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MARINE REVI Entered at Cleveland Post Office as Second-class: Mail Matter. . EW oe = Published every Thursday at 89-41 Wade Bldg., by the Marine Review. Pub. Co. ------ VOL XXV1. MORE SEA DUTY FOR NAVAL OFFICERS. Secretary Moody has begun in earnest preparations for carrying into effect his intention to reduce the number of naval officers on shore duty. While he believes that a certain amount-of shore service is necessary to the proper professional education of an officer, he is convinced that every man holding a commission in'the navy should spend most of his time at sea, and the indications are that shore details hereafter will come seldom and be of very short duration except among high-ranking officers for whom sea commands cannot be provided. To help him carry qut this policy the secretary has prepared a circular letter, a copy of which will be addressed to every naval officer on duty in Washington and at every navy yard and naval station with the object of ascertaining the sentiment of the personnel of the service in regard to the necessity of keeping officers ashore. In this letter Mr. Moody asks each officer a number of questions. -One of these is whether the officer addressed cannot conveniently perform the duties to which he has 'been assigned in combination with the duties performed by some other -officer or officers at the same place, without detriment to the service or danger of being overworked. Mr. Moody is apparently of the opinion that it does not require nearly so many officers to do the work now being done at the various shore stations. He asks also whether a civilian could not just as well perform the duties as the officer addressed. A great many answers to this question will be in the negative, as many officers ashore ate performing duties which require ability of a high character and professiotial knowledge that comes of ex- perience in naval work. Another question is likely to prove a poser to many officers. Mr, Moody asks each officer ashore if he does not think that the interests of the service require that he should go to sea. This is a matter which probably can be decided by most officers only after an examination of conscience, but the secretary has sufficient confidence in the sense of duty prevailing in the service to believe that,-generally, it will be answered honestly and unselfishly. The old system of placing officers on waiting orders with reduced pay when there is no work for them to do at sea or on shore, will be revived probably when Mr. Moody carries his new policy into effect. This will apply principally to officers who have reached command rank, as nearly all the junior officers can be provided for on ships in commission. In the English and some of the other navies shore details are seldom given junior officers, and to this is largely due the fact that officers of the great naval powers seldom marry until they are well along in life. Most American navy officers marry early, but whether there will be a change in this regard when Mr. Moody puts his plans into operation remains to 'be seen. PROBABLY TWENTY-FIVE MILLIONS OF ORE. An cutput of 25,000,000 gross tons of ore from the Lake Superior region in the present year is now quite probable. Representatives of conservative interests in the ore trade look for a restriction in the pres- ent heavy movement when docks become even more crowded than they are at present and have placed their figures at about twenty-three rather than twenty-five millions, but the general effort since the opening, of navigation has been to ship every ton that it is possible to get out of the mines, and if this policy is continued the twenty-five-million rec- ord will be reached. The shipments to July 1 aggregate 8,899,833 tons (gross), against 4,963,608 tons to the same date a year ago, or a gain of practically 4,000,000 tons. -- Indications as to the future of the iron and steel industry in all branches seem to justify the ore interests in working the mines to their fullest capacity. Recent purchases of steel rails by the Pennsylvania Railroad Co, (207,000 tons) bring the total of new business in rails for 1903 up to about 1,000,000 tons, besides several hundred thousand tons to be carried over from 1902. Orders from all the roads that are mak- ing purchases for 1903 show increases over requirements for the present year. There is no let-up in the demand for iron and steel manufactures of all kinds. The lake ship builders who have accepted orders for a large number of new vessels for 1903 are finding great difficulty in ar- ranging for suitable delivery of material. AN IMPORTANT NAVAL RULING. In response to an inquiry from the secretary of the navy Judge Advo- cate General Lemly has rendered an opinion concerning the right of the president to refuse to promote naval officers who have been found by an examining board to be qualified in every way for advancement. The opinion was rendered with special reference to the case of Pay Inspector Stephen Rand, whom President Roosevelt declined to advance to the grade of pay director because he had had no sea service under his com- mission as an inspector. The judge advocate general holds that an offi- cer's advancement depends on the concurrent approval of the president and the