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a ey MARINE NEWS\Ch ww The steamer Peilatt loaded wheat at} T) Fort William on Thursday and is ex-/ies pected to be one of the first boats' to | Sun -@lear for the east. ; | was 3 ---_----_ | mig The Peterboro and Lake Simcoe | fore Navigation Company has bought ,the as steamer Gencva and will take' it to) The Rice Lake, while the Otonabee, the! Can ee largest steamer in the company's fleet, | rers will do business for the company of | rest Jakes Couchiching and Simcoe. dian \ - _ titm : Welcomed by salutes from the cate | cist ties of the steamboats and factories, | ace the. C. P. R. steamer Alberta arrived; TI ahortly after noon, Thursday, r3th, | far from Collingwood, where she has spent! of t the winter on*the dry dock, - says The beer Sun. The Alberta is not the same ship | last that feft Owen Sound last fall, fer | will she is now forty-two feet longer, the jon | extra length having been added dur-/ed | ing the winter. She is now the sate befo length as her sister ship, the Atha-| been basca, and seven feet longer than the} has Manitoba. The change gives about) has one-third more cargo space and a; med gumber of additional staterooms. Be-) tari sides the addition to the length other | end changes were made, in the shape of,te- solling 'fins' which will greatly in-| this crease her stability in rough weather | suri and heavy braces at cach gangway, | seri which will strengthen her upper works. The work was the same as|MI> was done on the Athabasca last E year, and is extremely well done, im- aeantt proving her appearance, as well as in- A creasing her capacity for both pas- ae sengers and freight. mer Official denial is given by President) ing TAvingstane of the Lake Carriers'. As- . er sociation to the report that a curtail-) oy, anent in the wages of lake seamen is) ffes contemplated this season on the boats Bla allied with the association. Advances) We fo all classes of marine employees " cos! were made last year, and these will be) My maintained. The schedule for this sea-| Adi son is announced as follows :-- Chicf engineers on steel steamers @f the first class will be paid at the! ---- wate of $175 a month first assistants, $125, and second $84. Class B, steel steamers of "ie first elass--Chiecf engineers, $155 per month; first assistants, $110; second assist-| ants, $84. TY Chief engincers of steel steamers of| spir the second class, $140'a month; as-; TeSU Oats gistant engineers, Stoo, | effer The chief engineers of steel package, 4, freight steamers of 1,800 up to 3,0nm' A d gross tans will be paid at the rate of | ley $155 a month and gssistant engineers) |. * $110. On steel beats of the third) ppoy class, chief engineers $105, and assist-) the ants $75 per month. Chief engineers, 0 of modern steamers over 1,200 gross 4 : | ness tons, and package freight steamers! gpji, over 750 tons, $140 a month, assist-! for i ants Sim, dunk 'can On second-class woolen steamers. how which include bulk fretghters ot 600 tlh to 1,200 gross tons, and =o package Mi 7 freighters of 600 to 750 KROSS TIS, gm chief engineers will receive $125 per aonth, and assistants Sron, The a a wages of first mates will range from 9 $94. a month on wooden steamers e the second class te $1ran on steel @ steamers of the first class. Secon amates on steel steamers of the first @ class $90 and men on the second-class | Le) wooden steamcurs $42.40, Cooks on) @ ateel steamers of the first class will, @ he paid at the rate of Sona month, |@ _ The schedule for other men on the, @ boats up to October fis as follows :| @ Second cooks and waiters, $36 per] g® qonth; porters, $19; firetmen, vilers,| @ and water tenders, $52.50 per month ;! wheelsmen and = lookouts, $55 per Pl Jive he > tra Golean' » wey ly Sots eer ; =} b | anonth, > a HOW TO SAVE MONEY. rr