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Plarine Becord. Qa" ESTABLISHED 1879. 0 ‘Published Wvery Thursday at 144 Superior Goer. iieader Building] Clevelund, Ohio. SMITH & SWAINSON, Publishers. BKANCH OFFICE: & th Water Street, Chicago, Minois, 2IHOMAS WILLIAMS. Associate Editor. TN ei tall late Editor: rae saleceomst Raniah PERMA OF SUBSCRIPTLON One year, postage paid... Six months, postage paid. Invariably in Advance, THE MARINE RECORD can be found for gale by the following agents and news dealers: AMHERS1 BURG, ONT.—Geo. Taylor. ASHTABULA HARBOR, O.—O C, Large. ASHLAND, WIS.—Post Office News Stand. BUFFALO, N.Y.—Miss McCabe, Elk street. CHICAGO, ILL.—Thomas Williams, 252 South Water street. L. P. Ballin, 33 West Randolph street. CLEVELAND, 0.—Cieveland News Co., 118 Wood street; G. F. Bowmun, corner Pearl and Detroit street; R A. Castner, 254 Detroit street; EB. J. Ray, 452 Detroit - street; Lar- wood & Day, Superior street; N. Hexter, 303 | Superior street. 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B.—We do not hold ourselves ‘responsible in anv way for the views ex- by our correspondents, contributions very case be accompanied by the and address of the writer, and be not later than Wednesday morn- decision, we may wellask that a proper degree of cireumspection should be exercised. Such an issue is now before usin the correspond- ence contained under the heading of “Private Aggression”; and to this issue do we direct the attention of the Representatives at Washington of the lake ports asking them to bear in mind that not only the commerce of one port is placed in jeopardy, but, the entire commerce of the North Western Lakes which center in the terminal locality of Buffalo N.Y. ‘That one firm should be granted the monopoly of favoritism is eminently at variance with the spirit of progression, equity, and fairness, or in other words not that we undervalue the immense importance of the traflic carried on by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R Co., whose personal favors we have from time to time been recipients of, but rather in the broad and universal spirit of justice to all concerned; and we but too truly recognize that other industries besides the Delaware Lackawanna & Western R. R Co. are equally as well entitled to the favorable considera- tion of our prominent office holders and public servants. as the aforementioned re sponsible and highly valued firm have been or may be entitled to at the present time. In no narrow or eayiling spirit do we urge upon our Representatives; and those of our country to resist the encroaches of a special monopoly, but, in the broad and United States views of mattersin general. Hence, we go on record as repudiating the right of any one company being allowed the privilege of trampling down the legitimate outcome of commercial competition. we candidly admit seems to be the stand- point obtained in Buffalo harbor by Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R. Co., whose license to temporarily blockade a most important terminal lake port has been au thorized through the short sighted and ques- tionable policy of a United States official in granting a monopoly to an individual firm to the detriment of other industries equally as important. This language may seem some- what strong, yet the exigencies of the case demand a positive and impartial outcome, for, not only is our special task of upholding indiscriminately the rights of the lake ma- rine inyolved in the question at issue. But several of the most important lines concerned in the transportation of lake traffic are also at an issue on this subject, notably among whom we may quote the Union Steamboat Such the Co., the Western Transit Co., the Lehigh Valley Transportation Co. and the Erie & Western Transportation Co., and we may also add the full testimony of Captain T. A. Mahan,° of the United States Corps of En- gineers, who styles the occupancy of the mouth of Buffalo harbor by the Delaware, | Lackawanna & Western R. R. as the greatest nuisance existing in the port of Buffalo. | Therefore the question narrows itself so far |asthé Federal officers are concerned to the g,.| facts as stated in the foregoing; simply, why = ‘ice President. Secretary and Treasurer. ae .Counsel. - ss MANAGERS OR ADVISORY BOARD. H. M. Hanna, R. K. Winslow, H. P. Lillibridge, P, - @, Minch, M. A. Bradley, W D. Rees, Geo. P. Me- Kay, J. H. Palmer, Thos. Wilson, W. C. Richardson, J. W. Moore, James Corrigan, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 4H, M. Wanna, M. A. Bradley, Thos. Wilson, J. W. Moore, Geo, P. McKay, Jas. Corrigan, B. L. Pxn- NINGTON. SHIPPING MASTERS. A. R. Rumsey, 98 dock, Cleveland; Fred Bennett, Asst., Wm Rennick, Ashtabula Harbor, 0.; John O'Connor, 205 Madison street, Toledo, 0- MARINE RECORD—OFFICIAL PAPER. 