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September, 1910 things. It never made much difference to Mr. Schantz what his job was, he was always willing to do whatever was to be done--whether it was hustling baggage, selling tickets, writing folders, it was all in the day's work for him. Mr. Schantz doubtless had an inherent liking as a youngster for the transporta- tion business. When he was a boy in Mansfield, he ran an excursion to Day- ton on his own responsibility, hiring the train and billing the town and actually clearing a few dollars. <A trip up the lakes determined him as to _ his life work. He applied for the position of local agent of the Detroit & Cleveland Line at Wetroit and got it, passing suc- cessively to the positions of traveling passenger agent, general western travel- ing agent, assistant general passenger agent, general passenger agent and gen- eral superintendent and passenger traffic manager. In. 1902,. he :was: made. a member of the board of directors, and in 1907 general manager. Repairs to Zenith City Repairs on the steamer Zenith City, which went on the rocks off Point Au Sable, Lake Superior, 'on™ July "28; were completed at the yard 'of "the Toledo Ship Building Co. on Aug. 24. While the boat was in dry dock 57 plates from 14 ft. to 28 ft. in length were removed, 17 new plates were put on, six plates were faired in, 131 chan- nel floors were cut out and the ma- jority replaced with new channels, including connections. The work was completed in 1714 days actual time in dry dock. The steamer was docked on Thursday, Aug. 4, and was out of dock Aug. 24. The Pittsburg Steam- ship Co. complimented the Toledo Ship Building Co. upon the expedi- tion displayed in this work. Lake Trade. The season of 1910 will end very quietly on the great lakes. The Pitts- burg Steamship Co. has notified the owners of its chartered tonnage that it will be through with the ships on Oct. 15. This will release a fleet having ca- Pacity to move about 15,000,000 tons ina full season. There will be little for these ships to do for the balance of the season, as a considerable fleet has already been laid up. The Pittsburg Steamship Co. will retire its own ships on Noy. 15, so that the season on the &teat lakes will have ended well be- fore Nov. 30. There will be a gradual Closing down during November, and Many vessels will go into winter quar- ters earlier than usual. Of course, this Program means that not as much ore Will be forwarded during the fall TAe MARINE. Review months as was expected. In fact, it is not likely that as much" will be for- warded from Sept. 1 to the close of navigation as was moved during that period last year. However, the move- ment for the full season will be safely in excess of that for 1909, The fleet moved during August 6,- 964,381 tons, which is 19,092 tons more than were moved during July, notwith- standing the fact that some of the ves- sels carried their August requirements during July. The movement to Sept. 1 totals 28,827,029 gross tons, an increase of 6,238,480 tons over the movement of 1909. After Sept. 1 last year the fleet moved 19,095,531 tons. Should this record be maintained for the balance of the season the fleet will have moved. 47,000,000 tons, but it is not expected that much more than 15,000,000 tons will be moved from Sept. 1 to the close this year, making the total movement for the season between 44,000,000 and 45,000,000 tons. The summary of ship- ments by ports during August is as follows: August, August, Port. 1909. 1910. Escanaba: aric ny eee: 1,037,341 697,412 Marquette ce. ae aes 542,607 525,898 Ashland Bi ces eanedeee Satie 639,581 645,107 Supenior 263. tee ee 1,110,213 1,332,284 Diath oes ee rs 2,279,242 2,382,156 Lwo (Harbors: cen ce 1,584,215 1,381,524 7,193,199 6,964,381 1910: deCrease vires sce cts oe eS 228,818 » To Sept. 1, To Sept. 1, Port. 1909. 1910. Escanaba (05, iG 3,053,845 3,162,271 Marquette: 25. sie. 1,413,568 2,249,774 Ashland (sce aee cul ance 1,700,769 2,878,971 SUPETIOR Ore et eee es 3,686,323 5,227,687 Daaltithe eee ce 7,713,377 9,823,644 Dwo Harbors ces. vie oie ee 5,020,667 5,484,682 22,588,549 28,827,029 L910? INCREASE Os aie Sine nies wscee Gere 6,238,480 Vessel owners are relieved that the underwriters have reached an agreement not to charge excess in- surance for winter mooring in the outer harbor at Buffalo. Vessels will be moored under the supervision of underwriters about 200 ft. apart, bows to the breakwater, with two anchors and plenty of chain out. Alex. Johnston, deputy minister of marine and fisheries, Ottawa, opened bids on Sept. 1 for the construction of a twin screw steel lighthouse and buoy steamer to be delivered at Victoria, B. C. The steamer will be 200 ft. long, 38 ft. beam and 17 ft. 6 in. deep. Port of Portland Harbor Some interesting facts are available on the work of the bar pilots of the Port of Portland. Portland probably has done more to improve its harbor than any other city of its size in the United States. The Port of Portland (fully described in THe MARINE REVIEW, May, 1909, took over the bar pilotage 369 and river towing about a year ago. There are a number of independent pilots who compete with the commis- sion tugs. The situation at the mouth of the river is such that the independ- ent marine guides can compete with the Port of Portland solely in the steamer trade. Sailing vessels must be given towage and the Port of Port- land has tugs and other facilities for that work which the independents lack. To secure business the independent pilots have, in several instances, trav- eled to San Francisco, Puget Sound, and British Columbia, which increased their disbursements. On the other hand, they have no equipment to maintain, which is in one way an ad- vantage but a handicap in another, be- cause it precludes them from. regular- ly meeting vessels off the river when no previous arrangement has been made to meet them at a coast harbor. In some cases the independents have brought steamers into the river and the commission pilots brought them into the harbor, but any moves neces- sary in port were performed by the river pilots, assisted by the tow boats of. the: Port of . Portland, dnd often the commission's "pilots guided the craft over the bar on their return to sea. In either event, the commission reaped a small revenue from the har- bor moves, which average $25 each. There is no competition with the steamers of the Portland & Asiatic Steamship Co.,;. because the Port of Portland secures that revenue on a provision of the tariff through which a reduction of 25 per cent is allowed when' 12 or mofe steamers are oper- ated out of the river each year. Any other line is privileged to take ad- vantage of the same concession. The independent pilots handled 23 vessels during the year, totaling $5,112.52 for pilotage. The fleet secured by the Port of Portland numbered 32 vessels and the pilotage totaled $6,941.06. <A number of ships have crossed the bar at the mouth of the Columbia without a pilot other than her master. The Port of Portland has given instruction to rush work on the pilot schooner Joseph Pulitzer and the bar tug Wal- lula at the Willamette Iron & Steel | Works. Pilotage rates were cut in half at the last meeting of the Port of Port- land commission. The old tariff was $5 on each foot of a vessel's draught, and 2 cents per ton on her net regis- ter tonnage. The new rate is $2.50 per foot and 1 cent per ton. The re- duction was made to drive the inde- pendent pilots out of business.