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MARINE REVIEW. 9. HE LAKES at mS Capt. Oliver Piland died at Two Rivers, Mich.,Sunday. He had been keeper of the life saving station at that point for fifteen years and was fifty years of age. Commissioner of Navigation E. C. O'Brien has granted the request of the Milwaukee Tug Boat Line to have the name of the tow barge Helena changed to Amboy. . Capt. Thomas Davidson is about to complete the work of relaying the inlet pipe to the Detroit waterworks. 'This is the third inlet pipe he has laid fo the new waterworks, two of Befeet 6 inches diameter and one of six feet. Chicora is the name of the new screw steamer being built by the Detroit Dry Dock Company for the Graham & Morton Transportation Company. She takes her place on the Chicago and Benton Harbor route June 1. Capt. Edward Stine will command her. At Capt. James Davidson's yard, West Bay City, there are now six wooden vessels on the stocks. Three of them are steamers larger than the "Big Four,"two are consorts and there is one harbor tug. All are building for the Davidson T'ranspor- tation Company. 'The steamers will be launched shortly. © The W. L. Scott Company, coal miners and heavy lake shippers, have incorporated with a capital stock of $1,000,000, fully paid up. 'The officers are John S. Richards president, L. M. Little, secretary and John William Little, treasurer. The head offices are at Erie, Pa,, with a branch house at Chicago. The Chicago board of underwriters has adopted the follow- ing rates on grain cargoes, to go into effect at once: To ports on Lake Michigan, 30 cents; Lake Superior, 50 cents; Lake Huron, Sarnia and Detroit river, 35 cents; Georgian bay and Lake Erie, 40 cents; Lake Ontario, Ogdensburg and Montreal, 50 cents. At the yard of the Detroit Boat Works last week the small steamer building for Doller and others of Put-in-Bay for passen- ger traffic among the Lake Erie island was launched. 'The boat is 95 feet long. Another trim craft, the steam yacht building for Mark Hopkins of St. Clair, Mich., will be launched from this yard next week. Buffalo shipping interests fear a veto from Governor Flower of New York on the bill appropriating $540,000 for canal im- provements in the state. Rumor has it that the veto is intended for the purpose of keeping the rate of taxation under 2 mills. Resolutions from business men favoring the bill have been for- warded to the governor. At James Davidson's ship yard, West Bay City, the keel was laid a few days ago for another schooner. 'The boat will be 211 feet keel, 35 feet beam and 15 feet depth of hold. She will be a duplicate of the schooner commenced at the yards two weeks ago and will be completed July, 1. The boat is constreut- ed on builders' account. The steel whaleback steamer Thomas Wilson was launched Saturday at the Superior yards of the American Steel Barge Company. 'The Wilson is the largest vessel ever completed by the company, though four others of the same size are on the stocks for an early launch. 'The Wilson is 320 feet long. She will load at Duluth next week for Buffalo. Important to Masters in the Escanaba Trade. When placing the Poverty island black and red spar buoy the other day, Commander Nicoll Ludlow, in charge of Lake Michigan light-house affairs, founda stone ledge extending from the "patch" where the buoy is located, south by east for three- quarters of a mile, with 23 feet of water at the south end and as little as 19 feet quite close to thisend. The chart gives 7 and 8 fathoms. 'There is, no doubt, less than 1g feet on this ridge, and vessels should haul up around Poverty island for the black Spar buoy and not stand over to the north and west farther than is necessary. The light-house board will very probably take action with regard to this new discovery but in the meantime vessel masters should go carefully unti! after getting to the westward of the 17-foot shoal buoy, when, so far as is known, it is all clear to the Corona shoal on the way to Escanaba. A Curious Disaster. One of the most curious shipping disasters ever recorded is that which happened to the steamship Lindula near Calcutta. Nearly two years ago the steamship Regius was run into and sunk at her moorings in Garden Reach, River Hoogly. She was loaded with teas, seeds, and rice, and it would appear that as she rested at the bottom on her side the gases from her decom- posing cargo ascended into her upper side and accumulated there. In January the Lindula struck the sunken wreck; im- mediately after the collision a hissing sound was heard from the fore-peak, and on one of the crew going with a light to see what was amiss, an explosion of gas occurred killing two men and injuring others so severely that seven of them died subse- quently in the hospital. The gas or foul air which exploded was from the sunken steamer--liberated by the collision and escaping into the fore-peak of the Lindula through holes made in the bows by the impact of the two hulls.--Fairplay, London. Trade Notes. DeGrauw, Aymar & Co., 34 and 35 South street, New York, have recently taken additional room at 5 Coenties slip, to accommodate a rapidly increasing flag manufacturing business, one of the largest in the United States. The sewing is done by machines turned at the rate of 1,200 revolutions per minute, all machines being connected with a shaft. Even the stars for the flags are cut by dies. It is believed that this company can man-_ ufacture flags at less cost than any other concern in the country. S. F. Hodge & Co., Riverside Iron Works of Detroit, have begun work on the engines for the car ferry building by the Craig Ship Building Company for service in the coal trade on Lake Michigan. The boat will have three engines, two aft and one forward. Parties interested in yachting and in need of a 30-foot cabin sloop yacht, built in Brooklyn, N. Y., with iron keel and cast iron ballast, can learn of something to their advantage by addressing the MARINE REVIEW, 516 Perry-Payne building, Cleveland, O. _For a new catalogue of pumping engines, valuable as to _ contents and convenient in form, address Henry R. Worthington, New York. Other catalogues of engines will be issued soon. Wrecks and Heavy Losses. Through collision with the steamer Russia in a fog on Lake Erie Sunday night, the Canadian steamer Celtic was sunk 15 miles off Rondeau, the accident resulting in the first total loss of the season. 'The Russia was also badly injured. 'The Celtic . was loaded with wheat. She was owned by the Mackay estate of Hamilton, was of 413 tons register and was valued at $20,000. The steamer Yosemite is also a total loss, or nearly so. She took fire and burned to the water's edge at Emerson Saturday. The Yosemite was owned by Estes and others of Sandusky registered 229 tons and was valued at $16,000. ; The Providence & Stonington Steamship Company's new . steel steamer New Hampshire on her recent trial trip at Wil-_ mington, Del., where she was built by the Harlan and Hollings- worth Company, made a record of one mile in 2 minutes and 59 seconds or a little over 20 miles per hour. The New Hamp- shire is a sister-ship to the Maine, built by the same company. Both will engage in the Long island sound passenger trade. They are screw propellers with spacious cabins and numerous staterooms built up on guards extending over the sides of the ~ hull. Interest attaches to their success in this trade, as they are intended to supercede the side-wheel steamers. Send 50 cents in stamps for names of masters and engineers in over 100 of the largest fleets on the lakes.