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MARINE REVIEW. 9 Around the Lakes. Charles Y. Osburn collector of customs in the district of Su- ares for the past ten years died at his home in Marquette last week. Upson, Walton & Co. of Cleveland, last week made a ship- ment of the iron blocks for which they have the general agency to Switzerland. ; The schooner Our Son, owned by Capt. Kelly of Milan, and sailed by Capt McKeighan, has received a $10,000 rebuild at the head of the old river-bed, Cleveland. The Canadian Steel Barge Company has been incorporated at Port Arthur, Ont., with a capital stock of $128,000 to build Steel vessels for freight and passenger service. _ Duluth now has four vessel brokerage concerns. Lewis & Gilbert, 36 and 37 Exchange building are the latest. 'The part- ners are Capt. R. T. Lewis and Mr. S. V. Gilbert. John Pridgeon, Jr., of Detroit:is said to own one-half of the steamer Kasota now undergoing a rebuild in the big dock of the Detroit Dry Dock Company. A stock company will be organized for the management of the boat. The wooden steamer, duplicate of the W. F. Sauber, which F. W. Wheeler of West Bay City is about to build for A. E. Stewart, C. F. Bielman, George Peck and others of Detroit, will be finished by July 15. Her cost is about $130,000. Sales of vessel property: Side-wheel steamer Corona, Good- rich Transportation Company to J.J. Warde of Chicago, $15,000; Steamer O. O. Carpenter, Jenks Ship Building Company of Port ' Huron to N. E. Runnells and Capt. Dan Sinclair of Port Huron, $28,000. Some recent steamboat appointments are: Emily P. Weed, Capt. Charles Burey, last season in the Northern line; Roswell P. Flower, Capt. Charles Davis; Kasota, Capt. John T. Hutton; John Oades, Capt. Timothy Lemay; Kittie M. Forbes, Capt. Rattray, last season in Grummond's line. The work of lengthening the Cleveland Dry Dock Com- pany's dock is being done by L. P.& J. A. Smith. The coffer dam has been put in. When completed the dock will be 364 feet over all, 350 feet on keel blocks, 52 feet on bottom, 52 feet width of gate and will have 16 feet on the blocks. L,. L. Burton, of Detroit, general agent for the Cincinnati 'Underwriters' Insurance Company, Capt. J. A. Calbrick, lately with P. H. Fleming & Co., and M. H. Cook, vessel owner of Michigan City, have formed at Chicago the firm of Burton, Cal- brick & Cook, vessel and insurance agents. _ The propeller James Fisk, Jr.; will be given two steel arches - anda thorough overhauling of hull and machinery at the Spring- wells dry dock this winter. Her hoisting machinery will be 'shifted, and this with the removal of the heavy wooden arches, will add materially to her carrying capacity. The Northern Steamship line is to remain unchanged at present. President Hill is building three steamers on the Pacific to connect with the Seattle end of his Great Northern line, which is already in operation some distance east from Seattle. When this work is finished something probably will be doné to strengthen the lake line.--Buffalo Courier. The Canadian Marine Engineers Association held its annual meeting at Toronto and the following officers were elected for 1892: President, F. E. Smith; first vice-president, Ee AW Fox; second vice-president, P. J. Kenney; council, R. Hughes, S. Gil- lespie, D. L. Foley, J. J). Kenney and P. Quinn; treasurer, J. H. Ellis; secretary, S. A. Mills; inside guard, J. Adams; auditors, J. Harrington and J. D. Banks. -. The John Doty Engine Company, Toronto, has begun the construction of a side-wheel passenger steamer for the St. Cath- | erines, Grimsby & Toronto Navigation Company. She is to be of steel and iron, 180 feet long, 44 feet beam, engines to be 1,200 horse power, to have accommodation for 600 passengers, and will cost $75,000. It is expected that she will be finished and in commission by the middle of June next. The Buffalo branch of the Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association has been discussing the advisability of forming a separate beneficiary fund for the lakes and the subject may be brought to the attention of the national association at its next meeting. The movement is based on the claim that in some - sections, such as the southern rivers, the mortality is much greater proportionately than on the