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: ‘ ee RAL = ge a he ; 2 : “Tnsurance 22222 DECEMBER 20, Ig00. THE MARINE RECORD. 43 NOTICE TO MARINERS. LIGHT-HOUSE Coe put OFFICE OF THE LIGHT-HOUSE INSPECTOR, 9TH Dis?., CHICAGO, ILL., December 15, 1900. } CLOSING OF LIGHTS AND FOG SIGNALS FOR .THE WINTER F OF. 1900-1901. Notice is hereby given that Wangoshance light and fog- signal station, Skilligallee light and fog-signal station, Beaver Island light and fog-signal station, Petosky Beacon light station and Portage Lake Pierhead light station, Michi- gan, and Tail Point light and fog-bell station, Grassy Island (lower) and Grassy Island (upper) light station and Mur- phy’s dock beaton light station, Wisconsin, have been closed for the winter of 1900-1901, By order of the Light. House Board. F. M. Symonps, Commander, U. S. Navy, Inspector 9th L. H. District. OFFICE. OF THE LIGHT Housk INSPECTOR, ELEVENTH DistRicT, DETROIT, MICcH., Dec. 13, 1900. Notice is hereby given that the following-named aids to navigation in the 11th Light-House District (in addition to those referred to in Notice to Mariners of Dec. 9 and 13, 1900) have been discontinued until the opening of naviga- tion, 1901: LAKE SUPERIOR.—Big Bay Point Light and Fog-Signal. eones Entrance and Portage Range lights. Ontonagon lights. LAKE HURON.—Saginaw River Range. Port Austin light and fog-signal. Spectacle Reef light and fog-signal. LAKE ST. CLAIR.—AIll gas buoys. Grosse Point light- vessel. Isle au Peches Range lights. Buoys and light-vessels are replaced by winter markers. LicHt-Housk oven Insncton, | Notice is hereby given that the following-named aids to navigation in the rith light-house district (in addition to those referred to in notice to mariners of Dec. 5, 1900) have been discontinued until the opening of navigation, rgor: ‘LAKE SUPERIOR.—Grand Island ‘light station; Grand Island harbor light station;:Grand Island harbor range lights; Fourteen mile point lightand fog signal; Big Sable light and fog signal; La Pointe and. Chequamegon Point light and fog signal. Post lights in Duluth-Superior Harbor and Portage lake and river. *-$T. MARY’s RIVER.—St. Mary’s Falls canal light station; Brush Point light. All gas, can and nun buoys including ‘Detour and Gros Cap Reef. LAKE HuRON.—Round Island light and fog signal, Straits of Mackinac; Cheboygan Crib light; Poe Reef light vessel No. 62; Lake Huron light vessel No. 61. : St. CLAIR RIVER.—Head of shoal gas buoy No. 3 and all other buoys. The Grosse Pointe light vessel, Isle aux Peches range lights and the gas and spar buoys in Lake St. Clair, cannot be depended upon after the r4th instant. All buoys when removed are replaced by winter markers and light vessels are replaced by spar buoys. By order of the Light-House Board: Panis J. C. Winson, Commander, U. S. Navy. Inspector 11th Light-House District. 3 -~ ‘ Capt. Harding, of the Engineer Corps of the Army, has recommended that the harbor of Muskegon be improved with a view to obtaining a depth of twenty feet anda uni- form width of three hundred feet from the external to the internal of Lake Michigan. Capt. Harding presented a plan for the further improvement by dredging, a pier exten- sion and revetment of an estimated cost of $380,000. He says that there is no question of a desirable enlargement of the scope of the existing project of this harbor. His views are concurred in by Colonel Barlow, the division engineer, under whose jurisdiction this work will come. i5.F. HODGE é& A THRIVING INDUSTRY. The American Ship Windlass Co., of Providence, R. I., have delivered this year for the lakes, and are now building, the following machines. It will be seen that with one or two exceptions, every craft now building on the lakes will be supplied with Providence machines. Gen. Orlando M, Poe, Cleveland, No. g steam capstan windlass; No. 7 steam pump brake windlass; No. G. steam capstan. Robert W. E. Bunsen, Cleveland, No. 9 steam capstan windlass; No. 7 steam pump brake windlass; No. 4 steam towing machine. William Castle Rhodes, Cleveland, No. E steam capstan. Capt. Thomas Wilson, Cleveland, No. 8 steam capstan windlass; No. G steam capstan. J. Emory Owen, Cleveland, No. 3 steam towing machine. Robert Wallace, Cleveland, No. 2 steam towing machine. Quito, Cleveland, No. 1 steam towing machine. Minnesota, Cleveland, No. 1 steam towing machine. Iron Chief, Cleveland, No. 1 steam towing machine. Charles A. Street, Mt. Clemens, Mich., No. 3 steam cap- stan windlass. Cartagena, West Bay City, Mich., No. 5 steam capstan windlass; No. 3 steam towing machine. Shenandoah, West Bay City, Mich., No. 3 steam towing machine. : Alfred Mitchell, St. Clair, Mich., No. E