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THE EVENING TELEGRAM, TORONTO, MONDAY, APRIL 16. WM ALL ARE BUSY ON THE TORONTO WATERFRONT The centre of attraction both yesterday and to-day along the waterfront was the schooner Blucnose. .Hundreds of persons, having read of _the return of Captain Angus Walters and his crew, went down to the :amous schooner Sunday. There were about 200 on hand to watch Capt. Walters' crew of 10 sluicing down and squeegeeing the decks and overhauling the gear to-day. If the skipper can get the schooner out of her ;lip between the Sarnian and the ^Chippewa, he plans to take her out |off the Terminal Warehouse dock Ifor painting to-morrow. I Toronto Drydock men are work-ling hard to get the Rahane and the IWestmount ready for service. Orders gwerc given to-day by their owners |to get the Rahane all set for clear-Sing to-night for Lake Erie ports, |and the Westmount must be ready llo clear to the lake head to-morrow. IWith her hull painted, the yacht |Haicyon is in the water at the drydock and Diesel engines are being installed. Arrivals and departures in the |Port of Toronto over the week-end fwere: Coalhaven from Buffalo, coal, lout to Toledo; Charles Dick from IPort Dalhousie, sand, out to Niagara-|on-the-Lake; Berryton out to Toledo, light; tanker Cyclochief back from Port Dalhousie annual inspection, I'out, light, to Montreal; collier Mid-liand Prince from Ashtabula, coal, lout of Toledo; Collier from Erie, icoal, but to Ashtabula; freighter grown Beaver from Sarnia, out to |Duluth; tanker Imperoyal from-] Sarnia, gasoline, out to Sarnia; (anker Windsolite from Sarnia, gasoline, out to Kingston. Water level is 244 ft. 7 7-16 ins., j compared with 244 ft. 6% ins.- yesterday and 245 ft. 4 ins. a year ago With war and clean SPRING MANOEUVRES UNDER WAY AROUND HARBOR mer days comes housccleaning along the waterfront, with reconditioning, repairing ing getting under way for the passenger and freight fleet. One of the S.S. Kenora's lifeboats is getting attention. Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., April 30— _.ie passenger steamer Hamonic, of .......¦"•¦»¦"'"-"";.! ,he Northern Navigation Co., which opened navigation here yesterday when she locked through en route to Port Arthur, from Sarnia, reported OUTSIDE, INSIDE AND ALL OVER .Everything gets attention as the big boats are prepared for the first trips of the season. „fgfsd\lc^j^o^fJ^oi^'poStn Here are workers on the upper deck of the S.S. Kingston making repairs to the forward the st- Mary's River. , . . ... ¦ The vessel expects the heaviest tunnel and ventilators. going from there to Parisienne Island. s The Hamonic arrived from Sarnia at S.35 p.m. and locked through the American Canal at 7. The freighters Superior, Clearwater, Swiftwater and Stillwater are in the lower St. Mary's River and expected here to night. They stopped at Lime Man' for coal. A stiff battle with ice is antiej pated before the Hamonic breaT „JS through to open water in Lake fjM re^fl ucrior.___________==_______ ^" Captain T. H. Johnston of the Hamonic said that the vessel encoun-1 tered ice 18 inches thick between-. Twin Island and Lime Island, butr from, there on had little difficulty breaking through. The boat required' almost 12 hours to make a run that: usually takes about four hours. Presentation of the harbor mastersi hat to. Capt. Johnston will be de-! ferred until the return of Harbor" Master R. Turner, who is ill in a Toronto hospital. Capt. Johnston won the hat, two years ago when, he piloted the Hamonic into the Sault ahead of all other vessels. The C.P.R, steamer Assiniboia left? Port McNicoll at 3 p.m. Sunday and: is expected to arrive here to-day. SOON SHE WILL BE SHIP-SHAPE AND SAILING The long winter holiday is one of relaxation; so these workmen are giving a little tension to guy cables on the funnels and masts ofethe S.S. Kenora. more AND THE LITTLE FELLOWS GET THEIR RECONDITIONING, TOO Visiting the yacht club ways finds all sorts of craft getting ready for their 1934 dip into the waters of the Lake. This cabin r£iriser is in the yards of the National Yacht Club. Montreal, April 30—Heavy ice in Lake St. Louis and the Soulanges Canal will delay the opening of through navigation between Montreal and the Great Lakes until tomorrow at the earliest, officials of the Marine Signal Service announced here to-day. The Canadian Government ice: breaker is at present in Lake St.: Louis breaking through the ice, with about 2,500 feet left, through which : a channel must be forced for commercial craft. There are 24 vessels awaiting the opening of navigation1 at the Soulanges Canal. Seven of: these are in the Lachine Canal.