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the The commerce of the great lakes is the actually undershot mark. wonder of the world. It is stranger than fiction and much more marvel- lous than the achievements of Alad- din. Every member of the Lake Car- riers' Association should read Presi- dent Livingstone's report from begin- ning to end. JOSEPH H. SPEDDY. Joseph H. Speddy 'has been ap- pointed manager of the Lake Trans- portation Co., with headquarters in the Rockefeller building, Cleveland. MR. JOSEPH H. SPEDDY. The new company will engage in a general vessel and insurance bus- iness. It has already arranged 'to represent the Mills fleet in Cleveland consisting of the steamers W. A. Rogers, Charles Weston, W. B. Kerr, L. S. DeGraff, W. M. Mills and Josiah G. Munro. The company will also handle the Cleveland business of Brown & Co. of Buffalo. While this is Mr. Speddy's initial appearance in !the vessel business he has had a dong tand arduous training as a business man. He was for 10 years in the sh*pping department of the Standard Oil Co. at Cleveland and for tthe last two years of his connection with that company had charge of its general construction work. He man- aged the Smith Premier Typewriter Co. in Cleveland from 1896 to 1900 and was manager of the Columbus of- fice of that company from 1900 to 1906. He was then transferred by the company to St. Paul, Minn., as manager, remaining there until Dec. 31, 1907. Mr. Speddy attended the annual meeting of the Lake Carriers' -90 fit. in diameter. TAE Marine REVIEW Association in Detroit last week and displayed great interest in its delibera- tions, MULHOLLAND HATCH FASTEN- ERS. The Mulholland Hatch Fastener Co., Citizens building, Cleveland, has made an agreement with the American Ship Building Co. whereby the ship build- ing company will manufacture the Mulholland hatch fastener upon a roy- alty basis for the next five years and will incorporate it as part of the standard specifications for tthe ships that it will build. Capt. Mulholland is now devising a form of strong- back to be used in conjunction with the hatch fastener in salt water ser- vice. The Review will publish the drawings as soon as they have been completed. This hatch fastener has met unqualified endorsement throughout the whole lake region. with CAISSON OF NEW INTAKE AT BUFFALO. The accompanying cut shows the steel shell, or caisson, of the new in- take for the Buffalo city water works, the contract for the erection of which is held by the Buffalo Dredg'ng Co. It is shown as it stands at present, the steel construction finished and the whole waiting to be launched and floated to its bed in the Emerald chan- nel at the mouth of the Niagara river in Lake Erie, where considerable con- creting is to be added to it. It will be completed in June. The intake is an enormous steel drum, 25 ft. high and 110 ft. in diam- eter, inside of which is a second drum These two drums are connected by 12 steel lined and grated ports, each six feet square, hav- 21 ing water tight gates at their inner ends to control the flow into the in- take tank, from which alone the water is to be 'taken ito 'the city. The space between the two drums land about the port channels is to be filled solid with concrete, so that, if ithe steel erodes, the intake will nevertheless be intact. The steel shell is, in other words, but a mold. About 6,000 yards of excavation, to reach a solid rock foundation, wll be necessary at the proposed site of the intake and over 9,000 yards of con- crete will be used in leveling a bed for the intake and filling that portion of the steel shell that is to 'be made solid. The intake will be submerged all but about three feet. On its top a building of concrete blocks will be erected and this in iturn will be sur- mounted by a light. The structural steel work was done by the Van Dorn Iron Works, Cleve- land, O., of plates rolled by the Lack- awanna Steel Co., and furnished by the Buffalo Dredging Co. The steel shell weighs approximate- ly 1,000 tons. It will be launched from its present position at the foot of Ohio street, Buffalo, into the Buffalo river and floated of its own buoyancy to its resting place. The cost com- pleted will be about $200,000. The record cargo of coal during 1907 was carried by the steamer Wm. B. Kerr of the Weston Transit. Co.'s fleet. . This. consisted of 11,751 met tons of soft coal from. Lorain to Du- luth. The sister ship, Leland S. De- Graff, has already broken this record for the season of 1908. The DeGraff is now at Cleveland and has taken on for winter storage a cargo of 12,441 tons 900 Ibs. CAISSON OF WATERWORKS INTAKE AT BUFFALO. ,