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DEATH OF ANDREW BROWN. : The death occurred recently of An- drew Brown, the oldest ship and: en- gine builder on the Clyde, eighty-second year. olin » his Born at Glasgow, Mr. Brown, at the 'age of fourteen, was apprenticed as a mechanical engineer at the Oakbank foundry, and after serving a five years' apprenticeship became assistant me- - chanical draughtsman and foreman pat- ternmaker to Messrs. Wm. Craig & Co., formerly Girwood & Co.,.a nota- ble firm in the early days of marine en- gineering. Transferring his services later to Tod & Macgregor, he acquired considerable experience in designing ' P. and O. and other steamers. Thereafter he was engaged in the St. Rollox locomotive works of the Cale- donian railway, but the marine side of the profession was his special bent, and in 1850 he was appointed engineer- ing manager of the well known firm of A. and J. Ingles, ship and engine build- ers. During the years he, filled that important post he was responsible for the.designing and completion of a large number of marine engines of var- ious types. Amongst other work: on which he was engaged in 1851 and 1852 were two pairs of geared beam engines for screw steamers on the Leith and London service, the first on that route. In 1860 Mr. Brown was invited to join the late William Simons in part- nership at Renfrew. Immediately thereafter he began the study of the. 'problems relating to steam dredgers and dredging plants, the fruits of which study have given his firm a_ world- wide reputation. Between 1861 and 1863 he designed and constructed four self-propelling hopper barges for the Clyde trustees, the first of their type. He was also the inventor of the type of vessel now known as the "Hop- per' Dredger." The Pioneer _ sand- pumping apparatus employed on _ the Mersey was also one of his early pro- ductions, the powerful fleet of suction dredgers at Durban being also built by his firm. Although devoting much of his time and study to the construction of dredging plant, Mr. Brown did not confine his efforts to this particular branch of marine work. In 1861 he de- signed and constructed the Clyde pas--- senger steamer Rothesay Castle, a sidewheeler, which attained the then phenomenal speed of 20.5 miles per hour Fifty years later this vessel was, under another name, still plying on the Canadian lakes. In 1868 he built and designed the Anchor Liner India, the first steamer on the North Atlantic trade fitted with four cylinder compound surface con- a eS "TRAE MarRINeE REVIEW densing: engines!] His firm:-also built the first steam f€rnyi on the Clyde for vehicular traffic,, and introduced the double-ended screw ferries 'on the Mersey. BIDS FOR IMPROVING BUFFALO RIVER. Bids have recently been opened by the department of public works of the city of Buffalo, which were sub- mitted by the various dredging and contracting companies, upon the work of widening, straightening, enlarging, clearing from obstructions, dredging, deepening, embanking and diking of Buffalo river and ~Cazenovia creek and for altering the courses of the river and creek and for the construc- tion of new channels for them. The sections of the river improve- ment work aré as follows: Section No. 2. 'Buffalo river 'ftom the south line of lot No. 65, Indian Reservation, to the proposed junction with Cazenovia creek. me Section No. 3. Buffalo river'? from the. proposed junction of Cazenovia creek to. the easterly city line. Section No. 4. Cazenovia from the proposed junction with Buf- falo river to a point near Cazenovia street. : The following table gives the names of the . bidders together with the amounts of their bids, for each sec- tion of the work. : Section No. 2. Buffalo Dredging Co creek Le $587,672.00. Lake Erie Dredging Co... 632,550.00 Thomas Brown. Contract- nie Wo. ie ie 702,400.00 Section Now 8. Buffalo Dredging Co...... $213,460.00 Thomas Brown. Contract- ing GO... nas ees 285,000.00 John. Miller dad William Prank 9y 0 2 ee 332,000.00 Joséph F. Stabell Ca. uy. 338,000.00 Section No. 4. Thomas Brown Contract- ig COS soy. a $ 88,200.00 Buffalo Dredging Co...... © 91,248.00 Joseph. Fi Stabell: Cot... 110,900.00 John Miller and William Franklin Jr- ot. oor 114,800.00 The Buftalo: Ds edging Co. was de- clared the lowest bidder on sections two and three and the Thomas Brown Contracting Co. the lowest bidder on : section four. NINE LAKE' BOATS BUILDING IN SCOTLAND. The Glasgow correspondent, of the Shipping Gazette, says: The succession of orders for steam- ers for the Canadian lakes becomes quite interesting. First we heard that Messrs. Archibald McMillan & Son, Dumbarton, are building four steam- ers, and the Grangemouth & Green- e which 45 ock Co., Greenock, one for service Of;the lakes; then that Messrs. Mc- Millan had received an order for an- other similar vessel; now--this week --we have other two orders for lake steamers. The. Grangemouth & Greenock Co., Greenock, are to build a vessel for the lumber and general trade, and the Caledon Ship Build- ing Co., Dundee, a vessel of 'very similar size, though the trade is not specified. The newest Greenock steamer is to be delivered in. August, and the Dundee vessel in September, so, as. they are'\ ships of about 250 ft., very little time will be lost. In- cluding the two bigger steamers building at: Fairfield for the Canadian Pacific Railway Co., there are now nine lake boats building in Scotland.. IRON SITUATION. The buying of steel bars by agricul- tural implement manufacturers is the. most active factor in the iron and steel market. Rails are less active, the heavi- est order of the week reported being the Chicago & Northwestern for 40,000 tons for 1908 delivery, No very vigorous buying is expected until after the meet- ing of representatives of railroads and rail mills, when an agreement regarding specifications for rails will probably be affected. The pig- iron market continues quiet but firm. The United States Steel Corporation has purchased 10,000 tons of low phosphorus iron for fourth quarter delivery. AROUND THE GREAT: LAKES. The steamer Henry Phipps of -- the Pittsburg Steamship Co.'s fleet, will leave Bay City next week on her first trip. The steel steamer Ravenscraig owned by R. J. Dunham of Chicago has been purchased by Atlantic coast interests. The steel steamer America, sistership of the steamer Brazil, has been pur- chased by the Wisconsin Transportation Co. of Sheboygan. Hans J. Hansen, for fourteen years a member of the Erie life savings crew, has been appointed captain of the crew at Cleveland, vice Capt. Charles Money resigned. The schooner Buckeye when has been running in the pulp wood trade has been sold by N. J. Chisholm: to the Atlantic Coast Steamship Co. Capt. A. B. Drake, representative of Inland Lloyds, and Joseph King of the Parker Bros. Co., are holding a survey of the steamer ByFeS Whitaker now at Ecorse. The passenger steamer Eastland, is to be operated between Cleveland and Cedar Point by the Lake Shore. Navigation Co., reached Cleveland this week.