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1903] MARINE REVIEW AND MARINE RECORD. > 23 DULUTH SHIPPING ITEMS. Duluth, Minn., Nov. 18.--There are now in store at the head of the lakes, all grains, 10,075,000 bu. Of this perhaps 3,000,000 bu. of wheat is to go forward this year and as much other grains, and this amount is being addéd to daily as sales are made to the east, Chicago and Europe. The latter is not an insistent buyer. In- deed Chicago has for the past week seemed to give local shippers about all the business they have been able to get. It is probable that 2,000,000 bu. remain to go there on late purchases of wheat for mixing. The total receipts of all grains last week was 4,205.- 000 bu.; shipments 3,676,000 bu. It is probable that receipts may diminish somewhat. Well-posted men from the interior say that in their judgment the movement from North Dakota is nearly over, so far as bulk is concerned. . Flour receipts are smaller and the railroads are trying to clean up everything on hand as fast as possible. The season is really not so nearly over as it appears, but the withdrawal of so many ore ships and the evident intention to close early in almost every line makes it look as though we were in December instead of the middle of November. There are now but five iron mines shipping in this state, and a very small number from other states, while last year they were at work up to Dec. 18. Nearly all the flax in store here has been chartered to go to Buffalo, where it will remain afloat all winter, the rates being based on spring delivery. Most of this will be on vessels of the Tomlinson and Davidson fleets, and it is understood to amount to about 4,000,000 bu. There will be quite a saving in insurance and other charges by this move, which is of considerable importance. The American Linseed Co. is moving this stuff. It is expected that the coming year elevator building at the Canadian Lake Superior terminals will be active again, and that a large increase in capacity will be made. This may include a + §00,000-bu. addition to the King elevator at Port Arthur, another storehouse of tile or concrete for the Canadian Northern, and possibly a wheat hospital for the same company. Lake copper interests have a. good deal to say of their big shipments, east and they are sending forward a great deal of metal, but there is actually less copper moving east by lake than for some years (very much less than four years ago), the reason being the diminution and diversion of Montana shipments. The | close of lake navigation will find all lake copper docks and smelters bare of metal. On Nov. 20 the Calumet & Hecla will ship the last cargo of mineral to its smelters at Buffalo. Powell & Mitchell of Marquette have completed their work at Grand Marais harbor, Lake Superior, for the year. They have put in 450 ft. of breakwater crib, bringing the length up to 1,200 ft. The work, though completed under the present contract, is far from through, and much remains to be done to make Grand Marais what the government designs, a safe harbor of refuge. It is much used and is an important refuge in the severe storms that sweep eastern Lake Superior. There are rumors and publications to the effect that the rais- ing of the sunken steamer Thos. Wilson is to be attempted at once. There is nothing in it. The court of admiralty is review- ing the facts as to the collision of the Hadley and Wilson on the petition of Wm. P. Rend to limit liability of the Hadley. The Superior Iron Works will erect a 60-ton gantry crane at the new pier, Superior entry, to be in position next spring. "WORK OF ASSIMILATING IMMIGRANTS. -- Mr. Daniel J. Keefe, president of the International Long- shoremen, Marine & Transport Workers' association, made a speech at the Chicago meeting of the National Civic Federation which attracted a great deal of attention. The keynote of it was that labor has to assimilate the vast influx of immigration each year and that in passing judgment upon unions probably not enough credit is given for the work which they have to perform in drilling and disciplining this raw material. Mr, Keefe said: "Much of the evil complained of in unions arises from the fact that the organizations have too much raw material to work over. The older of the labor organizations have, or cause, little or no annoyances or criticism. It is the new. unions and new re- cruits that are lacking in tact and training, but if we are patient all will come in due time. The immigration question in its rela- tion to labor is given but passing consideration by the employers, but our critics could, with considerable profit, find much food for reflection, as to cause and effect, were they to devote a little time to study and investigation of this phase of the social ques- tion. At present, it would seem impossible to predict the result of the enormous and seemingly endless time of immigration. Do our critics ever stop to think that it is the labor organiza- tions who are obliged to assimilate the. aliens faster than is pos- sible to do so? The discussion of the various methods of dealing with many of the vexed problems of labor does not take into account or consider the real conditions that surround the life of the American wageworker