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% 8 TOBA es ------ Ee : Riga y ad Rave x) 2+ OO - 00-60 (Se NG SIRE ZTAGY HT oe = QO" ey > VOR. - 6H = -GO+iGQ-- 8 | - SO-- 6-G UE -oo- tl ! -~AROUND THE GREAT LAKES = SS - ti 00: - 60: -0:--S- - Soh The new steamer Howard M. Hanna Jr., built at the Cleveland yard of the American Ship. Building Co. for W. C. Richardson & Co., left for her maiden trip up the lakes July 6. Capt. Fred J. Trotter of the Trotter Towing & Wrecking Co., Amherstburg, Ont., is salving the machinery from the steamer City of London,. sunk on Pelee, Middle Ground, Lake Erie. The steamer I. W. Nicholas, which went ashore at North Point, Lake Huron, last November, has been cut down to a Canadian canal size steamer by the Reid Dry Dock Co. and has been sold to Canadian interests. The steel steamer William Henry Mack, of the Jenkins Steamship Co.'s fleet, has been sold to Canadian in- terests through the Duluth Shipping Co. The Mack was built in 1903 and is 354 feet keel, 48 feet beam and 28 feet deep. The license of Capt. George. H. Burn- ham, master of the steamer Caldera, which sunk the steamer Gilbert below Thunder Bay Island, Lake Huron, on May 22, has been revoked. Capt. Charles S. Ellis has been appointed master of the Caldera. The Northwestern Fuel Co. at Supe- tior has awarded the contract for build- ing a 700-foot unloading bridge at its No. 1 dock to the Heyl-Patterson Co., Pittsburgh, at $100,000. The equipment will consist of 12-ton buckets and the rig will be electrically operated. It replaces the one that was destroyed by high winds. The sand sucker Kelly Island was launched at the Lorain yard of the American Ship Building Co. on June 17, This vessel is building for the Kelley Island Lime & Transport Co. of Cleveland and is 175 feet long, 38 feet beam and 18 feet, 6 inches deep. The craft is self-propelling, having fore and aft compound engine, 20 and 40- inch cylinder diameters by 30-inch stroke, The steamer Howard M. Hanna Jr. Which was wrecked in Lake Huron in the big storm last November has been Purchased by the Reid Wrecking Co. of ATTA AAA a AH TST] % ( eA ) Ry Port Huron, The Wrecking company had made a contract with the under- writers to float the Hanna and deliver - her. in -port for 65 per cent of the value of the ship, and has now pur- chased the 35 per cent held by the un- derwriters. The Great Lakes Transportation Co. which purchased the Minnetonka and Minnekahta from the Chicago & Duluth Transportation Co. and the Wawatam from the Pittsburgh Steamship Co. has renamed them respectively Glenfinnan, Glenlyon and Glenlivet and has trans- ferred them to Canadian register with headquarters at Midland. The Gulf & Lake Navigation Co. has taken over the business and vessels of the'. Farrar -- Transportation Co: of Collingwood, Ont. Under the terms of the offer the Farrar Co. is to receive $125,000 in cash, $250,000 7 per cent cumulative preferred stock and a bonus in common stock of $125,000. In other words, the new company will take over the Farrar stock at $110 per share. The record for carrying the largest cargo on the Great Lakes now belongs to the steamer Willian Grant Morden, of the Canada Steamship Lines, Ltd. On June 15 this steamer loaded 12,606 gross tons, or equivalent to 14,119 net tons of ore at Escanaba and deliv- ered it at Port Colborne. The steam- er was drawing 19 feet 8 inches for- ward and 19 feet 11 inches aft. J: He Cooke, superintendent of the Northern Pacific ore dock at Superior, and W. J. Benson, superintendent of the Duluth-Superior interstate bridge, have organized a company to be known as the Universal Flashlight Signal Co., which will manufacture electric flash- lights to be attached to steamboats in such a manner that a cluster of lights will show at the masthead when the whistle is blown. An experimental out- fit has been installed on the steamer St. Clair. The American Ship Building Co. last week decided to make no further con- test of the Commonwealth Steamship Cos case but will take back the steam- mA ------ Sie CU JX OS * > 6H ++ 60+ - CO HO: Q 8 . : $ 0 ers Abraham Stearn, J. Q. Riddle and Sheldon Parks, assuming the outstand- ing bonds and paying the stockholders of the Commonwealth Steamship Co. the amount of money mutually agreed upon. The three steamers will be pur- chased from the ship building company by the Scott Steamship Co., which will be an Ohio corporation with a capital stock of $600,000, and of which D. R. Hanna will be president, R. L. Ireland, - vice president, Matthew Andrews, vice president, and J. S. Ashley, secretary and treasurer. The steamers will be operated by M. A. Hanna & Co. It is understood that the ship building com- pany is not a loser in the transaction. The steamers will be renamed. One of the boats will be renamed in honor of J. J. Turner, first vice president of the Pennsylvania Railway Co., but the other names have not been decided upon. Sanitation in Lake Vessels The Welfare Plan Committee of the Lake Carriers' Association held a meet- ing in' the office of J. BH. Sheadie; vice president, July 8, and reviewed in general the work of sanitation which was started by the committee last spring. Circulars were sent to all of the supply houses defining the manner in which foodstuffs should be kept, and circulars were also sent to the vessels outlining certain essential features of the campaign. The reports indicated that the supply houses in general were endeavoring to conform to the condi- tions embodied in the circular and that improvement was visible. Some discussion was had on the care of the refrigerator aboard ship and it was of the opinion that under no cir- cumstances should meat or provisions be stowed in the refrigerator by anyone except the steward and that they should be stowed in such a way that single pieces of meat could be got at without the necessity of handling any other piece. The captain will be expected to bring this matter to the attention of the steward.