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ie MARINE REVIEW. Around the Lakes. C. H. Weeks, vessel and insurance agent of Duluth, was among visitors in Cleveland during the past week. E. W. Heath of Benton Harbor will put a Roberts boiler into a wooden steam yacht which he is building for H. B. Larson of Man- istee. : - Col. Jared Smith, United States engineer at Cleveland, has been confined to his home on account of illness for some time past, but is now improving. Wm.Empfield, who has had charge of lake shipments of coal from Fairport for some time past, is a candidate for collector of customs at that point. He is known to be in every way fitted for the position and will have the support of the vessel interests. Captains Frank Stenton, Richard Neville, Clint Ennis, A.- J. Greenlee, John Ward and James Stone are members of the Cleveland lodge, Ship Masters' Association, who will have charge of the annual ball, which will take place on the evening of Feb. 17. - Gibson L. Douglass, who has been in charge of the lighterage department of the New York Central Railway in New York city, has been appointed to succeed Mr. 8. D. Caldwell as general manager of the Western Transit Co., and has taken charge at Buffalo, _. John A, Currier, chief engineer of J. M. Forbes' yacht Wild Duck, which was the first vessel in this country to be fitted with Belleville boilers, is engaged with G. L. H. Arnold making repairs on boilers and. machinery of the passenger steamers North West and : North Land at Duluth, -- On account of competition from New York brokers representing a syndicate of foreign and American insurance companies, the Chicago representatives of companies regularly engaged in cargo business on the lakes have made a rate on grain stored in vessels at Chicago of 65 cents per $100, which is a fla reduction of 35 cents. The Sheriffs Mfg Co. of Milwaukee, has 'orders for wheels as fol- lows: One 8 feet 10 inches in diameter for the steamer T. S. Christie at. Manitowoc; one 7 feet 4 inches in diameter for the tug Whitewater at New Orleans; one 5 feet 2 inches in diameter for the tug Carrie B. at New Orleans; one 54 inches in diameter for S. 8. Brown of Pitts- burg, Pa. A statement of the affairs of B. B. Inman of Duluth, who failed recently, shows assets of $99,730.22, against liabilities amounting to $171,459.45. The assets consist almost entirely of tugs and various outfits pertaining to them, but these arein nearly all cases encumbered by mortgages, so that the creditors, aside from those secured by miort- gages, will get very little in the settlement. The Review acknowledges the receipt of an invitation from mem- 'bers of M.E.B. A. No. 4 0f Chicago to attend their twenty-second _ anniversary reception which will be held at the Masonic temple, Feb. 10. The occasion will undoubtedly be one of enjoyment. Geo. A. Grubb is chairman of the committee on arrangements, and Thomas F. Dowd, the efficient national secretary of the association, is also on the committee. Hughes Bros. & Bangs of Syracuse, N. Y., who recently secured - the big Buffalo breakwater contract, are said to be preparing for the construction of a big steel dredge that will be the largest craft of its kind ever built on the lakes. It is expected that they will employ about 1,500 men on this contract during the coming season. The work will be completed: in about four years if regular appropriations are secured. In addition to this Buffalo job the Syracuse firm has the Delaware breakwater at the mouth of the Delaware bay, the contract price of which is about $5,000,000; the Point Judith breakwater, at New Haven, Conn., and two sections of work in deepening the Erie canal. The Buffalo and Delaware breakwater jobs are the largest ever let in a single bidding under river and harbor appropriations. There is evidently no hope of any action on the Nicaragua canal 'bill in the present session of congress, although thé matter may come "up as a government affair entirely under the incoming administration. Senator Sherman, whose remarks are significant on account of the posi- tion which he will occupy in the McKinley cabinet, declared in the senate, Wednesay, that private enterprise would never execute the project and that the work should be undertaken by the government. He paid a tribute to England and said that the idea of British op- .position to, the canal scheme is bugaboo, * Another Novel Method of Propulsion, According to the improvement represented in the accompanying illustration, lengthwise channels are formed, by means of housings, at each side of the keel of a vessel, and in each of these channels is located ashaft carrying a number of screws, the shafts being geared with yerti- cal shafts operated by one or more motors of any preferred description within the vessel. The improvement has been patented in the United States and several foreign countries by Conrad Odinet, of No. 257 West 116th street, New York City. It is designed that, with this _ construction, a material increase of speed may be obtained without employing much more power than at present, and that the vessel will be able to turn as upon a pivot ,the propellers acting substantially as a rudder. The propellers, placed so low down, will be constantly in the water, and never liable to race, while they will also thoroughly ballast the vessel and add stability tothe hull. Hinged to fold close to the keel, at the forward ends of the channels, are gates by which the chan- nels may be closed, to check or stop the forward movement of the ves- sel, the gates being moved by conveniently arranged levers within the vessel. In addition to the bottom propellers the ordinary stern propeller may be employed if desired. This improvement is designed for use with but such slight changes in the present method of hull construction as may be necessary in providing for the longitudinal housing on the bottom of the hull.--Scientific American. . The Wm. Chisholm-Oceanica collision case, resulting from the most disastrous accident that occurred on the lakes last season, is being heard before United States District Judge Swan in Detroit. Mr. Harvey D. Goulder is representing the owners of the Chisholm and Moores & Goff are representing the Oceanica. . Thoughts at sea; The first day called up gravest fears that made me nervous hearted; the next day called up memories of friends from whom I'd parted; the third day called up thoughts of land where one is safely carted; the fourth day called up everything I'd eaten since 1 -- started.--L. A. W. Bulletin. When Going to Pittsburgh take Pennsylvania No. 10, "The Flyer.' Leaves Union station 8 a. m. daily, Euclid avenue 8:10 a. m.; arrives Pittsburgh 11:30 a.m. Solid vestibuled train, Pullman Buffet~ Parlor car at- tached to train. Apl 15 U 8. MARSHAL'S -SALE NORTHERN e District of Ohio. By virtue of an order of sale issued out of the United states District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, on the 23rd day of January, 1897, noticeis hereby given that I will sell by public auction, for cash, on Saturday, the 3uth day of January, 1897 at 2 o'clock Pp. M. at west door of Government build- ing at: Cleveland, Ohio, the steam tug Jose, her eugines, boilers, machinery, boats, tackle, ap- Parel, appurtenances, and furniture, as she now lies, Cuyahoga river, west of Valley R. R. bridge. M. A.SMALLEY, United States Marshal.