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MAY 15, 1902. THE MARINE RECORD. FLOTSAM, JETSAM AND LAGAN. The lifeboat heretofore.maintained by the Canadian goy- ernment at Port Rowan, north shore of Lake Erie, has been removed to a point on the shore two and one-half miles westward from the west end of Long point light-house, ‘where a boat house has been built on the low sandy shore. _Gapt.. Batten is. at Toronto to take charge of the new steamer Montreal, and pilot her down the St. Lawrence rapids. It.is the captain’s intention to run all the rapids, and he expects to go east this week. ‘This latest addition to the R & O.’s fleet is the largest and finest vessel yet turned out of a Canadian shipyard, and will be the largest vessel that ever ran from the lakes to Montreal, her length being 340 feet and breadth 74 feet 6 inches. Her trip down the St. Lawrence will be watched with interest. _ «Jue commerce of the two French colonies, Martinique and Guadeloupe, with the United States has amounted to ~ nearly $2,000,000 per annum during a long term of years, a "large proportion being exports-fro"ithe United States to ‘those islands. In the year 1900 our exports to the islands were $1,857,168, and our imports from the islands $30,176. From them we import chiefty vanilla beans, while our ex- 2 ports to them are flour; cotten.seed-and mineral oils,. coal, fard, meats, and lumber. - Ina fire on the steamer “lona,“at "Oswego, N. Y., on Sat- urday, John Campau, of ‘Trenton, Ont., a fireman, lost his life, and damage aggregating $8,000 was done. The steamer settled on the bottom of Oswego harbor after five engines and a tug got the fire under control. The Iona had 250 tons of coal on board when the fire started. During the blaze a life-saving, crew worked about the vessel render- ing assistance to the crew. Fireman Campau was lost in the fire’ and’ his’ body burned to a crisp. ‘The Iona is owned by F. A; Hall, of Ottawa, Ont., and is insured for | ae "Milwaukee is to have a mile and a half of new docks this year: * The work is now under way in’ several places, and much of it is along a territory where there are docks which must be rebuilt to meet the requirements of the increased shipping business. The largest single piece of work is that being done by the Milwaukee Gas Light Co., opposite Cox Bros.’ docks, in the Menoniinee river. ‘The company will build 2,000 feet of new docks. The Milwaukee road has completed 600 feet on the south branch of the river for a cement company. Other concerns which are building docks are the Whithall Coal Co. and the Milwaukee-Western Fuel Co. Government Proposals. we TreAsuRY DrpartmMEN’, Office of Gen- eral Superintendent U. S. Life-Saving Service, Washingtqm D. C., April 26, 1902. Sealed proposals will be received at this office until 2 o’clock p. m. of Monday, the 26th day of May, 1902, and then publicly opened, for furnishing supplies required for use of the Life-Saving Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903; the supplies to be delivered at such points in New York City, Grand Haven, Mich., and San Francisco, Cal., as may be re- quired, and in the quantities named in the specifications. The supplies needed con- sist of beds and bedding, blocks and sheaves, cordage, crockery, furniture, hardware, lamps, lanterns, etc.; medicines, etc.; paints, oils, etc.; ship chandlery; stoves, etc.; tools and miscellaneous articles; all of which are enumera- ted in the specifications attached to the form of bid, etc.; which may be ob- tained upon application to this office, or to the Inspector of Life-Saving Stations, 17 State street, New York City; Superin- tendent Twelfth Life-Saving District, Grand Haven, Mich.; and Superintendent Thirteenth Life-Saving District, New Appraisers’ Stores, San Francisco, Cal. Envelopes containing proposals should be addressed to the “General Superinten- dent U. S. Life-Saving Service, Wash- ington, D. C.” and marked on the outside “Proposal for Annual Supplies.” The right is reserved to reject any or all bids, and to waive defects, if deemed for the Government. S. I. 18-19 interests of the Kimpayt, General Superintendent. 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