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22 twenty per cent, our imports being about _double our exports. .. From the foregoing it must be con- That the hemisphere are a vincingly clear to Vous. J; republics of this unit in desiring the establishment of lines of American steamships, giving each with the other regular, frequent, direct and rapid communication. 2. That they realize that government aid, con subsidies, is necessary to the establishment of such lines, secure be- catise they severally and unitedly say so.' 3. That the results would be per- manently beneficial to all of the re- publics of this promotive _~of better and more intimate social re- hemisphere, lations, better trade relations, and that degree of confidence and interdepend- ence so much desired by us all. _ Convinced as we believe you must be of the truth of all that we have 'said and as most of what have said has already been said, officially, we 'and is a part of the records of your own department of state of the United. States, will you not, in the report that you are to make, resulting from your 'trip, make these facts as sensibly im- pressive to the American people, and especially to the American congress, as they are to you? AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. Repairs to Ann Arbor car ferry No. 2 which has been in dry dock at Milwau- kee since June 2 have been completed. A revision in colors of coast chart No. 2,-Lake Erie, has just been issued by the United. States Lake Survey and is for sale by the Marine ReEvIEw. The steamer La Salle ran aground at Sailor's Encampment recently, but was released after lightering 300 tons of ore. The 9,000-ton steamer which is to be built by the Great Lakes Engin- eering Works of Detroit for the York Transit Co. will be managed by John J. Boland, Buffalo. Repairs to the steamer Charles W: Elphicke, which went on the exten- sion of the east arm of the Cleveland breakwater about two months ago, have been completed. BON The steamer Benton and barge A. Cobb ran aground on the north end: of North Bass island, As they are in. the lee of the island, they are in not in any Special danger. Patt of the Benton's cargo has been removed. - It is announced that the Great Lakes Enginering Works, of Detroit, will sup- ply all the steel tubing for a tunnel under . THE MARINE. REVIEW the Detroit river to be: constructed by the Michigan Central railroad. The tubing will be turned out at the St. Clair yard. The passenger steamer Peerless of the Chicago-Milwaukee line bound from Chicago to Milwaukee, became disabled off Racine last week, and in response to.a signal of distress, was towed into that port by the tug S. M. - Fisher. Capt. John Nahratedt; master of the steamer Alex. McDougall, reports that he passed a-crib about 40°. ft. square in Pelee passage on the.down trip. The ob- struction when sighted by Capt. Nahr- 'stedt was about two, miles east of the Middle Ground light. ii We The steamers Henry C. Frick, 569 tt. long, | and the Edward Y. Town- send, 602 it. into the old river bed at Cleveland, thus showing that it is possible for the largest vessels on the lakes to enter the port of Cleveland. The United States cruiser Morrell and the Canadian cruiser Vigilant started the work of setting buoys to mark the boundary between American and Canadian waters on Lake Erie. The placing of buoys at intervals of five miles, it is hoped, will eliminate all an- noyances between fishermen. of the two countries. W. R. 'Richardson and L. L. Hen: derson appeared before the grain commission at Kingston last week and urged the enlargement of the Welland canal to admit the passage of the 10,000-ton freighter. This would mean to more than double the size of the locks and to deepen the canal by 8 4t. : Capt. John Lowe, of Cleveland. will bring out the new steamer Peter A. B. Widener for the Pittsburg Steam- ship Co. | The 'Widener. - will' be launched during' the present month Ship Building Co. -She-is the last of the 600-footers ordeted . "by" the Pitts- burg Steamship =o 'for. eRe: ; That cee effort counts on a steamboat as well as on shore is shown by the personnel of the steam- er Linn's crew. Wm. Sherston, oiler, started decking on the German two years ago. George Palmer, fireman, decked on the German: last season. Will Roberts, fireman, started decking on the Linn this season. They all got their first training from Mate Charles Benson, who was formerly on' the German, and Joseph Wagner, second. mate of the Linn. The barges Wayne-and. S. H. acter stranded on the'shore off Misery Bay, Lake Superior, this week. .The crew of the Wayne found it. comparatively easy . by a stretch of boiling surf. long, have been taken | have .- ~ between from: the yard of - the South Chicago "igan "ports _ Huron 21900 deliv: to. reach.:shore, but the Foster's crew were imprisoned on the stranded ship Edward Jacobson, one of the Foster's crew, tied a line about his body and. after a terrible struggle succeeded in reaching land.. The remainder of the crew were taken ashore by the life line thus constructed. The Foster is resting on a sandy bottom and can probably be released if: the weather continues good. The Wayne is lying on the rocks and is in great. danger. Captains, who are trading to .Ash- tabula, have complained about the ab- sence of any light on the easterly con- crete pedestal at the harbor entrance. This. pedestal is 50 ft. square and _ it is only 450 ft. from the one on which the lighthouse stands. With a heavy sea running over the unfinished break- water, and with a strong cross cur- rent sweeping either way across the entrance, the captains assert there is absolute danger attached to coming through the entrance at night. Men connected with the harbor work have also noted the danger, but no steps have been taxen to improve or rem- edy the condition. ae The changes in the lumber rates as announced by the Lake Carriers' As- sociation are as_ follows:. From ports on. the. western - half: at Lake Superior, to lower Lake Michi- gan ports and ports between Lake Huron and Lake Ontario, $3; from _ the eastern half of Lake Superior to the same sections, $2.75; from Geor- gian Bay to the same ports, $2.50; from Lake Huron ports to ports be- tween it and: Lake Ontario, $2.25; from Georgian Bay to sections first named, free on rail, $2.3714; from the same to the same; when taken from the dock, $2.50; from ports on the up- per half of Lake Michigan to ports Lake' Huron and Lake Ontario, $2.50;. from lower Lake Mich- to ports. between Lake and . Lake Ontario, $2.62; from the head of the lakes to Lake Ontario, $1 over the Buffalo rate, or $4 a thousand; from the head of the lakes to Oswego or Kingston, $1.25 over the Buffalo rate, or $4.25 in all; from the head of the lakes to Bay City, $2.75. Rates on heavy timber and special timber will maintain the same relative advance over the new rate -as formerly . prevailed. Cedar and all other commodities are ad- vanced in proportion to pine rates. Thomas Cooper, of Amherstburg, Ont., who was master of the schooner Armenia when. she foundered earlier this season on Lake Erie, is mate on the steamer. Mecosta,..of the Gilchrist fleet.