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: Around the Lakes. Ifin Mere will tow the Olive Jeanette this sea- con act to deliver 10,000 cords pulp wood at Port Huron . Joseph’s island was taken by J. S. Nisbet. pt. p Dowdell, for several seasons past in the schooner M. Peterson, will command the steamer James Pickands. Ice was broken between West Superior and Duluth, Mon- day ips the ferry boats Superior and Duluth started running egularly. __ The propeller H. B. Tuttle is getting a new boiler built in Cleveland. Her consort, the Queen City, is undergoing general "pairs. about 500,000 bushels. A force of men is now employed on its construction. _ Capt. Rhynas, forsome time master of the Nyack, has been appointed master of the Moran, of Ward’s line, Capt. Campau oing into the Weed. The cut of logs in the city mills of Duluth for this year is put down at 111,000,000 feet and for other mills of the district 125,000,000 feet, or a total of 236,000,000 feet. aes ‘The schooner Annie M. Peterson now hails from Oswego, and is owned by Edward Mitchell, who paid $16,000 for her. She will be commanded by Capt. Charles Bough. . Cameron D. and Joshua W. Waterman, who owned the _ steamer Chenango, burned last summer in Lake Erie, have sued _ the Greenwich Insurance Company on a $10,000 policy. The Dominion government has already passed the usual order-in-council reducing the tolls on wheat and other .cereals |}, passing through the Welland and St. Clair canals to Montreal or other eastern Canadian ports. Following are a few Port Huron appointments: United Empire, Capt. Geo. McDougall, Edward McKeen, engineer ; Monarch, Capt. Ed Robertson, Jas. Brown, engineer ; Schooner Aurora, Capt. Martin Mahony. The Smith Transportation Company has been organized at West Bay City, with a capital stock of $60,000. The incorpora- tors are Charles J. Smith, Peter C. Smith, August Beutel and Alexander Beggs, all of West Bay City. The general offices will be in Bangor, Bay county. The steambarge Burlington went into the Wolverine dry dock, Port Huron, to be caulked and have other repairs. She was built in Buffalo thirty-five years ago, ran from Buffalo all around the south shore of Lake Erie until she came to Monroe, when she made a bee line for Chicago. James H. Reid, chief engineer of the steamer City of Cleve- land died suddenly of heart disease at his home in Detroit, early Tuesday morning. ‘The attack was without warning, and he died before a physician arrived. NHewas sixty years of age, and had been in the employ of the Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Company for over twenty years. The barge W. L. Peck was libeled at Buffalo last week on two claims—one by the Western Assurance Company,of Toronto, of $1,760.31 and costs, and one by F. W. Wheeler & Co., of Bay City, of $865.35 and costs. It is said the bargeran aground in 1889, and the insurance company paid the damage toa quantity of lumber which was in the cargo. J. H. Gillett, of Marquette, has sold the tug James Fisk for $9,000. ‘lhe steamer S. C. Clarke has been sold by Henry B. Smith and others, of Bay City, to Capt. Edward Van Patten, of Montague, and William Roba and Charles Riskie, of Michigan City, for $14,000. Capt. E. Van Patten will command her. She will run between Michigan City and Muskegon with lumber. The Lake Seamen’s Benevolent Association, the organiza- tion through which T. J. Elderkin, of Chicago, aims to unite seamen and dock laborers of all kinds on the lakes, gives out the following list of officers: Chicago—Agent, Thomas J Elderkin; general secretary, Robert Lindholtz; delegates, Daniel Robertson and Minard Mull. Buffalo—Agent, William Thomas; delegate; Frank Stevens. Detroit—Agent, J. J. Scully. Toledo—Agent, Martin Kearns. Oswego—Agent, Alex. Skillen. Cleveland— _ Agent,Frank Lewis; delegate,Charles Lerau. Milwaukee—A gent, Martin Augerson, delegate, Frank Miller. The new Wells elevator, Buffalo, will have capacity for day. - Buffalo now has five regular docks for handling ore. The Pennsylvania dock of Pickands, Mather & Co., is situated on 1 uffalo creek and has five McMyler hoists and ample storage — room. The Buffalo Dock