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TAE MarRINE. REVIEW | ee. 31 LAUNCH OF THE STEAMER HARRY COULBY. the United States navy; Mr. Harry Coulby, Mr. Harvey D. Goulder, Capt. John Mitchell, Mr. J. Burton Ayers and Mr. E. P. Lenihan, of Cleveland; Mr. Lyman C. Smith, Mr. W. L. Smith, and Mr. Scott, of Syracuse; Mr. G. A. Tomlinson, of Duluth; Capt. J. J: H, Brown, of Buffalo;' Mr. and Mrs, Wm. Livingstone, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Warren, Mr. and Mrs. Eber Cottrell, Miss Susie Livingstone, Miss Sara An- gell, Miss Annie Leonard, Miss- Louise Patterson, Miss Adelaide Sutter, Mr. C. H. Westcott, John B. Whelan, Mr. J. L. Hudson, Mr. George T. Moody, Mr. James B. McKay, Mr. Antonio C. Pessano, Mr. Walter E. Campbell, Mr, J. E. Danaher, Capt. Duncan Nicholson and Mr. Morris Mc- Millan, of Detroit, and Hon. Peter White of Marquette, Mich. Following the launch luncheon was served at the Detroit club, at which Mr. Harvey D. Goulder acted as toastmaster. The Coulby will be sailed by Capt: Ralph J. Lyons of Lorain, and Mr. E. Hull of Buffalo will be her chief engineer. MR. S. H. PITKIN GENERAL MANAGER. At the recent annual meeting of the Wellman-Seaver-Mor- gan Co., of Cleveland, O. the office of general manager, which has been vacant since the death last June of Mr. Charles H. Wellman, was filled by the election of Mr. S. H. Pitkin, whose present title will be first vice president and general manager. Otherwise no changes were made in the officers of the company. Representative McMorran, of Port Huron, has introduced a joint resolution in the house directing the secretary of war to cause an examination and survey to be made for a chan- nel between Russell's Island and Grand Point in the St. Clair river, for the purpose of obtaining the shortest direct channel. The resolution has the approval of the war de- partment. Copsr ghted 1906 by Detrott Publishing Co. . The steamer Atlanta which was burned on Lake Michi- gan last week had-.been inspected by the steamboat in- spection service but a few days before the disaster and was found to be fully equipped with all fire fighting and life saving devices. Capt. McCauley, of the Atlanta, is of the opinion that the fire started with an explosion of some sort. The captain is commended for promptly stopping his ship and turning his entire attention to fighting the fire. There were no passengers aboard at the time, the crew numbering nearly seventy persons. Capt. Frank Van Patton, inspector of hulls, and' Wm. A. Collins, in- spector of boilers, are undertaking an investigation into the cause of the disaster. The Milwaukee life saving station will be opened for bus- iness at midnight' March 31. Other stations will speedily go into commission, but Milwaukee is the first one actually ordered into commission. The life 'saving crews this year will operate under somewhat different conditions than ob- tained last year. For instance, instead of being allowed twelve hours time on their day off, the members of the crew will be. allowed twenty-four hours time. The effect of this is to virtually make the life-saving crew one man short con- tinually throughout the season. As a matter of fact, with one man continuously on patrol duty it makes the crews two men short in case there is actual life-saving work to be done. The Maryland Steel Co., Sparrow's Point, Md., is to build a passenger and freight steamer for the Boston & Philadel- phia Steamship Co., to be 290 ft. over all, 276 ft. keel, 42 ft. beam and 27 ft. 3 in. deep, equipped with triple expan- sion engines with cylinders 28, 45 and 72-in. diameters by stroke of 40 in., supplied with steam from four Scotch boilers, 13 ft. 9 in. diameter and 12 ft. long, allowed 180 lbs. pressure, 4