The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

perior boats can now load to 14 feet 4 inches. MARINE REVIEW. | 9 Around the Lakes. The Hart line of steamers running on Lake Michigan now carry penants of blood red with two hearts of pure white stitched thereon. ¢ i _ Water in the Sault canal and in the Detroit and St Clair rivers at last show a tendency toward improvement. Lake Su- The Minnesota company’s steamship Marina spent a few hours ona sand bank at Two Harbors, on her last trip. She was bound to Two Harbors for ore and went on light in a fog. Three light-ships for Simmon’s reef, Gray's reef and White shoal in the Straits will all be launched from the yard of the Craig Ship Building Company, Toledo, before the close ot the present week. The Goodrich line steamer Virginia is said to be carrying 400 to 500 passengers on her regular runs. ‘The owners will undoubtedly gain many times over in the popularity of the boat all that was spent on her in elegance. On Monday morning Buffalo had a fleet of vessels bearing 1,680,000 bushels of grain. Every one of the vessels making up this enormous tonnage would have been unloaded within 36 hours but for some delay caused by breaks in the Erie canal. H. G. Trout & Co. of Buffalo recently overhauled the the big pump that was released from the wreck of the propeller Calumet, which went down near Chicago in the fall of 1888. The pump is of the Silsby make, rotary pattern and throws a 12-— inch stream. It seems to be settled now that the damage to the whale- back steamer Thompson’s boilers was caused by getting oil into them. ‘This allowed the great heat to warp the plates over the fire box. The builders of the boilers in such a case would not be responsible for the loss.—Buffalo Courier. In 6 days, 2 hours and 31 minutes the Minnesota Steamship Company’s steamer Maruba loaded and discharged 2,115 tons of ore and made the trip from T'wo Harbors to Ashtabula and return, 1,778 miles. These boats are certainly leaders in the Lake Su- perior trade. Their time of loading is seldom more than two to four hours. Wolf & Davidson, ship builders and dry dock owners of Milwaukee, have had trouble for some time past with the Ship Carpenters’ and Calkers’ Union. Last week twenty-five men were taken to Milwaukee from Bay City, where work in the ship- yard line was not very active, and they have so far been kept to work in the Milwaukee yard. Isaac Bearinger, the lumber merchant of Saginaw who had the yacht Straightway constructed from an iron hull that had lain idle in Detroit for a number of years, calls his craft a ‘‘chor- ing boat.” She is agood yacht, however, and he has not spared money in making her comfortable. She is at Saginaw taking on furniture and will be given a Roberts water tube boiler. John Kelderhouse and others, owners of the schooner Sage, released from the beach at Hammond’s bay and now at Buffalo, figure that they will have a 1,500-ton vessel for about $12,000. Only $400 was paid for the boat and capgo.and the wrecker, McMorran of Port Huron, was given $3,500 and the cargo for releasing her. The cost of rebuilding her, it is thought, will not be more than $8,000. Vessel masters taking coal to Heron bay near Port Arthur, or any other place where there is no customs house, will do well toreport their arrival and departure at the nearest port where customs officials can be found. Capt. La Rush of the Canadian schooner Valencia neglected this important duty and was fined later by the Duluth collector of customs, to whom he could pre- sent no clearance papers on arriving from the Canadian port. The libel on which the owners of the steamer Pontiac will proceed against the Canadian Pacific steamer Athabasca is said to claim that, while coming up the channel of the St. Mary’s river, near Nelson’s bend, the Athabasca was at about the stakes in Lake George. ‘The Pontiac blew one whistle, and was answered with one by the Athabasca. As the two boats approached each other the Athabasca suddenly blew two blasts of her whistle and started to go to starboard. This the Pontiac answered with one short blast and reversed her engines. Seeing that a collision was unavoidable, the captain called to his wheel- man to steady her. ‘The Athabasca’s side of the case, which will be told in the cross libel is, of course, different. Death of Capt. John Nelson. Capt. John Nelson, who died at his home, No. 84 Marion | Street, Cleveland, on Sunday the 26th inst., was very favorably known among lake masters and vessel owners. In_ his death, which was not expected, the marine fraternity recognizes a great loss, as he had been in the front rank with those who have advo- cated the advancement of lake masters through the Excelsior Marine Benevolent Association, an organization that has accom- plished a great deal in this direction within a very short period. He was also a leader in matters pertaining to government im- _ provements of lake channels and other aids to navigation, and .tedlast winter through a severe cold. had several times been selected as a representative before con- gressional committees, as well as the practical advisor of United States court judges in admiralty cases. A few weeks previous to his death he was compelled to leave his steamer, the J. H. Outh- waite, in which he was part owner with Capt. W. C. Richardson and others, at Milwaukee on account of a return of sickness contrac- Stomach troubles fol- lowed and, although a man of strong constitution, and unusual activity at fifty-seven years of age, his friends immediately gave up all hopes of his return to the lake service. Pa 7 EE A Capt. Nelson’s initial training as a navigator was obtained in the Baltic sea trade. He was born August 3, 1854, in Hesse- Hamburg, Sweden, and went to sea on a Swedish merchant ves- sel at thirteen years of age. In 1854 he came to this country and began work on the lakes one year later. His first command was the schooner R. G. Winslow. He was later in the schooner Orphan Boy, and brought out the schooner I. N. Foster and S. H. Foster, superintending the construction of these boats as well as the steamer J. H. Outhwaite in 1886, which he sailed up to the time of his illness. Capt. Nelson was a man of true christian disposition, showing at all times great kindness of heart. He had as much regard for the feelings of a deck hand as he had for the officer next to him in rank on his steamboat. Captains James Stone and W. H. Collier represented the E. M. B. A. as bearers at the funeral. The yacht building for Mr. J. H. Wade will not leave the yard of the Cleveland Ship Building Company before October 1. Capt. Dayton, who has commanded some of the most costly and fastest yachts in the east, arrived in Cleveland this week. Chief Engineer Smith has been at the yard for some time. The man- ganese bronze wheel will be put on this week and most of the auxiliary engines are already placed in the yacht. She will cross directly from Halifax to the Mediteranean, as has been stated in the REviEw. Commenting on the hull Capt. Dayton says the lines are the most satisfactory he has seen in all his service and that the speed results cannot fail to meet expectations. The MARINE REVIEW and the MARINE ENGINEER, London, one year for $4. Write the MARINE REVIEW.