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1903.] a AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. Buffalo shipped 289,663 tons of hard coal by lake during June. While the Canadian steamer Eureka was coaling at. Sorel, Ont., she listed so badly that her open port holes went under. The vessel sank and the crew jumped. : The big whaleback excursion steamer Christopher Columbus made her first trip of the season out of the Chicago river on Sat: urday last. She will run, as usual, between Chicago and ,Mil- waukee. Stewart H. Moore, formerly United States inspector of ma- rine boilers in Chicago, has been appointed Chicago representa- tive of the Iowa boiler. It is a water-tube boiler and Mr. Moore is introducing it to marine men. Lighthouse board officials announce that the light. on the southwesterly side of the entrance to Sturgeon Bay canal from the harbor of refuge, which was temporarily discontinued June 8, will be permanently discontinued on or about July t. A cargo of 7,510 gross tons of ore was taken into Lorain re- cently by the Steel Corporation steamer John W. Gates, one of the "big four.' The Gates encountered no difficulty in going up tg the Lorain Steel Co.'s docks, four miles from the mouth of the harbor. Capt. Glover of Conneaut has received a letter from the sec- retary of the treasury stating that he has been awarded a medal in recognition of his heroic efforts in saving the crew of the schooner Nellie Mason in a fierce storm off Port Colborne in October, 1895. The Erie Stewart, a schooner owned by Peggot & Sons, was towed into Owen Sound last week in a waterlogged condition. Her cargo of lumber prevented her from sinking. She was towed into port by the tug Hanson after her condition had been re- ported bv the steamer Atlantic. Congressman George E. Foss of Chicago visited Waukegan on a tug last week and inspected the harbor. He was accom- panied by government engineers and by officials of the Chicago & Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. The government is spend- ing $350,000 on Waukegan harbor. It is reported from Duluth that the steamers A. B. Wolvin and William F. Palmer of the Steel Corporation are to become a part of the fleet of the Great Lakes & St. Lawrence River Trans- portation Co. and enter the grain trade between Chicago and Duluth on the lakes and Quebec and on the St. Lawrence river. The Hyacinth, United States engineer boat for the light- house service, is now at Milwaukee being fitted out. As soon as finished she will be turned over to Maj. J. G. Warren. She is 16 ft. long, 28 ft. beam and 14 ft. deep. The Hyacinth was built. at the Jenks ship yard, Port Huron, and is modern in every re- spect. Senator Russel A. Alger has recommended to President Roosevelt that Mr. George Y. Wisner be appointed as the civil engineer member of the international commission to consider the level of the lakes and other matters. There are indications that ° the president intends shortly to announce the personnel of this commission. In order to guard its ore docks from fire the Great Northern railway has chartered the tug Buffalo of the Great Lakes Towing' Co.'s fleet and has stationed it in Allouez bay. The tug will do towing, but will always be within reach of the docks. She is fitted with modern fire-fighting apparatus and can throw five streams of water. W. F. Carrol of 1011-1012 Ashland block, Chicago, who now owns the steamer Gordon Campbell, says he is inclined to think that at some time in the past the credit of the vessel has been hurt by delays in settling claims against her for supplies, etc., but that there need be no fear as to the payment of bills incurred against her while he owns her. So pleased are officials of Dunkley-Williams company with their new possession, the steamer City of South Haven, built by the Craig Ship Building Co., Toledo, that they are willing to match her against anything on Lake Michigan--at least so says W. K. Greenbaum, general freight agent. The South Haven is designed to maintain a schedule of 20 miles an hour. Capt. Abram Ellsworth, one of the oldest captains on the lakes, died at his home in Cleveland Tuesday of this week. He was seventy-seven years of age and had lived in Cleveland since 1852. He was born at St. Johns, New Brunswick, and from that point he started his career as a sailor. He had sailed around the world many times and the lakes for a great many years. Fears are entertained for the safety of O. E. Heffelbower, assistant engineer in charge of the United States survey opera- tions at Sault Ste. Marie. He started from Detour in a small skiff and has not been found since. The skiff went ashore on St. Joseph's island. The settlers on the island said that they saw a imam fall out of it when two miles from the shore. The governmert tug Antelope will drag the locality for the body. J. M. Longyear, whose interests in iron ore mines are very extensive, is moving his residence from Marquette to Brookline, Mass. This is true literally--he is moving stone for stone the beautiful residence which he erected in Marquette half a dozen years ago and refashioning it at Brookline. The cost, of course, is vastly in excess of what it would be to build a duplicate struc- ture in Brookline--and the original structure cost over $500,000. No insurance was carried by the Great Lakes Towing Co. on the tug Cheney, which was run down and sunk by the steamer Chemung off Buffalo harbor recently in a fog. The tug -was MARINE REVIEW AND MARINE RECORD, oe worth about $7,000, The men who were saved after the collision can give little information as to the location of the sunken vessel and she will probably never be found. From such information as can be had from those rescued it would seem that fault can not be attributed to the Chemung. i ees os D. W. Porter, of Benton Harbor, Mich., launched in the St. Joseph river, a few days ago, an odd looking craft 18 ft. long and 3 ft.6 in. beam. The hull consists of two galvanized tin cylinders conical at each end. 