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6 MARINE REVIEW. Globe Triple Expansion Engines. The engraving on the first page represents the triple ex- pansion engines of the steamers Mariposa and Maritana. 'They were built by the Globe Iron Works Company, Cleveland. The cylinders are 24, 39 and 63 inches by 48 inches stroke, the inter- mediate being 1 inch larger, the low pressure being 2 inches larger, and all having 6 inches.more stroke than is the usual practice of this company. The boats in which these engines are placed are 350 feet over all, 330 feet keel, 45 feet beam and 24% feet deep. They are 37% feet longer and have 6 feet more beam than boats of the same line in which smaller engines are used, the boiler power in the smaller boats consisting of two 14 by 12% feet boilersand that in the larger boats consisting of three 12 by 12 feet boilers. The smaller engines are of 1,300 nominal horse power, and the larger ones of 1,800 horse power, but the latter indicated 2,163 horse power at 74 revolutions, the steam being at 170 pounds pressure, vacuum 22% and hot well temperature 98 degrees. 'he connected air pump has a bore of 31 and stroke of 18 inches; diameter of feed pump 4 inches. and stroke 18 inches. 'There is a piston valve on the high pressure engine and single and double ported slide valves on the intermedlate -- 'and low pressure cylinders, respectively. The crank shaft is in three interchangeable parts and the thrust bearing is of the horse shoe type. The horse power developed by these engines is believed to be greater than that of the engines of any other lake freight steamer, excepting the Union line flyers Owego and Chenung. Prosperous Outlook in Lumber. There is now no doubt that lumber freights from the head of Lake Superior, as well as from the Saginaw district, will be fully equal to those of last season, and from the big volume of sales of lumber already made for future delivery it would seem that the owners of lake barges will be warranted in keeping their boats free of contracts in order to take advantage of the great prospects of high rates of freight. There is already contracted to go east next summer from the head of Lake Superior about as _ much lumber as was shipped by lake, all told, last season. 'The entire output of several lumber firms of the Lake Superior sec- tion has been sold to Buffalo concerns, and in some instances manufacturers, who have sold no lumber for future delivery at prices which prevailed at any time in 1892, are holding for $2 a thousand over last year's prices. In the Saginaw valley the same conditions prevail as to prices, and it is claimed that on the Saginaw river alone fully 100,000,000 feet has been sold for next season's delivery, every foot of which is yet in the log. Never in the history of lumbering in Michigan has there been such a quantity of timber contracted to be cut as at the present time. , . _ Personal Mention. Mr. H. C. Frick of the Carnegie Steel Company, Mr. Samuel Mather of Pickands, Mather & Co., Cleveland. and Mr. W. G. Mather of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron, Company have gone to Europe. Mr. Blair of Carr & Blair, Chicago, and Capt. David Vance of Milwaukee were in Cleveland Tuesday, Mr. Blair is visiting Jake cities in the interest of his firm, and Capt. Vance was on his way home after a European trip. Mr. V. K. Moore of the Star Iron Company of Detroit visited Cleveland early in the week, for the purpose of considering pros- pects for ore sales. 'The Great Western mine, which Mr. Moore represents, is closed, but the company has some ore in stock and can resume operations without great exnense when the market for ore warrants such action. H. J. Lynn, with the Vessel Owners' Towing Company, Chicago, is making a tour of lower lake ports in the interest of his company. Chicago tug companies are hustling for business next season. Capt. J. S. Dunham, who has just made the rounds of the lakes, is understood to have secured a number of contracts from vessel owners by making termsthat will cause his tugs to be used and will prevent much of the annoyance of running half way down Lake Michigan in the competition for tows. Se ~< SS M. A. BRADLEY. President. : James W. Millen, Detroit, Mich. John G. Keith, Chicago, Ml. Frank J. Firth, Erie, Pa. W.3. Brainard, Toledo, O, __ VICE-PRESIDENTS: 4 Phomas Wilson, Cleveland, O. R P.Fitzgerald,Milwaukee, Wis, Peter F. Miller, Buffalo, N.Y. Alex. MeDougall, Duluth,Minn, 'les H. Keep, Secretary, Buffalo, N.Y. Geo. P. McKay, Treasurer, Cleveland, 0, ese! Eaeey D. Goulder, Counsel, Cleveland, O. , A REVIEW OF MEASURES IN THE [FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS AF- FECTING THE LAKE MARINE--INTERESTING RE- PORT FROM SECRETARY KEEP. Secretary Keep has just submitted to President Wilson and the board of managers of the association, a report reviewing the work of the session of the fifty-second congress just closed, as it relates to vessel interests on the lakes. 'The report will be pre- sented tothe finance committee of the association at its meeting in Cleveland on Monday next. Capt. Wilson is not in the city, but Messrs. M. A. Bradley, James Corrigan and othsr members of the board of directors, realize the importance of the document, and with their permission it is here printed in full, in order that mempbers of the association in all parts of the lakes may under- stand the benefits derived from the present organization of ves- sel interests: The second session ofthe Fifty-second Congress has now come toaclose and it is a proper time to make a report to you showing somewhat in detail what has been accomplished during the ses- sion in the interests of navigation on the lakes. The following is a statement of the various laws and regulations which affect the interests of the members of the association, passed at Wash- ington this winter. THE SUNDRY CiviL APPROPRIATION BiLL.--The sundry civil appropriation bill makes the following provision for the three great projects now under way for the improvement of the lake chanals: For the "Soo" lock and its approaches, $1,230,- ooo; for the completion of Hay lake channel, $225,000; for the 20-foot channel, $875,000. The: amounts so appropriated are all that can be expended upon the works above named up to the close of navigation. in the year 1894. 'The provision. made for the new lock at the "Soo" and the 20-foot channel leaves com- paratively small sums to be provided in the future for complet- ing these great works, and the sum provided for Hay Jake chan- nel is considered sufficient to complete the work. In addition to these provisions, the sundry civil bill contains an item by which $25,000 of the "Soo"' lock appropriation, or so much thereof as may be necessary, can be expended in widening the channel at "Collision Bend." 'The bill also contains an appro- priation of $25,000 for re-surveys of dangerous localities on the lakes and the correction of the lake charts accordingly. This is an important item, and the amount of the appropriation is five times as great as Congress has been accustomed to provide for this work. 'The same appropriation bill also contains an appro- priation for new range lights in Maumee river of $8,000; $20,000 for the new light-house at 14-mile point, Like Superior, and $3,- 300 for a fog signal at Seul Choix point, Lake Michiyan; also appropriations for completing the light-house at Cuicago, and an increased apprepriation over the current fiscal year for general expenses of the light-house establishment, such as salaries of light-keepers, expenses of buoyage, etc. OTHER LIGHT-HOUSE LEGISLATION.--Congress has passed a law authorizing, but not appropriating for, the establishment of thirty-eight new light-houses and fog siguils ou the great lakes. This law has received the approval of the president. Its importance will be seen next year when its passage will greatly aid us in securing the necessary appropriations for these lights. THE HARTER BiLt.--This important bill which passed both houses of Congress and has received the approval of the president, marks a new departure on the part of the government of the United States in making the laws relating to shipping more liberal to the vessel owners and bringing the laws of the country into harmony in this respect with the laws of other great maritime nations. Under the decisions of the supreme court of the United States, vessel owners in this country have been unable to exempt themselves from liability for loss or dam- age to the cargo where such loss or damage was in any way the result of fault or negligence on the part of the officers or crew of the vessel. The practical operation of this rule was as follows: x \