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ie MARINE REVIEW. A Buffalo View of the Fuel Question. Buffalo, June 10.--There ought in justice to be some further re- mark made regarding the fueling situtaion here, especially since it was proposed recently to oblige vessels dealing with the Bessemer Steam- ship Co. to visit one port for cargo and another for fuel. There are at least some Buffalo vessel owners who are not so very sorry about this circumstance. When the fight was made against fueling here with the shippers of hard coal it was assumed in Ohio ports that there was no shadow of abuse there; it was all in Buffalo. So the vessel owners joined together and "knocked the shippers out," partly because they recognized the abuse and partly because of the pressure from Ohio and Detroit. It will have to be confessed that the fight was made with some ~ misgiving, for it was on the assumption that all was lovely at other ports and would remain so. Some of the leaders in the movement have since confessed that they squirmed some over the position they were forced into, and say that they will never act again in any such one-sided and one-for-all capacity. 'The abuse was scotched at least, if not killed. The question now is, are Ohio vessel owners prepared to defend their rights in the same way if the threatened abuse becomes general? Buffalo would like a full statement of the fueling situation in Ohio this season. There is a partial return to the old state of things here, but in such form that vessel owners do not appear to object to it.. Coal shippers do generally insist on furnishing fuel with car- goes. Here is an extreme instance, for the truth of which your cor- respondent is, of course, dependent on current report. When the steamer Aztec went to Lake Ontario last she left the Zapotec here. A shipper here offered the Zapotec a load of coal if the Aztec would come here and fuel with him, though she loaded at Oswego. This was agreed to. It of course occasioned considerable comment. Still there -- is no disposition to complain, as the price of all fuel here is the same, and the possibility of such cases as the above is very remote. It is due to competition here that all fuel is now selling at $2, and as long as no difference is made in price no complaint will be made if shippers do insist on furnishing the fuel. 3 - Around the Lakes. Tonnage of the steel steamer Niagara, recently launched at West Bay City, is 1,951.56 gross and 1,483.39 net. ' Capt. Wm. Cary, who was for thirty-two years captain of various craft on the lakes, died at his home in Benton Harbor, Wednesday, aged seventy-eight years. Commander Leutze, inspector of the ninth light-house district, announces that the red gas buoy in Poverty passage, Green bay, which was out of order is again lighted. Annual meetings of the Minnesota Iron Co. and Duluth & Tron Range Ry. Co. were held in Duluth, a few days ago. Last year's officers and directors were all re-elected. The O. S. Richardson Coal Co. is fitting up the old schooner C. C. Trowbridge with a derrick and two coal shutes and will use her in the fueling business at South Chicago. Geo. Francombe, who was highly respected among lake engin- eers, died at his home in Detroit a few days ago. He had been an engineer on the lakes continuously for forty-seven years. A survey of waters in the vicinity of the Apostle islands is to be made during the coming month by officers of the U. 8. S. Michigan, and a new chart of that part of Lake Superior will be issued later on. Barry Bros. will soon have another tug in their Chicago line. The Bessemer Steamship Company Solicits Catalogues, Prices and Discounts from manufacturers and wholesale dealers in Ship Machinery, Brass Goods, Rope, Paints, Asbestos, Packing, Hose, Furniture, Piping, Glass and Crock- ery, Tinware, Ranges, Carpeting, Bedding, Life-preservers, Rafts and Boats, Engineers' Supplies and Tools, Carpenters' Tools, Elec tric Supplies, Lamps, Grate Bars, Castings, etc., etc., etc. ALSO QUOTATIONS from Market men and Grocers on the Lakes for Provisions and Meat, best quality only. CATALOGUES without quotations are not wanted. ALL, GOODS