'These are 2 it. apart and upon them rests the deck, which is 16 ft. in, length. Around the upper structure is a railing, and seats are arranged conveniently. Each cylinder is divided into eighteen watertight compartments and is therefore said to be practically unsinkable. A spectacle, at. least unusual, was witnessed at the launching of the steamer Wilbert L. Smith at the Lorain works of the American Ship Building Co. this week. The principals and chorus of an opera company, singing at the Gardens in Cleveland, gave some operatic selections as the steamer took her initial dip. The Smith is one of several large freighters that have been under construction during several months past for the United States Transportation Co. of Cleveland. Her dimensions are: Length, 400 ft.; beam, 50 ft.; depth, 28 ft. Notwithstanding the fact that the advertisement for the con- struction of two twin-screw suction dredges, published by Major Sanford of Philadelphia, specifically states that the dredges are - for service in New York harbor, the lake newspapers insist that one of them is for service in Cleveland. The government dredge for Cleveland harbor has not yet been designed. Apparently the government, through its army engineers, intends to go into the dredging business. This encroachment upon private right should _be persistently fought in and out of congress. The stranding of the steamer John Craig on Simmons' reef will certainly result in a heavy loss to underwriters and possibly the loss of the vessel. Almost all the steamer's cargo of 95,000 bu. of corn had to be thrown overboard. The steamer herself is badly twisted on the rocks. It was hoped at last accounts that with good weather she could be saved by building a cofferdam around her. Her cargo was consigned by the Armour Grain Co. to the Grand Trunk Railway at Meaford, Ont. Owners of the Hee one of the Gilchrist companies, have $65,000 insurance on er, It was of course understood that an error was made last week in the line that appeared under a picture of a tow of lumber car- riers, and which read "the A. W. Comstock and tow." The ves- sels are owned largely by A. W. Comstock and might well be spoken of as "the A. W. Comstock tow," but the steamer was the Simon Langell with the barges W. K. Moore, Interlaken and Arenac. The picture was taken just after the vessels had received extensive repairs at the works of Abram Smith & Son, Algonac, Mich., where repairs to wooden vessels on a large scale are going on all the time, but more especially during winters. United States engineer officers in charge of the lake survey - and the publication of charts are certainly more active this sum- mer than ever before in the work of surveying shoal places, locating and marking wrecks, etc. The quarrel between army and navy officers regarding this work is resulting in benefits to the shipping interests.. The lake survey steamer Williams left Detroit a few days ago to take up the work of sweeping the entire western end of Lake Erie. It is thought there are many obstructions between the islands and the western end of the lake which have not been located and which are not on the charts. The passenger steamer City of South Haven, just completed at the works of the Craigs, Toledo, for service between Chicago 'and South Haven, Mich., is not only a fast vessel, but is also elegant of interior. Much of the interior finish of this vessel is an African mahogany known as Benin wood. It is of a beauti- ful dark color, highly figured, and comes from the west coast of Africa. It has been used in the United States only in recent years and is new to the lakes. It was furnished to the Craigs by the Martin-Barriss Co. of Cleveland, who have for years sold large quantities of hard woods for cabin finish to ship builders, much of it of the very finest kind. . Three more of the ten steamers known as Wolvin canalers, which the American Ship Building Co. contracted last fall to build for the Great Lakes & St. Lawrence River Transportation Co., are up to the launching stage and will. be going into commis- sion within a few weeks. Two of them, the John Crerar and Albert M. Marshall, were launched on Saturday last, the former at South Chicago and the latter at Wyandotte. The third, to be named H. G. Dalton, was to have been launched at the same time at the West Superior works, but this launch was delayed, as was also the launch at the same works of a much larger steamer, the D. M. Clemson, for the Provident Steamship Co., of which Mr. A. B. Wolvin is also general manager. Two modern steel steamers, the Steinbrenner and Minch, owned by Cleveland families for which the vessels have been named, passed up at Detroit within 10 minutes of each other on Wednesday of last week. Both were light and both were going to the head of Lake Superior for ore, the Steinbrenner to Supe- rior and the Minch to Duluth. They were loaded without delay in either case and again passed Detroit on Monday last within a few lengths of each other, this time bound down. On the up trip the Steinbrenner was 10 minutes ahead of the Minch at De- troit and in passing down the difference was 15 minutes in the Steinbrenner's favor. Of course at some points on the run to and from the head of the lakes the difference in time between the two vessels was greater than that noted at Detroit.