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3g MARINE REVIEW. CHICAGO LAKE INTERESTS. WESTERN OFFICE, MARINE REVIEW, t No. 13 Western Union Building, CH1GAGO, II1., July 28. The statement from Ashland that the wrecking expedition on the Emerald located the wreck of the Pewabic in 145 feet of water, but the steamer was s0 broken up that she was not worth raising, shows what time will do. When the Emerald returned to Alpena after her long search for the Pewabic it was given out that no trace of the missing boat had been found. The expert diver of the expedition gives it as his opinion that the Pewabic had not been located a yearago at all. In the trip from Alpena to Ashland it seems that the Pewabie was found in 145 feet of water. If the Emerald had continued on her yay to Duluth there is no telling what might have happened. Asa matter of fact, the Emerald was probably somewhat ashamed of the long search which resulted in nothing, and like the boy whose shirt was wrong side out had to have some excuse for the people when he got home. The same old fight with the city of Chicago which began with the Canal street bridge, is now on again in relation to South Halstead street bridge. The position of the marine interest is entirely reasonable. The river at South Halstead street is very narrow at best. The people on that thoroughfare, which is the main artery of trade on the southwest side, are demanding a - double-track bridge the full width of the street. This is what they ought to have. In order to construct a double-track bridge, it will be necessary to condemn land for widening of the river. The city proposes to go on and con- struct the bridge and secure the land afterwards. The marine men insist that the land must be first secured before the bridge is constructed. They say,with the best of reason, that condemnation p:« ceedings are very slow and that if they permit the bridge to be constructed first it is most likely the river never 'will be widened. They have waited twenty years for land to be condemned at Eighteenth street. At Canal street the land which the city promised to secure for widening of the river has not and never will be secured. The marine interests are determined that they will not be again buncoed by prom- ises on the part of the city officials. With the club of the war depai:tment it is likely that this latest game to infringe on the rights of navigation will be stopped in its conception. The secretary of war has been appealed to, to formally to take charge of the Chicago river and it is difficult to see how he ean avoid taking heed of the appeal, in view of the course pursued by the war department in acknowledging jurisdiction over Chicago river in several in- stances during the past year. . The lake front question has quieted down. Col. Rae the attorney for the outside excursion boats has filed his billattacking the contract with the Henry syndicate. This will take the case into court there to be fought out. The contract with the Henry syndicate, which is printed for the first time in the pill, makes some heavy demands on the syndicate. In calling for steel com- posite boats, four in number, to carry not less than 15,000 people per hour, the word "composite'"' clearly indicates that the Palmer and the Livingstone are to be made into passenger steamers next season. Elevator and Canal Questions in Canada. Special Correspondence to the MARINE KEVIEW. ; Kinaston, Onv., July 28.--Hon. John Haggart has just returned from a thorough inspection of the work on the Canadian 'Soo.' Notwithstanding that construction is going on rapidly it has been decided to put several hundred more men at work as soon as possible and rush the canal on to com- pletion. The government appears to be giving this undertaking its special attention at present. The contractor's time limit is November, 1894, but it is thought the work will be done before that. Hugh McLellan, president of the Montreal Transportation Company, and an expert from Chicago have been here for some days in connection with the elevator scheme. The expert went over the water front in search of a suitable site and concluded that the property known as the Tete du Pont barracks, now occupied by the regular soldiers, would answer the purpose. The government will be asked for the premises mentioned and the city of Kingston for a bonus of $50,000. The rest of the funds will be supplied by the Montreal Transportation Company, and the elevator will be a public institution. The probabilities are that work will be commenced in Septeiber. The customs officer at Alexandria Bay compelled the captain of the mail steamer Corinthian to take back to Cunada four laborers and to pay their ex- penses while under arrest. The captain said he did not know the men were under contract when he landed them. ~He paid the bill, however, and in- formed the officer that the steamer would not call again at the port. A director of the steamboat company was appealed to by outsiders, but he said the boat had made its last call at the place mentioned. Leading Canadian papers are now discussing