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416 as follows, bearings and distance be- ing given from Lakeview crib: Feet. 17.5 Ny 13° W (Azimuth 347°), 10,600 19.6 N. 5° W. (Azimuth 305°), 13,400 21.3. NN. 8° E. (Azimuth 8°), 14,500 mac Ne I? Be (Azimuth 11°), 19,400* 20.3 N. 5%° W. (Azimuth 354%4°), 21,500 22:0: N; (Azimuth 0°), 23,500 19.0. N.. 20° -W. CAzimuth 340°), 20,200 *Wreck. Masters of deep laden vessels are cautioned to keep at least 4 miles from shore while navigating in this vicinity. NEW ORE LOADING RECORD. A new ore loading record was es- tablished at Two Harbors on Sunday, | Oct. 10, when 10,111 gross tons of Pioneer ore from the Vermillion range was loaded upon the steamer Wim. E. Corey in 39 minutes. This time in- cludes all delays, the boat starting at 2:17 and finishing at 2:56. This record was made possible in part by the use of the new Summers steel ore cars. Recent tests with the most refracto1y ore showed that these cars could dump' their cargo of 50 tons in 45 seconds, as against about 714 minutes by the ordinary type car. - AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. Ore receipts at Ashtabula for Sep- tember were 1,432,394 tons, the larg- est ever reported. President Livingstone of the Lake Carriers' Association announces' the membership of the welfare plan to be now 8,430. The steamer Yosemite hit the over- head feed wires of the Newburg & South Shore Railroad bridge and broke her top mast. _ The Anchor Line steamers Juniata and Tionesta have finished their pas- senger season and are now running on the regular fall schedule. John Swedenberg, a foreman on the Pennsylvania docks, has 'been appoint- ed harbormaster at Ashtabula to suc- ceed Sam F. Cook, resigned. Plans have 'been prepared by the Detroit, Belle Isle & Windsor Ferry Co. for a new excursion steamer somewhat similar to the Brittania. The package freighter North Star, building for the Mutual Transit Co. at-the St. Clair yard of the Great Lakes Engineering Works, was daunched on Oct. 2.: The fish tug George Edwards, build- ing for Reger & Werner, of Lorain, was launched at Buffalo on Wednes- day, Sept. 22, The new tug is 75 ft. long arid 16 ft. beam. The steamer Lackawanna, was sunk at Port Huron by the barge Chieftain, was 'taken to Detroit for temporary repairs. She will go to Buffalo for permanent repairs, -which - TAE Marine REVIEW Contract for an all steel lighter to be delivered next spring has been let by the Western Transit Co., of Buf- falo, to the Manitowoc Dry Dock Co., Manitowoc, Wis. She will be sta- tioned at Duluth in place of the old wooden lighter Gray Oak. With a view of establishing a life saving station at Toledo, General Su- perintendent Kimball of the life sav- ing service has ibeen ordered to pro- ceed to Buffalo where a conference with Lieut. Commander Stearns, United States naval inspector of the tenth light-house district, will be held. The Great Lakes Towing Co.'s new tug E. M. Pierce, which was built by the company at its own yard in Cleve- land, has been delivered at Lorain. The tug is constructed entirely of steel as it is intended for work all year around. The Pierce is 80 ft. long and 19: Ont 'beam ea | The mail boat. ne i; eon ji, delivered 67,147 pieces of mail to ves- sels passing Detroit during Septem- ber, at the same time taking from the boats 31,394 pieces. . The biggest days work was on Sunday, Sept. 26, when mail. was delivered to 104 boats between the hours. of 6 a. m. and Op. 1. : The Carnegie Dock & Fuel Co,, which has leased the old Great North- ern dock at Dulith, intends to rebuild it during - 'the 'winter and to extend it 1,000 ft., making it 2,000 ft. long. This. will give the Carnegie Company, when completed, the largest dock in point of storage capacity at the head of the lakes. The two 600-footers building at the Lorain yard of the American Ship Building Co. for the Pittsburg Steam- ship. Co.,-will be named in honor ot William B.. Schiller, president of the National Tube Co., and John P.. Mor- gan: Jr, member. of the finance com- mittee of the United States Steel Cor- poration. The Schiller will be launched on. Oct. 23. 'The Polson Iron Wishes Co... at Toronto, has entered into an agree- ment with the city of Owen Sound to operate upon a percentage basis a dry dock to be constructed there. The' people of Owen anxious to have a ship repair plant established at that port and propose to build a 400-ft. dry dock which can be extended if necessary. The Lake Shore Railway, which has been engaged for the past three years in extensive improvements at Ashta- bula, has decided to equip its new extension dock No. 2 or. -the lake front with the same equipment as No. 1, that is to say, four Huleti unload- -passenger season at that port. 'the home of. his Sound. are. October, 1909 ers with 15-ton buckets and Hoover & Mason conveying bridges. The new dock is to be ready for business by September 1, 1910. The fall advance of wages on ves- sels enrolled in the Lake 'Carriers' Association went into effect on Oct. 1. The advance affects all classes except licensed officers and first cooks. The new schedule is as follows: Sec- ond cooks and. waiters, $37.50 per month; porters, $35; firemen, oilers and water-tenders, $65; wheelsmen and © lookouts, $65; ordinary seamen, $40; able bodied seamen, $65. Capt. James Stone, supervising in- spector of steamboats, has rendered his decision in the collision between the steamer City of Erie and the Can- adian schooner Sir C.-T. Van Strau- benzie off Dunkirk on Monday morn- ing last, in which two men and one woman were drowned. In his report Capt. Stone finds that the schooner's starboard or green light was not burn- ing, and therefore holds the pilot of the City of Erie, Edward S. Picket, blameless. President Livingstone, of the Lake Carriers' Association, has arranged to have the same lights installed on the north pier at Duluth as were in the service last year at the close of the These lights, which are now in commission, consist of a cluster of six lights, car- ried on three iron lamp posts at the outer end of the pier, each of the posts carrying a white and a green light 4 ft. apart. Two of the posts stand on the pier with lights 28 ft. above the lake surface, while the third post will be on a lower portion of the pier with lights 20 ft. above the lake. OBITUARY. William Moran, .member of the firm of Moran Bros., which built the battleship Nebraska, died at Seattle on Sept..13. He is the fourth of the eight Moran brothers to die within four years. Capt. Thomas Banner, who died at niece, Mrs. John Downing, 387 Fulton street, Buffalo, was a well known figure on the great lakes some years ago, 'having sailed quite a number of vessels. He came to this country in 1844, settling at Buffalo and identifying himself with the lakes sailing. He is survived by iis son, Thomas B. Banner, of Chi- cago, William H. Palmer, "head of the firm controlling the largest fleet of coasting schooners in the world, died on Sept. 29 at his home in Roxbury, ' ' a 4 '