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30 MARINE REVIEW AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. A new revised chart in colors of Buffalo harbor and Ni- agara river to the falls, has just been issued by the United States lake survey and is for sale by the Marine Review. The package freight steamer Buell, owned by Weston & Dulac, is being cut down into a lumber carrier by Danford & Alonson Dry Dock Co. She will go into the Manistique and Tonawanda trade. The south abutment for the new Jack Knife bridge over the Blackwell canal at the foot of Michigan street, Buffalo, is finished and in a short time the iron work of the bridge proper will be put together. The state tug John M. Partridge was the first vessel to get steam up in the Tonawandas this season. She broke the ice in the Erie canal from Tonawanda to Buffalo and towed the state mud dredge to Buffalo for repairs. The steamers of the Toledo division of the White Star Line will use the American channel of the Detroit river this season, provided it is properly marked. This is an entering wedge for the diversion of traffic from the Canadian channel, Navigation. between Cleveland and Detroit was opened last year on March 18. Mr. D. C. McIntyre, the general freight traffic manager, has just sent out a postal card that the season of navigation this year will commence on Tuesday, April 5. Weather conditions have prevented an earlier opening. Among the vessels to be repaired at Duluth are the James H. Reed, S. S. Curry, Robert Bunson, John Fritz, barge 137, Colalia, Howard Shaw, Frank H. Peavey, Isaac Ellwood, James J. Hill, Fred B. Wells, William R. Linn, James Col- gate, Briton, Magna, Harvard, Sir William Fairbarn, Robert Wallace, James H. Hoyt, John Sharples, Douglas Houghton, Roman. Mr. G. L. Douglas, Jr., has been appointed manager of the Lake Transit Co. for the coming year with headquarters at Duluth. The Lake Transit Co. owns the steamers Scranton, Russia and Lackawanna. For the past five or six years the vessels have been operated on the lakes by the Lackawanna- Green Bay Line, carrying package freight between Green bay and Buffalo. This lease has been terminated. The collier which the Buffalo Drydock Co. built for the Pere Marquette people will be taken up the lakes just as soon as the ice breaks up. It was intended to take her up last fall, but weather conditions were against it. She has been finished for some time. She is an experimental proposition and it is understood that if she proves to be successful orders for several other boats like her will be placed. The board of trade of St. Catherines, Ont., has begun a movement for the taking over of the Welland railway by the Dominion government. The railway is 27 miles in length, paralleling the Welland canal from Port Dalhousie to Port Colbourne, and is chiefly used for the trais-shipment of grain, vessels coming down the lakes heavily loaded being required to lighter in order to reduce their draught to the capacity of the canal. A Duluth dispatch says that J. McLeod of Suffalo, of the Laidlow Lumber Co., has just concluded a deal for the pur- chase of 10,090,000 ft. of high grade lumber from the Edward Hines Co. The deal involves about $250,000. The entire lot will be delivered by boat to Buffalo during the coming season, a part of the sale being forwarded from the Marinette yards. The deal is one of the largest in high grade stock that has been made in some time. The Indiana Transportation Co. is quite determined that the prettiest girl in Indiana shall name their new steamer In- dianapolis, building at the yard of the Craig Ship Building Co., Toledo. There were so many applicants for the place that it was determined to leave it to a vote. Over 200,000 votes have been received so far. Miss Eula Clay of Indianapolis and Miss Rena Harris of Muncie are the leaders. The launch will probably occur in May. Mr. Silas Hitchcock, who resigned as a member of the firm of M. A. Hanna & Co. on Jan. 1, severed his connection with the active business of the firm this week. During the past three months he has been straightening up the affairs of the office. Mr. Andrews, who had charge of the dock department of the firm for a number of years, will succeed Mr. Hitch- cock. General regret is expressed in all branches of lake trade that Mr. Hitchcock has left the business. The Great Lakes Engineering Works of Detroit has filed a trust mortgage to the Union Trust Co. as trustee to secure a bond issue of $500,000. The issue consists of 500 5-per cent gold bonds of the denomination of $1,000 each. The bonds are to provide working capital. The company has begun the construction of its big floating dry dock, which is to be used in conjunction with its ship yard. It is expected that the steel steamer R. W. England, now building at the yard, will be launched some time in April. The Anchor Line has announced the following appointments of masters for the coming season: India, Capt. A. McKenzie; China, Capt... El. Cronkhite;, Japan, Capt: John Doherty: 'Tionesta,, Capt, Charles..Christy; Muncy, Capt. D, Ryder; Codorus, Capt. H. O. Miller; Mahoning, Capt. Joseph Cor- coran; Schuylkill, Capt. Charles Nelson; Susquehanna, Capt. L. Wright; Clarion, Capt. George J. Delaney; Lehigh, Capt. Edward Martin; Alaska, Capt. F. Bloom; Lycoming, Capt. M. Boggan; Conemaugh, Capt. J. J. Lehan. It is expected that car ferry No. 19, which stranded off Fox Point, will be in dock at Milwaukee for fully a month longer. The work of replacing the damaged plates is being pushed forward rapidly. Both dry docks at Milwaukee are crowded with work so that the new wheels which are to be placed upon the Grand Haven will be placed on her where she is moored in the river. Her forward compartments were filled with water and by running loaded cars forward her stern will be high enough out of the water to enable workmen to fit the necessary buckets. The United States circuit court of appeals has just handed down a mandate in the case of the American Steel Barge Co. vs. the steamer Philip Minch, No. 2163 in admiralty, confirm- ing the decree of the United States district court, as entered by Judge Ricks June 10, 1899. This was one of the last cases. heard by Judge Ricks, in which he rendered a decree for the libelants, finding the Minch solely at fault in bringing about the collision and the damages as set forth in the libel, and rendered judgment for damages and costs against the Minch and the stipulators on the bond. The work of fitting out the tugs of the Great Lakes Towing Co. at Buffalo is well under way, and it is expected that all the tugs will be in readiness for the season's work by April 1. Many of the vessels are receiving extensive repairs. The W. G. Mason, the largest of the fleet, left the dry dock last week after having a new wheel put on. She broke her pro- peller several days ago while crushing ice in the Blackwell canal. Capt. Lautenschlager, the new manager, will have a powerful fleet of tugs at his command this season, among them being the Mason, Babcock, Conneaut, Delta, Gee and Danforth. Mr. H. L. Jester, the agent of the Seamen's Union at De- troit, says that the Marine Cooks and Stewards' union will wage war upon women cooks this year, as they did last year. He maintains that ship board is no place for.a woman and gives as one of his reasons that they will always throw the galley refuge to windward with the inevitable result of mak- ing a scrubbing job for the men. He also adds that they are no good in a sea and take to their beds in foul weather. Nevertheless, the action of the union in excluding women from the barges worked a considerable hardship last year in a number of individual cases. Major Theodore A. Bingham, United States government engineer at Buffalo, was seriously injured by the falling of a