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10 MARINE REVIEW. eee} 0 00090 00 amass Around the Lakes. The Port Huron ferries carried an average of 700 cars daily across the river during January. The steamer Swallow has been sold by Capt. Porter to Capt. Quinlan, of Detroit, for $15,000. The Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Company has increased its capital stock to $800,000. The schooner Jessie Winters has been sold by Halvor Wil- liamson to Barton Moes, of Racine, for $1,100. Escanaba will extend her boundary lines taking in North Escanaba where the docks for the Schlesinger road are being constructed. The Armour-Marion collision case will not come up for trial during the present month. Judge Jenkins, of Wisconsin, dock- eted it for the May term. The Ogdensburg Transportation Company has purchased the schooners Jennie Matthews and Mary Lyon, and will con- vert them into barges for the Lake Ontario coal trade. The propeller Ogemaw and consorts, barges Tilden and Maxwell, have been chartered to carry lumber from Ashland to Buffalo for the same parties as last season. ‘The charter is for going rates. Capt. Smith Moore and R. R. French have secured contracts to furnish 500 cords of stone each for the extension of the gov- ernment breakwater at Marquette, C. Berner, the contractor, pay- ing $4.50 per cord tor the stone delivered. . Capt. John Miller, a Lake Michigan navigator, who died a few days ago at Somers, Wis., at different times owned and com- manded the schooner Rosa Belle, scows I. M. Hill, Green Bay and other crafts.’ He had not sailed for five years past, and was 64 years old. Representative Chipman, of Detroit, has introduced a resolu- tion in accordance with the recommendation of the secretary of the treasury to suspend for one year on the lakes the operation of the law requiring projectile life line guns for the life-saving service. Henry Pates, for many years clerk in service of the Good- rich boats, and for late years filling that position on the Muske- gon, has been appointed to the agency of the Goodrich Trans- portation Company, at Manitowoc, made vacant by the death of J. W. Toombs. E. B. Whitcomb, general passenger and ticket agent of the Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company, has resigned his position, which will be filled by Augustus A. Schantz. The steamer City of Detroit will begin running about March 1, to be followed about one week later by the City of Cleveland. The report generally circulated that there is 2,000,000 tons of ore on Ashtabula docks is untrue and misleading. ‘There is less than 1,000,000 tons on dock at that point. Still, the ore is moving very slowly, the combined shipments of the two railways leading out of Ashtabula last week being less than 150 cars daily. One important change in the rules of the steamboat inspec- tion service adopted at the recent meeting in Washington pro- vides that all ships hereafter built shall be provided with stop valves on the steam pipes. ‘This, with other rules adopted by the supervising inspectors, will be enforced after approval by the secretary of the treasury. A telegram from the Sault a few daysago said: ‘‘Recent in- vestigation into the condition of the ice on Mud lake shows six or eight inches of ice with water and about two feet of snow over it. Teams are unable to cross. ‘The ice is not as thick as usual anywhere in the river. There is enough snow on the ice _ now to prevent it making any more. The water is four inches lower than last spring. Otto Kitzinger and John Smith of Manistee have purchased the steamer Mark B. Covell from Whitehall parties for $22,000, and she will ruff between Milwaukee and Manistee. ‘The Covell is wintering at Whitehall, where her engine is being steeple- compounded. Her measurement is 192 net tons, and she carries about 300,000 feet of lumber besides having cabin accommoda- tions for 45 passengers. She was built at Manitowoc in 1888, by Burger & Burger, rates A1*, and last season had a Lloyds’ valuation of $25,000, The Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin claims that the new twin screw steamer Virginia, being built by the Globe Iron Works Company for the Goodrich Transportation Company, will be the finest passenger steamer flying the American flag, not ex- cepting the Fall river line boats. In her general appointments the Virginia will resemble the modern ocean passenger steamers, while her cabin is to be, as nearly as it will be possible to design it, a duplicate of the steamer Indiana’s, of which the well-known Detroit marine architect, Frank E. Kirby, than whom there is to-day no better in the United States, wrote last season after looking the Indiana over carefully: “The Indiana’s is the hand- somest steamboat cabin in the world. I except nothing, in this or any other country.” “Capt. Tim Smith, of the tug J. H. Martin, of Charlevoix, is a unique character, in his way,” says the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin, “and it is said of him that nothing was ever known to ruffle the serenity of his temper. A number of years ago he was master of the small schooner Sea Gem. One night, while making the run from Milwaukee to Charlevoix, the schooner was caught in a terrible squall. The mate called to Tim several times to come on deck, but he remained in the cabin patiently sawing away on an old cracked fiddle, in a vain attempt to wheeze out a new tune. Finally the schooner’s canvas began to blow away, and the mate stuck his head down the companion way and shouted: ‘For God’s sake, captain, come on deck! The schooner is going straight to hell!’ ‘Is she goin’ by way of Charlevoix?’ drawled the captain. ‘I suppose so,’ replied the mate. ‘All-right, then, I’ll get off there,’ and he began sawing away again. Cleveland Matters. Mr. M. A. Bradley is in the south and will probably be out of the city for a couple of weeks. The steamships Corona and Corsica, of the Mutual line, will appear next season with but two pole spars. The Cambria’s spars are very low and will remain as they are for the present. Major Overman, Uu'ted States engineer, has advertised for proposals for the removal of 244 feet of the east pier at Ashta- bula and for making general repairs to the piers at that point. This is in accordance with the plans of the Lake Shore Railway Company for the breakwater and dock improvements now under way at that port, although the work will be done by the govern- ment. The project has the indorsement of lake vessel interests in general and will give Ashtabula a big increase in business. Amherstburg Wants a Dry Dock The idea of the building of a dry dock having any political significance may seem strange to dry dock owners of the United States, but there is a ripple in Canadian Parliament which was stirred up by Amherstburg citizens calling attention to an old petition, praying the Dominion government for $50,000 to build a dry dock. After calling attention to the grant made Kingston, a commendatory clause was inserted in the .second petition, stating that “ the enlightened policy of the present government ” etc. When it reached Mr. Balfour he objected to adding his signature and gave the following reasons: Although desiring a dry dock at Amherstburg, he did not feel called upon to record his approval of a policy, which he believed afforded the very reason for there not being a dock at that place long ago, for if there was freedom of commercial intercourse with the United States and liberty to repair American craft, private enterprise would provide a dock without government aid. If Amherst- burg reflects this idea the coming election there will be interesting Notice to Mariners. The light-house board gives notice that on the opening of navigation two fixed red lights will be exhibited from tubular lanterns suspended respectively 21 feet and 26% feet above lake — level, on the channel side ot the east pier at the entrance toCedar river, Green bay, Michigan. The front range light will be at- tached to the south corner of Cedar river light-house and the © : ae rear range light will be suspended froma post near the inner end of the pier, 500 feet from the front light. The lights will be v ble in clear weather, two or three statute miles, and form a range tor entering and leaving Cedar river, ee ~