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MARINE REVIEW. 13 Toledo. A sudden thaw would very probably cause some trouble. Huronia Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, No. 43, will give their tenth annual ball at Port Huron, Mich. Jan. 26. The wrecking tug Merrick is keeping Grand Haven harbor clear this winter, and assists the Milwaukee boats when neces- sary. M. EK. B. A. No, 44, Manistee, Mich., will give their sixth annual reception January 20. The committee on arrangements consists of Fred Otto, A. Feldhak and F. Winkel. Bureau of Navigation, E. C. O. Brien, commissioner, as- signed number 86,206 to the tug Gunderson Bros., Milwaukee, the gross tonnage being 46.03, and the net 23.02. Tug Schriver Brothers has been sold to V. Vanderberg of Muskegon. 'This will be the first fishing tug to run from that port. There are now ten tugs in the Grand Haven fishing fleet. In another part of this issue the steamer Cormorant and consort Wall are described and advertised for sale. It is under- stood that the Egyptian and Winslow, two other of the remain- _ ing boats of the Winslow fleet, are also for sale. Officers of Chicago lodge, Excelsior Marine Benevolent As- sociation, for the-ensuing year, are; Capt. James Hogan, presi- dent ; Capt. William Deshler, vice president ; Capt. Robert Reid, second vice president ; Capt. William Turner, treasurer ; Capt. Frank B. Higgle, secretary. Cleveland members of the Marine Engineers' Beneficial As- sociation will hold their twelfth annual ball at Army and Navy hall on the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 31. The social gatherings of this organization are always conducted in a most enjoyable manner. The newly-elected and appointed officers of Milwaukee Lodge No 6, Excelsior Marine Benevolent Association, are as follows: President, William F. McGregor; first vice-president, John Cochrane ; second vice-president, W. J. Carter; treasurer, F.C. Starke; secretary, John McSweeney; chaplain, C. M. Davis; marshal, W. E. Wright ; warden, Peter Anderson ; senti- nel, John Doak. ; With several passenger boats already in commission and new ones coming, Toledo excursion business will be well looked after next season. Parties there have secured the Hudson river steel steamer General, which is 168 feet long, 41 feet beam and g teet deep, and has shown a speed of 18 miles an hour. She has a license for 1,000 passengers. Mr. S. Canfield will be agent for the new company, which will compete with the Red Star line. J. B. Dewey is having a passenger steamer with capacity for 500 passengers built at Monroe, Mich., to run between that place and Toledo. A press despatch states that a letter from Vice-President Hickey, of the Amalgamated Association of Iron Workers, to a man in West Superior, declares a systematic and extensive plan to boycott the Christopher Columbus, passenger whaleback built for the world's fair, because the vessel is built of steel plates from the West Superior Steel and Iron Company, which is a non-union shop. Officers re-elected by the Dry Dock Association of the Lakes at its annual meeting in Cleveland are: President, Frank Wright, of Cleveland; vice president, W. E. Fitzgerald of Mil- waukee; secretary and treasurer, Hamilton J. Mills of Buffalo. The rates for docking, as adopted. provide that the winter lay- day rate is to be not less than 3% cents a ton and not more than 5 cents a ton, according to conditions which will appear upon the new card of rates when issued. Personal Mention. Capt. Darius Cole of Detroit, whose death was announced a few days ago, was in his seventy-fifth year, and had been identi- fied with the lake marine since 1858, principally in Detroit river passenger business. At his death he owned the steamers Darius Cole, Arundel, Metropolis, and part of the Idiewild. John G. Mullen, well known to both Canadian and Ameri- can vessel masters, has been elected mayor of Amherstburg, the thriving Ontario town near the mouth of the Detroit river. Mr. Mullen, who is associated in business with the Cuddy-Mullen Coal Company of Cleveland carrying on a large fueling trade on the Detroit river, has been unusually successful since taking up a residence in Amherstburg about twenty yearsago. He is now engaged, as noted some time ago, in preparations for the construc- tion of extensive new docks on the Canadian side of the river. Arthur H. Clark has opened offices in the Rialto building, Chicago, and announces that he is prepared to advise with vessel owners. marine underwriters and counsel, in admiralty cases, average adjustment, and other maritime matters,and to assess sea or fire damage to hulls or cargoes. Mr. Clark has had consider- able experience in shipping mattersin England and in Boston, his native city. During a period of twelve years he commanded steam and sailing ships in the China trade and on the North Atlantic ocean, and for eleven years represented, as chief agent for Great Britain and the continent, the Boston Marine Insurance Company, and for the same term was chief agent and surveyor in England of the Record of American and Foreign Shipping, rep- resenting these corporations at Lloyds. ° IITCoRPoRATED 179. Insurance Company of North America. CAPITAL, PaidupinCash, - - ASSETS, e = = = = = = = $3,000,000.00 9,744,513.70 CHARLES PLATT, President. WILLIAM A. PLATT, Vice-President, EUGENE L. ELLISON, 2nd Vice-President. GREVILLE H. FRYER, Sec'y. & Treas. JOHN H. ATWOOD, Assistant Secretary. Lake Marine Departtent GHORGE L. McCURDY, Manager, CHICAGO, ILLS. fe MATIG INCANDESCENT OF OUR MANUFACTURE are endorsed by the following Qwners and Managers of some of the Finest Steam Vessels on the [rakes: IF YOU WANT your Steamer equipped with an....... IGH TING PLANTS AUTOMATIC iNCANDESCENT LICHTING PLANT, Which can be handled by an engineer without any previous knowledge of electric plants, and which will operate arc and incandescent lamps from the same dynamo, write the Fisher [lectric (,ompany, Detroit, Mich.