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t Pip | MARINE REVIEW. MARINE REVIEW. DEVOTED TO THE LAKE MARINE AND KINDRED INTERESTS. JoHN M. MuULROONEY : ane Re ee ee ee pe reoeetet HOMER J. CARR, . Associate Editor and Manager Chicago Office, : Western Union Building, 110 LaSalle Street. Published every Thursday at No. 516 Perry-Payne Building, Cleveland, O. SUBSCRIPTION--$2.00 per year in advance. Convenient binders sent, post paid, 75 cents. Advertising rates on application. The books of the United States treasury department contain the names of 3,600 vessels, measuring 1,154,870.38 tons in the lake trade. In classification of this fleet the lakes have more steamboats of 1,000 to 2,500 tons than the combined ownership of: this class of vessels in all other sections of the country. The number of vessels of 1,000 to 2,500 tons on _ the lakes on June 30, 1891, was 310 and their aggregate gross tonnage 512,- 787.58; in all other parts of the country the number of this class of ves- sels was, on the same date, 213 and their gross tonnage 319,750.84. The classification of the entire lake fleet is as follows: Class. Number. Tonnage. Pedi COSEIG aie ars erndenp mires wince se see 1,592 750,751-53 MIAMUMMPOVESSE1S paca csasucesiiacoasssnessarssecse 1,243 325,131.06 Gana lapOALSrce ase skess meses ocnee okt s ctetse sass site os 703 72,515.42 BANGS eG etude meat es on de ceaate «tv ese tennenedesna thea tens 62 20,472.37 MOA cessor ee rasan eceueekonn ie. 3,600 T,154,870.38 - Tonnage built on the lakes during the past five years, according to the reports of the United States commissioner of navigation, is as follows ; _No. of boats. Net Tonnage, MS eect acti datcle ean ewe eee aon sno rfeee ase ee ne ses 152 56,488.32 MOS ecodat seer i crscecccasbineneeeisene ress 222 IOI,102.87 HOOD Reese een ets eset tacoen rt accutane rechens 225 107,080.30 TOO seer en wec cc vb sce ckecsane sete events steeds 218 108,515.00 MOO Me ster ee seat cow uceae scree theca 204 I11,856.45 POA rts certs sts Weetok beet os ac I,O21 485,042.94 St. Mary's Falls and Suez canal trafic: Number of boats through St. Mary's Falls canal in 1890, 228 days of navigation, 10,557; tonnage, net registered, 8,454,435. Number of boats through Suez canal during 1890, full year, 3,389; tonnage, net registered, 6,890,014. Number of boats through St. Mary's Falls canal in 1891, 225 days of navigation, 10,191 ; ton- nage, net registered, 8,400,685. Number of boats through Suez canal dur- ing 1891, full year, 4,207 ; tonnage, net registered, 8,698,777. Fintered at Cleveland Post Office as Second-class Matl Matter. In connection with the canal toll question a great deal of idle talk is being indulged in about Canada hurrying to comple- tion the new canal at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., "when the country _ will then have an uninterrupted waterway in its own territory, _ from Lake Superior through to the Atlantic." The St. Clair Flats canal, built by the United States, and the cut at the Lime Kilns, completed only recently from funds obtained through the regular river and harbor appropriations of the United States government, are put down as American improvements in Can- adian waters. - It will be noticed, however, that such claims are made only in Canadian newspapers that have given no investi- gation to the subject. They are not made by the government authorities of Canada, and there is really no need of reference to them in connection with the canal tolls question, as the Can- adian officials must see their error on this subject and bring about a settlement before even the retaliatory measure at the St. Mary's Falls canal goes into effect. It is held by the best author- ities in the war department that the St. Clair canal is entirely within the waters of the United States, and only a small corner of the cut at the Lime-Kilns extends-into the waters of Canada. It must be admitted that a very large portion of the Detroit river channel below the Lime-Kilns is entirely in Canadian waters, but no one expects that the present controversy will go so far as to bring about any extreme measures governing the - commerce of these waterways. ¢67TA Tue drum of campaign is abroad in the states," is the an- swer of Canadian newspapers to the firm stand taken by Presi- dent Harrison on the subject of discrimination against Canadian commerce passing through the Welland and St. Lawrence canals. 'This is strange logic in consideration of the fact that 'comparatively light. the bill proposing retaliation was passed unanimously by both houses, notwithstanding the very large Democratic majority in the lower house of congress. The Canadians interested in this subject have just learned that Ogdensburg grain interests have been most active in bringing the matter to the attention of the United States government. Was it not the Kingston grain for- warders, competitors of citizens of the United States in the same business at Ogdensburg, who secured through influence with the late premier, John Macdonald, the first issuance of the or--- der-in-council that has brought about the present difficulty? Av Last both houses of congress have passed the bill in- creasing the pay of the deserving heroes of the life-saving ser- vice. The increase was not as large as was desired by the friends of the life savers in the house, but delay in an attempt to pass a new measure, notwithstanding the justice of such an act, might have jeopordized the chances of any bill being passed during the present session. As the bill goes to the president it provides that hereafter the compensation of the keepers of life- saving stations shall be at the rate of $900 per annum each, except that of keepers of stations known as houses of refuge, which shall be at the rate of $600 per annum each, and the com- pensation of the members of the crews of the stations during the time the stations are manned shall be at the rate of $65 per month each. Members of crews have been paid only $50 a month for the time they are engaged. Out of this meager pay they have to provide their own maintenance. In 1889 the little port of Escanaba on Lake Michigan shipped more iron ore than any port in the world. Shipments from Bilbao, Spain, in that year were a few thousand tons be-- hind the Escanaba movement. Escanaba can no longer lay claim to this prestige, however, as exports of.iron ore from the great Spanish iron ore port in 1890 aggregated 4,372,918 tons. Figures showing shipments from Bilbao last year are not at hand but they are without doubt largely in excess of Escanaba shipments, as the movement from the latter port in 1891 was Of the exports of 4,372,918 tons from Bil- bao the United Kingdom took 3,040,560 tons or 70 per cent. INVITATIONS have been issued to the opening ceremonies of the World's Columbian Exposition, Oct. 11, 12 and 13. 'They are handsomely lithographed. 'The buildings will not be fin- 'ished, but the ceremonies will be in honor of the 4ooth. anniversary of the discovery. The REvrEw has been favored with an invitation. A Few Aids to Navigation are Secured. Again the senate and house conferees on the sundry civil appropriation bill have inserted the few items for aids to naviga- tion on the lakes and there is reasonable assurance that the bill when finally reported will be passed. The only item included in the bill when first reported from the conference committee but left out in the final report, is an appropriation of $95,000 for a tender for the Ninth light-house district. 'The bill now provides for a fog signal, Buffalo breakwater, $4,300; upper range lights, St.Mary's river, $5,000; Frankfort pier head fog bell, Lake Michi- gan, $1,000; two light-ships at northwest and southwest cor- ners of Lime-Kilns crossing, $1,000; range lights above Grassy island, Detroit river, $1,500; three small light vessels for use in Detroit river, $8,600; range light for Mamajuda island, $1,500; range lights on Grosse isle to center the channel from the foot of Fighting island to Mamajuda. light, $2,500; a government | light-ship at Bar point, Lake Erie, $25,000; Superior bay lights, Wisconsin, $1,200. Sixty thousand dollars already appro- priated for establishing a light station on or near Eleven-Foot shoal, is applied for the construction of one or more light-ships for use on the great lakes.