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> MARINE REVIEW. 7 Schooner John C. Fitzpatrick. With an announcement of the launch of the John C. Fitz- patrick, consort for the steamer George T. Hope, we are pleased to present the accompanying portrait of her managing owner, who is among the young men prominent in lake shipping busi- ness. 'The boat, built by F. W. Weeeler & Co. of West Bay City, was launched on Tuesday and will be ready to begin ser- vice in the ore and coal trade with the opening of next week. She is 242 feet keel, 256 feet over all, 39.6 feet beam and 18 feet molded depth, with a capacity of 1,800 gross tons on 14 feet, or the present Lake Superior draft. She is strapped, arched and chorded and is additionally strengthened by steel keelson plates, having this latter advantage over the Olive Jeanette,of which she is otherwise a duplicate. With steam capstan, windlass and pump and costly cabin arrangements, this consort will rank among the best vessels of her kind on the lakes. John C. Fitzpatrick is a member of the firm of Mitchell & Co., vessel and insurance agents and owners, of Cleveland. He is a son of Thomas Fitzpatrick, one of the veterans among ves- its completion uncertain, the promotors of the Ontario ship-rail- way are still pushing their big scheme. At a meeting held in Toronto last week it was claimed that the money for the rail- way, estimated to cost $15,500,000, is forthcoming and all that is asked of the Toronto people is their good will. As explained by the advocates of the project, the intention is to build a straight line of railway between a point in Georgian bay and Toronto on the same plan as the proposed Eads ship-railway across the isthmus of Tehuantepec. A steamer loaded with | grain from Chicago or Duluth instead of passing down Lake Huron, the rivers, Lake Erie and through the Welland canal, will go straight to the southern end of Georgian bay, be floated onto a cradle, which will then be raised by hydraulic pressure and placed on a broad railway track. A number of locomotives will draw it to Lake Ontario at Toronto, where the cradle will be lowered into a basin and the steamer floated off to pursue her way through Canadian waters to Montreal or to the ocean. 'I'he saving in distance is placed at about 300 miles and in time about twenty-four hours. JOHN C. FITZPATRICK. sel owners of today, and has himself been connected with lake business from boyhood. He was born in Buffalo. His first position was that of freight clerk under EK. A. Buck, then in charge of a warehouse here and now editor and owner of Wilkes' Spirit of the Times. At nineteen he was clerk of a steamboat and remained in that capacity aboard different passenger vessels in the Lake Superior trade until he was twenty-nine. Shortly after coming ashore he became connected with the office of the local steamboat inspectors in Cleveland. He held minority in- terestsina number of boats after quitting the steamboat passenger business, and was controlling owner in the steamers Schoolcraft and Kershaw and schooner Tremble after leaving the office of the local steamboat inspectors. 'The steamer Hope and the new consort are now incorporated under the name of the Mentor Transportation Company. Ontario Ship-Railway. Although the Chignecto ship-railway, intended to transport vessels across the narrow isthmus connecting Nova Scotia with New Brunswick, has fallen into financial difficulties that render As Toronto was simply asked for an indorsement of the work, that much was freely given and there was added a resolu- tion urging the Dominion government to deepen the Canadian canals to 20 feet, so that the big lake steamers could get out of Lake Ontario after the ship-railway had dumped them into it. : The Briton-Progress Collision. It is not probable that the accident through which the steamer Progress was sunk near Mamajuda island, Detroit river, Wednesday night by the steamer Briton will cause extended litigation. Ths Progress is controlled by Ferdinand Schlesin- ger, who only a few days ago regained a controlling interest in the Chapin Mining Company. The mining company and the Menominee Transit Company, owning the Briton, are about one and the same concern. It is also probable that insurance on both boats is placed in the same companies. One accident resulting in a total loss is reported during the week. Through a collision between the passenger steamers Pil- grim and Kalamazoo on Lake Michigan the latter was sunk in deep water. Passengers had a narrow escape.