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ESTABLISHED 1878. VOL. XXIV, No. 40. CLEVELAND -- OCTOBER 3, 1901 -- CHICAGO. 4 g A $2.00 Per Year. LAKE. CARRIERS: ASSOCIATION. To consider and take action upon all general questions relating to the navigation and carrying business of the Great Lakes, maintain necessary shipping offices and in general to protect the common interests of Lake Car- riers, and to improve the character of the service rendered to the public. PRESIDENT. A. B. WoLvIN, Duluth. 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT. Capt. J. G. KEITH, Chicago. SECRETARY. CHARLES H. KEEP, Buffalo, TREASURER. GEORGE P. McKay, Cleveland. COUNSEL. HARVEY D. GOULDER, Cleveland. EXECUTIVE AND FINANCE COMMITTEE. JAMES CorRRIGAN, Chairman, Cleveland. COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION. GrBson I,. DouGLas, Chairman, Buffalo. COMMITTEE ON AIDS TO NAVIGATION. GEORGE P. McKay, Chairman, Cleveland. SHIPPING SUBSIDY BILL. A new ship subsidy bill will be introdnced in the Senate early in the next session of Congress and will differ from the measure which Senators Frye and Hanna made such strenu- ous efforts to have passed last winter. What the modifica- tions will be ate to be determined between this time and December, but it is intended they shall not alter the old bill in any radical manner. Some efforts will be made, however, to make the new measure acceptable to those who opposed the old one. A conference is scheduled to be held in Boston, on Wed- nesday, at which time the draft of the new bill will be con- sidered. There will be present Senator Hanna and Senator Frye, Representative Littlefield, of Maine, President Gris- com, of the International Navigation Co., and a few others who are interested in building up the measure. - One of the most important questions pertaining to the new bill, which will come before this conference, centers around the proposition to pay subsidies to foreign built ships, now owned wholly, or in major part, by Americans. It will be recalled that it was against this provision of the old- bill that the greatest hostility was shown at the last session of Congress, and it is understood the aim of the conference at Boston will be to so frame this clause as not to excite the same dangerous opposition. To accomplish this purpose, and atthe same time carry out the idea embodied in the foreign tonnage feature of the bill, will be a difficult matter, especially in view of the fact, that, since the adjournment of Congress, last March, J. P. Morgan and the transportation +mpanies with which he is allied have purchased foreign uins having the combined capacity of 275,000 tons. ’ .he question of shortening the period of the operation of the subsidy law from twenty years, as was proposed in the old bill, to about twelve or fifteen years, will also be con- sidered. Another matter that will come up before the con- ference, it is understood, will be to fix a uniform rate of sub- dy of one cent per gross ton for each 100 nautical miles covered by ships enjoying the Government bounty. t ! —_—— OS ST. LAWRENCE TO THE HUDSON. The only sensible solution for the continental basin in which lie all the Great Lakes, not only for Canada, but our- selves, and to insure the commercial supremacy of New York, is a deep waterway from the St. Lawrence to the Hudson, writes John A. Wright in the New York Sun. By our effort we have now detailed surveys of such a waterway, which involves a route fromthe St. Lawrence (Lake St. Francis,) to Lake Champlain, 46 miles of canal and two locks, and from Lake Champ’ain to the upper Hudson, 35 miles of canal, mainly in 28 miles of the divide cut. This is all down hill and has ample water supply, and about half a dozen locks altogether. A waterway down the St. Louis or Chateaugay river val- ley, about ten miles, would make a waterway from Lake St. Louis and the mouth of the Ottawa, of direct connection with the proposed Georgian Bay-Ottawa ship canal, partial- ly surveyed by an incorporated company which is now financing it and which has been recommended for action by the Dominion Government by Minister Tarte of railways and canals. Such waterways, two sections of which are less than other ship canals existing in the world today, and the under water excavation from Troy to Coxsackie, to which point 30 feet extends in Hudson profile, is no more than has been done by our neighbors in Canada below Montreal to bring 30 feet to that point. Such a route not only avoids the dangers of the lower St. Lawrence, but affords a way from Montreal to New York of about 350 miles, against 986 miles, by the Straits of Belle Isle. It will be safe navigation and being in a lower latitude will be a longer open season, of which we have charts for years, and itis the most direct route for South America, West India and Atlantic coast trades from Canada and the basin of the Great Lakes. An appreciation of the trade possibilities and value of such commercial channels by us on this side of the border equal to that of our Canadian cousins, would insure the construction of such waterway and make New York the port of all America and of this great business within a decade. i Oo BIDS FOR A LIGHT-SHIP. Bids for the construction of a new steel light-ship to be stationed at Grosse Point, Lake St. Clair, were opened in the office of Inspector Wilson, of the Eleventh district, De- troit on Tuesday. Johnson Brothers, of