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8 | MARINE REVIEW. Compared With the Great Maritime Cities of the World. The most important feature of the report just issued by the bureau of statistics, treasury department, on the freight traffic of the great lakes in 1890, is a summary of the entire coastwise and foreign business. As the figures of this summary will be taken as official in the future they are here printed in full: SUMMARY OF LAKE TRAFFIC FoR 1890. Freight carried in United States coastwise trade......... 28,295,959 tons. fe ce "4 '¢ foreign Oe eee ate atage 2,003,047 '* 6" Total freight carried to or from United States ports....30,299,006 DIVISION OF COASTWISE TRAFFIC. Hlorirewut rnin se: cata ceseeee ss eenere nt neste ee 4,271,346 tons. Tronores sas Fad te Sata ented ees kore OR aan Olea es Callie y. co gh ae opane Oia tebe an Ae cue Once o es tees en NrbeeS DOOR oe Lumber and lumber products. .............0..s0bse0 6,869,660 "' ACUIother merchandisers s.cmmessssphastosenaneceee er. 2,286,893 '* Po tallise cc. uecevacsnt ee iene. ot so aarcde« scar seer 28,295,959 +" UNITED STATES TRAFFIC ON DETROIT RIVER. Coastwise, down..........+ wis gagamcentunnecencness 15,344,433 tons. ce UMD ahi cactee tamatacs syne: seaman a nag Ss Dt 71,164 * One one OW ccaccey o cone en cnasusen eer ak cae Heme 463,282 <' os WD oes Cadeeteest cic oh Bese titoea delete emitia arate se 309,593 * aD tial acti oe tenes sediec ear ces see Seana nee 21,888,472 '* Another part of the report makes some very interesting comparisons. Chicago and Buffalo are the two leading ports of the lakes in the magnitude of their commerce. If the commerce of these two ports be compared with the commerce of prominent ports of the United States and foreign countries, a still better knowledge will be obtained of the magnitude and importance of the traffic of the great lakes. 'The total tonnage of entrances and clearances, foreign and coastwise trade of Chicago and Buf- falo, for the season of 1890 thus compared was: Tons. QHTCAP Or ai sic desaretoeet otcaqnests Gre ddessne cin tte nso eae 10,288,868 BudialOs: po oscecce ene ee cs Sev ameiVsiieninaatceeeenee Dee caret ase 9,560,590 TP OMGOM. oc saedd ceseek Nase yee ne dol cons eee 20,962,534 TAVeUpOOlirrs. sfocacneeaes: aoe cbake ceo oda aegis heeetla Dts <atiooe 16,621,421 LEE STERO) (RRRP RNS Gece dane ns cer OO UURESH Soaduidesnooduandaens 5,977,860 Paes solsstatac satin cashless Se canintgnc atta So ecwa gees meme oat aches 5,061,882 The entrances and clearances in the foreign commerce of the following prominent foreign and home ports--their coast- ,wise commerce is not available--will appear in the following table: Tons. LEU Va een. aCe eae cate etic acne sin amet Meee aes 4,418,876 MiaiSCilles sactaece: deccn tour sdec cheese sca dcacbie sn or eee te 7,892,556 PAULO. sees tas. ctk rac camer tice anecatel ace cause oeneeat 8,203,999 Tema WER ae ona eae canidi toe. citcnhaks caves a cette econ «sae 10,417,096 BRON acai ured anasates ateiges Soe adseee Mims cane eee 3,481,769 INGNGO Meccan ces cet achria ese shots ete anaes satcucen gkee 12,646,555 SOU Mirra sais css «nape socks «chain sais cele saoa weet aoe eee 2,676,387 Aphiillidie Wong oko, ie soe tod coe ce earn ccs Varar 2,585,866 AMP PLAT CIS Ones startet okies eresh feces sccm oars Coneeire 1,986,483 By these comparisons it will be observed that the the com- merce of the two inland cities, Chicago and Buffalo, and which consists almost wholly of a coastwise trade within the confines of the great lakes, compares most favorably with the tonnage movement of the great maritime cities of the world. A Very Fast Freight Boat. When the Detroit Dry Dock Company added a system of forced draft to the powerful propelling machinery of the Cleve- land-Cliffs Mining Company's steamer Pioneer, it was expected that the steamer would prove very fast, although there was no boasting about her steaming qualities. Now the statement is made that the boat on her last trip up made the run from Buffalo to Detroit, 255 miles in 15 hours and 10 minutes, or an average of a small fraction less than seventeen miles an hour. This statement will very probably be taken with doubt by some masters and engineers who are skeptical about high rates of speed in lake freight boats, but there is every reason to believe from a knowledge of the boat that it is entirely reliable. It is the best time ever made by a freight boat on the lakes, and will probably be borne out by later tests of speed from the