The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

MARINE REVIEW. 9 | Around the Lakes. Benjamin Boutell of Bay City has bought he Canadian tug ae Charlton, for use in raft towing in Canadian waters. . . H. M. Loud & Sohs of Oscoda have purchased the schooner Montgomery for $6,000 and the H. F. Church for $4,000.-: Capt. James Kenny has bought one-tenth interest in the steamer W. H. Barnum of Buffalo, and will command her. The excursion steamer Gazelle has been sold by W. O. Ash- ley and others of Detroit to J. E. Rebstock and others of Buffalo for $9,500. It is rumored that Port Arthur.and Fort William, the Cana- _dian towns at the head of Lake Superior, will shortly amalga- _. mate under a new name. _ A. P. Swineford, well known in connection with Michigan journalism, is to be associated with a new. Superior weekly paper z to be called the New Northwest. : A Washington report says that the secretary of war has agreed to an order permitting the passage of logs through the | Portage lake canals under the control and direction of the super- intendent of the canals. Sale: Crosthwaite of Buffalo, who recently purchased the steamer St. Louis and consorts Champion and Potomac from the 'Watson estate, gave Buffalo real estate for the boats. - A valu- ation of about $50,000 is placed on the real estate. 3 _ Bennett Jones, aged 80 years, a marine engineer, died at . Erie recently. He sailed on the old Reed line steamers Jefferson, Madison, and Queen City from. 1836. to 1848, after which he joined the United States steamer Michigan, and served on her | te Sone twenty-one years. ~ fr Through Ja M. Jones & Som-of. Detroit Capt. Sidney Scott and eae ote Jr. of Mt..Clemens a few days ago pur- chased from Gapt. Kirby of Grand:sHaven the steamer J. C. Ford. The Ford rates A1* and is'valued at $45,000. 'The con- - sideration in this transfer is not givenout.: ; 'Any information of George or Thomas Henderson, supposed _to be on the lakes in capacity of mates or captains, sent to their __ sister, Mrs. Margaret Crawford, 37 Richmond street E., Toronto, _-- Ont., will be thankfully received. She has not'seen them since they left their home at Paisley, Scotland, 'many years ago. The protest of the Cleveland Vessel Owners' Aésociation against the passage of the Frye' bill, which proposes a sweeping change in the matter of government regulations for steam and sail vessels, was endorsed by the Cleveland branch of the Ship- masters' Excelsior Marine Benevolent Association at its last regular meeting. Beet, a Within the last three weeks Capt..H. L:Shaw of Saginaw has saved four persons from being drowned. 'Three were boys who went through the ice while skating near where the captain was rebuilding his dredge. "The last rescue was that of Capt. Patrick Rvan. 'The government should establish Shaw as a life- saving station. po hee" D. C. Whitney of Detroit has sold the S.C. Baldwin lum- ber tow as follows: Steamer S. C. Baldwin to Capt. John Kelley of East Saginaw, price reported at $16,560; schooner India to William Brake and others of Marine City, and schooner Grace . Whitney to Capt. William Webb and 'others of Detroit, price re- ported at $4,000. The schooner Dashing Wave.has not been sold as yet. pete Capt. Calbick of the new firm of Burton, Calbick & Cook of | Chicago, was in Cleveland a few days ago. look after the wrecking business of the firm. Mr. Cook has been Capt. Calbick will a vessel owner in Chicago for some time past, and Mr. L. L. Burton takes with him from Detroit the general insurance agency conducted by J. C. Burton & Son. Mr. J. C. Burton will continue a local insurance agency at Detroit. Through its negotiations with Eddy Bros. and John Shaw of Bay City for new vessels, the Detroit Dry Dock Company a short time ago secured control of the steamer John F. Eddy and con- sort John Shaw, at a price, according to reports, of $118,700-- $85,000 for the Eddy and $33,700 for,the Shaw. The dry dock company in turn sold the boats to the International Sulphite Fiber Company of Detroit for $116,250. This latter company also owns the propeller A. G. Lindsay.. Capt. M.W. Humphrey will manage the boats. -and engine room. apartments when in warm districts.. One generating set will Gen. Poe opened bids at Detroit, Friday, tor contracts to supply valves and valve frames for the 800-foot lock in the Sault canal. The tender ranged from 9 9-10 cents to 30 cents a pound. J. P McGuire, superintendent of the Variety Iron Works, Cleve- land, bid 9 9-10 cents, the lowest received. 