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SS eee a, kee, MARINE REVIEW. 9 ee ee ee Around the Lakes. Martin Haberer, who was mate on the steamer North Star, has been appointed master of the Northern Light. Wheeler & Co., of West Bay City, have begun the erection of a machinery plant in connection with their ship yard. Homer J. Carr, Chicago representative of the MARINE RE- VIEW, has been appointed deputy collector of customs at that port. & Saginaw valley lumber shipments foot up 40,310,000 feet for August. This is about 2,000,000 feet less than shipments during August, 1890. _ S. W. Insky and David Pollock have purchased the schooner Delos De Wolf from the T. W. Harvey Lumber Company of Chicago for $3,200. Capt. James Murray, for a number of years connected with the Kingston & Montreal Forwarding Company at Kingston, died in Montreal on Friday last. Three of Grummond’s tugs, the John Owen, Winslow and Sweepstakes, towing in all sixteen schooners, passed up the Detroit river on Wednesday of last week- Edward W. Gaskin, superintendent of the Union Dry Dock Company of Buffalo, will design a new fire boat, for which the council of that city recently appropriated $30,000. Capt. Steve Chatterson, formerly of the Idaho, has taken command of the Saginaw Valley. Capt. Frank Stanton ot the Valley will command the A. L. Hopkins, vice Capt. Herrick, resigned. Capt. C. H. Ripson of Pulaski, N. Y., has sold one-half of the schooner John Magee to J. M. Jones & Son ot Detroit for $3 000. The Magee is a canal schooner of 315 registered ,tons, was built in 1869, rates A2 and is valued at $5,000 in Lloyds. Baker Bros., of Detroit, have bought the schooner S. C. Pomerey as she lies sunk and partially burned off Oak Orchard, Lake Cntario for $700. They also have the contract to blow up the old Missouri, on the beach below Sandusky, with dynamite, for which they are to receive $500 and such portions of the boat as they want. The Evanston (II1l.) life saving crew, made up of Capt, L. O. Lawson and seven university students, Frank M. Kindig, E. B. Fowler, W.M. Ewing, J. A. Loining, W. lL, Wilson, R. N. Holt, W. W. Wilkinson, astonished Lieut. H. B. Rogers, inspector of the Eleventh district, last week, by capsizing and righting the life-boat in thirty-two seconds. The Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company contemplates alterations in the steamer City of Detroit No. 1 that will better fit her for the excursion business between Cleve- land and Put-in-Bay island, in which she has been engaged dur- ing the past two seasons. It is proposed to increase her capacity so as to accommodate 2,500 passengers. The Chicago board of marine underwriters has adopted the following insurance rates on grain: ‘To ports on Lake Michigan 40 cents;to Lake Superior 55 cents; on Lake Huron, Sarnia and Detroit river 40 cents; on Georgian bay and Lake Erie 45 cents; on Lake Ontario and Ogdensburg 55 cents; to Montreal 70 cents. The Lake Ontario and Montreal rates are much lower than usual for September. Robert Inglis of Bayfield, well known throughout the Lake Superior districts, and Miss Margaret Walton, of Philadelphia, were married on board the steamer Japan on Wednesday last while the boat was on her way from Ashland to Bayfield. A few friends had been invited to make the short trip between the two Wisconsin ports and were treated to an agreeable surprise in the wedding ceremony. At West Superior, Friday, the American Steel Barge Com- pany launched whaleback No. 116, a tow barge. Colgate Hoyt, president of the company, witnessed the launch and talked about future operations of the company. He says a dry dock will be built at West Superior if the citizens contribute $25,000 or $30,000 in money or land toward the enterprise. The company now has two barges on the stocks that will be finished this fall. Mr. Hoyt says a half dozen or more barges will be built at West Superior during the winter. It now seems altogether likely that none of the hold-over ore under contracts made a year ago last winter with the Chapin Mining Company will be carried. W. H. Wolf stated the other day that the Wolf & Davidson Steamship Company had can- celled their contract. This company has between 50,000 and 60,000 tons of ore due them to carry at $1.05 when the present season opened. The Milwaukee Tug Boat Line, whose $1.05 contract last season lacked 16,000 tons of being filled, will make no attempt to secure its fulfillment.