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MARINE, REVIEW. 9 Around the Lakes. Capt. M. J. Galvin has become a member of the vessel- brokering firm of Mallon & Boland of Buffalo. __ Capt. Carlton Graves has bought an interest in the steamer Keystone and consort Masten, and will sail the Keystone. Messtss.J.O:- Lindquist and K. and C.A. Lundberg have sold the steamer City of Green Bay to Endress & Son, Lake Superior fish dealers. Thomas Fish and others of Detroit have purchased the tug J. P. Clark and barge Prince Alfred from C. G. Meisel. The terms were private. _ Edward Smith of Brown & Co., Buffalo, is now managing owner of the steamer Samuel Marshall. 'I'he Marshall will tow the barges Tilden and Maxwell. The consort building by F. W. Wheeler & Co., West Bay City, for John C. Fitzpatrick and others, owners of the steamer George T. Hope, will be named for her managing owner. R. H. Hebard of the Wabash line, Buffalo, has been appoint- ed representative at that point of the new "Soo" line, for which the American Steel Barge Company is building two whaleback package freight carriers. 'The boats will run between Gladstone and Buffalo. An error was made in this department last week when it was said that the Sandusky Coal Company of Sandusky had gone. out of business. J. T'. Solon is the new general manager of the company, Mr. Hubbard having resigned a short time ago. We regret the mistake. Owners of the steamer City of Paris, recently purchased from Capt. James Davidson of West Bay City, have incorporated their interests under the name ot the McGraw Steamship Com- pany of Hampton, Mich. The capital is $140,000-and the incor- -- porators are Thomas Cranage and Joseph W. McGraw of Bay City, John S$. McNeil of West Bay City and Edward Smith: of Buffalo. © The steamer B. W. Blanchard will run in the Cloverleaf line, between Toledo and Buffalo, the coming season, in place of the Dean Richmond. 'The Pridgeon remains in the line. The Lackawanna people again will run the steamer Newburgh be- tween Green Bay and Buffalo, with the Grand Traverse. Noth- ing has been done yet as to chartering the Florida and Wyoming for the Chicago route. _ .Andaste and Choctaw are the names to be given to the steamers of monitor type now under constrnction at the yard of the Cleveland Ship Building Company for the Lake Superior Iron Company. It is remarkable that the names of all the Lake Superior company's steamers excepting the Joliet contain just seven letters and an additional "1" will be added to the Joliet this year to make the names of this fleet uniform. The Jenks Ship Building Company of Port Huron, which now has on the stocks two wooden steamers about the size of the A. A. Carpenter sold recently, has purchased from O'Brien J. Atkinson 2,000 feet of land fronting on the river below Dunford & Alverson's big dock. It is said that the company has in view the erection of an iron plant or at least an equipment sufficient tor repairing iron vessels. The two wooden boats under con- struction are for sale. Capt. Eber Ward of Detroit, is organizing a Lake Superior line for the ensuing season. He already has secured the steamers J. C. Ford, Toledo, and Northerner, and expects to close for the Saginaw Valley. At Buffalo his through freight will be turned over to the Erie road. Capt. Syd. Scott of Detroit, who sold out his interest in the steamer Norwalk, is managing owner of the Ford, and will sail her. She is being fitted with steel arches and two gangways on each side. Diver Chalk, of Superior, who was at Alpena recently mak- ing preparations for an attempt to raise the steamer soles ane the 300 tons of copper which the wreck contains, claims to have gone down on two occasions 1m 109 feet of water about nine miles from the point where the wreck has been located. ae says that with an ordinary diving suit he worked at that ae with as much ease as he would in 75 feet of water. He will try to find the Pewabic in June. | S.B. Grummond has sold the tugs Winslow and Sweep- rj J 7 ri sociation and has purchased the Saginaw Bay Towing Associa ur pee aourie and Peter C. Smith of that association the = of the heater. steamer Manistique. The price of the tugs is said to be $34,000 and that of the steamer $40,000. "The Manistique will be used by the Grummond line asa wrecker to take the place of the burned Leviathan at Cheboygan, Mich. 'Through this trade the Saginaw tug association has the largest line of tugs on the lakes. In view of the proposed scheme of the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Michigan Railway Company tor shipping coal across T,ake Michigan on barges constructed so as to take the cars aboard, Mr. J. M. Ashley, vice-president of the company, has examined in the east some of the barges used for similar service. He was very tavorably impressed while in New York with the steamer Kmpress, which is owned by the New England Termi- nal Company and runs between New York and Wilson's point. In the spring of 1888 George B. Davis of Detroit purchased a tug from the Blanchard Navigation Company of the same place and paid part cash with security for the balance of the purchase price. In the bill of sale the tug was said to have been built in 1879 and was represented to be in good condition. Later on her boiler was condemned and it was found that she was built in 1871. 'The Blanchard company brought suit for the balance of the payment on the tug and the case was tried recently in the circuit court, Wayne county, Michigan. 'The purchasers of the tug were upheld in their refusal to pay the full price agreed upon in the sale. Appointments of masters and engineers for the nine steam- ers of the Union line, Buffalo, are printed elsewhere. The changes are interesting. Capt. William Gardner, last season in the Avon, takes the Rochester and Capt. John Clossey is promo- ted from the Portage to the New York. Joseph Frawley, last season mate of the Owego, and James Jackson, who held the same position in the Tioga, will command this season the Avon and Portage respectively. The captains leaving the line are John Vaughan, who was in the New York, and William Kilby, who was in the Rochester. Charles Wall, chief engineer of the big Owego, was last season in the Matoa, one of the boats of the Minnesota Steamship Company, Cleveland Alexander Jones, chief engineer of the Nyack, was first assistant on the Chemung last season. Electric Heating in Yachts. The supplemental illustration of the triple expansion en- gines of the steam yacht Comanche in the RrviEew recently, attracted considerable attention, and below appears the cut of a device which will find.a place in the cabins of the yacht,thatis a greater novelty than the engines. The cut represents a Burton electric heater. It is about 27 inches long by 8 inches wide and stands on four legs about 4 inches high. This is only one form It can be set in the wainscoting, attached to the wall or used in many forms that produce a decorative effect. © The heater consists of two corrugated iron castings, holding in the intervening space the resistance wire imbedded in fire clay, the purpose of which is to absorb the heat generated in the wire and prevent oxidation of the latter. ; The furnishing 'and finishing are not injured as by steam -- or stove heat, and with electricity the atmosphere is not charged with odors of desicated steam and noxious gases. The pressure of a button or turning of a switch is the only disturb- ance raised when heat is desired. That low rumbling sound, so disagreeable in steam radiators, is not included in an electric heater. While electrical heating is a novelty it has been in use on limited trains, street cars and dwellings four years, and it is under- stood that the Electric Merchandise Company, Chicago, will shortly equip several Atlantic liners with the Burton apparatus. Send 25 cents in stamps to MARINE REvIEW for photo- gravures of the Virginia, Wadena and City of Detroit.