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MARINE REVIEW. 7 15 eee eee ee eos ered Officers of the Ohio state board of health, the dairy and food commissioner, fish commission and game warden will combine to secure, if possible, at the coming session of the state legislature the passage of a law making gill net fishing unlawful. G. G. Hadley, Toledo coal dealer, says the Ohio operators will certainly succeed in forming the big company, now projected for the purpose of handling all coal produced in the Hocking and other districts. The Port Huron elevators have handled over 8,000,000 bushels of grain the past year, mostly from Lake Superior. Over 100,000 bushels are from Manitoba. 'There are now stored up at that port over 1,000,000 bushels of oats. At the ship yard of C. C. Fowles, Fort Howard, Wis., the steamer Bennett has been caulked and has been given a new deck, and the Hart line steamer Welcome has beenrebuilt. 'The tug Godfrey was rebuilt for the Green Bay Dredging Company, and the tug Laura Grasse received a larger engine. The Milwaukee Mechanics' and the State Investment Insur- ance Company of San Francisco, refuse to pay their share of the loss, $1,500 and $1,000 respectively, on the propeller Remora, which burned to the water's edge last August. Owners of the boat have brought suit in the Wayne circuit court at Detroit. The Collingwood (Ont.) Dry Dock and Ship Building Com- pany will build a fish tug for Capt. W. A. Clark. 'The keel will bel7o tect, beam 15 feet and depth 7 feet. six imches. 'The engines, to be built by the John Doty Engine Company, will be 12 and 22 inches by 14 inches stroke. 'The boat will be lighted by electricity and will carry 15 men. : Capt. James F. Shay, aged 53 years, and a lake sailor from boyhood, died at the Cleveland city hospital last week. His last position was mate of the Fred Kelley, several years ago. He was disabled for several years, and leaves a family in destitute circumstances. A subscription for them was started among lake captains. Rieboldt, Wolter & Co., Sheboygan, Wis., will build for the Sheboygan Dredge and Dock Company a first-class dredge and two scows to cost $30,000. This company has sufficient repair work to keep them busy all winter. The tug Gunderson Bros., launched trom this yard recently is 75 feet long, 15 feet beam, 7 feet deep and has a 14 by 16-inch engine. Ann Arbor No. 2, car ferry, steamed away from Craig's Toledo ship yard Sunday morning at 10 o'clock and arrived in Detroit six hours later, running, it is claimed, through ten inches of ice at the rate of fifteen miles an hour. 'The builders say the boat can break thirty inches of ice. No. 2 will ferry cars across Lake Michigan from Kewaunee to Frankfort, where a sister craft has been at work for some time. J. W. McGraw, Bay City, seems to have been successful in his first venture in steamboat property, and has now purchased from Capt. James Davidson the boat No. 57, which is on the stocks in West Bay City. She is 304 feet keel, 330 feet over all, 45 feet beam and 26 feet deep, and is expected to carry 110,000 bushels of wheat out of Chicago and 90,000 from Duluth. She will be named Joseph W. McGraw for the purchaser's three- year-old son. Tall masts are fast disappearing from lake steamers. 'The Lehigh boats Clyde, Fred Mercur, H. E. Packer, R. A. Packer, Oceanica and Tacoma and the Corrigan steamer Bulgaria are receiving short spars at Milwaukee. The Minnesota of the Inter-Ocean line is undergoing a like change, and other boats of that line will also sail with "stumps" next season. The masts of the Wiley M. Egan, John Plankinton and Veronica have also been supplanted with pole spars. F. B. Case of Norwalk, O. has purchased all of the steamer J. C. Lockwood except the part owned by Capt. J..D. Peterson, Huron, on a basis of $110,000 as the valuation of the whole boat. The Lockwood was built for J. C. Lockwood in 1889 by the Quayles of Cleveland. Mr. Case is also interested in the Key- stone and Masten, and the Brown boat building by the Globe Iron Works Company. He will have an