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16 center boat with openings 12 ft. wide. The work of recovering the bodies of the drowned members of the crews of the various vessels was under the general supervision of the Welfare Plan Committee and the records kept by the committee were of inestimable value in serving to identify the dead. In fact, this particular feature was of such outstanding importance that it is understood that Canadian owners will organize welfare work of a_ similar character in the near future. Captain E. O. Whitney, of Ashtabula, was appointed chairman of a committee, consisting of R. A. Harrison, traveling commissioner of the Lake Carriers' Association; Captain Fred Weiner, of Pickands, Mather & Co.'s fleet; Cap- tain George H. Bowen and Capt. J. A. Ferguson, of the Pittsburgh Steam- Sip. Co.s eet, to. assume active charge of the work of recovery. This committee established headquarters at the Hotel Bedford, Goderich, Ont., and divided the lake shore into dis- tricts, each captain taking charge of one district. Each district was then subdivided into five-mile stretches and a patrol organized. The first thing done was to make a thorough search of the wreckage, which was piled up 5 or 6 ft. deep and carried back from 1,000 to 1,500 ft. beyond the normal shore line. Every inch of the ground from Kettle Point to Kincardine was thoroughly examined. The tug Horton patrolled the water ,along the shore, using row and motor boats to make a more intimate search of the numer-- ous inlets. The tug went northward as far as Cape Hurd and with the help of the natives, who were very earnest in assisting in the search, all the bays and islands were thoroughly explored. Meanwhile the Canadian revenue cutter Lampton cruised in the open lake, covering an area of 25 miles from shore. The Lake Carriers' Association issued a standing order of $25 reward for every body recovered. While this work was going' on, the Lake Carriers' Association, through the Welfare records, obtained from relatives detailed descriptions of the members of the various crews and these, as they were received, were telegraphed to the headquarters of the searching party, where a_ systematic record was kept of them. As the bodies were recovered they were taken to Southampton, Goderich, Kincardine or Sarnia, whichever might be nearest. Comparisons were then made with the descriptions filed with the committee and as soon as the body was identified, the Lake Car- riers' Association communicated with relatives as to the disposition of the remains, meanwhile embalming and preparing the body for burial. THE MARINE REVIEW Steamer Peter White Capt. James Kennedy, of the steamer Peter White, says: "We left Sault Ste. Marie Nov. 7, at 5 P. Men route, to Mar- quette. At 3 A. M., Nov. 8, when about two miles west of Point Sable, which was passed at 1:50 A. M., on Nov. 8, we encountered a heavy north wind and at 4 o'clock it started to snow. In the meantime the sea: had become very high, so much so that we had to haul her head-to, steering due north. We continued headed north until about 9 o'clock. At this time the seas had become so big that the ship started to throw her wheel out, losing her head- way and going so slow that it was impossible to hold her head to. At times the seas would strike her and throw her off five or six points. We would then have to put the wheel hard astarboard and let her go around in order to gain headway and bring her up head on again. We had to turn about 12 different times. During this time, while heading into it she struck some of the seas very heavily, causing the ship to vibrate so much that she broke quite a number of her hatch sections which dropped into the hold. We continued in this manner trying to hold her head to until about 5:30 in the evening, Nov. 8, when the snow cleared up some and we saw the land about a mile and a hali to the leeward. "At this time the engineer had taken our cuts off and was using all the power possible to hold her head to. It seemed then as though the wind lulled a little for a short. time, so that we were able to gain a little headway, gaining off shore probably a mile an hour. About 10 o'clock the same evening, it seemed to die away and we were able to get off about 15 miles by 6 o'clock on the morning of Nov. O About 6 oclock it: stopned snowing and we started for Grand Island harbor, where we. arrived and let go anchor about 9 o'clock Sunday morning, Nov. 9. "I might state that the engineer stood by the engine, throttling the boat for 24 hours on account of her engines racing when her wheel was thrown out of the water. He had to use all power possible even to taking the cuts off, in order to keep headway so that we would not go ashore." March, 19)4 So complete was the system that iden- tification was practically complete. It was at first planned to assemble the bodies in one burial plot, but as so much interest was aroused over the tragedy in the various little Canadian towns that it was determined to bury them 1o- cally. Practically 95 per cent of the sailors employed on the vessels of the Lake Carriers' Association are registered and were it not for the records main- tained by the Welfare Committee, it would have been impossible to carry on this work of identification with such fidelity and accuracy. The Welfare Committee has already paid death benefits upon all bodies recovered and identified and all other death benefits will be paid as soon as it is established that the member of the crew was actually on the boat, whether the body is recovered or not. This will involve the disbursement of about $20,000. The Welfare Committee was greatly assisted in the work of identification by the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies, which carried all such messages free. The weather bureau reports that the highest and steadiest winds occurred between 6 and 10 p. m. November 9, and it was during that period of time that the vessels foundered. The watches on the dead bodies had all stopped between 8 and 11:30 p. m. The Dominion Marine Association collected a fund of about $110,000 to' provide relief for the dependent fam- ilies of the men lost in the disaster. A practical scheme of distribution in- volving payment of the fund to the parties entitled in installments extend- ing over periods of from three to seven years, has been completed. Con- cerning the storm the Dominion Ma- rine Association says in its annual re- port: "Any consideration of the casual- ties of 1913 and of the work of your committee in connection therewith is overshadowed by the calamity which overtook so many staunch craft in November last. In a storm of un- usual severity which occurred on the 8th, 9th and 10th of that month a number of vessels of the United States and Canada ran ashore and suffered severe damage, and a_suf- prising number, of which four were enrolled in your association, foun- dered and left no survivors of their crews. Three of these, the James Carruthers, the Regina and the Wex- ford sank in Lake Huron, and the fourth, the Leafield, went down in Lake Superior. At this date, and in the absence of any information as to the exact causes which led any one