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MARINE REVIEW. Wore. CEE VEBAND OHLO;d HURSDAY, JUNE-16;°1892: Nom ac Funeral of Capt. Thomas G. Crosby. Few marine men there were in Chicago who were not pres- ent at the funeral of Capt. Thomas G. Crosby on Wednesday of last week. 'The services were held at the chapel in Graceland cemetery and were conducted by the Rev. S. C. Edsall. The pall-bearers were W. M. Egan, John Prindiville, John G. Keith, Calvin Carr, James B. Kellogg, C. W. Elphicke, Hugh Mac- Millan and T. T. Morford, the eight oldest members of the Chicago Board of Marine Underwriters, all of whom had known Capt. Crosby for more than twenty years and some of them had been acquainted with him from boyhood. 'To all of them it seemed as ifa member of their close business family had gone. Capt. Crosby's relations to lake marine business and the nature of the illness that caused his retirement were referred to in the last issue of the REviEw. He had suffered for two years night and day the most intense pain, and had he not been gifted with an admirable physique and an equally stalwart character, he would have succumbed long before to the terrible affliction. He was buoy- ed up to the last by the unremitting care of his devoted wife. His death was peaceful and painless. As a friend who stood at the grave remarked, using the immortal words of Shakespeare: "Take him for all in all he was a man. We shall not soon look on his like again."' Lake Freight Matters. Although there is no marked reduc- tion in production or stocks of pig iron on hand and nothing in the market for iron ore to warrant shipments equal even to last year, a renewal of the grain movement has again helped lake freights and the general market is higher and stronger than it has been for three weeks past. The feeling, too, is that the market for the present month, at least, will holdits strength, for these reasons: Receipts of grain at Chicago are such that, notwithstanding heavy shipments, stocks at that port as well as Duluth do not de- crease materially, and while the grain movement has held out ore shippers have been doing little more than loading contract vessels. Probably not more than fifteen "wild" boats for both Lake Superior and Lake Michigan have been secured by ore shippers within the past five days. It would seem that unless the grain movement does relax somewhat, ore shippers will be -- forced to advance rates, and in event of a falling off in the grain movement it will be necessary to make up to some extent for the present restriction in ore shipments. The situation is accord- ingly more favorable to the vessel owner. With Duluth offer- ing 234 cents and Chicago 2 cents on wheat to Buffalo during the past few days, the Escanaba ore rate advanded to 70 cents, but that figure attracted only a very small amount of tonnage. Marquette and Ashland rates have not advanced above go cents LATE CAPT. THOMAS G. CROSBY. and $1 respectively, but the supply of tonnage has been very much short of the demand. Only in soft coal shipments to the head of ake Superior is there any weakness in freights on up-bound cargoes. Lake Michigan rates on hard coal out of Buffalo are now based on 60 cents to both Milwaukee and Chicago. The same rate applies to soft coal from Ohio ports to Chicago, while the soft coal rate to Milwaukee is 55 cents, an advance of 5 cents secured within the week. The rate to Duluth and Superior on soft coal has been reduced to 4o cents. Itcan certainly go no lower as there is an actual loss in taking coal at such a freight. World's Fair Boats. We hope to present shortly some drawings showing revised plans for the whaleback steamer to be used in the passenger service at the World's Columbian Exposition. 'The American Steel Barge Company will receive a great deal of advertising through this boat, although it will not as a corporation have anything to do with the passenger business by lake at the fair. The name of the corporation having the contract for water transpor- tation between the city of Chicago and the fair grounds is the World's Fair Steamship Company, organized under the laws of Illinois. The. Columbian Whaleback Steamship Company,another separate and distinct organization, will undertake, through contract with the American Steel Barge Company, the _ building of the whaleback boat, which will be chartered to the World's Fair Steamship Company. Other boats to be remodeled.for the service will also be chartered by the transportation company but it is probable that the single whale- back steamer will be the only new vessel, on account of delay in secur- ing the contract from the managers of the fair. Among those interested in the company that will furnish the capital for the building of the whaleback steamer are Colgate Hoyt, John D. Rockefeller, Charles i,.Colby, Joseph Colby, Samuel Mather, James H. Hoyt, William Chisholm, Judge Williamson, C. W. Bingham, Capt. Thomas Wilson, C. P. Williams and John J. Shipherd. Messrs. Bradley, Harvey, Henry, Stone, Glessner, James and Macdonald are among Chicago parties connected with the enterprise. The company undertak- ing the building of the boat will have a half interest in the transportation business. In Philadelphia last week the Erie and Western Transpor- tation Company at its annual meeting decided to borrow $1, - 500,000 to be secured by terminal properties. Part of this will probably be used to pay for three steamers this company has building in lake ship yards, and it may be that further additions to the fleet are contemplated.