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The report also adds that the work is to be finished December 1, 1900, and as the dredging has been completed according to the original project, for the completion of the breakwater, a balance of $1,249.34 is available. Work on the waterway from Keweenaw Bay to Lake Superior, Michigan, resulted in the removal of 346,000 cubic yards. This dredging has resulted in giving a very fair 20 foot channel, 120 feet wide, into Portage Lake through Por- tage river. Many feet of revetment was constructed and the old revetment was removed. Over $287,000 was spent during the year. The uncompleted contracts are covered by $410,146.02, leaving no balance to July, 1900. Since the last annual report as to the work at Marquette, 500 feet of extension to the concrete superstructure, to the breakwater, began in May, 1899, has been completed. Over $21,000 was expended and a balance of $1,066.57 is available Work was also done on 500 feet extension to the break_ water in the harbor of refuge at Marquette, $11,626.13 being expended, The uncompleted contracts are covered by $17,280, leaving a,balance of $1,514.36. Repairs and extensions to piers characterized the year’s work at the harbor of refuge at Grand Marais, Mich., $19,494.02 being expended. The uncompleted contracts are covered by $14,470, leaving an available balance of $790.73 to July 1, 1900. : In reference to the harbor at Agate Bay (Two Harbors), the report states that 130 feet of running embankment was completed on June 30, 1900, and the contract for the crib foundation and timber superstructure pier extensions has been awarded and the work is to be completed by September I, 1901, This work is under way, and when it is finished the project for the improvement of the harbor will be com- pleted. Dredging constituted the bulk of the work of improving the harbor at Duluth and Superior. Altogether 4,920,388 cubic yards of material was removed. The new south pier of the Duluth ship canal was completed on April 17, 1900, seventeen cribs for the north pier were completed, piling driven and sawed off; six cribs have been sunk and secured, and four of the six have been decked over ready for con- crete footing blocks. There was expended during the fiscal year $635,974.30. Uncompleted contracts are covered by $1,360,282.34, leaving no available balance July 1, 1900. Considerable work was done on the breakwater in the harbor at Ashland during the year, $11,016.52 being ex- pended. The amount covering uncompleted contracts is $22,000, leaving an available balance of $3,747.69. or oor LAUNCH OF THE PRINCETON. The large steel steamer Princeton, built to the order of the Pittsburg Steamship Co., was successfully launched on Saturday last from the Lorain yards of the American Ship Building Co. Thousands of people witnessed the vessel slide from the ways into the waters of Black river. Every available spot for sight-seeing was occupied, and with the launching came a deafening shrieking of whistles. The steamer was launched under the personal supervision of Supt. W. W. Watterson, and as she started down the ways, Miss Katherine Reed, of Pittsburg, daughter of J. H. Reed, liberated six pigeons from a cage. Two of the birds circled about a moment and started off for the east after one of them had touched its feet to the pilot house of the Princeton. Two of the birds fluttered about and landed on the staging. One of the birds remained in the cage and the sixth one, having left its companions, flew to the ways. The large launching party took great pleasure in witness- ing the launch of the sixth and last of the fleet being built for the Carnegie Co., or the line known as the Pittsburg Steamship Co. Amongst those present were Judge J. H. Reed, father of the young lady who christened the boat, his wife and sons, D. A. and J. H. Reed Jr.; C. H. Jones, W. M. Robinson, J. F. Guffey, T. F. Wilcox, E. H. Utley, Misses Spencer, Mc- Beth, Aikens, Utley, Kirtland and Briggs of Pittsburg, also E. S. Mills, General Manager of the Carnegie Co., James Gatley, V. Pres., D. G. Kerr, Asst. Treas., Pres. Woodford, of the C. L. & W., R. Ly. Ireland, V. Pres. of the American Ship Building Co. and Capt. Rae, who is to sail the boat. The Princeton bore on her masts the American flag, the colors of the college after which she is named and the flags of many nations. A part of the ‘visiting company were Princeton graduates and after the launching they gave their college yell which was followed by others for Pensylvania. It was the expectation to let loose some carrier pigeons obtained in Cleveland but the party failed to find any trained birds there and doves were used instead. re rr A WATCHMAN whose name is not known was drowned in the river at Ashtabula, on Sunday, while in bathing. He was employed on the steamer V. H. Ketchum, and with the rest of the crew was in swimming in the river, He dived from the rail of the ship but did not come up. The life savers were summoned and recovered the body, which was found stuck fast in the mud, head downward. NOTES. THE Rutland liner;Haskell and the British steamer Monks- haven collided in the Welland canal on Monday but not much damage was done. Mr. E. PLAT? STRATTON, chief engineer surveyor to the American Bureau of Shipping, has returned home from Eu- rope and intends visiting the lake ports at an early date. AT the next session of Congress a bill will be advanced for the immediate enlargement of the Weitzel lock at the “Soo.’? When the new Poe lock was completed it was thought no more improvements would be necessary for 100 years, but the increase in navigation has created a demand already for greater accommodations for locking boats. THE British torpedo boat Viper had an unofficial trial on July 16. Her engineers are on strike, and she was handled by a scratch crew made up chiefly of apprentices. ‘The trial was made under full steam for an hour, and she made six runs over a measured mile. The first run was made at the rate of 36.585 knots, the second at 35 503, the third at 37.113 or 43 miles an hour; the fourth at the same speed, the fifth at 36.586 knots and the sixth at 36.072. Just before the last run she covered over 36% knots for half an hour. For her mean of the two best runs, with and against the tide, she re- corded 36.849 knots. For the Admiralty mean of the six runs the record was 36.581 knots. THR Deutschland, the new Hamburg-American steam- ship, made an average for her maiden voyage of 22.42 knots as against 22.63 of the Bremen steamer Kaiser Wilhelm. The Deutschland’s known power is expected to carry her into the lead before long. The two greatest passenger ships in the world are German and German-built, and a third, su- perior to either of them, and German-built also, is in sight. The engines of the Deutschland are of the six-cylinder, four crank, quadruple expansion type, with the two high- pressure and the two low-pressure cylinders tandem in the center and the two intermediate pressure cylinders at the ends. Each engine gives 16,5001. H. P. Each crank shaft is hollow, in four sections, of the built-up type with counter- balances on the I. P. cranks. They are of nickel steel; length 59 ft. 334 in. outside diameter, 25.2 in., length of throw 36.42 in., weight (22,330 lbs.) close to 100 tons. Nickel steel is also used for the propeller shaft, and the in- termediate shafting is of Siemens-Martin steel. There are twelve double ended and four single ended Scotch boilers in the vessel, contained in four separate boiler compartments. The double ended boilers are 16.16 ft. diameter and 20 feet long, and the diameter of each furnace is 3.6 ft. The boilers are constructed to withstand a working pressure of 225 lb. per sq. in. The total number of fires is 112, grate surface, 2,188 sq. ft.; heating surface, 85,465 sq. ft. Howden draft is fitted.