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M Ap BR 7 NOU R E V be 3 will be a secondary battery of twenty 3-in. (14-pounder) rapid-fire guns of 50 calibres in length, twelve 3-pounder semi- automatic guns, six I-pounder automatic guns, two I-pounder semi-automatic guns, two 3-in. field pieces, two machine guns of .30 calibre and six automatic guns of .30 calibre. There will also be four 21-in. submerged torpedo tubes. FREIGHT SITUATION ON THE LAKES. Trade conditions could not be more discouraging than they are at present on the great lakes. Upper lake docks are congested with coal so that it is impossible for some of them to receive a single cargo directly. Vessels are unloading into cars and dispatch is consequently slow. While considerable ore is moving it is not sufficient to even keep contract tonnage reasonably well employed While August shipments have not yet been compiled they will probably fall below those of July... The wild rate on ore from Marquette was cut 5 cents last week but owners are not taking kindly to it and not much wild ore is being placed at 55 cents. The grain trade shows a slight improvement. AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. The. barge Maida, laden with ore, grounded at Lorain. the week of Aug. 26. The steamer Georgia ran into and tore up about 20 ft. of he Goodrich dock at Sturgeon bay on Aug. 24 when attempting to make a landing. : The schooner Polinasia, in tow of the steamer Italia, went aground at Portage entry the week of Aug. 26 with a cargo of 7,000 tons of coal. William Stevens, a deckhand on the schooner Jenness, fell from a 20-ft. lumber pile on Scribner's dock at Tonawanda on Aug. 23 and was seriously injured. John Kelley, a laborer engaged in stowing salt on the pro- peller Wyoming at Marine City, was badly injured Aug. 24 by a barrel which slipped from the hooks. The new steamer to be built at Cleveland for the Anchor Line will have engines to be exact duplicates of those of the Tionesta. The engines will be built by the Detroit Ship Build- ing Co. a loading 6,300 tons of iron ore at the No. 4 dock, Mar- quette, Mich., the steamer Queen City was found to be rest- ing on the bottom and it was a full day before she was re- leased by a tug. The Cuyahoga Contracting Co. has made a proposition to the city of Port Huron to complete the canal from the junc- tion of Black river to Lake Huron under the terms of the original contract. The tug H. B. Phillips is now. at aciiceetsare Ont., to assist consorts over the Limekiln crossing and to work at wrecking with the assistance of the leghece Newman and wrecker Saginaw. The stern-wheel steamer Pisiaon of. Gshicaee: ie Seen sold to John Velte of Oshkosh, and Fred Thompson of Berlin, by Carl Wagner of 'Fond du Lac. remain in command. Maj. W. L. Fisk, corps of engineers, yoports that the. United ~ States lake survey steamer Search has' found a new shoal in the northern end of Green bay. It is 2%4 miles from the Eleven Foot Shoal light vessel No. 60. On Aug. 25, while leaving Saugatuck harbor, the steamer Saugatuck ran on the outer harbor bar outside the entrance. The life saving crew took away the passengers of the boat and they afterward took the Holland for Chicago. The barge Antrim, while bound up the river at Cleveland, struck the Baltic at the Irishtown coal dock, parting the lat- ter's mooring lines. The Baltic dropped down river, fouling the coal chute and carrying away her foremast and maintop- mast. - Capt. John Velte will The propeller Jim Sheriffs on Aug. 25 was obliged to drop the barge James Mowatt 12 miles from Cleveland. The barge, bound up the lake from Tonawanda, dropped her anchors and was picked up later by the tug Frank and towed to Cleveland. Under the joint influence of wind and current the passenger steamer Tionesta of the Anchor Line collided with the end of the Northern Pacific dock No. 4 at Duluth, last week. The dock was damaged to the extent of $1,000 but the steamer was not injured. Naval Architect W. J. Wood is designing another fire- boat for the city of Milwaukee. The plans call for a steel tug 106 ft. over all, 95 ft. keel and 23 ft. beam. She is to be especially adapted for crushing ice. Bids will be asked for in about ninety days. At Duluth the government is putting life preservers on the piers at the local ship canal. There will be three on each pier placed in boxes. The boxes will be bolted to the pier and arranged so they can be opened staat The preservers will be of the ring variety. The reef upon which the steamer J. T. Hutchinicon grounded on the night of Nov. 29, 1903, is situated 4.8 miles from Eagle River light and 0.43 miles from shore. It extends 200 ft. in a northeast and southwest direction and is 60 ft. wide, with a least depth of 14 ft:, surrounded by depths of 20 ft. The Canadian government has erected a lighthouse on the mier near the northern end of the shoals of St. Rock. The light was put in operation Aug. Io. The lighthouse is a rectangular building with concrete walls and mansard roof and from its base to the vane on the lantern it is 50 ft. high. The steamer Walter Vail, of H. T. Pauley's fleet, is to be cut down to a lumber carrier this fall. The Vail was built in 1890 at West Bay City. She will be one of the largest lumber carriers on the lakes when her upper decks and part of her bulwarks have been removed and will load more than 1,000,000 ft. The Vail is 200 ft. long and 35 ft. beam. Frederick M. Steele, a Chicago railroad man, began suit Aug. 26 for an injunction against the Graham & Morton Line to restrain that company from widening the canal basin at St. Joseph, Mich. Last spring the transportation company let a contract for $10,000 for improvements on the Benton Harbor canal to accommodate the new steamer City of Ben- ton Harbor. An agreement was made with Steele, who owns the adjoining property, but he alleges the delay in complet- ing the work has rendered' the contract void. He now wants to utilize the land for building purposes. The United States court of appeals has just affirmed a decree of Judge Hazel of the Buffalo district in the collision case of the schooner John Martin and the steamer Yuma in St. Clair river four years ago. Judge Hazel holds each ves- sel equally at fault and the higher courts sustain him. The circumstances are these: On Sept. 21, 1900, the Martin was bound down in tow of the steamer M. B. Grover and when she was just entering St. Clair river the Yuma came along, bound up. The wreck of the barge Fontana obstructed navi- gation to some extent and while the Yuma passed the Grover all right she swerved and collided with the Martin. The latter went to the bottom immediately, drowning four of her crew, including the captain and mate. The Martin, in- cluding her cargo of iron ore, wasatotalloss. M.A. Bradley of Cleveland, managing owner of the Martin, filed a libel against the Yuma, claiming about $36,000 damages. he Wilson Transit Co., owners of the Yuma, filed a cross-bill charging the Martin with the collision and claiming dam- ages to the extent of $5,000. The court holds that both the Yuma and Martin were at fault, the former sheering to star- board just prior to the collision and the latter for not fol- lowing her steamer and for being too far to the westward of the steamer's course.