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MARINE REVIEW. 11 Canisteo-Wales Collision. Judge Coxe of the federal court, New York, has rendered a decision in the collision case of the propeller Canisteo and the tug Wales, in which the latter was sunk by the former, just below White’s or Tonawanda island, at Tonawanda, on May 14, 1890. The Canisteo was coming down on the village side of the island and the Wales was coming down the channel on the Grand island side. The Canisteo was going to round the lower end of the island and pick up a consort, and signaled to pass on the port or east side of the Wales. But she made too wide a curve and struck the Wales stem on, sinking her almost immediately. Judge Coxe, while considering the Canisteo most to blame, because she did not stop when she found her course was not going to bring her short of the Wales, still thinks that had the Wales put her helm hard a-starboard in good time the accident might have been avoided. Her owner saw the need of such a position and tried to prove that it was done,but the judge does not. believe the testimony, for the boat was no farther to the westward of the channel when the collision occurred than when the Canisteo signaled her. He therefore decides that the Canisteo shall pay the Wales half the damages, which were about $8,000. In General. The steamer Blanchard struck an obstruction off Waugo- shance last week that ‘is thought to be the wreck of the schooner William Young, which foundered in that locality a short time ago. The steamer Dordrecht is atramp steamer built on the Tyne recently and is similar in some respects to the ordinary type of lake steamers. In a trial trip she obtained a speed of 934 knots. Her dimensions are 282 feet over all, 37 feet beam and 19 feet 8 inches depth. At the trial the cargo consisted of 2,800 tons of coal. The engines were built by the Northeastern Marine Engineering Company, the company that turnished the engines for the whaleback steamer Bartlett. ‘The cylinders are 20%, 34, 56 by 39, and 980 horse power was developed. “ When the whaleback Wetmore was in England,” said Capt. McDougall a few days ago, ‘‘some of the critics who talked very much about the boat. also attempted to belittle her lake-built engines. . The boat arrived at Montevideo. last week, 7,000 miles from Philadelphia, and left port again on her voyage to Puget sound in thirty-six hours after arriving. There is certainly nothing wrong with engines that will do that kind of work. We know that the boat spent only that length of time in port, as there was a little misunderstanding about our cablegram from the master, and when we cabled the American consul later the boat had gone.” ‘The Wetmore’s engines were built by S. F. Hodge & Co., of Detroit. There is probably no steamboat company in this or any other country that can claim better management than that attending the affairs of the Goodrich company, operating on Lake Michigan. While it is true that President Goodrich is a very young men at at the head of such a large company, it is also true that he has had the benefit of a training in the transportation business from boyhood, and he has some excellent men around him. Mr. G. Hurson, secretary and traffic manager, has been with the com- pany for thirty-five years,working up to his present position from cabin boy, and Gen. Mngr. John W. Gilman was a wheelman on one of the Goodrich boats twenty-five years ago. Chief En- gineer Elliott and other trusted employes of the company have also seen many years of service in this line.: Nothing Small About Capt. Dunham’s Project Eprtor MARINE REVIEW:—Chicago is a great city. It has absorbed a large part of Illinois, got the World’s Fair, recently asked Congress for five millions of dollars and now one of its citizens, Capt. J. S. Dunham, is reported as’ wanting to dam Niagara river below Tonawanda, with a view to backing up the waters of the rivers and lakes sufficiently to make Chi- cage river navigable for full loaded boats. There is nothing small about this project; no indeed. It is just like Chicago. But as the difference in the natural level of the water of the lakes and rivers at Chicago and Tona- wanda is from 15 to 18 feet, the natives of Tonawanda would naturally ob- ject toa scheme which, in order to benefit Chicago a little, would placea large part of Tonawanda and surrounding country in the bottom of Capt. Dunham’s remodeled Niagara river. JoHN MuRDOCK. Duluth, Minn., Oct. 26. [In justice to Capt. Dunham it may be well to note in connection with this communication that, although a newspaper interview printed a short time ago would indicate that he contemplated increasitg the water of all the lakes by adam at Torawanda, such was not the case. Capt. Dunham has given some study to this subject and he is, of course, aware of the difference in the lake levels,—EpD.] The Moniteur Industrielle recommends the use of a mixture of oil and graphite on all screws in machinery. It says it will effectually prevent them from becoming fixed, and protects them for years from rust; at the same time the mixture facilitates tightening up. The Joseph Dixon Crucible Company, Jersey City, N.J., has fora number of years prepared graphite mix- tures which have found great favor with machinists and steam- fitters of this country. 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