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pees MARINE REVIEW. Season's Work of Menominee aiid Mutual Steamers. At the annual meeting of the Menominee Transit Company and Mutual Transportation Company, owning two lines of steel steamers engaged exclu- sively in the iron ore trade and managed in the office of M. A. Hanna & Co., Cleveland, detailed statements were made regarding the earnings, ete. The REVIEW was permitted to make the following summary of the work of the boats during the past season: MENOMINEE TRANSI'T COMPANY'S STEAMERS, SEASON OF 1892. Norman.| Saxon. |German.| Briton. |Grecian.| Roman. Number oftrips......... 30 34 29) 29 34 32 NSIS este eee te teaiece 3,194 3,398 2,916 2,956 3,318 3,303 DVI eS ne ecman mec de 37,090 | 40,855 | 35,080 | 37,782 | 40,972 | 39,970 Miles per hour......... 11.61 12.02 12.03 12.78 12.34 12.10 Ore carried, gr. tons ..| 76,226 | 89,439 | 77,633 | 75,170 | 90,454 85,409 Ay. tons ore pr cargo..) 2,540 2,630 PAST 2,098 2,660 2,669- Tons fuel, net........... 4,182 | 4,668 3,879 4,068 | 4,596 4,385 Fuel av. lbs. per mile.. 225 228 221 QUO P2245 |. 219 Lubricants, av. cost per OL Ge eepereeeter <r 1 3-100 ets.| 93-100 cts.|1 6-100 cts,| 94-100 cts.| 97-100 ets.|1 4-100 cts. Total time handling cargoes and fuel... Lost time, repairs, dry 76 d.28h.|77 d.21h.|70d. 4h.|/70d.20h.|74d.11h. |80 d.16h. dock, ch ae a Ueno ire | eee ars TAG eiy Sa) 2On Ceby Se) la aie een a|ncdeeese ences Engineers' supplies and repairs, cost..... $132 75 | $147 48 | $240 41 | $103 75 | $148 95 | $184 75 7a. 1h.jod.14h./5 d.6h.|1 d.12h.j8-d.15 h.jod.20h. Lost time, weather..... MUTUAL TRANSPORTATION COMPANY'S STRAMERS, SEASON OF 1892. Cambria. Corsica. Corona. Number of trips...........e-s--secneeeveeeee 36 39 39 aoe UM eee ge, escalate ssn asnoceenes < 3,598 3,714 3,829 WWikileswrniititern sefsoy <n aseon tcl Pease saapemrcecis 43,290 47,099 46,935 Miles run per hour........:...ss2sseeeeeeee 12.03 12.68 12.25 Ore carried, gross tONS.......s.ssceeeeee ee 85,984 102,892 102,533 Ore carried, average tons per cargo... 2,388 2,638 - 2,629 Fuel, number of TOUS, WE Ua ieceseasecsce 4,481 9,231 5,198 Fuel, average pounds EMME tissrae ce 207 222 4 |- 221 Lubricants, average cost per mile...... 82-100 cts. | 69-100 cts. | 90-100 ets. Total time handling cargoes and fuel) 59 d. 18 hrs.| 59 d. 10 hrs. /59 d. 22 hrs. Lost time, repairs, dry dock, ete....... DORGAN Saye ca lHatccn ste ceee cual tectece <r setessdc Engineers' supplies and repairs, cost... $172 03 $241 58 5152 36 Lost time, account of weather........... [5 deeO Mans pd oihns= Seda 2 hires Against the Elevator Pool--Line Boat Earnings. Special Correspondence to the MARINE REVIEW. Burrawo, N. Y., Jan. 5.--Some recent developments in elevator and canal matters are of interest to the trade. When it was announced lately that about 16,000,000 bushels of grain had been handled by wild elevators, regret was expressed that the Union elevator, which had done a great share of this work, was now inthe pool. OC. A. Warfield, agent for the Chicago grain house of Bartlett, Frazier & Co., who had handled the Union for them, re- marked quietly that it was ee. possible he would get another elevator before next season was over. Now it comes out that the canal men are negotiating for the lease or purchase of the Watson elevator, which will put them on their feet again, as they could run it at half rates and make money. I was sorry to hear from manager Drake of the Lackawanna line and the Kelderhouse syndicate boats that while wild boats made fairly good profits the package freight lines have very little to show for their season's work. This was suspected when the lines were engaged in cutting rates so viciously, but it has not been stated in so many words before that they often earned less than the actual cost of carrying. No improvement is looked for till the rail lines, which make the rates for the lake lines, come to their senses and stop quarrel- ing over freights. The actual utility of our 'lake fleet can not be doubted, whatever may be said of the profits. This is best shown by our Minneapolis flour agencies. When the lakes closed they began to order flour down by rail, but some of it has been on the way twenty-five days and nobody knows where it is. The Union Steamboat Company is deep in preparation for coming law suits. The Conemaugh-New York collision case, after being decided once, has got to be gone over again, and in Chicago this week the damage suits brought by members of the crew injured in the Tioga explosion are expected to come off. Claims for about $100,000 have been put in, some of them, it is said, by people personating the heirs of those who were killed, but who have no real legal right to appear for them. The Genessee Oil Company is also made a defendant. It is rather curious that the law can make no use of the fact that the company practically confessed judgment by paying the damages sustained by the boat. Buftalo harbor eidere are not a little bit disturbed because Henry K. Gustin of Ann Arbor came down with a bid for the Dunkirk breakwater that knocked them all out. His bid was $15,101 for an extension of 250 feet. Some time ago when our bidders went to Fairport for government work the threat we didn't stay at home somebody would come down and Now comes an entirely new man and innocently, as it appears, was made that clean us out. performs the task. Secretary Foster Talks of the Ludlow Case. Special Correspondence to the MARINE KEV1EW. Wasuineron, D. C., Jan. 5.