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Welland Canal Opened to Larger Lake Vessels The new Welland canal was officially opened, June 15, to lake freighters up to 450 feet in length. The first.lake boats to pass through the canal were the THOMAS Britt, the JAmMes Eaps and the BRENTWoop. The THOMAS Barirr is 412 feet, and the BRENTwoop 358 feet. Dredging operations are still in prog- ress at several points, including a point at bridge No. 11 at Allanburg; bridge No. 12 at Port Robinson where dredg- ing and other construction will be going on until the end of August; a point two miles north of bridge No. 13 at Welland, where dipper dredges are working; a point between bridges 16 and 17 where a suction dredge is at work; a point at Ramey’s Bend where dredging is being done; and at Port Colbourne harbor where dredging op- erations are also being carried on. River Bend Elimination According to a report from Lorain the Lorain port commission on June 17 was Called on to file an appeal with the United States war department engi- neers urging that the work of elimi- nating the bend in the Black river be finished this summer. Part of the work was completed June 17, by the Dunbar & Sullivan Co., which was working -under a contract. According to the Lorain port commission, the elimination project is only two-thirds completed. The work on the section which embraced about 1100 feet of New Diesel Yacht Completed for Use HOWN in the accompanying illus- tration is the new diesel yacht Danora, designed by John H. Wells Ine. and built by the Defoe Boat & Mo- tor Works, Bay City, Mich. for D. S. Eddins, Lansing, Mich. Principal di- J river front was carried out on a con- tract price of about $48,000 with an available $66,000 appropriated by con- gress last year. The port commission claims that a menace to navigation is caused by considerable piling which extends into the river where work on the completed section terminated. Work was resumed Monday, June 22, to complete the proj- ect and it is this work which the com- mission is anxious to have completed. The passenger service of the Great Lakes Transit Corp. is to include Chicago and Milwaukee during the present season according to William J. Connors, Jr., chairman of the board of the company. This exten- sion is to become effective in July. Open New Barge Service The Inland Waterways Corp. be- gan service on the Illinois river as far as Peoria on June 11, the first fleet leaving St. Louis on that date and arriving at Peoria on June 15. The opening of operations on this river marks an important step to- ward the culmination of the long dreamed of Lakes to the Gulf water- way, extending from Chicago to New Orleans, and has been made possible through the co-ordinated efforts of the federal government and the citi- zens of Peoria, who haye invested nearly a half million dollars in a modern interchange terminal be- tween water, rail and motor facili- ties, the first to be constructed on the Illinois river. mensions are: Length 105 feet, beam 19 feet 6 inches, draft 6 feet 6 inches, powered with 2 Winton 375-horse- power diesel engines.’ MaRINE REview—July, 1931 Movement of Ore Drops Below Last Season Movement of iron ore from the Lake Superior district during the month of May was only slightly over 25 per cent of what it was for the same month last year. Shipments for May, 1930, amounted to 6,979,213 tons and for May, 1931, the total movement was 1,769,295 tons or a decrease of 5,209,- 918 tons. This drop amounts to 74.65 per cent. In spite of the fact that the movement during April of this year was greater than for the same month in 1930, the total seasonal movement to June 1 is 72.55 per cent below last year’s record. The movement to June 1, 1930, amounted to 7,087,132 tons as compared with 1,945,216 tons for this year. Movement of ore to interior furnaces from Lake Erie docks for the month of May, was below the figure for the same month last year. During - May, 1931, 13,017 cars were shipped while for last year 54.,666 cars were moved during the same month. - New Canal Service The electric drive barge CLEVELANDER of the General Motorship Corp. arrived at Boston, June 17, to load 30,000 bags of sugar at the Revere Sugar Refining Co.’s plant for delivery at Rochester, Buffalo, Chicago and Detroit. The Dr- TROITER of the same line is scheduled to make a similar trip via the Cape Cod canal, Long Island sound and the state barge canal and it is expected that a regular service may be maintained. Great Lakes on Left—Diesel yacht Danora recently built by Defoe Boat dé Motor Works for D. 8. Eddins, Lans- ing, Mich. Above— The living room, paneled in black walnut 33