Company’s dock on the Blackwell, controlled by H. K. Wick & Co., has six MeMyler hoists and is well provided with storage capacity. The Lehigh Valley dock at the Tifft farm has three Brown hoists with immense storage capacity. The Lackwanna dock in the Erie Basin has six hoists, but no storage, the ore going directly into cars. The New York Central dock at Coit slip have two McMyler hoists and a fair amount of dock room. The dock was built last year __ Maj. Amos Stickney, the ‘United States engineer, opened bids for the further extension of the Buffalo breakwater. bolts, 43,539 pounds of screw-bolts, 45,366 feet of white pine deck plank, 21,600 pounds of wrought iron plates, 8,700 pounds of boat-spikes, 17,000 cubic yards of stone filling, 21,600 pounds of wrought-iron straps, 747,360 feet of hemlock, 145,232 feet of white oak and 391,632 feet of white pine timber. James B. Don- nelly, Oswego, the Heidenreich Company and Ira Farnsworth, Chicago, and J. S. Moore, John McGregor and McNaughton & Bapst, Buffalo, were bidders. The contract will amount,.f $60,000. es Se , Work of the Ship Yards. The steamer W. F. Sauber, building at Wheeler’s a yard, for Capt. John Mitchell and others, will be launched | The ° specifications call for the use of about 125,760 pounds of drift. The steamboat which Capt. Thrall is building at Green Bay, will have capacity for about 502,000 feet of lumber and will be ready to launch early next month. The yacht Viking, which Superintendent icjonhiall: of the Lake Shore Railway, has had constructed at Ashtabula, will be taken to Penobscot bay, on the coast of Maine, and will be run between Castine and Dash harbor in conjunction with the Eme- line, which was also built at Ashtabula. R. T. Roy will be the name of the fish tug building at’ the head of the old river bed, Cleveland, for Jones and Roy. She is 62 feet long, 14 feet beam and 7 feet 6 inches deep. She will have a 12x 14 Clough & Witt engine and a Trout wheel. There will be sleeping accommodations for the crew, so that no time will be lost in going to the nets. She will be the best fitted fish tug in Cleveland, and her boiler will be allowed 150 pounds steam pres- sure. At the works of the Cleveland Ship Building Company the announcement of a date for launching the fourth boat of the Lake Superior company’s steel fleet, the Griffin, is expected almost any time and the yacht for Mr.J. H. Wade, Jr., is well under way. The company is just completing new boilers for the propellers Pasadena and A. Everett. <A pair of Scotch boilers to go to Honolulu by way of San Francisco is also a feature of its work. It is is now said, that the Milwaukee and Eastern Transit Company, the corporation recently formed to carry on a package freight business across Lake Michigan between Milwaukee, St. Joseph and Holland, will, instead of waiting for the building or purchase of boats this sumimer, lease a couple of steamers and begin business as soon as possible after the opening of naviga- tion. Capts. John Griffin and James F. Trowell, of Milwaukee, are said to be engaged in preliminary work for the new company. Masters and £ ngineers. Capt. B. B. Inman, Duluth, Minn., appointments are as follows: Buf- falo, Capt. Joseph Cox, John: Mann, engineer; J. L. Williams, Capt. L. E. King, of Bay City, James Bishop, engineer; Record, Capt. John Hannett, Tin Leary, engineer; Carrington, Capt. Fred. Benson, Joseph Herringer, engineer; Lida, Capt. Ed, Ingle, Ernest Pischer, e1 gineer. Capt. S. B. Grummond, Detroit, Mich: Steamers—Flora, Capt. T. _Meikleham, William Campbell, engineer; Atlantic, Capt. J. R. Jones, John Johnson, engineer. ‘Tugs—Leviathan. Capt. J. Lafromboise, William Harling, e: gineer; Winslow, Capt. W. E, Tobin, J. McGregor, engineer; M. Swain, Capt. Ed. Tormey, M: J. Gilligan, engineer; William A. Moore, Capt. Ben Moshier, D. C. Benuett, engineer; Sweepstakes, Capt. T. Quih- lan, M. Hubbell, engineer; Crusader, Capt. ‘om Carney, C. Blauyelt, en- gineer; Oswego, Capt. James Tobin, Charles Fero, engineer; Champion, Capt. A. Rattray, S$. D. Smith, engineer; John Owen, Capt. J. N. Bailey, W. Brooks, engineer. Barge William Raynor, Capt. A. J. Young.