lakes. At a meeting held in Toronto last week the Canadian Marine Association elected officers as follows: Capt. Crangle, president; Thomas Marks, vice-president; W. A. Geddes, secretary and treasurer. A resolution of thanks to the government for giving Canadian ship owners a rebate on canal tolls was adopted, and the government was asked to complete the work of enlarging the St. Lawrence canals as speedily as possible. EH. D. Chilson of Tecumseh, Mich., and Moore & Barstow of Cleveland, are the parties interested in the purchase of the steamer Marquette from the Republic Iron Mining Company of Cleveland. Mr. Chilson was managing owner of the steamer Oscar Townsend, lost last season, and the 'Townsend's consort, the Kelly, will now tow with the Marquette. The Marquette was formerly the steamer Republic and was built in Cleveland in 1881. She rated A2 and was valued at $80,000 in Lloyds last season. The Detroit Boat Works, Detroit, Mich., has ordered a 7x8 feet boiler, having 35 feet of grate surtace, from the Roberts Safety Water Tube Boiler Co., New York. 'The Idler, built for Senator McMillan by the Detroit Boat Works, has a Roberts boiler that has been in use two years, and this second order is an endorsement of this type of boiler for steam yachts. Valuable data of performance of 100 steam vessels having these boilers, may be had by addressing the Roberts Safety Water Tube Boiler Co., 16 Cortlandt street, New York. Plans are being made by the Detroit Dry Dock Company for the big transfer car ferry, which is to be operated in con- nection with the transfer St. Ignace at the Straits of Mackinaw, but as yet no contract has been let forthe boat. The Michigan Central and Grand Rapids & Indiana railroads, owners of the St. Ignace, would sustain a big loss in event of an accident to the St. Ignace and they want another boat. The new ice crusher | will be considerably larger than the St. Ignace, but will be on much the same plan. She will have similar powerful engines turning heavy screw wheels at both ends of the boat, will be built of wood and will cost about $350,000. : Ward's old Lake Superior line will in future be known as the Crescent line. Agents have been appointed as follows: A. P. Wakefield, Minneapolis and St. Paul; Alfred Robinson, Duluth; A. J. Otterson, Marquette; A. EK. Thompson, Cleveland and H. JL,. Chamberlain, Buffalo. The masters and chief en- gineers will be as follows this season: John M. Nicol, Capt. Albert Stewart, Engineer Joseph Hayes; John V. Moran, Capt. Robert Rhynas, Engineer G. EK. Lynn; _ W. H. Stevens, Capt. John Tyrney, Engineer G. E. Tretheway; Eber Ward, Capt. W. McLean, Engineer James Purvis; James Fisk Jr., Capt. Louis Elliott, Engineer Elmer Tucker; Samuel F. Hodge, Capt. Murray McIntosh (last year mate of the Moran), Engineer, W. T. Walker. Electricity in Lake Elevators. The Fisher Electric Company of Detroit recently com- pleted the installation of an electric plant in the elevators of the Niagara company, Buffalo. The combination method is used, arc and incandescent lamps being burned from the same dynamo. The dynamo is the well known automatic machine constructed to operate from full to no load without adjustment or sparking at the commutator. 'The arc lamps are placed on the dock and in the freight yard and the incandescent lamps in elevators A and B. Portable lights are provided to drop into bins and to light ships when at dock. 'The arc lamps are placed on an incandes- cent circuit, while the elevators, where the incandescent lights are used, are divided into seven circuits, enabling the engineer to light from the engine room any part of the large establishment. The insurance companies holding risks on the elevators make are- duction of $1,500 a year in the cost of insurance, and it is figured that the electricity will be $600 cheaper in a year than gas. As the plant cost but $3,200, it will, at this rate, pay for itself in a year and a half. Mr. W. M. Day, who has been editor of the Iron Trade Re- view of Cleveland since 1882, has retired on account of increas- ing duties devolving upon him as president of the Cleveland Printing and Publishing Company. His successor is Mr. A. I. Findley of Akron, an experienced newspaper worker. Mr. Day is still a director in the Iron Trade Review Company.