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MARINE REVIEW. 9 Ze Around the Lakes. apt. Harvey Shipman died at Manisti : ; anist st w was thirty-nine years of age. ique, last week. He Uganda is the name of the big wooden steamer building at the yard of F. W. Wheeler & C fas McBrier of Erie. o., West Bay City, for James William Bell, Toledo shipcarpenter, is making extensive re- pairs to the topsides of the schooner F. C. Leighton. Capt. Ben- jamin Calhoun is overseeing the job. Business men of Atlanta, Ga., offer the American Steel Barge Company a large tract of desirable land on the Savannah river as an inducement to establish a ship yard at that place. It is reported that the Soo Pulp Company, which is erecting a plant at Niagara Falls, has bought of G. EK. Lee the steamer St. Louis and consorts Potomac and Champion, and that the con- sideration was about $40,000. At West Bay City work on the Big Three at Davidsons' yard is well advanced. The Dry Dock Engine Works, Detroit, is building two of the engines and the thirdis ready for shipment from the works of S. F. Hodge & Co., also of Detroit. -- Cleveland engineers, members of the E. M. B.A., have taken advantage of a university extension movement that has become quite popular in the city by securing the services of C. H. Benja- mim, M. E., from Case School of Applied Science for a series of lectures. : Capt. Edward M. Marion, who was for a number of years in the employ of the Union Steamboat Company of Buffalo, will succeed Capt. Charles McCrea as government inspector of boilers at Buffalo. Capt. James Doyle has been appointed harbor master at Buffalo. 2 The Buffalo. Courier says that Rogers, Brown & Co. have leased the steamer C. F. Curtis and consorts Holland, Fassett and Reed to carry their iron ore next season from Escanaba and Marquette to Tonawanda. Each vessel is to be paid a stated sum for the season. ate - Lumbermen of the Portage lake district, who were forbidden the use of the Portage lake canals for floating logs to Lake Su- perior, have petitioned the secretary of war to modify the order so as to permit them to get a half million dollars worth of pine already cut to market. : Following are the officers of the Toledo & Island Steamboat company, elected a few days ago: S. C. Reynolds, president; Calvin Cone, vice-president: M. I. Wilcox, treasurer; Noah Swayne, secretary; A. W. Colton, general manager. Mr. Colton will have charge of the operation of the steamer City of Toledo the coming season. Complaint has been made frequently during the past two seasons of navigation regarding delay in getting the fog horn on the main-land at Pelee, Lake Erie, in operation in thick weather. The apparatus is not of the kind required at such an important point, and the Canadian department of marine has in view the -establishment of a new steam horn. At the yard of the Craig Ship Building Company, Toledo, 'work has commenced on a stern-wheel steamer of the Ohio and Mississippi river type, 146 feet long, 28 feet wide and 4/% feet deep. 'The boat is for the Valley City Transportation Company of Grand Rapids, Mich., and will be used in freight and passen- ger business on Grand River, between Grand Rapids and Grand Haven. The John Doty Engine Company, Toronto, has begun the construction of a side-wheel passenger steamer for the St. Cathe- rines, 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. Capt. Carlton Graves has sold his interest of one-eighth of of _ ee ac Cormorant to Capt. 1 S. Lawton of Erie, who will sail the boat. Capt. Lawton was with the Wolf & Davidson company of Milwaukee. Capt. a: Donahue retires frow the Winslow employ on account of failing health. He is sixty-seven years of age. 'The sale of the interest 1n the Cormorant was made by Capt. C. E. Benham. The price 1s $5,000. Capt. John Edwards, who was in command of the steamer Pearl for several seasons in the passenger trade between Cleve- land and Lake Erie islands, will again take charge of that boat, frames are up for the other wooden steamer. which will run out of Buffalo next season. He has been in the freight steamer Niko, for the past two seasons, but lately pur- chased an interest in the rebuilt Pearl. Capt. Edwards is oné of the best passenger boat masters on the lakes. i In another part of this issue advertisements will be found from Commander Heyerman, U.S. N., stationed at Detroit,calling for proposals for maintaining buoys marking the entrance to Saginaw river, for provisions for vessels and light-stations in the Eleventh light-house district and for fuel for the district. Col. Wm. Ludlow, light-house engineer, also of Detroit, asks for bids on the metal work of nine circular iron oil houses. The steamer D. H. Rust has been purchased from the In- ter-State Transit Company of Milwaukee by L. S. Sullivan, T. J. Southard, H. C. Thatcher and William Robinson of Toledo. The consideration is said to be $40,000. The Rust will. carry 1,200 tons. She was built in 1873, rebuilt in 1882 and exten- sively repaired in 1891, also receiving a new boiler at that time. She will probably tow the schooner C. C. Barnes part of the season. : The four light-ships are all plated up at Wheelers' West Bay City yard but the engines, which are being built by the ship- building company, are not in yet. It is expected that the large steel boat for Hollister and Hollenbeck will be completed about June 1. The wooden work at this yard is progressing very well. The McBrier steamer is two-thirds planked and more than half of the Fitzpatrick tow-barge is in frame. The keel and a fe Capt. John Quinn, the Detroit diver, said that he did not think the Pewabic had been found, when the copper laden wreck was mentioned to him. "It isnot very difficult to find a wreck © in the locality were Pelkey lost his life," said he. 'I know of three wrecks around there, the Water Witch, W. R. Colburn » and the Detroit, and any one not acquainted with the boats could © easily be mistaken, But my chief reason for believing that the. Pewabic has not been found, is that the boat is in deeper water | than those treasure seekers claim they found." Hawgood & Canfield, Cleveland vessel brokers, have sold the lumber schooner Little Jake to J. V. Lutts of Port Clinton, O., for $5,000. The boat was owned by the Hawgood & Avery Transit Company. J. J. Ward, who recently purchased one of the old steamers of the Goodrich Transportation Company and has just paid $100,000 to Comstock & Churchill of Alpena for the steamer Niko and consort Churchill, is a Chicago distiller. The boats have a combined carrying capacity of about 2,500 tons and their insurance valuation is $112,000. G. G. Hadley of 'To- ledo now owns two-thirds of the big wooden steamer bearing his name, having purchased G. H. Ketchum's interest, the price being reported at $50,000. Capt. M.J. Galvin of Buffalo has bought 'three-fourths of the steamer J. H. Shrigly of Barber, Scully & Co. of Dunkirk. Her engine is being changed into a compound, 20 and 4o by 30 inches, and she is getting a new steel boiler. Fifty-Second Congress-- First Session. ) The following bills of interest to lake vessel owners' have been introduced in Congress recently: | " H. R. 6,182, Cummings--To establish communication with light-ships and light-houses. S. 1,222, Frye--To protect the wages of seamen. S. 743, Frye--To establish a marine board for the advance- ment of the interests of the merchant marine. (Amended). ~ S. 744, Frye--To dispense with special inspectors of foreign vessels. dy H. R. 6,539, Covert--To declare bridges constructed over navigable waters, under charters granted by the states and ap- proved by the secretary of war, lawful structures and military and post roads. a ee S. 2,355, Frye--To amend the laws relating to shipping csmmissioners, seamen and owners of vessels, and for other pur--- poses, H. R. 6,292, Kilgore--To authorize the construction of bridges over navigable streams in the United States. Brigadier-General Thomas L. Casey, chief of engineers, U. S. A., has been relieved from duty with the light-house board at his own request, and Col. Geo. S. Elliott of the enginner corps has been detailed to that duty in his stead.