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1903-] : MARINE REVIEW AND MARINE RECORD. USING SCRAPERS WITH AUTOMATIC UNLOADERS. One of the problems of unloading ore from lake vessels is to get the ore directly under the hatch where the clam shells may seize it and hoist it to the dock or cars. This is accom- plished in some measure by giving horizontal extension to the clam shell itself but there are always certain parts of the vessel which cannot be reached. Some of the ore therefore has to be shoveled by hand within the radius of action of the clam shell. Usually eight men to a hatch perform this service. Mr. M. Andrews, superintendent of docks for M. A. Hanna & Co., has for some time past been given attention to the problem of minimizing the manual labor involved in this action. He came to the conclusion that an ordinary road scraper could be utilized to bring the ore to the region of the hatch, and on Thursday last a device, evolved by him, was tested at Ashtabula aboard one of the vessels. Ordinary road scrapers were lowered into the hold and operated by means of winches with cable adjusted to the hatch. Two road scrapers were used at each hatch, the motor serving to thrust one out to the ore while it pulled the other in and vice versa. 'wo men were placed at each scraper and one at the winch, making five men in all, and the performance was regarded as economical, both of time and money, over the old method. Elsewhere will be found in this issue a brief item detailing a new record of unloading by means of the Hulett auto- matic unloader at Conneaut, and thus is the problem of unloading gradually nearing satisfactory solution. In this case the steamer, the James E2. Hoyt, has nineteen hatches and is specially con- structed to facilitate unloading. Her cargo was entirely re- moved by the clam shells but this is the first instance on record of a total cargo being so removed. In the prevailing type of vessel additional assistance is needed, which Mr. Andrews' de- vice appears to render most economically. CONSOLIDATED LAKE SUPERIOR REORGANIZATION. A Philadelphia dispatch concerning the reorganization of the subsidiary companies of the Consolidated Lake Superior Co. is to the effect, that Mr. F. H. Clergue has been dropped as a direc- tor and as well as an officer from all of them. James Butter- worth, although resigning from the directorate of the parent com- pany, retains his place in most of the subsidiary plants. H. A. Berwind, who resigned from the Consolidated Lake Superior board of directors to make way for H. K. McHarg, has been placed on the directorate of every one of the underlying concerns. The present directors of the Algoma Commercial Co., Ltd., the Algoma Central & Hudson Bay Railway Co., the Algoma Steel Co., Ltd., the International Transit Co., the Lake Superior Power Co., the Manitoulin & North Shore Railway Co., the Michigan Lake Superior Power Co., the Ontario Lake Superior Co., and the Sault Ste. Marie Pulp & Paper Co. are identi- cal as follows: James Butterworth, C. Shields, EK. H. Sanborn, H: "A. Berwind;. Samuel Rea, T. C.° Search and James S. Swartz., The directors of the British American Express Co. and the Tagona Water & Light Co. are similar except that the names of Messrs. Butterworth and Swartz are absent from the former and the names of Messrs. Butterworth & Sanborn from the latter. It is learned officially that the present management of the Consolidated Lake Superior Co. will proceed upon the inference that they own no Bessemer ore. Development work at the Josephine mine, which was alleged by the previous management to contain the Bessemer ingredients, has been stopped pending a series of boring tests which is now under way. It is under con- templation that Bessemer ore will have to be obtained from outside sources and is said that the company will simply go into the market and buy it, as needed, where it can be obtained cheapest. As the company now expects to have their new fur- naces in operation July 1, and to start the steel plant later after a supply of Bessemer pig has been produced, arrangements have, of course, been already made for the first supply of Bessemer ore. Should any of the company's iron ore property, in the future, be found to contain ore of Bessemer quality, the manage- ment would find itself only the better off for its present policy of banking only on certainties. CANADIAN SHIPPING NOTES. _ The Dominion Marine Association has secured practically all it asked the government to do in aid of the inland shipping in- terests. The minister of customs announced, a few days ago, that the government would assume the payment of customs officers for overtime necessitated bv the arrival and departure of vessels on holidays and after the regular business hours. The amount in- volved is about $70,000 a year. The only matter now remaining unsettled is the question regarding engineers on the minor inland waters. A further aid to the shipping interests in Canada has been granted by the Dominion government by increasing the subsidv for the construction of dry docks from 2 per cent a year on the cost to 3 per cent for twenty years, the subsidy not to exceed $30,000 a year. The dry dock at Collingwood, Ont., is being enlarged, and it is considered probable