2p ee CIRCUMSPECIION REQUIRED. In another column of this issue under the head of “Private Aggression” a most erudite and far reaching issue is involved. We par- ticularly allude to the sentiment which seems to us to beon the increase among prominent «ommercial bodies, viz. that no sooner isa trade established by the energy, persever- ance and capital of a corporation, or firm, than they at once begin to think that the United -Btates Treasury and the officials of the Goy- ernment are in duty bound, by all the laws of airiotism and honor to enhance the value oftheir special line of business by voting working, and lobbying to further their special and private ends. Speaking in a broad sense on this impor- tant issue, we are positively acquainted and haye undoubted proof of schemes which have worked just inthe above groove during the “past few years; and while one firm alone em- braced all of the advantages to be derived from these measures, it was tu be considered more than half right that they should enjoy ‘the benefits held forth, not only to them- selyes as a firm; but to the community con- cerned in the field of their ventures and yrofit. Asa factor in the progression of civiliza- tion and commerce, no adyerse comments could possibly be held tenable while the re- _ sult collectively and ultimately hinged upon the individual firm or company, indeed such _ legislation was, and is considered of para: “mount importance in certain sections of the ‘United States today. Yet, where several influential and equally as important interests hinge upon the ultimatum of a Ministers sssussssseenes President should one firm be proyided with and main- ‘tain a monopoly of the entrance to Buffalo harbor to the disadvantage and menace of '|ail other tonnage frequenting that port. Tue first keel for a steel or iron vessel Jaid at any lake Michigan port was laid on July Ist, at 1:40 p. m., at the yards of the Chicago Shipbuilding Co., South Chicago, Ils. The event has been duly proclaimed by the daily press throughout the length and breath of the western states; and we record the occurrence as a date in the history of western deyelop- ment. The exact time of placing the first por— tion of the keel was telegraphed officially to Mr. Luther Allen, through whose kindness we are enabled to acquaint our readers at each and every lake port of the circumstance which redounds to the prestige of the im- mense maritime interests interested in the advancement of the lake marine. We venture to assert that at no distant date Chicago will build and equip naval and mercantile fleets to protect and carry on the residue of the oversea transportation trade of the effete and fast waning prestige of the Eastern hemisphere. With an expression of sympathy and sup- port from the 51st Congress shipbuilding will receive an impetus sufficient to outrank all rivals among other maritime powers, given but an outlet to the coast and it is in order to state that the lake shipyards in their present stage of efficiency can successfully enter the field of competition with the much yaunted skill and output of the Clyde industries, or with the iron, steel, and wooden shipbuilding yards of any nationality. We are sorry to learn that Mr. H. G. Trout one of the most prominent citizens of Buffalo N. Y. has met with a severe blow in the loss of his highly respected wife. Mrs. Trout passed away on Tuesday July 8th and her remains will be interred today at3 p. m. We extend our sympathy to Mr. Trout in the sad hour of his bereavement, trusting that he will bear up under the blow with a manly and christian fortitude. > During June there were 108 lake disasters against 179in May, the losses aggregating $145,400, On Lake Erie 18; Lake Superior and Sault river 25; Lake Michigan 24; St. Clair 6; Huron and straits 19; rivers 12; Ontario 3; Georgian Bay 1. Stranded 32, loss $69,000; disabled 31, loss $32,600; spruug a leak 5, loss $1,300; fire 4, loss $11,300; ashore 4, loss $2,100; heavy weather 2, loss $700; collisions 30, loss $28,400. May losses were $193,800, Whe Marine Record. NEW TONNAGE. According to our usual half yearly custom we this week publish a table giving the parti- culars of the new tonnage documented at the various lake ports during the first half of the | present year, the gross measurement tonnage has been given; with few exceptions, yet it may be understood