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44 LAUNCH OF THE HAMONIC. "The Northern Navigation Co.'s new passengér steamer Hamon'c was suc- cessfully launched at the yard of the Collingwood Ship Building Co., Col- lingwood, Ont., on Thanksgiving Day end was' christened by Mrs. H. H. 'Gildersleeve, wife of the manager of the steamship company. The Hamonic, when completed, will be one of the finest vessels engaged in the package freight and passenger rade on the great lakes. She is. 365 #t over all, 50 ft. beam, and 27. it. molded depth to spar deck. She is built on the channel system, fitted with water bottom compartments, and is provided with nine water-tight bulk- heads. She has seven gangways on each side, two for passengers and five for freight. Each freight gangway will serve two hatches. She has accom- modations for 425 first-class passen- gers and 75 second-class, in addition "eo a crew of 100 persons. The Ha- monic will engage in trade between Windsor, Sarnia, Sault Ste. Marie, Port Arthur, Fort Wiliam and Dut- luth, running in connection with the Grand Trunk Railway system in east- ern Canada and the Grand Truck Pa- cific in western Canada. She is fitted with quadruple-expansion engines of over 6,000 H. P., steam being supplied by six double-ended Scotch boilers, al- lowed 250 lbs. working pressure and fitted with Howden draft. Her regu- lay service speed will be .about 16- miles an hour, though it is under- stood that she will be capable of trav- eine 21 miles an hour leht.. Her auxiliaries are quite complete, includ- ing a wireless telegraph outfit and a The Marine REVIEW THE complete refrigerating plant installed by the Kroeschell Bros. Ice Machine Co., of Chicago. -- STEAMER NORTH STAR SUNK. The package freighter North Star of the ~Mutual - Transit Co.'s fleet. was sunk in 90 ft. of water off Port Sani- lac, Lake Huron, in collision with her sister ship Northern Queen. The North Star was bound down with a full cargo of wheat, flour and shingles, and the Northern Queen was bound up with a general cargo of merchandise. The collision occurred about 5 o'clock on the morning of Nov. 25 and was due to a fog so dense that neither vessel LAUNCHING On - THE HAMONIC, HAMONIC ON THE WAYS. saw the other until it was impossible to avoid the collision. The North Star was struck on the starboard bow abreast of the pilot house and sank almost im- mediately, the crew barely having time to escape in the small boats. They were picked up by the Northern Queen dnd taken to Port Huron where they were transferred to the Northern Light. The bow of the Northern Queen was badly damaged. Neither Capt. Cart- wright Oo: the North Star nor Capt. Stevenson of the Northern Queen made any statement other than that the col- lision was wholly due to the dense fog prevailing. The North Star sured for $120,000. As she carried a valuable cargo, the total loss will be nearly $250,000, which is the was 1n- one of heaviest losses that the underwriters have had to sustain this. season. gine «North Star was one of six steamers built by the Globe Iron Works of Cleveland for the Northern ship Co. of Buffalo. They were pur- chased by the. Mutual Transit Co. som? years ago: Steam- PIG IRON SITUATION. While several good ders for pig iron have been closed, yet in most centers merous ard quotations fairly sized or- inquiries are not nu- sales: are light; however, are well maintained. Buy- ing of steel cars in large numbers by rumerous railroad interests has given reason to the belief that tne placing of contracts for an important equipment will soon be feature of the The bar iron market is in a rather un- satisfactory condition, since prices of market.