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32° AROUND .THE GREAT LAKES. The Detroit: & Cleveland line declared the usual semi-annual: dividend of four per cent, payable Dec. 15. The Canadian steamer Turret Crown missed the harbor of refuge in the storm at Grand Marais last week and went on the » beach. The harbor committee at Holland, Mich:., has inspected the piers since the last. severe storm and find that. a new north pier is necessary. The Toledo Ship Building Co. will repair the vessels Simon J. Murphy and the Harvard, of the Pittsburg Steamship Co.'s fleet, during the winter. The directors of the Detroit & Buffalo Steamboat Co. have declared a dividend of five per cent, payable Dec. 15, making eight per cent for the year. The steamer Tecumseh, released from the south 'passage Lake Er:e by the tug Home Rule, 'is at the Ecorse yard of the Great Lakes Engineering Works for re- pairs. . The schooner Queen of the Lakes, owned by Richardson & Son, Kingston, Ont., sunk oppos:te Sodus Point last week, the crew taking the small boats: as she went down. Capt. Harris Baker, of Detroit, who purchased the hulk of the steamer Fisk, which burned near Beldore's six weeks ago, will begin the work of recovering the wreck at once. The steamer Conestoga, rebuilt at the Ecorse yard of the Great. Lakes Engi- neering Works for the Crosby Trans- portation Co., has left for Lake Michigan with a cargo of salt. The steamer Mataafa, which was wrecked in the big November gale a year ago off Duluth, has been floated out of dry dock. She will not, however, go into commission th:s year. The Great Lakes Towing Co. has suc- ceeded in lightering the cargo of the wrecked steamer Conemaugh, ashore off Felee island. The cargo of dry. goods was valued at over $50,000. Capt. James Davidson has announced that the steamer Panama which was driven ashore near Ontonagon about a week ago has been abandoned as a to- tal-loss. She carried no insurance. "The steamer Northern Queen, bound fot' Duluth with a cargo of general mer- chandise, ran on Point Abbev during a heavy storm. Her forward compart- ments are reported full of water. Several well known mariners got' to- gether in Buffalo recently and organized a new society which will exist during the time that they lay up their boats. The headquarters is to be known as "Grand Marais." The steamer' Chisholm was released from the bank near the county building at Houghton after 30,000 bu. of her cargo of grain had' been lightered: Later the THE Marine REVIEW grain was reloaded upon her, as she had not been damaged. Capt. Cyrus: H.. Sinclair, representa- tive of the underwriters, has returned from the wreck of the Conemaugh on Pelee island, and is of the opinion that the boat can be floated and saved if the work is done right away: While the stern of the car ferry Ash- tabula was raised so that repairs could be made to her propeller wheel, several cars loaded with coal broke from their fastenings and did considerable damage at the forward end of the boat. The Port Huron Contracting Port Huron, Mich., Go. ported as about ready to resume opera- tions at the old yards on Black river ard will build dredge hulls. The two steamers building at the Bay City yard of the American Ship Build- ing Co. for the Gilchrist Transportation Co., of Cleveland, will be named after Gen.' George' Garretson and Henry P. McIntosh. thé Garretson will "be launched on Dec. 22, While bound from Ludington to Man- istee, the rudder chain of the steamer Pere Marquette No. 6 parted when the ship. was abreast of Point Sable and she narrowly escaped running on the beach. She was taken to Ludington for repairs by the aid of a hand steering gear, The crew of the steamer J. L. Weeks re-christened her at Buffalo about ten days ago, giving her the euphonious name of "Two Weeks." The reason for this was that the boat was held in port for about two weeks at the American Malting Co.'s new plant above the Ohio street bridge. President Livingstone, of the Lake Carriers' Association, has received a dis- patch from the Canadian minister of marine at Ottawa stating that the wishes of the Lake Carriers in respect to the Bar Point gas buoy will be complied with and the buoy will be allowed. to remain until the boats stop running, Twenty loaded" freight cars broke loose from their fastenings on the Ann 'Arbor car ferry No. 1 this. week while the ship was being tossed ih heavy seas. The crew had hard work to keep the cars from being dumped into the lake, and as it was several thousand dollars worth of damage was done. The car ferry was bound from Manitowoc to Franklin. A meeting of masters of lake vessels was held in the Duluth office of the Pittsburg Steamship Co. on Monday last to discuss aids to navigation with a view to reporting such suggestions as they might agree upon to the Lake Car- riers" Association. Their recommenda- tions will be embodied' in a report which successors to the -- Port Huron Ship Building Co., is re- the Lake Carriers' Association will make to the general government. ' The' dredge constructed for the Em- pire Engineering Co., of New York, by the Manitowoc Dry Dock Co., Manito- woc, Wis., is enroute to its destination in' tow of the steamer Parks' Foster: A. stop was made at Detroit to pump out water which had found its way into its hold, owing to the heavy sea encoun- tered in Lake Michigan. She will be taken apart for towagé through the Erie carial. thes tie James = Ry Sinclair owas launched from the repair yard of the Great Lakes Towing Co. on the Chicago river on Saturday last and was marked by:two unusual events, the first that she was launched stern first: instead of side- ways, as is the ordinary custom on the 'akes, and the second that she was christ- ened by a man. It was intended to have Mrs. Sinclair name the new boat, but owing to illness the tug was named by hersson, Cyrus: H.: Sinclair. The: tug is 68" ft. long; 17% ft. beam 'and 11% ft: deep. She is the first steel craft ever to be built on the Chicago river. Thesteamer George W.. Peavey, which became disabled in the Detroit river, reached Buffalo recently and: was taken in tow by' two Great Lakes tugs. She will be put in No: 1 dock at 'the plant of the Buf- falo Dry Dock Co. There is not much time left in which to make repairs, but it is safe to say that she will un- doubtedly be rushed for another cargo; at 'least.: The' dry 'dock -com- pany is making quite a reputation for itself in this respect. John A. Weis- beck will represent the owners in the survey' to be' held on the Peavey when she is put in dock. That the entrance to the harbor of | Duluth is unsatisfactory from the vessel standpoint: was again emphasized last week when the Anchor liner Susque- hanna struck the bottom in the heavy sea that was running. Her stern struck the bottom in the trough of one of the big waves just as she was fairly between the piers and as a result control was lost for a very brief time, during which she hit the south pier with her stern and later the north pier with her bow. Fort- unately the Susquehanna was not appre- uably injured, but the incident was po- tential in revealing the possibilities of grave danger. Mr. Harry Coulby, pres- ident of the Pittsburg Steamship = Co., happened to be in Duluth at the time .and declared that the Duluth ship canal ought to be closed and a wider and more centrally located one cut through Minne- sota Point with a V-shaped breakwater inside the bay. The two lake-built steamers Minne- tonka and Minnewaska; which were bought in by the American, Ship Build-