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6 MARINE REVIEW. CHICAGO LAKE INTERESTS. WESTERN OFFICE, MARINE REVIEW, t No. 210 So. Water Street, CHICAGO, Til., Feb. 11. The deadness in lake grain freights is no indication of what can be expected later on. I have talked with several shippers and vessel brokers this week, and the general sentiment was that the movement of corn would be great as the time of opening approaches. One prominent ship- per told me that he had thirty-two elevators in Nebraska well filled with corn, all of which would move when navigation opened, 'There-is no par- ticular benefit to be derived from getting this corn into Chicago elevators months in advance of the time for its forward movement. The grain trade in the west has largely passed out of the hands of so-called receivers into the control of elevator companies, which own elevators throughout the west. The grain is handled to yield the largest profit. As it is sold for future delivery as soon as it is. gathered into elevators, there is no particular risk in the business. If the anti-option bills now . pending i in Congress become laws the entire business of shipping grain must be re- modeled and in the era of transition it is very likely that the marine in- terest will suffer severely, Conservative shippers say that-the proposed laws will largely prevent the free and untrammeled' movement of corn in a steady stream, and instead of that, we will haye a great rush of grain, followed by a time when little or nothing is moving. Then. there will be another flood and ebb. Nothing could be more disastrous to vessel prop- erty. But to return to grain rates. The last charter reported was of the Neshoto at 314 cents for corn to Buffalo. out when that rate was made, preferring to take. chances along in March: The lines are doing nothing in the way of chartering.. Chicago vessel owners are aisbosed to take Escanaba ore this season Outside of the difference of the size of cargoes from Lake Superior" cad Escanaba, the perils of St. Mary's river are a prominent factor in their figuring. They don't like to risk their boats where so many disasters oc- curred last season, unless they are well paid for it. Chicago marine men are generally taking life easy. this mee T, T. Morford has just returned, brown as a berry, from a month's sojourn at St. Augustine, Florida. D.B. Linsted is regaining his shattered health at San Diego, Cal. His friends feared when navigation closed last fall that he had done his last season's work. Hugh MacMillan has returned from a trip to his olive grove in southern California, and is engaged in starting up his ochre mill in Kansas City. His ranch in Kansas has a large mine of pure ochre, and it is that which he is now developing. W. M. Egan is in the west, and J. ©. Evans will return from Europe March 6. - In the way of vessel transfers there is so little doing that. it is not worth mentioning. It is in fact the quietest winter in that regard Chi- cago has seen for a long time. ots. Owners of the lumber carriers are said to be already "rattled" over business next season, and are looking for season contracts at ridiculously low rates. If the stampede among lumber carriers can be checked, there may be some money made next season, but the outlook now is 'not that way. _ _ Capt. W. W. Bates' fate causes much regret among his old friends here. "Just like Bates !" one of them said, in speaking of his row with Secretary Foster. Two Old Mariners. Special Correspondence to the MARINE REVIEW. i MILWAUEE, Wis., Feb. 11.--Death called away two of Milwaukee' s oldest mariners fact week. Both had lived in retirement for years and were no longer connected with lake interests in any manner. Capt. Jas- per Humphrey passed away at his home in this city on the morning of the 2nd inst., and Capt. William Porter at his home in Waukesha, on the morning of the 3d. Capt. Humphrey would have attained the age of 80 onthe 15th of March, while Capt. Porter was in his 76th year. Capt. Humphrey came to the lakes from Steuben county, N. Y., where he was born, and as a sailor before the mast as early as 1834 or ree paid a visit to Fort Howard and Green Bay on a vessel laden with supplies for parties engaged at that time in building what was known as the Military road. He became a resident of Milwaukee in the gos, and on three different occasions was elected to office, twice to the common council and once to the legislature. The ship chandlery business, in which he was engaged during these years, proved unprofitable, hence he returned to the lakes in the capacity of master. His commands embraced several crack vessels, such as the schooner H. lL. Lansing and barkentine Indiana, He also had charge of steam vessels during brief periods. At one time he took a lake schooner, which is claimed to have been the Augusta that sank the steamer _ Lady Elgin, although the data concerning the vessel is somewhat obscure, © across the Atlantic and back, and was out with her in a severe gale which caused the Great Eastern to lose her rudder. Jjater he took the lake schooner Indus to the Atlantic coast, and the lake brigantine Sailor