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1902.] MARINE REVIEW AND MARINE RECORD. AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. Capt. Thomas J. Richardson, one of the best know masters of the great lakes and a resident of Milwaukee for twenty-five years, is dead. ~The Daly-Hannan Dredging Co. of Ogdensburg, N. Y., has received the contract for dredging the harbor of Ogdensburg. Its bid was $20,784. Mr. James C. Wallace, general manager of the American Ship Building Co., was recently elected a director in one of the large banks of Cleveland. the Bankers National. The mother of Capt. W. H. Singer of Duluth died in Chicago a few days ago. Mr. Singer is manager of the Lake Michigan & Lake Superior Transportation Co. and of the "White Line" plying around the west half of Lake Superior. | Capt. Gheen, U. S$. N., who held for some time the position of lighthouse inspector of the eleventh district, with headquarters at Detroit, has been transferred to Chicago where he is now in charge of the branch hydrographic office and recruiting station at that point. The steel steamer Kennebeck, which is of Welland canal dimensions and which was built recently at the works of the Jenks Ship Building Co., Port Huron, has been sold to eastern parties and will go to the Atlantic seaboard about Nov. 1, where she will be converted into an oil tanker. Gaynor Bros., government contractors, say their work on the new east pier, at Lorain harbor, Lake Erie, will be completed this fall. Next season they will tear away the old west piers, re- placing the same with masonry. They have not yet made a start on their Lorain breakwater contract. A voyage of 16,000 miles has just been completed by the steamer Redondo, which arrived at San Francisco recently from the Craig ship yard at Toledo. She was built by the Craigs for Swain & Hoyt of San Francisco and is intended for the Pacific coast lumber trade. She has been chartered by the Truckee Lum- ber Co. of Redondo, Cal. Bids for reconstructing the piers at Fairport were opened a few days ago by Maj. Dan C. Kingman, United States engineer at Cleveland. who found that the Donnelly Contracting Co. of Buffalo had submitted the lowest bid, and he accordingly recom- mended to the department at Washington that it be accepted. The bid was $133,881.15. The steamer Yakima was released from the rocks of Bete Gris bay last Sunday night. She got upon them in trying to as- sist the stranded steamer City of Rome. It took the combined efforts of the steamers Volunteer, Cumberland, Massachusetts, Maytham and the big tug Schenck to pull her off. She left her heavy. steel shce on the rocks. A Duluth dispatch says that the Great Northern docks at Allouez bay are to be enlarged, although they are at present the largest in the world. Fourteen spurs have been added to the Great Northern ore road within the past few months but as yet they have not been called into use for the reason that the com- pany could not handle any more cre than it has been carrying. Maj. Dan. C. Kingman, government engineer at Cleveland, has advertised for bids for the government work at Conneaut harbor. The specifications call for the completion of the piers and the completion also of the breakwater for which $450,000 altogether is allowed. Maj. Kingman is of the opinion, however, that the work can be accomplished for less than the appropriation. It is announced that the Booth Line steamers will make a cir- cuit of Lake Sueprior next season. An additional steamer will run between Port Arthur and Sault Ste. Marie, thus completing the chain formed by the America from Duluth to Port Arthur, the Argo from Duluth to the copper country, and the Hunter from the copper country to the Sault. The combined route will open up the tourist country along the Canadian shore. Slips into which vessels are launched at the West Superior ship yard of the American Ship Building Co. are being length- ened, one by roo ft. and the other by 75 ft. This will make each slip 550 ft. long, or longer than the slips in any of the yards on the great lakes. In connection with this improvement the track upon which the cantilever crane runs is being extended by too ft., thus making it possible to construct ships 550 ft. long. Citizens of Superior, Wis.. are considering the advisability of levying a tax to buy land for a city dock, to be somewhere on Connor's point, at which passenger ships may land. As it is now no passenger ships touch on the Wisconsin side of the head of the lakes, and most of the package freighters also land only at Duluth. It is claimed that assurances have been received from some of the lines that if a dock is built their boats will fouch there. The White Star Line of Detroit is considering the advisa- bility of building another steamer: Preliminary discussion in- clines to a steamer 200 ft. long, 3'-ft. beam and 14 ft. deep, to be equipped with triple-expansion engines and Scotch boilers. It is intended to make the steamer a propeller and put her on the afternoon run on the St. Clair river. She cannot be completed for next season on account of the crowded condition of the ship yards, but will probably be built for 1904. Changes in masters of some of the steel freighters of the Pittsburg Steamship Co., due to illness of Capt. E. M. Smith of A the steamer Samuel F. B. Morse, are as follows: Wm. Jollie from the John Ericsson to the Morse; Wm Hoag from the Neil- son