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of the Morse alphabet. 12 ' Around the Lakes. Buffalo coal shipments last week amounted to only 56,610 tons. : Lord Dunraven's clipper Valkyrie, challenger for the Amer- ican cup, is on her way to this country. The American Shipmasters' Association of New York, pub- lishers of the Record of American and Foreign Shipping, classed last week the American barks C. R. R. of N. J. No. 10, Ameri- can three-masted schooner William Frederick and British schooner Muriel. W. F. Durand, principal of the graduate school of marine engineering and naval architecture at Cornell university, stopped over at Cleveland on his way east from the World's Columbian Exposition, and made the trip to Escanaba and return on one of the big steel ore carriers. Mr. William F. Doran, who represents Henry R. Worthing- ton in Chicago, was in Cleveland a few days ago on his return from an eastern trip. Mr. Doran has made many friends among engineers in the west since taking charge of the Worthington pump business in Chicago, The steamer Ogemaw, which foundered off Burnt bluff, Green bay, in December, 1891, has been raised by the Murphy Wrecking Company and taken to shallow water. was in 65 feet of water. Chains were got under it last fall, but rough weather caused a suspension of work. -If the owners of the steamers that were chartered to the de- funct world's fair steamboat companies are compelled to pay as a result of the suit brought by Channon & Co. of Chicago for supplies furnished to the boats' while they were doing a losing business between the Chicago lake front and the fair, they will be more careful in future about making such charters. owner who leases his vessel for service of this kind can not be too careful in selecting the right kind of a captain to look after his interests. A new apparatus termed the telephote and intended for signaling at sea by night has been brought out by an engineer resident at Vienna. 'There is an aluminum mast from 10 to 30 feet high, a battery or dynamo, a cable of electric wire, and a transmitter key board of 37 keys. On the mast are arranged 106 incandescent lamps, which can be manipulated to form the signs Seventy-two letters a minute, it is stated, can be shown on the telephote, clearly visible three miles in day- 'light and ten miles at night. The wreck | The. MARINE REVIEW. ~ Small hammocks, alike to those used of late in the berths of | sleeping cars as a receptacle for clothing, have been introduced into the upper berths of the new steamer City of Mackinac, which has just gone into commission on the Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company's Lake Huron division. Witha liberal wall space in the state rooms of most steamboats for hooks on which to hang clothing, there is not as much need on a boat for the hammocks.as there is in the crowded railway car, but they will prove useful in many cases, and the scheme will undoubtedly be adopted by other steamboat lines. Iron Ore Shipments. - Shipments of iron ore from Two Harbors up to and includ- ing Wednesday, the 16th inst., aggregated 571,646 tons, were divided as follows: Chandler, 281,213 tons ; Minnesota, 237,520; Zenith, 1,991; Cincinnati, 9,916; Canton, 21,449; Franklin, 18,357; Hale, 1,200. Shipments of Gogebic range mines through Ashland up to and including Saturday, the 12th, foot up 743,627 tons, divided among the different mines as follows: Ashland, 26,465 tons; Aurora, 115,091 ; Colby No. 2, 28,594 ; Tilden, 68,807; Germania, 4,975 ; Iron Belt, 7,544 ; Montreal, south vein, 1,347; Montreal, north vein, 25,850; Brotherton, 14,643 ; Comet, 5,035: Hureka, 20,867 ; Careys, 31,166 ; New- Bs port, 66,293; Norrie, 146,658; East Norrie, 64,649; Pabst, 83,353 3 Jack Pot, 1,651 ; Davis, 9,740 ; Sunday Lake, 17,525. PHOTOTYPES OF THE NEW NORTHERN STEAMERS, THE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, THE S. S. CURRY AND TWELVE OTHERS, INCLUDING A PICTURE OF THE GREAT EASTERN, SENT TO ANY _ ADDRESS ON RECEIPT OF 50 CENTS BY THE MARINE REVIEW, NO. 516 PERRY-PAYNE BUILDING, CLEVELAND, 0. Subscribe for the official report of the Engineering Congress through the Marine Review. Price $10. Stocks of Grain at Lake Ports. _ The following table, prepared from reports of the Chicago board of trade, shows the stocks of wheat and corn in store at the principal points of accumulation on the lakes on Aug. 19, 1893: Wheat, bu. Corn, bu. CHICAGO oer cccerereneetee sete 18,293,000 I, 154,000 Duluth ....c.e.seeeeeeer se een tees 3,265,000! wwe nenaes Milwaukee .......0.seeeee eevee O57, O00 9s are WEEROI hice. cotetes ee cr ne cee 4 963,000 3,000 ANoledovten matess. domhoeentes . 