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“Dock Co. refused the contract, FEBRUARY 8, 1900, Pittsburg lawyer, seeks to recover $26,1 35.50 damages from Navigation Company, which runs steamboats. between Clayton and Montreal on the St. Law- rence river, because the company’s steamer Algeria depart- August 11, 1897, and compelled him to wait over in that place 24 hours, Weill is represented by Attorney Simon Fleischman of Buffalo. He claims he lost 24 hours? time, $10.50 he paid for two tickets, $20 loss on a hotel bill, services for a day at _ $100, discomfort and annoyance in the sum of $1,000 and “exemplary, punitive or vindictive damages’” in the sum of $25,000, ‘ He alleges that the reason for the premature and untimely departure of the boat was that the captain had had an alter- cation with a captain of a rival line of boats, and had start- ed out ahead of time to try and run him down. The company makes a general denial of most of the alle: gations, and asks that the complaint be dismissed. The ex- act nature of iis evidence will not be made known until it begins to put in its defense. John W. Hogan of Syracuse and Charles F. Tabor of Buffalo are attorneys for the com- pany. The plaintiff also Says that after the boat had departed he asked an agent of the company to hold it at Alexandria Bay and the agent telephoned to that place. Then Weill and about a dozen other people who were left started on another boat to catch the Algeria. As they were Starting, Weill says, the defendant’s agent ran to the dock and called him back, Saying the captain was still angry and out of hnmor, and was in such a passion that he would not obey the orders of the company’s agents. Gr BUFFALO FIRE BOAT TOBE BUILT EAST. The contract for the building of Buffalo’s new fireboat has been awarded to an eastern shipyard. When the Union Dry after it had been awarded, the board advertised for new bids, At the same time the board notified eight different ship building firms of the new advertisement, including in the number the Buffalo Dry Dock Co. There were but two answers to the advertisement, ‘These were from the Racine Boat Manufacturing Co., Racine, Wis , whose bid was $122,000, and the Crescent Ship Yard Co., Elizabethport, N J-, whose bid was $91,000, the amount of the appropriation. Before awarding the contract the fire commissioners visited the shipyards of the company in order to assure themselves that the firm was reliable. They found over $3,000,000 worth of work on their docks, in- cluding a Federal boat for New Vork harbor, six launches for the Russian government, and cruisers and torpedo boats for this Government. The Crescent Ship Yard Co. is the builder of the submarine boat Holland, the gunboats An- napolis, Josephine, Vixen, the lighthouse tender Mangrove, and many other well-known vessels, The contract, which was signed Jan. 31, calls for the delivery of the boat at the docks in Buffalo within six months from that date. A THE BERTRAM SHIP BUILDING WORKS. The Bertram Ship and Engine Building Works Company, Toronto, have now under . construction two steel, general cargo steamers, of similar dimensions, and sister ships in all other particulars. They are- known to the builders as Nos, 35 and 36, the former of which is building to the order of J. R. Booth, Ottawa, Ont., and No, 36 is listed as being under construction for a syndicate. The hull dimensions of these two steamers are: 257 feet zs over all, 245% feet keel, 43 feet beam and 25% feet molded depth. 17, 28 and 46, by 32-inch stroke. Engines, triple expansion; diameter of cylinders, Boilers, 1334 diameter > and 12 feet in length. The Bertram Engine Works Com- ~—/ pany build the engines and boilers, as well as the hulls. The estimated cost of each craft is $165,000, or a total for both of rk $332,000. -—— Oo oor ADVICES from Montreal report a rumor on the local Stock as Exchange that the Standard Oil Company was endeavoring to obtain control of the stock of the Richelien & Ontario Navigation Company, in connection with the extension of its trade along the St. Lawrence. There was considerable trading in the stock as the result, the price going up to 115, n advance of about five points since Saturday. OBITUARY. (ORRIN L, JENKS. ) Orrin I, Jenks, one of the best known men in marine business on the lakes, died at the family residence, Port Huron, on Monday morning, aged fifty-eight years. Mr. Jenks was born in Birmingham, Mich. He went to Port Huron with his parents in 1858. In 1862 his father, William §S. Jenks, and himself established the Phcenix Iron Works, which has been doing business ever since. A very successful industry was built up under the management of Mr. Jenks. A few years ago the Jenks Ship Building Com- pany was organized, with William S. Jenks as president and Orrin L,. Jenks as vice-president and treasurer. The deceased however, has been practically the director of the company from the date of its Organization. Under his direction, twelve wooden vessels and tugs have been built, and three steel vessels are now on the stocks, and will be completed in time for this year’s season of navigation. It has always been Mr, Jenks’ ambition to embark in the building of steel vessels, but soon after beginning work on those now in process of construction, he was taken ill, and was confined to his house for several months. No man in Port Huron during the past twenty-five years has given employment to more men than has Mr, Jenks. He leaves a wife, two sons, William G. and Sidney J. Jenks, and one daughter, Mrs. Nellie Mason, of Detroit. The funeral was held from the family residence on Wednesday afternoon. i Se emeaay, ‘ THE RACINE BOAT MANUFACTURING Co. The Racine Boat Manufacturing Company is building two handsome little’craft to the order of Mr, Tracy C. Drake and Mr. V. C. Seaver. The