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8 MARINE REVIEW. MARINE REVIEW. DEVOTED TO THE LAKE MARINE AND KINDRED INTERESTS. JoHN M. MuLRooneEy, F. M. Barron, d Published every Thursday at No. 510 Perry-Payne Building, Cleveland, O. SUBSCRIPTION--$2.00 per year in advance. Convenient binders sent, post paid, 75 cents. AOUEIAE rates on application. \ PROPRIETORS. The books of the United States treasury department contain the names of 3,510 vessels, measuring 1,063,063.90 tons in the lake trade. In classification of this fleet the lakes have more steamboats of 1,000 to 2,500 tons than the combined ownership of this class of vessels in all Une sections of the country. The classification. is as follows: = Glass: Number. Tonnage. POLEAM VESSELS. scsi, teases seeve se edsesezeocters 1,527 652,922.25 Saisie NESSEIS. co v.cthatescttes's, Soecdbe eres oo tmune, 1,272 328,655.96 Canale DOatsrs cesses icone css se seclach secisiosiecencaties 657 67,574.90 Pts OS Siete seitee reeds cee a. seca mentee toneneetenTeciteenine 54 13,910.09 TObANG cc. xo: eats iiot steerer iano eens 3,510 1,063,063.90 _ According to the report of William W. Bates, United States com- missioner of navigation, 46 per cent. of the new tonnage of the country was built on the lakes during 1889. This is a percentage greater than the work of the Atlantic coast and western rivers combined, and almost equal to the whole work on the Atlantic and Pacific coast. In 1890 the tonnage built on the lakes is but very little less than that built on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Tonnage built on the lakes during'the past five years was as follows : No. of boats. Net Tonnage. TB OOW Benueeesreepenuteeaceis: sdedsace a tcee es 85 20,400.54 TO OPcewadeces oes piodeeeen cance oneecae sets 152 56,488.32 TRO SEL ncota iy sates ee eras ncaa GOES 222 101,102.87 TOOQ cs cone rncs cart hasta acesmuiocveecuetoes 225 107,080.30 TOQO sesdt sent wes cesses ea one econ 218 108,515.00 PLOUAL: fascuseese cnc shepucseeneesea ete CQO 393,597.03 St. Mary's Falls and Suez canal traffic: Number of boats through St. Mary's Falls canal in 1890, 234 days of navigation, 10,557; tonnage, net - registered, 8,454,435. Number of boats through Suez canal during 1890, full year, 3,389; tonnage, net registered, 6,890,014. Eintered at Cleveland Post Office as Second-class Mail Matter. Ir is said in connection with the announcement of the an- nual meeting of the Lake Carriers' Association, on the 3rd of next month, that the annual address of President S. D. Caldwell will recommend that committees, appointed from the board of managers for the several branches of legislative work, be made up with regard to the special interests of different classes of ves- sel owners, and that the meetings of these committees be held in different cities around the lakes. This is one step toward having the affairs of the association directed in part by vessel owners outside of the Buffalo line boat managers, and to be plain about it, leaders in the association have probably reached the con- clusion that something of this kind must be done. While it is true that this association has accomplished a great deal of good, and. has an able and most active secretary in Mr. C. H. Keep, still its leaders have failed to attract the full support of lake in- terests and its meetings have not been what they should be. Chief among the causes to which a luke-warm interest in the association is attributed is the claim that, on account of its Buffalo leadership, the organization lacks the proper spirit in lake measures before Congress ; that its railway affiliations are not for the best interests of the vessel owner, and that a line car- rying projectile law, having special bearing upon a few passenger boats in the Buffalo-Lake Superior trade has been found to de- mand more attention than a broad measure proposing an approp- riation of two or three millions for the improvement of connecting waterways of the lakes. This feeling against the association was increased on account of its attitude in the recent Detroit water- ways convention against any move toward anoutlet from the lakes to the seaboard, and in Cleveland, at least, a few owners, whose control of vessel property is quite large, have been heard to express an intention of withdrawing from the association. This should not, however, be the course followed. The useful- ae ' ness of this general body is admitted, and its secretary, Mr. Keep, has within the past year proved a most valuable worker 3 in the advancement of Congressional measures of the highest = importance. If the Lake Carriers' Association, as at present constituted, tends too much to railway influences, or has other faults that can be remedied, let the vessel owners outside of Buffalo attend the coming meeting and all meetings in the future with a view to remedying disadvantages in the organization. 3 They can better afford to do this than take a backward step in -- the movement for deep water navigation. As far as can be learned from press dispatches, the Canadian commissioners who visited Washington last week with a view of bringing about reciprocity in trade relations between the Dominion and the United States, have returned to Ottowa with- out a conclusion of any kind on the subject. Lake vessel owners who were specially interested in the question of Welland and St. Lawrence canal tolls which, it was thought, would be taken up at this conference, will be disappointed at the unsatisfactory conclusion of the meeting, but they can now insist on a measure > of retaliation that will be more forcible than any conclusion that might be reached by the commissioners. Justice to American ports, or American consumers of grain, demands that the same . tolls now collected at the Welland canal on grain bound to American ports be collected at the St. Clair canal on grain bound to Montreal. A late report on this important subject is present- ed by United States Consul-General Richard G. Lay at Ottowa, in Consular Report No. 130, page 420. The consul- -general's report is made in compliance with instructions from the state department, and it shows very clearly the canal discrimination which causes grain trans-shipped at American ports to pay 18 cents a ton more canal tolls than if trans-shipped at a Canadian port. In seeking an expression from the Canadian authorities on the subject, the consul-general experienced the same ten- dency to evasion that has all along characterized Canadian utter- ances regarding this matter. Ir is expected that the two new Cunard line steamers build- ing at Govan, Scotland, with triple expansion engines of at least 50 per cent. more indicated horse power than the Teutonic and Majestic, will attain a speed of 22 to 22% knots an hour, which will mean a minimum passage of about 5 days and 4 hours across the Atlantic. In 1878: the Britannic to make the passage in 7 days and rr hours indicated 5,100 horse power and consumed 100 tons of coal a day. Either of these new boats in making the same passage in 5 days and 4 hours will indicate 26,000 horse power and will consume 410 tons of coal a day. It will be seen that to gain 24 days onthe passage it is necessary to multiply the horsepower by 5 and the daily consumption of coal by 4, not- withstanding that at least 25 per cent. more efficiency is gained from the fuel by the adoption of triple engines. Some out of town callers at the MARINE REv1i4EWw office dur- ing the past few days: Col. William Ludlow, Detroit; Edward Gaskin, Buffalo; Gurdon Corning, Saginaw; Frank KE. Fisher, Detroit; S. V. Gilbert, Duluth; Amasa Fitch and J. S. Gadsden, Chicago; W. A. Farr, Onekama, Mich.; Byron Whitaker and C. H. Westcott, Detroit; Mr. Keller of Drewery & Keller, Buffalo. Mariposa is the name given to the big steel steamer building for the Minnesota Steamship Company at the yard of the Globe Iron Works Company, Cleveland. The sister ship building at Chicago will be named Maritana. The two light-house tenders for coast service building at the Globe yard are named Col- umbine and Lilac, while the Anchor line steamer will be called Schuylkill, and the boat building for Samuel Mitchell of Negau- nee, and stockholders in the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company, takes the name of her managing owner. Send 75 cents to the MARINE REVIEW for a Binder that will hold 52 numbers.