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Harbor Plan Is Proposed for Cleveland Port The question of what to do with Cleveland’s harbor has been up for years and City Manager Hopkins has given the matter a good deal of at- tention. In this connection he in- vited Dr. R. S. MacElwee, commis- sioner of the port of Charleston, S. C. to make a study and to report on Cleveland’s lake front and port problem. Dr. MacElwee has now made his report. In this report he recommends a harbor with separate divisions for industrial and commer- cial traffic. The former division to be financed by the industries it will serve or financed by the municipality and sold to the industries. He gives ap- proval to the construction of a lake front boulevard. A port belt line is considered es- sential to connect all wharfs with every railroad entering the city. This line should be owned by the port com- mission but not necessarily operated by it. The commercial part of the port it is pointed out must have facil- ities to serve three kinds of traffic; general cargo or package freight in the Great Lakes trade; building ma- terials and other bulk commodities that need no protection; and eventu- ally ocean freight for general cargo liners in overseas commerce after the canalization to proper depth of the St. Lawrence waterway. The report recommends the crea- tion of a port commission as a de- partment of the city government. This port commission should be in charge of a director at a salary of from $10,000 to $18,000. A chief engineer should also be appointed. Contracts for Barges The Riter-Conley Co., Pittsburgh has been awarded contract for four self-unloading cement barges from designs prepared by T. R. Tarn, naval architect of Pittsburgh. The Pitts- burgh company received the order from the Marquette Cement Mfg. Co., Chicago, which operates plants at La Salle, Ill, and Cape Girardeau, Mo. These barges are each to be 175 feet long, 35 feet beam and 8 feet depth with a carrying capacity of 800 tons in three hoppers, each of which is to be 144 feet in length. The barges are to cost about $12,000. They are to be placed in operation on the Mississippi river between Cape Girar- deau and Memphis where docks for loading and unloading are being con- structed. Word from the company car- ries the information that it has plans providing for the construction of a 700-horsepower twin screw diesel tug. The tug NEBRASKA, new vessel for the Great Lakes Towing Co., was launched Jan. 4 at the Jefferson Street Bulk Cargo Movement Breaks All Records ee previous records for total bulk cargo movement on the Great Lakes were broken in the year 1928. This was accom- plished not by the addition of new vessels but by more efficient operation of the existing fleet. Quicker turn-arounds were main- tained on the average than be- fore. The actual period of opera- tion was shorter. It is interesting to note from the accompany- ing table showing cargo move- ment for the past 10 years that there was an increase in every commodity, iron ore, coal, grain and stone, the gain in the two last being particularly note- worthy. The increase in all com- modities for 1928 over the year 1927 is more than six and a half million short tons. shipyards, Charles H. Dimmers, su- perintendent of the yards supervising. The NEBRASKA is steel, 84 feet long at keel and powered with an 800-850 horsepower engine. The box is 26 by 28 inches. The vessel was constructed Harbor Improvements on Great Lakes The channel in Howard’s Bay, a half-mile long, leading from the mouth of the bay to Tower Bay was deepened to 20 feet during May and June. Dredges removed 36,000 yards there. Dredging of the St. Louis river to Big Island removed 142,000 cubic yards and increased the low-water depth to 20 feet. The concrete pier on the south at the Superior entry was repaired for 400 feet. The total expenditure on this Duluth-Superior harbor was $9,000,000. At Ontonagon, it is expected that the annual dredging of the habor will be carried out. It has been the cus- tom in recent years to maintain, a 15- foot channel inside the piers and 17- foot channel outside. It requires the movement of some 80,000 yards. At Keneewaw Waterway, Mich., a revetment to the extent of 2000 linear feet was repaired. Damage to super- structure and decay of small stone on the east breakwater was replaced by concrete capping blocks. The east breakwater, of the upper entry was repaired for 250 feet. Capt. J. B. Lowe Dies Capt. James B. Lowe, a successful navigator who had many friends in Bulk Cargo Movement—1928 Shipments on the Great Lakes for Last Year Compared with Nine Preceding Years Coal, net tons 34,823,002 84,794,291 81,011,544 28,127,359 25,860,515 83,137,028 19,868,925 26,660,652 26,409,710 26,424,068 32,102,022 Iron ore, gross tons 53,980,874 51,107,136 58,537,855 54,081,298 42,623,572 59,086,704 42,613,726 22,300,726 58,527,226 47,177,395 61,156,732 entirely at the yards of the company. Lake Vessel Launched The first of several lake and canal vessels for Canadian owners was launched Jan. 10, at the Wallsend yard of Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. The new vessel is being built for J. J. Boland Jr. and Capt. Robert Scott Misener, both of Canada. Her length is 253 feet. MARINE REVIEW—February, 1929 various kinds, Grain, Stone, net tons Total, net tons net tons 16,372,116 14,692,536 12,087,316 13,320,346 15,222,787 11,850,446 14,267,020 12,470,405 6,736,348 6,091,703 6,548,680 15,677,551 14,033°376 12,628,244 11,351,948 9,225,624 9,920,422 7,592,137 3,925,705 7,821,980 6,407,285 7,467,776 127,329,348 120,760,195 121,289,502 113,370,707 98,047,327 121,029,004 89,454,848 68,033,575 106,518,531 91,761,238 114,614,018 the lake trade, died Jan. 22, of heart trouble at his home in Lakewood, O. He was 73 years of age and had sailed lake vessels for 42 years. Beginning his lake service in 1881 with the Wilson Transit Co., he be- came associated with the Cleveland- Cliffs Iron Co. in 1890, afterward buying a a number of steamers of the latter fleet. From 1905 until 1916, he was in the employ of the Mitchell fleet. 51