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MARINE REVIE Wor, XV CLEVELAND, 0;; AUGUST-26, 1897. _-- ---- Service of Lake Newspapers. Few people realize the importance of service rendered to shipping interests by newspapers of the principal cities of the lakes. . This service has grown with the commerce of the lakes, and it is no small item of cost with the newspaper-managers. It has been systematized to a degree fully equal to advances made in other matters pertaining to lake commerce. Only a few years ago the reports of vessel movements in daily newspapers were confined to the passages at Detroit. Gradually Port Huron, Mack- inaw and other places were added and then the arrivals and departures at various ports were taken up, until there is now one central bureau of marine information, the Lake Marine News Association of Chicago, serv- No. 9. | of newspaper work, enabled Homer J. Carr of-Chicago, the central figure in the group, to establish the association referred to above. He is its manager and is ably assisted by Fred D. Curtiss, whose newspaper training was also secured in Chicago. Mr. Carr developed a reputation for the Chicago Tribune in Marine matters some years before undertaking the establishment. of the lake news bureau, but he/is probably.no better known to marine men than John Chamberlin of Buffalo or Louis Bleyer of Mil- _waukee. Mr. Bleyer belongs to a family that is. well known in Milwaukee - -newspaper-circles. His marine column has been a feature of the Evening Wisconsin. of that: city for years. He has the advantage of a_ practical knowledge of the vessel business, which he secured when an owner of vessel property some years ago. John Chamberlin has been connected a y -_GHROMOTYPE ENG. Co., CLEVELAND, 0" JoHN CHAMBERLIN R. D. WAGSTAFF -HoMER J. CARR, FRED D. CURTISS, ; Louis BLEYER, BMS 2 . D. ' oes ; ine News Evening Wisconsin, te uffalo Enquirer. Detroit Free Press. Lake Maemo Lake SL UNEASIRIOR: Milwaukee. : aes Be ; Gro. V. CALLAHAN, W.A. Se atore Midh, 'aati Representatives of Lake Newspapers. Cleveland Plain Dealer. cane ing nearly all of :the newspapers of the lakes on a mutual basis... This asso- with Buffalo newspapers for sixteen years and ure all pce ae pas 4, teh 'on, Maintaining correspondents in all parts of the lakes, conducts a kept in touch with the vessel business. He was the marine egrap hae | business involving thousands. of dollars each year, 'all of it ne by the newspapers for the benefit of lake interests. ; ut aside fr ements, accidents, 'etc., collected: om the regular run of vessel mov ; falo, Deir y this news agency, the leading daily papers of Chicago, Buf- instance Oi Cleveland and other places employ men who are in,many informati Specially Suited to' preparing and discussing a great variety of Paper _ 290 that is of value to vessel owners. A -group of these news- of them neentatives 1s presented in the accompanying illustration. Some known ¢ ave spent a great number of years at this work, and are well the tibet es Owners, not only in their own homes, but in all parts of 0 S. There are other bright young men on lake newspapers whose Was ee entitle them to a place in. this group, but the illustration © hurriedly from such photographs of the older men in the service ©'eview had at hand. Business tact, combined with afull knowledge Buffalo Express for twelve years. Mr, Chamberlin is a graduate of Cor- nell and is capable of engaging in all kinds of editorial work on news- papers, so that his labors have extended to correspondence, largely relating. to business subjects, for several of the leading papers of the country. R. D. Be Wagstaff of the Detroit Free Press is a Buffalonian by birth. He has been | i writing for newspapers during the past eight years, having been engaged ~ - on the Detroit News, Atlanta Constitution, New York Morning Adver- tiser and Detroit Free Press. A likeness of Mr. W. A. Livingstone of Detroit is 'included in the group on account of his interest in the prepara- tion of statistics pertaining to lake commerce and the contributions he has made to literature of the lakes. George V. Callahan of the Plain Dealer, Cleveland, has held the position of Marine reporter on that paper for eight years and has made a reputation for reliability, which is of most~ importance in news relating to business matters.