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‘ ‘ : ee MARINE REVIEW. - 5 _ CHICAGO LAKE INTERESTS. WESTERN OFFICE, MARINE REVIEW No. 210 So. Water Street, CHICAGO, Il., Sept. 24, t : ' What achange has come over shipper and vessel agent this month! In early summer the vessel agent with a boat to charter went on ‘change, feel- ing that he would rather steal asheep than humble his pride before the auto- cratic shipper. He was trampled upon, his boat was loaded at as many elevators as the shipper asked, and any protest met with a contemptuous reception. Now it is different. The shipper comes to the vesselman and accepts term, does not make them. I was most forcibly struck with this change the other day. A grain shipper enters the vesselman’s office, slapped him on the shoulder in the most friendly way, and offered him a cigar. “It will be a great accommodation to me, etc.” he said. This same shipper I saw enter this same agent’s office in June, with all the airs of the king of the Hottentots, and make a furious kick over some trifling affair. Don’t you believe the vesselmen do not enjoy the change. Down on the lumber market it is not this way. The man who has a boat to charter has to beg for the privilege of existing; his very presence on earth seems a,contempt of court. Since the Seamen’s Union has put up sailors’ wages to $2.50 per day, he would have no defense to that charge. The lumber hookers are now running on the same principle that a man buys a lottery ticket—something may turn up if they run; mortgages are sure to turn up if they quit. ‘You have read of the E. C. Pope’s big load of corn—125,990 bushels. She will better it the next trip, it is said. The Pope received general praise as a steamship. The Joha W. Moore was also the recipient of many a nice word as she passed up and down the river. If the next five years bring as many changes in the lake marine as the last five have, where will we be? Perhaps THE REVIEW can solve the question. With twenty feet of water from lake to lake the change will be marvelous. If this vast improvement requires less than $4,000,000 Congress can do the country no greater service than to make the appropsiation right away. It is useless to argue against the improvement that lake harbors have not that amount of water. When there is twenty feet of water on the lakes the harbors must have it, too. The right way is to improve the lakes first, and then see to the harbors. Sept. 26, the date of expiration on the time allowed the city of Chicago to remove Canal street bridge, is.nearly here, and the bridge has not been touched. The Lake Line Agents’ Association protested Tuesday against any extension of time by the war department. The question of government control of Chicago river has to be fought out, and the sooner the fight begins the better. A better case for the marine interest will never be found than Canal street bridge. Collector Clark is hard at work endeavoring to secure a fine naval dis- play at the Grant monument ceremonies. He asks the cordial co-opera- tion of vesselmeh around the lakes in making an impressive display on that great occasion. The man-of-war Michigan is here, and will remain in this vicinity until after Oct. 7, when the Grant monument at Lincoln park is to be un- veiled. Thus far this season she has recruited about eighty boys for the navy. The boys must find their initiation into naval life anything but pleasant, as they are sent below, and keptthere. The frame of the Michi- gan’s engine must be replaced, as it is becoming shaky. The engine itself is as good as the day itcameout. A frame that has stood since 1844 deserves to be retired on half-pay. Edward Warner, Dunham’s night superintendent, bought the old schooner Orkney Lass, after she had been stripped. What he is going to do with her no one knows, as he steadfastly declines to be interviewed. Canadian Marine. Special Correspondence to the MARINE REVIEW. KINGSTON Ont. Sept. 24.—The keel of the new steel tug for the Col- linsby Rafting Company has been laid. The tug will be ready for next season’s operations. She cost about $35,000. The Kingston and Montreal Forwarding Company last week pressed into service an old elevator that had not been used for years. The for- warders are determined not to delay vessels coming here with grain. Probably never before was there such quick dispatch as this season. The small fore-and-after Two Brothers is ashore on Amherstisland with 2,000 bushels of rye in her. It is thought she can be hauled off without sustaining auy serious damage. The steamer Princess Louise,implicated in the sinking of the schooner Cora Post recently, is still under seizure, Action will be taken against the St Lawrence River Steamboat Company for the value of the Post. Capt. Rathwel] owns her but she was chartered by the steamboat company. Two shortages occurred recently. The Armenia’s cargo of 25,000 bushels of rye from Toledo was 80 bushels shart and the Grantham’s 70 bushels in 13,000. The question arises Is Kingstan of Toledo to blame? The slightest