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* e FALL FREIGHT OUTLOOK. The movement of northwestern grain by lake from Duluth is thus far not a matter of great satisfaction to lake vessel interests. The season is now so far advanced that there is not much hope - of high fall freights. A possible spurt in grain may come with the last few weeks of the season, but even this is doubtful. If it were not for the very urgent demand that still exists for everything in iron and steel lines, and the consequent enormous movement of iron ore, the close of the lake season of navigation would be very tame. Furnaces are demanding all their ore, notwithstanding the difficulties under which it is being moved on account of inade- quate railway facilities and crowded storage space. It is this great demand for ore and the delay to which vessels are sub- jected that has maintained the freight rates. Thus we have proof in another season that there is far more vessel capacity than could be used to advantage if the railways and terminals were fitted to keep the lake fleet fully employed. It is more than probable that even with the best of the big steel freighters the re- turns as to earnings will be disappointing this year on account of delays in port, and some of the small vessels must have been operated almost at a loss, in view of their inability to secure coal cargoes for return trips and the many days which they spent in port waiting for coal after being chartered. It would seem that after all some vessel owners are inclined to overestimate the importance of the fall grain movement as a factor in lake freights.. Grain shipments from the head of the lakes in October and November during four years past were: 1898 shipments for October and November. .32,000,000 bu. ° 1899 shipments for October and November. .22,000,000: bu. 1900 shipments for October and November. .12,000,000 bu. 1901 shipments for October and November. .25,000,000 bu. Convert this grain for the year of largest shipments, 1808. into tons and we have approximately 850,000 gross tons which is a very small item compared with this year's output of about 25,- 000,000 gross tons of iron ore. LAKE SHIP YARD MATTERS. The Dunkley-Williams Co., operating a line of vessels be- tween Chicago and South Haven, has for some time past been figuring with the Craig Ship Building Co. of Toledo and the Jenks Ship Building Co. of Port Huron, for a fast passenger steamer, a 20-mile boat to have about I00 state rooms, as well as a large number of cheap berths below cabins. 'The vessel would have very little space for freight, as the principal freight business of the line is in the carriage of fruit. 'The plans, which are as _ yet preliminary, contemplate twin triple-expansion engines. It was announced from Chicago a few days ago, that the order had been placed with the Craig company, but it is quite probable that the matter is not yet fully settled. If the order goes to the Craig company, the Toledo yard will be comfortably filled with work for some time to come, but in any event it is more than probable that both the Craigs and the Jenks company shortly have booked work enough to run them until next fall, as is the case with the American Ship Building Co. The schooner Chieftain, said to be the largest wooden vessel on the lakes, was launched from the Davidson ship yard, West Bay City, last Saturday. 'She is the one hundredth Davidson vessel. She is 360 ft. over all, 47-ft. beam and 26 ft. deep. She has eleven hatches, all spaced 24-ft. centers, and is intended to carry 5,000 tons of ore. 'The work at present under way at the Davidson ship yard comprises a duplicate of the Chieftain and a large tug. A quick repair job has just been credited to the Buffalo Dry Dock Co. The steamer. Northern Wave entered dry dock Oct. I, and on survey it was found sixty-three plates were damaged, twenty of which had to be renewed, thirty-three rolled and put back, and ten faired in place; twenty-five frames and floors were repaired and renewed. 'The steamer was floated out of the dock Oct. ro. Repair jobs, some of them of considerable extent, have been under way all summer at the works of the Ship Owners' Dry Dock Co., Chicago. The steamers City of Rome and Neshoto are now at these works. Satisfactory progress is being made with the fire boat which the company is building for the city of Milwaukee. FOUNDERING OF THE C. B. LOCK WOOD. The wooden steamer C. B. Lockwood, bound for Buffalo with a cargo of grain, foundered about 15 miles off Ashtabula during the terrific storm on Monday night. The cause of the disaster is not as yet known though every effort is being made to determine it. The steamer had not been making good weather and it was decided to lower an anchor and head into the sea. There doubt- less had been some derangement of the machinery prior to this. The boat had not been riding at anchor long when the engineer reported to the captain that the vessel was filling with water. The engineer thought that a steam pipe had burst but could not get in to see. The firehold was fast filling with water and Capt. Saph ordered the members of the crew to take to the lifeboats. Capt. Saph and his wife and six members of the crew got: into one boat; and the remainder of the crew, ten in number, under the direction of the second mate, got into the other boat. Capt. MARINE REVIEW AND MARINE RECORD. 