that other docks to ac- commodate large vessels wi: be constructed on the great lakes. Application is being made at the current session of the ominion parliament for the incorporation of a company to oper- a car ferry line between New Brunswick and Prince Edward island, 23 An endeavor is being made to obtain government support to a proposal to dredge a channel 100 ft. Wade and 20 ft. fpr from 1,ew Glasgow, N. S., to the sea. The river is not at present navigable for anything but very small craft. The Elder-Dempster and Beaver lines of steamships sailing between Canada and Great Britain will in future be known as the Canadian Pacific Atlantic Line. Capt. Zealand, of Port Hope, Ont. has been appoin - ager of the Port Huron akeds Ferry. Co. Bona ata The Canadian Transportation & Storage Co. is seeking in- corporation to own and operate freight and passenger steamers. A. Augstrom, manager of the new ship building yard near Wel- land, Ont., and DeWitt Carter of Port Colborne, are interested in the project. The German government is negotiating for the purchase of the Southern Cross and other vessels of the Newfoundland seal- ing fleet, for the purpose of a relief expedition to the Antartic cean. 'The steamer Strathcona is being engined at Halifax for the t.alifax and Causo Steamship Co. The hull was built at Port Clyde, N. S., and towed to Halifax. The vessel will have ac-. commodations for thirty passengers and about 200 tons of cargo. The steamer Beatrice S. Waring was launched at Carleton, N. B., a few days ago, for the Springfield Steamship Co. She will go on the Belle isle route early in June. a It is proposed to convert the 6,000 ton steel barge Agawa, owned by the Algoma Central Ry. Co., into a steamer. 'The a was built two years ago by the Collingwood Ship Build- ing Co. EQUIPPED WITH ORE DISCHARGING APPARATUS. Writing of "A turret steamer to discharge 10,000 tons of ore in thirty-four hours,' a Newcastle corespondent of Fairplay, London, says: os "The turret steamer Grangesberg goes for her trial trip from Sunderland on Saturday. This steamer is a marvel of ingenuity, is the first single-decked steamer built to carr-r 10,000 tons, and shows what can be done by our local ship builders. She is built to carry 10,300 tons on a draught of 22 ft. 8 in. she will steam 10% knots, she has fourteen masts, twelve hatches, twenty-four derricks, twelve double-ended winches, and with this gear she will be able to dischargé the whole of her 10,000 tons of cargo in about thirty-four hours. Her engines are placed aft, so that at the same time that she is discharging her ore she will be able to take her bunkers from lighters, and thus be ready to sail on another voyage as soon as the last tub of ore is discharged. This steamer has been built by Wm. Doxford & Sons, Ltd., of Sund- erland, and is for Messrs. W. H. Muller & Co. of Rotterdam for their ore trade between the Baltic and Rotterdam." This item is quite interesting as showing a different method of discharging ore than obtains on the lakes. In this case the vessel herself is equipped with the unloading apparatus; on the lakes it is the docks which are so equipped. 'The discharge of. 10,000 tons of ore in thirty-four working hours is good time, but the proportion has been vastly exceeded on the lakes, even though the problem of unloading may still be generally set down as unsolved. Recently the Hulett clamshells at Conneaut dis- charged 5,217 gross tons of ore from the steamer James H. Hoyt in a trifle under four hours' time. This would mean 10,000 tons in less than eight hours. Of course it must be admitted that such dispatch is unusual, but the fact remains that it has been accomplished. MASTERS AND ENGINEERS OF LAKE VESSELS Lake Shore Saw Mill & Lumber Co., Cleveland: Steamer-- E. A. Shores, Jr., Capt. Alfred Forrest, Engr. ----. Schooner-- Kingfisher, Capt. A. J. Sommerville. Canada Atlantic Trans. Co., E. J. Chamberlain, Gen. Megr., Ottawa: Steamers--Geo. N. Orr, Capt. Wm. Baxter, Engr. H. H. Evans; Arthur Orr, Capt. H. Jaenke, Engr. J. Murnan; Ottawa, Capt. A. Birnie, Engr. P. J. Quinn; Kearsarge, Capt. R. Mc- Dowen, Engr. H. A. Wood. The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft aglee. When the steamer J. S. Keefe left Buffalo on her maiden trip with a cargo of coal for Duluth the Review mentioned the circumstance and as the vessel had left in ample time to reach Duluth before the day of publication the sentence indicated that she had reached there. But, alas, the Keefe and the whaleback barge No. 130 col- lided opposite Grosse Point lightship and the Keefe had to put back to Wyandotte to see how badly she was hurt. Minor misfortunes have attended the Barry Line since it began running on the Detroit-Cleveland route. The Badger State caught fire at her dock at Detroit but the blaze was con- fined to the officers' quarters and was extinguished with a slight loss by the crew. The Empire State broke her shaft near the outer harbor at Cleveland and had to be towed into port, suffer- ing several days' delay in making repairs. Messrs. Funch, Edye & Co. of New York, announce with sorrow the death of their senior partner, Mr. Henry W: 0, Edye, at Hamburg, Germany, on May 13. The surviving part- ners will continue the business under the firm name.