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20 DEVOTED TO EVERYTHING AND EVERY INTEREST CONNECTED OR _ ASSO- CIATED WITH MARINE MATTERS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. Published every Thursday by The Penton Publishing Co. CLEVELAND. BOSTON srs ete alate reels 1053 Exchange Bldg. OURAN Ol erenetatetsvetoferesisyoi eran = ..932 Ellicott Sq. 'CHICAGO ...... MR laiee 1362 Monadnock Blk. CINCINNATI ...... "First National Bank Bldg. NEW YORK ..........1005 West Street. Bldg. UTC ISE TRS SOR Greeters bats cteretelcie <irafelelelers 521 Park Bldg. DOE RINE weierctsctetlsie rele" ..-411 Providence Bldg. Correspondence on Marine Engineering, Ship Building and Shipping Subjects Solicited. Subscription, U. S. and Mexico, $3.00 per - annum. Canada, $4.00. Foreign, $4.50. Subscribers can have addresses changed at will. Change of advertising copy must reach this office on Thursday preceding date of publication. The Cleveland News Co. will supply the trade with the Marine Review through the regular channels of the American News Co. European Agents, The International News Company, Breams Building, Chancery Lane, London, E. C., England. Entered at the Post Office at Cleveland, Ohio, as Second Class Matter. January 23, 1908. OCEAN MAIL BILL. Advices from Washington are to the effect that Senator Gallinger's pill, ex- tending provisions of the Ocean Mail _ Act of 1891' to second will be passed by tthe present congress. It is difficult 'to could fail measure. class vessels, see how congress TOM pass SO MeEcessary a There is great need of bet- ter mail communication with remote countries than the United States now 'The: Ocean Mail Act of 1891 is the only thing that congress enjoys. has done for the American merchant ma- All has this had stimulated rine during the past fifty years. the ships that the United States in the foreign trade are due to Ship building languished for years was measure. which. by it and any extension of the pro- visions of the act will result in a cor- responding stimulation now. The pas- sage of the Gallinger bill now before congress would result in the immedi- ate placing of contracts with Ameri- 'among the 'Senate. become firmly established. "TAE MaRINE. REVIEW can ship, yards for about twenty,ships. Such a measure would do much to re- vive the general state of the indus- try throughout the country now slowly recovering from the recent financial There is facture that employs so many artisans panic. no article of manu- as the building of the ship. Every state in the tinion must contribute to ii Die imoney spent one a ship' is more widely disseminated than any involved in manufacture. Inquiry members of the merchant marine committee of the house shows them to 'be favorable to the measure and the committee on postoffices and post roads is looking after it in the The power of the administra- tion is also back of it, the president having recommended it, the postmas- ter general having urged it, and the secretary of the department of com- merce and labor having devoted a great deal of space in his latest an- nual report to a discussion of the measure. Opponents of subsidy can- not now quarrel with the bill because The ocean mail steamers are paid for work iMeCoes snot = call-eton-- subsidy. which they actually perform and, as a matter of fact in doing so, yield a large profit tto tthe general ment. The profit on sea postage is now annually $3,500,000, and while, of the could not immediately pay, it govern- course, projection of new lines is not contemplated to spend more than the profits of sea postage among them. In fact the new lines should show a profit in sea postage after they have Moreover, a mail ship makes an excellent scout and is a valuable auxiliary to the navy. PRESIDENT LIVINGSTONE'S ANNUAL REPORT. There are many points of great in- terest in the annual report of Presi- dent Wm. Livingstone which was sub- mitted to the Lake Carriers' Associa- tion at their meeting in Detroit last week. To begin with the report is the most complete that has ever been made to tthe association, reaching the dignity of an actual book. So much matter has been incorporated in this will doubtless report that members the lakes. file it in their libraries for reference. It was evidently the intention of the president that should be made of it, as it brings up to date the such use present state of all improvements af- lake complete is the report upon work at . fecting navigation. Especially the Lime Kilns and the present status The work held up for No sooner has one obstacle been encoun- tered takes its place. of conditions at the Sault. at tthe Sault nearly 'three years by litigation. has been and surmounted than another The one arm of the general government, the war depart- ment, has worked zealously for nearly three years to begin 'actual construc- tion work, but tthe legal arm of the government has for one cause or an- other interposed and delayed opera- tions. There is hope now, however, that the department of justice is quite satisfed with the quit-claim deed of one of the power compariles at the Sault and that the work of construc- tion can shortly begin. It is a regrettable circumstance that private companies were ever given any privileges in the rapids of St. Mary's river because the time is surely com- ing when every inch of space will be needed to care for the commerce of Work upon the third lock but President Liv- in his annual has not yet begun, ingstone report urges the design of a fourth lock, saying that it that steps be taken at once for will 'be needed before it is completed, even should the preliminary steps for its construction be taken at There because every lock that has been pro- at the. Sault, ample at the time of its design, proved once. is good ground for this view jected while seemingly entirely inadequate to care for exist- ing commerce when it was opened for navigation. The lake trade is -one of such amazing elasticity that the engi- neer who cares for it must be gifted bold Practical men are likely to lack this The date' Gen. O. M. Poe was gifted with almost prophetic vis- with imagination of a order. quality. ion and designed his work upon pro- portions that seemed staggering to less gifted minds; and yet Gen. Poe realized before he died that he had