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MARINE REVIEW. 9 An Auxiliary Naptha Yacht. _ The illustration on this page represents the 35-foot auxiliary naptha yacht Alma, purchased this last season from the Gas Engine & Power Co., Morris Heights on the Harlem, New York City by Chesbtough Bros., l:merson Mich. Her length over all is 35 feet, head room 5 feet 3 inches, beam 9g feet, draught 3 feet 2 inches. The keel and frames are of white oak, keel lead ballasted, and the planking is white cedar, all being copper fast- ened and riveted. The decks are white pine, oil finished, and. other parts are of bright varnish finish. 'The engine is 10 h. p.. naptha with copper tank condensing pipes. 'Ihe wheel and shaft are of bronze. Her rigging consists of mainsail, jib and jigger double bighted twillsails, with wire stays, manilla halliards -- etc. Among the forty, or fifty yachts building at the Morris Heights works is one 40-footer for Chas A. Lamb, National Tube _ Works Chicago Ill., Three lake steam-yachts, the Nydia, Petrel and Peerless have naptha launch tenders. Following is a list of naptha yachts owned on the lakes. fi | Cleveland, O.--Mr. S. H. Chisholm, Mr. C. W. Harktéss, - dy Mr. W. R. Huntington, Mr. D. E. Stone, Pickands, Mather & Co., Mr. John Corrigan, Mr. William De Mooy. Euclid, O.--_ Mr. O. A. Stray. Sandusky, O.--Mr. J. O. Moss, Mr. ea Hubbard, Mr. KE. H. Marsh. Toledo, O.--Mr. H. P. Tobey, 140 Water street, Mr. John Weber (3), Mr. George H. Van Vleck. Erie Pa--Mr.: J. KE. Swap, Mr. Jackson Koehler. De- troit, Mich.--Mr. Gilbert Hart, Hart Emery Wheel Co., Mr. H. B. Scott, Newcomb, Endicott & Co., Mr. Fred. E. Butler, Mr. W. C. McMillan. Escanaba, Mich.--Mr. George Preston. Grand Rapids, Mich.--Mr. Charles S. Hazeltine, Mr. W. O. Hughart, Mr.C. B. Judd, Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co., Mr. G. H. Long, Keystone Gang Saw Mills, Mr. Henry Sullivan, Mr. A. B. Turner, Editor of the Eagle, Mr. George N. Davis, Mr. C. L. Ives, 174 Lyons street. Marquette, Mich.--Mr. J. M. Longyear. Mus- kegon, Mich.--Mr.. John Torrent, Emerson, Mich.--Messrs. Chesbrough Bros. Manistee, Mich.--Mr. Charles Ruggles. St. Ignace, Mich.--Rev. W. H. Law. Duluth, Minn.--Baptism River Club. Chicago, Ill. Dr.J. H. Buffum, ror State street, Mr. John Dupee, Jr., Board of Trade, Mr. Charles A. Lamb, National Tube Works (2), Mr. George A. Seaverns, Board of Trade, Mr. W. H. Aldrich, 122 La Salle street, Mr. Edwin Nor- ton 46 River street, Mr. George J. Parker, 91 Board of Trade, Mr. E. R. Gilman, 190 Fifth avenue. fa The Canadian Pacific Railway will make Windsor, Ont., its chief shipping point preceding and during the World's Fair. Contracts have been let for building docks over a quarter ofa mile in length along the river front, and the company's steamer now running to Lake Superior will be transferred to the route between Windsor and Chicago. Around the Lakes. Capt. R. G. Coburn, born in Seneca Falls, N. Y., rn 1825 died at Superior a few days ago. He was one of the pioneers at the head of Lake Superior and had built up a large lumbering business. Capt. P. MacFarlane, long in the Lehigh Valley line, has resigned from that employ. He will command one of the pack- age freight whalebacks that will run between Gladstone and Buffalo the ensuing season. ; As a result of the opening of the St. Clair tunnel, the Grand Trunk Railway is calling for tenders from parties willing to pur- chase one or both of the Canadian ferry boats Huron and Inter- national, now lying at Point Edward, Ont. 'Officers of the Ship Owners' Dry Dock Company, Cleveland, elected Tuesday, are as. follows: Capt. Thos. Wilson, president; Capt. George Stone, vice-president: August Cold, 'secretary; Har- vey D. Goulder, treasurer; George Quayle, superintendent. Directors--Valentine Fries, of Milan, O. and H. D. Coffinberry, Robert Wailace, Capt. Thomas Wilson, Capt. Peter Minch and Capt. George Stone, all of Cleveland. . Capt. F. B. Hackett of Amherstburg, will be prepared tor wrecking work in the vicinity of the mouth of the Detroit river with the opening of another season. He has purchased the big Canadian tug Wales from the Muskoka Lumber Company and will station her at Amherstburg 'with hawsers, pumps, divers and everything complete for wrecking purposes. She is 150 feet see e CRS a7 ied long, 24 feet beam, 12 feet hold and registers 325 tons; has two 22x22 high pressure engines and two boilers 8x15 feet: She will carry about 400 tons and will be able to lighter the largest class of boats. The tug International will work in connection _ with the Wales. The whaleback steamer for which the Marinette Iron Works of West Duluth is buildiitg engines, will have a complete outfit of Worthington pumps. One of the old boats which has made a record on the lakes is the steamer J. C. Pringle, which will make some extensive alterations this winter. She is now owned by the Hollister Transportation Company. The attached air pumps have given considerable trouble,especially during the past season, and the Worthington condenser will take their place. 'The most approved method of heating the feed water will be adopted, and there seems no doubt but that this boat will improve upon her already good record. : The Hayden & Derby Manufacturing Company of New York, has added the Crane Company of Chicago, and Strong, Carlisle & Turney of Cleveland to their list of lake agents. The Metropolitan injector manufactured by this company is rapidly growing in favor with lake users. It has been adopted by the American Steel Barge Company of West Superior, Wis., which company is now being supplied with injectors for the eight barges they are building. The Hayden & Derby Manufacturing Company also has the contracts for supplying the government vessels now building at the yards of F. W. Wheeler & Co , West Bay City, and at the Globe Iron Works Company, Cleveland.