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MARINE REVIEW. DEVOTED TO THE LAKE MARINE AND KINDRED INTERESTS. Joun M. MuLROoOoNEY F, M. BARTON, ; \ Proprimrors. Published every Thursday at No. 510 Perry-Payne Building, Cleveland, O. SUBSCRIPTION—-$2.00 per year in advance. Advertising rates on applica- tion. The books of the United States treasury department contain the names of 3,510 vessels, measuring 1,063,063.90 tons in the lake trade. In classification of this fleet the lakes have more steamboats of 1,000 to 2,500 tons than the combined ownership of this class of vessels in all other sections of the country. The classification is as follows: Class. Number. Tonnage. SSUGALT VERBEIS acccscssts ss ciucesase vile sivsccas oss 1,527 652,922.25 SALAS VESSECIS coiveieislaccpesss Vee teseeiessvecscs 1,272 328,655.96 RCATIA OATS ais sscievce is sivsuvenscnsveetevacedssss 657 67,574.90 SALES i iaih yas Uae caw hei es Wied ees eae sens desde u's 54 13,910.09 POLAl eines cyasctiviaudatcastivevaseostesss 3,510 1,063,063.90 According to the report of William W. Bates, United States com- missioner of navigation, 46 per cent. of the new tonnage of the country was built on the lakes during 1889. This is a percentage greater than the work of the Atlantic coast and western rivers combined, and almost equal to the whole work on the Atlantic and Pacific coast. In 1890 the tonnage built on the lakes is but very little less than that built on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Tonnage built on the lakes during the past five years was as follows : No. of boats. Net Tonnage. MESES Sih wb s cca papue dP aibvibauncseesens stnisde> 85 20,400.54 BAO Tels se sey seal ieesuses shes ben cescsswopseecess ce 152 56,488.32 ESO rie osacsshpasseous Gesesceha iss siscessvse sss es 222 101,102.87 TOS OSs ASIAN Ss a Re ee EEE E 225 107,080.30 RIGO Sosceo oot sicdsisaish ors cbatscsvevsbocseees era O03 Bes 108,515.00 AU Ss csercucs cans fave sestesses esas 902 393,597-03 Annual tonnage entries and clearances of the great seaports of the world, for 1889: New York, 11,051,236 tons; all seaports in the United States, 26,983, 345 tons; Liverpool, 14,175,200 tons; London, 19,245,417 tons. Ti Tonnage passing through Detroit river during 234 days of naviga- tion in 1889, amounted to 36,203,606 tons. Ten million tons more than the entries and clearances of all the seaports in the United States, and three million tons more than the combined foreign and coastwise shipping of Liverpool and London. °> St. Mary’s Falls and Suez canal traffic: Number of boats through St. Mary’s Falls canal in 1890, 234 days of navigation, 10,557; tonnage, net registered, 8,454,425. Number of boats through Suez canal during 1889, full year, 3,425 5 ; tonnage, net,registered, 6,783,187. _. Fintered at Cleveland Post Office as Second-class Mail Matter. SENATOR SPOONER, of Wisconsin, informs the Milwaukee chamber of commerce that the bill to regulate the reporting and clearing of lake vessels, through which it is intended_to secure reliable statistics of lake commerce, will pass at this session of congress. Everybody connected with the lake marine is de- sirous of seeing some law passed that will tend to show the import- ance of commerce on these waters, but unless we are badly mis- taken there will be a general demand for the repeal of the law which the Milwaukee chamber of commerce proposes after it is in force a few months. It will be all right for the line boats having agents at the different intermediate ports on the lakes but the ‘‘wild’’ carriers will be subjected to a great deal of an- noyance and delay on account of it. THE sub-committee of the house committee on commerce proposes to insert in the sundry civil bill an appropriation for only 60 per cent. of the annual estimates tor the completion of the Sault lock and Hay lake channelimprovements. This would reduce the Sault lock appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, from $1,236,000 to $741,600 and the Hay lake ap- propriation from ‘$500,000 to $300,000. It is a satisfaction to note that contracts are being entered into for the completion ot these works and congress should not delay the plans of the en- gineering department. Gen. Poe’s recent report on the necessity of atwenty-foot channel in the connecting waterways of the lakes should be convincing in this regard. MARINE REVIEW. On the first page of this issue attention is called to the work of the Atlantic-Pacific Railway Tunnel Company in Colorado. ‘The enterprise is one of the greatest in the world and the company, considering the magnitude of its operations, has made wonderful progress. The plan of finances, fully ex- plained in connection with other matters pertaining to the enter- prise, seems to be a very sound one and the inducements offered to investors are worty of attention. The promoters have the support of people who are thoroughly acquainted with the details of the undertaking. THE gentlemen who appeared in Washington last week for the purpose of killing Representative Burton’s bill for regula- tion of the raft towing business—their demands are such that the: bill might as well be killed—do not represent the rafting inter- ests. They are tug owners engaged in towing rafts and are paid for the service of their tugs according to the number of logs towed through the rivers. Their demands should be considered accordingly. IF any action is to be taken by lake vessel owners with re- gard to the matter of constructing a second bridge over Portage lake between Houghton and Hancock, it would probobly be well to direct attention first to the senate bill providing for the con- struction of the bridge, which was recently introduced by Sena- tor Stockbridge, of Michigan. The proposed free bridge would certainly be a great hindrance to navigation. The Portage Lake Bridge. Representative Stevenson, of Michigan, has introduced another bill for the proposed free bridge over Portage lake, be- tween Hancock and Houghton. His bill provides that the bridge. ‘must not obstruct, impair or injuriously modify the navigation of Portage lake,” and in order to securea compliance with these conditions it is provided that the county of Houghton, previous to commencing the construction of the bridge, shall submit to the secretary of war a plan of the bridge together with other in- formation touching the bridge and lake that may be deemed: necessary by the secretary to determine whether the bridge, when built, will not impair the navigation of Portage lake. The secretary of war may detail an officer to superintend the surveys of the proposed site for the bridge and examination of the laké with a view to its location. The secretary of war is authorized. and directed by the bill upon receiving a plan and map, and upon being satisfied that a bridge built upon such a plan. will conform to the prescribed conditions of the bill to notify the county of Houghton, through the chairman or clerk of the board of surveyors, that he approves the same, and upon receiving the notification the county may proceed to the erection of the bridge, conforming strictly to the approved plan and location. : Lay Money Expended on the Sunken Dows. : Speaking of the loss attending the attempts of the underwrit- ers to raise the sunken schooner David Dows from Lake Mich- gan a year ago, the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin says: The first set-back came in the shape ofa failure to pass the lifting chains under the hull because of a smooth hard clay bottom upon which it rested. Capt. Dunham’s cataract pump and a vessel were then engaged, and a considerable portion of the coal cargo of the craft recovered. This last step appears to have proved fatal to the Dows, for when severe winter storms set in soon after- wards the ground swell broke up the hull to such an extent as to place it beyond hope of recovery. A footing up of results after the final abandonment of the wreck showed that property of the value of $4,000 had been recovered upon an expenditure of $20, ooo. In other words the underwriters were. out of even $16,000 as"the result of winter oe in the <-0pens ca of Lake Michigan. Vervind wepte