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M A R I N E AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. The strike of ship carpenters at the plant of the Buffalo Dry Dock Co., Buffalo, N. Y., was declared off this week and work resumed. The new car ferry building at the yard of the Great Lakes Engineering Works, Detroit, for the Michigan Central rail- way will be named Detroit. It is announced from Montreal that the first cargo of steel rails to be manufactured at Sault Ste. Marie arrived there this week on the steamer Neepewah. The dredge Port Huron was sunk in the rapids above Port Huron nearly two months ago, and was raised last week. There is 3 ft. of sand in the hold of the dredge. The wrecking steamer Manistique will begin work upon raising. the Rutland Line steamer Walter L. Frost, which was wrecked last winter on South Manitou island. Louis Pfohl & Son of Buffalo have abandoned the task of raising the hull of the burned car ferry Shenango at Conneaut. It is now up to the government to dispose of the wreck. Richard Cuson, who manages the David Whitney boats, has gone to Buffalo to look after the Nipigon, which smashed a bridge near that port. It is said that the accident will cost the owners $3,000. The United States engineer's office at Detroit has given the Michigan Central railway until May of next year to re- move the old bridge between Grosse island, Stony island and the lower Detroit river. The steamer Choctaw, belonging to the fleet of the Cleve- land Cliffs Iron Co., which was ashore on Manitou island, Lake Superior, last week, has arrived safely at Cleveland. Considerable part of her cargo had to be lightered. The steamer Kirby, ore laden, went on the rocks on the Canadian shoal off Windmill Point while trying to make the harbor of Buffalo last week. After lightering a portion of her cargo she was put off and taken to the plant of the Buffalo Dry Dock Co. for repairs. The Lewis Sands Lumber Co. of Manistee, Mich., has leased the yard on Tonawanda island recently vacated by the W..W. Tyler Lumber Co. and will conduct a general business in hardwood lumber. It is announced that: the company will next spring handle hemlock and white pine lumber also. The steamer John Ericsson of the Pittsburg Steamship Co.'s fleet which went ashore near Madison, Lake Erie, last week, was released by the steamer Maritana after the lighter Res- cue of the Great Lakes Towing Co. had taken 600 tons of ore from her. The Ericsson then went to Conneaut to unload. The steamer Petoskey of the Dunkley-Williams Line, which has been running between Chicago and South Haven, has been secured to make trips between Milwaukee and Grand Haven for two weeks, taking the place of the steamer Naomi of the Crosby Transportation Co. The Naomi will go into the repair dock for an overhauling, and will be heacy for service again about Sept. 20. The United States lake survey steamer General Williams towed into Amherstburg last week a mass of wreckage which had been an obstruction to navigation in Lake Erie for some time past. It consisted of spars and rigging supposed to be from the old schooner Franz Seigel which went down off Monroe a year ago. It was found six miles from Middle Sister island direct on the Detroit river and south passage course. Through the disabling of the steering gear of the Steel Corporation steamer John W. Gates the bow of the steamer struck the east bank of the cut opposite Mullen's coal dock off Amherstburg last week and the steamer swung to the west striking the dredge Tipperary and carrying away the anchor spuds and houses of the latter. The dredge was put out of commission for a few days, but the steamer was un- injured. Work is progressing quite satisfactorily upon the new ship Ri EY fb | 31 ---- -- canal at St. Clair flats. Dredging has already been begun, one of the largest hydraulic dredges on the lakes being employed. The mud and sand is being carried by hydraulic pressure a distance of 3,500 ft, and already an island of 4oo ft. square has been formed by material moved. Mr. J. E. Rabbitt of M. Rabbitt & Sons Co. of Toledo, which is doing the work, says that the most difficult part of the work is the placing of tie rods across the west pier which is now complete. The. rods are for the purpose of strengthening the 50 ft. additional to the pier. With the removal of the machinery from the hull of the old tug Merchant at Duluth last week one of the historical vessels of the great lakes has passed away. The Merchant was built in the late '50's and plied between Muskegon and Grand Haven on Lake Michigan. She was used for the car- riage of mail and troops during the civil war. In 1881 she was transferred to Lincoln lake, a small body of water 12 to 15 ft. higher than Lake Michigan and about 1,500 ft. She was taken to Duluth in 1884 and was engaged in the fishing business for some time. Finally, however, becoming decrepit she was beached and has been used as a diving stand by small boys for some years. Commissioner Davidson of the United States district court at Detroit issued warrants last week for the arrest of Capt. George W. McCullagh of the Tomlinson steamer Sultana and Capt. Steven R. Jones of the Western liner Buffalo. The complaints were sworn to by Lieut. Col. Davis, United States engineer in charge of the district, who accuses the men of violating the regulations governing the St. Clair flats ship canal. The Sultana is accused of overtaking and passing the tug Cadillac and her tow in the dredge channel between the lower end of the canal and the gas buoys. The Buffalo is charged with drawing up and passing the steamer James B. Eads of the Pittsburg Steamship Co.'s fleet within the limits of the canal on the morning of Aug. 1. Capt. Jones in his statement of the case says that he blew one whistle as a signal that he intended to pass the Eads and that the latter replied with a similar blast which lead Jones to think that he had the right to take his vessel past the Eads. McCullagh's de- fense is that he did not pass the Cadillac in the canal proper. ------ OBITUARY. Thomas Head of 45 Wellington avenue, Windsor, Ont., died Wednesday at the age of 77 years. He was a retired lake captain and had lived in Windsor for many years. He is survived by three sons and one daughter. Mr, C. P. Campbell of Buffalo, first mate of the sien Lackawanna, was shocked to death by electricity at Green Bay last week. He was standing at the lookout at the bow of the steamer within a few feet of the bridge on which there was a net work of wire, among them a charged one belong- ing to the Green Bay Traction Co. In some manner his 'body came in contact with the wire and for an instant his entire person was enveloped in a blue flame. Mr. Campbell was about forty years old. James A. Roche, Buffalo agent of the Detroit & Buffalo Line, died at the Detroit Sanitarium Tuesday night, where he had gone to have an operation performed, but owing to his condition he was not operated upon. .He was one of the best known transportation men in Michigan. He was for many years connected with the Grand Trunk railway at Montreal, and later he was transferred to Detroit and con- tinued his connection until 1902, after which he was ap- pointed to the Buffalo agency of the Detroit & Buffalo Line. He is survived by a widow and one son. Capt. Herriman of the Great Lakes Register was thrown from his automobile on Sunday and seriously injured. He is reported, however, as progressing favorably.