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, 10 MARINE REVIEW. Around the Lakes. Seamen’s Union at Chicago has reduced sailors’ wages on schooners and barges from $2 to $1.75 a day. The schooner Badger, owned by P. W. Kirtland, has been sold to John Hummel, of Green Bay for $800. The Eber Ward Lake Superior Line is now made up of the propellers Toledo, Saginaw Valley and A. I. Hopkins. Capt. Daniel Couglan has been appointed master of the ex- cursion steamer Pearl, running between Buffalo and Crystal Beach. Wreckers are still at work on the schooner H. W. Sage, ashore since last fall at Hammond’s bay. A portion of her ore cargo has been removed. A two-thirds interest in the barge Transport has been trans- ferred by H. H. Hickmart and William Wybrands to B. Whitaker & Son, of Detroit, for $550. Work on the new Lake Shore ore dock at Ashtabula is not progressing as rapidly as was expected. The force of workmen has been reduced about 100 of late. H. H. Gardner & Co., Escanaba lumber dealers, propose moving their plant to Georgetown, S.C. They have purchased a large area of heavlly timbered land. The $35,000 job of dredging which is to be done at the mouth of the Saginaw river was begun last week. McCollum & Lee, of Welland, Ont., have the contract. The Lehigh Coal and Iron Company will build fifty coke ovens at Superior, increasing its plant to 120 ovens with a total annual capacity of nearly 100,000 tons of coke. The propeller Iosco got 50 cents and not 45 cents as report- ed on her first cargo of soft coal to Duluth. ‘The Duluth rate has been very strong since the opening at 50 cents. Capt. Fletcher Hackett, a lake master who retired a number of years ago on account of blinduess, died on the 18th inst. at his country home near Hale’s Corners, Milwaukee county, Wis. _ At last accounts the steamer B. W. Arnold was ashore on Green island, 3 miles east of Mississagua straits, Georgian bay. She was on rock bottom and out her entire length. Her schooners escaped the reef. _ The propeller H. S. Pickands has been sold by Charles L. Ortman to A. Chesebrough, of Detroit, for $30,000. The Pick- ands was built in 1885 at Grand Haven, rates Ar and is valued by Lloyd’s at $43,000. Secretary Vance, of the Milwaukee lodge, E. M. B. A., is still adding names to the membership list. Timothy Kelly, of the propeller Manchester, and Peter Peterson, of the propeller T. S. Christie, are the latest additions. Even the propeller John B. Lyon has been forced to desert the grain trade and take a cargo of ore from Escanaba. ‘This is all the more surprising when it is known that the ore can not have paid more than 55 or 60 cents. That yarn from New York about a combination of lake and rail lines to knock out the Erie canal, is considered richly ridicu- lous by local canal men. Capt. Henry,of the Lehigh Valley Line, said there was nothing in it—Buffalo Courier. About 10,000,000 feet of lumber was shipped from Ashland to Chicago and Buffalo last week, and the shipments for the present week will probably show an increase. This Lake Supe- rior lumber business will help the general freight market. The barge H. R. Newcomb, which went ashore last fall near Oswego, has been given up asa total loss, although it was thought she would go through the winter. Smith, Davis & Co., of Buffalo, insured her for $21,400 and the owners, Hall & Co., of Ogdensburg, are about to secure payment. Thomas H. Smith, of Sturgeon Bay, has secured a contract for the transportation during the next three years of about 100 cords of stone a day, between Drummond island and the Sault. The tug L. D. Smith and the schooners Harry Johnson, Emerald and two others will begin work on the contract shortly. Grummond’s tug, William A. Moore, took the Anchor Line steamer Conemaugh, disabled by the breaking of her shaft, from the St. Clair flats to Detroit, Saturday. ‘The tug Leviathan, of the same line, gave assistance to the schooners Surprise and R. B. Hayes, the former having grounded at Charlevoix and the latter at Bois Blanc in the Straits. Ne The propeller Edward Smith, Capt. Alfred Mitchell and En- gineer Nelson Goulette, towing the schooners Marvin, Fryer and Filmore, with aggregate cargoes of 2,742,920 feet of lumber, made her