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26 THE Marine ReEviIEw Capt. Henry Larsen, master of the steamer Crate, died of heart failure at Duluth last week. The north channel at the draw, Houghton, Mich, can now be used by vessels going in both directions.. Capt. J. C. Hazen, a retired lake captain, died at his home at Marine City last night. He +was seventy years 'old. The lightship Columbia is receiving new boilers and other repairs at the yard of Moran Bros. Co., Seattle, Wash. The Zenith Dredging Co., of Duluth, will begin work ployed in the sand, gravel and lumber trade on Lake Superior. | Mr. C. M. Stoddard, a well known marine engineer, died at his home in Cleveland last week. He was one of the charter members, of the Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association. | Contracts were let at Racine, Wis. this week for the construction of a large freight house for the new Chicago- Milwaukee Transportation Co. It is to be finished in twenty days. Capt. Z. L. Wood, an old lake master, died at Conneaut last week, aged eighty-six years. He was very active in the early days on the lakes and owned at one time quite a * fleet of vessels. The Southern Ship Building Co. launched from their " i eee Bh a FREIGHT STEAMER CHARLES S.. HEBARD. The bulk freighter Charles S. Hebard:was built at the Cleveland yard of the American Ship Building Co. for the Wilson Transit Co: Cleveland. This steamer is 524 ft. over all, 504 ft. keel, 54 ft. beam and 30 ft. deep. She has thirty hatches spaced 12-ft. centers. Her en- gines are triple-expansion with cylinders 23%, 38 and 63-in. diameters by 42-in. stroke, supplied with steam from two Scotch boilers, 14 ft. -6 in. by 11 ft. 6 in., equipped with Ellis & Eaves draft and allowed a pressure of 180 lhs. She is classed as a 9,000-ton steamer. shortly on dredging the shoal at the entrance of Ontona- gon harbor. The Saginaw board of trade will urge a government appropriation for deepening the Saginaw river 12 ft. from Saginaw to Bay City. _ The steamer Pere Marquette No. 5 stranded at White Fish Point in a fog last week, but was subsequently re- leased without injury. _ The first iron ore cargo ever shipped from Escanaba to go north was taken out by the Canadian steamer Leafield last week. It went to Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. 'The Phelps Carey Mfg. Co., of Cleveland, has this season furnished and applied their magnesia boiler cover- ing on over 150 steamers on the great lakes. The work of laying the keel of the new Detroit and Cleveland passenger steamer is well under way at the Wyandotte yard of the American Ship Building Co. Groh Bros. and' Capt. Wm. Lorenz, Sheboygan, Wis., have given contract to Rieboldt, Wolter & Co., Sturgeon Bay, for a tug to be 83 ft. over all, 20 ft. beam and 11% ft. deep. The schooner H. C. Sprague has been converted into a steamer and renamed the Reliance. She will be em- -yard at Jacksonville, Fla, a large barge for the Havana Coal Co., measuring 105 ft. long, 25 ft. beam and eight ft. six inches deep. Capt. James Reid, wrecking master, is making good progress in salving the stranded steamer Mataafa. Ore is being jettisoned and the break amidships strapped by beams across the deck. : Clarence Parker, of the Parker Chartering Co., of De- troit, is figuring on a steamer to run between Lorain and Cleveland to take the place of the steamer Frontenac, which has been chartered to run between Chicago and Kenosha. The Canadian passenger steamer Huronic, bound down with a cargo of general merchandise, struck just before entering the Canadian canal, damaging several plates on the starboard side and filling the collision bulkhead and forward compartments with water. Bids were opened at Detroit last week for dredging Round Island shoal, St. Marys' river. The lowest bid- ders were: Shoal 1, M. Sullivan, Detroit, 2114 cents per cubic yard; shoal No. 2, Lake Erie Dredging Co., 49 cents per cubic yard. The sum of. $53,000 is available for the work.