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12 | MARINE REVIEW. Around the Lakes. Coal handlers at Duluth are again talking of a strike. The hull of the burned steamer Roanoke lies in 202 fathoms of water fifty-five miles west of Eagle Harbor and seventeen from Ontonagon, the nearest shore. It is expected that the Chicago Ship Building Company's dry dock will be completed about Oct. 15. Keels for the two barges for the Minne- sota company will be laid in a few days. Tug H. W. Johnson has been chartered by the Detroit Salvage and Wrecking company to engage in the search for the wreck of the steamer Dean Richmond, which foundered near Erie last fall. Some activity is noted in sales of lumber at Bay City. A recent trans- action between David Whitney, Jr. of Detroit and Gray, Jenks & Co. of Cleveland is said to involve 7,000,000 feet at a consideration something like $100,000. General Passenger Agent Rogers of the Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Company announces another Niagara Falls trip from Cleveland--a mid- week excursion--at $3 both ways, with Toronto and return $1 extra. Tick- ets are good going Sept. 4, and returning on or before Sept. 10. . Citizens of Lorain, the Ohio port of which the Johnson company formerly of Johnstown, is erecting one of the largest steel plants in this country, have decided to issue bonds to the amount of $100,000 for harbor improvements that will permit of ore being unloaded from vessels within the steel company's yard. In the matter of reducing taxation of vessel property in Cleveland, the chamber of commerce members, who took up the subject some time ago, have had a meeting with the board of tax equalization and have submitted to that body arguments that are expected to result in a more liberal policy toward vessels in the future. One of the directors of the Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Company is ~ authority for the statement that the company will not build a new boat 'this winter. They will tide over another season with the State of New York and State of Ohio and apply earnings to the payment of indebted- ness incurred in the establishment of the line. Cleveland's new hydrographic office, now being fitted up in the Ar- cade, one of the largest buildings in the city, will be the finest in the country, according to astatement of Commander Sigsbee, chief of the service, who says that in fitting out the new office the bureau will have the benefit of experience gainedin establishing other offices, The schooner yacht Liberty H. Ware of Cleveland and a small steam vessel hailing from Chicago, the Tacoma, were the only lake vessels to which official numbers were assigned last week by the bureau of naviga- tion. The Ware is numbered 141,344 and her tonnage is 44.50 gross. The Tacoma's number is 145,673 and her tonnage 76.28 gross and 39.48 net. Delay in receiving water tube boilers for the fast McElroy steamer Unique, which is to run between Detroit and Port Huron, has upset plans of the owners of the boat for the present season, and it is now said that the boat, instead of making two trips per day on the rivers will make but one and extend her run to Toledo. She will be in service a week or ten days hence. It is more than probable that Port Arthur and Fort William, the principal Canadian ports on Lake Superior, will be taking advantage of the deep water afforded by the 20-foot channel ahead of United States ports on the lakes. Through the efforts of Thomas Marks and others en- gaged in shipping at Fort William a dredge furnished by the dominion government has begun the work of deepening the channel at that port to 20 feet. Pictures of ships are always interesting and to many people they have a special charm. A young man in Passadena, Cal., who secured from the REVIEW copies of four steel engravings of American naval vessels adver- tised for sale at a slight cost says upon receipt of the pictures: "I think they represent very neat work and I wish I could have pictures of all United States war ships to hang up in my room. It is certainly grand to have the navy in one's home to view and admire,"' Quite a land boom has been started at Gladstone, Mich., as a result of the purchase of extensive tracts of timber property by the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company and the plans of that company for the erection of a furnace, saw mill and other industries. It is learned from the Cleveland officers of the iron company. that the furnace will be adapted to making either _ charcoal or coke iron, but the run will, of course, be principally on the former. The saw mill and accompanying smaller manufacturing plants will be utilized in taking full advantage of several industries that are now closely allied to the lumber business. The most convenient train for the west is the fast express via the Nickel Plate road, known as No. 5, leaving Cleveland 11:12 a. m., daily in- cluding Sunday, and stops at Bellevue, Fostoria and Ft. Wayne, arriving at Chicago at 9:35 p.m. Palace buffet sleeping cars attached. 