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14 MARINE REVIEW. MARINE REVIEW. DEVOTED TO THE LAKE MARINE AND KINDRED INTERESTS. jon ra een PROPRIETORS. . Mz i HOMER J. CARR, ' Associate Editor and Manager Chicago Office, Western Union Building, 110 LaSalle Street. Published every Thursday at No. 516 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 3,600 vessels, measuring 1,154,870.38 tons in 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 number of vessels of 1,000 to 2,500 tons on _the lakes on June 30, 1891, was 310 and their aggregate gross tonnage 512,- 787.58; in all other parts of the country the number of this class of ves- sels was, on the same date, 213 and their gross tonnage 319,750.84. The classification of the entire lake fleet is as follows: Class. Number. Tonnage. SteamMMVESSEIS jc teseseccccsteusesesoeruseceosets 1,592 756,751.53 Samiti avESSe lS sureenccssnecna qananieact arses 1,243 325,131.06 Canal boats....04...5----.+. Tetons eves aoc 703, 72,515.42 BAGS ESrentes care cctee dere erese recente ceca ot wen cmienansic 62 20,472.37 MROtaleeecte we cncete mene ec concn see: 3,600 1,154,870.38 Tonnage built on the lakes during the past five years, according to the reports of the United States commissioner of navigation, is as follows : No. of boats. Net Tonnage. MSG Tees ceases sewer esiiseeea vane caesas ee aisercws 152 56,488.32 MOGOr cna cdvercake scans decor vessels Sieens 222 IOI, 102.87 OOO Ese cwteesse ee atec ccna ceo cds adaetriae decent: 225 107,080.30 MOCO pero soce cceeeca tones aa eee ona esac 218 108,515.00 TOO Uc eeai cts cccascaecacuter reece usec aeeas esc 204 111,856.45 MO tale cas ive secs tenn satu ras boven wee T,O21 485,042.94 St. Mary's Falls and Suez canal traffic: Number of boats through St. Mary's Falls canal in 1890, 228 days of navigation, 10,557; tonnage, net registered, 8,454,435. Number of boats through Suez canal during 1890, full year, 3,389; tonnage, net registered, 6,890,014. Number of boats through St. Mary's Falls canal in 1891, 225 days of navigation, 10,191; ton- nage, net registered, 8,400,685. Number of boats through Suez canal dur- ing 1891, full year, 4,207 ; tonnage, net registered, 8,698,777. Fintered at Cleveland Post Office as Second-class Mail Matter. Mr. EH. C. O'BRIEN, commissioner of navigation, is very enthusiastic over his scheme looking to the establishment of nautical schools for the better scientific education of men em- ployed in the merchant marine on the Atlantic coast and on the lakes. It is said that his annual report will recommend floating schools on the lakes and on the seaboard, to be maintained by government expense. We have no desire to discourage Mr. O'Brien's plans in saying that it is not probable that they will receive sufficient support from the lakes to warrant congress in making appropriations for the proposed work. 'The science of navigation finds no place in the requirements demanded of a capable master on the lakes. A school conducted under plans greatly modified from those -intended for the coast could be made to assist young men having some practical experience as mates or wheelmen, but highly scientific instruction would be of no use to them. WHATEVER may be the news from Washington regarding secretary Foster's intentions in the case of Col. Ludlow and Commander Heyerman, the friends of these officers can rest as- sured that the strongest influence on the lakes is being brought to bear in their behalf, and that lake shipping interests will stay by them to the end. 'These officers have been efficient, earnest intelligent and successful in the performance of their duties to the manifest benefit of the interests depending on the proper discharge of their service. Secretary Foster may hesitate on account of the probable resignation of certain members of the light-house board, but the coming week will undoubtedly show that the enemies of these district officers in Washington will 'themselves suffer the results of persecution which they had planned for others. Wuy should Col. Ludlow seek justice from an army court of inquiry? It has been known,of course,that he can at any time have such an inquiry, and there is no doubt that his action in the St. Mary's river lighting matter would be fully sustained by - such a court. Application for justice from this source would, of course, be made as a last resort. Certain officers of the light- house board have, however, acted as prosecutors, judge and jury in trying the case, and they must be dealt with first. Forty-THREE lights, the number contended for by "Cor Ludlow aud Commander Heyerman, are now in operation on St. Thus it will be seen that the district officers he execution of the erroneous in- . kinz to have them corrected to Mary's river. were justified in deferring t structions given them and in see conform with the facts as has since been done. The Grain Movement--Light Exports. Some figures from Buffalo and New York city relative to the grain movement from the west and northwest to the seaboard and the exports to Oct. 1, will be interesting to lake vessel own- ers and shippers who are in a quandry over fall frerehit "qatesy Buffalo received by lake so far this season more flour and grain than during any other season in the history of the business on the lakes. Receipts at Buffalo from the opening of navigation to Oct. 1, compared with the same period last season, are as fol- lows: Flour, Grain, Grain, including bbls. bu. flour, bu. TCO) akc ancien: Seay 6,574,445 92,346 ,612 125,218,837 TO ees ssoaan pobocdodosoAposeconGs 4,140,451 79,776,521 100,478,776 This statement from Buffalo is of itself enough to show that western wheat growers are rushing their grain to market, but the figures from New York and other Atlantic ports prove that not even during the fall months of 1891, when the demand was urgent and prices were more than 25 cents per bushel higher than at present, and when furthermore the largest crop ever raised in this country was ready for market,did the farmers push ~ their grain forward as rapidly as of late. 'The following tables show receipts and exports at four principal Atlantic ports from July 1 to Oct. 1 in 1891 and 1892: FOUR PRINCIPAL ATLANTIC PORTS, JULY 1 TO ocr. 1. 1892. Flour, bbls. Wheat, bu. IROCEMIDES ca can coc actaubiee.c sonanecit 4,412,297 37 456,369 BEKO ODUS re neha saacceer cones 3,417,657 23,008,355 Corn, bu. 9,695,457 4,776,522 EE SCessROl NECOlptsece. ten. ce 994,640 14,448,014 4,918,955 FOUR PRINCIPAL ATLANTIC PORTS, JULy 1, To oct. 1, 1891. Flour, bbls. Wheat, bu. Corn, bu. IVECEMPUSs cose anoncncconsees see 3,642,048 42,746,492 10,010,493 BSG ORS eee et ee Hate at ets 2,186,225 38,730,679 6,212,146 Excess of receipts............ 1,455,823 9,015,813 3,798,347 It will be seen from these statements that the accumulation of wheat at Atlantic ports from July 1 to Oct. 1 of this year is 5,432,201 bushels in excess of the accumulation during the same period in 1891, and this in the face of very large stocks at home and abroad. Exports for the week ending Oct. 1 were larger than they were during the corresponding week in r89r but they do not keep pace with the heavy receipts, and lake shippers argue accordingly that there can be no great boom in the fall grain freights. There is little danger, however, of any blockade of grain in Atlantic coast elevators. New York alone has twenty-seven elevators with a storage capacity of 27,275,000 bushels. Stocks of grain at Chicago and Duluth on Monday, the 3rd inst., were: Chicago. Duluth. Wheat, bu. Corn, bu. All wheat, bu. In sole ec 7,494,623 4,663,292 3,154,431 merease last week.........cs:s0ss.0s: 282,000 183,000 927,129 . Increase compared with same time lastyenitc sceneries eae «ue 4,265,663 1,896,004 In addition to the above there is in store in Chicago 2,- 422,576 bushels of oats, 320,380 bushels of rye and 175,87! bushels of barley, esaevewcecees