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10 MARINE REVIEW. Around the Lakes. Steamer J. Emory Owen had 1,634 bushels of wet wheat at Buffalo. Contract has been let to dredge the entrance to the front of the east end of the Sault canal. West Superior is petitioning for marine hospital service and for independent port collector. Capt. Nils Larson, an early Lake Superior navigator, died a few days ago at Bayfield, Wis., in his fifty-fifth year. Captains James McGinn, L. J. Riordan and John Griffin are recent additions to membership in the Milwaukee lodge, E.M.B.A. The old schooner F. W. Gifford, built twenty-two years ago, is being overhauled at Erie. Her improvements will cost $2,000. With but 329,849 bushels of wheat and 9,794 bushels of corn in store at Toledo, the outlook is not very bright for Lake Erie grain carriers. Capt. Barker, of Chicago, failed to turn in the licenses of his two tugs to the custom house when they had expired and was fined $50 for each. Capital stock of F. W. Wheeler & Co., West Bay City, has been increased to $600,000. The company is prepared to build cars, tanks and bridges as well as ships. The insurance on the lost schooner Atlanta was held by the Union Marine and North American companies, both hull and cargo. She was insured for $15,000. The schooner Nettie Woodward has been libeled in the sum of $3,000 at Detroit, for damage done to the Western Line steamer Commodore in St. Clair river last week. 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 steamboat inspectors at West Bay City decided that they could not inspect the Keweenaw in two sections. She will be inspected after she has been put together at Montreal. The tugs J. L. Williams, at West Superior, and Canfield, at Manistee, were partly destroyed by fire Saturday The Williams belonged to the Inman Line and the Canfield to the Canfield Line. The boats of the new Eber Ward Line will run between Duluth and Ogdensburg, and not Duluth and Buffalo. At Ogdenburg they will connect with the Vermont Central for Boston. The Olympia’s wheel chains parted and she sheered into the barge John Sherman opposite Detroit. The Sherman began to fill and was towed toa dock. She was built in 1866 and was valued at $3,500. The cause given for the foundering of the Atlanta on Lake Superior is that her bulwarks were solid and that when her fore- mast was unstepped it crashed through her single deck which caused her to fill. Amended articles of corporation have been filed by Ward’s Lake Superior Line. The capital stock of the company is $450,000, all paid in. ‘The offices will be located in Hamtramck, a suburb of Detroit. The Harvey Lumber Company has sold its fleet, the Badger, DeWolf and Adirondoc. Capt. Brown who sailed the DeWolf many years bought her. She took 40,000 bushels of grain from Chicago to Sarnia for 1% cents. The propeller Mackinaw, built at West Bay City for ocean traffic, took a cargo recently from New Orleans to Philadelphia of 16,500 barrels and 500 hogs-heads of sugar, said to be the largest load ever shipped from the big gulf port. The capital stock of the Dry Dock Navigation Company, re- cently formed at Detroit is $225,000. The 4,500 shares are divided between James McMillan, Alex.McVittie, Wm. McMillan, Emory Wendell, Hugh McMillan, Frank E. Kirby and Gilbert N: McMillan. Mr. McCurdy’s resignation from the Chicago Board of Under- writers has been the means of fixing up grain insurance rates, his company being allowed a per centage of the business. Rates are as follows: ‘To Lake Michigan ports 25 cents; to Lake Supe- rior 40 cents; to Huron, Sarnia and Detroit. river 25 cents; to Georgian bay 30 cents; to Lake Erie 30 cents ; to Lake Ontario 4o cents ; to Ogdensburg 40 cents ; to Montreal 50 cents overs have an agreement that they hour when freights were $1.75 ts when freights are less. The men ll refuse to load boats char- Bay City lumber sh shall get 4o cents per per thousand and 35 cen in return for this good treatment wl tered for less than $1.75. : : Hovt with two barges in tow took 76,000 tons:o diet sce, Home to Duluth, all drawing less than 14 feet. “The. 107 had 2,700 tons. One captain says they make a mile of this whale-back hull at West Superior, and when they want a new boat they saw off 200 or 300 feet and rivet up the ends. R. W. Owen, manager of the Delta Transportation Com pany, of Chicago, writes H. G. Trout, of King Iron Works, Buffalo, ordering a spare wheel for the steamer Soo City, and:says: al do not think you could better the present wheel. At any rate, it would be dangerous to try it. The present one is very satis- factory.” O. W. Shipman aud J. B. Mullikan, of Detroit, are said to have recently purchased ten miles of mineral land adjoining Pikesville, Pa.; also 1,000 acres for about $100,000. It.1is stated that these parties have organized a stock company to develop this property, construct iron furnace and coke ovens, build a new town, etc. The Ludlow patent coal distributing bucket is fast coming into favor with dock owners. The latest order is from J. W. Elisworth & Co., who will use eight of the new ton and a half buckets on their Ashtabula docks. If you are interested in the economical handling of coal, address W. E. Ludlow, 510 Perry- Payne Building, Cleveland. Capt. Henry Cleary has been put in charge of the Marquette life saving station. There are four stations between the new station and White Fish point: Vermillion, No. 9, ten miles west of White Fish point ; Crisp, No. 10, six miles farther west ; T'wo Heart river, No. 11, nine miles west of No. 10; Muscallonge lake or Deer Park, No. 12, eleven miles west of No. 11. ‘Captain D. P. Dobbins and H. Von Boyer, of the life saving service, completed arrangements for the building of the Ashta- bula life saving station. The boat-house will be located on the east; pier but on account of there not being room enough on the pier for the boat-house and residence for the men, the latter will be built near the waterworks pumping station on the opposlte side of the river. Capt. J. S. Dunham, of Chicago, has passed through Buffalo regularly each winter for many years, to visit his aged mother at Troy, N. Y. He would not have missed that trip for a fleet of steel steamers, so much did he love and respect her. Last Thurs- day he received a dispatch saying his mother had died suddenly. Those who know the good-hearted captain can imagine the heavy heart with which he for the last time set out for the old family home.—Buffalo Courier. Last year while the Newaygo was fitting out at Marine City a tug overturned a small boat containing a man, woman and three children. One of the men assisting in fitting out the boat res- cued the woman and children and the man was picked up. This man writes the Review complaining that he received no medal, ‘‘not even a cigar”. The complaint is reasonable but when he objects to other persons being rewarded he shows his selfish character. Virtue is its own reward and brave deeds more than satisfy the doer. . Very few vessels will use the natural entrance to West Superior harbor when the channel between Duluth and that place is thoroughly dredged. Boats find difficulty in passing now but dredges now at work will make the channel 100 feet wide. Over an hours time is saved by boats bound for West Superior entering at Duluth and then going through the new channel across the bay. This matter has received the attention of the rival cities but Superior people say that Duluth. can. have -the steamers’ smoke and they take the cargoes. Resins Vessel and Machinery Exchange. _Our proposition made several months ago to run three-line notices of vessels or machinery for sale or wanted in the REVIEW gratis, has been accepted by over 60 parties. In several cases this department has been the means of making advantageous sales. The latest addition to this department is a request from Macon, Ga., by parties who want to buy a 60-foot steamer that draws 30 inches loaded. (See page 12.) jeu