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MARINE York Sattirday 'on the American Line steamer St. Paul. Sian ee In General. A. Be arrow: famous English torpedo-boat builder arrived in New It is certainly remarkable that Chicago grain freights should remain at practically the same figures day in and day out for about two months. The rate of 134 cents on corn to Buffalo was established Sept. 4. Although bids of the: Lake Erie Engineering Works of Buffalo on two waterworks engines, for which the city of Chicago opened proposals re- cently, were $21,559 lower than bids of the Holly Co., the contracts have been awarded to the latter concern, There is talk of the Lake Erie com: .,pany going into court to enjoin the contract. ; "Dispatches from .Washington referring to the interest shown in the "© Detroit marine postoffice by First Assistant Postmaster General Heath, in his annual report, would indicate that the heads of the department are so strongly in favor of this office .that there is little doubt of its continu- ance for all time to come. "© One deal of note was made in Bessemer pig iron, the past week, a Pittsburg producer taking: 35,000 tons for 1898 delivery. This bears out what has been referred to before--that leading Pittsburg steel works have been using up more iron than their furnaces have made. . The pig iron -. market remains at $10.50, Pittsburg delivery, and $9.85, valley furnace, for 1897 iron, the old' differential between the valley and Pittsburg price being again, for the time being, equal to the freight--Iron Trade 'Review. In the United States court at Cleveland, a few days ago, Judge Ham- mond very promptly disposed of a case that had attracted considerable attention among ore sales agents. The Millie Iron Mining Co. sued = Corrigan, McKinnie & Co. for $15,000, the mining company claiming that ~-a sale of Millie ore made in 1894 by the defendants, who were then acting as sales agents for the ore, should haye brought $1 a ton more than was realized. In the fall of 1894 prices of ore were advanced to figures much "+ higher than the spring prices at which most of the Lake Superior output -- "was sold" The owner of the Millie mine thought he should have had the . advantage of fall prices, but before any testimony had been submitted by the "sales agents the court took the case from the jury, on the ground that no _.-cause of action -had been made out by the plaintiff. Around the Lakes. Buffalo harbor received over 1,000,000 bushels of.grain a day last week, _ and. took care of it in good time, as a rule. >*. An advertisement elsewhere in this issue announces that the receiver "of thé Vessel Owners' Towing Co. will sell the remaining tugs of the line at auction in Chicago, Nov. 22. . Capt. John Bailey, of the schooner Ada Medora, fell into the hold of his vessel at Naubinway, Mich. Monday and was killed... He having sailed vessels for over a score of years. He was about fifty-five years old "and leaves quite a family. It is said that the Duluth & Iron Range Railroad Co. will spend about $1,000,000 in improvements during the coming winter and spring, and that:new work at-Two harbors will include the construction of a new ore dock in place of the present No. 2 dock. . Big vessels: like the Polynesia and Constitution were loaded with _ soft. coal in Cleveland during the past week in less than twenty-four "hours in each case; nearly 5,700 tons was dumped into the Polynesia in less than twenty hours at the dock of the Pittsburg & Chicago Gas Coal Corer aes cae sas ee : The. shipchandlery firm of P. Hackett & Co. has erected two perma- | nent range lights on the old pier near the Central Vermont elevator at -- . Ogdensburg, N: Y.- The:lights are sixteen and eighteen feet high re- "spectively, on white frame work, and will materially aid steamers into _the lower harbor. © Capt. Baker, who has been working with his steamer T. W. Snook on the old wrecks of the schooners Mattie C. Bill.and Transfer, ashore on Lake Michigan, has given up the job. Transfer is in very bad shape and will probably go to pieces during the winter, but Capt. Baker will probably again attempt the release of the Bell next spring. a) Mistress of the Seas. Shall the United States become again the mistress of the seas? A naval display of the kind that has just been made in Boston should awaken © in the American people the purpose to regain the place which this country once held, when its flag led all others on all oceans. There should be a ° development of the mercantile marine as well as of the navy, of the sea power that makes for commerce as well as that which is concerned with fighting. Here we are, a nation between two oceans. The vast, interior of the continent which the United States dominates is cut by great inland seas. Much of our domestic trade, practically all of our foreign trade, is ' conducted by water transporation. Yet, except on the great lakes, where our tonnage. has rapidly and largely increased, our cummerce is con- ducted under foreign flags. There is every reason why the United States should become, as it once was, the leader in the carrying trade of the _ world. At no time before in human history was this trade so great. The proportions of commerce are mountainous. The United States has be- come the granary of the world; it is coming to supply the world with manufactured. articles. Why should we not carry our products under our own flag to those who buy them of us? -- a The merchant fleets of the world are built of iron and steel... Today there is no place on:the globe in which iron and steel can be made more cheaply or better than in the United States. The material of a new mer- _.chant marine is here. So long as congress forbade our merchants to buy ~# their'ships abroad. and we could not build them at home, the revival of os Out-carrying trade remained_.an iridescent dream....Now we are approach- "relaxation of*the proscriptive policy of the government it will become entirely practicable. This is of especial importance to New England, ich. in the past furnished the best sailors the world ever saw, and can -~ do so' again when they are wanted--Boston Post. _, ing the point where the building of American ships is possible, and with a . ' NOV. 12; -- REVIEW. - Draft of Water at the Lime-Kilns: . Notwithstanding complaints of low water heard from some parts of the lakes, it would seem that there has been little difference 'of ate in the Deroit river draft. Following are the guage readiftgs at the Lime-kilns _for the past week: . DATE : ye : DRAFT. We _, WIND. Octs: 19, 6 ps te s..s dee ceresecdeascoeeeee eiaianee 17 ft. 41gin. 9 S.E., light. ee MIMNMIght........--...-0eeereerereereese 17 ft. 7 in, Calm. : Mcta20s Glasser... Gh, bec Sons Weecete Panic a in, 2 Ne W:, light, POTD MLGOME. tee atetesittoe tatters sare Vie 17 ft. 5 in. -- S. W., light. 6B Pe Mev secceesee seeneeel eeeeeeeeererers 17 ft. 4 'in. N. W., light. 66S MIM MIGHt....,..cceccnseedecereseseges 17 ft. 2 . in. W.., light. Octy 2h Giana ce were teesaancscagen 17 ft.4 in. N. W., light. RP ace MOOME ees ccessnne ss! SD tisrscene somes 17 ft.3 in. W., moderate. (ooh eG Peet ncccetectencearne crsneme shea 17 ft.2 in. W., modcrate. tc) CORMITLOGA SHE, 5250.0. 20c0coeseescrccsteonse ge tee eet N. W., light. OCtep 225 Ona eine necmeceescosect nce tecscace een: eh ine Si Wor light. Cea Gis MOO Meet ts Co ocar eaten tsahemeonee atte dees eit N. E., light. Cie Cre ON [Dot Tlle eee cciatiocnemeece weaestthacaect 17 ft. 5 in. Calm.) 3) . ce ce, MAIAMIQHL...........csseeeesceeeeseeeeee 17 ft. 41gin. N.E., light. Oct 7235s Giaem..saetisesccsne cee scaeeceasers fphteno) ol tome Ne Ey. light. Ge tyc6e NOOM Mcp ceapenteen ssenenectantat =. Asa Vite in N., light. (ERATE Lis Src esloparppenccepennccte Re sedis s cesta ual te eaie Calm. Co pecmmInnl CLINT liter eeratiacle dseelbe see nsi-oloeee 17 ft. 74 in. E., light. Oct: 2 2A AG: ai sms oesiaiccscice sles nase acdsee sen 17 ft; 5 in. Calm. Cis BEANO ON sa eeesins can cottoontems Ebadi leaned 17 ft.6 in. .:S. W., light. Le {CCR OM P sa TMiposicg venckuet asnepl Mabccnsaeet cet 17 ft. 64gin. S. E., light. (ch s PoCe IMI ANTS te mate ess co eemes sv oscscwos 17 ft.6 in. E.., light. OCt...25, Grassi. 2s suc-ade oa menasacton se hipft.i5) it 2Calm Oy Fe 7 ce) "TOON cae Sen ae ater oae aaah cs 17 ft.5 in. S. E., light. (6 5 Giash OF DaalINe ner aa aches Tocacenmase asec eecsenee 17 ft. 4% in. S. E., light. @ - AMONIGNt asc tess. sects ecg hatte). Atlee eights Oct. 26, 6 a. m....... ener PES SEEM Laas ce 17 ft. 6 in. Calm. <N., light. 3 (GMO OM sdeshon ccc escee det Decne ecessacm Lett. OR in. Trade Notes. The new side-wheel steamer to be built in Detroit for the Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co. is to be equipped with the Howden hot draft system, the owners having found this draft of great advantage in the City of Buf- falo. They attribute the very economical performance of the City of Buf- falo largely to the Howden equipment. : The Collins Co. of Collinsville, Conn., in order to better their facili- ties, and to meet the demands of their increasing -business, are making extensive improvements in their plant at Collinsville, and: have placed a contract with the Berlin Iron Bridge Co, of East Berlin, Conn., for a large addition to their forge shop. The new construction will be entirely of iron in order to have it fire. proof. Charles E. Billin of Chicago, western representative of Bement, Miles & Co., manufacturers of metal-working machine tools, announces that his company has recently been asked to dispose of a riveter.and crane for one of the western railroad companies. Both riveter and crane were pur- chased from Bement, Miles & Co.-some time since but have never been used nor have they ever been unboxed. The riveter is a 96-inch steam riveter with cast iron frame, wrought steel stake and is in every way com- plete. . It weighs 36,900 pounds. The crane has a capacity of 15,000 pounds. It is complete with crab, bridge and all details. The weight of this latter is 10,340 pounds. Photographs and prices will be furnished on application to any of the offices of Bement, Miles & Co. RES ; Thomas Drein & Son of Wilmington, Del.; who supply life boats and life rafts of all kinds; as well as life preservers, cork buoys, etc., to a great _ number of the principal ship builders and ship owners of the United States, ask the Review to remind their patrons on the lakes that advantage can be gained by placing orders now for any of their specialties. They always meet with great difficulty im the spring on account of a crowding of orders just before the opening of navigation on inland waters throughout the - country. They have some orders in hand now from lake builders, on which delivery is not to be made until spring, and they say they can offer advantages to other builders and owners who may see fit to place orders now. Managers of railways that carry ore from Lake Eti¢:ports to the fur- naces have said that, as a measure of protection to pig-iron mnufacturers who are competitors of the Carnegie company, they would reduce the _ freight on ore from Lake Erie to the furnaces as soon as the Carnegie ore railway from Conneaut was. fully in operation. Some of the iron men concerned have little hope regarding anything that may be done in this regard, however, as they are of the opinion that Carnegie's cost of trans- portation over his own road will be figured too high. The Entire Fleet of Tugs of the Vessel Owners' Towing Co. are to be Sold | By order of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. Bids for all or any of these tugs will be received by the Receiver until 9: 00 A. M., November 22, 1897: all bids to be»ac- companied by a deposit of 10 per cent. of the amount bid. _ The tugs can be seen by applying to the Receiver, J. L. HIGGIE, Jr., Receiver, Room 63, No. 99 Randolph St., CHICAGO, ILL. ]