by our readers that the ca~ pacity thus given is not the burden or total dead weight capacity of the vessels. Fifteea to thirty-five per cent, more may be allowed on the tonnage given below. modern high classed steel built propellers are | already on record as exceeding 8,000 tons capacity; and when the shoal water found in the connecting links of the chain of lakes i- taken into consideration, the shipbuilders | skill seems to be amply proven in the sym— metrical proportions retained in the largest carriers; as evidenced by the three thousand ton steamers. The steel barges destined for through traffic to Montreal; and the steel vev- sels building at the Weat Bay City shipyard for the coast, open out a new and more exten- sive future to the shipbuilding industry of the chain of lakes. As it is well known that almost every branch of ade and mechanism enters into the final plete and fully equipped modern s'eamer, it must be acknowledged that the shipbuilders construction of a com- of the lakes are men of unlimited resources, scientific attainments and energetic character. Such men are worthy of the nation’s highest esteem. STEAM VESSELS, w & | HOME PORT, NAME, y |WHERE BUILT or where £ | Documented. o eal : Spalpeen .......... 29 Buffalo.....|Buffalo, N. Y, Alex Nimick 1969 W. Bay City|Cleveland, 0, Nyanza 1859 W. Bay City|Krie, Pa, i 2518 Cleveland, . ,|Cleveland, 0, 743\W. Bay City Buffalo, N. Y, .| 1294|Milwaukee Denver .|Milwaukee, Wis, La Salle. 18657/Cleveland.. .|Marquette, Mich. Welcome. 78 Sheboygan. .|Milwaukee, Wis. A. McVittie 2047|Detroit.....|Detroit, Mich. .| 1a50|Detroit..... Detroit, Mich, 19'GrandHaven|Graud Haven Mich 34 Marquette, Mich COLOBDY see niet saste's 36). ud Haven Mich Harrison Ludington 47). ++++s{Chicago, IIL Joliet... 1857|C land. ..} Marquette, Mich. Savana 2609\Cleveland. ..|Buffalo, N, Y. Fred Pabst 2431|Milwaukee. .|Milwaukee, Wis. Knight Templar 39) Milwaukee. .| lilwaukee, Wis, Maggie Duncan 586/l't Howard.) Milwaukee, Wis. Mariska. 2326|Cleveland. Jleveland, O. Manola... . 2320\Cleveland. jleveland, O. Adam Hom 26) Buffalo, . Suffalo, N. Y, Albany ... 19) -|dutialo, N.Y, D. N. Runnells. BB ieee meas nas Pt. Huron, Mich, Mosher .... ji -.|Chicago, Il. Brazil .. \Buffato, N. ¥. Frank E. Kirby ee FH. Prince,s31.... Myrtie M. Ross. ... ‘Detroit, Mich, . .|Detroit, Mich, .. Grand Haven,Mich +: :|Pt. Huron, Mich, St.Catheri’es Buffalo, N, Y. Oswego, N. Y, -.-|Buffaio, N.Y, Brie, Pa. Charles J. Johnson. Despatch .......... Hope John Harper 1952/W. Bay City Walter Vail... > 726\W. Bay City Andrew A. M. .24,W. Bay City! City of Chicago. 1055)W. Bay City Leathem B, Sri . SOOT So Alva Bos... Eli Shriver,'Jr.. Ethel J. Pryor . Indiana Oclemena,, R. E. Schu Wm. E. Witt Colgate Hoyt. Carrie Curren Eugene C. Wart .. John Schroder ,... J. H, Wade ........| 1863/Cleveland...|Cleveland, 0. seueel Boys... ..5)) B87). o..e. es ..+.|Pt. Huron, Mich, Emily P. Weed.....| 2863)\W. Bay City|S’p'n Bridge, N. Y. Maruba.,.... Cleyeiand. ..|Cleveland, 0. Skater. .. Detroit..... ‘Detroit, Mich St. Lawrence... \Marine City.|Pt Huron, Mich, Byron Whitaker. ...|..-.. Mt. Clemens|Detroit, Mich. Henry R. James....| 2048)Detroit,.... Devroit, Mich, Cleveland, . . Cleveland... ‘Cleveland. . . Matoa Cleveland, 0, Cleveland, O, Wleveland, O. A Buffalo. .... Buffalo, N.Y, ¥ 1287/\GrandHaven Grand Haven, Mich Emmelin 62) ..|Cleveland, O, John L. Hy 14}, vee ase Horie, Pa, Jos. P. Devne, 9) abula,, .|Cleveland, 0, W. H. Sawyer,.....| 56)Ashtabula.. |Cleveland, 0. Kunkle Brothers...) 747)W. Bay City|s’p'n Bridge N. Y, Glenn cvaesing an 183,|Sth Haven, .|Sth. Haven, Mich. SAIL VESSELS AND BARGES. 5 HOME PORT, NAME, 3 WHERE BUILT) or where é Documented. o Og sielhiz siatadeceyor th -| 1295|Duluth..... Buffalo, N, Y. Chas. J. Clarke.....) 119)... cc. .05 ./Buffale, N.Y. [ees Hof Whit Harrington... Aeme AGS Np ey rete Buffalo, N. Y, J _B. Lozen . 665|Mt. Clemens|Detroit, Mich. Wanderer. 1D} Siacacee eae Chicage, Ill. Miztee. . 777\Marine City/Pt. Huron, Mich, Baltic -.| 916,W. Bay City|Pt. Huron, Mich, Beniannti Harrison.| 89)......0. 0065 Ogdensburg, N. Y. Levi P. Morton..... BO coe ante . . |Ogdensburg, N. ¥, Buffalo, N. Y. Pt. Huron, Mich, Pt. Huron, Mich, Detroit, Mich .|Pt. Huron, Mich, ...|Detroit, Mich, . {Grand Hayen,Mich Olive Jeanette. . Pt. Huron, Mich, Emma D,... Ogdenablirg, Oy Atlanta... . Huron, Mich, Emmanuel Milwaukee, Wis. Trader....... ...