the first to be constructed anywhere in the world, and which is building at the works of the Fore River Ship '& Engine Co., Quincy, Mass. acy MARINE REVIEW, 25 TRADE NOTES. Pittsburgh offices of the Niles-Bement-Pond Co., manufacturers of. machine tools, are now in the Frick building. Mr. Sidney L. Smyth. of New York has purchased through Frank N. Tandy of Boston the 46-ft. sloop Milicete. This yacht was designed by the late Edward Burgess, and for the past three seasons has been owned by Mr. Gilmer Clapp of Boston. The Milicete will be fitted at Lawley's and will be delivered in New York about June 1. Mr. Smyth intends to use her principally as a family boat, but will race the yacht in the class for cruising 46-footers in lower New York bay when the opportunity affords. MT Ee Gould, well known to engineers around the lakes, is now with Morgan & Wright of 331-89 West Lake street, Chicago, manufac- turers of rubber goods. Mr. Gould is to look after the marine trade for Morgan & Wright, who make all kinds of mechanical rubber goods. He will spend the greater part of the summer as chief engineer with Commo- dore Morgan on his fine steam yacht Pathfinder. _ The Truscott Boat Manufacturing Co., St. Joseph, Mich., has just issued a splendid catalogue devoted to their motors. The company says in its introduction to the catalogue: "The contents of this catalogue can- not fail to be of particular interest, showing as it does a line of marine motors to suit any and all conditions, climates, class or size of boat. These motors represent leaders of their types, devoid of the untried ideas that live only to be laid aside when found wanting in the time test. They are the practical assembling of good, wholesome ideas by experienced de- signers into motors that will do all that is claimed for them and stand up to their work. We are not claiming control of the designs or origination of them in their entirety. An examination of details will, however, satisfy anyone that we have undoubtedly done our share in bringing this power to a state of usefulness. We feel that we are giving more actual horse power to the propeller wheel for the size, space occupied, weight, labor, original cost and-for repairs than any other maker." The Wm. S. Haines 'Co., Eighteenth and Hamilton streets, Philadel- phia, sends out some well-written advertisements regarding its steam specialties. One_of its circular letters dealing with the Hanover oil filter is as follows: "The Hanover filter, like Prince Henry, has made friends wherever it has appeared, but unlike his highness, it is American and is in America to stay. Our booklet X4, which may be had for the asking, ex- plains just why and where the Hanover was built; why it filters so per- fectly as to make those owning one or more pass the oil from their orig- inal packages through the filter and not take it directly from the package. Possibly the filter you have is not in use because it is so dirty and it is such a nasty task to clean it. You engineer does not tell you. He thinks the next bought would be just as bad. He does not know the Hanover. It can be cleaned in three minutes without soiling his hands, but he does not have to clean it oftener than once in six months, maybe only once a year, and then new filtering material only costs about 25 cents." CHAS. 58 William Street, NEW YORK CITY. | e~-PECK ESTABLISHED 1870 | : -Royal. Insurance Building, CHICAGO, ILL. C. T. BOWRING & CO., Limited | 5 and 6 Billiter Ave., LONDON, E. C., ENGLAND, and at LLOYDS, London. Insurance rokers at 3m e 4 As brokers we represent ONLY THE ASSURED. Our clients being the VESSEL OWNERS, . companies. We place insurances in the most advantageous mar- ket at the best procurable rates and terms. managers. and general agents of insurance companies to protect we reiuse: to represent insurance the interests of their companies, maintaining that it is impossible for us to devote ourselves to the interest of both the owners and the insurance companies at the same time. We leave it to the miAverage. AGUstiigy 1 = Mee '3 <a ee TG ie # ae Se ee EE ae ae ares s -- Williamson Building, land, Ohio.