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28 MARINE REVIEW. [August 1, AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. Notice has been received that the gas buoy on Gull island shoal, Lake Erie, was relighted on July 29. A wooden tug building at Sturgeon Bay, Wis., for Smith Bros. of Waukegan, will be completed shortly. The vessel is 73 ft. long and 15% ft. beam, and will cost about $7,000. The story comes from Detroit that Mr. Lyman C. Smith of the Smith-Premier typewriter fame is to build ten freighters for lake service. Mr. Smith has done no figuring as yet with the American Ship Build- ing Co. Maj. Dan C. Kingman, the government engineer in charge of the Cleveland district, has ordered from the Detroit Motor Works, Detroit, Mich., a naphtha launch 34 ft. in length, 7 ft. beam, and 12 H.P., for use in the harbor about Cleveland. The passenger steamer Easton, owned by the William Transporta- tion Co., has been sold to Milwaukee parties and will be delivered to_her new owners Sept. 1. The Easton was purchased from a company at Bal- timore this spring and brought to the lakes. The officials of the Northern Steamship Co. have seen fit to deny the story that the Northland and Northwest are to be. used in the Chicago and Mackinac island service next year. The vessels will be continued in the Chicago-Buffalo service which has become quite popular. Mr. Harry Rodgers, who is well known to patrons of both the De- troit & Cleveland and Cleveland & Buffalo steamboat lines, and who made a host of friends in Cleveland when connected with steamboat freighting business a few years ago, has decided, after an experience with the railroads, to return to the Cleveland & Buffalo company. He will take up the duties of general freight agent for that company Sept. 1 next. The International Steamship Co. has sold the steamer Paraguay to eastern parties. The price paid is understood to be $250,000. The vessel will be fitted out as an oil carrier and will be turned over to her new owners on Oct. 1. She will need considerable refitting. A fore-and-aft bulkhead will be put in the vessel and two new pumps will be installed. She will be used in the Texas oil field service. The Paraguay went to the coast last fall but returned to the lakes last spring. It is quite probable that the steel tow barge Sagamore, sunk above the Sault in a fog a few days ago by the Northern Steamship Co.'s steamer Northern Queen, will not be recovered, as she is said to be in more than 70 ft. of water. This is the first total loss of importance in the '*" Seaboard Steel Castings."' MANUFACTURERS OF A GUARANTEE OF QUALITY. "THE ADMIRAL" ANCHOR. OPEN-HEARTH STEEL CASTINGS ---- OF THE HIGHEST GRADE. THE LATEST AND BEST FACILITIES FOR CASTINGS UP TO STOCKLESS ANCHOR. 80,000 POUNDS WEIGHT. APPROVED BY LLoyp's. MACHINE WORK AND PATTERNS ae FURNISHED WHEN REQUIRED. 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It is quite probable that in shipping circles the error was clearly one of the types, as it is well understood that a vessel designed to suit dimensions of the Cana- dian canal locks would not be made 225 ft. in length. HOW TO WATERPROOF BLUE PRINTS. As ship builders and men in the iron mining districts have a great deal to do with blue prints the following method of making them water proof will be read with interest, for who has not had to deal with a blue print blurred or discolored by rain? The water-proofing medium is refined paraffin and may be applied by immersing the print in the melted wax, or more conveniently as follows: Immerse in melted paraffin until saturated a number of pieces of an absorbent cloth a foot or more square and when withdrawn and cooled they are ready for use at any time. To apply to a blueprint, spread one of the saturated cloths on a smooth surface, place the dry print on it with a second waxed cloth on top, and iron with a moderately hot flat-iron. The paper immediately absorbs paraffin until saturated and becomes translucent and highly waterproof. The lines of the print are intensified by the process, and there is no shrinking or distortion. As the wax is withdrawn from the cloths, more can be added by melting small pieces directly under the hot iron. By immersing the print in a bath of melted paraffin the process is hastened, but the ironing is necessary to remove the surplus wax from the surface, unless the paper is to be directly ex- posed to the weather and not to be handled. The irons can be heated in most offices by gas or over a lamp, and a supply of saturated cloths obviates the necessity of the bath. This process, which was originally applied to blue prints to be carried by the engineer corps in wet mines, is equally applicable to any kind of paper, and is convenient for water- proofing typewritten or other notices to be posted up and exposed to the weather. BURNISMINE, * "ie. 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