25 Saph's boat was picked up on Tuesday morning by the big steamer G. J. Grammar, Capt. R. W. England, which was bound for Ashtabula for ore. 'They had been for twelve hours in the yawl with nothing but one oar to steer by and a woman's shawl to use as a sail. It was only by the most accomplished seaman- ship that the little boat was kept alive in the huge sea that was running. 'hose in the boat with Capt. Saph and his wife were Joseph Flaherty, first mate, Toledo; Mrs. Davis, cook, West Bay City, Mich.; George H. Hill, watchman, Bay City, Mich.; Levi Langel, calker, Marine City, Mich.; Robert Casten, wheelman, Milwaukee; K. Matson, wheelman; J. G. Wilson, watchman, Toledo. During the night Matson was washed out of the yawl but was picked up a little later by the other occupants. Tugs and patrols were sent out in search of the lifeboat containing the ten other members of the crew but no trace could be found of it. It was a staunch boat with room for twenty men. It is now feared that it foundered during the night. Joseph Flaherty, first mate, and a few members of the crew arrived in Cleveland on Wednesday and called upon Mr. Gilchrist. -Mr. Gilchrist en- deavored to ascertain from the mate the direct cause of the dis- aster. Mr. Gilchrist was under the impression that the anchor chains might have worked through the hawse pipes and opened up the hull but the mate said that the trouble was entirely aft. He was unable to give any testimony that might lead to a deter- mination of the cause. ee an The Lockwood was built in 1890 by Quayle & Sons for B. L. Pennington and others. She was one of the last of the wooden steamers to be built in Cleveland. Mr. Gilchrist bought the Lockwood from Mr. Pennington two years ago for $100,000. She was 285-ft. keel, 45-ft. beam and her gross tonnage was 2,323. AROUND THE GREAT LAKES, At an election of the new Grand Trunk car ferry line at Milwaukee the following officers were elected: President, EF. G. Crosby ; vice-president, Frank L. Vance; secretary, Max Krause; treasurer, William H. Meyer. At a meeting of the directors of the Detroit & Cleveland Nay- igation Co., at Detroit Thursday, W. C. McMillan was elected president to succed his father, the late Senator McMillan. He will also continue as general manager. The dredge Sir Wilfred, built by the Polson Iron Works for the Pourpore Co. of Montreal, 'broke her boom 8 miles. west of Port Hope last Wednesday and sank. She was the largest dredge of her kind ever built in Canada. At the Stevenson iron ore mine, one ofthe largest of the open-pit Mesabi range properties, more than 16,000 tons of oré were loaded into cars in one day recently, two 105-ton shovels working in the ore against the face of a high bank. eS A new coast chart No. 8, Lake Huron, in colors, showing the north coast of Lake Huron from Scammon Cove to Lougheed Point, including the north channel from Little Detroit to Sul- phur island, has just been issued and may be had from the Marine Review. Capt. A. C. Cameron, one of the best known mariners of Canada, died suddenly at his residence at Collingwood a few days ago. He was employed at different times by the Jake Su- perior Transportation Co., the Great Northern Transit Co. and North Shore Navigation Co. The small steamer Owen, on Gull shoal, has been abandoned as a total wreck. The tug Donnelly was unable to save her owing to the seas. Richardson & Sons, owners of the wheat cargo ot the vessel, lost $3,000 by the wreck, as there was no insurance on the grain. The steamer was valued at $5,000. - While discharging her cargo of grain at Meaford, Ont., it was discovered that the new steel steamer Kanawha had struck a sunken cbstruction resulting in several of her steel plates being torn loose and a part of her cargo damaged. The surprising thing is that none of the crew were aware of the accident. It is sup- posed to have occurred at the Fullerton avenue bridge in the north branch of the Chicago river. In its desire to increase the sleeping capacity of its boats the Graham & Morton Line has decided on a remodeling plan for the steamers Puritan and Soo City. The Puritan, which has just ended its season's work, will be remodeled as soon as possible. The space now occupied by the hurricane deck will be given over to staterooms, nearly doubling the steamer's sleeping capacity. The Soo City will be remodeled later. Capt. James. Stone, supervising inspector of steamboats for the ninth district, went to Buffalo last week to listen to an appeal taken by Capt. William Lund, of the steamer W. H. Wolf, from the decision of the local inspectors Pope and Schumacher, who suspended him for fifteen days as a result of a collision between the Wolf and the tug Alpha. Capt. Stone, after going over the evidence, approved the decision of the local inspectors. It is not probable that Capt. W. H. Singer of Duluth will make much progress with his efforts to bring about a consolida- tion of certain lines engaged in passenger and freight business on the lakes. Any attempt to consolidate the lines owned by railway companies seems useless, and at least one very determined effort was made recently, without success, to bring about the kind of consolidation that Capt. Singer is attempting.