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10 MARINE REVIEW. Marine REVIEW. DEVOTED TO THE LAKE MARINE AND KINDRED TNE LSS: ee wie Peete at alg PROPRIETORS. 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 Jake fleet is as follows: Class. Number. Tonnage. Steattp veSSel Sie esencccecndeertessectiaeeccnscsssace 1,592 756,751-53 Sailing VESSels...0..ccccsecesers ssenssecernsreeenee 1,243 325,131.06 (Cerna Joe veN eS ioctonodccndoadtbeogo0 vooodl onocdbocodceade 703 72,515.42 UB ANGE ES aceaiesis ects ile ecueeacicines eeepc 62 20,472.37 MeO baile saccies: pespuets tier canseaemclanes eeee 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. TOSHueis ison satceeehe cscune nec emses Mitiegeeeses 152 56,488.32 TOSS ices eae ied et etaile sseien ono se temmainee ir 222 IOI, 102.87 TOGO esep ee ciere erect anis-waesceneeest soee 225 107,080.30 TOGO me cesaeatsnatses cen sdect eae crate une 218 108,515.00 MOG Ue merceatnserweladeeacastcmerh seemed sans cs 204 111,856.45 AR oie Laedianoconcaccbocnconecoosaasunsode 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. Entered at Cleveland Post Office as Second-class Mail Matter. COMMANDER R. D. EvAns, recognized in naval circles as a capable and courteous officer, willin a few days succeed Com- mander George W. Coffin as naval secretary of the light-house board, Commander Coffin going to sea. Commander Evans was formerly connected with the board in the same capacity and is thoroughly familiar with the duties of the position. ~The change is not a surprise to lake vessel owners, who have of late had some very unpleasant relations with Commander Coffin and other executive officers of the light-house institution. Neither will it be a surprise if other changes are made very soon, but action of this kind will not satisfy the vessel owners of the lakes, who can not withdraw from the unanimous and determined demand that full justice must be shown to Col. Ludlow and Commander Heyerman. A great wrong has been done them. Officers en- titled to praise have received censure. While vindicated in fact by every action of the board since their removal, and by this last move toward reorganizing the board they are not officially acquitted and are still under condemnation. Their official records have been sullied by a serious and baseless charge in the treasury department. No court of inquiry can obliterate it, for such a court can only come from the war and navy departments. The secretary of the treasury has the power to set it right and ought to do so. He is recognized as the official and responsible head of the light-house service, and the vessel interests of the lakes still look confidently to his taking just and effective action as soon as the urgent and onerous demands upon his attention leave him time to examine the situation and recognize the true equities of the matter. Wir the completion of the St. Mary's Falls canal and 20- foot channel work now fully provided for by the system of con- tinuous contracts, Gen. O. M. Poe, the veteran army engineer, will have merited retirement, which will be due him at the close of the short period required to finish these great works. The s successor will be of the greatest importance There is not in the engineer corps of the army today a man better fitted than Col. Wm. Ludlow to succeed Gen. Poe in charge of the northwestern lake division, and the vesselmen will make a mistake if they do not keep this matter in mind. In all the controversy between the shipping interests of the lakes and the light-house board over the case of Col. Lud- low with that institution it has been admitted by everybody con- cerned that he is one of the most valuable men in the service. Officers more scientific may be found in the corps, but Col. Lud- low is best fitted to succeed to the important position from which Gen. Poe is soon to retire with full honors. appointment of hi to the lake marine. Tus impression has gone out that the Chicago Insurance Company, which was organized recently,and whose stockholders are mainly vessel owners and grain shippers, will take from the vessel brokers of Chicago and Duluth the commissions which they have derived in the past from the insurance on grain car- goes. This is not true. The new insurance company is organ- ized to do a business in the insurance of grain cargoes just as other companies are now doing and its agents will be the vessel brokers as in the past. There will be no change in broker's commission on account of the new organization, but it is ex- pected, of course, that the Chicago company will get a large share of the business,on account of the influence secured through the vessel owners and grain shippers who make up its list of stockholders. As A-result of a disposition to co-operate with the vessel owners in all matters pertaining to the advancement of the ship- ping interests, Col. Jared A. Smith, district engineer at Cleve- land, succeeded last week in having funds from the Cleveland breakwater appropriation applied to removing a sand bar which had formed at the mouth of the river during the recent storms, and which had almost completely blocked the harbor. Col. Smith's action in this matter is deserving of praise, as it shows that the right kind of an officer in such a position does not take refuge under red tape methods in department rules when an emergency arises. Discovery of the Ashland Mine. Iron ore dealers and others on the lakes who are acquainted with the Hayes brothers, owners of the famous Ashland mine of the Gogebic district, have heard many times the tale of a dream attending the discovery of the great ironrange. A western pub- lication presents the latest version of the yarn. "Some years ago,".says this exchange, "a widow named Hayes had a dream that impressed her very strangely. She dreamed that at a certain point in the Gogebic range of mountains in northern Michigan there existed a large body of iron ore. Going to the point indicated in her dream she dug down a few feet under the the surface and came upon an immense deposit of red hematite ore. She acquired title to the property before her discovery be- came known and in a short time realized several million dollars from her find. Wishing to settle down for life she married a young husband and has for the past four years been engaged in constructing the famous Hayes mansion in the Santa Clara Val- ley, California, six miles from San Jose, where she purchased 1,000 acres of the finest land in that valley. The Hayes man- sion when completed will, perhaps, be the most expensive resi- dence on the Pacific coast, and no visitor is allowed to leave San Jose before visiting it. The woman is now traveling in Hurope with her fresco artist selecting designs for the ceiling and walls of the mansion." The Hayes family was made wealthy through ownership of the Ashland mine, and they own an elegant home in California, but very little serious attention has been given to the story of a dream connected with the discovery of the property.