(Grand Haven,Mich A. R. Kellogg... . /Sandusky, O, Actors i.e. 4) Milwaukee, Wis, A, ©, Tuxbury, W. Bay City|S'p'n Bridge, N. Y. ©, E, Redfern... W. Bay City|Tonawanda, Legal GrandHaven|Grand Haven, Mich 107. Duluth Buffalo, N. Y. Detroit, Mich. t. Huron, Mich, Trento) This above table will barely reach the hands of many of our readers, before several thousand tons more capacity will be added to the lake fleet, to be carried over to the next half years statistics, notably among this ton— nage is the large steel steamer Republic, to be launched from the yards of the Globe Iron Works Co., July 12th, on the same date the steel steamer Maryland, will be launched from the Wyandotte yards, of the Detroit Dry- dock Co. and as we go to press the fine three- masted schooner B. W. Parker, has touched the water at Gibraltar, Mich. Several of the} A Lae Se The table of new tonnage thus shows a |total of 79 steamers, with a tonnage of 63.922 | sail and tow, 30 vesse’s with a gross tonnage of 15,559, making a total of 109 vessels having a gross measurement tonnage of 79.481 tons, | representing steel, iron, composite and wooden | vessels of first class design and equipped with all modern inventions. | *Net tons are given, as no means are at | hand for determining the gross. | —_— — | aes HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS. For several years past we have pointed out the necessity for judicious harbor improve ments at the several important lake ports, yet, | the local magnates at each and every port SS aan | with perhaps one or two exceptions (notably Ashtabula, O.,) have shirked the responsibi- lity resting upon them, by laying on the table for an indistinct consideration petitions in- dorsed by, and developments prayed for, by those who have the commercial interests of their respective localities at heart. | It now beccmes a question whether the) Lake Erie ports can receive the ore cargoes already engaged to arrive during the present season vf navigation. So widespread has the feeling of uneasiness become that the pro- minent ore shippers and mine owners have petitioned the furnace men consumers of Lake Superior ore, to assist them in preventing a dead lock by facilitating the movements of ore from the several ports the furnaces to which the ore is consigned. The furnace men have also been informed of the inability of the docks to take care of the future consign- ments; and an earnest request has been for- warded to each consumer asking that their shipping orders may be increased to their fullest possible extent in order that the docks may be relieved before active movement in coal transportation begins. to It is to be hoped that the railroad com— panies and the furnace men will do all in their power to furnish prompt despatch; and by so doing obviate the many evils entailed in a blockade of the ports, and a cessation of lake transportation in the ore trade. Pre- suming that events may so transpire; and that the present season will be tided over without very serious losses to the ore shippers and vessel owners, the same issue will remain to daunt commerce in future seasons, unless wise and energetic measures are adopted looking towards increased dock space; and facilities at the several ore receiving ports on Lake Erie. In the furtherance of river and harbor im- provement schemes, it must not be expected that the Federal Government will be in so far paternal as to insistupon defraying the cost of forming docks, erecting wharves, dredging slips, etc., etc., such matters are of purely local import and should meet with | direct attention at the hands of the State Legislature. The very fact that a port may have a resident government engineer, whose duty it is to preserve and improve a national waterway does not allow the local magnates the power of repudiating their responsibili- ties in upholding and fostering the commer- cial interests of the city, town, or hamlet, over which they, exercise a jurisdicsion by jvirtue }of their office—nor would the direct inter- ference of the Federal Government in mat- ters of a purely local character’ be tolerated with any degree of sympathy. Hence, the | inference, that if a once prosperous port | allowed itself to lapse into maritime desue- | tude, Congress would not be empowered to expend national finances in aid of; and for) the especial benefit of that locality alone. The onus of maintaining improvements | commensurate with the local developments of trade rests therefore with the representatives of the people in that locality; and not as has been so widel; supposed in the past, with the official who may represent the Federal author- }ity in the conserving of national waterways, the existing difference simply resolving itself into a national or local issue, if the