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Lake Carriers at - Annual Meeting Was Featured by Extemporaneous Discussion, Speeches by Telephone from San Francisco and Presentation of Watch to Harry Stone MX... HE annual meeting of the Lake Carriers’ Association, held at De- troit, Jan. 20, was characterized by an unusually heavy attendance, in- cluding a large number of ship masters and engineers who entered freely into the extemporaneous discussions. The which have been going on during the was about 1 foot less than the me past decades. These changes reached a striking fruition in the transfers of ves- sel ownership that occurred during the closing months of 1915. In spite of the numerical decrease in membership, the vessel tonnage represented by the Lake the past 50 years. In view of this ation, the government engineers centrated dredging equipment on St. Clair during the open season entirely exhausted their approp for this purpose. The engineers that more meeting was called ju to order at 11:00 Z : : é : a. m. by William Directors of Lake Carriers’ Association Lavin gs tone, the Name Address venerable president J. H. Sheadle, Rockefeller Bldg., Cleveland 4s H. Coulby, Rockefeller Bldg., Cleveland of the association. John Mitchell, Rockefeller Bidg., Cleveland George ‘Ae’ Marr: H. D. Goulder, Rockefeller Bldg., apace ee W. C. Richardson, Leader-News Bldg., Clevelan secretary, and Har- J. S. Ashley, Leader-News Bldg., Cleveland : vey D. Goulder, W. D. Becker, Western Reserve Bldg., Cleveland with low wa 1 W. H. McGean, Leader-News Bldg., Cleveland Lake Se fe general counsel, as- A. F. Harvey, Rockefeller Bldg., Cleveland ake of. | lair isted P siden H. K. Oakes, Rockefeller Bldg., Cleveland an : 2 eee Jee . Geo. M. Steinbrenner, Rockefeller Bldg., Cleveland other s Livingstone in con- ducting the meet- ing. The tellers, Arthur Sullivan, of will be ava for the operatio to be conducte 1916. Colonel rick stated, ever, that the may have to. Business Connection Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. Pittsburgh Steamship Co. Goulder, White & Garry M. A. Hanna & Co. W. H. Becker W. G. Stewart, Western Reserve Bldg., Cleveland Interlake Steamship Co. John T. Kelly, Leader-News Bldg., Cleveland Richardson & Co. the departme A. E. R. Schneider, Rockefeller Bldg., Cleveland : : station a_ pat C. C. Canfield, Western Reserve Bldg., Cleveland Interlake Steamship Co. R. A. Williams, Rockefeller Bldg., Cleveland pe ee eee sees Colonel: Paty J. Burton Ayres, Rockefeller Bldg., Cleveland Great Lakes Steamship Co. also announced Chicago: and’ B.C; Collins, of Cleve- after the roll call that 17,700 shares _ were. represented, out “of: a total: of 19,239. Nearly W. M. Williams, Rockefeller Bldg., Cleveland G. A. Tomlinson R. D. Mitchell, Rockefeller Bldg., Cleveland A. T. Kinney, Rockefeller Bldg., Cleveland land, announced A. W. Thomson, Rockefeller Bldg., Cleveland C. L. Hutchinson, Leader-News Bldg., Cleveland. . E. C. Collins, Rockefeller Bldg., Cleveland W. P. Schaufele, Leader-News Bldg., Cleveland Wm. Livingstone, Dime Savings Bank Bldg., Detroit EG Waldo; lo Atwater St, Was Detroit isa sm eae W. P. Snyder Jr., H. W. Oliver Bldg., Pittsburgh C. D. Dyer, H. W. Oliver Bldg., Pittsburgh D. Sullivan, Continental Commercial Bank Bldg., Chicago A. C. Sullivan, Continental Commercial Bank Bldg., Chicago double the number Chas. M. Heald, Buffalo : of shares necessary for a quorum were represented. “A Goulder, authoriz- ing an increase in the number of directors to 40, was passed unanimously. During the discussion of this resolution Captain Denis Sullivan, Chicago, pointed out that the tendency toward decreases in the membership of the association, resulting from the con- centration of the control of lake steamers, would suggest action looking toward a limitation rather than an ex- pansion of the board of directors. The key note of -the meeting was struck in the annual report of the board of directors, executive committee and officers prepared and presented by President William Livingstone. In this report which appears im extenso on pages 96 and 9/. of this issue, President Livingstone pointed out that in many ways 1915 was the most extra- ordinary year in the history of the Lake Carriers’ Association. He also stated that the association faces the year 1916 with lessened membership in point of numbers, owing to the economic changes W. E. Lloyd, Buffalo . J. Boland, Prudential Bldg., Buffalo . B. Rodgers, Chamber of Commerce, Buffalo GAS Lomiinson;; Board. of -nradec Bide. 2 Duluth ace eee 3 Hei Shaw, 2bay City on ese Paha cotareig a haneate eer pac eh aan, resolution intro- H. S. Wilkinson, Onondaga Bldg., Syracuse, N. Y duced by Mr. W. H. Smith, Montreal, Can Carriers’ Association continues to in- crease. It is true that during 1915 a number of second class vessels were re- moved from the list representing an aggregate of 12,952 gross tons, but this loss will be far more than made up by the first class vessels now on the stocks. At the conclusion of the presentation of the annual report, Colonel Mason M. Patrick, district engineer, U. S. A., de- scribed the work carried on by the government during 1915 to relieve the difficulties arising from low water in Lake St. Clair. Colonel Patrick also outlined the plan of the department for continuing the improvement work in this district throughout the approaching season. He stated: that the government engineers are anxious to co-operate with navigation interests in order to facilitate the movement of commerce and pointed out that during all of the past season Lake St. Clair was - ab- normally low. The average during 1915 88 Pittsburgh Steamship ; M. A. Hanna & ‘ ors in safe Shenango Furnace Shenango Furnace D. Sullivan & D. Sullivan & Lake St CL Mutual Transit Co. situation by Ha Boland & Cornelius id Brown & Co. Coulby, preside Great Lakes Steamship Co. Canada Atlantic Transit Co. boat on Lake Clair to point « Wilson Transit : the dee | Hutchinson & pest 2 John Mitchell handling their ve! sels. Further lig was thrown on Mutual Transit Pittsburgh St ship Co., Clevel who stated that his opinion it no represents weakest link in the chain of lakes. Unc modern conditions, said Mr. Coulby, wher each inch of draught means the additiot or subtraction of 100 tons of cargo, a extra inch or two of depth at such points as the Lake St. Clair Flat canal would make a vital difference, particularly in a season such as 1916, which is expected to break all records He suggested that the Lake Carriers Association use its influence in ever legitimate manner at its command obtain larger appropriations for € tensive dredging in Lake St. Clair. Mr. Coulby also stated that in the” interests of safe navigation it would desirable to establish an arbitrary terval of five minutes between vess down-bound in narrow fairways st as the Lake St. Clair Flats canal or t Livingstone channel. He pointed ol that where vessels traverse these cha nels a quarter of a mile or less apath representing only about a minute