Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1892 — Traffic on the Lakes. [ARTICLE]

Traffic on the Lakes.

The arrivals and clearances of vessels at Chicago for the year 1890 numbered 21,541, while the corresponding aggregate for New York was but 15,283. The entrances and clearances for the entire seaboard of the United States in that year were 37,756 in number, while for the United States ports in the great lakes the arrivals and clearances numbered 88,280. The traffic of the great lakes in 1891 was 27 per cent, of the total traffic of all the railroads of the United States for the same year. The average cost of transportation per ton of freight per mile on the railroads of the United States for the year ending June 30, 1891, was a little more than nine-tenths of a cent, and if the tonnage carried on the lakes had been carried by rail instead it would have cost for its transportation at the above rate 8150,000,000 more than it cost by water, a gain of five times the money that has yet been expended under the various river and harbor bills upon the great lakes above Niagara Falls. Through the “Soo” Canal, at the outlet of Lake Superior, there were over three times as many vessels and nearly two mil•lions of tons more freight than through the Suez Canal during the same time. This lake business is in its infancy, but such facts as these exhibit the possibilities of a traffic within the next century, the volume of which will be as difficult for the mind to grasp as it is now to comprehend the magnitude of the solar system.—Pullman Journal. To clean willow furniture use salt and water. Apply It with a nailbrush. To wash silk handkerchiefs soak them first in cold soft water for tea minutes or longer. Then wash out in same water and iron immediately.