—Milwaukee Evening W is- consin. Frank S. Manton, manager of the American Ship Windlass Company, while at Philadelphia last Friday, took orders from the William Cramp & Sons’ Ship and Engine Building Company for the windlasses, capstans, chain indicators, steel stoppers, etc-, amounting to about $48,000. This is in addition to the work already ordered and which they have nearly ready tor delivery to thiscompany. ‘This is probably the largest order ever given for windlasses, capstans, etc., either in this country or Europe. During the past twenty-five years the American Ship Windlass Company have supplied the Cramp Shipbuilding Company with every windlass that they have used. Work of constructing the Seul Choix light-house, Lake Michigan has begun and Col. Ludlow will shortly ask for pro- posals for the Old Mackinaw point light. Both structures will be of brick with stone trimmings and_ will cost $15,000 to $18,000 each. Seul Choix light will be a perma- nent fixed red of the third order and that at Old Mackinaw will be of the fourth order, flashing red every ten seconds. Two fog- signals are now in course of construction at Cleveland for the Point Betsey light. They are ten-inch steam whistles with a five-second blast alternating every ten and forty seconds. [t is thought they will be put up before the last of September. Cleveland Matters. The first steel fish tug built on the lakes, was launched from the Cleveland Ship Building Company’s yard Monday. She is for Ranney & Son and is 60 feet long, 12 feet beam and 4 feet deep. The engine is 8 and 16 inches by 12 inches stroke. ‘The flat-sided Scotch boiler is the only one of the kind on the lakes and is the Cleveland company’s No. too. It is 4 feet wide, 6 feet 5 inches high and 7 feet 4 inches long, having a 24-inch fur- nace and fifty-one 3-inch tubes. The vertical independent air pump was designed by Mr. Angstrum and built by the Cleveland company. When the beam engines of the excursion steamer Frank E. Kirby, which has attracted so much attention recently as the fastest boat on the lakes, were in the old revenue cutter John Sherman, thirty-four turns a minute was the best record ever made with them. ‘They are probably turned much faster now in Kirby with a smaller wheel. The Sherman had a 26-foot wheel and she made 18 miles an hour when crowded. The Kirby and the City of Sandusky, Capt. Arthur Fox in the former and Capt. Brown in the latter, and both running on Lake Erie, are probably as well handled as any passenger boats on the lakes. The City of Sandusky is not, of course, a modern boat but she is well kept and managed to great advantage for her owners. Wrecks and Heavy Losses. The Canadian scow schooner British Lion, while en route Thursday from Romney, Ont., to Erie, Pa., capsized. Her crew of six men took to the yawl and were picked up by the steamer Nyack. The boat is a total loss. She was built in 1883, meas- ured 80 tons, rated B2, and had a valuation of $800. The schooner Millard Fillmore, a vessel of 277 tons, valued at $2,000 in Lloyds, rating B. 1 and owned by S. Sullivan of De- troit, sprang a leak on Lake Huron Thursday night and sank with a cargo of pig iron in thirty feet of water, off Rogers City, Hammonds bay. Capt. G. N. Fisk and crew escaped in a small boat. In the gale of Thursday the Canadian tug Wales was caught on Georgian bay with the big barge I. Hatchkiss, lumber laden, in tow. ‘The tug was compelled to abandon her tow. It is thought that the barge, which was also abandoned later by her crew, will prove a total loss. The barge registered 1,000 tons and was owned by the Muskoka Lumber Company. Two small boats were numbered among the total losses last week. ‘The tug Rambler, valued at $7,000 and owned by Capt. Yokum of Duluth, burned at Port Arthur, after being run out of Duluth to escape creditors, and the schooner Dawn went ashore at Fox Point, Lake Michigan, ina waterloggedcondition She was afterward stripped and abandoned by her owners, Albert William- son and Ole Halverson of Milwaukee.