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16 MARINE REVIEW. AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. C. W. Elphicke i& Co. of Chicago announce that iMr. R. J. Dunham is now a member of the firm. ‘Capt. A. B. Drake of Buffalo will again have charge of the work of compiling and publishing the Inland Lloyds Register. : Harvey C. Beeson of Chicago has again compiled a very neat pam- phlet giving winter moorings of lake vessels. The work is very well done. Capt. Wm. Curtis, aged seventy, died at his home in Port Huron a few days ago. He was a resident of Port Huron for forty-three years. Capt. Jeremiah Harrington, one of the pioneer vessel captains on the great lakes, died Monday at the home of his daughter in Chicago, aged nearly ninety years. J. A. Jamieson has completed plans for a 1,500,000-bushel elevator at Port Arthur. The structure is for Mackenzie & Mann, to cost $350,000, and will be completed by next September. W. G. ‘Moore has succeeded ‘M. Riley as superintendent of the N. Y. P. & O. ore docks, Cleveland. Mr. Moore will also have charge of the N. Y. P. & O. Co.’s ore storage plant at Randall, O. ‘Commodore Wm. H. Wolf, well known vessel owner of Milwaukee, who was very close to death a week ago, on account of the amputation of a leg made necessary by blood poisoning, has been reported as improving of late. Officers of the Buffalo lodge of the Shipmasters’ Association for the ensuing year are: President, E. C. Maytham; first vice-president, J. H. Coleman; second vice-president, W. Robinson; treasurer, John Hall; secretary, John Perew. \Meteor is the name selected for the 3,000-ton steamer (a vessel ot Canadian canal dimensions) ‘building at the Craig works, Toledo, for the Hawgood Transit Co. of 'Cleveland. The ‘Meteor is 1 ft. wider but is otherwise a duplicate of the steamer Tampico, also owned by the Haw- good company and now engaged in Atlantic seaboard trade. Capt. M. Mulholland, who is finding sale in all parts of the lakes for the patent hatch fastener, which he developed on the steel steamer Alva last season, is now making a special design of corner bracket for the hatch covers of steel vessels. The corner bracket is so well adapted to tightly fastening the round corners that its use more than insures a tight hatch. Mr. J. C. Gilchrist of Cleveland keeps on buying wooden vessels. He purchased the steamer Neshoto from Robert R. Rhodes of Cleveland a few days ago for $72,000. Mr. Gilchrist now controls. twenty-seven wooden vessels, twenty-four of which are steamers, and the American Ship Building Co. is building for him eight steel steamers of about 5,000 gross tons capacity each. One of the strongest of the labor organizations on the great lakes is the Licensed Tugmen’s Protective Association, the general body of which is now in annual session at Buffalo. Although organized only a year ago, this association is said to now have about 2,000 members. Michael Ryan of Duluth has been president during the past year and E. E. Hand ot Conneaut, secretary and treasurer. Officers of the Detroit lodge of the Shipmasters’ Association, recently installed, are: President, A. J. McKay; first vice-president and delegate to grand lodge, Wm. Roach; second vice-president, James B. Watts; treasurer, T. Lemay; financial secretary, H. H. Parsons;'marshal; James Beauvais; warden, Wm. McLean; chaplain, Charles McIntosh; sentinel, Geo. C. Burns; alternate to grand lodge, Geo. A. Symes. Another of the steamers of 3,000-ton kind building at Chicago for Charles Counselman and others, and which are to engage in transatlantic trade or in Atlantic coastwise service, as may be deemed advisable from a freight standpoint, was launched at the Chicago works of the American Ship Building Co. on Saturday last and named Northman. These vessels are all of the same size—full Canadian canal dimensions. Capt. Richard Barrow, an old time vessel captain, died in Cleveland during the present week. He was born in England in 1823 and came to Cleveland in 1832. For several years he managed the side-wheel steamer Telegraph, which ran between Cleveland and Port Stanley. The Tele- graph was later sunk in collision with the steamer Marquette. He was the owner and master of the schooner Jessie at the time of his death. Three sons survive him—Richard, William and Arthur. The funeral of ‘Capt. John Moore, vessel owner of Cleveland, whose death was announced in the last issue of the Review, took place on Satur- day last and was very largely attended by vessel men of Cleveland. The pall bearers were John H. Bartow, M. A. Bradley, H. A. Hawgood, B. L.. ‘Pennington, E. D. Chilson and Wm. Gerlach. ‘Capt. Moore’s yacht was his one source of pleasure, and strange as it may seem the vessel was very probably the source of his death. He sustained internal injuries in handling a very heavy engine which he had selected for the yacht. By Capt. Moore’s will, his property, largely of a vessel kind, reverts almost entirely to a brother and two sisters. By the purchase of the Green Dredging Co.’s plant the Lydon & Drews Co. of Chicago becomes one of the largest dredging concerns in the country. The dredging apparatus purchased from the Green com- pany includes three tugs, three dredges, ten scows and five pile drivers, as well as shops and tool equipment in Chicago. The Green company is the third concern that has been bought out by Lydon & Drews in three years,; the other plants purchased being those of the Chicago Star Construction Co, and. of the McMahon & Montgomery Co. The Green Dredging Co., has been in business in Chicago for forty years. Its withdrawal leaves but one competitor to Lydon & Drews on the Chicago river, the Fitz Simons & Connell Co. At the close of navigation in December last the following vessels were in Buffalo loaded with winter cargoes: Laden with wheat—A bys- sinia, 119,970 bushels; S. S. Curry, 166,000 bushels; Pretoria, 168.000 bushels; Vega, 110,000 bushels; America, 112,000 bushels; ‘Chili, 139.000 bushels; Kearsarge, 137,000 bushels; Lackawanna, 99,614 bushels: Brazil 113,000 bushels; J. R. Noyes, 16,000 bushels; total, 1,185,084 bushels. With flaxseed—H. L. Shaw, 249,547 bushels; Senator, 204,839 bushels; Penob- [January 24, EERE) scot, 157,854 bushels; total, 612,240 bushels. With oats—Rappahannock, 161,893 bushels. Grand total, 1,959,217 bushels. Of the vessels