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"SS ic MARINE REVIEW. Marine REVIEW. DEVOTED TO THE LAKE MARINE AND KINDRED INTERESTS. JOHN M. MULROONEY, Pee yooh ae Rac ape F. M. BARTON, HOMER J. CARR, 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. PROPRIETORS. 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 tous on the lakes on June 30, 1891, was 310 and their aggregate gross tonnage §12,- 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. Stent VESSElSi cht scsc.cs tensa cceuuncnewessenercunes 1,592 756,751-53 Sali OveSSElS «dec suce sung dhsinveston teases ssceee 1,243 325,131.06 amTAlG DOES ae astm sce scmerconeucaces steadier 703, 72,515:-42 BAM GCSi: cecacesmane wicker Nese nese cseed meted cnet 62 20,472.37 otal ccs ot 2. coctns sdescinstencbae ten overs 3,600 1,154,870.38 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, USO fie ests aaa c,ateiol de we ee caste west sieareicis sleet 152 56,488.32 MBO Sie cocecss ince ce yeine Seece senses see cesmcs 222 IOI, 102.87 HS reset iocoete sient rere sennes anoecsetoce 225 107,080.30 MOG Ob ace se cettee sense ceaerr ce/enseciemsn 218 108,515.00 TS OMe eee eee ioeeeiactste seeteatedniamese nae 204 111,856.45 ARO tales is ae Socks Seaives shee Mince soe hela 1,021 485,042.94 St. Mary's Falls and Suez canal traffic: 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. Eintered at Cleveland Post Office as Second-class Mail Matter. IN ANOTHER part of this issue a Detroit correspondent, who De), very modestly signs the letter "D," instead of his full name, of which the communication is certainly deserving, suggests that on some given day a grand parade or review of lake steam ves- sels be given in connection with the great attractions attending the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago. Whata magni- ficent sight this would be to America's guests assembled from all parts of the civilized world. No account of the magnitude of lake shipping need be recited here to prove that the vessel owners now have it within their power to contribute to the fair an object lesson in inland shipping that would be as far-reach- ing as all the efforts of previous years to attract attention to this commerce. As our correspondent says "it would be a sight the like of which has never before been seen, and would go tar- ther toward emphasizing the resources and progress of the great west than acres of buildings filled with products from all parts of the world." this most valuable suggestion? Who will lead a movement along the line of No greater tribute could be paid to the skill of lake shipbuilders or the great extent of their interests here, and they will be lacking in enterprise if they do not contribute encouragement to the scheme if life can be put into it. It is not impossible to assemble off the fair grounds at Chicago more than one hundred of the finest steel vessels flying the stars and stripes, and to this might be added many times that number of wooden steamers fit to do credit to the navy of any nation on the globe. Of course, the cost of such an under- taking would be great--probably too great to admit of any hope of the scheme being carried out--but the opportunity is certainly " Associate Editor and Manager Chicago Office,- deserving of earnest consideration by the leaders of lake com- merce, who have shown themselves equal to undertakings of greater magnitude but not more important. ee es Mes Set ae TSrroucH the Associated Press the executive officers of the light-house board have set up a cry about certain newspapers on the lakes criticising their attitude in the past toward navigation interests, and they proceed to make a parade of their great efforts to light the St. Mary's river, so that it can be navigated by night as well as by day. Gen. Poe and Capt. Read have submitted a plan, they say, whereby a system of crib and float lights, light ships and patrol boats is to be established at a cost of $145,562, if the vessel owners will turn in and help the board to secure the required appropriation. It is reasonable to suppose that any scheme with which Gen. Poe is connected is practicable, and the vessel owners will very probably make an effort to secure the appropriation, but it is amusing to note the present attitude of these officers of the board. 'Their opinion of the influence of lake shipping interests has changed wonderfully within a very short period. The magnitude of Lake Superior shipping de- mands of this board a perfect system of lighting for the Sault river, but it is to be hoped that when improvement is made in the present system it will be by officers other than those now in charge at Washington, who have done everything in their power to make it unpleasant for the interests involved, and are now only trying to save their heads by a cry of persecution. TE sentiment of the Buffalo canal convention was, accord- ing to telegraphic reports, overwhelmingly against federal aid. The convention declared that the commercial supremacy of the state had been won because of the waterways and that it still depended upon them; that the canals must be preserved by money from the tax payers of the state and that federal aid is not wanted and will not be asked. All this is good enough on the surface, but it must be remembered that the convention was largely a gathering of canal men. Other citizens of New York state, who are very numerous,and who succeeded in defeating a canal appropriation bill last year, were not init. Asa centen- nial celebration, or a representative gathering of canal men, the Buffalo meeting was a success, but measures more radical than those advocated by the convention are necessary before hope can be entertained of competition with the railways now controlling the business of the northwest that halts at Buffalo. ZENAS KING, pioneer iron bridge builder of this country,and founder of the King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Company, died at his home in Cleveland Tuesday. The King works, which are among the largest of their kind in the country,are known on the lakes through the building of hoisting and conveying ma- chinery. More Schemes for Canal Boat Propulsion. Buffalo newspapers have again gone to discussing the feas- ibility of applying the trolley system after the style of electric street railways to the propulsion of canal boats. In a letter to the canal convention last week, Governor Flower referred to the numerous ideas already expressed on the subject, and now the opinions of electrical engineers and practical canal men are be- ing sought in an effort to get the state legislature to make an appropriation for experimental purposes. A new steam canal boat of peculiar design, which will make atrip from Buffalo to New York city with 7,000 bushels of wheat, is also attracting attention. H. C. Bender of Morris- town, Pa., is the inventor. 'The paddle wheels on this boat are four-bladed and are 4 feet wide and 4 feet in diameter. They are incased in two air-tight cylinders, placed one on each side of the boat's keel, and they project slightly below the bottom of the boat. 'Their location dispenses with the use of shafting. The engine is of 45 horse power and will, it is claimed, drive the boat at a rate of six miles an hour, 3