and all that is imposed upon him. hen we read in the report of our commissioner general of im- migration of 462,608 aliens arriving in 1901; of 619,544 in 1902, and the expectation of 1,000,000 for 1903, and the prospect increas- ing yearly, rather than diminishing, we stand aghast, and ask if _ We are capable of assimilating this gigantic host. That our la- tr leaders are amazed at this never-ending stream, and at times €spair, is but natural when we contemplate that the labor or- ganizations undertake the bulk of the work involved. That, with this army, our awkward squad should be quite numerous, and 'not all the recruits understand the duties, obligations, etc., which are so suddenly thrust upon them, is only natural. The level of the American workmen is only attained after considerable educa- tional effort on the part of our organizations. _ The study of our government, its laws, the duties and obli- gations, and privileges of citizenship, the new ideas of sanitary, moral and social existence, and the general culture in their new and strange environment, is the work and labor of the unions with the parents, and will be until such time as the public school fits the younger generation with sufficient knowledge of Ameri- can life to impart to the elders. You cannot, like the adventurer in the Greek comedy, take these millions and by some magic bath restore them from disease, vice and ignorance, to manliness, vir- tue, self-respect, knowledge and wisdom. This is only accom- plished by patient effort, and that is what the labor organizations are silently endeavoring to perform; and all things considered, is not the small amount of violence surprising? _ "The National Civic Federation should have a standing com- mittee on immigration to study cause and effect and assist the labor organizations in the work of assimilation; also, from time to time, to make recommendations to congress of reasonable and humane regulations relative to immigration, in order that the American standard may not be lowered: also, to use every en- deavor to stimulate industrial education in all parts of the coun- try." DULUTH, MESABI & NORTHERN ORE SHIPMENTS. One of the Minnesota ore roads, the Duluth, Mesabi & Northern, is reported to have finished shipments for 1903 and is credited with a total of 5,339,957 gross tons as compared with 5,010,407 gross tons for the season of 1902, a decrease this season of 270,450 gross tons. A table of shipments over this road for the season is appended herewith. It must be noted, however, that some of the mines in the list are also shippers over other Minnesota roads and the output of these mines is therefore not fully represented. The Biwabik mine, for instance, forwarded most of its output by lake this year over the Duluth & Iron Range road and its total shipments are in round numbers 850,000 tons. Mines. 1903. 1902. AGAMIS G0 ce 1,109,759 1,242,923 OPPUCe tse 587,032 543,397 DION Cen eres 10,207 <a Duin oe Lgl e ei ae 7,405 150,220 Biwabie (0,0. oe 2 0 7eo 623,128 Ste CM a ee ee O1AS. 2 BUTE ice 420,711 100,331 TAO ig gee ec III,009 106,516 MEN oe a 171,705 23,875 PAU ae ee io 432,016 423,266 Pittsoune Vio a 220,133 238,122 * USC kee gs eg ee ees 160,624 242,715 Seuets (8 pee 251,631 193,428 TANCOIN so a ee 279,032 87,779 POOIG, coreg i ee ae 200,020. aa, Mesabt Mountain. 30.05.0504. 5-o 5,866 5,131 Mountain iron 8 a, 1,217,156 1,430,103 FAN ce ie ae ae hee 119,212 190,473 TOUS ies ei ee 5,339,957 5,610,407 5,339,957 Decredse' - eye a 270,450 LAKE CARGO RECORDS. Another of the large steamers managed by Mr. A. B. Wolvin of Duluth has broken the grain cargo record. The steamer J. H. Reed of the Provident Steamship Co.'s fleet on Thursday last loaded at Chicago 271,000 bu. of wheat equal to 8,130 tons. The records to date are: : Iron ore--Steamer Wm. Edenborn, owned by Pittsburg Steamship Co., A. B. Wolvin of Duluth, manager, 8,807 gross or 9,864 net tons, Escanaba to South Chicago. Grain--Steamer J. H. Reed, Provident Steamship Co., A. B. Wolvin of Duluth, manager, 271,000 bu. of wheat, equal to 8,130 tons (2,000 lbs), Duluth to Buffalo; steamer Rensselaer, Pitts- burg Steamship Co., A. B. Wolvin of Duluth, manager, 151,000 bu. of wheat, 94,000 bu. of barley and 55,155 bu. of oats (300,155 bu. in all), equal to 7,668 tons, Chicago to Buffalo; steamer Ma- taafa, Pittsburg Steamship Co., A. B. Wolvin of Duluth, manager, 185,399 bu. of corn, 40,000 bu. of rye and: 43,600 bu. of wheat (268,- 000 bu. in all, equal to 7,619 tons, Chicago to Buffalo. Coal--Steamer I. L. Ellwood, owned by Pittsburg Steam- ship Co., A. B. Wolvin of Duluth, manager, 7,688 net tons an- thracite, Buffalo to Duluth; steamer John W. Gates, Pittsburg ' Steamship Co., A. B. Wolvin of Duluth, manager, 7,659 net tons of bituminous, Lorain to Duluth. The Canada Atlantic Transit Co. (Chicago-Parry Sound route) will erect during the coming winter another elevator at Depot Harbor on Parry Sound, Ont., which will have 1,250,000 bu. storage capacity. It will be operated by Mackenzie & Moon. Grain has been going into the tanks of the new steel elevator _of the Canadian Pacific system at Fort William, now receivin the finishing touches by the Macdonald Engineering Co. of Chi- cago, the engineers and builders.