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of the schooner Wyoming. 10 MARINE REVIEW. as ac ea a ean tee PST aL pene tars np Pee caneD acetone elo ede naiie urn Nie ie medusa Tee eeerten toon oa ST eee en ee In General. It is estimated that 300,000 tons of coal has already been re- ceived at Duluth. Chicago bridges will hereafter be closed from 6:30 until 8 o’clock in the morning, instead of from 6 o’clock until 8. The hull of the wrecking schooner H. W. Johnson is now in the Detroit dry dock, where it is being converted into a wreck- ing tug. H. Baby has purchased the Chicago excursion steamer Chief Justice Waite for $16,000, and John Byrne has bought the Chica- go excursion steamer Ivanhoe for $20,000. The last of the six steel steamships of the Menominee Tran- sit Company, the Roman, will be launched at the shipyard of the Globe Iron Works Company at 2 o’clock, Tuesday. The new Port Huron propeller Carpenter has been chartered for the season to carry hardwood lumber from Lake Huron to Grand Haven, where it will be shipped to Grand Rapids furni- ture factories. Joseph E. Cook, supervising inspector of steam vessels for the Eighth district and a veteran in the service, died at his home in Detroit, Friday, in his seventieth year. Paralysis was the cause of death. Commander Charles V. Gridley, of the Tenth light-house district, with headquarters at Buffalo, is to be detached from duty in that district on the 30th inst., to be succeeded by Com- mander Edwin T. Woodward. Capt. John Martel is building for the H. W. Williams Line, of South Haven, a new steamer roo feet long. H. Bloecker & Co., Grand Haven, will supply her with a high pressure engine 16x16, and Johnsten Bros., of Ferrysburg, will build the boiler. Laborers to the number of 100 are said to be engaged in clearing the right of way preparatory to beginning the work of excavating for the water power canalon the Canadian side of the Sault. It would seem as though the company which has under- taken this big project will at least spend a little money. City of au Sable is the name of a lumber barge constructed _at Au Sable by Joseph Rogers, of East Saginaw, from the hull Thirty feet of the Wyoming’s stern ‘was cut away and 50 feet added, so that the new boat is 167 feet long. Sheis owned by H. M. Loud & Sons’ Salt and Lum- bering Company and is supplied with derricks and other ma- _ chinery for the handling of timber. She has a 22x26 high pres- sure engine and a boiler 7x13 feet. Major Davis, United States engineer, detailed to examine and report on matters of final importance regarding the transfer of the Portage Lake canals to the government, has finished the work. He says he has found the surveys of the property correct and will within a few days send a réport to Washington, recom- mending also that the work of clearing out the bar at the upper canal be put through as rapidly as possible. He expresses the opinion that there is nothing more to delay the government in taking charge of the canals. J. H. Jacobs, of the Marquette firm of Furst, Jacobs & Co , has sold to five other members of the company his one-sixth in- terest in the Marquette brownstone quarry anda lease of the Portage Entry redstone quarry which the concern controls. The consideration was $100,000. Mr. Jacobs retains his vessels and his interest in the fee of the Portage Entry quarry. Mr. Jacobs owns nearly half the stock of the new Lake Superior Redstone Company, which has a valuable property at Portage Entry, ad- joining the Furst-Jacobs quarry, and he will begin putting stone on the market this season. “THE MICHIGAN” ISSUES POLICIES ON HULLS AND CARGOES ON FAVORABLE TERMS. IT IS FOR THE INTEREST OF THE OWNERS OF THE LAKE MARINE TO BUILD UP A HOME COMPANY BY THEIR PATRONAGE. AGENCIES AT PRINCIPAL PORTS. The Menominee Transit GCompany’s Boats. The mortgage from the Menominee Transit Company for $1,020,000, filed with the collector of customs in Cleveland, a few days ago, had little significance outside of what has already been known regarding the plans under which six steel steam- ships for the company have been constructed. The mortgage covered only five of the boats, as the sixth one, the steamship Roman, has not yet left the hands of the builders, and it simply indicates a carrying out of the understanding reached some time ago when the Chapin Iron Mining Company, a party to the agreement under which the boats were built on a bonded arrange- ment, was reorganized and released from financial embarrass- ment by the introduction of eastern capital. Wrecks and Heavy Losses. The propeller B. W. Arnold, which was on Green island reef, Georgian bay, last week was released without serious damage. The barge Mayflower, owned by Leatham & Smith, of Stur- geon Bay, and valued at $3.000, went down near Duluth, Tues- day, while carrying stone from Portage Entry to the head of the lake. Capt. Zeerbst was drowned. The steamer City of Duluth was on Graham shoal, Tues- day, and the Keystone and Masten grounded at South Fox island. Grummond’s tug Leviathan released the Keystone and Masten and then proceeded to Graham shoal where the Favorite joined her in releasing the City of Duluth. The schooner Thomas Hume, owned by Hackley & Hume, of Muskegon, can be numbered among the lost vessels of the present season She left Chicago for Muskegon on May 21 and nothing has since been heard of her although a diligent search has been made. The boat measured 19g tons, had an A2 rating and was valued at $6,000. Henry Albrightson was her captain and she had a crew of six men all told. Palmer & Co., of Cleveland, who handle the big wooden propeller C. H. Presley, were advised, Thursday, that the boat, loaded, was ashore on Lake Huron, between Point au Barques and Sand Beach. She was pounding some when she first went ontothe beach. As her engine could not be worked on account of the shoe being bent, her captain telegraphed that he had let some water into her and she was resting easy. Surveys at Cleveland on the propeller Raleigh and consort Camden, which were ashore on Gray’s reef, showed damages amounting to $10,259 and on the schooner amounting to $2,595. Damages to the steamer’s machinery amounted to $4,240 and to the hull $6,029. S.V. Parsons, of Buffalo, and Capt. D. Sullivan, of Milwaukee, were the surveyors of the Raleigh and Capt. George Quayle and W. G. Radcliffe acted in the same capacity on the Camden. ‘The Camden is being repaired at the Ship Owners’ dry dock. The Cleveland city board of equalization requests all own- ers of mining stocks or property in vessels to report their hold- ings specifically on the assessors’ blanks without fixing values on them, leaving the assessments to be made at the same rate for all. ‘The board claims to have the means of ascertaining the value of mining shares and vessel property, and also seeks in this way to relieve vessels trom sewer tax, etc. J. C. Gilchrist’s steel steamer F. W. Gilcher, recently put forth from the yard of the Cleveland Ship Building Company, loaded 3,150 tons of hard coal for Chicago at Buffalo, Wednes- day, and another cargo record is broken. Insurance Company of North America. INCORPORATED 1794. LAKE MARINE DEPARTMENT, CEO. L. McCURDY, Manager, Chicago, Ills. CHARLES Part, President. WiiurAm A. PLart, Vice-President. Eugene L. Kuuison, 2d Vice-Pres’t. GREVILLE E, Fryxr, Sec’y & Treas. Joun H. Arwoop, Assistant Secretary. 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