except provisions to be delivered in Cleveland. _ _ Address 1. M. BOWERS, General Manager, CLEVELAND, OHIO. es The Rita McDonald, launched at Bay City a few days ago, was built for the Chicago firm. She is 80 feet keel, 20 feet beam and 104 feet hold and has two engines, 16 and 22 inches, with a boiler of 74 by 13 feet dimensions. Saturday at 11a. m. is the time fixed for the launch of the steel tow barge Polynesia at the ship yard of the Globe Iron Works Co., __ Cleveland. With the launch of this vessel there will be left on the ~ stocks in lake ship yards only two freight vessels and there are no contracts in hand for new freighters. The vessels still on the stocks are a 400-footer, the Empire City, building at the yard of the Cleveland Ship Building Co. for A. B. Wolvin of Duluth, and a package freight steamer, which is being built by the Union 'Dry Dock Co. of Buffalo for the Union line. Henry N. Botsford of Port Huron was the lowest bidder in a competition for the construction of ten life boats, for which bids were opened by the revenue cutter division of the treasury department in Washington, a few days ago. On four boats to go to Monmouth Beach, N. J., his bid was $2,285, and on six boats to be delivered at 'Grand Haven, Mich., his bid was $2,257. Other bidders were: James Bircher, Philadelphia; F. C. Beebe, Greenport L. I.; B. F. Wood, City Island, N. Y.; Detroit Boat Works, Detroit, Mich.; Racine Yacht & Boat Works, Racine. Wis.; Samuel Ayers & Son, Nyack, N. Y., and Charles M. Woodruff, Detroit, Mich. * Speed and Cargo Records--Lake Freight Steamers. The schooner Amazon has just loaded 217,000 bushe.s of corn at Chicago and the steamer Crescent City has delivered at Cleveland a cargo of 5,548 net tons of ore from Lake Superior. Changes are made accordingly in the following records : alk Iron Ore--Coralia, Mutual Transportation Co. of Cleveland, 5,088 gross or 5,699 net tons, Gladstone to Ashtabula, draft of 16 feet 10 inches. From Lake Superior--Steamer Crescent City, A. B. Wol- vin of Duluth, 4,954 gross or 5,548 net tons, Two Harbors to Cleve- land. : Grain--Schooner Amazon, James Corrigan of Cleveland, 217,- 000 bushels of corn, equal to 6,076 net tons, Chicago to Buffalo, 16 feet 6 inches draft. From Lake Superior- -Steamer Andrew Carnegie, - Wilson Transit Co. of Cleveland, 171,000 bushels of oats, 51,000 bushels of wheat and 55,000 bushels: of barley, equal to 5,586 net tons, Duluth to Buffalo,16 feet 14 inches draft; steamer Crescent City, A. B. Wolvin of Duluth, 318,000 bushels of oats, equal to 5,088 net tons, Duluth to Buffalo. Coal--Schooner Aurania, John Corrigan of Cleveland, 5,187 net tons bituminous, Toledo to Milwaukee; steamer Andrew Carnegie, Wilson Transit Co. of Cleveland, 4,997 net tons of bituminous, Cleve-. land to Sheboygan, draft of 15 feet 2 inches. Speed--Owego, Union Line of Buffalo, Buffalo to Chicago, 889 miles, 54 hours and 16 minutes, 16.4 miles an hour; Centurion, Hop- kins Steamship Co. of St. Clair, Mich. Buffalo to Duluth, 997 miles, 65 hours and 10 minutes, 15.3 miles an hour. NITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE, De- ' troit, Mich., May 28, 1897. VESSEL OWN- ExS AND MASTERS are cautioned against passing at HIGH SPEED through the improved 20-FOOT CHANNEL IN LAKE ST. CLAIR, as such speed threatens the durability of the im- provement and the safety of navigation. It is hoped that this caution may induce owners and masters to co-operate in so reducing speed through this channel that the promulgation of restrictive regulations may not become necessary. By order of the SECRETARY OF WAR. Gr J. LYDECKER, Lt. Col., Corps of Eng'rs, U.S. A. July 1 Chas. E. & W. F. Peck, 58 William St. 3 812 Royal Insurance. Building, NEW YORK CITY. SOHICAGO, ILL. Cc. T. BOWRING & CO., 5 & 6 Billiter Ave., B.C. LONDON, ENG. INSURANCE. BROWN & CO., J.G. KEITH & CO LA SALLE & CO., 202 Main St., 138 Rialto Bldg., " Board of Trade Bldg,, Buffalo. N. Y. Chicago, Ill. Duluth, Minn. Are prepared to make rates on all classes o ari re 3 xreat lakes both CARGOES and HULLS. f Marine Insurance on the g "GREAT LAKES REGISTER." F. D. HERRIMAN, Surveyor-General, Chicago, Tl.