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MARINE: REVIEW. iz Excelsior Marine Benevolent Association. Newly elected officers of the Cleveland lodge are : J. B. Hall, president; William Mack, first vice-president; Richard Neville, second vice-president; Thomas Jones, treasurer; W. A. Collier, financial secretary; E. T. Rattray, recording secretary. The appointve offices have not as yet been filled. It is expected that the meeting of the grand lodge in Cleveland will occur about the 21st inst. and arrangements have been made accordingly for the annual banquet and ball,which will take place on the evening of that date. Port Huron lodge, No. 2, has elected officers for the new year as follows: Alex. R. Sinclair, president; C. S. Geel, first vice-president; A. A. Cox, second vice-president; Ed. J. Kendall, treasurer; W. A. Ashley, financial and corresponding secretary; Ae 'May, marshal; P. F. Powrie, warden; L. Carly, sentinel, B. H. Cooper, chaplain. The installation of officers will take place at the next meeting, Saturday, Jan. 9. mee F. Miner has been elected to membership. The evening of Jan. 20 is the time set fora ai, of the Chicago lake captains, members of the E. M B.A. and their friends, at a banquet and ball. It will be the red letter event of the winter for the men who go down to the seain ships when the ice leaves the straits. The committee has fixed the Brice. of tickets at $2.50. Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association. The Detroit branch of the Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association has elected officers as follows: Past president, Joseph Hayes; president, T.. W. Walker; vice-president, Ed. R. Blanchard; treasurer,- J. H. Kendall; financial secretary, Frank Kenyon; corresponding secretary, Albert L. Jones; chaplain, William Galpin; conductor, J. W. McClure; doorkeeper, Phil. Franconey; delegates tothe national convention, John M. Cronen-, weth and T. W. Walker.. New officers of the Cleveland branch, Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, are as follows: C. M. Stoddard, presi- dent; J. B. Wood,- vice-president;. J. Kirby, corresponding sec- retary; S. H. Hunter, recording secretary; William Lowe, finan- cial secretary; M. B. Sturtevant, treasurer; James Carr, conduc- tor; William Seaman, chaplain; John McMonagle, inside keeper; William F. Rieley, outside keeper; O. N. Steele, J. B. Wood, William Donovan, trustees: J. B. Wood and Evans Jenkins, delegates to the national convention, ta be held at Webi one on the 25th inst. _ Milwaukee, No. 9.--W. E. Elliott, past- Feecaeae Joseph J. Krach; president; William Kavanaugh, vice-president; Frank Coons, treasurer; D. W. Chipman, Jr., financial secretary; John EF Lowgy, recording seeretary; W. E. Elliott, corresponding secretary; W. G. Fell, chaplain; Charles McCarthy, conductor; John Mertes, door-keeper; D. W. Chipman, Jr., delegate; Joseph J. Krach, William Kavanaugh, Frank Coons, trustees. ' Sturgeon Bay--Frank Kimber, president; Frank A, Ives, _ vice-president; L. C. Thorklidson, past president; Charles Chap- man, treasurer; Henry Machia, financial secretary; F. C. Wright, recording secretary; Harry Scofield, corresponding secretary; Ashley Cofrin, chaplain; Joel Ashby, doorkeeper; James Curry, national representative. Around the Lakes. Capt. J. lL. D. Kimball, aged 78 years, died at Toledo last week. He had spent most of his life on the lakes. Jan. 1 is a rather late date for navigation on Lake Michigan, but the schooner Kate Winslow arrived at Green Bay on that day, light from Escanaba. She will load grain. Louis P. Trempe, whose death is announced from Sault Ste. Marie, has been prominent in that place for more than forty years. He was sixty-two years of age and had lived at the Sault since 1846. 'Sales of vessel property: Schooner Helena, (rebuilt) Mil- waukee Dry Dock Company to Milwaukee Tug Boat Line, $20.