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6 , MARINE REVIEW. a Canadian Marine. Special Correspondence to the MARINK REVIEW. KINGSTON, Ont., May 28.—There are between six and seven thousand tons of iron ore on the line of the K. & P. railway awaiting shipment to Cleveland and other American ports as soon as the market gets better. Prices are so low now that it would not pay to ship. The new steamer North King has left the old dry dock. Ina couple of weeks she will be running across the lake to Charlotte. She is a very fine boat. Notwithstanding this is a dull season in timber carrying, the propel- ler Niagara has made two trips to Manistee. She is now off on her third. Work on the diy dock is being rapidly pushed forward, but at present it is impossible to say when it will be ready to receive a boat. The gates are now occupying the attention of the workmen. The accident which occurred to the Veronica, it is thought, will hurry the goverument in putting range lights in the harbor and putting out bet- ter and larger buoys. The captain of that steamer said that if the harbor had been properly marked the accident would not have taken place. Capt. William Dandy, native of this city and one of the most ener- getic skippers, has moved to Detroit with his family. Capt. Joseph Dix, of the White Oak, intends making more trips this season than any other transient master in the harbor. The office of Breck & Booth, which is the headquarters for marine news and where waiting captains congregate, has beeu removed about 100 yards from the old place. Capt. Booth says this season beats the record for scarcity of charters. The schooners Minnedosa and Kildonan arrived here with nearly 100,000 bushels of grain. This-trip is nota gold mine. The steamer Glengarry, which had them in tow,broke her machinery and had to remain in the west, while the Thompson went from here and brought back her tow. The R. & O. So. intended to compound the engine in the Corsican, but the order has been cancelled owing to the lateness of the season. Nothing further has been heard in parliament about the reciprocity in wrecking bill. The probabilities are that it will remain dormant until the two countries discuss the reciprocity question. - The Ogdensburg Towing Company has raised the tug Fred. Wheeler, which was sunk near that city by the ice last fall. She will soon be at work again. Ashtabula’s Life Saving Station. Special Correspondence to the MARINE REVIEW. ASHTABULA HARBOR, O., May 28.-Supt. Dobbins of the Ninth life saving district, is much pleased over getting off his mind the location of a sta- tion at this port. He worked therefor long and persistently, and under many depressing conditions. The railroad people, who have land to spare along the river, and whose traffic will be materially benefitted by future protection to ore vessels, have acted very hoggishly in the matter, with one exception. Capt. Dobbins said that the Lake Shore company offered the government the best it had, but the others would not donate, lease or sell land for which they had no use. The lot selected is on the beach 1,520 feet west of the river. It meas- ures 100 feet in width by 351 feet in depth, and is quite near the water works building. The north end of the lot is about 200 feet from the water’s edge, aud between it and the lake are the filtering galleries of the water works. These galleries are below the surface of the beach, the fil- tering being done through the sand. The chosen lot is at the corner of Chestnut and Franklin streets,and was bought from William Hubbard. It is on the more civilized side of the harbor and is an admirable location. Capt. Dobbins desires that the new station buildings shall be better than any others on the lakes. Work on them will be begun as soon as the preliminaries can be arranged, and the station is to be ready for ser- vice by early fall. On the north or beach end of the lot the boat house will be erected on piles, there being no protection fromthe lake. This house will be two stories high, and a lookout 4o feet in height will be at- tached. The lower floor will contain one of Dobbins unwreckable life boats and a surf boat, besides all the apparatus nowustdin the work of life saving, excepting the wagons. Back of the boat house will be the wagon house. This will be furnished with a Dobbins launching wagon and a beach cart, with all the necessary apparatus belonging thereto. The dwelling house will be erected on the south end of the lot, a short dis: tance back from the street. It will be of two stories and arranged for the best accommodation of the keeper and his family. It has not been de- cided whether the sleeping quarters of the crew will be put in the second story of the dwelling house or the upper part of the boathouse. In either case they will be roomy and