enumer- ated the Kearsarge and Penobscot have been discharged, and the Senator is now under the spouts for slow unloading. It is true that another effort is being made to establish an organiza- tion of vessel masters on the lakes that will attempt to deal with wages and other questions of the kind taken up by labor unions. Up to a year or so ago, the vessel masters, who are as a rule in very close touch with important interests of the ship owners, stood aloof from labor organiza-~ tions, but the spread of these organizations has attracted the attention ot a large number of the captains, and formal application has been made to heads of the American Federation of Labor for information as to the course to be followed in order to secure affiliation with that body. It is not probable, however, that an association will be formed just now, as the proportion of captains opposed to anything of the kind is very large. The Ship /Masters’ Association, which includes in its membership prob- ably half the captains. is a benevolent and social organization, and has. steadfastly refused to deal with the subject of wages. The passenger steamer Kingston, which is being built at the Bertram Iron Works, Toronto, for the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co., was launched last Saturday. Dimensions of the steamer are as follows: Length over all, 290 ft.; extreme breadth over guards, 64 ft.; molded depth of hull, 14 ft.; depth of steamer from top of dome deck to bottom of keel, 48 ft. The steamer has five decks, namely, the orlop, or the lower deck, the main deck, saloon deck, gallery deck and hurricane deck. The machinery consists of an incline three-crank triple expansion engine, with cylinders 28, 44 and 74 in. in diameter, respectively, having a com- mon stroke of 6 ft. The paddles are 22 ft. in diameter. The steam is furnished by four cylindrical return tubular boilers, 11 ft. diameter and 12 ft. long, passed by the Canadian government inspectors for 184 Ibs. working pressure of steam. The boilers are fitted with the Howden hot draft system. In this connection it might be mentioned that the sister ship, Toronto, on her trials for economy, made a record as low as 1.68 lbs. of coal per indicated horse power per hour, which is regarded as the highest record for economy oi any paddle wheel engine known. RELEASING DEVICES FOR SHIPS’ BOATS. In view of all that has been said in the newspapers of the country during the past year regarding the important subject of releasing devices for ship’s boats, it would seem that the board of supervising inspectors of steam vessels, now in session in Washington, should give some atten- tion to this matter. Some of the new members of the board who have proven energetic and eminently fair, will at least be warranted in looking into the question. Just as the Review goes to press we have a communi- cation from a practical vessel man, who cannot be said to be entirely dis- interested in the matter of releasing devices, but whose opinion is worthy of consideration just the same. He says: “Section 4488 of the revised statutes provides that ‘all steamers carry- ing passengers Shall have the lifeboats required by law provided with suitable boat-disengaging apparatus, so arranged as to allow such boats to be safely launched while such vessels are under speed or otherwise.’ A fine of $1,000 is imposed for not complying with the requirements made by the board of supervising inspectors. No device has been approved up to this year. Has the board made an effort to find a device that will save life? If not, where does the responsibility rest for loss of life? It is the intention of the law that the best devices shall be used in all parts of a ship, and it is the duty of the board to ascertain what the best devices are and to see that the law is carried out, not so much in the interests of the steamboat men, but in the interest» of the traveling public, for which the service was first started. The board, at this meeting, should recom- mend a device which it has seen tried and proved, which recommendation will relieve owners and commanders of the responsibility and at the same time overcome the difficulty which vessel owners have heretofore had oe looking for the best that is to be had for the equipment of their oats.” LUMBER CARRIERS APPEAR TO BE UNITED. Owners of lumber vessels who attended the meeting of lumber-carry- ing interests, that followed the annual meeting of the Lake Carriers’ Asso- ciation in Detroit last week, are generally of the opinion that some of the disadvantages under which they have been trying to operate their vessels in the past will be removed by united effort. The owners of lumber ves- sels are especially pleased with the personnel of the governing committee selected at Detroit. This committee, which will be practically in control of the vessels if an agreement is entered into by all the owners, is com- posed of F. W. Gilchrist of Alpena, C. H. Prescott and Wm. Teare of ‘Cleveland, Edward Hines of Chicago, Henry McMorran of Port Huron, O. W. Blodgett of Bay City, Alexander Sinclair of Duluth, iM. Sicken of Marine City, C, I. Rowland of Toledo and C. 'M. Zangerle of Detroit. Mr. F..W. Gilchrist of Alpena, who represents very large interests, has taken a decided interest in perfecting the new organization, and ‘it is a source of special gratification to some of the owners of lumber catriers to find that O. W. Blodgett of Bay City and Edward Hines of ‘Chicago are earnestly supporting the organization movement this year. The navy department has issued orders directing ‘Capt. C. H. Stock- ton to proceed to ‘Manila, P. I., and take command of the battleship Ken- tucky, which is now nearing the completion of her voyage over from the United States to the Asiati¢ station. Capt. Stockton will depart for his new station on the steamer leaving San Francisco on Feb. 1 next. Wm, G. Gray, who has been assistant to General Manager Swank of the American Iron & Steel Association for a number. of years, has been appointed Statistician of the association. Mr. Gray is now supervis ing also the collection of the iron and steel statistics for the census of 1909. _ The Atlantic Works, Incorporated, of Philadelphia, a short time ago shipped one of their B17 adjustable bevel band saw machines to pene H. Elderkin & Co, of Port Greville, Nova Scotia: