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28 "TAE MarRINE. REVIEW AROUND THE GREAT LAKES The steamer Arundel is in the Detroit dry dock for final ' repairs before leaving for the Thousand Island run. The new steamer Philip Stackhouse, building at Wyandotte will be launched the latter part of July. The Dominion government has decided to abolish the posi- tion of collectors of the canals. As no tolls are now col- lected the compilation of statistics has been discontinued. The steamer E..H. Gary struck an obstruction-in going inte Conneaut this week and knocked all the buckets off her wheel. The steamer Turbinia while in she dry sacle at Kingston, Ont. had a new center propeller and had some other altera- tions made, The tug Grayling, owned by Carkin, Stickney & Cram of Detroit is being put in shape at Oade's ship yard, Detroit, for a trip to Mobile, having been sold to Mobile parties. Whitney Bros., of Superior, have secured the contract for the harbor improvement work at Port Wing, Wis., during the coming summer. The new lighthouse on the outer end of the west break- water at Ashtabula harbor has been placed in commission and the beacon on the end of the west pier has been dis- continued. The range light on shore will be continued. The new lighthouse at the outer end of the west breakwater at Ashtabula was put in commission this week and the beacon on the end of the west pier which has served for many years was discontinued. The range light on shore will be continued. The steamer Havana owned by F. P. Mills has completed re- pairs and will enter the coal trade. Her machinery was re- placed during the winter with the machinery of the steamer Sparta. The Toledo Steamship Co. has been incorporated with a capital stock of $225,000 to manage the steamer which the Craigs are building for Mr. L. S. Sullivan and others of Toledo. The Andrews scraper is now installed on four docks at Cleveland, one at Milwaukee, one at Conneaut, one at Ashta- bula and one at Buffalo in addition to the one at the Detroit Furnace dock. The Anchor line steamer Delaware, to be built at the plant of the Great Lakes Engineering Works, will go on the berth _ vacated by the launch of the Superior for the Western Transit Co. ~The business heretofore carried on in Toronto by the firm The Polson Iron Works, has' been .acquired: by. the \Polson . Iron Works, Ltd. The new company has acquired all the assets of the business and has obtained its liabilities. The executive committee of the Lake Carriers' association wil! meet in Washington on July 1 and will ask the special commission appointed by President Roosevelt for some modi- fications of the present rules governing freight carriers. The steamer W. G. Mather, building at Ecorse, and to be the beamiest boat on the lakes is now' well along on the berth from which the steamer Hoover & Mason was launched. The Hoover & Mason is now nearly completed. The Northern Coal Co., at Duluth, has decided to expend $350,000 in a new dock west of the Hanna dock on Connors 'point and have it in operation at the ppeuie of navigation next spring. The new tug Judge W. B. Saunders, falldias at the Cleve- land yard of the American Ship Building Co., for the Kelley Island Lime & Transportation Co., will be ready to go into commission within a short time. The Northern Steamship Co., cine ne North West and North Land, will this season inaugurate a new American plan service supplementary to the European plan service which has been in vogue since the big white boats have been operating, The Empire Ship Building Co., of Buffalo, has secured the contract for the construction of the hull of a new wooden fireboat for Chicago. The engines, boilers and pumps of the fireboat Yosemite, now laid up at South Chicago will go in the new boat. The new steamer E. H. Gary of the Pittsburg Steamship Co., made her first trip to Lake Erie ports last Tuesday. She arrived at Conneaut early in the morning, unloaded a little over 9,700 tons and cleared late the same afternoon. No - effort was made to establish an unloading record. Remarkable time is being made by the Detroit Ship Building Co. in completing the big new steamer Lyman C. Smith which was launched at the Wyandotte yard Saturday, May 27. Her machinery is all aboard and her dock trial has been had. She will be delivered within 20 days of the date of her launching. The little steamer Belle, of Green Bay, has been secured to operate between Detroit and Grosse Ile. No boat has been on the route since the Wyandotte took up the excursion business out of Buffalo and was later sold to the Long Island railroad and went to the coast. The Detroit Ship Building Co., is making a record on the new steamer Lyman C. Smith. The hull was launched at Wyandotte May 27 and towed to Detroit. On June 2 the boilers were in position and: filled, and on June 8 the engine was given its dock trial and she will go into commission June 17. A large ore storage plant is to be built for railway conven- ience near the Minnesota ore dock on Ganson street in South Buffalo. The Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg railway and the Pennsylvania system are interested in the new storage yard and the plans show it to be one of the most complete in the country. The steamer Chaquamegon of Ashland now running between Milwaukee and White Fish Bay, will shortly leave for the southern coast of California. Her owner, Louis Cartier, has invited a few guests to accompany him. The steamer is IOI ft. long, and 22 ft. beam and was built at Manitowoc in 1893 for service between Ashland and the Apostle Islands. The St. Lawrence Floating & Wrecking Co. will endeavor to recover the valuable cargo of the Dominion liner Scotsman, wrecked on East Point, Gulf of St. Lawrence, several years ago. The Scotsman, as part of her cargo had $200,000 worth of copper for the Dominion government, and this was to be minted into coin. Capt. Harris W. Baker, of Detroit, has succeeded in rais- ing the hull of the old steamer Greyhound, from the bottom of the river where it has been resting for several months. -The . hull has been used as a dump scow for Detroit alley refuse. The schooner Hubbard which was imprisoned in a slip by the sunken hull was released and cleared for Point Pelee for a cargo of gravel. Prof. H. C. Sadler of the University of Michigan, within the next two weeks will start for Europe where he will inves- tigate and study the experimental model testing tanks that have been established there. The experimental tank at Ann Arbor is now nearly completed and the model cutting ma- chinery is about ready. Prof. Sadler will return to Ann Arbor Sept. I. The Gilchrist steamer Yakima, after being aground on the head of Stag Island, St. Clair river, since Saturday morning, caught fire and was completely destroyed last Tuesday morn- ing. She was down-bound with a cargo of ore, and carried $40,000 insurance. She was built at Cleveland by Capt. Thos. Wilson in 1887. The crew had a narrow escape as all members were asleep at the time the fire was discovered, @ a.m. 'Lhe steamer Bessemer of the Pittsburg Steamship Co.'s fleet had a narrow escape from being sunk on Lake Superior this week. She was bound for tne head of the lakes light