comfortable. Both houses will be attractive in outward appearance. From the Loathouse to the lake an inclined runway will be erected on piles, for launching the boats. This will be about 200 feet long. By means of rollers a boat can be run into the waterin a few seconds. ‘The launching and beach wagons, when needed, can be taken out through the side street. ET An extra boat house will be built on the east side of the river,on a lot s5ox100 feet, kindly donated by the Lake Shore road. This house will not be so expensive as that on the lot bought from Mr. Hubbard. It will store a surf boat only, which will be used by the crew when it may not be ad- visable to take one of the boats out of the main house. From this double location arose the absurd story that that the boat house would be on the east side of the river, and the crew’s dwelling house on the west side. Capt. Dobbins has a personal pride in the new station and he will watch its progress with a sharp eye. It will be a model of its kind. Cleveland Matters. The Cleveland Vessel Owners’ Association now has a mem- bership of 164 steam and 145 sail vessels, 309 in all, with a total net tonnage of 297,000. Last season’s membership was 3o1 vessels of 262,097 tons. Capt. Ed. Kelley, who is superintending the work of build- ing the government light-ships for the Straits at the yard of the Craig Ship Building Company, Toledo, says they will be ready to leave the shipyard about August 15. The Cleveland Ship Building Company is about ready to turn over to the owners the steamship Griffin, last of the four Lake Superior Iron Company’s boats. Work has not as yet be- gun on the light-house supply boat Amaranth, but there will be no delay when the government officials are ready to go ahead with the boat. “The greatest danger in connection with the McDougall tow barges is their helplessness when cast adrift,” said a Cleveland vessel owner a few days ago. “McDougall has been trying to° make a show by sending out a long string of them but the. acgi- dent to the tow that broke adrift on Lake Superior a few days ago shows that there is great danger in handling them in that way.” Mr. A. W. Goodrich, of the Goodrich Transportation Com- pany, Chicago, has been in the city during the past week looking after the construction of the steamers Virginia and Atlanta. The ° Atlanta will leave for Milwaukee, Saturday, but the big twin - screw steamer will not get away until about June 15. The Atlanta is a good wooden boat and is being fitted out after the style of the~- elegant Indiana, about which so much has been said. It would seem from the manner in which some of the big « boats are making time in carrying iron ore to Tonawanda that delays in that trade do not warrant the feeling that exists against it among ore carriers. On a recent trip the steamer America’ made the run from Detroit to the docks of the Tonawanda Iron and Steel Company on Niagara river in 22 hours and 20 Seek This does not seem like delay after reaching Buffalo ° arbor. The Duluth customs official who refused to allow the Amer- ican propeller Eber Ward to take Canadian bonded wheat to Kingston was right in his ruling. Only a few years ago an at- — tempt was made to ship in Canadian hulls Iowa grain from the head of Lake Superior to Kingston and thence to Boston for ex- port but the scheme was brought to the attention of the Ameri- can government by Cleveland owners and was declared contrary to the coasting laws. Sgr The Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company has | secured the most valuable block of river front in the city for | dock purposes, but will be prevented from utilizing it for some time on account of the Main street bridge being swung from the © centre of the river. Necessary alterations on the new property may also delay occupancy of it until late next season. The property extends from Superior to St. Clair street, with railway _ connections covering all of the-importaur lines of the city. _ The talk of danger attending the present work of construct- ing a new lock at the Sault has caused a revival of a scheme for a canal between Lake Superior and Bay de N ocque, Lake Michi- gan. Offices of Cleveland vessel owners have been flooded with copies of one of the upper Michigan plninsula papers containing an article in favor of this project and asking that the next con- gress be petitioned for a survey at least. It is the general opinion that there are many improvements far more important than this,. even were it known to be practicable. * It is reported in foreign journals that the Cunard company - has placed a contract with the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineer- ing Company for the construction of two new steamers. which will be the largest of their class ever built, being, it is said vessels of 14,000 tons each. a.