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Marine REVIEW. | RED ED TO THE LAKE MARINE AND KIND oti Gti INTERESTS. JOHN M. MULROONEY, ae \ PROPRIHTORS. F. M. BARTON, ah HoMERJ.CarR, - - - Associate Editor and Manager Chicago Office, 210 South Water Street. 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. Advertising rates on application. The books of the United States treasury department contain the -names of 3,510 vessels, measuring 1,063,063.90 tons 1n 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 other 'sections of the country. The classification is as follows: Class. 'Number. Tonnage. PLGATHY VESSELS carer reo te pete neeesscesenneiar: sak 1.5217) 652,922.25 Gailitig VESSCIS.+..deossstscecss| serossscarsesass +c 1,272 328,655.96 WatialpOdtSwvanswer cates n thon cise oou ee oeienivs sane 657 67,574.90 , Barges......csccersccessssccevscossasncecccessesteccoees 54 13,910.09 | Gite cai ae ser he eee: fe a GIG I,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. : TORO ee hed eect rgtees tee Sou 20,400.54. . TRB tee oreesaa samen ceneccior anise os saaisliaante 152 56,488.32 te 7 ee ee SAdeancrnee anc aA ene eo Sucsononpbeeadnases 222 101,102.87 : OOO era ete cane aie dat ceeidcaires ewace ote eave? 225 107,080.30 i TSO ts Sale io coupes foe stpitea ten oalt sesame ases 218 108,515.00 " AUG TILS Gaances ied Rei Rata Go? 393,597-03 Entered at Cleveland Post Office as Second-class Mail Matter. fe AAS not probable that there is any truth in the dispatches . from Washington to the effect that the American Steel Barge - Company is opposed to the movement for deeper channels in connecting waterways of the lakes, on account of the whaleback -- barges being of lighter draft than the ordinary type of vessel. If such is the case the influence of even the great barge company will amount to little in a cause of sucha selfish nature. Con- gressman Whiting of Michigan is, however, persistent in his claim that a 20-foot waterway will injure small ports where the depth is not great, and his arguments in this regard may be heeded by those who do not understand the conditions. It "might as well be claimed that through freight and passenger trains should not be run between Buffalo and Chicago, because small towns along the line would not be greatly benefited by them. Deep channels mean cheap freights for the whole coun- try and with cheap freights comes cheap food. WHEN the officers of the revenue marine who prepared the Frye bill read the protest of the Cleveland Vessel Owners' Asso- ciation to that measure they will probably conclude that many of its provisions are entirely impracticable as regards the lakes. This protest is one of the most forcible arguments that will be presented against the bill. As usual the lake owners take no account of the rules presented for sea-going vessels, but call at- tention to the peculiar conditions surrounding the lake business _ and advance a great number of reasons in support of the claim that the two branches of the country's shipping can not be man- aged under the same laws. | It would seem as though the pay of both officers and men in the life saving service will be increased by the present Congress. The bill has passed the Senate and has been reported favorably to the House by the commerce committee of that body. 'The increase is not as large as had been expected, as it was cut down in committee to $900 a year for keepers and $65 a month for the men. ) MARINE REVIEW. | 2 = Grain in Store at Chicago and Duluth, | ee Following is a statement of stocks of wheat at Chicago on Monday last: Chicago. 3 Do ay RES seo ecee eae eee 9,367,950 bu. ,585,797 bu. . sate Ba uaa, Si dewevene fiteeree gears aes 817,339 bu. 400,703 bu. Increase last es See Soroee oe sees Te : eee 217,758 bu. D ase last Week.....-ceeeseeeeseeees ; TG eae Honces over same time last year...2,667,527 bu. 4.577,426 bu. Although there is a decrease at Chicago in stocks of wheat | as compared with the previous week, corn shows an increase of -- 231,704 bushels. Stocks of corn at that point now aggregate 1,566,653 bushels, against 200,794 bushels on the same date in 18Ql. on the same date in 1891. Cards From the Panther's Engines. [BUILT BY THE FRONTIER IRON WORKS, DETROIT, MICH. |" These engines are 24 and 46 by 42 inches. Steam shown by guage was 118 pounds, vacuum 24 inches ; revolutions were 84, and the indicated horse power shown below is 757.1. Series Spring 60 CUie= Ore Oe ME RP~ 48" Intl Pe oti oner, LP Spring 10 MEPL IRB lees Ssh Ge Publications of Interest to Vessel Owners. Scribners magazine for March contains an interestin trated article on "The Water Route From Chicago to the Ocean" by Chas. C. Rogers, U.S. N. The article presents some valuable -- data regarding the present condition of the Welland and St. Law- rence canals. In the March number of the Engineering Magazine, George Y. Wisner, member of the American Society of Civil ngineers, answers replies by Col. Wm. Ludlow and Col. King, corps of en- gineers, U. 5. A., to an article entitled "Worthless Government Engineering,' which was printed in the January number of the. same publication with Mr. Wisner's signature. 'The article from Col. Ijudlow appeared in the MARINE REVIEW of Jan. 14, 1892, and that of Col. King in the Engineering Magazine tor February. -- We are indebted to Congressman V. A, Taylor of Ohio for There is also 320,100 bushels of corn afloat in Chicago. 4 Stocks of oats foot up 901,781 bushels, against 362,581 bushels" ge i/o a ee advance sheets of a report by Consul Metcalf of New Castle, England, on the '"World,s Shipbuilding." dressed an open letter on lake commerce to Hon. Henry W. | It is from a report -- published by the Chronicle newspaper of New Castle. i Horatio Seymour of Marquette, Mich., a few days ago ad- Bentley,representative in Congress from the Oneida district New | '| York. interesting article on ships of wood or metal. article credits many of the facts which it contains to the "Manual of Naval Architecture" by Mr. W. H. Whi : eer of the English navy. ¥ . White, chief constructor It deals mainly with statistics of Lake Superi 'opine a perior shipping. | The New York Times of Sunday,January 31, contains a very The writer of the