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MARINE REVIEW. UI SO BI a ruc ORD TS TSE - Around ‘the Lakes. Grummond’s wrecking tug Swain was stationed. at the Sault last week and will remain at that point until the close of naviga- tion. She is well equipped and is commanded by Capt. Ed. Tormey. Complaint is made that piles driven by the wreckers around the sunken steamer Kasota, before she was removed from the channel above Smith’s coal dock, Detroit river, ought to be taken out. dara Commander Ludlow is engaged in placing the light-ships at their stations in the Straits. The keepers will be Simon Hun- toon at Gray’s reef, James N. Riley at Simmon’s reef and Or- lando J. Parker at White shoal. ‘ Wolf & Davidson of Milwaukee are building a tug for C. H. Starke & Co. The boat willbe alittle larger than the, Milwau- kee, with the same power. ‘The Sheriffs Manufacturing. Com- pany is building the engine, -and Davis Bros. the boiler. A raft of logs containing 3,000,000 feet and bound from Onto- nagon to Baraga, went to pieces off Misery bay a few days ago, and the logs are now: scattered along that portion of Lake Supe- rior. The loss to the Nester estate, owning the logs will be in the neighborhood of $40,000. The Chicago board of marine underwriters announce the following insurance rates on grain per $100 for the second” half of October: To Lake Michigan ports 70 cents, Lake Superior, Lake Ontario and Ogdensburg 90 cents, Lake Huron, Sarnia, Detroit river 75 cents, Lake Erie, Georgian Bay 80 cents, Mon- treal $1.05. : The entire fleet of nine-of the Lake Superior Transit Com- pany’s steamers was detained at the Sault by the blockade. Never in its history has that line suftered::so unlucky a season as this. Of the fleet the China, Japan, Idaho, Empire State, Badger State and Winslow have all suffered serious mishaps, the latter being a total loss. z It is said that Parker & Millen of Detroit will get $13,500 for raising the sunken steamer Susan E. Peck, which has caused so much trouble below the Sault. A story from Chicago report- ed dissatisfaction among the underwriters interested on account of the price but it is possible that it was only gossip. The loca- tion of the wreck and the demand for a speedy removal of it are special difficulties attending the work and the cofitractors have also the assurance that they are dealing with a most reliable concern. If Kingston had a grain elevator, the Canadian vessels that were compelled after waiting several days in Chicago to leave port without cargoes would not have been put to such great loss. Grain going to Montreal for export is transhipped at Kingston from lake vessels into St. Lawrence river barges di- rect. Just now there are no ocean steamers to take the grain from Montreal, and the whole traffic by that export route is blocked clear to its source, there being uo elevators on the way where grain can be stored. Capt. Henry Murphy of the Lackawanna ‘steamer Grand Traverse caused the arrest of three members of the crew for at- tempting to desert the vessel at Green Bay. ‘They had signed articles at Buffalo for the round trip, but on reaching that port attempted to leave the ship. Capt. Murphy went before a jus- tice and swore out a warrant for their arrest. | They were taken in custody and taken before the justice, who ordered them placed in the county jail until the Grand Traverse was ready to sail, when they were placed on board and forced to work back to Buffalo. The delaying of the mailsashort time ago at the Fort Wayne railroad bridge, Chicago, by the steamer Hudson of the New York Central line is being investigated by United States District Attorney Milchrist on complaint of the railroad com- pany. On the evening in question the Hudson, in tow of two Dunham tugs, was coming down the river. After she had en- tered the south draw of the Fort Wayne railroad bridge it was found that.the steamer Roby lay at the elevator, completely blocking the channel. Agent MacMillan charges that the har- bormaster on duty did not remove the Roby from the channel, but ordered the Hudson to back out of the bridge draw. She ran her shoe and wheel in the mud-and could not be pulled back. There she lay until the Roby had finished loading. Mr. Mac- Millan charges that the harbormaster utterly failed to do his duty and that the delaying of trains was due solely to that cause. 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Money refunded and expenses. paid. i in every case of failure to operate as claimed. G\ ‘More than 90 per cent. of the steamships constructed in. the United States within the past two years, includ- ing all the U.S. Cruisers, are equipped with Foster’ Regulators. a ‘Each auxiliary engine and pump on the Steamship Vir- ginia, twenty in all, is provided with Foster Regu- lators. | ‘For full particulars, including hints on steamship equip-— ment, write FOSTER ENGINEERING COMPANY, 81 Fulton St., New York. Regulators for sale and will be supplied by : The W. Bingham Co., Cleveland, O. | The Globe Iron Works Company, Cleveland, O. C. H. McCutcheon, Buffalo, N. Y. Detroit Dry Dock Co., Detroit, Mich. Riverside Iron Works, Detroit, Mich. © Detroit Sheet Metal & Brass Works, Detroit, Mich. Chicago Ship Building Company, Chicago, Ill. American Steel Barge Co., West Superior, Wis. ALE OF THE REVENUE STEAMER “Bibb.”’—Treasury Department, Washiug- ton, D. C., Sept. 30, 1891. Will be sold at public auction, to the highest and best bidder, for eash, at 12 o'clock noon of Saturday, Oct 24, 1891, at Buffalo, N. Y., the revenue steamer “George M. Bibb.’’ She is a serew propeller of 214 tons C. H. measurement, schooner rig with wire rigging. Was built in 1864 and thoroughly rebuilt and furnished with a new boiler, surface condenser, etc. in 1881. Her extreme length is 140 feet, beam, molded 2234 feet, draft forward 7 feet 6 inches, aft 9 teet 9ineches. 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