office with Warner & Co., Perry Payne building, Cleveland, next season. Proposals were opened last week at the office of Col. Smith, Cleveland, for the building of Fairport breakwater. Among the bidders were Martin Gilmore and John Stang, of Lorain, O., J. B. Donnelly of Buffalo, H. K. Gustin of Ann Arbor, Mich., and L,. P. and J. A. Smith of Cleveland. On account of his low bids for timber, Col. Smith recommended that the contract be given to J. B. Donnelly, who furnishes hemlock for $21 per thousand, white pine for $32, white oak for $35 and stone for $5.70 per cord. It is more than probable that as soon as telegraphic cable becomes cheap enough a number of lines will be laid through the lakes, to avoid constructing lines around these great bodies of water. The first extensive project of this kind will be under- taken by the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Michigan Railway Company, which has recently begun operating two car ferries between Kewaunee and Frankfort. This company expects to lay a cable across Lake Michigan between the places named early next spring. At the annual meeting of the Cleveland lodge of the Ship- masters' Excelsior Marine Benevolent Association, the following officers were elected: Capt. John Lowe, president; Capt. Joseph A. Holmes, first vice president; Capt. William Cumming, sec- ond vice president ; Capt. Thomas Jones, treasurer; Capt. Frank Brown, financial secretary ; Capt. W. C. Godsell, recording sec- retary. The other officers will be appointed by the president at the next meeting. The annual meeting of the grand lodge will be held at Port Huron next month. Do You Want a Photograph of Your Steamer? To accommodate -subscribers who are anxious to secure photographs of lake steamers in which they are in any way in- terested the MARINE REvIEW has made a collection and is: able to furnish 7x9 photographs, well mounted, of the following steamers at $1 each. = Write to the MARINE REVIEW, 516 Perry- Payne building, Cleveland, O.: Arabia, Harlem, Packer, R. A., America, Helena, Petoskey, Averell, W..J., Haskell, W. J., Peerless, Avery, Waldo A., Hall, John E., Parnell, C.S., Alaska, Hudson, Philadelphia, Albany, Hurd, Jos. L., ferme, why allen Atlanta, _ Italia, Perrett, J. C., Argonaut, Indiana, Pathfinder (whaleback), Boyce. Mary H., Tonia, Pantker, Boscobel, Juniata, Pillsbury (engines), Baldwin, S. C., James, H. B., Pontiac, Buffalo, Jewett, H. Ji., Rochester, Boston, Langdon, Jas. R.. Rosedale, Bieleman, C. F., Lackawanna, Rugee, John, City of Duluth, Louisianna, Russia, City of Rome, Lehigh, Smith, Gov., Caledonia, Lycoming, Saranac, _ City of Ludington, Lawrence, Syracuse, City of Racine, Manola, Susquehanna, Cayuga, Maruba, Seneca, City of Fremont, MeVittie, A., Sachem, City of Naples, Masaba, Smith, Kd., Chemung, Maryland, Schuyikill, Clarion, Marina, St.Lawrence, (do engines) Conemaugh, Mather, Sam'! (whaleb'k)Scranton, Conestoga, Maytham, Thos., Sheboygan, Shaw, John (schooner), Chicago (Goodrich Line),Manchester, Dilley, Sins, 1., Chicago (West'n Tr. Co.),Merrimac, City of Traverse, Minnesota, Tacoma, City of Paris, Manhattan, Tuscarora, Codorus, Massachusetts, Thomson,A.D ,(whaleb'k) Donaldson, Jas. P., Marshall, Sam'I, Tioga, Eddy, John F., Mills, Rob't, Uganda (engines), Egan, W. M., Milwaukee, Viking, Eddy, C. A., Mahoning, Virginia, Fayette, Neosho, Vance, F. L., Foster, Parks, New York, Wheeler, EW Florida, Northern King, Wyoming, Flower, R. P., * North Wind, Williams, George F., Gilcher, W. H., Owen, J. Emory, Wisconsin, Gogebic, Owego, Wissahickon, Grecian, Owen, Ira H., Wilbur, E. P, Gladstone, Onoko, Westcott, J. W., Grover, M. B., Portage. Washburn, Gilchrist, J. C., Palmer, Thos. W., . Tp YoU WANT A COPY OF THIS ISSUE OF THE REVIEW, CON- TAINING THE PHoro-GRAVURE SUPPLEMENT OF THE GREAT Nor- THERN PASSENGER STEAMER, SENT TO A FRIEND, SEND US THE ADDRESS AND ENCLOSE 20 CENTS IN sTAMPS. SEND $1.00 AND THE ADDRESS AND WE WILL SEND 20 PHOTO-GRAVURES AND PHoToryPES BOUND, WITH THIS ISSUE OF THE PAPER. MARINE Review, 516 Perry-Payne Bupe, CLEVELAND, OHIO.