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10 MARINE REVIEW. MARINE REVIEW. DEVOTED TO THE LAKE MARINE AND KINDRED INTERESTS. Chicago Office, Western Union Building, 706 Phoenix Building. Published every Thursday at No. 516 Perry-Payne Building, Cleveland, O. SUBSCRIPTION--$2.00 per year in advance. Single copies 10 cents each. Convenient binders sent, post paid, 75 cents. Advertising rates on appli- cation. The books of the United States treasury department contain the naines of 3,657 vessels, of1,183,582.55 gross tons register in the lake trade. The lakes have more steam vessels of 1,000 to 2,500 tons than the com- bined ownership of this class of vessels in all other sections of the country. The number of-steam vessels of 1,000 to 2,500 tous on the lakes on June 30, 1892, was 321 and their aggregate gross tonnage 534,490.27; in all other parts of the country the number of this class of vessels was,on the same date, 217 and their gross tonnage 321,784.6. The classification of the entire lake fleet is as follows: Gross. Class. Number. Tonnage. Steam vessels ..:..........csceeee eee ee eaacsoar sis 1,631 763,063.32 Bailimevesselsy. ji dee oes eebe Abe at 1,226 319,617.61 Catal bOatispcsstadis coats ai. .toevce 2 caenctea obs 731 75,580 50 HUANG CS rcaweriees cece tests cttpsocacrsactstevei cto 69 25,321.12 MOL Alresasecckacssesrescaaee cies us snes ces 3,657 T,183,582.55 Tonnage built on the lakes during the past five years, according to the reports of the United States commissioner of navigation, is as follows: | Number: Net Tonnage. TESS sncpececvecdeteseses Hosea tune ateenadeccives 222 IOI, 102.87 LOO as cuinhev agieesise pre aren cues Meets tuanstite on AAS 107,080.30 WOQOrsesceseccsateecusscece SMe ce eee ceeeeeeenees 218 108,515.00 TSO TOM, easel teetilec ce iaaelaseeniaeenee eae aes 204 111,856.45 NBO? senses soy tahoe cehat nia dawen seeks VARIO 169 ~ 45,168.98 MOtal teen ts wine dene acur ase comnts T,038 473,723.60 ST. MARY'S FALLS AND SUEZ CANAL, TRAFFIC. St. Mary's Falls Canal. 1892. 1891. T8go. 1892. 1891. 1890. Suez Canal. No. vessel passages 12,580] 10,191} 10,557 3,559 4.207) 93 By3e9 Ton'ge, net regist'd| 10,647, 203|8,400,685|8,454,435||7)712,028 8,698,777|6,890,014 Days of navigation 223 225 228 365 365 365 Entered at C. leveland Post Office as Second-class Mail Matter. AGAIN the people of Toronto are discussing in public meetings their scheme for a canal between the Georgian bay and Lake Ontario, and C. C. Wyatt of Charlottsville, Va., who has had himself interviewed in various newspapers throughout the country, but who is unknown in the lake region, claims to have secured a large amount of capital for the construction of a short route waterway in Canada from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie. Mr. Wyatt, whoever he may be, is indulging in a great deal of talk that is unworthy of any consideration, as his canal would parallel the Detroit river route and present only meager advantages for an expenditure of many millions. His scheme would be stripped entirely of the small gains that it offers if the plans of the citizens of Toronto for the Huron-Ontario canal could be carried out, but Canada has but little wealth with which to complete even its present canal undertakings, and what is the use of talking of private enterprise in connection with works of this kind when the financial problem involved is beyond the reach of all but powerful governments? THE Harlan and Hollingsworth Company, ship builders of Wilmington, Del., have asked English manufacturers of steel to quote prices on ship plates, angles and beams. Officers of the company say they are seeking this information in advance, in order to avoid possible losses arising from free trade legislation in the next congress. "hey argue that the price of labor is to be reduced and that margins are to be lowered in all branches of business. Their conclusions are undoubtedly sound, as such conditions seem inevitable, but it is not probable that material for the construction of ships will be imported in large qnantities into this country, however much the tariff may be reduced, as the prices at which steel and iron are now selling here, without the re-adjustment that is expected in event ofa lower tariff, seem to be a decided barrier to importation. On the lakes, at least, at where furnaces and mills are located in the immediate vicinity of the ship yards, there can be no imported material, unless in lines of special forgings or machinery. SucRETARY Carlisle of the Treasurery, department has issued a circular directing masters of merchant vessels and officers of revenue marine cutters and vessels of the light-house estab- lishment to report to the commissioner of navigation all wrecks and derelicts that are a menace to navigation. This order is very probably prompted by Mr.O'Brien,commissioner of naviga- tion, who can now do the vessel interests of the lakes an addi- tional favor by finding in the treasurery department some fund for the removal of such wrecks and derelicts when they are found. 'Ihe greatest difficulty experienced on the lakes is to first get the light-house board to buoy and light worthless sun- ken wrecks and then find government funds for their removal. 'Tr is claimed that the light-house board has successfully lighted the lake front between Chicago harbor and the World's Columbian Exposition grounds with a grand system of electric buoys: Ifso much has been done for display at the exposition why isthe influence of this same board not used in Congress in favor of a similar system of lights for the St. Mary's river, where Lake Superior commerce would be benefitted to the extent of millions in a few years through making navigation as safe by night as by day. Tg immigration bureau is undecided as to whether, under the alien contract labor law, owners or masters of lake vessels can be prosecuted for engaging at the close of navigation a Canadian seaman to return for service the next season. Wash- ington heads of bureau have, as a result of recent agitation of this question in Chicago, instructed the lake inspectors to keep a look out for a case of this kind. in order to make a test of. the law. THE commonest instinct of humanity would seem to war- rant an immediate settlement of the question of reciprocity in wrecking between Canada and the United States, and yet the executive heads of both governments have for months delayed exercising the authority granted them by the legislative bodies. Trade Notes, The American Shipmasters Association of 37 William Street, New York, classed last week the American three-masted schooner Cassie Jameson, American barge Wilkesbarre, American half brig Woodbury, British half brig Boston Marine and British schooner Topez. Alex. Lawrence, superintending engineer of the Baltmore, Chesapeake and Richmond Steamboat Company, writes H. G. Trout of the King Iron Works, Buffalo, as follows: 'Ihe pro- peller wheel furnished by you for our steamer Baltimore has proved very satisfactory. We get more speed and burn less coal while the engine makes fewer revolutions, and the shake of the ship has been reduced to a minimum. Iam so well pleased that when we require a new wheel for any of our other steamers I will recommend ordering from you. _ For the benefit of owners and builders, we illustrate two pieces of Mabbs> hydraulic raw-hide packing. If it is what they claim--and the the testimonials given substantiate their state- 2 ments--it would be well for parties using hydraulic packing to investigate its merits,as it can be perfectly renewed without having to clean out the stuffing box, by adding a piece at a time asthere isroom. 'This would make it valuable for propeller stern pipes, where the stuffing box can not be cleaned. out except when the vessel is in dry dock. For common hydraulic pumping machinery it has proved successful. Send a postal card NN! fi) to the Mabbs Hydraulic Packing Company, mi P. O. Box 828, Chicago, Ill., for a copy of a circular explaining qualities of this packing.