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a) £2) Grain in Store at Chicago and Duluth. Grain stocks at Chicago and Duluth show a very fair in- creae for the past week. Following is a statement relative to wheat: Chicago. Duluth. itt StOnel toe. sastmcseaeeee onta. cnmbiie 9,542,666 bu. 8,927,267 bu. PU AR ine eb Peoeg 2 goonies hehe coneGs esa szy 997,067 bu. 400,703 bu. Increase last week.........sse+sseeeees 174,716 bu. 341,470 bu. Excess over same time last vear...2,818,259 bu. 4,859,718 bu. Stocks of corn at Chicago aggregate 1,619,529 bushels, an increase for the week of 52,876 bushels and an increase over the same date last year of 1,416,263 bushels. There is also 501,338 bushels of corn afloat in Chicago. Stocks of oats foot up 882,374 .-bushels, ae 324, 445 bushels on the same date in ele Lake Carriers' Association. 6 oe Buffalo on Thursday last the Lake Carriers' Association met in annual session but did not. "elect officers. or dis- _ pose of the question of distributing the work of the association ""amoug committees, on account of small attendance: Another 6 >meeting: will be called later when it is expected a better attend- -ance will be secured. A committee from the association will appear before the government engineers, who-will meet in Detroit e shortly. to consider the application of Duluth citizens for a bridge vat the harbor entrance. The Lake Carriers' will, of course, op- » pose. the bridge. The Cleveland Vessel Owners' Association ~-will' also send a protest to this meeting of engineers against the constiuction of this bridge. | Publications. 'While " Ocean Steamships" treats the articles contained in the handsome volume from a popular reading standpoint it con- "taitis: much that is interesting and valuable to shipbuilders. It "is entertaining reading for lake-faring men. The volume is published by Charles Scribner's Son, New York, but if you wish a copy send $3 to the MARINE REVIEW, Cleveland, O. 'How to run Engines and Boilers" is a 125-page book full of practical suggestions on the subjeet, and engineers speak highly of it. The author, E. P. Watson, is editor of the Engineer, in which journal the papers that make up the volume appeared during the past year. You will get a copy of it if you 'send $1.50 to E. P. Watson, 150 Nassau st., New York, N.Y. : Aids to Navigation. ~The light-house board has recommended with only a few exceptions all of the aids to navigation contained in the sun- dry light-house bill recently prepared by the Cleveland Vessel Owners' Association and Lake Carriers' Association. A special report to Congress was made on the bill on Monday. It was feared when the bill was being considered by the engineers and naval officers in the different lake districts that the question of F lights. at the Lime-Kilns' crossing and Bar point being located in Canadian waters would act against a favorable report from the board, but the fact that these lights have been maintained for three seasons past by private subscriptions has caused a most earnest recommendation with regard to them. Legislative Interference With Private Enterprise. The following from Industry of San Francisco fairly ex- presses the feeling among lake vessel owners when confronted with the Frye bill and other measures of its kind now pending in Congress: "On the score of licenses, inspection, taxes of one kind or another, and a complicated system of clearances, declarations, enrollment, and what not, our water craft are bedeviled from the the time a keelis laid until the bones of a ship are bleaching on the shore. Why are the qualifications of masters, mates, engin- eers and pilots so carefully looked into, when railway train officers receive no attention at all? Both carry passengers and -hoth haye perils of a common kind, or resulting froma common MARINE REVIEW. been introduced in Congress recently : 'that the House will pass the Senate. bill. cause, the want of qualification in the men in charge. The is that for thirty years past every invidious act that could be fe ced through Congress to cripple water carriage has passed und the guise of 'protecting the public.' "' bi Fifty-Second Congress-- First Session. The following bills of interest to lake vessel owners have H. R. 6,745, Haugen--To establish a sub- moi of oy delivery at Superior, Wis., in the Superior collection district Hi. Riu 6,786; Lynch--To establish a sub-port of entry 4 delivery at Ashland, in the Superior district of Wisconsin. -- S. 2,401, Sawyer--To authorize the consolidation of custor collection districts and for other purposes. -- a To print 4,000 copies of the reporc of Naval Constructo Philip Hichborn on European dock yards. In General. Daniel McCarty, prominent in Chicago grain shipping cir cles, was in Cleveland last week. 'The dry dock of the whaleback barge cotpany at West Su perior is being lengthened from 482 to 512 feet, One of the Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Company' side-wheel steamers, the City of Cleveland, is expected to begi service between Detroit & Cleveland on Monday next. The United States Senate has passed a bill giving the keeper. of life-saving stations $900a year and the surfmen $65 per month The House amended the bill so as to give keepers $1 000 a year and surfmen $75 per month. In reply to Capt. Dobbins, who feared the matter might fall through because of its divided form, Congressman Lockwood wrote that.the House will make strenu- ous efforts to get the Senate to endorse the bill, but failingin It was certain, he added, that the members of the service would get at least the -- advance indicated in the Senate bill. 'There has been much dis- -- satisfaction over the salary list of last season, and some of the best menin the service have decided not to re- -enter it unless a better pay is forthcoming.--Buffalo Courier. | "4 Lunkenheimer's. Regrinding Globe Valve. We present with this a view of a valve which. possesses some features of a special merit. Instead of the hub being threaded direct to the body a of the valve, it is merely fitted into it plain, and } rests upon a flange which fits upon the upper 7 edge of the opening, as shown. "The hub i isthen secured by a nut which fits over the flange, and is threaded to the outside of the body of the 4 valve. : : a The result of this arrangement is that the valve can be reground at any time with the great- est facility, because all that is necessary is to loosen the nut, remove the hub, place a little sand and soap under the disk, and then replace the hub, leaving the nut loose, so that the hub is free to turn with the stem during the grinding. -- A piece of wire is passed through a hole pro- vided for that purpose in the lower end of the a stem and disk, so that the disk will turn with the 4 REGRINDING GLOBE : eee re L VALVE. stem during the grinding, which, of course, it ° does not necessarily do when the valve is in use. The hub, being in place when the grinding is done, effectually centers the the stem and holds it in proper place, so that the regrinding is done cor- rectly. The valve can thus be readily ground while in position, and in many cases does away with the necessity for breaking connections. The disk is also, of course, easily replaced when required. These valves, as a ee proof of their superiority, are extensively used on locomotives, steamers and in the United States navy on cruisers, where the requirements are very severe. They are made only by The Lunkenheimer Brass Manufac- turing Company, Cincinnati, O. The Evansville and Paducah Packet Company, after using the United States Graphite Company's graphite paint manufac- tured at Saginaw, Mich., for their stacks and boiler fronts, re- port that it is the only paint they have ever found that would a stand, and have placed a large order for their use. a Send 75 cents to the MARINE REVIE 2 ta - é numbers, INE REVIEW for a binder that will hold §2