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MARINE REVIEW. | a Around the Lakes. A trial trip of the Mohawk, sister ship of the Western liners Harlem and Hudson, all built by the Detroit Dry Dock Com- pany, will take placeina few days. 'This steamer will very probably show her heels to some of the "fast ones' in the pack- age freight trade. Thirty-one hundred tons of soft coal is a big load for a ves- sel like the Vega, which was recently built by the Globe Iron Works Company for Capt. Frank Brown and others of Lorain. She has just delivered a cargo of that size at Lorain. 'There is little doubt that the Vega is one of the best business boats on the lakes. Collectory of Customs Gary of Cleveland has asked the treasury department for an opinion as to whether reports should be made to customs collectors by fishing tugs going beyond the ports in which they are located in pursuance of fishing business, whether to foreign waters or not. 'There has been doubt about this question in all of the lake customs districts. The low rudder forward in the new side-wheel steamer City of Mackinaw, built recently by the Detroit Dry Dock Company for the Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company, is re- ported to be of great service in handling the boat. She can be backed up stream in the Detroit river and other places where time is valuable with little more difficulty than is found in ruui- ning her forward. ; Canada's marine department corrects a previous notice re- garding the location of the schooner R.J. Gibbs. 'The vessel lies 1% miles S. EK. by S. from Bar point lightship, Lake Erie, and almost directly in the track of vessels between Detroit river and Point Pelee. 'The wreck is under water with the exception of one mast, which now marks the vessel. 'The channel to the north of the wreck is about 314 miles wide, but vessels passing in the night should keep to the northward to avoid danger. ~ The Northern Steamship Company paid M. A. Bradley and others for sinking the schooner Fayette Brown in a fog near the "Dummniy,' Lake Erie, two years.ago, and they have a right, of course, to claim ownership of the vessel. It would seem from the action of Capt. Hackett and others of Amherstburg, in at- tempting toremove the wreck, that the Canadian government looks upon it as an obstruction to nivigation, but the steamship company is said to have contracted with the Murphy Wrecking Company of Detroit to raise the schooner as soon as possible. General Passenger Agent Schantz of the Detroit and Cleve- land line attaches a neat engraving of day and night scenes of theboatsof the line on Lake Erieto a postal card inannouncing the double daily service recently putin operation between thetwoctties. By this new service the two big boats, City of Cleveland and City of Detroit, are kept running almost constantly. The boat that leaves Cleveland at ro p. m. arrives in Detroit at 5:30 the next morning, and at 9:30, four hours later, is again on her way back to Cleveland, arriving at 4:30p.m. 'The Detroit service is du- plicated by the second boat. On Sunday and Monday the boats run at night only. Trade Notes, The new American line steamers now building at Cramp's yard, Philadelphia, will be fitted throughout with Worthington pumps manufactured by Henry R. Worthington, New York. The order for the pumps also covers Worthington feed water . heaters, such as are now used on some of the fastest transatlantic liners, among which are the New York and Paris of the Ameri- can line. The Berlin Iron Bridge Company of East Berlin, Conn., is building the roof on the new purifier house for the Philadelphia Gas Company at Philadelphia, Pa. The building will be 70 feet wide and 180 feet long and the roof will be constructed entirely of iron, covered with slate. 'She new power house for the Worcester Traction Company will also be designed and built by the same company. An increase in the number of bolts in the valve bonnets, a new form of holding the disk holder in place, and increased thick- ness of flanges, are improvements made recently in Jenkins valves that suit them especially to high steam pressures, and high pres- sures are the order of the day in marine engineering. It is the intention of Jenkins Bros. to manufacture this new grade exclu- sively, and it will notbe necessary for customers to order valves for high pressure, as the new valves will be suitable for any pressure, The greatest advance madein-any of