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8 MARINE REVIEW. MARINE REVIEW. DEVOTED TO THE LAKE MARINE AND KINDRED INTERESTS. JOHN M. MULROONEY, F. M. BaRrTOon, HOMER J.CaRR, - - - Associate Editor and Manager Chicago Office, 210 South Water Street. Published every Thursday at No. 510 Perry-Payne Building, Cleveland, O. SUBSCRIPTION—$z2.00 per year in advance. Advertising rates on applica- tion. te \ proprixrors. 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. PUGH VERBOIS ni cicisisispscssiscéseestsaseseccsct 1,527 652,922.25 ROMUI VESBELSccdiwvuniasvcitscs veces cusarctusesece T2702 328,655.96 REASIG OOBUS Fis sucses eis ciaasceiacisvesssesa vashoveis 657 67,574.90 PORE ES iris ovis sui cctuvasec Wi vevcdes tue relesevdeaavieis 54 13,910.09 MIOUNN Gaiden uti tbivnssckvescosshiesesnss 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. MUSE Satis Wace pasledcnsnaie ss tesscceuasrsssses 5 20,400.54 BROS GAR eee sane in UARi KS sawnsisevuwssesevescssss 152 56,488.32 RBG sone ce tocbasch cov areC ced cacacesideveetecocss 222 IOI, 102.87 AOD cobeuckadeupsbecsssieselidesecusucovaivs sus 225 107,080.30 MPO Espace peer eeeten efce sas cicuasesbvesesis 218 108,515.00 MI fees goes cs cele sco esnsseeeaes 902 393,597.03 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, 8,454,435. Number,of boats through Suez canal during 1890, full year, 3,389; tonnage, net registered, 6,890,014. 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, 26,983,315 tons; Liverpool, 14,175,200 tons; London, 19,245,417 tons. 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. Entered at Cleveland Post Office as Second-class Mail Matter. —- eee Tue Canadian parliament is considering a bill to provide for the exercise of admiralty jurisdiction within Canada in accord- ance with the colonial courts of the admiralty act of last year. The bill, which was introduced by Sir John Thompson, consti- tutes a court of Admiralty, defines the power of the judges and lays down where the suits may be instituted. Some members of parliament are opposing the bill. They are in favor of local judges trying the admiralty cases with appeal to the supreme court. Canada’s high courts are probably not burdened with as much litigation of this kind as the United States supreme court has been of late years, but it would probably be well for the government to reduce in time the number of cases going before its highest tribunal. It is generally admitted that legal business will be greatly facilitated by the new federal circuit court of appeals organized in this country a few days ago. ‘The decision of this court is to be final in admiralty cases, cases arising under the patent and revenue laws and in many other matters that will greatly relieve the supreme court. The marine interests have awaited with some anxiety of late the announcement of the names of the new circuit judges, but it is thought now that appoint- ments will not be made until the fall. Capt. CHARLES WESTCOTY?’s appointment to the position of supervising inspector ot steam vessels in the Eighth district, Detroit, meets with the approval of vessel owners around the lakes who asked for the appointment of a vessel master to the position on the ground that the board should be made up of an equal representation of captains and engineers. Their claim was that matters coming before the board relate to all the equipment of a ship as well as the maneuvering of the ship, about which the engineers, although indispensible in their own line, have no par- ticular knowledge. It is also expected that Capt. Westcott will in his new position be of valuable assistance to the Excelsior Marine Benevolent Association, the organization which seeks to improve the standard of lake captains as well as navigation rules, and which includes the great majority of these officers on the lakes. Chicago could not possibly have secured this office as the Illinois senator to whom the appointment might fall is at logger- heads with the president and the plea of the vessel owners for the appointment of a vessel master was a very strong one. TH vessel owners of the lakes are expecting to be called upon during the coming session of congress to make a fourth campaign against bridging the Detroit river at Detroit. The Michigan Central Railway Company makes some pretentions of constructing a tunnel by holding a Canadian charter and by making soundings and borings at odd times in the vicinity of Detroit, but this work is thought to be insincere, as it is known that this company will resort to extremes in its efforts to bridge the river. On the other hand it is as well as settled that Luther Beecher of Detroit who proposes to construct a tunnel, whether with honesty of purpose or not, can not geta bill to that end through the next congress as long as Senator McMillan remains on the commerce committee of the senate. On this account it is hardly probable that the vessel owners of the lakes will again join with Mr. Beecher and his attorney, J. M. Cheever of Detroit in a fruitless effort to pass a tunnel bill. There are those among the vessel owners, however, who will renew all efforts of the past against any attempt to bridge the river. Still Adding to the Lake Fleet. The July supplement to Lloyds Inland Register contains the names of nine new steam vessels and one barge, aggregating 9,006 net tons and valued at $1,238,000. The barge is a tank boat built at West Superior for the Standard Oil Company. The new boats are: Vessels. Net tonnage Value. Nin giniar coc Goer aeedsavetessaccee g8o $300,000 Atlanta. coco cise are 958 135,000 FROMM icc hae eae eee 1,875 200,000 BB. Bartlett. sic: ce 1,075 145,000 OfOr Carpenters cae . 268 25,000 John Duncan... 997 90,000 Grin esi eaaseee acces ee 1,526 165,000 Fdeal acces 13 5,000 A. De Thompson 1,075 145,000 * No, 55,8. 0. Co.cc coe 239 28,000 WOtelB.cis Gone 9,006 $1,238,000 * Tow barge; all others steam. The register gives the steel steamship E. C. Pope a correc- ted value of $225,000 and records her net: tonnage as 2,064 tons. : The steamer Arctic is lowered from $18,000 to $15,000 and in rating is dropped from A2 to Br, for coarse freight only. The barges Buckeye State, Boscobel and Minnie Davis also are rated Br for coarse freight. The June supplement to the ’90 and ’g1 register of iron and steel vessels published by the United States Standard Steamship Owners’ Builders’ and Underwriters’ Association, Limited of No. 50 Wall street, New York, includes the names of a large number of new steel vessels on the lakes. The steamships Castalia, Joliet, Tioga, Griffin, Virginia, Wawatam and tug Frank W. are all given AI star ratings for twenty-five years. The John W. Moore, Briton, City of Toledo, German, Grecian, H. P. Tobey, Joseph L. Colby, Mackinaw, Marina, Mesaba, Norman, Saxon, Western Reserve and barges 107 and 109 are included in this supplement.