examining board and that while the president may find that an officer is mentally, morally and professionally qualified for promotion the president is invested with the power to determine whether the board's conclusions are correct. When the president disagrees with the board a concurrent approval is not secured. The main question involved in the inquiry submitted to the judge advocate general was whether the presi- dent had the right to nominate some other officer, junior to Pay Inspector Rand, to fill the vacancy which Rand would have secured if President Roosevelt had not found fault with his record. Capt. Lemly makes the point that if an officer junior to Mr. Rand were nominated to fill the ex- isting vacancy in the grade of pay director and the senate should confirm it there would be no legal impediment to the issuance of a commission to that officér as pay director. He says, however, that the practice has been when an officer is believed by the president to be not qualified in every respect fcr promotion to give him another examination within'a reason- able period, and not to fill the existing vacancy in the meantime. Capt. Lemly suggests that this course might be pursued with reference to Pay CLEVELAND, O., JULY 10, 1902. Subscription a0 a@ year. Foreign | 4.50 a year. Single Copy 10 cents. No. 2 Inspector Rand without. injustice to any other officer in the pay corps and that when in September the next vacancy occurs in the grade of pay director it would be possible to promote the next officer in line of ad- vancement, Pay Inspector L. G. Boggs. The~ question is still. open whether it would be legal for the president to keep Pay Inspector Rand in his present position as the senior officer of his grade, and continue to jump other pay inspectors over him to the grade of pay director. The naval authorities believe that this right exists, but the question will re- main open until the senate reassembles in December and decides whether Pay Inspector Boggs and other pay officers shall be confirmed in the ge 2 pay director while Pay Inspector Rand remains stationary on he list. ' tox | ENORMOUS LAKE SUPERIOR FREIGHT MOVEMENT. With the freight movement to and from Lake Superior through the canals at the Sault running up to nearly 5,000,000 tons a month, it is now almost certain that the 30,000,000-ton mark will be exceeded in the pres- ent season of navigation. It is wonderful to recall that ten years ago this traffic amounted to only 10,000,000 tons, and twenty years ago it was little more than 1,000,000 tons. The next congress will certainly be called upon to provide additional lock facilities in the United States canal. The total freight movement to the first of July this year, 11,486,501 tons (net), com- pared with 6,767,120 tons on the same date a year ago and 8,673,481 tons on the same date in 1900. Details of this traffic will be found in the following table: MOVEMENT OF PRINCIPAL ITEMS OF FREIGHT TO AND FROM LAKE SUPERIOR. To July 1,| To July 1, | To faig1 ITEMS. 1908, Thor. i008." Coal, anthracite, net tons............... 108, 167 196,823 229,052 Coal, bituminous, net tons............ 1,594,859 982,411 1,422,601 Tron ore, net tONS...2...:iiscccr 7,806,573 4,334,514 5,475,267 Wheat, bushels... -...cccccesveccscsssse 24,398,148 9,381,344 | 19,145,392 Flour, barrels... 1,877,341 2,625,705 1,854,894 REPORT OF FREIGHT AND PASSENGER TRAFFIC TO AND FROM LAKE SUPERIOR, FROM OPENING OF NAVIGATION TO JULY 1 ; OF KACH YEAR FOR THREE YEARS PAST. EAST BOUND. : oe To July 1, | To July 1,| To July1 ITEMS Designation. 1902. 1901. iron, ' Copper oo. Net tons.... 35,614 24,647 | 42,3381 Grain, other than wheat) Bushels..... 3,710,093 4,479,685 4,383,774 Building stone............ Net tons... 17,231 10,494 - 6,408 FIOUE sss Barrels...... 2,625,705 1,877,161 1,854,784 TrOu OF sce ccc Net tons...| 7,806,573 4,334,514 5,475,267 Tron, PiPs..-.cseter Net tons... 7,396 10,953 4,092 Lym ber s..cccsscessescsne M. ft. b. m. 329 625 247,772 250,968 Silver OfF@.-.0.0005-. Net°tons:.0 cise ele ee iasseaneees Wheat. .). concen Bushels..... | 24,398,148 9,381,344 | 19,145,392 Unclassified freight .....; Net tons... 22,325 9,388 15,282 Passengers... p0cccs Number.... 9,431 6,531 5,077 WEST BOUND. Coal, anthracite..;......: Net tons... - 103,167 196,823 229,052 Coal, bituminous......... Net tons... 1,594,859 982,411 1,422,601 RIGU fis Barrels 5... less 180 Pe, Gratis ccisesn ee Bushels..... 5 160.1 + - 86,880, bsg sine Manufactured iron...... Net tons... 42,454 28,959 46,901 Salt oo... Barrels ..... 174,274 . 172,751 94,215 Unclassified freight.....| Net tons... * 190,796 139,515 135,285 PaSBCU ROIS: 5 o-.5c.scscey eee Number ... 10,436 7,428 ' 6,210 SUMMARY OF TOTAI, FREIGHT MOVEMENT IN TONS. To July 1, 1902. To July 1,1901. | To July 1, 1900. East bound freight of all kinds, net tons.:.........7 9,529,439 5,392,954 6,825,444 West bound freight of all kinds, net tons. :..:0.45:.: 1,957,062 1,374,166 1,848,037 11,486,501 6,767,120 8,673,481 Total number of vessel passages to July 1, 1902, was 7,753, and the registered tonnage 10,533,384. i The Bremen liner Saale, which was badly burned at the Hoboken fire a year ago, id now the freight steamer J. J. Luckenbach. She was almost entirely rebuilt by the Townsend & Downey Ship Building & Repair Co., Shooter's Island, N. Y.