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expense, while our rich common- wealths have been bickering over taxes and expenses and the haggling over that which must be done. The worst taxation that can possibly be inflicted upon New York and sister states is the loss of farming, manu- facturing, importing and exporting business in not providing adequate water and port terminal facilities, for enough has already manifested itself in the loss of commerce to be severely felt by all classes of our citizens." LAKE FREIGHT SITUATION. The promised improvement in the ore trade has not materialized. Ship- pers ate reluctant to, forward ore while furnace interests appear so in- different in ordering. Moreover, dock space is limited and unless ore moves more freely into the valleys during the next few weeks, shipments from upper lake ports will cease earlier than .usual. Obviously. there is not much in such a condition for the wild vessel, shippers having all that they can do to take care of contract ton- nage. ae As far as the coal trade -is:. con- cerned, it has not improved during the week. The grain trade naturally took quite a brace but as offerings of tonnage were liberal the rates continued low. It looks now as though the lake sea- son would not have a firm finish, but would end weak. : The movement of vessels during the week has been seriously delayed by smoke. In the rivers it was so thick that vessels were compelled to anchor. The forest fires which have been raging in the upper Lake Su- perior country during the past 10 days have caused a pall of smoke to overhang the entire chain of lakes, 'The fires must have been of an ex- tensive character as the lower lake cities, nearly 1,000 miles away, were enveloped in smoke that was almost as dense as a London fog. Many ves- sels fetched up in shoal water, CAPT. CORRIGAN ILL. Capt. James Corrigan, senior mem- ber of the firm of Corrigan, McKinney & Co., is dangerously ill at his home in Wickliffe. His life was despaired of on Tuesday but on Wednesday night physicians reported that he had a fighting chance. He is sufféring from. an attack of peritonitis, Capt: Corrigan is one of the industrial lead- ers in the lake region, being heavily interested in mines, furnaces and ships. He was at one time associated in busi- ness with John D. Rockefeller. - THe Marine REVIEW AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. Capt. Dunn, of the fisheries cruiser Vigilant will retire within a month and will be succeeded by Capt. Rob- ertson, who has for some years been first officer of the Curlew stationed in the Bay of Fundy. L. O. Wiillix, chief engineer of the Cambria of the Pittsburg Steamship Co.'s fleet has been transferred to the Neilson. About eight plates will have to come off the steamer W. B. Kerr which was in collision with the steamer Buffalo at Duluth recently, and three or four. will have to be replaced with new enes. About four frames will come out and all of the braces and part of the tank top. The passenger steamer City of Chat- ham has been placed on the run be- tween Pelee Island and Kingsville. She formerly ran. between Detroit and Chatham, but if the new route devel- ops she will probably remain perma- nently on the Pelee Island run. The passenger steamer which ran aground on Little Traverse Island, was released by the tug Daniel Hebard and taken to Houghton. Capt. W. W. Smith, marine superin- tendent of the Pittsburg Steamship Co., took the steamer Thomas Lynch to, Ashtabula, relieving Capt. E. M. Smith who had to be sent to a hospital in Duluth. The steamer Winnipeg, bound for Racine with soft coal, went ashore two miles below Cheboygan in the dense smoke. She was released after jettisoning about 350 tons of coal. The steamer E. B. Osler of the St. Lawrence & Chicago Steam Naviga- tion Co.'s fleet, bound up with coal, grounded at Bar Point in thé. dense smoke. The steamer Goodyear which went on Grassy Island in the smoke was released: by the tug Harding after lightering part of her fuel. As she was apparently uninjured she pro- ceeded on her way. As a result of the trial which fol- lowed the investigation of the collision between the steamer Britannia and the City of Alpena in the Detroit river Sunday, June 21, the local inspectors have suspended Capt. R. E. Ferguson, of the Britannia, for co days peas Sept 4, e The steamer A. E. Neb létoh Struck an obstruction when leaving the Can- adian canal at the Sault, doing some damage to her bottom. The obstruc- tion has been located abreast of the new Ontario coal dock, 75 ft. from the middle of the ranges on the west side. The channel] is now being swept Conestoga: pole and masters. are cautioned not to get to the westward of the ranges until after passing the coal dock. The second anchor lost by the barge Carrington near Port Huron has been recovered. The steamer George B. Owen sprung a leak while taking on a- cargo of coal at the Ellsworth dock in the outer harbor at Cleveland this week. As the water was gaining rapidly on the pumps she was towed under the west breakwater and beached. The steamer Arthur Hawgood, bound down with ore, grounded at Bar Point. The steamer Eastern States of oe D. & B. Line lost her kedge anchor near Southeast Shoal on Monday last, She anchored in the fog until she could pick up the shoal and while the anchor was being recovered the chain broke. The steamer Ball Brothers went on the rocks about 14 miles west of Detour in the prevailing smoke. She subsequently released herself. The new light marking § Duluth north pier went into commission on the night-of Sept. 16. There are six lights arranged on three poles. Each has two and each pole carries a white light and a green light. The red flash light and red stationary light will remain on the south pier. The steamer Nyack of the Crosby Transportation Co.'s fleet stranded on a sand bar near Red Bank Buoy in Muskegon Lake. The Nyack went on in the dense smoke prevailing. <A tug went to her relief. The steamer A. A. Carpenter sprung inside tthe Manitowoc break- water last week and was slightly dan:- aged. arms a leak has been filed steamer Roosevelt by Williamson of the schoon- er Tris "for to the schooner when the Roosevelt struck 'her leav- ing Manitowoc harbor. A claim: for against the Capt. Wm. damages damages According to a recent consular report the business men of Christiana, Norway, are about to establish a steamship line from Bergen to New York. An increase in the passenger and freight business be- tween these ports has given rise to the movement, and a stock company is to be formed with a capital of $2,700,000. It is considered by those interested that the beauties of Norway have never been properly exploited in the United States, and that the establishment of a direct line will attract hundreds of tourists. It is expected that the voyage will consume seven or eight days, the steamers to be triple-screw turbine vessels, two in num- ber.