vessel. In the test of speed given the Union line steamer Owego, season of 1890, the average time between Buffalo and Chicago was 16.4 miles an hour. 5 M. A. BRADLEY. President. {et W. Millen, Detroit, Mich. John G. Keith, Chicago, Ml. W.S. Brainard, Toledo, O. R.P.Fitzgerald,Milwaukee, Wis, Alex. McDougall, Duluth, Minn. Frank J. Firth, Erie, Pa. Thomas Wilson, Cleveland, O. Peter F. Miller, Buffalo, N.Y. fe ee Pee ; syetary, Buffalo, N.Y. Geo. P. McKay, Treasurer, 50. ee ar ak Ses D. Goulder, Counsel, Cleveland, O. VICE-PRESIDENTS: information furnished the Cleveland officers of the ie by Secretary Keep it would seem that the light-house board is moving very promptly in providing the aids for naviga- tion secured from the last congress. Mr. Keep says) savin Walfred Sylven, superintending engineer of the board, has already commenced negotiations with Messrs. Duff & Gatfield for the purchase of two floating lights at the Lime Kilns. He has also been getting information as to the character of the lightship required for the service at Bar Point, and as to the best use that can be made of the three lightships for the Detroit river authorized by congress. 'The present plan of the board is to purchase from Duff & Gatfield the two floats and to secure their services in looking after them if it can be done at a reason- able price. 'They also seem favorably disposed towards placing one of the three additional light-ships authorized at Ballard's reef. The two other light-ships will be constructed and held in reserve to replace the Lime-Kiln's lights in case they are carried away or destroyed. For Bar point the board proposes to build a light-ship about 90 feet long and Mr. Sylven has already engaged draughtsmen in New York to make the drawings for this vessel.' 2 TO CONFER WITH THE DISTRICT OFFICERS. In connection with the above from Mr. Keep, it can be said that Commander Coffin, naval secretary of the light-house board, has written the association to the effect that the com- manders of the ninth, tenth and eleventh light-house districts, covering the lakes, have been directed to act together as a board and confer with the association relative to the Detroit river light-ships as well as those provided for by the Eleven-Foot shoal appropriation of $60,000. As the association had already appointed for this purpose a committee consisting of Capt. George P. McKay, Capt. James Corrigan, and Harvey D. Goul- der, it is probable that the conference will take place shortly. Regarding the Eleven-Foot shoal appropriation Commander Coffin says in a letter of instructions to the inspectors: "The $15,000 Toledo-built ships are inadequate and unsatisfactory -- and should not be duplicated. The $60,000 appropriation will build not more than three, if three, proper vessels. The board requests you to ascertain and report as to whether two vessels will not accomplish all that can properly be expected at this time. Granting that one light-ship will go on Eleven-Foot shoal, please state where in your opinion the other light-ship, and possibly the other two light-ships, should be placed. Please report as to whether proper vessels for this service can be bought, and if so where and at what cost each." . ay Wrecks and Heavy Losses. . Tug Paige, owned by W. H. Singer of Chicago and valued at $6,000, was burned at the mouth of Siskiwita river, Lake Su- perior. Another schooner, the Guiding Star, is left to fate on Lake Superior, and will probably go to pieces. She was lost in the gale of the first of the month. The Guiding Star was owned by C. H. Weeks of Bay City and was valued at $5,000. The wooden steamer Neshoto, ashore at Keweenaw point and in bad shape, is owned by Robert Rhodes and others of Cleveland and has an insurance valuation of $135,000. She is insured for $110,000 in the following companies: Commercial Union, $18,000; C. W. Elphicke & Co., Chicago, $8,500; St. Paul Fire and Marine, $8,500; Michigan Fire and Marine, $10,- 000; London Assurance, $20,000; Western Assurance, $22,500; British and Foreign, $22,500. The schooner City of Toledo, lost near Manistee, Lake Michigan, im the same storm with the Western Reserve, was built in 1865, owned by the Manistee Lumber Company and valued at $5,000. Capt. James McMillan and daughter of Manistee and the crew of five men were lost. 'This loss of life in connection with that on the. Western Reserve, including the six passengers and captain and crew of twenty-one men, marks it as the most disastrous storm for a number of years.