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DEVOTED: TO EVERYTHING AND EVERY INTEREST CONNECTED OR ASSOCIATED WITH MARINE MATTERS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. Published every Thursday by 'The Penton Publishing ee CLEVELAND, OHIO. CLEVELAND: WADE BUILDING, | CHICAGO: MONADNOCK BUILDING, DETROIT: HAMMOND BUILDING. NEW ST 150 NASSAU STREET. Correspondence on Marine Engineering, Ship Building and Shtbping Subjects Solicited. Subscription, $3.00 per annum. To Foreign Countries, $4.50. Subscribers can have addresses changed at will. 6 The Cleveland News Co. will supply the trade with the MARINE REVIEW as through the regular channels of the American News Co. Entered at the Post Office at Cleveland, Ohio, as Second Class Matter. SHET., 22, 1004... The business of the great lakes is far and away a freight business and one is prone to forget that the passenger trade is also an important factor. Those common beasts of burden, the bulk freight carrier, ply with such shuttlecock regularity up and down the lakes and in such numbers as to totally obscure all other types of craft. But, nevertheless, one has sim- ply to have recourse to statistics to find that the pas- senger trade of the great lakes is really a great trade. Herein lies the great diversity of the chain of waters. The Great Northern Steamship Co. has for some years assiduously advertised its lake passenger service under the caption "In all the world no trip like this."' Prob- ably a better catch phrase could not have been invent- ed. There certainly is not in all the world a trip like the fresh water trip from Buffalo to Duluth. The stretch of water is practically 1,000 miles and so mag- nificent are the opportunities afforded for travel that all types of passenger craft have been developed to seize upon it. The passenger vessels of the great lakes are not excelled in any waterway in the world. They are quite as palatial as ocean liners and are exceeded in dimensions only by the express steamers in the: ocean mail service. Both screw and sidewheel types have been developed on the great lakes though the condi- tions to be met with render the sidewheel type more numerous. y fF VA EY It may be said that the fountain head of the passen- ger trade of the great lakes is Detroit. Nature has contributed to make this. so. The Detroit and St. Clair rivers and intermediate flats afford a safe waterway for all forms of passenger craft and it is only necessary to turn to the report of the steamboat inspection ser- vice at Detroit to discover how greatly these vessels are. patronized on the Detroit river, 6,690,630. passen- gers having been carried last year. The remarkable thing about this enormous traffic is that it was carried without any loss of life. It is well worth a trip to Detroit to observe the manner in which this immense passenger traffic is handled. The steamers run, one might say, almost as frequently as the street cars and are brought to and from the wharf with such wonder- ful precision and such extraordinary ease as to. com- pletely disguise the marvelous skill with which the ves- sels are handled. Detroit is a city which may be said to live upon the water during the few months of sum- mer and when it is considered that the greater portion of passengers that are carried are women and children the practically total absence of accidents is the highest possible tribute that can be paid to the safeguards thrown about the service. The river of Detroit is literally alive at. all times with passenger craft and yet a whole season may pass without a single accident occurring. Meanwhile the great stream of. freighters, overshadowing everything i in poe of eee is con- stantly' passing. e 'Since the close of the masters' and Hire strike which had an indirect effect upon the whole lake trade, the passenger trade of the lakes has been satisfactory. The Detroit & Cleveland and the Cleveland & Buffalo lines have been well patronized. The passenger lists of the Detroit & Buffalo Line have also proved the wis- dom of inaugurating this service. The increase has been steady since the line was started. In reviewing the passenger trade of the great lakes sight must not be lost of the new avenues that are con- stantly opening to it. It may be said that the northern shore of Lake Superior was up to a year or two ago an unexplored wilderness, but it is now becoming one of the best of summer resorts.. The attractions of the _ Lake Superior region are many and varied and there is.no better way of reaching them than by water. Moreover, as the great northwest fills up the trade with it must grow and, of course, the passenger lines cannot be deprived of their share. Just as a reminder it may be said that Britain has 8,500 steamers, against 1,200 for the United States. Britain is today the shipowning. and ship- building nation of the world and her trade in manufac- turing extends to the remotest quarters of the globe. In fact she may be said to enjoy a monopoly of a con- siderable portion of the earth's trade, since she is the only country which possesses steamers running to it. It is a sorry thing to admit that the American manufac-