Boy to the West Indies. After his final retirement from the lakes, he wserved several terms as harbor master here. Capt. William Porter, who was a and Kirk White. He also built and sailed the schooner Mariner, and ast command was the schooner Phalarope, in which he owned an interest. After leaving the lakes, he and his brother owned and managed the prin- 'lower lake parties. Capt. Porter had lived in retirement since 1876, across Lake Michigan included 342, 761 barrels of flour, 42,000 bushels of Samuel Martin of Racine, the whole, $300; schooner Christiana, Martin Several agents quietly dropped" _ His son will manage the enterprise. _ the close of navigation last fall were as as follows: native of Ireland, became a resident of Milwaukee in 1837. His intimate friends remember him as captain of the schooners Michigan, Cleopatra jointly with his brother James built and owned the schooner Liberty. His cipal line of tugs here which netted each a handsome competency, He was also interested in the schooners Porter and Itasca until their sale. to. G. H. Couvrette, last season mate of the steamer Indiana, has invent-_ ed an improvement to rudders, which prevents them becoming unshipped -- in heavy weather. He has also perfected an automatic log and a new system of ee Bean which can be apayee at less cost than steam steerers. oe = According to the custom. house records there were go arrivals and an e equal number of departures during the month of January. Shipments _ wheat, 28,000 bushels of corn, 20,586 jpnBisuicils of barley, 55,000 bushels of © rye and 10,000 bushels of oats. xy Sales of vessel property recorded at the Milwaukee customs office: " during the past week were-as follows: Schooner Persia, Hvan Johnson to x Gunderson to Peter Hauke of Sheboygan, the whole, $300; schooner Rosabelle, N. P. Peterson 'to Herman A. eemnoedes and William Fair- weather of Sheboygan, the whole, $1,800. Capt. A. E. Shepard, who owned and commanded the stone Mary | Jarecki a few years before her loss on Lake Superior, but who is now .. located in Texas and the possessor of a 100,000 acre sheep ranch, paid a business visit to Milwaukee. Capt. John A. Connelly, late of the steamer City of Marquette aud City of Fremont, will command the new steamer now on the stocks at Sheyboygan. To Organize a Branch of the E. M. B. A. Special Correspondence to the MARINE REVIEW. TOLEDO, O. Feb. 11.--A move is being made to organize a branch | lodge of the Excelsior Marine Benevolent Association at this port. Iti is. expected that a meeting of mariners holding masters' certificates will soon - be called. Toledo has about twenty-five or thirty who are eligible The Toledo Marine Railway, Miller & Scanes proprietors, is building -- for Geo. H. Breyman & Bros. the two largest dump scows on the lakes. -- They are 120 feet long, 27 feet wide and 10 feet deep. They will have Six. pockets andiron rollers 5%: 'feet in diameter; capacity 330 yards on 8x. 4 feet draft or 4oo yards loaded down. : Captain James St. Clair, superintendent of the Dunham Towitig: and | es Company of Cee) was in this city this week. ot a ae aNé @ontraer of Any Kind. : EDITOR MARINE REVIEW--On my return to the city I notice in your © issue.of Jan. 21, under the head of "Ore Sales and Freight Contracts" that the Northeri Steamship Company is said to have taken an amount of ore © for transportation next season, under a contract rate. The information is erroneous, as this company has no contracts on ore or any othér com- modity for the season of 1892. - JoHN GORDON, Buffalo, N. Y. Feb. 9. 'Gen'l Manager. Buffalo's Grain Elevators. x Buffalo elevators used for storage and in running order at Capacity, . : _ Capacity, Name. bushels. Name. bushels. - SBeunettre crs cco 800,000 NiavaracA <tc s ee 800,000 UB OW sense. «aateelice 250,000 Nite pata Bee recscaas sesvecssses [y200,000% Gityee oh cater ee 600,000 Niagara' Cotes tice noe 200,000 >* Cry Wes aired ee 500,000 Queen' City, A, B & Cane 450,000 Goatéwertheseies tances 1,200,660: <1; Richmonds secs. aviaseee eee 250,000 Connecting nierniaaeee 950,000 Schrecket.. 5.5 ee veeas SOKGGR! Dakotayer cir res scot secu: ". 850,000 Sternberg ciara ecu cee 150,000 Erie Basin..... eect seas anttre _ 200,000 SCUPPeES Sos. wiiesc cee eee 300,000 EWVAIS a, RRR e oh ake EE 400,000 Swiftsuresin.25:.)5: es ' 150,000 " EH CHa mer ees aes horse 500,000 Oitario.s4.. ses ne see eee 450,000 PLOnilers. cess caer 650,000 Tutt... ee eee Seta 350,000 International,(Black Rock) 650,000 | Union chiccecciccscsecudccccects, 90,000 Flax Seed, (Kellogg & Co.) 65,000 WatsSOtis cies conneececsceemeene . 600,000 Lake Shore Liedheomeeces snes 300,000 Wheeler... See 350,000 ay. OI Seek MY chasis eee eg 100,000: | "Wilkesan..<s..2.cseeeee 400,000 WAAL sens Meera ar uaa tg ees 125,000 ._| William Wells,.......0..s00« 200,000 National and Globe Mills, 100,000 ae INE Nee BSW echoes 720,000 Total <0 c.ee eee 15,950,000 The Lake Shore, 'nternational (Black Rock), and one City, A, B and C (on Clinton avenue) are for elevating from rails road cars only. ee"SEND YOUR ORDER FOR " PATTERSON'S NAUTICAL DICTIONARY"' ($5) TO THE "MARINE REVIEW" AT ONCE: