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i : MARINE REVIEW DEVOTED TO EVERYTHING AND EVERY INTEREST CONNECTED OR ASSOCIATED WITH MARINE MATTERS ON THE FACE OF THE KARTH. Published every Thursday by The Penton Publishing Company, CLEVELAND, OHIO. CLEVELAND: WADE BUILDING. CHICAGO: MONADNOCK BUILDING. DETROIT: HAMMOND BUILDING. Correspondence on Marine Engineering, Ship Butiding and Shipping Subjects Solicited. Subscription, $3.00 per annum. To Foreign Countries, $4.50. Subscribers can have addresses changed at will. 1 he Cleveland News Co. will supply the trade with the MARINE REVIEW through the regular channels of the American News Co. Entered at the Post Office at Cleveland, Ohio, as Second Class Matter. MARCH 31, 1904. The next issue of the Review will contain a full report of the meeting of lake interests before the committee on rivers and harbors of the house of rep- resentatives to extend the deep water navigation of the great lakes around the rapids at the head of Ni- agara river by means of a ship canal. This improve- ment will have a direct bearing upon the utility of the enlarged Erie canal and is greatly to be desired. It can be obtained at an expenditure of about $4,000,000, whereas the state of New York alone intends to expend $101,000,000 in the enlargement of the Erie canal. A most influential delegation from the great lakes ap- peared before the committee and many arguments were advanced in favor of the improvement. The most distinguished person present was President James J. Hill of the Great Northern Railway, who made a most forceful argument in favor of deep draught. He said that the clock struck twelve for the Mississippi river a great many years ago, because he maintained that with light draught it is possible for railways to suc- cessfully compete with waterways. Deep waterways are, however, quite another thing, and form the cheap- est mode of transportation known. 'The proposition briefly is to build a ship canal around Squaw island in the Niagara river in order to utilize the magnificent water front below the rapids for the relief of the pres- ent congestion of freight traffic. The foot of Lake Erie is the great terminus for a considerable portion of the iake freight and the present harbor facilities there are steadily growing more and more inadequate. President Livingstone of the Lake Carriers' Associa- tion and Mr. Harvey D. Goulder, counsel for the Lake Carriers' Association, made very powerful pleas. Others who spoke were Gen. Francis V. Greene, At- torney General Cunneen, William A. Rogers, William H. Gratwick, George P. Sawyer and F. Howard Mason of Buffalo; John G. Milburn of New York, George BS Tomlinson of Duluth, State Engineer Edward A. Bond of Albany, Col. Thomas W. Symons, government engi- neer; Representative Ryan and many others. A com- plete report of this meeting, illustrated with charts and maps, will be found in the next issue of the Marine Review. A very loyal soul, the Hon. Peter White of Mar- quette, Mich., is now working in Washington to ob- tain congressional action upon a celebration at Sault Ste. Marie next year to commemorate the fiftieth anni- versary of the opening of that canal of commerce. He is working there alone and with very slight encourage- ment from Sault Ste. Marie itself. A sub-committee of the interstate commerce committee for 1903 would have visited Sault Ste Marie last summer had there been any invitation extended or interest expressed by the people of the town. While the canal does not be- long to Sault Ste. Marie, but to the nation, it is never- theless expected that the town of Sault Ste. Marie should do its part, for being the seat of the celebration, it must also be the host. Peter White's efforts on behalf of this celebration have been indefatigable, and he has tramped the corridors between the senate and house for several days. He has also called upon the British ambassador and solicited the co-operation of Great Britain and the Dominion of Canada. Senator Alger has iritroduced a resolution in the senate to ap- prepriate $25,000 for a proper observance of the anni- versary, and has pledged its passage in December next. No effort will be made to pass it at the present session, owing to the general opposition to appropriations dur- ing presidential years. Senator Alger has, however, promised to put it through the senate at the beginning of the next session, and Congressman Young will put it through the house. It remains, therefore, for all the interests concerned with great lakes trade to lend their efforts towards the fulfillment of these promises. The reasons why the celebration should be held are very well expressed in Senator Alger's joint resolution, as follows: "Whereas, the legislature of the state of Michigan has by concurrent resolution approved Feb. 12, 1903, memorialized congress to take measures to cause the first semi-centennial period of the ship canal at the entrance of Lake Superior to be suitably recognized as marking an epoch in national commercial develop- ment, especially in the region bordering on the great lakes; and "Whereas, that public work, originally built under supervision of state authority, but subsequently trans- ferred to national control, has taken the foremost rank in the artificial waterways of the world in lock dimen-