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4 MARINE REVIEW. Naval Contingent Snubbed--Chicago Marine. WESTERN OFFICE, MARINE REVIEW, No. 701 Phoenix Building, CH1caAGo, Ill., July 20. t The representatives of Uncle Sam on the lakes were never given'a more unmistakable snub than they received when the Viking ship reached here last week. 'These beautifully uniformed gentlemen have been as hot as was per- missable by the dignity of their positions. Capt. Anderson,. it seems, came from Detroit by rail quietly and witnessed the reception o' the Spanish cara- vals the week before. He was not much struck with the course of the naval officers on that occasion. The naval parade was nearly spoiled by the Mich- igan, which was at its head, crawling along the water front at two miles an hour, and the general layout did not suit him either. It so happened thatthe reception committee did not place a single guest on board any of the govern- ment vessels, and the Andy Johnson was given the cold shake twice «n the trip down from Milwaukee. Capt. Davis was so roiled that he said he would » not have towed the Viking at all had he known the way he was to have been treated. Notwithstanding the fact that the naval officers were so greatly dis- pleased, the naval parade in honor of the Viking was the finest ever given here. Neyer were so many people on the water before at one time and the affair was a great success. to the Viking, the latter was so far ahead that no comparison can be made. The daily papers have been publishing detailed accounts of the drill of the - life-saving exhibit at the fair grounds, under the caption "How Lives Are Saved". It is vefy good reading matter, but how different-from the accounts of the big squall published by the same papers ten days ago. In the first in- stance the life-savers were showing the people how lives might be sayed in case of wrecks, but the other contained a sad: account of how people were capsized from a small boat and drowned almost within hail of one of Uncle Sam's life- - saying stations, abandoned by its crew on account of the stupidity and what : has been called criminal negligence of the officers of the service. How lives might be saved proved a good object lesson to world's fair visitors, but how lives are saved in storms, while not done amid the applause of assembled thousands, would be much more to the ered.t of the service. The Captains' Club, which was started by Capt. Thomas Clark of the schooner Herschel a short time ago, has already reached a membership- of ninety-one.. The members state that they are waging a successful -war against the Seamen's Union, and that they can hire all the men they want at $1.50 per day, while the union men want $2.00. With over ninety vessels tied to the docks waiting for lumber cargoes, it would be a peculiar circumstance if sailors ° held together in their demand for high wages in a dull time and they are willing to work now at 50 cents off and not kick about hours. The tug business here catches the dull times like everything else, and there are now nearly half the tugs engaged in vessel towing tied to the docks, One outside boat is said to have cruised around for over a week, and then brought in one lone lumber hooker from somewhere northeast of Milwaukee. Capt, T. G. Butlin, the former president of the Goodrich line, is leading a comfortable retired life. He mingled with the marine men on the river the other day for the first time this season., With Capt. Cyrus Sinclair and sey- eral other well known figures he got on board the Dunham tug Robbie Dunham and went out to greet the Viking ship. A Life Saver's Reward---Buffalo Matters. Special Correspondence to the MARINE REVIEW. Burrato, N. Y., July 20,--Winslow W. Griesser passed through Buffalo last Saturday on his way to take charge of the new life-saving station at Fort Niagara, stopping to take the oath of service at the dock office. It may not be regarded as remarkable, yet there is something quite as near the heroic in its constancy as we often encounter now-a-days, manifested by Keeper Griesser in his steady devotion to the service in which he has now taken a responsible position, He was made No. 1 in the crew at the Point Marblehead station, near Sandusky, when the station was opened in 1876 and he has served in that osition till his promotion has come seventeen years later. It was such con- p stancy as this that made the Roman Empire possible. Now the keeper has ~ what Supt. Chapman regards as the ideal station of the district. A modern house with good appointments for himself and family, no city dirt or smoke, plenty of companionship through the garrison and none too much to do. Not a princely salary, to be sure, but a clean, honorable position, out of the reach of politics and one which good behavior will make sure. Keeper Greisser was a sailor and fisherman in his earlier days and is in every way fitted for the place. As yet there is no equipment for the crew and nothing will be done till itis madeup, Itis probable that. this will be done in readiness: for the fall storms. Buffalo has pretty thoroughly joined the majority in letting lake business ° slack off. Coal shipments dropped to about half the previous record last week and everybody complains of dullness. A few vessels have laid up here, though part of them have obtained loads and gone out again. Nothing is really brisk but canal freights, which are very firm at 4} cents on wheat to New York, a good high rate, with loads plenty. Lake rates on coal have remained without change for so long that they may be regarded asa fixture till things start up again, Chicago commands 50 cents, Milwaukee 45 cents, and most other Lake Michigan ports, including