shortage takes the cream off rates nawadays, The schooner Jessie Breck, which foundered last year with all hands near here, has been sold to Christie & Thompson of Toronto, She will be overhauled before being sent west. The Jessie has earned consid- erable money inher day. Next season she will enter the Jumber trade. A new river barge, the Alberta, has been launched by the Montreal Transit Company. She will carry 25,000 bushels. Capt. W. Power of this city has furnished the model of a grain carry- ing vessel which he calls aturtleback. It is after the design of a whale- back. The ends are blunt so that with the same length of keel as the latter it has greater carrying capacity and no room is wasted. Whether it will supersede the whaleback is yet to be seen. Calvin & Co.’s new schooner Ceylon has been successfully launched. She is 207 feet over all, 37 feet beam and 15 feet 2 inches depth of hold. She will at once enter the grain trade between here and Duluth and be commanded by Capt. A. Miligan. On board isa steam pump which throws 8,000 gallons per hour. The Ceylon is the only large schooner built in this province this year. Duluth Grain Movement. Special Correspondence to the MARINE REVIEW. . DuLuTH, Minn., Sept. 24.—Grain carriers have been busy here the. past week, no less than 1,779,000 bushels of wheat having gone out from this market. Charters for this week call for shipments of nearly as much more, Wheat rates to Buffalo are now up to 4 cents for spot, as well as for boats laoding during this month. Shipments are keeping well up to the big receipts, under a splendid demand from the east and from Europe. The movement of wheat this way from the country has been about as heavy as the railroads can take care of and has been fully up to expectations. The movement by days: last week:was as follows: Receipts, bu. Shipm’t bu. <<. Monday. .ccSGi0 tinerevebeenssregeui ees sane 617,809 223,284 TUGSGAY, cci-ccscpecevoveeeseanpervececdene nae 400,048 417,555 Wedhiesday .:. cccciciveedinvereterastrsc cess 303,207 452,022 Ph ursdays sais: icdedecsiacsvcs voostyeuuesavours 378,974 113,209 Priday .i...coessccyeaeeesrasetss PEtEST re 257,009 185,909 Saturday....... sissudyseecnessugsheontdaees 316,320 387,398 ‘TOtal-c Sivkvesceeeossi cee 2,273,307 EyF7STE Le oa TidSt) Var. cies ae a nseaverseas tans 815,268 159,105 : At Minneapolis receipts for the week were 1,549,930 bushels and ship: ments 393,200. bushels. West Bay City Ship Yards. Special Correspondence to the MARINE REVIEW. ‘Wes? Bay Crty, Mich, Sept. 24.—Still the talk of new vessels goes on. The latest is that Capt. Davidson will build, in addition to the huge propeller now under way, a schooner similar to the Baltic, and per- haps two of them. At Wheeler & Co.’s the keels for two of the government light-ships have been shifted from their original position, the track for the Brown hoisting apparatus has been extended and new foundations put under it, and everything points towards a very active season. Mr. Wheeler is now east on business. It is more than likely that he will _ build the yacht for which he has plans prepared. The propeller S. C. Clarke, which was without an owner at Chicago for several days, has been brought here, and will be thoroughly repaired during the winter. The repairs to the Monohansett at Davidson’s yard are completed, so far as that yard is concerned for the present, and the vessel is now at the Bay City dry dock for the work on the hull, The F. & P. M. No. 2 will be almost a new boat from the water-line up when Wheeler & Co. finish their work on her, and in addition a large portion of the hull will have been replaced with new timbers. Gen. Mead Did Not Find Roumania Shoal. EDITOR MARINE REVIEW:—Capt. Cowley of the steamer Roumania must have misunderstood me as to the shoal that he struck being. found by the United States survey officials. If.it had been found when the sur- vey was made it would be on the charts. It was found by fishermen from Scott point about 1870. It is a dangerous spot,however,and itis a wonder to me that some of the deep laden fellows did not strike it before this. I have a letter from Commander Nicol Ludlow, U. S.. Ns saying that this spot as well as the shoal at the north end of Squaw island will be buoyed. I hope you will print this letter in your valuable paper, as Iam quite cer- tain that this rock or shoal was not discovered by Gen. Mead while in charge of the survey in these parts. FE. A. BOUCHARD, y Cheboygan, Mich., September 15. Tug Duncan City. Official Numbers and Tonnage. The bureau of navigation, W. W. Bates commissioner, assigned offi- cial numbers to the following lake vessels during the week ending Sept. 12: Steam—Alice, Grand Haven, 4405 tons gross, 32.51 net, No. 106,884; Argyle, Buffalo, 41.34 tons gross, 20.67 net. No. 106,886; G. M. A. Hereman, Milwaukee, 34.46 toms gross, 17.23 net, No. 86,171. Sail—Ina, Chicago, 10.87 tons gross, 10,33 net, No. 100,507; Morning Glory, Detroit, 6.29 tons gross, 5.98 net, No, 92,325; Sunbeam, Cleveland, 7.20 tons gross, 6,84 net, No, 116,442,