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28 ae "THE. MARINE. REVIEW the purpose of handling the work. Keeping up the piers and keeping the harbor mouths from filling in with sand is mostly what is done now. For Lake Ontario has Niagara Falls to thank for not being a real part of the lake system, commercially speaking. The new work outlined in this article ought to cost something like $350,000 and it shows that the government is quite liberal in its care of the great lakes, especially at points where work really counts. 'JoHN CHAMBERLIN. TWO LAKE LAUNCHES The launch of the steamer Stephen M. Clement at the Lorain yard of the American Ship Building Co. on Saturday morn- ing last marked another of the successful launches of this company. The Clement was christened by Miss Marion Cle- THE LAUNCHING PARTY ON. THE STAND. ment of Buffalo, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Stephen M. Clement. She carried a beautiful bouquet of roses, the gift of the American Ship Building Co. The launching party con- sisted of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Clement, Miss Marion Clement, Stewart Clement and Harold Clement of Buffalo; Wm. A. Roger, president of the Buffalo & Susquehanna Iron Co.; Hugh Kennedy, manager of the Buffalo & Susquehanna nan. After the launch the party returned to Cleveland on special cars and went to the Union club for luncheon. The Clement is building for the Buffalo & Susquehanna Steamship. Co. of which Capt. John Mitchell of Cleveland is the manager. The steamer is a duplicate of the Ball Brothers and Philip Minch and is therefore 500 ft. over all, 480 ft. keel, 52 ft. beam and 30 ft. deep. She will have triple-expan- sion engines with cylinders 2214, 36 and 60 in. diameters by 42 in. stroke, supplied with steam from two Scotch boilers 13 ft. 9 in. in diameter and 11 ft. 6 in. long, fitted with Ellis & Eaves draft and allowed 180 lbs. pressure. The Clement will be commanded by Capt. Charles B. Galton. The steel freighter Socapa, building for Mr. G. A. Tomlin- son of Duluth was launched at the Bay. City plant of the American Ship Building Co. also on Saturday afternoon. The Socapa was christened by Mrs. Samuel P. Cranage of Bay City. The launch was most successful in every way. The steamer is 524 ft. over all, 504 ft. keel, 54 ft. beam and 30 ft. deep and is equipped with triple expansion engines 22%, 36 and 60 in. cylinder diameters by 42 in. stroke, supplied with steam from two Scotch boilers, 13 ft. g in. by 11 ft. 6 in, fitted with Ellis & Eaves draft. The Socapa will have a carrying capacity of 9,000 gross tons of ore. Shipments of iron ore from Vermillion mines have com- menced for the works of the Dominion Iron & Steel Co., to Sydney, N. S., and the Neebing, with 2,200 tons, loaded at Two Harbors a few days ago. G. A. Wieland of Duluth was the low bidder for the riprap work and timber removal at Ashland, Wis., the work esti- mated at about $30,000. There were five bids, the highest $1.29 and the lowest 79 cents. 'The first iron ore for the Buffalo & Susquehanna Iron Co. whose plant adjoins that of the Lackawanna Steel Co. at Steny Point, was delivered at the plant this week by: the Tomlinson steamer Sonoma. The ore came from Escanaba. THE STEAMER STEPHEN M. CLEMENT IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE LAUNCH. Tron Co. of Buffalo; Mr. and Mrs. James C. Wallace, Mr. Robert® Wallace, Mr. Robert Logan, Mrs. Whitmarsh of Cleveland; Miss Lee of East Liverpool; Miss Marlowe and J. V. Lutes of Port Clinton; Capt. and Mrs. John Mitchell, Ralph D. Mitchell, J. P. Mitchell, Prescott Ely and D. J. Bren- Unless traffic is interrupted the Detroit marine post office will handle more mail this season than ever before in its his- tory. The volume so far this month is from 25:to 50 percent in excess of that for any previous May since the office was es- tablished.