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# MARINE REVIEW. 9 co: Fa Sian YSOTRD Ha PRES CASTS RESTS ae EL EN SST COT er A TET Around the Lakes. W. D. Phillips is the new collector at South Chicago. The steamer D. W. Powers received a rebuild at Ludington. _ Charles J. Robb is the new customs collector at Michigan City, Ind. : The steamer Brazil was 160 bushels short in her Chicago grain cargo. The Northern Queen was the first line boat to arrive at West Superior. Engineer Durr, of the City of Racine, lost his right arm while examining a bearing. The steamer New Orleans struck at the Lime-Kiln crossing, Friday, and broke her wheel. The steamer Hiram Dixon was the first arrival at Port Arthur. She reached there May 1. The steamer Vestry was sold at Chicago recently to W. A. Russell by H. L. Larson for $3,coo. Williams, Dougherty & Upham will do $25,000 worth of government dredging at Grand Marais, Minn. The R. L. Fryer received $7,000 worth of repairs at Mil- waukee and her engines are now on the lower deck. Toledo tug men have organized, and the Schenck is the only wild tug there. She is big enough to take care of herself. At last the site for the Ashtabula life saving station has been determined upon. It will be located on the Lake Shore pier. Canadian authorities attempted to seize on tugs that released the Holland and consorts from the Neebish. The tugs escaped. Capt. Thomas Judd will command the passanger steamer Nyack. Capt. Rhynas has gone into the Ward Line steamer Moran. The propeller Arabia went up with a jacket on as a result of grounding at Lime-Kiln crossing. She had 1,000 tons of hard coal for Chicago. Capt. Ed. Kelley, supervisor of the building of the three light-ships at Craig’s Toledo yard, says they will be ready for planking within ten days. The colors of the steamer N. Mills were at half mast, Tuesday, owing to the death of the wife of N. Mills, vessel and mill owner, Marysville, Mich. The T. S. Christie arrived at Ashtabula, Monday, with the first load of ore from Escanaba. She brought down the first load last year, arriving April 24. The secretary of the treasury has awarded the contract for supplying coal to the vessels and stations of the Tenth light- house district to Seldon Munger, of Buffato, at $4.40 a ton. The steamer Livingstone was saluted from Fort Brady, Duluth, for the honor of being the first vessel to arrive at the head of Lake Superior. The tug Bennett preceeded her one day. Joseph R. Oldham says the owners of the ferry boats Duluth and Superior, built by the Cleveland Dry Dock Company, are well pleased with their investment and say they are successful ice- breakers. Capt. W. H. Hargrave has purchased the schooner Typo from the Demass estate for $5,250. ‘The schooner Evaline Bates, owned by Thomas Jones, Chicago, was sold to W. EK. Russell for $2,500. The Viking and her consort Michigan have a sure thing, ap- parently, for down cargoes this season. ‘They take ties from Alpena for the Lehigh Railroad at Buffalo. TheS. C. Hall tow is in the same trade. ~The Kelley Island Lime and Transport Company has the contract for furnishing all the stone for the Sault canal. The stones will be 3x3 x6 feet and a bonus of $35,000 will be paid if the contract is finished in two years. The dredging contractors C. F. and H. T. Dunbar and M, Sullivan, have combined forces under the firm name of Dunbar & Sullivan. Between them they have three stations of the Hay lake channel work. The combining of contracts will enable them to work to better advantage and more economically in several ways. Dunbar & Sullivan will employ a force of 125 men, which with the operations of Carkin & Stickney will make Hay lake a scene of activity. The propeller Escanaba, which was tied up on a libel gotten out by the owners of the Canadian schooner Merritt,of the Tilley tow, has been bonded and released. ‘The two were in collision last fall. The schooner’s claim is about $3,000. The report of the Wisconsin legislative committee that $81,800 was due the Sturgeon Bay Canal Company indicates that vessels must pay the regular toll of three cents per ton until the state pays that amount. There is over $7,000 due from vessels that refused to pay tolls last year. The schooner White Cloud has been sold to eastern parties, and as soon as she unloads her cargo she will leave for the Atlantic coast, where she will be put into trade between Long Island Sound and Philadelphia. ‘fhe White Cloud was built at Clayton, N. Y., in 1853 and measures 231 tons. Rumor has it that Capt. James Davidson received the steamer Monohansett and $50,000 from Messrs. Hadley, Hubbard and others of Toledo for the new steamer Panther, sold recently. The Panther has a valuation of $95,000 in the new register, and the Monohansett is \alu :d at $30,000. The bidding for the salt water tug Sea Gull was very stiff at Detroit. Bids ran up to $14,950, when she was sold to Stephen Baldwin. It is understood that she will be used as formerly by Reid, the wrecker. She will get a new boiler and receive repairs - by the Cleveland Ship Building Company. The Two Rivers, point light was visible from Ludington, the greater part of the night of Sunday, April 19. It strikes the people of that place as somewhat strange to seea light a distance of seventy miles. Two Rivers point light is a third order lense light varied by white flashes every 30 seconds. ae The contract for the St. Mary’s river patrol, mentioned in the REVIEW several weeks ago has been awarded to P.M. Church, of Sault Ste. Marie, for $4,000. The tug Pioneer will be used. Reports of missing or misplaced buoys should be made to the officer in charge of the tug or at the canal office. E. J. Hingston, of Buffalo, was the ouly bidder for dredging 30,000 cubic yards at Oswego His price was 23% cents per yard. Mr. Hingston also was one of the bidders for dredging 100,000 yards at Charlotte, at 137 cents. The lowest bidder for that work was W. J. Daly, Ogdensburg, 11.9 cents. Last year the canal tariff on coal coming from upper lake ports was reduced from 20 to 10 cents for Canadian vessels, the object being to aid the native craft to get a share of the through coal trafic This season the old rate has been restored. The lower rate did not yield enough revenue to defray the cost of in- spection. The statement that Capt. Duncan McLachlan, who goes into the Greyhound this season, was in command of the big steamer City of Detroit when she struck Dougall rock was erroneous. Capt. Duncan McLachlan, who will sail the Greyhound, was in command of the old City of Detroit, running in the excursion business between Cleveland and Put-in Bay last season, and was successful with her. Capt. McLachlan, who left the big steamer City of Detroit recently, will sail the excursion steamer this season. In connection with the letting of contracts for coast light- house tenders, David Bell of Buffalo, writes to the Buffalo Courier: ‘In 1871 I built the revenue cutter Hamilton; in the same year the Gallatin; and, in 1873, the G. S. Boutwell, all built of iron for the revenue service on the seaboard. One of them was stationed at Boston, another at Philadelphia, and the other on the southern coast. These were dispatched from Buffalo via the Welland canal, and have been, and are to-day, considered the fastest boats in the revenue service. In reference to the Boutwell I demonstrated the value of the compound en- gine, showing that, with twin screws and the high pressure cylinder exhausting into the low-pressure, the wheel was driven with the low-pressure quite as fast as with the high-pressure.” Lake Superior vs. Creat Britain. A government report shows that the total quantity of coal and iron ore wrought in the different districts of Great Britain in 1890 was 189,731,764 tons, of which 181,614,288 was coal and 8,117,476 ironstone. The Lake Superior iron ore districts pro- duced 9,003,701 gross tons during 1890. Great Britain produced 4,874,123 tons of other minerals, including fire-clay, oil-shale, etc. ‘There was an increase of 4,697,564 tons of coal, but a ce- crease of 153,066 tons of ironstone.