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MARINE REVIEW. | ae Around the Lakes. An effort will be made by the insurance companies to locate the steamer Dean Richmond, sunk off Dunkirk last fall. Capt. Victor Bonah of Detroit has purchased the schooner Kewaunee for $3,500. E. G. Ashley has sold the barge Brooklyn to Margaret C. Lick- leider of Detroit for $1,7co. William Farnsworth, dealer in ship supplies at South Chicago, called on some of the vessel owners of Cleveland a few days ago, while on a trip to the principal ports around the lakes. Capt. James P. Devney, who was for a great number of years connected with shipping at Ashtabula Harbor, died at that place a few days ago. He was seventy-three years of age. The Detroit and Cleveland company's steamers City of Alpena and City of Mackinaw will extend their trips to Toledo this season, and drop some of the small intermediate points from their time card. At marshal's sale in Cleveland Tuesday, the Marine Banking Company, holding the principal claims against the small steamer W. P. Thew, pur- 'chased the boat, and will, it is understood, settle minor claims. _ Itis probable that announcement will, be made shortly of a contract having been closed for a new passenger boat, which the Goodrich Trans- portation Company of Chicago decided to build at its last annual meeting. James Edward Dalliba, who died at Marquette on the 23d inst., was among the best known residents of the upper Michigan peninsula. He was the father of W. S. Dalliba of Chicago, and J. H. Dalliba, now with _Pickands, Mather & Co. of Cleveland. City authorities in Cleveland are talking of undertaking, without gov- ernment aid, the improvement of the Cuyahoga river so as to. admit of deep water navigation for four or five miles further up the river than is pos- sible with the present draft of water. In a letter to the REVIEW, Chas. C. Smith, corresponding secretary of M. EB. B. A., No. 48, Sandusky, says the association has taken in about twenty new members recently. 'We all like the REVIEW better than any other marine paper" is a note that accompanies a remittance for No. 48's subscription. Capt. Henry Johnson will shortly remove permanently to Green Springs, O., a health resort which he controls, and he has accordingly transferred his boats, the steamers H. J. Johnson and Swain and schooner Helvetia,to the Sandusky district. Capt. Johnson is desirous of disposing of all of his vessel interests. La Salle & Wolvin, Duluth vessel brokers, have dissolved partnership. Mr. A. B. Wolvin will devote his time to the agency of the Western Tran- sit Line and to the management of the steamers W. H. Gilbert and Emily P. Weed, of which he is managing owner. Capt. F. N. La' Salle will con- tinue the vessel brokerage business. Officers of the Canadian Pacific Company say they have considered the question of entering the lake and rail traffic, with aline of chartered steamers between Chicago and Owen sound on Georgian bay, connecting at the latter place with their rail line to New England and Boston, but at present the company is unfavorable to the project. John C. Fitzpatrick, formerly of Cleveland and Buffalo, is now a mem- ber of the firm of H. B. Earhart & Co., vessel: brokers, Duluth. Mr. Ear- hart will, in addition to his brokerage business, look after the interests of the Central Vermont company at Duluth, in the new line that is to in- - clude the steamers John Rugee , Denver and Pueblo. Henry E. Judson has been appointed assistant inspector of hulls in the Cleveland office of the steamboat inspection'service. Capt. Judson was in the Bradley employ for a number of years as master of sailing vessels and mate of steamboats. He is a son of the late Capt. George Judson of Cleve- 'land, who was also in the Bradley employ and one of the pioneer lake ves- sel masters. ; Althongh the schooner John B. Merrill was totally wrecked on Lake Huron last fall, the owners of the boat prosecuted a suit before United States District Judge Swan in Detroit to recover $16,500 claimed as _damages involved in acollision with the Lehigh Valley steamer Fred -Mercur in the Detroit river two years ago, and were successful in the action. a | Of 157 vessels comprising the grain fleet at Chicago, 113 were -loaded on Saturday last and ready to go into commission, and many of the other forty-four were chartered. The grain afloat in the river on that date aggregated in round numbers 7,275,000 bishels; of this, 6,193,400 bushels was corn and 944,100 bushels wheat, and the balance, 137,500 bushels was oats: The -grain loaded was consigned as follows: To Buffalo or Erie, . 