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12 MARINE REVIEW. _In General. W. W. Bates, ex-commissioner of navigation, is -writting a book on the shipping question. President Harrison has appointed John Birmingham of California to be supervising inspector of steam vessels for the First district, to succeed Henry S. Lubbock, resigned. Arthur Sewall & Co., Bath Shipbuilders, who have built many big wooden vessels, are about to establish a steel ship- building plant. A sailing ship of steel will be the first to be constructed. 'The boat will also be the first steel sailing vessel constructed in this country. Iron and steel barges have been constructed here but no steel sailing ships. Lake vessel owners who have had dealings with English underwriters through New York brokers will be interested in the announcement that the firm of Wreaks & Loines, through whom some of this business was placed, has been disolved. Mr. Stephen Loines enters, as a partner, the firm of Johnson & Higgins of New York, who have been engaged in the same line of work. The Industrial Journal of Bangor, Me., says: "Parties from out of the state are said to be considering the project for establishing a plant for building whalebacks at Wiscassett. If the demands of salt-water commerce call for whalebacks, why Maine can build them as well as wecan clipper ships, and at Wiscasset there is no finer location for a shipbuilding plant in the whole world." ; At the convention of seamen held recently in Chicago reso- lutions were adopted protesting against the employment of Can- adians on American lake vessels, and Congress was asked to pass the bill from the Pacific coast union known as an "act to amend the laws relating to shipping commissioners, seamen and owners of vessels." Copies of the Chicago resolutions have been sent .to representatives and senators in Washington, but it is not probable that the Pacific coast bill or any other measure of its kind will pass unless some very active work is done by the unions in Congress. pTSh London Iren says that a novel submarine boat, the out- come of the ingenuity of an Italian engineer, Signor Pietro degli Abbati, has just been launched at Savona. It has been built for piscatorial purposes and for recovering articles of value lost in the depths of the sea. The vessel is constructed of steel, in an ovoidal form, and is propelled by a screw actuated by an electric motor. It is 28 feet 4 inches long, 11 feet 8 inches deep, and 8 feet 4 inches wide, and itis to be capable of remaining six hours under water at a depth of 330 feet. Electricity, in addition to furnishing the motive power, will, of course, be the illuminating agent. If the report be true, the light-house board has not been officially informed that Capt. Anderson, the contractor for build- ing Diamond shoal light, has abandoned the work. When this is, done it is believed that the board will recommend the govern- ment to undertake the work. 'Then, if Congress will pass the neceessary appropriation, we are confident that we can guarantee to our marine friends a lighthouse on this dangerous reef. A member of the engineer corps drew up the original plan, and with the. government to foot the bills, there is no reason why the structure should not be built.--Marine Journal. Notices to Mariners. Light-house Inspector Heyerman of Detroit gives notice that the fog bell at Grand Marais, Minn., is disabled and can not be sounded until repaired. Repairs will be made as soon as soon as possible. The Dominion also gives notice that a nautical mile of 6,077 | feet has been measured and marked out near the southeast shore of Owen Sound, 5% miles from the town for the purpose of testing the speed of steam vessels. Each end of the mile is indicated by a pair of beacons painted white, with the letters '"M M"' on them in black. The Canadian department of marine gives notice that the light maintained by the harbor commissioners of the town of Port Hope, on the north shore of Lake Ontario, is now fixed white instead of a fixed red and white, as described on admiralty charts No. 797 and 1152, and in Canadian list of lights No. 170. The I@ght is fixed white, consisting of two gas jets in an open lantern. at a height of 4o feet above the level of the lake and should be visible 4 miles from all points seaward. SF ae, All lake masters should apply in person or by letter to Commander Nicoll Ludlow of Chicago, Commander Heyerman of Detroit or Commander Woodward of Buffalo for a copy of the bulletin of recent changes in aids to navigation, date of May 1. These bulletins, issued by the light-house board monthly, can be secured from the naval officers. The bulletin of May 1 is es- pecially important, as it contains notice of a large uumber of new lights and changes in buoyage made with the opening of navigation. _Operations in the Saginaw Lumber District. A Saginaw correspondent to the Northwestern Lumberman says: "People who have predicted that the Saginaw river asa lumber manufacturing point was on its last legs, so to speak, may have reason to revise their opinions. The prediction has been made repeatedly that ten years hence the output would exceed 300,000,000 feet, and it is confidently believed' by the writer that these figures are very conservative. Within the past year arrangements have been perfected whereby a vast quantity of timber, not tributary to the Saginaw river, is to be brought here to be manufactured. Already deals have been made that will transfer 3,000,000,000 feet of Canadian timber to this river to be manufactured, a supply equal to a cut of 500,000,000 feet for six years. 'here is yet a stock of from 300,000,000 to 500,000, - ooo feet annually for five years in northern Michigan that will come here by water and rail, exclusive of a deal just made by the Michigan Central Railroad Company with David Ward, to transfer from his timber lands in Otsego, Crawford, Kalkaska and Antrim counties, about 1,200,000,000 feet of logs to the Sag- inaw river. Of course this contract will cover a number of years in filling, and it will add largely to the quota of stock already booked for this lumber manufacturing mart." Ready to Make Marine Tubular Boilers. The Babcock and Wilcox Company of New York and Glas- gow, manufacturers of water tube steam boilers, after having experimented for the past twelve years on various arrangements ofi its steam boiler applied to marine service, has finally decided on an arrangement of this boiler for marine work, and has had several of them working satisfactorily for some time in and about New York. The boiler designed by the Babcock and Wilcox Company, as compared with the ordinary marine and Scotch boiler, occupies much less Space for a given horse power and weighs (with water) less than one-half, besides being abso- lutely safe from explosion, on account of the arrangement of circulation of water. Every square inch of the boiler is accessi- ble for cleaning, which is a fact to be appreciated in boilers in marine service. The Cleveland office of the Babcock and Wil- cox Company, which is located in the Perry-Payne Building, states through its manager, P. B. Huyette, that the company will be glad to furnish full information, detail drawings, prices, - etc., on application. The Freight Line to the Northwest. Shippers of freight to the northwest cannot afford to ship during open navigation without getting rates from the Northern Steamship Company, whose Cleveland office and dock is at 43 to 61 River street. This refers to general freight in ap- preciable quantities, but is more especially true of shippers of manufactured iron and heavy machinery. 'The saving of time through shipping this way would be prestige enough even if there was no saving in freights. Their fleet of six boats run direct from Buffalo and Cleveland to Duluth, con- ne there with the Great Northern Railway Line, without stop. Another Big Dry Dock. _ A letter from Mr. W. I. Babcock, manager of the Chicago Ship Building Company, refers to the reorganization of that company as detailed in the Review last week, and adds that the company will doubtless construct at once a dry dock, capable of taking in the largest vessels on the lakes. A dock of this kind is much needed in Chicago. It will, of course, be located on the property of the Chicago company at Colehour. 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