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MARINE REVIEW. 9 The John C. Fitzpatrick, new consort of the steamer George T. Hope, took 1,949 tons of coal out of Toledo last week on 14 feet draft. Capt. Thomas Currie and KE. C. Recor of Port Huron have sold the steambarge Huron City to Capt. Messwald of Marine City on private terms. ) On the present Lake Superior draft the entire fleet of Mc- Dougall barges has a capacity of about 41,000 gross tons, or 45,250 gross tons from Lake Michigan. The Michigan Vessel Owners' Association of Detroit passed suitable resolutions on the death of Mr. John Hurley. Members of the association atttended the funeral in a body. The steamer Roby has been dismasted. Her owners have had what they consider all superfluous timber and iron removed and say the change will increase her carrying capacity at least thirty tons. She is to be provided with one light pole spar. Parker & Millen of Detroit have been awarded the con- tract for taking the cargo of chestnut coal out of the steamer Progress, sunk in the Detroit river by collision with the Briton. A committee of underwriters is endeavoring to sell the boat as she lies. Capt. Edward Lusk was knocked off the schooner 'T'as- mania on Lake Huron off Point Au Barques Friday night and drowned. 'The Tasmania was in tow of the steamer Australasia, and the accident happened in a dense fog. Capt. Lusk resided in Chicago and leaves a widow and one child. Good lawyers at Chicago who wereinterviewed regarding the recent raids of strikers took the position that the city is re- sponsible for all damage inflicted on vessels by such raids. These raids are really riots, and the city is responsible for the full value of all property destroyed by rioters. During the past fifteen days the Kendall Marine Reporting Company has delivered 453 letters and messages to vessels passing Port Huron. "The company contemplates making ap- plication to the post office department to establish an office at the foot of Butler street during the summer months. This would be a great accommodation to vesselmen. Testimony has been given in the United States circuit court at Portland, Ore., in the case of Frank Upton, of Kobe, Japan, against the whaleback steamer Charles W. Wetmore, the former claiming $250,000 salvage for towing the whaleback into the Columbia river. Most of the testimony taken was as to the probability of the whaleback drifting ashore and being lost with- out the aid of the Zambeesi. The three big boats that will leave Davidson's West Bay City yard shortly are said to be the largest wooden steamers on the lakes. They are 326 feet long, 43 feet beam and 26. feet deep, having steel keelsons and chords. In addition to the steamers two of the largest tow barges on the lakes will be floated from this yard, which covers. 40 acres and where 600 men have been employed during the winter in addition to a force of 225 at work in the woods getting out timber. The success attained by the lighting plants placed on the steamers City of Detroit and City of Cleveland has induced Mr. David Carter, general manager of the. Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company, to install the Fisher Electric Com- pany's automatic dynamos on the City of Detroit; No. 1... The boat, therefore, comes out this season with new dynamos and the system of wiring entirely overhauled. All the Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company's steamers are now equipped with lighting outfits from this company. In the fall of 1886 began a period of big profits in lake ship- ping business that lasted for three seasons following, notwith- standing the enormous increase in tonnage that has attracted so much attention to the lakes. The schooner Lucerne, owned by Mr. Corrigan of Cleveland was one of the vessels that was run to Lake Superior very late that fall for ore. She was driven ashore with a loss of eight lives near Bayfield, and in the same storm the accidents were more numerous than had ever before been heard of on the lakes. An effort is now being made to raise the vessel. A dredge 95 feet long with a schooner bow will be. con- structed by the Milwaukee Dry Dock Company for the Bower Dredging Campany of Chicago. The dredge isto be of sand- sucker pattern, with a powerful revolving knife capable of grind- ing up heavy clay and shale or any other rocky substances, at- tached to the end of the suction pipe. It is said that recently on the Pacific coast rocks 6 feet in diameter were literally ground into atoms and removed by one of these machines. The dredge can be operated in water 40 feet deep if necessary. Alli of the machinery for the craft is to be obtained from the Pacific coast. For holding the dredge in position or shifting her from point to point spuds operated on axles at the sides by steam cylinders will be utilized instead of straight up and down heavy timber anchors. Its cost complete will be about $80,000. End-On and Broadside Launches. Fairplay of London, comments on a side-launch that took place recently on the Wear at the yards of Robert 'Thompson & Sons, Sunderland. The company only builds at this yard when crowded and this was the third side-launch there in seven years, the first attracting great attention. It might be more astonish- ing to Fairplay and its English readers to know that only a small portion of the vessels registered at 1,154,870 tons on the lakes were launched endwise. Only in the case of the wooden boats built by the Detroit Dry Dock Company are endwise launches common on the lakes. Some of the lake steamers of 2,000 to 3,000 tons capacity are launched into slips between 70 and 100 feet in width. a Steamship Fare. The supplies taken aboard the vessels of the big steamship companies during a season of ordinary travel equal, probably, if they do not exceed, the rations used by a considerable army in a campaign of equal duration. The record of the Cunard fleet for one year, for instance, contains these items: 4,656 sheep, 1,800 lambs and 2,474 oxen, which is equivalent to 2,- 091,754 pounds of fresh meat. That would allow for a consump- tion of four pounds a minute. In addition are 53 tons of ham, 20 tons of bacon, 24,075 fowls, 4,230 ducks, 2,200 turkeys and 2,200 geese. Otheritems are: 831,603 eggs, 21,000 pounds of tea, 71,770 pounds of coffee, 296,100 pounds of sugar, 1% tons of mustard, 134 tons of pepper, 7,216 bottles of pickles, 8,000 tins of sardines, 30 tons of salt cod and ling, 4,192 four-pound jars of jam, 15 tons of marmalade, 22 tons of raisins, currents and figs, 18 tons of split peas, 15 tons of pearl barley, 17 tons of rice, 34 tons of oatmeal, 460 tons of flour, 23 tons of biscuit, 33 tons of salt, 48,902 loaves of bread of 8 pounds each, 15 tons of cheese and 930 tons of potatoes. During the same period the following quantities of liquors, wines, and so forth were used: 8,030 quarts and 17,613 pints of champagne, 13,941 quarts and 7,310 pints of claret, 9,200 quarts of other wines, 489,344 pints of ale and porter, 174,921 quarts of mineral waters and 34,400 quarts of spirituous liquors. The passengers also purchased 34,360 pounds of tobacco, 63,340 cigars and 56,875 cigarettes.-- Marine Journal. Peculiarities of River Steamers. Boilers of Mississippi river steamers are of the horizontal cylindrical return flue type, small in diameter and very long, having a few large flues. They are connected by a steam drum, and one or two mud drums extend across the battery. This class of boilers evaporate as much as eight pounds of water to the square foot, and are sometimes subjected to 200 pounds pressure. The engines are high pressure, horizontal, single cylinder,non-condensing, having long stroke and running at pis- ton speeds of 200 to 250 feet per minute. The cut-off ranges from one-half to three-quarters, and the valves are of the poppet type. Following are particulars of a typical river steamer: City of New Orleans,side wheel, plying between St. Louis and New Orleans.-- Tonnage, 1,526.28; length, 290 feet; width, 48 feet; depth, 8.5 feet; five boilers, each 44 inches diameter, 30 feet long; two 11- inch and two 14-inch flues; pressure allowed, 159 pounds; engines, 2634 inches diameter and 10 foot stroke.--Age of Steel,