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TAE Marine REVIEW _ ae 25 two: round trips five days in the week and three round trips on Saturdays and Sundays. She will be sailed by Capt. Donald McLean and her chief engineer will be Charles Warwick. FREIGHT SITUATION. Vessel owners are not anxious for an early opening of navigation, and a general start will not be made until April 20 or thereabouts, unless weather conditions take a decided change. There is no advantage to be gained in 'forcing the opening. Two steamers have left for upper lake ports and their progress will be watched with inter- est. One is the steel steamer W. A. Rodgers' with' coal for Milwaukee and the other is the wooden steamer Clyde with coal for Chicago. Both sailed from Buffalo Monday night, making an early opening for this port which is usually the last one on Lake Erie to open. The ha:bor at Buffalo has been comparatively free from ice for sev- eral days past. There is considerable ice in Lake Erie, however, the steamer Lyman C.. Smith -left Buffalo late Sunday afternoon taking about thirty-six: hours to make the trip from that port to Lorain. She experienced considerable trouble with the ice. During April, 1905, 1,195,173 tons of ore were moved. Ore shippers do not expect to move much more than this during the present' month. Reports from upper lake ports indicate that the ice in the straits of Mackinaw and in. White Fish bay. is quite. thick, 1-1 ~e.- pected, however, that: as soon as the ore begins to move 'it will come down in a_ perfect torrent. Up to June 1 last year. 5,814,604 tons of ore were moved and this record will probably be exceeded this ~ year. Supt. Owens, of the Duluth & Iron Range road, announces that the loading of cars and the forwarding of ore from shaft No 2 of the Fayal near Eveleth and the Elba will begin this week. Should the docks become congested before navigation opens, the ore will be loaded directly into vessels. LABOR SITUATION. The executive committee of the Lake Carriers' Asso- ciation has now concluded settlements with all the labor organizations except those controlled by the Longshore- men. There is a slight hitch, however, with the engi- neers' association and the package freight lines. The en- gineers' association wants three engineers on all package freight steamers of over 3,000 tons. This ruling would affect about twelve steamers and the representatives of the package lines in the executive committee of the Lake Carriers' Association felt that they could not grant it. The engineers held a further conference at Buffalo with Ed- ward Smith and T. T.- Morford - of~the* Lake -Carfiers . committee and insisted upon the employment of a third engineer. This was flatly denied and the engineers have now. ordered all their men off the package freighters. The difficulty is not regarded as serious, however, and it is expected that a satisfactory adjustment will be made. Experience has shown that students studying by self- instruction are particularly diligent and earnest in their work. This is because they are, as a class, more mature, and have learned by experience to take a more serious view of life's voyage. If some of them have had partic- ularly no education to begin with, they need not be dis- couraged, for in any case they always start at the bottom _ with the most elementary principles.. Any man who has perseverance and a thirst for knowledge can overcome the lack of early education and become a successful navi- gator. OBITUARY. | " Mr. Henry A. Hawgood died at his home in Cleveland on Tuesday morning last. He had been seriously ill for many months and while his condition was at various times critical, he seemed to possess such remarkable rallying powers that -- hope of his ultimate recovery was never abandoned. Mr. MR. HENRY A. HAWGOOD., From a Group Picture. Hawgood was sixty years old and was born in Wales, com- ing.to this country with his parents at the age of five years. They settled on a farm near Milwaukee. Mr. Hawgood be- gan sailing on the steamer Bradbury when sixteen years old ynd was chief engineer at the age of eighteen. He served as chief engineer on a number of. steamers for about twelve years. Then he went into business for himself, buying the barge Chicago Board of Trade, and sailing it as master. He rapidly added to his fleet of barges until it became necessary for hint to remain ashore in order to manage them. He came to Cleveland in the spring of 1888, and took his place among the leading and progressive vessel owners of the city. Mr. Hawgood's latest boat, the Harvey D. Goulder, was launched only on Saturday last, and is among the finest on the lakes, Mr. Hawgood being among the first to recognize the economy of the large ship. In fact it was he who, in a way, inaugurated the era of the big ship, for the Curry when he built her in 1893 was the largest vessel on the lakes, so large in fact that it. was deemed unsafe to put her engines aft, so they were located amidships. They were put aft only two years ago. He was one of the best-known and_ best-liked vessel owners on the lakes and sincere regret is expressed at his death. He leaves a widow, son and daughter. Capt. H. S. Albrecht died at Manitowoc on Saturday last. He was born in Denmark about sixty years ago and was originally a salt water sailor. He sailed on the great lakes, however, from 1844 to 1896, and built quite a number of schooners. The Cunard Steamship Co. this week declared a dividend of 4 per cent after providing fully for the depreciation and putting $250,000 in reserve.