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66 TAs MARINE REVIEW NEW SPUR-GEARED CAPSTAN. direction with hand bars. The spool has a. polished brass cap, with the name of the steamer, owners and date ncely engraved. SPENCE CONVEYORS. The accompanying illustration shows two Spence portable electric conveyors, each 50 ft. in length which were bought by the Federal Sugar Re- finns Com wvonkers) Nios and are ~~ LEVEE WORK ON MISSISSIPPI. Capt. G. M. Hoffman, corps of en- gineers, Vicksburg, Miss., recent'y opened bids for levee work in the Mississippi river. The bidders were: Low:ence Bros., Memphis, Tenn.; P. P. Gilchrist, Cuffy, Miss.; George Muil- ler, Duncansby, Miss.; John G. Ses- sions, Grand Lake, Ark.; R. L. Leon- ard, Memphis, Tenn.; Roach & Stan- sella Wiemphiss ehennk + We Mee Bates, SPENCE PORTABLE ELECTRIC CONVEYORS. now in operation. These are used for carrying 350-lb. sacks of raw sugar from vessels, across warehouse and up into the hoppers. A great saving of time is effected, besides overcoming the tearing of sacks which often oc- curred when trucking was donc by hand. 68 West Court street, Memphis, Tenn., and G. A. Gibson, Natchez, Miss. The contract for stations 1,600 to 1,800 at $3,600 was awarded to P. P. Gilchrist, Cuddy, Miss., and George Mille-, Duncansby, Miss., received the contract for stations 1,645 to 1,720 at $26,149.20. W. M. Bates, Memphis, Tenn., received the contract for sta- tions 871 to 916 on Arkansas river at $30,160, and stations 3,560 to 3,671 at $31,050. George A. Gibson, Nat- chez, Miss., received contract for sta- tions 3,460 to 3,560 at $34,200. REPAIR WORK AT MILWAU- KEE. The plant of the Milwaukee Dzy Dock Co. is unusually busy with re- pair work. .For the past two months the car ferry Ann Arbor No. 1 has been in the south dry dock under- going reconstruction. It will prob- ably take a month more to comp ete repai-s upon her which are of an ex- tensive character. Another big re- pair job is the steamer George W. Her carzo hold is to be re- It, will be made to con- fo-m with modern appliances for loading and unloading. Many vessels are waiting in the slips and the yard will be very busy until navigation opens. Peavey. constructed. AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. The Detroit & Cleveland Naviga- tion Co. and the Detroit & Buffalo Steamboat Co. have sent out a New Year's greeting bearing a representa- tiomwor the mew. steamer City of Cleveland with the flags of happiness, good health and success flying from the foremast. Col. W. L. Fiske, government en- gineer, will succeed Col. Henry M. Adams as United States engineer at Buffalo on Jan. 18. Col. Adams will retire in May next. For the past four years Co'onel Fiske has been serving in the Philippines. Prior to that he was stationed at Detroit in charge of the Lake Survey. A civil service examination for as- sistant lighthouse keepers, officers of lighthouse tenders and light vessels in the eleventh lighthouse district will be held in the office of the light- house inspector at Detroit, Mich., on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 1908. Necessary blank app'ications and other info-ma- tion can be obtained on application to the lighthouse inspector, 405 Post- office building, Detroit, Mich. The new coal dock of the Duluth, Missabe & Northern railway at Du- luth will be ready for business short- ly after the first of the year. The machinery will be tried out on a boat now lying at the dock. The new dock is one of the best and most modern in the country. Its capacity is 650,- 000 tons and it is a very valuable ad- dition indeed to the coal handling fa- cilities at the head of the lakes. a lal cai