20-131 Great Figures Regarding Power. Some great figures as to power are contained in the official report of the trial of America's greatest cruiser, the Minneapolis. The mean speed of the ship for the two runs over the course, under forced draft, with average air pressure from 9 inch to 1 inch (nine-tenths to an inch), care- fully calculated and corrected for tidal currents, was at the rate of 23 knots and 73 thousandths (23.073). The collective indicated horse power of the main engines during the trial run was 20,366.23; that of all the machinery in use was 20,812.28. The total weight of the machinery, including the water in the boilers and condensers, and spare parts on board, was 1,961.8 tons. The time taken to put the rudder from hard-a-port to nearly hard- a-starboard at a maximum speed of about 20 knots was 40 seconds, and 50 seconds to full hard-a-starboard. During the experiment the engines slowed quickly to 110 turns or less. The experiment was tried a number of times when the engines were making less than 100 turns, and the time from puting hard over to hard over varied from 78 seconds down to 20 seconds. ~ In General. George Uhler of Philadelphia, national president of the Marine Engi- neers' Beneficial Association, is on his annual visit to the Pacific coast. A wooden steam yacht 110 feet over all, 16 feet beam and 9 feet deep with triple expansion engines, and costing entire about $29,000, wilf "be built by the Detroit Boat Works for Edward Henkel of Detroit. Yarrow & Co. of London, who built the torpedo boat destroyers Hor- net and Havock for the British admiralty, have contracted with the Rus- sian government to build boats of the same kind to steam 29 knots. Consular certificates of health required of passenger steamers trading on the lakes and at other northern frontier points will be dispensed with shortly and regulations governing the matter will be entrusted to the treasury department. A law making this change has just passed congress. There is probably no truth whatever in the statement that the presi- dent will veto the river and harbor bill, on account of the action of con- gress with reference to the tariff. The billas regards the aggregate of appropriations is entirely within the figures laid down by those who are supposed to speak for the administration of congress. The board of naval bureau chiefs have asked the construction bureau to examine plans of the Holland submarine boat and report on its feasi- bility. This boat received attention with two other sub-marine boats, one of which was built at Detroit for Geo. W. Baker, whose death was probably hastened by the adverse report last year. An appropriation of $200,000 is available for examination and building of sub-marine craft. The attention of the chiefs is directed to a young man in Oshkosh, Wis., who has something new, even if not practical, in this line. _ Johnson & Higgins, average adjusters and insurance brokers of New York, who have conducted a large part of the business of placing risks on steel vessels of the lakes, in London, evidently take considerable in- terest in reading the REVIEW. Following is an extract from a letter re- cently received from them: "Will you kindly do us the favor to send us by early mail an extra copy of yourissue of June 30 last containing valuable information about the new steamer North West, in which every one connected with steam- ship matters on the lakes must feel very great interest. The regular copy of your paper which has reached us, we are sending to some friends and we wish to have a copy of it on our files. Kindly give this matter your usual courteous attention." "SUMMER TouRS--The Nickel Plate road has placed on sale a com- plete line of tourist tickets to the resorts of the east, including Niagara Falls, One Thousand Islands , lower Canada, the Atlantic coast and the mountains of New York and New England. Address B. F. Horner, gen- eral passenger agent, Cleveland, O., for descriptive matter and full information. Aug 30 The Nickel Plate road runs its twelfth annual Niagara excursion August 20, at 10 p. m.; $3.00 round trip. Cleveland ticket offices 224 Bank street, 524 Pearl street, and depots. 16 U S. ENGINEER OFFICE, 34 West Congress e street, Detroit, Mich., August 6, 1894. Sealed proposal for Operating Machinery for the 800-foot Lock, St. Mary's Falls Canal, will be re- ceived here until 2 p.m., September 5, 1894, and then publicly opened. Allinformation furnished on application. M Wanted Not less than 20 square nor more than 22. "Address "Steam Tug," care Marine Review, giving full description, age, size, etc., with lowest price for spot cash. ' Col. Corps of Engineers. ...1T0 BUY A TUG FOR SPOT CASH,