little but the canal tolls question, and all seem to doubt that the president will sign the bill. Already means of meeting the case are spoken of. A prominent member of the Mon- treal board of trade suggests that if a duty of $2 per ton were levied upon 'Canadian shipping going through the Sault Ste. Marie canal, the Canadian government should recoup the owners. Of course such a scheme might last for part of a season, but it could not prove permanent. The vessels that would suffer most would be the steamers owned by the Canadian Pacific Rail- way. Mr, Wm, Stewart, managing director of the Kingston & Montreal claims credit for having brought the matter to a head. Forwarding Company, ted fairly in the Ogdensburg He says that if the Canadian government had ac matter there would have been no agitation now. . Washington News Matters. Special Correspondence to the MARINE REVIEW. Wasuincron, D. C., July 28.--Representative Blount, the chairman of the house committee on foreign affairs, says in a report on the bill authorizing the president to retaliate upon Canada for her discrimination against American shipping on the lakes that all efforts to secure a just interpretation of the treaty rights of American citizens have been met in a spirit of evasion, avoid- ance and delay; and, further, such conduct is not only dishonost in purpose and deceitful in method, but almost reaches to the point of contumely and in- sult. John Baker Roach and William Futhey McPherson, as executors of the will of John Roach, of Chester, Pa., shipbuilder, have entered suit in the court of claims against the United States to recover $204,428, amounts alleged to be due and unpaid for building the United States steamers Atlanta,.Chicago and Boston. All these vessels were contracted for while W. E. Chandler was secretary of the navy, and the amounts claimed as due properly accrued be- cause of change of plans and specifications in the vessels by the secretary of the navy. United States Consul Plumacher at Maracaibo, Venezuela, informs the | state department that a new steel stern wheel steamer has reeently arrived from the United States in sections, to be put together at Maracaibo, He ex- presses the opinion that no doubt others will follow until finally all river trans- portation in that country will be carried on by steam vessels. He*says: 2 it is gratifying to know that all these will be ordered from the United States, as the superiority of our hulls and engines has been so clearly demonstrated. No one now thinks of placing an order of this kind in Europe. Duluth Superior Bridge Question. Special Correspondence to the MARINE REVIEW. : Suprrrior, Wis., July 28.--Secretary of War Elkins' recommendation of the Duluth-Superlor bridge over an adverse report submitted to the war de- partment by Government Engineer Fiske in charge of this district is accepted by the Duluth people and many in Superior as synonimous with the passage of the bill. Capt. Alex McDougall strenuously opposes the bridge and the harbor interests are unanimously of the same opinion. Chief Engineer George E. Hartnell of Cleveland is authority for the statement that the new dry dock of the American Steel Barge Company will be ready for use in three weeks. It is the largest dock on Lake Superior. Morton Freman of London recently conferred with Capt. Alex MeDougall regarding a line of whaleback steamers for cattle and meat transportation to European countries. The whaleback rolls very little and would be for that reason desirable as a cattle carrier. Plans of a vessel suitable for that trade are being gotten out. They show three decks in the hull of the vessel. James W. Millen, Detroit, Mich. oun G. Keith, Chicago, TU. Frank J. Firth, Erie, Pa. V.S. Brainard, Toledo, O. Thomas Wilson, Cleveland, O. R.P.Fitzgerald,Milwaukee, Wis. Peter F. Miller, Buffalo, N.Y. Alex. McDougall, Duluth,Minn. Charles H. Keep, Secretary, Buffalo, N.Y. Geo. P. McKay, Treasurer, Cleveland, O. Harvey D. Goulder, Counsel, Cleveland, O. VICE-PRESIDENTS: At a meeting of the finance committee in Cleveland, Mon- day the following was adopted: "Resolved that the secretary be and he is instructed to send a communication to the secretary of war calling attention to the proposed erection of a bridge across St. Louis bay, or St. Louis river, from Rice's point to Connor's point, or in that locality, and requesting that necessary action be taken by the department to prevent the erection there of any unreasonable impediment or obstruction to navigation.' Capt. George P. McKay, secretary of the committee sent on to Washington a protest in accordance with the resolution. Municipal authorities in Duluth seem to be over-reaching authority in the several bridge schemes which they have on hand. 'They talk of going ahead with a bridge over the canal entrance to Duluth and Superior harbors, notwithstanding the ruling of the war department in the matter. The editor of the MARINE REVIEW has examined Patter- son's Nautical Dictionary thoroughly, and with pleasure recom- mends it to any one having any connection with marine affairs. Oke Bere