Saginaw, the Portage Lake district and the Sault As between the reception to the carayals and that. i 40 cents, with Bay City 35 and Lake Superior generally, Toledo and Detroit 30 cents. These are low figures, but it will take more demand than we haye now to raise them. Manager John Shaw found both his big steamers, the Pope and the Sel- wyn Eddy stranded here over Sunday this trip and had to send them else- where for up loads. Capt. Shaw of the Pope sent off a message from the dock office and the manager offered to pay for it, 'No, you don't," remon-~ strated the captain, "Iam making more money just now than you are'. peftett People who took no stock'in the whalebacks are snickering at their dis- comfiture. Capt. Alex. McDougall doubtless really believed that they would make money hand over fist when low rates Jaid everything else up, but he finds that he has to retire them along with the rest. This pinch proves them merely good lake boats and has already taken the phenominal kink all-out of them. St. Lawrence River Traffic. Special Correspondence to the MARINE REVIEW. Kinaston, Ont., July 20.--The boom in St. Lawrence river business that was looked for this season has not materialized. It was expected that the travel to the world's fair would make business active among the Thousand islands and all along the river, but the regular steamers are doing only a small trade and the extra boats are being laid up. The Richelieu and Ontario company . has had very poor luck. The steamer Carolina ran aground on her first trip; engines of several of the Montreal boats were damaged, and the other day the steamer Bohemian ran aground at Cateau rapids and remains there. The Collinsby Wrecking Company is working on her with pontoons, and it is said there will be much difficulty in getting her off. This is the first season in twenty years that the Kingston and Montreal Forwarding Company has had oats from Chicago, but the English trade now demands this grain. During June the Ogdensburg Transfer Company's ele- vator received 1,520,000 bushels of grain and delivered 1,250,000 bushels, making nearly 3,000,000 bushels handled in one month. This is the largest amount that has ever been handled in one month by this elevator, and prob- ably the largest amount ever handled by an elevator of its size in the same period of time. The shovelers here are rejoicing over the great grain trans- porting business. The men are averaging from $25 to $40 each per week for - discharging vessels, and have been making these figures for two months past. A Canadian commercial man.who has just made the trip to Chicago and return on a steam yacht says: 'From Kingston to Port Dalhousie we never sighted a smoke stack or a sail,+ but we-had-no- sooner entered Lake-Erie than both steamers and sailing vessels became numerous and grew in numbers as we moved westward. And such big vessels! They almost took my breath away. Canadians do only a little bit of trade alongside the Americans. Another great difference between the two governments is in the light-house service. The Canadians have measly little lights at long distances; the ., Yankee lights bristle all along the coasts, while the life saving crews are organizations to be proud of. waters." Canada is far behind in the race on the inland The Submarine Boats. Special Correspondence to the MARINE REVIEW. WasHIneTon, D. C., July 20--Secretary Herbert has received the report of the board of officers appointed to consider the plans recently submitted for the construction of a submarine torpedo boat: The board seeks for opportun- ity to make further investigation into the merits of the Baker and Holland boats and to hear personally from the inventors, both of which requests Secre- -- tary Herbert has granted. The two boats selected for examination have some points of resemblance in general aspect. They are of the same size, measur- ing nearly 156 tons when submerged. Each uses steam as a propelling power when on the surface and electricity, supplied by storage battery charged by the main engines, when submerged. When they dive under water both boats house their smokestacks and seal all openings with iron plates, The essential feature of the Baker boat is, of course, the propelling appa- ratus which also serves to submerge her. his consists of two screw propell- ers, one on either side, so arranged on a transverse shaft passing through the middle of the boat at the center of gravity that they can be turned at different angles. When the boat is to be submerged these propellers are turned up- ward and drive the hull under water, and when the desired depth has been reached the angle is adjusted so as to drive the boat in a-horizontal line. By revolving them slowly the boat can be maintained at any place. The Holland boat depends for her submersion on what are known as fin rudders. They are arranged on a horizontal plane the stern drives the boat ahead a slight inclination of the rudder will cause her to dive beneath the surface, This boat has another rudder so arranged as to cause her to steer automatically a straight course when under water, a most im- portant point when thedarkness below the surface is considered. She also has a regulator for her fin rudders, made on the plan of a Whitehead torpedo, which will keep the boatat any desired depth' while she water. Each of the boats are fitted with t which will insure a quick return to the surf the propelling apparatus. TheBaker b twelve knots above and ten knots under fifteen knots on the surface and eight , and when the propeller at runs along under anks filled with compressed air, ace in case of any derangement of oat is designed to make a speed of water and the Holland boat to make knots beneath,