third round trip for the season between Oscoda and ‘Tona- wanda in 5 days and 13 hours. The three trips, completed on the 18th inst., were made in 25% days. The lumber steamer Norwalk, built by Capt. Dulac, of Mt. Clemens, is fortunate in having a good lumber contract, although it cost $2,500 to get her down the muddy Clinton river after being launched. She will carry 5,000,000 feet of lumber from Marquette to Cleveland at 25 cents above the Bay City rate and will undoubtedly get a fair freight on return coal cargoes. The boat will carry about 1 000,000 feet a trip. The Buffalo Express in discussing the matter of repair bills on old wooden vessels, finds that on the books of one ship yard company there are charges since 1863 against the propeller Araxes, now on the bottom of the Saginaw river, amounting in all to $49,223.57. Her hull cost about $29,000 in 1856. The aggregate of wrecking bills and repairs at other yards would fur- nish a sum sufficient to build several new vessels. George W. Doerzback, of Sandusky, has begun stfft against Smith, Davis & Co., of Buffalo, to recover the insurance on the propeller Nevada, which was lost on Lake Michigan on Nov. 14 last with a coal cargo from Sandusky to Manitowoc. The insurance was for $50,000 Kelderhouse and others of Buffalo who sold the Nevada to her Sandusky owner are thought to be inter- ested in the suit, though not appearing in it. A story from Chicago a few days ago said that one of the customs officials at that port had refused to grant a vessel a clearance that would allow her to go light from one port to another in the same district and take on cargo at the latter port without reporting or clearing. ‘The customs official in this case exceeded his authority, although his action was in accordance with the desire that vessels be compelled to report and clear every time they enter or leave port. Capt. Thomas Wilson, of (leveland, owner of the propeller Olympia, and Capt. C. H. Weeks, of Bay City, owner of the lum- ber schooner John Sherman, will probably reach an amicable settlement regarding the loss to the Sherman from being run into by the Olympia. The expense attending the work of re- lieving the boat of rg0,oco feet of lumber in her hold as well as the repairs to the break in the hull, ifshe is repaired at all, will be quite heavy. When the Olympia ran into her she was going at the rate of 10 miles an hour, while the Sherman was moving along at the rateof seven. The Sherman was struck adiagonal blow leading toward the cabin,the Olympia making a hole in her that extended 16 feet downward and 7 feet inward. Almost all her butts were started and the boat is about broken in two. Her owner values her at $6,000 and she is insured for $3,000. Notice to Mariners. The notice from the light-house board regarding the Wind- mill point ranges, now operated by the government, says: ‘The lights are fixed red and the structures are on the northeasterly prolongation of the axis of the channel between Belle Isle and Isle aux Peches, Detroit river, Mich. ‘The lights are 437 feet apart on a line approximately S. W. % S. (S. 44° W.), true. The front light is a lens lantern, and the rear light a sixth order lens, each illuminating 135° of the horizon looking down the range. The structures are synare pyramidal wooden skeletons, with the upper part inclosed, each surmounted by ablack lantern. The front tower is painted red and the rear tower white. ‘The front light is 34 feet above the mean lake level and the rear light is 49 feet above the mean lake level. From the rear light Isle aux Peches (west end) red buoy is distant about 6,600 feet and Belle Isle light-house about 11,000 feet. The range line passes about 400 feet rorthwesterly of Isle aux Peches buoy, and about 650 feet southeasterly of Belle Isle light-house. American Oak Timber. ___ Vessel owners have probably noticed a movement of oak timber from the upper lake districts to the seaboard of late. A great deal of timber is also going from southern districts to New Orleans. Several concerns in this country are now making-a specialty of the business of exporting this timber. Only the best _of it is selected and the bulk of it goes to France to be used for interior house finishing.