steam capstan. Darius Cole, South Haven, Mich., 2 No. B steam capstans. Elizabeth Hyde, Ferrysburg, Mich., No. A steam capstan. Syracuse, Buffalo, No. 6 steam capstan windlass; No. E steam capstan. Commodore, Buffalo, No. 6 steam capstan windlass; No. E steam capstan. Boston, Buffalo, No. 6 steam capstan windlass; No. E steam capstan. Paraguay, Duluth, No. 8 steam capstan windlass. Asuncion, Duluth, No. 8 steam capstan windlass. Schooner Pretoria, West Bay City, Mich., No. 7 steam pump brake windlass, Car ferry Muskegon, Saginaw, Mich., No. G steam cap- stan. Barge Tarpon, Marine City, Mich., No. 5 steam capstan wlndlass; No. C hand capstan. Barge Homer Warren, West Bay City, Mich., No. 2 cap- stan windlass. Barge Armenia, Milwaukee, No. 2 steam towing machine. Steel barge Loyalty, Duluth, No. 8 steam capstan wind- lass; No. 2 steam towing machine. _ Steel barge Liberty, Duluth, No. 8 steam capstan windlass; No. 2 steam towing machine. ‘Fire boat W. S. Grattan, Buffalo, pump brake windlass with iron towing bitts. Mann Brothers, Milwaukee, No. 2 pump brake windlass. ‘U. S. Light-House tender Alice M. Gill, Milwaukee, No. 3 steam capstan windlass. Yacht Pryun, Chicago, No. oo yacht capstan. Algoma Central Railway Co., Ontario, 4 No. 3 steam tow- ing machines. So : oo Hull No. 43, building by Chicago Ship Building Co., No. 8 steam captan windlass; No E steam capstan. _ ‘Hull No. 44, building by Chicago Ship Building Co., No. 8 steam capstan windlass; No. E steam capstan. Hull No. 45, building by Chicago Ship Building Co., No. 8 steam capstan windlass; No. E steam capstan. Hull No, 46, building by Chicago Ship Building Co., No. 8 steam capstan windlass; No. E steam capstan. Hull No. 47, building by Chicago Ship Building Co., No. 8 steam capstan windlass. : ae ‘Hull No. 48, building by Chicago Ship Building Co., No. 8 steam capstan windlass. | ; Riek Hull No. 305, building by American Ship Building Co:, « C z MARINE REPAIRS. @ si2 ATWATER STREET, Lorain, No. 8 steam capstan windlass; No. F steam capstan. Hull” No, 306, building by American Ship Building Co., Lorain, No. 8 steam capstan windlass; No, F steam capstan. Hull No. 307, building by American: Ship’ Building Co., Lorain, No. 8 steam capstan windlass; No. F steam capstan. Hull No. 308, buildir g> by American Ship Building Co., Lorain, No. 8 steam capstan windlass; No. F steam capstan. Hull No 405, building by American Ship Building Co., Cleveland, No. 8 steam capstan windlass; No. F steam cap- stan. : Hull No, 406, building by American Ship Building Co., Cleveland, No, 8 steam capstan windlass; No. E steam cap- stan. Hull No 138, building by Detroit Ship Building Co., No. g steam capstan windlass. Hull No. 139, building by Detroit Ship Building Co., No. 8 steam capstan windlass; No. F steam capstan. Hull No. 140, building by Detroit Ship Building Co., No. 8 steam capstan windlass; No. F steam capstan. Hull No. 500, building by Superior Ship Building Co., No. 8 steam capstan windlass; No, F steam capstan. Hull No. 501, building by Superior Ship Building Co., No. 8 steam capstan windlass; No. F steam capstan. Hull No. 600, building by West Bay City Ship Building Co., No. 6 steam capstan windlass; No. E steam capstan; No. 2 steam towing machine. Hull No, 601, building by West Bay City Ship Building Co., No, 6 steam capstan windlass; No. E steam capstan; No. 2 steam towing machine. : Hull No. 602, building by West Bay City Ship Building Co., No. 8 steam capstan windlass; No. F steam capstan. Hull No. 603, building by West Bay City Ship Building Co., No. 8 steam capstan windlass: No F steam capstan. rr Captain William Bonnah, who sailed the schooner H. H. Badger last season, has just closed a deal with the Detour Lumber Co., of Chicago, whereby he secures possession of the schooner Narragansett. Capt. Bonnah will sail the ves- sel himself during next season. The purchase price isnot stated, but the boat is worth about $2,000. She is39 years old. ‘ a ‘Incorporation papers of the Port Clinton Navigation Co. were forwarded to Columbus on Monday. The company will capitalize at $35,000. Three lumber and stone vessels will be operated between the upper lakes and Lake Erie. Two of the boats are the steamer Leland and consort Mont- gomery, formerly of Cleveland, and the new company has an option on a third vessel also, “The incorporators are: Alexander Hitchcock, George Maul, George A. True, John Orth and B. W. Wilson, all of Port Clinton. \ pita BB — THE NEW BAUSCH & LOMB-ZEISS STERE Binocular |f Glasses. Used -by the Armies and Navies of the World. Invaluable for Tourists, Sportsmen and Every-day Use. 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