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10 : MARINE REVIHW. DEVOTED TO THE LAKE MARINE AND KINDRED INTERESTS. Published every Thursday at No. 516 Perry-Payne building, Cleveland, O SUBSCRIPTION--$2.00 per yearin advance. Singlecopies 10 cents each. Ee eenient binders sent, post paid, 75 cents. Advertising rates on appli- cation. The books of the United States treasury department on June 30, 1895, contained the names of 3,342 vessels, of 1,241,459.14 gross tons register in the lake trade. The number of steam vessels of 1,000 gross tons, and over that amount, on the lakes on June 30, 1894, was 359 and their aggregate gross tonnage 634,467.84; the number of vessels of this class owned in all other parts of the country on the same date was 316 and their tonnage 642,- 642.50, so that half of the best steamships in all the United States are owned on the lakes, The classification of the entire lake fleet on June 30, 1895, was as follows: Gross Class. ; Number. Tonnage. POLE AE VOSSCIEL.. cr cccoednassoccdescncssseevsssovssun 70,755 857,735-00 Sailing vessels......... Mecano Pes esss ins vateverdses, %: I, 100 300,642.00 Wet CeO errr csstsccccsscsrconsttessese cacecereneee 487 83,082.00 Totals. ices cies onecbedhavees cesmtnr Q1342 I,241,459.00 The gross registered tonnage of vessels built on the lakes during the past five years, according to the reports of the United States com- missioner of navigation, is as follows: Number. Net Tonnage. Year ending June 30, I891........... Set sees 204! T11,856.45 ss Wy s¢ 1892....00000 eoveceee 169 45,168.98 re ff " TOOStzactoveccecsss ese} ol 75 99,271.24 . ss ss SOAS res cake sencncss 106 41,984.61 * ss i TSO Sicesdasecese<eccn as. 93 36,353.00 BE Otel seveecdeysctceteicas.00istc-sesesce L747 334,634.28 ST. MARY'S FALLS AND SUEZ CANAL TRAFFIC. (From Official Reports of Oanal Officers.) St. Mary's Falls Canal. 1894. 1893. | 1892. 1894. | 1893. | 1892. _No.vessel pass'ges 14,491| 12,008} 12,580|| 3,352 3,341 3,559 T'n'ge,net registd]13,110,366|9,849,754| 10,647,203] |8,039,106 7,659,068/ 7,712,028 Days of Navigat'n 234 219 223 365 365 365 Suez Canal. Entered at Cleveland Post Office as Second-class Mail Matter. Ir DirkctT pleading before congressional committees is to count in legislative matters, such as the Detroit river bridge, regulation of raft towing, new aids to navigation, etc., the vessel owners of the lakes pro- pose that congressmen shall be fully informed on these subjects. A large representation from the Lake Carriers' Association and a delegation of business men from Cleveland will be heard before committees on Thursday and Friday of this week. The meetings were arran ged by Mr. Burton of Cleveland and will undoubtedly prove advantageous. Amon g vessel owners now in Washington are the following: Ex-President Wm. Livingstone of the Lake Carriers' Association, Detroit; President J. J. H. Brown and Secretary C. H. Keep of the Lake Carriers' Association, Buffalo; J. S. Dunham, Chicago; Harvey D. Goulder, Geo. P. McKay, Wm. S. Mack, C. E. Benham, Samuel Mather and James H. Hoyt. Messrs. Mather and -Hoytare in Washington on special matters pertaining toa new Cleve- land post office and to Cleveland harbor improvements, but they will of course assist the members of the Lake Carriers' Association. Other Cleveland gentlemen who are seeking a favorable appropriation for the city's harbor are Mayor McKisson, President Wilson M. Day of the chamber of commerce and Messrs. A. T. Anderson and l,. KE. Holden. . Ir is certainly surprising to find admirals and retired admirals of our navy, as well as others who ought to know better, writing about the fleet of gunboats and other war vessels that England could send to the lakes, and assuming all the time that vessels that are within the dimen- sions of Welland canal locks could all be floated through from the Atlantic coast. Everybody who has any knowledge of the St. Lawrence river and its canals knows, of course, that this assumption is absurd, as the dominion government has heen for years working on the improve- ment of the St. Lawrence canals, so as to provide 14 feet navigation, similar to the Welland, but millions must yet be spent on this under- taking. IT WOULD seem that the sentiment in congress is entirely in favor of making appropriations for two new revenue cutters for the lakes, to cost $200,000 each, in addition to the ship now under construction in Cleve- land. The report of the senate committee on commerce is the strongest kind of an indorsement for the measure carrying these appropriations, ss a but congressmen from the Pacific and gulf coasts, as well as New York, are also demanding appropriations for vessels of this kind and the leaders jy