Ferrysburg, Mich., were the lowest bidders, offering to do the work for $14 840. The Jenks Ship Building Company Port Huron was the only other bidder, the figure being $15,000 for a seventy-five- foot boat. The specifications call for a larger craft. ——— — a Oo THE HEAVENS IN OCTOBER. Astronomical data for October, 1901, furnished the MARINE RECORD by the Washburn Observatory: All the bright planets are situated in the evening sky the present month, and all arefarsouth. Venus, the most brilliant of all, shines in the southwest as the evening star. Inthe same quarter are Mercury and Mars, The former reaches greatest elonga- tion east on October 12th but will be situated too low to be easily seen. Jupiter and Saturn appear in the southerly sky. The former is by far the brighter of the two and is almost exactly on the meridian at sunset, on the first evening of the month. Saturn follows Jupiter in its diurnal course, some distance east and a little north of the latter planet. The times of sunrise and sunset at Milwaukee for the month are as follows : SUNRISE. SUNSET. October ris 5 ee ee GAGs Roe hy aah Ces Oe 5:34 Ostober: Ii Hssisievoss «% GOO, ise es Sele aa 5:17 ORO DOL BT saps iacsctits ari) ga cinae OST 5 cise SEP ib ieradsielelsto eters 5:00 OCEORCT ATs ee ic cies mains Oto Fes Clee cis ie anauaec pee 4:46 The times of the moon’s phases are: Third quarter....... OYA Ta) YC ee eS 2:52 p. m. New Moon ......... (OLOWEL Does tcc ee ce 7:1I a. m. First quarter: 250. .: Oetobers2o esas Ps 11:58 a.m. Fall Moonitisisc oi. Octoberiez nox iii Hoses 9:06 a, m. The principal fixed stars visible during month in the even- ing hours are: To the west: Vega and Altair. To the east: Aldebaran the Pleiades and Capella. PHILIPPINE COMMERCE FOR PUGET SOUND. It is believed by officials of the government in Washington city that if present conditions continue the great part of the expanding commerce of the United States with the Philip- pines will be carried on through the ports of Puget Sound. New York will probably rank second, and ahead of San Francisco. Although the importance of the acquisition of those islands from a commercial view-point was promptly recognized by the people of the Pacific Northwest, the extent of the Philippines commerce to be carried on by the way of Seattle and the other Sound ports, as compared with that carried through the other ports of the United States, was probably not foreseen. s % The treasury department has prepared statistics, corrected for the last fiscal year, which show that during thé period about 4o per cent. of all exports of the United States to the Philippines were shipped from the Puget Sound customs district. Yet this does not represent the actual extent of the business carried on with the Philippines through the Sound ports, for the treasury figures show $198,645 worth of merchandise went from the customs district of North and South D:ikota, and it is probable nearly all of this was shipped by way of Seattle or Tacoma. The Sound’s exports to the islands in the fiscal year of 1901 were nearly double those from the next largest port, San Francisco, and approximately as large as those of all the other ports in the Uaited States combined except San Francisco. The total shipments from the United States were valued at $2 649,449, of which $1,055,828 were from Puget Sound and $549,382 from San Francisco. The balance was distrib- uted as follows: Baltimore, $14,110; New York, $576,600; Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., $118,173; San Diego, $56,621; Portland, Ore., $20,429; North and South Dakota, $198,645; Oswegatchie, N. Y., $237, and other interior ports, $413. The exports from the United States to the Philippines in the fiscal year 1900, amounted to only $404,193, of which $42,555 were shipped from Puget Sound and $143,831 from San Francisco, It is seen, therefore, while these exports increased more than twenty-fold on Puget Sound, the increase in other parts of the country was only five or six fold. The shipments from the United States to the Philippines in July last amounted to $830,809, and during the first seven months of the present calendar year to $2,023,137. In July of last year the exports were valued at $249,209, and during the first seven months of 1900 to $1,592,030. EEE CONTRACTORS CONSOLIDATE. Mr. Smith, a member of the firm of L. P. & J. A. Smith, contractors, of Cleveland, has been working for nearly a year to form a combination including all dredging concerns on the lakes, and he says that now everything has been closed up with the exception of a few minor details, which will not interfere in any way with the carrying out of his plan. Mr. Smith said that the headquarters of the combine wil} be in Cleveland, and that all operations will be directed from that port. The capital stock of the consolidation will be about $8,000,000. On account of the great amount of work necessary to suc- cessfully carry out plans of the proportion involved in the formation of the dredging combine, and the highly satisfac- tory manner in which Mr. Smith has engineered them, se- curing all the options and planning all the details, it is con- sidered almost certain that when the meeting of the repre- sentatives of the various companies is held in December, to close the business of the private firms and select officers for thetrust, Mr. Smith will be chosen president and chief execu- tive officer. 10:. Single Copy ig :