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MARINE REVIEW. The Sailor Boy. MASTER HARVEY BEESON. The above is the illustration used on the cover of Beeson’s Hand Book and Inland Marine Guide, which will be issued dur- ing the coming week. A 30x40 oil painting, by H. F. Sprague, of ‘The Sailor Boy,” will be exhibited in Chicago, Buffalo and Cleveland and the book will, no doubt, have double the sale it did last year. ‘This book and the MARINE REVIEW one year for $2.50. Order at once. Affairs in Admiralty. SOME LAKE CASES. The last issue of the F:deral Reporter contains several de- cisions in lake cases, among them that of Judge Ricks, of Cleve- land, against the owners of the tug Niagara and the raft which ran into the schooner H. C. Richards, owned by Capt. C. E. Ben- ham, and which was published in full by the MARINE REVIEW a short time ago. Another decision of importance was delivered a short time ago by Judge Blodgett in the district court at Chicago. It was in the case of Barker, a Chicago lumber dealer, against the propeller Swallow, a boat engaged in the lumber trade _be- tween Muskegon and Chicago. The libelants in this case were represented by Schuyler & Kremer, while the boat was repre- sented by W. H. Condon. The Swallow started on a voyage with a cargo of lumber, part of which was piled on deck to the height of eight or ten feet, which was fully equal to the depth of the hold. A windsprung up on her quarter, raising a sea that caused her to roll so heavily that she careened to port and hung there until the deck load on that side slid off, when she righted and rolled to starboard until the lumber on that side went over- board, leaving only that piled amidships. She then righted and rolled easier and made port safely. It was shown chat the wind in question was only a twelve or fifteen mile breeze, and not a gale. The court held that the loss was not due to stress of weather, but to over-loading, and the vessel was held liable for the loss. . Still another case heard in Chicago, in which the same attor- - neys held similar positions,was that of the owners of the schooner Lookout againt the schooner Myrtle. At about 1 o'clock of a clear morning, June 1, 1888, on Lake Michigan, the schooner Lookout, close hauled on the starboard tack and headed 5. % W.., sighted and was seen by the schooner Myrtle, headed N. by W. with the wind free. The Myrtle put her helm hard-a-port, and let go her main sheet, and swung six or seven points to star- board. When the vessels were five or six lengths apart, the Lookout starboarded and swung to port, until she was across the bows of the Myrtle, which struck her forward of the fore rigging. The court held that whether the vessels were approaching end on or on converging lines, the Lookout should not have star- boarded, and the collision was chargeable to her fault. The court also held that it was negligence to allow the wheelsman of the Lookout to go below after the Myrtle was sighted, and to send her lookout to the wheel, leaving the captain, the only other man on deck, to perform the double duty of officer of the deck and lookout. . One of the federal court judges in New York handed down a decision a few days ago from which if would appear that in all cases where tows lay over in the connecting waters of the lakes 0.1 account of fog, the tow barges as well as the steamboat should sound a fog horn. It was acase where a tow of canal boats stretched abaft a tug about 800 or 1,000 feet in the Hudson river. ‘The tug sounded the required fog signals, but there was no sound from any other part of the tow. A steamer coming down the river ran into aud sank oneof thecanal boats. The canal b at, being an outside boat in the tow, was held to bein fault for not sounding a fog horn. In addition to the steel tug nearly completed for Frank Gilchrist & Co., and which will be named Frank W., the Union Dry Dock Company, of Buffalo, have contracted to build a steel hull roo fect long for a steamer to ply on Chautauqua Lake; also a steel yacht 100 feet long for the Oakfield Club of Buffalo, and a steel tug 1co feet long for the dock department of the city . of New York, to have triple expansion engines and to be finely fitted up in every way. The latter is to be delivered in New York City by the Welland Canal route and St. Lawrence river. Chicago seamen who have managed to maintain an organi- zation on the lakes of late years, although the union at other ports has exerted little power, give out the information that they have decided to affilliate with the International Union. It is said'that there are 132 local bodies on the lakes but this is probably a mistake. The international organization will at it& next convention propose changes in the maritime laws of the United States and Canada. Amendments to the laws providing for properly qualified seamen and regulations regarding the ‘‘load line’’ will also be proposed. CON. STARKE. JOS. WOLTER. AUG. RIEBOLDT. RIEBOLDT. WOLTER & CO... : SSS - = =— = —— o fs a rs 5 ca < = > QO. = x= = Me ae : set | D FLOATING DRY DOCK WILL LIFT VESSELS OF 400 TONS. MILWAUKEE BOILER COMPANY, [Successor to R. Davis Marine Boiler Works. ]} Manufacturers of Marine and Stationary Boilers, Smoke tacks, Tanks, Ete, MARINE REPAIRING Open Day OFFICE AND SHOPS, SPECIALLY ATTENDED TO.| & Night. | OREGON BET. BARCLAY & So. WATER STS. T, L. McGREOR, Supt. MILWAUKEE, WIS. Telephone 742, Powell’s Signal Oilers. | PROPOSAL FOR EXTENSION OF BREAK- water, at Buffalo Harbor. U.S. Engineer INCOMPARABLE For | Office, Buffalo, N. Y., March 5th, 1891. Sealed ENGINES AND proposals, in duplicate, for furnishing materials DYNAMOS and building about 500 feet, more or_less, of ~ é . extension of the Breakwater at Buffalg Harbor, Convenient to fill. N.Y., will be received at this office until 2 p.m., Easy to regulate. on the 4th day of April, 1891, and opened im- Flow of oil can be in- | Meaiately thereafter in the preseuce of bidders. stantly shut off by simp] The attention of bidders is invited to acts of Con- moving the Peat dae gress, of February 26th, 1885, and February 23d, without disturbing the ad- | 1887, vol. 23, page 332, and vol 24, page 414, justment. Statutes at Large. Preference will be given to J : articles of domestic production or manufacture, Also made Double and | conditions of quality and price (import duties Triple Sight feed for | included) being equal. Specifications, general in- Marine Engines. eeu ous to bidd: 4 anc ted ee se ea dealer can supply | al, or necessary information. will be furnishe i, SORE AONSS CAR Ae Pe ¥ on application to this office. The United States a reserves the right to reject any or all proposals, The Wm. Powell Co., AMOS. STICKNEY, Major of Engineers, U.S.A, CINCINATTI, 0. Pr. & a