both houses are determined to hold down expenditures. THE REAPPOINTMENT' by the president of Commodore Geo. W, Me]. ville to be engineer-in-chief of the navy, and confirmation of the same by the senate, is generally regarded as a special compliment to the extra. ordinary professional ability of this officer. Commodore Melville hag been for nine years at the head of the bureau of steam en gineering, and the present is his fourth successive term in that office. RESOLUTIONS calling for an investigation of the scheme to regulate -- lake levels by means of dams are meeting with favorable action at every turnin congress. The latest favorable report is from the river and har. hor committee of the house, which recommends unanimously the pas- sage of Representative Griswold's measure on this subject. Ship Masters' Annual Meeting. The last issue of the REVIEW contained reference to the several rego. lutions on raft towing, Detroit river bridge, regulation of Sault river com. merce, etc., which were adopted by the grand lodge of the Ship Masters at the annual meeting in Washington. The routine business of the or- ganization took up a great deal of time but there were no special matters of importance pertaining to the beneficial features of the association, Officers elected for the ensuing year are: Capt. George McCullagh of Detroit, grand president; W. S. Mack of Cleveland, first grand vice. president; W. E. Rice of Port Huron, second grand vice-president; W. A, Collier of Cleveland, grand secretary; Lyman F. Hunt of Buffalo, grand treasurer. The grand lodge called in a body on President Cleveland, Secretary Carlisle, the supervising inspectors of steam vessels, Mr. E. T. Chamber- lain, commissioner of navigation, Chief Moore of the weather bureau, Commander Sigsbee of the hydrographic office and were entertained ata banquet by the American Pilot's Association. Following is the repre- sentation of the different lodges: Buffalo, F. D. Welcome and Capt. Mc- ' Cabe; Port Huron, W. HE. Rice; Chicago, Robt. Young and H. F. Loftus; Cleveland, W.S. Mack and J. A. Holmes; Bay City, C. T. Brown; Mil- waukee, C. M. Davis and Henry Leisk; Detroit, A. J: McKay andC.L, Wilson; Marine City, J. A. Ward and Geo. A. Shaw; Toledo, Duncan Stalker and Henry Root. There were present in addition to those just named the officers of the organization, noted above, as well as grand Past- President Clark and Capt. C. E. Benham who is nowa past president with Capt. Clark. Wives of four officers were in the party as were also Thomas Jones, Robert Cowley, Capt. Wilford and John Leonard. . Homer J. Carr of the Lake Marine News Association, who is working on a system of making direct telegraphic reports next season to vessel owners, underwriters and others regarding accidents, vessels in shelter, etc., writes the REVIEW that arrangements are being completed to cover vessels sheltered at Whitefish point during northwesters. 'I am un- able," he says, "to get any response from the Western Union Telegraph Co. as to its course toward building a line to Detour. The matter seems to have become tangled up in the ponderous machinery of that company, and all I can learn is that it is being considered. If the company should decide to build aline into Detour, we will, of course, take all possible advantage of the telegraph office there to improve our service." A recent volume of the " Official Records of the Union and Confed- erate Navies in the War of the Rebellion" has been received from the navy department. It is, like the first volume, a book of some 900 pages with full-page engravings of many of the ships whose operations are recounted. This work is published by the superintendent of naval war records, under the direction of the secretary of the navy. Included in this second volume is the story of Capt. Semmes of the Alabama and a transcript of his private log and personal comments. The International Correspondence School, Scranton, Pa., which is one of the best institutions of its kind in this country, has begun the publication of a paper entitled "Home Study." It is an elementary monthly journal for students of the industrial sciences and readers of the technical press who need a better knowledge of arithmetic, geome- try, trigonometry and the principles of physics and drawing to enable them to derive the best results from their reading, Wm. H. Webb, the founder of Webbs' Academy and Home for Ship Builders', Fordham Height, N. Y., is getting outa work on '" American Ship Building." CAPTAINS AND MATES ARE INVITED TO CALL AT THE OFFICE OF THE MARINE REVIEW AND LOOK OVER THE CHARTS AND SAILING DIRECTIONS OF LAKES SUPERIOR, MICHIGAN, HURON, ERIE AND ONTARIO, PUBLISHED BY THE HYDROGRAPHIC OFFIOR.