former, direct and positive measures are available; and though perhaps subject tu a slight necessary delay the requisite legislation is usually suc- cessful, not so with local matters however, for notwithstanding the immense increase in lake tonnage coupled with all of the modern faci- lities that private ingenuity can suggest or money command, we fail to see the march of progress and commercial development assisted by the improvements of local water ways and harbors. ‘he principal porta might be enumerated; and with the exception of the ports at the head of Lake Superior it may be said that increased conveniences have not kept pace with the private enterprise exhi- bited by shipbuilders, owners, and charterers, in fact the several lake states are neg- lectful of their best interests, in utterly ignor- ing the advancement of lake commerce, While the present status of the ore transportation is much to be deplored, nor can any method be sug- gested at this time for relieving the present par- tial blockade beyond what has already been done, Yet, the crisis may not be without an ulti- mate result to the advantage of the lake marine, We allude to an awakening of the local and state magnates who would feel most keenly the official degradation of haying a port proclaimed in a state of blockade owing to its inability to accept the commerce which its manufacturing industries, and internal trade | depended upon, Therefore, we hold that a| repetition As this lamentable stage. ee merce may be obviated in the future by judicious increase in the whartage and dock |: spaces assigned by the State, (if necessary) for the furtherance of the commerce 80 rapid: ly developing on the Northwestern lakes, AiaadiaBiRi SPS NESE PRIVATE AGGRESSION. x PHILADELPHIA Pa., July 7th, 1890, Ty the Editor of the Marine Record. she The Martxe Recorp has done much valuable work in directing the atten- tion of Congress to the necessity for liberal appropriations to improve and maintain the channels and harbors of the Great Lakes. Congress has from time to time appropriated large sums for these uses; sums that havea relation to, but that in no way keep pace with, the wonderful development of the commerce of the lakes and the class of vessels by which itis carried. Channels and harbors have thus been created and improved at the public ex- pense and for the general welfare, but we now find several propositions before Congress that contemplate granting several of these public works to private individuals or corporations for their own selfish uses and against every interest for which they were created. This class of legislation is illustrated by H. R. Bill 595 now before the river and harbor committee, proposing to grantto the Dela- ware, Lackawanna, & Western R. R. Co., the use of the North Pier at the entrance to Buf- falo harbor. This entrance is nominally 200 feet wide, but in reality only 165 feet (as reported by the U.S Engineers) of it is available, owing to a bank resting against and necessary to secure the South Pier. It is now proposed to farther narrow this channel by permitting the D. L.& W. RK. R. Co. to use the North Pier from its outer end as a coal shipping pier. It is now so used by this Company under a temporary license granted by the Secretary of War, and it is in evidence that two and sometimes three vessels lie abreast at the pier, narrowing the dangerous channel and making it one of the mcst dfi- cult and unsafe harbor entrances on the lakes, Yours truly, Frank J. Frrru, President, The Erie & Western Transp. Co. (We beg to inform our correspondent ‘that the government engineers are now strictty on their guard regarding such measures as the above. The same tactics are being pursued in other quarters without any possible chance of them being successful, nor should the ap— pronch to any port be encumbered with pri- vate traffic to the detriment of the ge welfare of the freight carriers.—Ep.) — (LETTER FROM MR. S. D. CADWELL. Tus Western TRANsIT Co, N.Y.C.& H.R RR. Live oF STEAMERS, To the Secretary of War. Sir:— he undersigned begs mit this statement for your The entrance to Buffalo piers for a distance’ passages of steamers and season of 1888 num! cleared, to say nothing of tugs and other sm: and sometimes receiving cargoes. on that pier, o such cargoes, We do not ask « or individual shores of the any of their but believing and out of Buf importance request that, if be taken as w harbor from the ol to commerce hi ; pany ownes sixteen | gaged in the great lakes, Respectfully, y rived at Ashland M left at 6 o'clock that 6 a.m, making six days, includin