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MARINE REVIEW. | 9 Death of John Owen. John Owen, whose death was announced from Detroit last week, was among the veterans of that city in the business of lake transporta- tion. He had been interested in the Detroit Dry Dock Com- pany during the greater por- tion of its existence and was one of the founders of the Detroit &.Cleveland Steam Navigation Company. He was also identified with the control of several large vessels CHF yy hs es AN 4 1 cA is WN NGL ing trade,and a large fortune which he leaves was built up large- ly upon his marine interests. John Owen was born in Toronto, Can., March 20, 1809, and had therefore just passed his eighty-third birth day. He had lived in Detroit, however, from boyhood and his business ad- vancement was closely connected with the progress of the city. Mr. Owen was one of Detroit's pioneer merchants, anda shrewd business policy secured for him great wealth, but he always found time to take an active part in matters pertaining to the welfare of the city and state. He was state treasurer for six years, held various important offices in the city of Detroit, and was a leader in church and charitable institutions. | r Around the Lakes. Tonnage now building at the three yards of the Detroit Dry Dock Company is valued:at $1,000,000. Concerns that make castings for marine railways can learn ~ of a purchaser by addressing the MARINE REVIEW. Capt. James Byers of Buffalo, an associate in business with James Ash, and veteran tug man, died Tuesday. He was fifty-five years of age. _ George Hall & Co. of Ogdensburg paid $5,250 for the schooner E. P. Beals which they purchased from Capt. Boland and others of Buffalo a short time ago. W. H. Wolf and other owners of the steamer Schlesinger have incorporated their interests in a company to be known as the Bunker Hill Transportation Company. H. J. Parmalee, general agent of the inland marine depart- ment of the Aetna Insurance Company of Hartford, with an of- fice on Wall street, New York, died at his home on Long island a few days ago. mea George Simpson, compass adjuster, has returned to Boston after making a flying trip around lower lake ports. As soon as he adjusts the compasses of the light-house steamer Verbena he will return to Cleveland. Frank Morrison, formerly of Simpson & Morrison, compass adjusters, reached Cleveland this week and will locate here per- manently, manufacturing and repairing nautical instruments and adjusting compasses. William A. McDonald and W. H. Moore of the Pioneer Pro- vision Company, successors to McDonald Bros., West Superior, announce that they will insure delivery of telegrams-or letters for captains entrusted to their care. The barge Monitor is the boat purchased by the American Steel Barge Company for lightering service at the Sault. Capt. A. C. Chapman, last season in the Roman, will be in charge of the barge and its wrecking appliances. The Republic Iron Company has sold a second wooden boat, the steamer Colonial, toa syndicate made up in the office of Moore, Bartow & Gilchrist, Cleveland, where the boat will be managed. 'The consideration is $56,000. Capt. Frank H. Danger is preparing 5. B. Grummond's wrecking boat Manistique for service in the Straits. -- Capt. Dan- ger isa man of wide experience in wrecking business. The Manistique will have a most complete wrecking outfit. engaged in the general carry- | Rates adopted by the Buffalo Grain Shovelers' Union are the same as heretofore--$4 for sail and $4.50 for steam craft per 1,000 bushels, with deck loads:and fantails at $4.50. The net rates to vessels are 50 cents less per 1,000 bushels, also as here- tofore. H. M. Loud & Sons, lumber dealers of Oscoda, have incor- porated the Huron Transportation Company, with headquarters at Buffalo. The capital is but $25,000, although it is said that the lumber dealers have in view the ownership of a line of bar- ges for their business. General Manager John Gordon and Supt. William Meadow- craft of the Northern Steamship Company are interested with Henry C. French of Buffalo, who recently purchased the steam- ers Avon and Portage for service in the package freight business between Buffalo and the head ot Lake Superior. The steamer Uganda, launched at Wheeler & Co.'s yard, West Bay City, this week, will be followed by twelve more new boats on the stocks in the two shipyards at that place. Four of them are light-ships for the government and the others are all big coarse freight carriers. The Uganda is being built for Mc- Brier and others of Erie. The whaleback steamers of the New Soo Line from Glad- stone will be launched early in Aprilandcome out about June tr. Capt. Tavers, who was formerly in one of the Canadian Pacific boats will sail one of the boats and the other will be sailed by Capt. McFarlane: 'These boats will differ in appearance con- siderably from the other whaleback steamers. The hull runs up 2% feet above the main deck before it curves in, thus giving ample space for gang-ways of which there will be four on each Side: 4 A new weather prophet, James Johnson of Buckingham, Kankakee county, Ill., has begun to make predictions for the lakes. Ina letter to the Cleveland Vessel Owners' Association he says high winds and gales will occur on the lakes on April ro, 20, 24, 25 and 30. He entreats the vessel owners to bear the dates in mind and note the condition of the elements in order that his ability as a prophet may be tested. Warm weather will prevail, he says, during the first ten days of the month while the second period of ten days will be cooler. Owners of Chicago river tugs, who have agreed upon a fixed tariff for 1892, propose to charge 80 per cent. of the pub- lished tariff of last season. The towing business will not be di- vided by stationing tugs at the piers, as has been the case in some other places where tug pools have been formed. It is claimed that the construction of a new tunnel near Van Buren street for the West Side Street Railroad Company will be a great hindrance to navigation in the Chicago river during the coming season. Transfers of vessel property: Schooner Ogarita, Pardee and others of Buffalo to Thomas Madden of Saginaw and Con- nelly Bros. of Buffalo, $12,000; Schooner Typo, W. J. Otter of Detroit to W. H. Hargrave, $6,000; Mont Blanc, Hugh Coyne of Detroit to Benj. F. Comfort, $4,500; Schooner M. P. Barkalow, James Law, to Louis Talbot, $3,000; steamer Nashua, D. B. Milton and others to Wolverine Barge Company, $15,000; steam- er Mineral Rock, Candler Bros. of Detroit to Capt. Alvin Neal of Port Huron; schooner Sweepstakes, Candler Bros. of Detroit to Capt. Thomas Pink of Port Huron. The Globe Iron Works Company opened its launching sea- son with the Lilac last week and this week on Saturday the Samuel Mitchell, the first of the freighters they are building, will be launched. The Mitchell is very like the Republic, the chief difference being in her water bottom, which is 4% feet deep. She will be commanded by Capt. Thomas Wilford. A large number of members of the Jocal society of civil engineers will be present by special invitation of the Globe company. Three more boats in this yard will follow the Mitchell into the water at intervals of from two to three weeks. For a book containing a dozen 4 by 8 inch illustrations of fast yachts senda stamp to the Roberts Safety Water Tube Boiler Company, 20 Cortland Street, New York. One of the rea- sons why they are fast yachts is that they all have Roberts boilers, W.J. White of the Say When, Commodore Simpson of the Lake George yacht club, John R. Fales, owner of the Countess, Ed. Stokes, owner of the Fra Diavolo, Harrison B. Moore, owner of the 22-mile yacht Pampero, and Painter Brothers of Pittsburgh, freely commend this boiler after using it in their yachts. The yacht building by the Detroit Boat Works for Mark Hopkins will also have a Roberts boiler.