to the Ericsson; J. R. Noble from the W. P. Palmer to the Neilson; F. W. Light from the Bryn Mawr to the W. P. Palmer, and T. J. Cullan, who was mate of the barge Mataafa promoted to master of the Bryn Mawr. a Ce See On Saturday last the new package freighter Muncie for the Anchor Line was launched at the Wyandotte works of the Detroit Ship Building Co. She is 372 ft. over all, 350-ft. keel, 46-ft. beam and 30 ft. deep. She will have quadruple-expansion engines with cylinders of 19, 27, 40 and 58 in. diameter and stroke of 42 in. Steam will be supplied from three Scotch boilers, 11% ft. in diameter by 1134 ft. long. Her carrying capacity will be 5,000 eee tons. Her engines and boilers will be immediately in- stalled. McArthur Bros. of Chicago have been awarded a contract for stripping at the Hawkins iron ore mine under lease to the Deering Harvester Co. on the western Mesabi range of Minne- sota. 'Ihe contract covers not less than 1,250,000 cu. yds. Mc- Arthur Bros. will make six firms engaged in stripping on the Mesabi. Mine operators strip more deeply now than ever before, and at the Fayal there is one open working which had an earth pit 80 ft. deep. The Hawkins mine is a new proposition. It is now piling stock from a shaft and will begin shipping as soon as the Great Northern railway extension to it is completed this fall. Once in a while a contrast is afforded between conditions as they obtained on the lakes twenty-five years or more ago and as they obtain today. Such an illustration was offered in Buffalo a day or two ago as the old three-masted schooner Abbie L. Andrews was unloading her cargo of grain. 'The Andrews is one of the great fleet of grain carrying schooners remaining. The Andrews was built in 1874 at Toledo and ever since her launching has been owned and sailed by Capt. Frank Boland of Buffalo. She has a capacity of 278 gross tons and, notwithstand- ing her age, is still rated A2. She was built for the grain trade on Lake Ontario. . President Roosevelt invited Mr. Francis H. Clergue to be his guest at dinner while in Detroit last Sunday evening. He was deeply interested in Mr. Clergue through his enterprises at the Sault but the president's special purpose in seeking him appears to have been to secure his views on the Isthmian canal commission. President Roosevelt said that he was determined that the best engineers in the country should be given seats upon the commission and he desired Mr. Clergue's advice as to the most competent men. The president felt that the government would not pay these men what private corporations would have to pay them to obtain their services but he thought they might be in- duced to serve through patriotic motives. The president was much impressed with Mr. Clergue and requested him to visit Washington for a further conference later in the fall. The fourth annual report of the Consolidated Lake Superior Co. (Clergue enterprises at the Sault) for the year ended June 30 last shows that the net earnings of the subsidiary companies amounted to $1,428,136.25. After payment of general expenses ~ and the 7 per cent. dividend on the preferred stock of the Lake Superior Consolidated Co., requiring the sum of $1,135,507.45, there was left a balance of $292,628.80. The cash subsidy from the Canadian government on account of the Algoma Central & Hudson Bay Railway Co., amounting to $380,424, brought the surplus for the year up to $673,052.80. A surplus of the Con- solidated Lake Superior Co. and subsidiary companies brought forward from the preceding year amounted to $423,755.40, making the total surplus June 30, 1902, $1,096,808.20. The general bal- ance sheet shows a valuation of $93,060,309.76 for the subsidiary companies. The current assets amount to $6,927,344.74. The amount of the current liability account is $3,342,496.30. ' Mr. Francis H. Clergue is an advocate of an additional lock - at the Sault. He says that were it not for the Canadian lock the American locks would alreadv be congested Continuing he says: "This enormous avenue of commerce is, in fact, the prin- cipal artery of the life blood of the country. An absolutely un- interrupted flow through this artery is essential to the welfare of the eastern states as well as to the central west. Should it be stopped for even a short time it would be felt from one end of the country to the other, not only the vessel interests suffering, but the wheels of the iron and steel industries would be stopped ; it would clog this all-important industry, and it is for this reason that I am an advocate of another lock at the Sault. The view taken by those of limited vision, that the selfish interests of lake navigation are asking too much, is unfair and unjust. The pres. . ent suggestion--to build a new lock--is in every way the best and it would be calamitous to shut down the present locks in order to deepen or reconstruct them. There is an ideal position for a new lock at the side of the present Poe lock." It is understood that Alfred Holt & Co., who lately purchased the China Mutual Navigation Co., have decided to establish a service between Tacoma and Liverpool. Sailings will be monthly. The Camden Yacht Building & Railway Co. has been organ-. ized with a capital stock of $100,000 to engage in the building of yachts and the operation of a marine railway at Camden, Me. He. M. Bean, the well known ship builder of Camden, is president of the corporation.