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MARCH 13, 1902. PORT HURON. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record: Bae J; Kendall says the ice in the lakes is breaking up and that it now looks as if there wouldn’t be a piece of ice as big as your hat in either lake or river by April rst. The Marine Engineers’ Association, No. 38 and 87, of ‘Detroit, and association No. 55, of Marine City, came to “his city on Tuesday, and conferred with the local en- ‘gineers. Robert Thompson, who will conduct the wrecking opera- tions at the “Soo” next season, will leave for that place as soon as navigation opens. He will have two first class tugs and a number of lighters. A great deal of kicking is being done here, by persons using row boats, on the new ruling that they must give 10 cents every time they come from Courtright to this side. It cuts‘a big holeinthe profits of ferryman Fred Gallinaw, who runs a row boat ferrybetween here and the upper part of Courtright. ssc In the Meswald case, in the Wayne county circuit court, on Wednesday, Jirdge Frazer declared that the heirs of Mrs. Meswald should retain possession of the $1,000 in- surance policy whicn Capt. Meswald carried in the Ship- master’s Association. “Henry Marx, of this city, is the administrator of the estate of Capt. Meswald, and main- tained that the $1,000 should go to Mr. Meswald’s heirs. or THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL. The river and harbor bill was submitted to the House Monday, :by Chairman Burton. A large number of sur- veys are provided, the list beine practically the same as that in the river and harbor bill which failed last year. Section 4 authorizes the president to invite Great Britain to join in a commission to secure suitable levels in the Great Lakes and connecting waters. ‘The act creating the Missouri river commission is repealed and the report severely criticises the extent to which government funds have been used in improving a river having insignificant traffic. THE MARINE RECORD. FURNACES AT THE “SOO.” A statement has been sent out from the Canadian “Seo” that the Consolidated Lake Superior Co. has, completed its steel mill at that point. This will be under full headway by the first of April. At that time it will have a capacity of 500 to 600 tons of steel rails and about 2,500 tons of billets per day. Later on a tube plant will be opened. at - the same place, which ‘Will have quite a large capacity. Some of the vessel interests .see, interesting possibilities in this new mill relative to its needs of vessel tonnage... The requirements there will be almost equal tothe off: setting of the importation of the Michipicoten ore, which - the Clergues are conteniplating. The rail mills in the United States are so well filled up with orders that many of them are able to take no more contracts. Any addi- tional demand will have to be supplied therefore from im- portations. ‘The Canadian mills will be convenient and a cheap resource, of which the railroads are expected to avail themselves. The lakes will be by odds the cheaper channel for transportation, therefore there will be a de- mand for boats to move this product. It is also a. very notable condition that the supply of billets in this section is lamentably short of the demand, hence it is expected that any excess from Canadian consumption will find a ready market on this side of the border, which again will cause a demand for ships. The Clergue interests have not enough boats to meet all of these demands, and it is understood that efforts to purchase any number of boats have been of no avail, consequently if the billets and rails are to be imported the producers must resort to chartering in the open market. ee FIREPROOF WOOD IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY. It appears to have been settled at last that the use of fire- proof wood, at any rate in the United States Navy, will be very much restricted. In the recently issued annual report of Rear-Admiral Francis T. Bowles, chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, it is stated that the bureau, after having conducted an exhaustive investigation of the qualities of fireproofed wood produced bytwo different pro- cesses, has found that while the products of both possesses desirable qualities in rendering wood uninflammable, they fail to show allthe disiderata ofa fireproof wood, which in- clude the. permanent retention of ingredients under all cli- matic conditions, freedom from corrosive properties, and unaltered strength and durability. The experience of ves- sels in commission fitted with fireproof wood, as well as the tests conducted by the bureau, showed that there was no ~ practical. advantage gained by the use of fireproofed deck planking, or by the use of fireproofed wood below the pro- tective decks, and that also owing to the absorptive quali- ites of this wood its use was objectionable in those locations. 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