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33 TAE MarRINE REVIEW AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. The International Waterways Commission is meeting in Montreal during the present week. The Pennsylvania coal docks at Sandusky have passed into the hands of M. A. Hanna & Co., of Cleveland. Mr. C. C. Hand will be in general charge of the docks. The steamer David Z. Norton, building for Capt. W. C. Richardson, of Cleveland, at the Cleveland yard: of; the Central railroad. The dock is to include a slip ar ft, in depth and a turning basin 750 ft. wide. The passenger steamer City of Detroit opened navigation between Cleveland and Detroit on Monday last. This is the earliest date at: which navigation opened since 1890; when the same steamer made the trip from Detroit to Cleveland on March 1. Ice was encountered but not in any consid- erable quantity. RUINS OF THE WHEELER ELEVATOR WHICH WAS BURNED IN BUFFALO HARBOR, FRIDAY, MARCH 2. American Ship Building Co., will be launched on Saturday. The Department of Commerce and Labor has issued a statement to the effect that 2,570,507 tons of coal were used on lake steamers as fuel during 1905 as against 2,143,- 155 tons during 1904. | A revision in colors of coast chart No. 4, Lake Ontario, showing coast from Charlotte to Thirty-Mile Point, N. Y., has just been issued by the United States lake survey office and is for sale by the Marine Review. A. revision in colors of Coast Chart No. 7, Lake Erie, showing the west end of lake from Port Clinton, O., to Colchester, Ont., has just been issued by the United States Lake Survey Office and is for sale by the Marine Review. A report from Toronto is to the effect that the Canadian Pacific railway has given an order to the Canadian Ship Building Co., Toronto, for a new passenger and freight steamer for its upper lake service. The new steamer is to be 350 ft. long and 44 ft. beam. It, is reported that the C. Reiss Coal Co. is planning to build an extensive new coal dock at Manitowoc. It will be 1,200 ft. long and will be located on the Wisconsin The two new steamers for the Hawgoods, of Cleveland, will be named after Harvey D. Goulder and Mr. J. Q. Riddle. The Goulder will. be launched at the Lorain yard of the American Ship Building Co. during the present month and the keel of the J. Q. Riddle will be laid in the berth vacated by the Goulder. Graves & Stephens, Commercial Bank building, Cleve- land, were recently awarded the contract for dredging in the Cuyahoga river by the city of Cleveland. This firm is also to place all the material over the Erie street pier to make ground for the new railroad terminals and new Union Station which is intended to be a part of the group plan. For the loss of the Etruria which was sunk in collision with the steamer Amasa Stone owned by Pickands, Mather _& Co. off Presque Isle, Lake Huron, 1905, the Hawgood Transportation Co., of Cleveland, has filed papers in the United States district court at Detroit asking $283,189.81, the largest amount ever involved in a collision suit on the lakes. The Great Lakes Dredge & Tug Owners' Protective