1,330,000 76,000 TAViGE AO cepseens vidas ae sate <= hy _ 1,445,000 303,000 MS Gita cs. incu cagnas get 26,253,000 1,536,000 At the points named there is a net decrease for the week of 516,000 bushels of wheat and 430,000 bushels of corn. Ashtabula Range Light. The light-house board gives notice that on or about Sept. 15 three fixed lights, two red and one white, arranged vertically 4 feet apart, with the white light in the middle, will be shown from lens lanterns suspended 'from a triangular, pyramidal, skeleton iron tower, located near the shore end of the west pier, and about 1,300 feet from its outer end, entrance to Ashtabula harbor, Lake Erie. The lights form a range with the light on the outer end of the pier, on a line with the direction of the piers. 'The mid- dle, or white, light is about 48 feet above the mean level of the lake. Preparing for Northwestern Grain. Special Correspondence to the MARINE REVIEW. Krneston, Ont., Aug. 24.The transportation companies are expecting: that the greater portion of the new wheat crop of Manitoba and the northwest territory will reach the sea via Kingston this year, instead of by way of Buffalo as was the case last year, and it is hoped that the facilities for trans-shipment will be made sufliciently complete and satisfactory to ensure the permanency of the route. When this crop begins to move, the necessity for a stationary elevator here will certainly become evident. So far this year the transporta- tion companies have handled over 13,000,000 bushels of grain, the largest in any one season since their formation, but the work has been attended by trouble and delay, which will be increased if a large portion of the north- western grain comes this way, and which can only be remedied by private enterprise in connection with the elevator question. Here, as in many other places, the men most interested want governmental assistance and the fishing for it is a waste of time and energy. With a fine elevator here complaints would vanish, business increase, owners of grain would seek this route and general satisfaction would result all around. This year the bills of lading are made out either for Kingston or Ogdensburg, and not a few vessels run down the river and discharge, thus avoiding delay. This proceedure takes away any responsibility for demurrage, and the transportation companies very clearly state they will not pay one dollar on that score. The Lake Ontario coal trade is over and vessels are going into ordinary. There is nothing else to carry. The McKinley bill killed the fall barley trade. Some of the vessels, it is said, will be chartered by the transportation companies to be used here as recep- tacles for grain, so that the delays to upper lake craft will be reduced to a minimum, The tow bills and the expense of handling the schooners would be _ too great to have them carry the cargoes to Montreal. Without Much Foundation. A dispatch from Ashland says: "Government officials haye made the startling discovery that Chequemagon point, which is a natural breakwater for Chequemagon bay has been wearing away. One cut has washed through 400 feet long. An appropriation of $410,000, made for just such an emergency, will be expended in repairing the break. It is estimated that this natural breakwater is worth $5,000,000 to the government. It shields the harbors of Ashland, Washburn, and _ Bayfield. Inquiry at Gen. Poe's office in Detroit found that officer absent on a visit to Lake Superior, but the officials in the office had heard nothing about the al- leged washing away of Chequemagon point, and were not disposed to _attach much importance to the report." Neither is it probable that people outside of Gen. Poe's office will attach much importance to the report, and anyhow Gen. Poe has nothing to do with the breakwater work now going on near Chequemagon point. The point of land referred to has withstood the storms of many years and it is not probable that it will be swept away in a hurry. ALWAYS THE BEST.--The popular world's fair excursions via the Nickel Plate road, another August 31st. Chicago August 31st. Excursion via the Nickel Plate road to silt hls SiN DN foe Sorts Me Me