'he other bids were as follows: King Iron Bridge Company of Cleveland, ro cents; W. C. Colburn of Detroit 11 cents; Southward Manufacturing & Machine Company of Philadeiphia 1314 cents; Russel Wheel & Foundry Company of Detroit, 131% cents; Wickes Bros. of East Saginaw, 15 40-100 cents; Globe Irons Works Company, of Cleveland, 30 cents. An order in council had been passed fixing charges for -ves- sels using the Kingston dry docks. On vessels and. steamers from roo to 500 tons, the dockage is to be 20 cents per ton on the registered gross tonnage, and for all tonnage in'excess of 500 tons the dockage will be 10 cents.per ton upon the excess. 'The dockage on tugs and vessels of less than roo tons will be $20; lay days, that is the days that a vessel remains in dock, one to commence twenty four hours after the dock is pumped out, are to be charged at the rate of 7 cents per ton per day and fractions ofa day. Inno case is the charge for lying in dock to be less than $20 per day. Cargoes will be charged at the same rate as tonnage, but no charge will be made for ballast. + Coal will be classed as cargo. on 'i Elegant Lighting Plant For the Steam Yacht Comanche. The Globe Iron Works Company of Cleveland, has given the Fisher Electric Company of Detroit, 'the contract for placing the lighting plant on the Comanche, the new steel yacht in process of construction for Mr. H. M. Hanna. The lighting:plant will be the most complete of anything as yet placed on an inland steamer. The new United States naval,specifications will be followed in every detail. The generating set will consist of two engines and two dynamos, each dynamo being connected directly to a verti- cal double-acting twin engine of 12 horse power at 400 revolu- tions. Hach engine and its dynamo will be placed on a rigid iron foundation and the generating sets will occupy a space 8 feet long by 2 feet wide. The dynamos: will be of the automatic type manufactured by the Fisher Electric Company, the brushes having a fixed point of commutation and the bearings self-oiling. The yacht will be divided into twelve circuits, the circuits termi- nating ona switch-board of marble located in the engine room. Each circuit will be controlled by a. double-pole combination switch, enabling the engineer by one movement to throw the en- tire system on one generating set or divide the lamp load be- tween them. The current from each generating set will pass independently through an am-meter. é The fixtures throughout the boat will be very elegant. In the cabin, owner's and guests' rooms masked lighting will be largely employed; frosted side lights will be placed on the pilaster out- side the deck housing, and flexible lamps will be arranged for decorative effect on'deck when in port. Electric lights with automatic signals will also be used for mast-head and sailing lan- terns. A 10,000 candle power search light will be placed on the pilot house. Ventilating fans will be placed in the dining- room, main cabin, owner's room, guests' room, officers' quarters The fans will be used to ventilate the several usually supply all circuits with the necessary current, the dupli- cate set being used only when the decorative lamps are employed. The Fisher company will also equip the government light- house tenders, Lilac and Columbine, illustrated. in last week's issue of the REvIEW. These boats will each have a complete lighting plant, including powerful search lights. The search light and the incandescent lamps will be operated by one automa- tic dynamo, dfiven by a Rice engine. The Fisher company's specifications have been adopted to cover future electric light installations on light-house tenders. Forrest's silver bronze packing is now patented in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. Patents are pending in Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Australia,Mexico, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Russia, Austria, Portugal, Norway and Sweden. Rights in all of these countries excepting the United States are for sale, application to be made to the Forrest Silver Bronze Packing Com- pany, No. 115 Liberty street, New York, N. Y. C. W. Houston, one of the engineers on the Central Railway of New Jersey, writes this company of his engine having ruin 100,000 miles with this metallic packing withont attention in any way, and it was still found to be in excellent condition.