6,260,600 bushels; to Ogdensburg, 516,600 bushels; to Kingston, 394,800 bushels; to Port Huron, 103,000 bushels. Ninety-two of the vessels were consigned to Buffalo. Lo Illustrated Patent Record. SELECTED ABSTRACTS OF SPECIFICATIONS OF A MARINE NATURE--FROM LATEST PATENT OFFICE REPORTS. 516,747. PROPELLING MECHANISM FOR VESSELS. August Thomas, Petersburg, Ky. Filed Dec. 10, 1892. Serial No. 465,105. (No model.) Claim.--In a chain-propeller, the combination of an endless chain, buckets secured thereto centrally at equal intervals, sprocket wheels en- gaging the chain and provided with radial openings with sides flaring outwardly in both directions from the radial axis and a recess at the bot- tom of the opening--said openings admitting the buckets without contact but engaging their outer edges in the bottom recesses to retain them in radial positions while passing around the wheel. 516,968. COMBINED LIFE BOAT AND SHIP'S SAFE. Cuthbert Gardner, Redcar, Eng. land. Filed May 27,1893. Serial No. 475,700, (No model.) Claim.--A life boat provided with an upper deck having openings c therethrough for the bodies of the passengers or crew with water tight jackets e adapted to strap around the bodies of the said passengers or crew, 016,697 DREDGE-BUCKE) 516.747. PROPELLING MECHANISM FOR VESSELS, 516,720 LIFE-PRESERVING APPARATUS S BL AS eee Rear air funnels / bent over and opening downward as shown, closed air cham- bers and safes arranged along either side of the said central chamber, air chambers at the ends of said central chamber, oil tanks with outlets thereto opening outboard situated in the ends of the boat; and raised tanks % adapted to serve both as seats and to contain water, provisions or ballast arranged along the bottom of said central chamber. 516,697. DREDGE BUCKET. Erastus S. Bennett, Denver, Col. Filed Feb. 24, 1891. Re. newed March 22, 1892. Again renewed Aug. 14, 1893. Serial No. 483,152. (No model.) ' Claim.--A dredge bucket provided with a dumping door, and having a grating adjacent to the door and across the discharge opening. 616.720. LIFE PRESERVING OR SWIMMING APPARATUS. Philip Goldmann, New York, N. Y. Filed March 23, 1893. Serial No. 467,348, (No model.) Claim.--The combination with a life preserver or float, and a frame carrying a propeller mechanism, of an arm composed of two adjustably connected sections, one of which is secured to the life preserver or belt, and the other one of which is jointed 'to the frame of the propeller mechanism. The Work on Lake Currents. The chief of the weather bureau desires to call attention to the inves- gation of the currents of the great lakes during the season of 1892-93, and would request the assistance of all interested persons in advancing this important work. Vessel masters have kindly floated in the different lakes bottles containing a paper giving the position where the bottle was floated and date of floating. A number of these bottles have been recovered, but there is still a large number yet to be found, and it is thought possible they are now lying on the beach, and it is requested of all persons who frequent the lake shore to keep a lookout for these bottles, and when found please complete the paper in the bottle, inclose it in the penalty en- velope (which requires no postage), and forward it promptly to Washing- ton, when the finder will receive proper acknowledgment, Many interest- ing features have been developed from the return of these bottle papers. Another Lumber Boat. At Algonac, Saturday, the new schooner just completed by A. Smith & Son. was launched. She was named W. K. Moore in honor of the late Dr. W. K. Moore of Algonac. On account of the high esteem in which Dr. Moore was held the name was received very favorably. This boat's capacity is 900,000 feet of lumber. Her fitout includes a steam windlass, and is complete in every way. Her cabin of quartered oak is said to be the finest ever put on a tow barge. *