- 500;Schooner Adriatic, Capt. James Davidson of West Bay City to M. A. Bradley and Capt." George Stone of Cleveland, $40,000. The merchandise dock of the Duluth, South Shore and At- lantic Railway at Marquette, will be rebuilt during the winter. M. J. Peppard has the contract, which will require about 2,000,000 feet of plank and 500 spiles, in addition to other ma- terial. -or a total of $1,102,026. gatchie. The schooner Adriatic, purchased by M.A. Bradley and Capt. George Stone of Cleveland from Capt. James Davidson of West Bay City, is double decked and has a capacity of 70,000 bushels of corn from Lake Michigan or 1,750 tons of ore from Escanaba. She went into commission in the spring of 18go,>. rates Ai and had an insurance valuation last season of $50,000., A recent isue of the Buffalo Express presents a list of ay. disasters for the season of 1891, and although incomplete, as all. such compilations are, the disasters involve a loss of fifty-one. lives, $791,833 to the hulls of vessels and $310,143 to cargoes, © Small losses almost numberless, are ~ not included in this statement and no account is takeu of Bek cost of rescuing vessels. On Thanksgiving day when the steamer OanestaKe laa. : ered on Lake Huron and her barges drifted ashore, Capt. Edward . "Ballentine of the steamer Elfin-Mere was among the lake faring _men'who displayed great bravery in rescuing the crews of the He saved a crew of thirteen from the Oswe- ' At Bay City a few days ago the owners of the Elfin- . Mere in the presence of a large gathering of vessel owners and.. masters at a banquet, presented Capt. Ballentine with a gold | medal as a token of regard for his bravery. The Graham & Morton Transportation Company has eee a contract with the Detroit Dry Dock Conipany for a new screw distressed vessels. steamer to run between St. Joseph and Chicago, to be ready for next summer's business. The steamer will be built of wood 212: feet over all, 39 feet 6 inches beam over the guards and 15, feet ~ deep; and will be propelled by triple expansion engines of 200, horse power. She will have a passenger cabin the entire length -- of the ship, finished in mahogany. 'The new steamer will be worth when completed $128,000, and'*will be Sontdered so as. to be of some service during the winter. . (RE Pa taza tc A complete lighting plant will shortly be: installed 'on the' big passenger steamer City of Cleveland of the Detroit and. Cleveland line by the Fisher Electric Company of Detroit...The plant will consist of 500 lights,two of the Fisher automatic. dyna-_ mos, a double-acting switch-board and a complete installation in. aceordance with this company's standard specifications. This" boat was equipped some time ago by the Brush Electric" Com-- pany, but the navigation company, after a season's experience with the Fisher apparatus on the steamer City of Detroit, another - boat of the lire, decided to replace the Brush plant with that of the Fisher company. Grain Stocks and Freights. Chicago is still offering 5% centson wheat for winter storage: and delivery at Buffalo next spring. Duluth shippers. haye » offered in a few cases 4% cents for boats to arrive for. cargoes in the spring. Grain stocks at Chicago and Duluth at the opening of the present week were as follows: Chicago . 'Duluth. elm Stone Dilkg.-. aay fea Wes cg deuaeee «hoes wtaelse eee 12,406,695 6,497,005 46 a PNM O Dt OU cts cite organ ess st. teats Neves cemensmeees 238,378 400,703 'Tiicrease over last week, Dul.......0.seceeeeee 514,613 827,076 42720 Cleveland Matters. The Globe Iron Works Company will remove the twenty arc' light plant installed in its machinery department by the Ball' company, a cantract having been let for an electric. lighting' system to the Fisher Electric Company of Detroit. The machine. shop, foundry, boiler shop and other departments will be divided | into eight circuits, controlled by the standard mechanism manu- factured by the Fisher company. In the office and machine~ shop 250 incandescent lamps will be installed and thirty-four arc lamps through the other departments. A 600-light automatic | dynamo will furnish the necessary current and will be driven by. a 9x16 automatic Rice engine, manufactured by the John a. Noye Manufacturing Company of Buffalo. The engine, dynamo. and switchboard will be on the gallery of the third floor and'will' be under the direct control of the operator in charge of the' lover: ! head crane system. On June 4 last on Lake Erie, just east of the Pinta cies schooner Favette Brown was sunk by the Northern Steamship | Company's steamer North Wind. It was thought that it would be necessary to go into court fora settlement of damages but the owners of the steamer a few days ago agreed to pay $25,500 | for the loss of the Brown and her cargo of block stone. The. Brown was owned by the Bradley estate of Cleveland. - Hawgood & Canfield, new firm of vessel and insurance: agents announce in a neat circular letter a beginning of business with the new year. jas /