The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1893-01-19
MARINE.

eastern ana western Lines profess 10 De
lleve that the Kewaunee Route is not
doing large business, and that they car
afford to ignore it. But The Herald re-
minds them that when shippers get the
benefit of 2 cent differential rate the
road Offering this will increase its bust
ness. The rates by way OF Chicago and
Mackinaw are now advanced SO that the
Kewaunee Route offers the lowest.
/ The Manitowoc Route was not in the
contest It threw up the sponge before
| entering the ring. Mr.. Gaines advises
The Pilot that it did injustice to the Z.
/ Il 2. NJ. in not stating that it had boat
/ here three times In one week this year.
| There was no intention of being unjust
! to the road. OF course it is apparent to
every one that the road is making no at
tempt to get any -four, and at this sea-
son Of the year -four is the principal
i freight. Local freight Is not sufficient
| to require boat once a week, even.
! The rate fixed by the kewaunee Route
may not prove paying one Immediately,
| but 1t is advertising the line. Now that
| 1t has held out in it's low rates and the
lines by way of Mackinaw and Chicago
| have advanced their rates to the old
tariff, aud ceased competition with the
new rival, the latter will receive con-
siderable more business. 1t does seem
that -four could be carried fully as cheap
| by lake steamers from Man1towoc as by
ferry from Kewaunee. The expense of
running the ferry boats is twice as great
and they will carry only half as much
freight as An equal number Of the L. Il
z. 81. boats. They lose the passenger
trade entirely. 1t wOuld seem that the
advantages which the +. & z. NJ. boats
have would more than compensate FOR
the breaking of bulk. Possibly, the fact
that old rates by way of Chicago and
MaCknaw are restored may STIR the Z. 4
7. Nj. to reach out for business from this
point, or the C. & n. W. Ry. if it be the
line to blame for the discontinuance of
shipments by way of Manitowoc
Experienced vessel captains here claim
that ferry boats across the lake are the
coming thing, but insist also that the
boats running to kewaunee are by no
means the ferry boats needed, and pre-
dict ultimate failure for them. Harbors
having at least 16 feet Of water are need
ed and the ferry boats must De built on
different plan, they say. The liability
| OF the Ann Arbor No and to drift is
commented upon, and the power needed
fer the transportation of a comparative
ly small amount of freight. Many of the
lake captains here unhesitatingly say
that the boats are run at loss.
The kewaunee Enterprise makes merry
over the visit of the Ann Arbor No. to
our port and says Sandford was running
| about with jack knife to find a rotten
plank. But the fact remains the same
that the ferry boat passed the Kewaunee
harbor and ran in here for shelter. After
| second attempt to reach Kewaunee. she
| had again to return to Manitowoc. While
Manltowoc people are willing to admit
| that our through line" has run away
from the kewaunee Route they insist
upon the truth with reference to it's har
Dor and that Is, that it is far superior to
that OF hewaunee and hardly equaled by
any other on Lake Michigan.
Captain G. Hart is in the city superin
| tending the work being done on the Eu-
gene Z. Hart. She is in the dry dock to
be heightened % feet.
Now that the Sturgeon Bay canal is
free there is talk of steamboat line hav-
Ing for its terminals Menominee and
Muskegon.
The Marine Review says in speaking OF
the Ann Arbor car ferries: The boats
no doubt suit the trade for which they
were built, but if they are to be pltted
against the new Canadian revenue cutters
as provisional war ships, in accordance
with the stores of sensational newspaper
writer's, Canadians need not lay awake
nights"
The Great Northern has long been
an important factor in transportation
matters but is now greater than ever. II
has now reached the Pacific Ocean and
Is constructing two of the largest steam
ers which ply on fresh waters to run be-
tween Superior and Buffalo These boats
are to have speed Of 20 miles per hour
The slckly lin, s which are attempting tc
do through business must have trans
fusion of blood or get out of the wet
Puny efforts will no longer be recognized
The Owego and Chemung are the two
largest boats on the lakes, though tn,
Mariana and Mariposa come close t,
them. Five new boats will 20 into com
mission next spring which will carry OF
the palm for size. The Grent Norther,
boats which will be completed in 1S9
will beat them all, however.
The decision of the supreme court O,
the treasury cases will not affect tn