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MARINE REVIFW. 19 -- = seco -- = SS SSS Se FS Se ig pees Sy The Howard Towing Association of Port Huron has handled twenty-eight rafts this season without losing one. The tug Sum- ner brought a string of logs containing 2,300,000 feet to San-- dusky this week. Officers of the steamer I. C. Pope claim to have beaten, on the last trip up, the Canadian Pacific steamer Alberta three or four miles'in a race from the Sault to Whitefish point. The boats locked through the canal together. At a recent meeting of the Cleveland branch of the Ship- masters' Excelsior Marine Benevolent Asssociation fitting reso- lutions to the memory of Peter Minch, A. W. Reed and Albert Myers were adopted. 'They have since been elegantly engrossed and forwarded to the families of the deceased members. Judge Jenkins, of the United States district court at Mil- waukee, has rendered a second decision in the celebrated Ar- mour-Marion collision case, denying a motion for a new trial, and holding as he did before that both steamers were at fault, and that the damages should be divided between them. Underwood & Coman of Marionette have purchased the steamer Arctic for $12,000. She was purchased last spring for $6,000, and was repaired to the extent of $3,500. She will tow the barges Ogarita and Gardner for the rest of the season, and will be under the management of Connelly Bros. of Buffalo who own the barges. The bodies of Mrs. Peter Minch and the two children, and Capt. Myers and Martin Klaussen were brought from the Sault to Cleveland last week on thesteamer Wawatam. 'The former were interred alongside the grave of Capt. Peter Minch, in Cleve- land, and the remains of Capt. Meyers were sent to Vermillion for burial. Dispatches from Superior say that ore from the Mesaba range will be shipped from the docks at that point during the present month. 'l'his is hardly probable, however, as railway building has been very much delayed, and the docks are not as far advanced as it is thought they would beat this time. Some Mesaba ore will go to the furnaces by rail. Capt. G. W. Gillett will be superintendent of the new Superior docks. Duluth's board of public works now asks the council of the city to withdraw its communication of July last recommending a bridge across the canal entrance to Duluth and Superior har- bors, in opposition to,the report of the United States engineers against a bridge. 'The board is of the opinion that a tunnel can be constructed for $600,000. It will probably be many years, however, before Minnesota point, the strip of land which it is sought to reach, is connected with the city. Oswego newspapers say that the elevator of the New York, Ontario & Western Railroad talked of some time ago will not be built unless an equality in Welland canal tolls is established through negotiations now pending between the United States and Canadian governments. If the Welland tolls are removed entirely next season it is claimed that in addition to building a big elevator at Oswego, the railroad company will put a line of steamboats on the lakes. Capt. Gerlach, of the steamer Ouoko, didn't propose to give up the honors of carrying the largest cargo of grain from Chica- go to Buffalo without satisfying himself. He writes to his own- ers from Buffalo, and asks that the attention of the editor of the REVIEW be called to it, that the Gilcher's shortage made her cargo only 113,820 bushels, while the Onoko's load of 113,839 bushels still stands. As it is a matter of pleasant rivalry among the captains, both loads are included in the speed and big cargo list. It is again worth mentioning in this connection that the Onoko was the first iron freight boat builtin Cleveland. The life saving station on the grounds of the World's Col- umbian Exposition is rapidly nearing completion. The exhibit at the station will show to perfection the work of the service. A regular crew will perform a daily drill, and apparatus from the Atlantic coast and from the rivers will be shown. 'The sta- tion will be a permanent one, displacing the present Chicago sta- tion and remaining after the exposition. "The government was not able to secure a satisfactory and permanent title to the site of the present Chicago station, and in the last sundry civil ap- propriation bill congress inserted a proviso that a new station should be erected within the grounds set apart for the world's fair, on condition that there must first be ceded to the United States the title to the site selected. A Retiring Member of Congress. HON. VINCENT A. TAYLOR. Hon. Vincent A. Taylor, member of the fifty-second con- gress from the twentieth Ohio district, has not sought a renomi- nation, and the shipping interests of the lakes will thus suffer the loss of one of the most earnest representatives they have ever had in Washington. Mr. Taylor's efforts in behalf of the lake marine were undoubtedly most important in securing the large appropriations made in the first session of the present congress, and he will be found continuing the work to the end of his term in the next session. It is truly unfortunate that business inter- ests would not permit of his return to Washington. Taxation of Vessel Property. In several lake cities just now boards of equalization and other officers looking after matters of taxation are troubling themselves as to how they shall tax vessel property. A great cry is raised because corporations owning vessel property locate what might be called nominal headquarters in suburban towns and thus escape taxes for sewer construction, street improve- ments and the like in the large cities. There is really no good reason why any city should tax even the vessel property belong- ing to its own citizens. In some parts of the Atlantic coast just now this subject is receiving considerable attention, and the Maritime Register of New York makes the very good point that a vessel, or the amount ot capital which it represents, is em- ployed anywhere and everywhere. It receives its life and pro- tection from the national government. 'The earnings of vessel property can and should be taxed, however, as they belong to the town resident, who must pay his share of the protection and security that the town gives them. The more successful the vessel, which even on the lakes may be engaged largely out of the state, the better off will its owner be, and the more taxes will he pay into the locai treasury through home investments resulting from the earnings of his vessel property in other places. No individual cases need be cited to show the force of this argument as regards hundreds of vessel men in lake cities who own real estate and have large manufacturing and mercan- tile interests.