--At last Col. Ludlow is to have a hearing in the war department. His case with the light-house board has caused Secretary Charles Foster and his assistants nearly, if not quite as much trouble as the administration of the:national finances. It threatened to destroy the secretary's political standing and nearly disrupted the light-house board. It also involved a legal construction of the word "some,"as applied to a specified number, with the result that the department held that if an act of congress provided for "some thirty-seven lights" at acertain cost, three lights, more or less, might be erected, provided the total expense came within the specified limit of the cost. For six months Col. Ludlow has been fighting vigorously for his rein- statement for the sole purpose of vindication, as he claims, but as it is thought here, for the purpose of rebuking the light-house board. He brought tremen- dous influence to bear on Secretary Foster, but that official refused to recon- sider his action, until Col. Ludlow could sustain his course by the verdict of a court of enquiry, composed of his brother army officers. In speaking of the case, Secretary Foster said he never before had so many of his own personal friends and politicians of his own party arrayed against him, and that he cer- tainly would have gratified them but for the fact that his best judgment satis- fied him that they were inthe wrong. He, however, made them this conces- sion--that he would reinstate Col. Ludlow provided that officer first secured vindication at the hands of an army court of inquiry, but that otherwise he could not consistently see his way clear to reverse his action. 1 The outcome of this case will not only be watched with interest by marine people, but by the citizens of the District of Columbia, because Col. Ludlow is well known to them as one of the former commissioners of the district, un- der a recent administration. Boilers and Machinery for Lake Michigan Steamers. Special Correspondence to the MARINE REVIEW. Monracvuer, Mich., Jan. 5.--At the Montague Iron Works, Wilson & Hendrie proprietors, the-force of workmen has been increased in proportion to a number of contracts closed recently, and with a new electric light plant and other improvements the works present a most active appearance. Among engines and boiles now-under contract is one high pressure marine engine, : 24 inches bore by 28-inch stroke, with independent condenser, and One marine boiler 9 feet in diameter by 14 feet long, allowed 180 pounds of steam, for a new passenger boat being built by Rogers & Bird of Sangatuck, Mich., for the Holland Steamboat Company of Holland, Mich. This boat will be ready for duty April 15, 1893, and will run» between Holland and Chicago. <A fore- and-aft compound engine, with cylinders 14 and 28 inches by 20-inch stroke, and a marine boiler 7 feet in diameter by 12 feet long, allowed 130 pounds of steam, will also be built for the new passenger steamer under construction at the yard of the Grand Haven Ship Building Company, Grand Haven, Mich. This steamer is for the Sands & Maxwell Lumber Company, Pentwater, Mich , and will be ready for service April 1, 1893. She will run between Pententar and Ludington, Mich. Another contract is for a high pressure marine engine, 20 inches bore by 24-inch stroke, for a tug being built by Burger & Burger of Manitowos, Wis., for Mueller & Rober of Chicago. An upright engine, 12x16 inches, for the Shelby Milling Company of Shelby, Mich., and several boilers for saw mills are included in stationary work under contract at these shops. Big Dredging Plant. Spécial Correspondence to the MARINE Revie W. ee Totmno, O., Jan. 5.--George H: Breyman & Brothers have. contracted for another big drediier 'This will be the third.: dredge :built and owned by. this firm, and when it is completed they; will haye the. most complete dr edging plant on the lakes. - Dredge No. 38 will not, be quite as large as No. 2, com- pleted last fall, but will be somewhat larger and more powerful than No. 1. The hull, to be built by A. Gilmore, will be 90 feet long, 32 feet wide, 9 feet deep forward and 8 feet aft. The engines have not yet been decided upon but they will probably be compound and will be built by the Bucyrus Steam Shovel and Dredge Company. Ata meeting of branch No. 37, M. E. B. A., the following officers were elected for 1893: Past president, Frank N. Weis; president, John Marks ; vice president, Irving Hone ; recording secretary, W. N. Decker; financial and corresponding secretary, EK. D. Lock ; treasurer, Frank N. Weis: chap- Jain, EKarnest Rowe; conductor, H. 0. Crane; door-keeper, James Eaton ; trustees, R. Howe, W. N. Decker and John Marks; representative to national convention, W. N. Decker ; alternate to national convention, E. D. Lock. Send 50 cents in stamps to the MARINE REVIEW for 14 phototypes and gravures of lake steamers neatly bound.