former is a 12-ton, schooner- rigged, steam yacht, 64 feet over all, 54 feet keel, 10 feet beam and 5% feet molded depth. Engines, compound, 5, Io by 8 inches stroke, and a water tube boiler. Mr. Sea- ver’s craft has hull dimensions: 52 feet over all, 48 feet keel, Io feet beam, and 5 feet 7 inches molded depth. Electro- vapor engine. Machinery and complete equipment fur- nished by the builders. Tay rr THE MORLEY-LAN DSDOWNE COLLISION. The trial of the W. B. Morley-Landsdowne collision case is being heard by Judge Swan at Detroit. The claim for $75,000 libel made by the Morleys is the result of the sink- ing of that steamer last summer aftera collision in the Detroit river with the Grand Trunk ferry steamer Landsdowne. The Morley Transportation Co. is represented by Harvey D, Goulder of Cleveland and P. H. Canfield of Detroit. The Grand Trunk and Wabash railways, the owners of the car ferry are represented by Alfred Russell and John T. Shaw. Attorney Canfield made the opening address for the libel- ant Friday morning and was followed by Mr. Shaw for the defense. ; The interesting feature of the case 1s that the direct claim of each of the contestants is an absolute contradiction of every detail of the claim of the other, neither admitting any detail of the case to be as the contracting party states, Judge Swan has a hard proposition before him in rendering his de- cision as to the facts in the case. Attorney Canfield claims that the Landsdowne was passing down and failed to show the proper lights; that the Morley, as soon as the Landsdowne was sighted, blew two blasts, an indication that she would pass outside; that the Landsdowne then showed a red light and replied with one blast, a signal that she, too, would pass outside, The Landsdowne defense is that the Morley failed to show her lights; that the Landsdowne whsitled first her intention of passing outside and that the Morley answered with a sim- ilar signal and showed her lights too late, They also claim that the Morley was hugging the Canadian shore, which it had no right to do in passing up; that under the rules established by Congress vessels passing up or down must look out for ferries crossing the river, giving them the right of way. A cross-claim for damages will be made, rn THE Union Steam Pump Company, of Battle Creek, Mich., recently placed nine of their Burnham make of pumps with the N. K. Fairbanks Co., of Chicago; and also put in for the Hammond Packing Co., of South Omaha, Neb., one of their pumps for handling hot water, of the Moore pattern. A government surveying party began this week the work of taking detailed soundings of St. Mary’s river channel for the proposed improvements of the waters between Lakes Superior and Huron. The survey will also include the pro- Work will be continued as posed West Neebish channel. long as the ice will permit. harbor entry list during the month of January been so large, Thirty-four entries were recorded during the month. Engineer Louis Sebastian has been reappointed as chief of the steamer Kearsarge, the front rank among the engineers as an expert machinist, Capt. Wall will have charge of the steamer Stephenson - again next year. He madea fine record with the boat last. summer and she cleared a large sum for her owners. Captain is the right man in the right place.—The Eagle, Marinette, Wis, For several days past the shipments of ore from the stock piles at the docks at both Ashtabula and Conneaut have cold weather. ‘The orders for shipments to the furnaces are large, but the hard cold. Fish from Lake Michigan have traveled thirty-four miles They seem healthy and happy in spite of the Sewage poison which the canal is supposed to A blue herring a foot long was caught, bottled and forwarded to St. Louis for a specimen,—Daily Montreal’s grain shipments for the navigation season — recently closed were 31,591;551 bu., against 39, 102,682 bu, in Capt. Richard Jollie of Jefferson, who has commanded the steamer C. B. Lockwood since she came out in 1890, has been appointed master of the steamer Roman of the Menom- inee line for the coming season. This is the second change that Capt. Jollie has made during the 13 years of his life that he has been a lake captain. He sailed the steamer Geo. Spencer for three years before going into the Lock- wood—The Daily Beacon, Ashtabula. Senator McMillan has introduced a bill in the Senate ap- propriating $50,000 for a small revenue cutter to patrol the certain sooner or later to result in accident, The naval officers who were on board the United States ship Nero, which made the preliminary survey for the lo- cation of a cable from Honolulu to Manila, report the dis- of the Midway Islands, which rises from the ocean’s bottom to within 492 feet of the surface. abyss yet found in the world is situated about 500 miles east- ward of Guam, and sinking to a depth of more than: 4,900 fathoms (29,400 feet). thorizes inspectors of steam vessels to administer an oath to all such applicants as to their experience and other require- ments of the law, and for any misrepresentation, a fine of $500 is imposed or imprisonment at hard labor for three years.—The Advocate, Sturgeon Bay, Wis. The bill has not quite passed, objection was made and the measure went over —into oblivion we hope.—Ep. uge with a depth of not less than twenty feet. The report states that a harbor of refuge can be formed at a low cost compared with the cost of improving the exterior harbor, which, on account of the expense, is considered impractic- able. A plan is presented for a formation of a harbor of ref- uge within the mouth of Kewaunee harbor by the extension of the pier 400 feet and by the construction of a breakwater 600 feet in length off the mouth of the harbor. The estimated cost of the improvement is $230,000. Engineer Sebastian stands in| ee