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THE Marine ReEvIEw | 23 they 'could not do business on the lines laid down by Mr. Keefe and the conference was called off. The next conference with labor will be the Lake Seamen's Union at Detroit on Monday next. The Lake Carriers an- ticipate no difficulty in making a satisfactory arrangement with this union which will also act, not only for seamen but for the cooks and stewards. The committee of the Lake Seamen's Union which will meet the Lake Carriers will be: Wm. Penje, Chicago, general secretary for the lakes; Victor Olander, Chicago, recording secretary; James Scanlon, De- troit; Thomas Lester, Tonawanda; George Hanson and L. Fitzpatrick, Buffalo; Al. Pierce and John Buckley, Milwau- kee; Wm. Curry, Cleveland and Wm. Roberts, Chicago. GOODRICH LINE STEAMER ATLANTA BURNED. The steamer Atlanta, of the Goodrich line, burned to the water's edge between Sheboygan and Port Washington on Sunday last. The Atlanta left Sheboygan at 10:30 o'clock Sunday morning for Milwaukee. She had proceeded on her way scarcely over an hour when the crew of the fishing tug Tessler noted that the steamer had stopped in her course, though they could discern nothing wrong with her. As, however, she made no effort to resume her course the tug Started toward her, impelled more by curiosity than by the knowledge of any danger. When they neared. the Atlanta they discovered that she was on fire and the crew and pas- sengers were making frantic efforts to launch the small boats. They succeeded in landing three of them but the fourth one took fire before it could be got into the water. There were sixty-one passengers aboard but they were all picked up by the Tessler. The sister ship Georgia, bound from Milwaukee, hove in sight and the passengers were transferred to it. The hull of the Atlanta was beached by the tug Tessler. Only one life was lost, Michael Hickey, a deck hand, who was drowned. AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. The new steel freighter James Laughlin will be launched from the Ecorse yard of the Great Lakes Engineering Works on March 31. The steamer Harvey D. Goulder, building for Henry Haw- good at the Lorain yard of the American Ship Building Co., will be launched on March 31. Mr. C. L. Scoville, an old lake engineer, has a new check valve that will be used on a number of the new steamers that will come out this season. ' Mr. Harry Coulby, president and general manager of the Pittsburg Steamship Co., was initiated as an associate mem- 'ber of the Ship Masters' Association last week. | The Parker Bros. Co., Ltd., Detroit, have purchased dock property from Edward and Albert Schm'dt, between Dubois and St. Aubin avenue, Detroit, and will use it as a coal dock for fueling vessels. The collier Marquette & Bessemer No. 1 cleared for Rondeau from Conneaut last week on her first trip of the season. While this vessel is a collier she was constructed after the manner of a car ferry and is an excellent ice crusher. The ficet of the Pittsburg Steamship Co. consisting of seventy steamers and thirty barges carried during the sea- son of 1905 11,341,539 tons of iron ore and 557,825 tons of miscellaneous freight. The gross earnings of the fleet were $8,972,411.16. The steamer Wm. E. Corey, wrecked last fall, is still in dry dock at the head of the lakes, but it is expected that repairs upon her will be finished by the middle of April. About 250 plates had to be taken from her hull and fully one-third had to be replaced. Many of her frames had to be taken out also and strengthened. The Lackawanna Steel Co, of Buffalo, through its officers and directors have incorporated the Seneca Trans- portation Co. for the purpose of operating a fleet of steamers on the lakes. Mr. George W. Smith, of the traffic depart- ment of the Lackawanna Steel Co., will be superintendent of the Seneca Transportation Co. When the work of repair is finished, the government will have a fog bell installed on the end of the Duluth break- water. It will be operated from the lighthouse by a cable and an electric motor. This will be the first automatic fog bell to be placed at the head of the lakes and will be the second on the great lakes, the other being at Marquette. A report from Chicago is to the effect that the tunnels which extend under the Chicago river will be removed early next month, thus putting an end to a controversy which has raged for years. These tunnels have been a matter of grave concern to vessel men as they have pre- vented the larger class of vessels from successfully navi- gating the river. é For saving the steamer Cormorant from burning in Niag- ara river last fall, a suit for $5,000 salvage has been brought in federal court at Buffalo by the owner of the tug White Haven. The Cormorant was in tow of the tug Constitu- tion when the crew of the White Haven noticed fire aboard the steamer and went to her rescue, and succeeded in beach- ing her and putting out the flames. The Hines Lumber Co., Chicago, owners of the Cormorant, have given bonds for the amount of the claim. Judge Landis, of Chicago, holds the steamer City of Berlin, of Detroit, at fault in the collision case of the Berlin and the steamer Chile. The collision occurred in the Detroit river near Belle Isle, and the City of Berlin was sent to the bottom. She was raised and towed to Mani- towoc, where she was repaired. The Berlin was out of com- mission for a long time and a claim for about $75,000 was made by Henry Wineman, her owner. The owners of the Chile did not make any claim for damages. The board of supervising inspectors of steam vessels has completed its labors at Washington but as the deliberations of this body have first to be passed upon by the department of commerce and labor before they can be published, it will -- be several months yet before it is definitely known what - was accomplished. It is understood, however, that no rad- ical changes*have been recommended, but certain minor ones have been made to render life more secure aboard ship. For instance, lake freighters are to have telephones from the pilot house to the engine room and also lines along the deck about 5 ft. from the rail from forward to aft. It is under- stood that the proposition advocated in some quarters to build a passage way under the deck was regarded as im- practical. After the committee on merchant marine and fisheries of the house of representatives heard from a delegation of lake vessel men, headed by Mr. Harvey D. Goulder, counsel for the Lake Carriers' Association, the provision in the Golden bill requiring 75 per cent of the deck crews of pas- senger vessels to be able seamen, was struck off. Accom- panying Mr. Goulder were Mr. T. F. Newman, of the 'Cleveland & Buffalo line, Mr. A. A. Schantz and Mr. D. C. McIntyre, of the Detroit & Cleveland line, Mr. B. W. Parker and Capt. Nicholson, of Detroit and Mr. A. W. Goodrich, of Chicago. It was proved to the committee that the repre- sentations made from the lake region by the advocates of the bill had not even the merit of truth to commend them, As a result of the testimony submitted by the owners of the passenger fleets the committee struck the provision out in so far as the lakes are concerned. Although inundated for nearly forty years, the piling re- moved from the old No. 1 South Shore ore docks at Mar-