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6 , MARINE REVIEW. Around the Lakes. George A. Butler has been appointed agent of the Northern Steamship Company and Great Northern Railway Company, in Boston, vice A.C. Harvey resigned. The supplement for June to the Inland Lloyd's Vessel Register con- tains the names of no new boats, and is confined almost entirely to giving ratings and valuations to boats which had not been inspected in time to secure the filling out of these columns in the main register. Another Norwegian steamer, the Craggs, arrived in Chicago last week from Bergen with a cargo of 8,000 barrels of herring. She made the trip up the St. Lawrence river and canals and through the Welland without difficulty and will take flour and provisions on the return voyage. A rule whereby 5 per cent of a vessel's cargo of grain must be damaged before a claim could be made against the underwriters has been abrogated for cargoes of over 40,000 bushels. Full indemnity will now be given for 10 per cent. additional on Al and A1% boats, and 20 per cent. for A2 boats, In reply to an inquiry from the REviEw, Chief Ramsay of the bureau of navigation, navy department, says that the U. S. S. Michigan is engaged in making a survey of the waters in and about the mouth of the Detroit river, but the department has no other surveys in view at present on the lakes. Asaresult of inquiry regarding the great loss of life during the storm of two weeks ago at Chicago, it is more than probable that the life saving station at the entrance to Chicago harbor, which was abandoned for the new station at Jackson park, will be fully equipped for regular service as soon as possible. Henry W. Howard, one of the most prominent citizens of the state of Michigan, and a gentleman well known to vessel owners in all parts of the lakes, died at his home in Port Huron Friday. He was sixty-one years of age. More extended reference to Mr. Howard's connection with the lake business may be expected in a future issue. Cleveland's chamber of commerce is showing some interest in the project to straighten and deepen the Cuyahoga river for two or three miles above the south end of the present navigable channel. The opinion that an improvement of this kind could be undertaken by the city and completed without great cost is fast gaining ground. After considerable labor on the part of President Corrigan and other Cleveland directors of the Lake Carriers' Association, an arrangement has been made with the union ore trimmers at Ashland, to trim ore in all vessels at 2% centsaton. Non-union men would certainly have been protected in doing the work but for this agreement. The death of Mr. E. B. Bartlett is announced from: Brooklyn, N. Y., where that gentleman was a wealthy warehouse man. He was president of the Columbian Whaleback Steamship Company, and a large stockholder in the American Steel Barge Company, one of the whaleback fleet bearing his name. He died aged fifty years, and left an estate valued at $2,000,000. The squadron sail of the Cleveland yacht club on Decoration day was in every way successful. About 135 members of the club and their friends partook of a dinner that was served when the boats reached Rocky River. The new yacht Commodore Gardner, owned by Ernst W. Radder and G. W. Lutkemeyer, was formally introduced as a valuable addition to the Cleveland fleet and was very much admired. About the strangest action at law as yet heard of is that proposed by owners of the barges Jack Thompson, Rainbow and others, that went ashore at Chicago in the recent blow. Although Chicago harbor tugs never had a line from these vessels, their owners are trying to collect damages from the tug companies. The worst the tug companies did was to risk their tugs trying to get to the barges, in order to prevent loss of a life: At F. W. Wheeler & Co.'s ship yard, West Bay City, the new Detroit river ferry boat Pleasure was launched Tuesday. She is 132 feet over all in length and her breadth over guards is 51 feet. She will carry prssen- gers on three decks and has accommodations for 3,000 people. The en- gines are compound, 24 and 34 by 82 inches stroke, and steam is furnished by two boilers 9x12¥% feet, allowed a working pressure of 125 pounds to the square inch. H. M. Hanna and L. C. Hanna of Cleveland, the former president of the Globe Iron Works Company, and the latter the most active member of the firm of M. A. Hanna & Co., leading producers of iron ore and pig iron, were both connected with the passenger traffic of Lake Superior in its most prosperous days. Speaking of the prospects of commercial success with the Northern Line ships, Mr. L. C. Hanna said that on one trip when he was clerk of the famous Lake Superior steamer Lac la Belle he turned in a passenger list aggregating $12,000. At Gibraltar, Mich., below Detroit, Tuesday, a single-decked steam barge was launched from the yardof R. W. Lynn. She