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MARINE REVIEW. 3 9 Capt. George E. Mapes, owner of the schooner Smith & Post, died at his home Saturday. for many years. The Hallenbeck-Hollister steel steamer building by F. W. Wheeler & Co. of West Bay Citv will be named W. H. Gil- bert for Mr. Hallenbeck's son-in-law. On her first trip from Escanaba the wooden steamer Iroquois, built and owned by Curtis & Brainard of Toledo car- ried 2,250 gross tons of ore on 15% feet draft. Aug. I is now set as the date for the opening of the Ameri- can Steel Barge Company's big dry dock at West Superior. A lack of oak timber is given as the cause for delay. Boutelle & Smith of Bay City are putting a raft together in the Cheboygan harbor which will contain about 9,000,000 feet of lumber. It is the largest one ever constructed on the lakes. He had followed the lakes Citizens of Kincardine, Ont., have petitioned the Canadian government to cause a new survey to be made of the easterly shore of Lake Huron and the southerly shore of Manitoulin island. L. 5. Sullivan of Toledo has sold the tug Syracuse to Mil- linix Bros. for $1,700, and Barry's independent tug line of Chi- cago has bought the tug D. T. Hall from Pardew, Cook & Co. for $10,000. Hscanaba has agreed to contribute eighty acres of land to the Delta Steel and Iron Company, capitalized at $2,000,000, and it is expected that the town will soon have a plant employ- ing 1,000 or more hands. Supervising Inspector Westcott of Detroit says a searching investigation will be made regarding the collision between the steamer City of Mackinaw and the tug Washburn; through which John T. Hurley and Engineer Robinson of Detroit were drowned. Agents of the underwriters interested in the steamer Pro- gress, sunk at Mamajuda island, Detroit river, have made ar- rangements for the maintenance of a bright light on the wreck. The light will be shown from the after end of the boat and near the water's edge. Vessels must pass to the eastward of the light. A notice from the office of general freight agent of the De- troit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company at Detroit, says that Mr. Harry R. Rogers, freight agent at Cleveland, having resigned to accept a position with another company, correspond- ence should in the future be addressed to T. F. Newman, gen- eral agent. Owners of the steamer Pilgrim, satisfied that the recent -- sinking of the steamer Kalamazoo in Lake Michigan was the re- sult of a blunder on their craft, have arranged a settlement with the owners of the Kalamazoo, who pay $6,000 and take posses- sion of the Pilgrim. The Pilgrim has a valuation of about $19,000, while the Kalamazoo was put down in Inland Lloyds as worth $12,000. Capt. Webb of Cassopolis, Mich., is having built at Grand Haven a steamer 150 feet long, with 20 feet beam and of light draft, about 6 feet. She will be equipped with a powerful engine and is expected to show a speed of 18 miles an hour. Passenger and freight business between Traverse City, Charle- voix, Petoskey and other Lake Michigan points is the service to which she will be applied. A wrecking expedition working under the direction of Henry McMoran of Port Huron succeeded Sunday, in releasing the schooner J. D. Sawyer from the beach at Avon point, Lake Erie, above Cleveland. 'The Sawyer, which went ashore last fall, was owned by Capt. Murphy of Cleveland. He abandoned her and she was purchased from the underwriters by C. W. El- phicke & Co. of Chicago. She was taken to Lorain, but repairs will probably be made at Port Huron. Justice Brown, formerly of the United States district court at Detroit, is this week hearing in the circuit court of appeals at Cincinnati some of the first cases from the lakes to come before this new court of final jurisdiction in admiralty matters. Among the cases to be heard is that of the owners of the schooner Mitchell against the steamer J. H. Devereaux, resulting trom a collision near the Sault, the Mitchell being in the tow of the steamer Folsom at the time of the accident. Four cases of the Pittsburgh and Lake Angeline and Lumbermen's mining com- panies against J. C. Gilchrist of Cleveland are also set for hearing. "These actions are based upon a claim of failure to carry out an ore contract,and the mining companies have been successful in the lower courts, as shown by the decision of Circuit Judge Jackson in one of the four cases printed below. The cases are of a joint nature and will, of course, depend upon a single decision. Mr. Sherman of Sherman, Hoyt & Dustin, Cleveland, represents the mining companies and Mr. Goulder of Goulder & Pinney, also of Cleveland, is acting for Mr. Gilchrist. In the May 24 issue of the Federal Reporter the decision of Circuit Judge Jackson affirming the ruling of the United States district court in the case of the Lumbermen's Mining Company against J. C. Gilchrist and others is given in full. The Lum- bermen's Mining Company is represented in Cleveland by J. H. Outhwaite & Co., and the suit was to recover damages for breach of charter. A summary of the decision prepared by the court says: "Unqualified charter parties are to be construed liberally as mercantile contracts, and a party who has _ by char- ter charged himself with an obligation must make it good, un- less prevented by the act of God, the law, or the other party to the charter. Respondents, who are ship owners, entered into an absolute agreement with the libelant, by charter, that they would during a season of lake navigation carry eight cargoes of libelant's iron ore from one port to another in a specified vessel to be towed by another specified vessel. Two of the eight trips were not performed and libelant employed other vessels at an ad- vanced freight, and brought this suit to recover the difference of freight between the charter rate and the rate they were obliged to pay. The ship owners averred that after it appeared that the designated vessel could not make the eight trips, they had offered to supply other towage, which offer libelant refused; also, that during the existence of the charter, one of the speci- fied vessels was at times detained by other business. 'The ship owners, however, entered into, by their charter, an unqualified undertaking possible to be performed and must make it good, unless performance was rendered impossible by the act of God, the law or by the libelant, and hence the libelant is entited to recovers] Elegant Electric Light Equipment. The Fisher Electric Company of Detroit has closed a con- tract with Mr. W. J. White of Cleveland to equip his steam yacht Say When with an incandescent lighting plant. 'The driving engine will consist of a vertical, twin cylinder automatic machine connected directly to the dynamo. 'The engine is de- signed to safely stand steam pressure at 250 pounds. Special fixtures are being manufactured for the mahogany finished deck and main cabins. The boat will be equipped with automatic signal lights and it is very probable that a search light will also be applied. The Say When having a very clear deck, arrange- ments have been made for a system of wiring whereby it can be brilliantly illuminated at night by suspending about fifty incan- descent lamps from the main deck. This system of wiring will be removable and can be placed in position and taken down in about fifteen minutes. 'Tthe yacht will be divided into ten cir- cuits, all the circuits being grouped on a mahogany switch- board controlled by double-pole switches of the "quick-break" class,