Jenkins' specialties, however, -- , ae Aor rn a Cee ens is in their manufacture of rubber compound foruse where there is high pressuresteam. During the past two years experiments and tests have been made in order to perfect the goods which are now offered to dealers without any advance in price, and with the as- surance that they will work successfully with high pressure. A Big White Star Steamer. At Harland & Wolff's yard, Belfast, there was launched last week a twin-screw steamer named the Gothic, for the White Star line. This vessel is 490 feet long, 53 feet wide, and 37 feet 6 inches depth of hold, and her gross tonnage is about 7,500. En- gineering of London says of her: "Althoughit is probable that the Gothic may make a few voyages in the New York service, as the bookings of the White Star line continue to be heavy for the autumn season, it isintended that she shall ultimately take her place with her predecessors the Ionic, Doric and Coptic, and the steamers of the Shaw, Savill and Albion company, the Arawa and Tainui, in the New Zealand trade, sailing from Plymouth each month, and calling at Teneriffe, Cape Town and Hobart outward, and Rio de Janeiro and Teneriffe homewards. 'The distance traversed on each round voyage exceeds 26,000 miles, and in thus, for the first time, introducing twin-screws into the New Zealand trade, the owners of the White Star line believe they are acquiring an additional element of safety. has been arranged for 104 saloon passengers amidships. On the quarter-deck aft accommodation will be provided for 114 steerage passengers. In addition to ordinary coal and cargo space, this steamer will be fitted with two refrigerating machines having an insulated capacity for some 75,000 carcases ot sheep. The Gothic will be the largest steamer, as well as the largest carrier, in the Australian and New Zealand trades." In General. The excavation at Hell Gate reef was attended by 21,000 soundings and 8,o00 borings. The scheme for connecting the Baltic and the Black sea by a system of canals, which are to unite the Oder, Vistula, Elbe, and Danube, is making rapid progress. 'The necessary surveys are now almost completed and the French company which holds the preliminary concession expects to be authorized to start work next month. John H. Gould, who published the handsome paper "Ocean"' a few years ago, has outdone his previous effort in the neat little volume "Over the Ocean," on the American Line. In ad- dition to being full of very fine engravings, a number of lith- ographs are sprinkled throughout the pages. It contains much information that the ocean voyager needs, and it is supplied on most all of the transatlantic liners when asked for. Official Numbers and Tonnage. The bureau of navigation, E. C. O'Brien commissioner, assigned official numbers and tonnage to the following lake vessels during two weeks ending July 15: Steam--George Stone, Cleveland, O., 1,841.22 tons gross, 1,501.65 net, No. 86,261; Acme, Buffalo, N. Y., 58,52 tons gross, 29.26 net, No. 107,039; James Burns, Erie, Pa., 22.09 tons gross, 12.22 net, No. 77,101 ; Chas. W. White, Oswego, N, Y., 115.99 tons gross 84.85 tons net, No. 126,980; Fanny M. Rose, Grand Haven, Mich., 33.62 tons gross, 17.75 net, No. 120,939; Ruby, Evansville, Ind., 20.15 tons gross, 17.87 net, No. 111,633; St. Louis, ~ Chieago, I1l., 11.16 tons gross, 6.44 net, No. 116,580; Chicago, Chicago, III., 11.16 tons gross, 6.44 net, No. 126,977. Unrigged--Fred Bickford, Oswego, N. Y., 93.88 tons gross, 88.72 net, No. 37,549; June Fly, Sandusky, O., 23.07 tons gross, 32.07 net, No. 46,451; Mary Jane, Sandusky, O., 18.05 tons gross, 18.05 net, No. 51,235; Daniel W. Talcott, Oswego, N. Y., 97.71 tons gross, 92.83 net, No. 35,521. You should not miss the Nickel Plate excursion to the World's Fair leay- ing Saturday morning July 22nd. The last of the series. The Nickel Plate road excursion to the World's Fair, Saturday July 22nd, 1893. $10.00 takes you to Chicago via the Nickel Plate road July 22nd. July 22nd, the Nickel Plate road has a $10.00 rate to Chicago and return, Train leayes Enclid Ave. at 5:55 a. m., stopping at Broadway depot, Pearl, Lorain and Detroit streets. Chicago and return $10.00 July 22nd via the Nickel Plate road. World's Fair excursion July 22nd $10 via the Nickel Plate road. Nickel Plate road to Chicago. World's Fair excursion July 22nd $10.00. Ten day excursion to the World's Fair Saturday July 22nd, via the Nickel Plate road, Accommodation -