is named Wolverine State and is owned by the Wolverine Barge Company of Detroit. The boat is designed to carry about 900,000 feet of lumber on a draft of 12% or 13 feet. She is 190 feet keel, 204 feet over all and 12 feet hold, and wil be fitted with a fore-and-aft compound engine, the cylinders being 20 ang 40 inches diameter by 36 inches stroke. The boiler is of the fire-box type, 10% by 15 feet. Both boiler and engine were supplied by S. F. Hodge & Co. of Detroit. E. W. Seymour, general manager of the Northern Michigan Trans. portation Company, has completed arrangements for the lease of the Bradshaw dock at Benton Harbor and Wallace's dock in St. Joseph. The company controls the O'Connor dock in Chicago and will putaline of boats on the Benton Harbor, St. Joseph and Chicago route about June], -- The steamer Puritan, late of the Graham & Morton Transportation Com- pany's fleet, will be the first boat to be put on the new line anda larger and finer steamer will be put on as soon as business demands. In General. The first American vessel to pass through the Manchester ship-canal was the Ambrose, with a cargo of oil from Philadelphia. The French naval estimates for the present fiscal year amount to $55,- 400,000, an increase of about $2,000,000 over the amount provided last year. The Brown Hoisting and Conveying Company of Cleveland is now building for the Johnson Company of Johnstown, Pa., a traveling crane having a hoisting capacity of five tons and weighing 120,000 pounds. Richard K. Fox of New York, has contracted with the New York Ship Building Company, for a yacht which is to make 30 knots an hour. It is to have quadruble expansion engines of 1,000 horse power and water tube boilers. The naval appropriation bill as passed by congress aggregates $25,- 335,966, and, although it does not authorize any new ships, about 40 per cent. of the appropriation is for new construction; four million dollars is for armor and armament, and $5,955,025 is for the construction and equip- ment of vessels already authorized. The sum of £12,000, which was accepted by compromise by the owners of the steamer Lake Huron for towing the disabled steamer Spree into Queenstown in December, 1892, has been apportioned by the admiralty court as £9,200 tothe owners, £800 to the master, and the remaining £2,000 to the crew of fifty-nine, of whom eleven non-navigating members only receive a half share, and the boats crew who took the connecting line to the ship receive a double share. We have received from the Tower Publishing Company, Limited, 95 Minories, London, a copy of "Breakdowns at Sea and Howto Repair Them" by A. Ritchie Teask. The book describes a large number of breakdowns that have either come under the author's observation, in which case he has given suggestions for repair, or particulars of them have been obtained by him either directly from the parties interested or from narratives furnished by them to various engineering journals. Quick time made thus early by the new Cunard ships indicate that former transatlantic records are to be lowered this year. The westward run of the Lucania last week is significant. Although not beating her own best record for the run between Queenstown and Sandy Hook, she beat all records for the actual distance covered, having taken a southerly course which carried her over ninety-six more miles. The time was 9 days, 12 hours and 57 minutes. Had the Lucania sailed the course she took in a former record trip, the time would have been 5 days, 8 hours and 27 minutes at the rate of speed of her last week's voyage. Rushing Shipments from Minnesota Mines. On Thursday, the 17th inst., the shipments of ore from Two Harbors amounted to 217,296 tons, divided as follows: Chandler, 78,056 tons; Min- nesota, 60,488; Canton, 55,381; Franklin, 23,371. A new steam shovel be- ing worked on the Minnesota stock piles takes the place of about 100 men. Its present loading capacity is about 100 cars of 20 gross tons each per day, and it is expected that this average can be increased later in the season. Proposals for a New Fire Boat. In another part of this issue, the Cleveland director of fire, Mr. Hy- man, asks for bids on the hull of the new fire boat. Although the adver- tisement speaks of a hull of wood, iron or steel, the department is under- stood to be favorable to steel, andit is the intention to give all builders on the lakes an equal chance in bidding for the job. A BASE BALI, SCHEDULE of the National League will be mailed free to any address on application to the General Passenger Agent of the Nickel Plate road. In addition to the dates of games, spaces for entering scores, etc., this little book will give you some information about the splendid ~ passenger service of the Nickel Plate road. , "ROPER'S LAND AND MARINE ENGINES,' BOUND IN MOROCCO WITH FLAP AND POCKET, WILL BE MAILED TO ANY ADDRESS FOR $3.50 SENT TO THE MARINE REVIEW, CLEVELAND, 0.