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MARINE REVIEW 25 AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. Manager C. O. Duncan of the Port Huron & Duluth Steam- ship Co, has chartered the steamers Russia and Wyoming for the season. A new chart in colors of Ludington harbor, Mich., has just been issued by the United States lake survey. It can be pro- cured from the Marine Review. Peter Gussenbauer, government lighthouse keeper at Mon- roe piers, died suddenly on Sunday last from a stroke of paralysis. He was sixty-one years of age. The tug Petrel, owned by the H. M. Loud's Sons Lumber Co. of Au Sable, Mich., has been sold to Philip Mago of Tonawanda, who will use her in the canal towing business. The schooner Three Brothers was relaunched at Lorain last week. The January flood left her high and dry on the bank. She was first of all thoroughly overhauled and calked in her impromptu. dock. Capt. A. B. Wolvin of the Great Lakes & St. Lawrence River Transportation Co. announced that additional vessels will be chartered for their fleet for the coming season. Last year ten vessels were employed in this line. The schooner E. B. Maxwell, engaged in the lumber trade between Chicago and the northern piers, has been sold by her owner, Capt. Ole Hansen of Milwaukee, to Lake Erie par- ties. The consideration is given as $4,800. Owing to a misunderstanding three steamers of the Inter- national Salt Co. were, temporarily tied up last week. It was believed by the Masters and Pilots association that they should carry second mates, but as they are under 700 tons burden, this was held to be an error. The steamers will carry only one mate. The tug Frank Canfield, owned by the Canfield Tug Line. Manistee, Mich., ran aground on the outer bar at Point Sable and sank this week. Capt. Harry Smith, engineer, Charles Kopfer and William Justmann, helper, were drowned. The wreck was caused by the breaking of the tug's rudder chains while the hand tiller was being adjusted. The Marinette Fuel & Dock Co. is installing on its dock a new hoisting plant. The outfit, consisting of tramways, steam engine, coal cars and derrick, was bought from the Milwaukee & Western Fuel Co. of Milwaukee. The new apparatus is expected to unload big cargoes from vessels in half the time taken by the old method. The Milwaukee company will install a $50,000 plant. Maj. Dan C. Kingman, United States engineer with head- quarters at Cleveland, has visited' Lorain to inquire into dam- ages done by the January storm. He will drive piling from the pier eastward at a point far enough out into the lake to entirely restore the original lake line. This work will be done immediately as the lake is washing. over the land back of the piers and carrying sand into the mouth of the Black river. The dock managers and the delegates from the Interna-. tional Longshoremen, Marine and Transport Workers' asso- ciation concluded their conference in Cleveland last week and agreed upon a wage schedule for the coming season. The / schedule is a compromise. The men agreed to accept.a re- duction of 71%4 per cent and to work the usual day of eleven hours. The ore shovelers will be 'paid at the rate of 13 cents -- a ton, which is 1 cent a ton less 'than that received last year. No action has as yet been taken by the dock managers in regard to the unloading: charges, -but it is probable that the rate will be fixed at 19 cents a ton as against 21 cents for last year. : Capt. Frank Rae, whose refusal to join the Masters and Pilots' Association while master of the steamer Clemson last year was the cause of the strike 'of the mates on the steamers of the Steel Corporation last fall, has been admitted to mem- bership in the association. When Capt. Rae was forced to relinquish his position as master of the Clemson by reason of the action of the association, Capt. Wolvin for purely per- sonal reasons gave him an important position in the manage- ment of the Pittsburg Steamship Co. The association at that time assumed an attitude of extreme hostility to Capt. Rae, but has evidently repented upon second thought. Judge Swan, in the United States district court at Detroit, has found the steamer Turret Court entirely to blame for. the sinking of the steamer Waverly in Lake Huron off. 'Sand Beach last July. A commissioner will decide the amount of damages. The Gilchrist Transportation Co., the owners of the lost boat, sued to recover $37,242. . Car ferry No. 16 will enter the service between Conneaut and Port Stanley during the coming season. She has been fitted with a forward wheel to assist her in ice-breaking and will probably clear from Milwaukee for Conneaut in a few days. No. 16 was 'the last boat through the straits last fall and she is likely. to be the first through this spring. Judge Seaman of the United Siiee" district court at Mil- watukee has decided the J. Emory Owen. salvage suit. The Ann Arbor car ferry No, 22 was awarded $2,600 and the steamer George Burnham $1,300. The. owners received two- thirds and the crew one-third. The shares of the crews, how- ever, are further reduced. by special awards to certain mem- bers of the crew, amounting to $360 in case of the car ferry and $130 in case of the Burnham. The Owen burned off Sturgeon Bay canal off Lake 'Michigan on Dée.*5 last. In deciding the case Judge Seaman scored the salvors, saying a spirit of selfishness and jealousy was evidenced, which was deplorable. Both the car ferry and the steamer, the court says, misconstrued the true spirit of the adventure and had the result been effected by their conduct he would have ma- terially reduced the award. The freighter Francis Widlar, building. for the - 'Columbia Steamship Co. of which Mr. Charles O. Jenkins of Cleveland is manager, was launched last week from the Cleveland yard of the American Ship Building Co. Miss Stella Wheeler of New York christened the steamer and those who saw her go into the water were: Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Squire, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Widlar, Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. .E. -P) Lenihan, Capt..and. Mrs. R.. E. Burdick, Mrs. W. S: Mack, Mrs. R. C. Rathbone, Miss Wheeler, Miss Stella Wheeler, Miss Squire, Miss Bingham, Miss Weitz, Miss Thomas, Miss Vincent, Mr. T. C.. Prindiville, Mr. E.. T. Bush, Mr. H. N. Harriman, Mr. George Eichelber- ger. Mr. L. C. Jones, Capt. A. J. Greenley, Capt. Henry Peter- son, Mr. J. C. Wallace, Mr. R. C.. Wetmore and Mr. Charles O. Jenkins. The Widlar is 436 ft. over all, 416 ft. keel, so: ft. beam and 28 ft. deep. She will have triple expansion engines, cylinders 22, 35 and 58 in., with 4o-in. stroke. Steam will be furnished by two Scotch Gotlers to be fitted with the Ellis & Eaves draft. A plan for the reorganization of the Fore River Ship & Engine Co., Quincy, Mass., has been agreed upon. It is pro- posed *to issue $4,800,0c0 in stock, equally divided between common and preferred and to raise $1,250,000 of new money e by assessing the bond holders 40 per cent and the old stock 33%4 per cent. The bond holders will receive ten shares of new preferred and eight shares of new, common stock for each bond, and the preferred stockholders will receive one share of the' new preferred and one and one-half shares of new common 'stock for each three shares of old stock. Of the money thus realized $300,000 will be used to complete the plant, $400,000 to pay off the company's floatiney debt and $350,000 as a working capital. Mr. George Westinghouse who went to Europe some little time ago with Rear Admiral George Wallace Melville, late engineer-in-chief of the United States navy, is arranging with the Parsons Steam Turbine Co. for the exclusive right to manufacture the Parsons' turbine in the United States for use in United States ships.