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ie MARINE REVIEW. Around. the Lakes. Range lights are to be placed in the harbor at Kingston. Daniel Harkins will be chief engineer of the George W. Roby. Capt. J. McArthur, in the Aurora last year, will command the Colgate Hoyt. The new boiler for the river steamer Mary stood a cold water test of 220 pounds at Port Huron. Repairs to the revenue cutter Johnson have been completed and she will go into commission May 15. St. Clair river is full of blocked ice from Fisher’s dock to - Dunford & Alverson’s new dock, Port Huron. Capt. Henry Wallace was seriously injured by falling down the hatch of the schooner David Wallace at Lorain. ' The display of wind signals at all signal service stations on the lake was commenced April 15, by an order from Washing- ton. at “The American Eagle was pulled-out at Sandusky for a rebuild. “The City of Sandusky has commenced regular trips to the islands. The Wolverine Dry Dock Company launched the hull fora dredge at Port Httron this week. It was built for Mitchell Brothers. } _ Chicago tugs have commenced towing at 50 per cent. re- duction from card rates. An effort is being made to agree on living rates. +.» The headquarters of the Cleveland Vessel Owners’ Associa- _ * »»tion at Toledo is 146 Water street. Capt. John O’Conner is ship- - ping master. feo The Salina has been bought by Capt. William Tomlin, J. C. - ~-~-—s Miller and Hubert Manion. Capt. Tomlin will be master and Manion engineer. Capt. Frank Hackett, of Amherstburg, is about ready to begin work on blowing up the schooner Charger, sunk in Point au Pelee passage, Lake Erie. : Capt. Dunn, last season in one of the boats of the Northern Steamship Company, will command the propeller Newburgh of the Lackawanna line this season. oh ‘ Capt. Abraham Anderson died at Frankfort, Mich., where he _ was fitting out the schooner Weaver. He was 67 years old. The _ remains were taken to Racine for burial. : The steamer Antelope will make railroad connections for the Grand Trunk and the R. W. & O. Railways between Clayton and Ganonoque. She made her first trip this week. Capt. Mott, in charge of the St. Clair canal, requests vessels to reduce their speed when near the cut at the lower end of the canal, so as not to disturb the dredges at work at that point. The Lake Superior Transit Company has sold the propeller City of Fremont to the Milwaukee & East Shore Transit Com- pany on private terms. The purchasers are already in possession of her. The Landgraf case at Milwaukee has been continued until the next term of court. The jury disagreed on the first trial, and it is doubtful if the captain will be convicted when the case does come up. Z The Anchor Line, though offering its canal fleet for sale, 2 will still have a canal and lake steamboat company, though the ‘ boats will be owned by other parties. The old line will not be fitted out. : The Grain Shoveler’s Union, of Buffalo, has adopted the old - scale of shoveling charges for the coming season—$4.50 per 1,000 -' bushels for steamers; $4 tor sail vessesl, and $1.25 for trimming canal boats. ; Capt. S. Frazer, has purchased the schooner Bavaria from Calvin & Son, Kingston. She ‘will be part of the steamer Scotia’s tow. Capt. Edmunds bought the schooner L. D, Bullock from _ Capt. Eccles for $4,000. Lewis Francis is building a handsonie steam yacht 51 feet long at Kingston. She will run bétween Channel Grove and the Thousand islands. -At Clayton, Capt. Vernon Sweet is building a 75 foot yacht for St. Lawrence river business. Capt. James Easson, in the J. I. Case for a number of years, has been appointed chief of police of Racine. © “4° "~ The Lackawanna company has chartered ‘thenéw F.:& P. M No. 5 for the season between Buffalo and Chicago:; ;Owing to low water at Manistee and Ludington it is claimed that she,can- not be profitably employed on Lake Michigan with the other F. & P. M. steamers. sig T’. J. Elderkin, agent of the Lake Seamen’s Benevolent Association, Chicago, addressed a meeting at Kimberley’s hall, Cleveland. He said there would be a branch in every port.on the lakes before the opening of navigation. They will ask $1.50 for vessels at lower lake ports and $2 per day at the ports above Detroit. Hughes Bros. & Bangs, of Syracuse, N. Y., who secured the contract for the Sault lock masonry work—the largest,ever let in the United States—have contracted with the Milwaukee Cement Company for 100,000 barrels of cement to be used in the work. ‘This is about one-fifth of the Milwaukee company’s annual capacity. The total amount of ship timber cut last season for James Davidson, West Bay City, was 160,000 cubic feet of oak,‘an in- crease over the last two seasons of more than 25,000° cubic feet. Besides this, 100,000 cubic feet was left over from last year, and 30,000 of it was put in this winter, leaving 70,000 to be put in next summer and fall. =e : Transfers of vessel property recorded at Milwaukee: Scow South Side, Anton and John Jongeblced, of Milwaukee, to Peter Knudsen, A. F. Valentine and J. A. Smith, of Ephraim, Wis., the whole, $1,725; Schooner H. M. Scove, Edward and Bern- hard Uhrig to Samuel Thorson, of Milwaukee, one-sixth, $1,200; Scow Laurina, Christoper C. Naleid and Erick Erickson’to Wil- liam H. Pugh, of Racine, the whole, $1,000; Schooner J. B. Newland, Jane M. Fellows to Christopher C. Naleid ‘and Erick Erickson, of Racine, one-half, $2,000. The Detroit Metallic Packing. - Attention is called to the advertisement of the Detroit Lubricator Company who manufacture a metal packing, simple in its construction and easily applied, without the necessity of disconnecting the rods. It has been in use four years and gives excellent satisfaction. It is placed on the market at a price below other standard manufactures. We give by permission the following testimonial : ; “We have used Killmer’s patent metallic packing on several of our large marine engines during the past few years and it has given us entire satisfaction. It is simple, easy to adjust and can be applied without dis- conrecting the rod. It affords us pleasure to testify as above.” 3 SAMUEL F. HopGE & Co. The accompanying cuts fully illustrate the parts and the manner of applying it. : eee fe, i _A pinnace 48 feet long and 9 feet beam, with electric pro- pelling power was ‘launched at Kew Bridge, England, “recently. The motor, which works a screw 22 inches in diameter, is covered by a small deck in the stern and the accumulators “or storage batteries are under the seats, so that space is available for eighty passengers. The machinery weighs 2% tons, the displacement is 434 tons and she makes eight knots an hour. The cost was $3,000, and the running expenses 18 eents. a knot. = _ Stocks of grain east of the Rocky mountains last week showed big decreases at nearly all points excepting Chicago and Duluth where the increase was noticable. Stocks are as follows: ‘Wheat } Oats 4,402,707 39,750,626 bushels; corn 4,971,702 bushels ; bushels, Nes