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The new steamer measures 214 feet from stem to stern which is 30 feet more than the LASALLE at present the largest vessel in the Windsor service. She will accommodate 75 automobiles and 2500 passengers. Extend Barge Service Extension of the government barge service to the Illinois river and on to Chicago by the time the state waterway is opened is predicted by Senator Deneen, of Illinois, following conferences with the Inland Water- ways Corp. in Washington. Passage of necessary legislation in the pres- ent session of congress followed by a survey of the Illinois river and Hen- nepin canal projects during the com- ing summer and the enactment of fur- ther legislation next winter probably will delay the actual authorization for at least a year from the present. Opens Cleveland Office W. G. Bartenfeld who has a patent on a system of channel steel and plate construction for vessels has opened an office in the Rockefeller building, Cleveland. He announces that he is prepared to offer lake vessel oper- ators designs for the use of his sys- tem of channel construction for lake vessels, barges, scows and for the rebuilding of tank tops and hoppers. Mr. Bartenfeld is also the Great Lakes representative for the Kearfott Engineering Co., New York and the Filtrators Co. also of New York. Terminal at Buffalo The state of New York has ap- propriated $460,000 for the dredging of Erie basin at Buffalo. This it is taken to mean will hasten the con- struction of the proposed million dol- lar passenger and freight terminal for the Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Co. Plans have been under way for some time and the land was purchased about two years ago. There is to be a terminal building and dock. The fact that the state of New York held up the appropriation for dredging the basin held up action on the C. & B. project. The completion of the plans now under way will mean a great improvement to Buffalo’s water- front. Sole surviver of the steamer, JAMES J. CoLGATE lost in 1916 Capt. J. Wal- ter Grashaw, veteran of the Great Lakes died at Cleveland Jan. 23. The immediate cause of death was typhoid fever. In late years Captain Gra- shaw commanded the PROGRESS. Carl D. Bradley 1860-1928 the Bradley Transportation Co. and the Michigan Limestone & Chemical Co. of Rogers City, Mich. died suddenly from an heart attack at Pasadena, Calif. March 19. The entirely unexpected passing of this outstanding lake operator came as a distinct shock to his many friends and admirers. He was an extremely modest man and avoided all possible appearance of self-laudation. The outline of his life is therefore, not a matter of record. Anyone acquainted with most any phase of the bulk cargo carrying trade of the Great Lakes is bound to have known Mr. Bradley because he brought some strikingly new and progressive ideas to bear in the de- velopment of vessels suitable for this trade. The story goes that Mr. Bradley some sixteen years ago while asso- ciated with a firm of New York en- gineers was sent to look over the possibilities of building up a business in the production and delivery of limestone. In the sixteen years that have elapsed this business has grown to large proportions. During 1927, 14,033,376 net tons of stone were carried in vessels on the Great Lakes. In 1915 as far back as records seem to have been kept about three and one third million tons of stone were carried. In the development of this business, Carl D. Bradley took a leading part. He distinctly showed his genius for progress when against much opposi- tion he carried out his idea of a turbine electric self-unloading vessel. The first vessel of this type built un- der his direction was the T. W. ROBIN- SON completed in 1925. The operation of this vessel was in the main so successful that his plans for building a still larger vessel with similar ma- chinery went through with practically no opposition. The results have justified his con- viction that the then existing type of unloader was not as efficient as it might be. This second turbine electric self-unloader was named the CARL D. BRADLEY for him and was completed by the American Ship Building Co. in July 1977. This vessel operated throughout last season with high effi- ciency and ran with regularity with- ont experiencing any trouble. She carried a tremendous amount of stone Ct D. BRADLEY, president of MARINE REvIEwW—April, 1928 and at a less cost per ton per mile than it had ever been carried before. She had the further distinction of breaking all records by carrying in a single cargo 15,724 tons of limestone. This is said to be the largest load ever carried on fresh water. Her own automatic unloading machinery discharged this tremendous cargo in five hours. This vessel represented the peak of Mr. Bradley’s achievement and he saw her completed and oper- ating successfully beyond even his own expectations. It is difficult to say anything of CARL D. BRADLEY Mr. Bradley’s personal relations with those who worked with him. Only those who had the privilege of work- ing with him can fully appreciate his magnanimity and _ open-heartedness and lack of all pretention. He was cordial and pleasant and fair to all. It is certain that he was an excep- tional man and that shipping on the Great Lakes has lost one of _ its progressive far-visioned leaders. Quincy Miller, 82 years of age, at one time superintendent of the boiler shop of the old Cleveland Shipbuild- ing Co., Cleveland, died recently. Fol- lowing the Civil war Mr. Miller be- came an engineer on the lakes. He retired from active participation in business about fifteen years ago. The American Ship Building Co. acquired the Cleveland company in 1899. 85