Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Marine Review (Cleveland, OH), 26 Mar 1896, p. 9

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i a i ) MARINE REVIEW. oe ee aa Advanced Schedule of Wages. A general advance of 12% per cent. over wages of a year ago has been made by the Lake Carriers' Association in the schedule that is to take effect upon the opening of navigation. A meeting at which wages were fixed was held in Cleveland, Tuesday, and President J. J. H. Brown, as well as Secretary Keep of Buffalo, were present. Officers of the association will receive practically the same salaries that they received, but it was decided to pay Harvey D. Goulder, counsel of the association, $1,500 for extra serv- eices rendered during the past winter inthe matter of the Detroit river bridge and other legislative affairs that have required of him a great deal more time than in previous years. The new schedule, compared with that of a year ago, is as follows: WAGES SCHEDULE--THE LAKE CARRIERS' ASSOCIATION. Ow Staans-- an pean First class. Metal steamers hay- ing water_bottoms and triple expansion engines. Chieficengineer..c..cts-.cscuevs. reset os $100 00 $112 50 Second engineer............. SSavueiet xs 70 00 79 00 Second class. Metal steamers not included in first class and wooden vessels with triple ex- pansion and with compound engines, except the smaller x boats which may be put in the third class. d Chief engineer. ti ccirccsen thre. d $75 00 to 90 00 $84 00 to 101 00 Sacond engineer.........,..scseceesean 60 00 67 50 Third class. Smaller boats with high pressure or low pressure engines, or with compound en- gines, covering all boats not in- cluded in thetwo former classes Chief Bugineeristeccs.: srs: 60 00 to 75 00 67 50 to 84 00 Second engineer................000..0e 50 00 56 00 "Kirst matescccrceccnseoractoeecenes 50 00 to 70 00 56 00 to 79 00 Second: miateses se c..c8.cacsre seas 35 00 to 50 00 39 00 to 56 00 "Cooks. Ai Rigas ween tse eseaee woncaune 35 00 to 50 00 39 00 to 56 00 Helpers to COOKS.........-20000..-s00e- 10 00 to 15 00 11 00 to 17 00 PUTO Me nN Ce svcscens cisco eaten 25 00 to 30 00 28 00 to 34 00 Wheelsmetin.cc..cicccescec ereetcecacee 25 00 to 30 00 28 00 to 34 00 TOOKOuUtSs this cave cecelscoesenses cee 20 00 to 30 00 22 50 to 34 00 Deck Handley. oies.- tes . 12 00 to 15 00 13 50 to 17 00 Oilerse. her, teisesseee eee eee 25 00 to 30 00 28 00 to 34 00 On CONSORTS AND SAIL-- Pirs (late see sseeceeesectecrt oe nsec: 30 00 to 45 00 34 00 to 51 00 Second mates scncn ccs. -tsceenssccrcoess 25 00 to 35 00 28 00 to 39 00 Copks.::..e eee a tae 25 00 to 30 00 28 00 to 34 00 ERS ab 0 ep choddonsddodcocodeaspubeseuoudadens 25 00 to 30 00 28 00 to 34 00 BOYS. Acse-tetcceste iiges ecm atgestes fees 12 00 to 15 00 13 50 to 17 00 It was decided to establish a shipping office at Milwaukee. The list of shipping masters for the coming season is as follows: Cleveland, A. R. Rumsey, and Charles Fisher assistant; Chicago, J. W. Hansom, and M. P. Felt assistant; South Chicago, A. W. Watson ; Buffalo, Wm. Fletcher ; Milwaukee, Capt. Lennon; Toledo, P. Mitchell: Ashtabula, Geo. Brooks. A committee appointed to look after shipping offices for the coming season consists of H. A. Hawgood, M. A. Bradley, Capt. Wm. S. Mack, Capt. Thomas Wilson and James Corrigan, all of Cleveland. ' President J. J. H. Brown and Secretary Keep, who go to Washington specially to look after the Detroit river bridge bill, will take up with the several government departments a number of matters that have been hang- ing fire for some time past, notably the raft towing regulations and the appointment of a deputy collector of customs at the Mesabi ore dock, Duluth. Capt. Geo. P. McKay and Capt. Wm. S. Mack were instructed to visit Detroit and Amherstburg for the purpose of consulting with govern- ment engineers and others who will have to do with the lighting and staking of channels at Grosse point and the mouth of the Detroit river. Changes in Lights, Fog Signals, Etc. Characteristics of steam whistles on all three of the light-vessels in the Straits of Macinac will be changed on the opening of navigation. Changes in two of them were noted last week and nowit is announced that the whistle on Gray's reef vessel will be changed to sound two blasts of one second each, followed by a silent interval of twenty seconds, and one blast of three seconds, followed by a silent interval of fifteen seconds' duration. A change is also announced in the Whitefish point light, Lake Superior. The light from this station will be a bril- liant white flash every five seconds. Notices explaining fully the lights to be used in connection with Sandusky bay strait channel have been issued by the light-house board. Copies of these notices may be had from the light-house board, Wash- ington, D. C., or from the United States engineer office, Cleveland. On the opening of navigation a fixed white lenz-lantern light will be established in the structure recently erected on the west side of the main channel of the Detroit river, on Grassy island fishery, about 1,300 feet due south from the present Grassy island light, With Grassy island light as a rear light, this light will mark a range line for running the main channel of the Detroit river from the Grosse Isle north channel range line to the Mamajuda range line. The point of intersection with the Grosse Isle north channel range line is east of Mamajuda range rear light and about 350 feet to the eastward of the 18-foot contour on the west side of the channel. The point of intersection with the Mamajuda range line is a little more than seven-eights of a mile to northward of the Mamajuda range front light. The light-tower at Genesee light-station, entrance to Charlotte harbor, Lake Ontario, will, before the opening of navigation, be moved 350 feet northerly, to a point on the pier about 30 feet from its outer end, and the fog signal building will be moved about 840 feet, to a point just to the southward of the tower. Notes Regarding Probable Draft of Water. A telegram in the last issue of the REVIEW from the United States engineer office at Sault Ste. Marie, indicating that there will be no more water at the canal on the opening than there was a year ago, has at- tracted considerable attention. W. A. Livingstone of Detroit says: "T notice in your last issue some comments on the draught of water from Lake Superior. Perhaps you would like to know that the water level in the Detroit river for the past month has been about 11 inches lower than it was at the same time last year, and unless there is a very large amount of precipitation this spring we certainly will have. much lower water this summer than last. This should affect ent rates to some extent." A letter from a correspondent at the Sault says: "Thus far in March the thermometer has registered 6 degrees lower than during March of any previous year for twenty years past, and unless we have a radical change of weather there is little probability of naviga- tion opening before April25. John Heckler, dredging contractor, who came to the Sault from the encampment a few days ago, says that the water there is 8 inches lower than it was at this time a year ago, but this may be caused in part by an ice jam," In General. A recent speed run of the United States cruiser Olympia between two Chinese ports is officially reported to have averaged 20 knots an hour, and would have been 23 knots, her officers say, in smoother water. The Olympia ran under natural draught. Her headway was so great that the decks were swept by the waves, and it was necessary to slow down to avoid damage. As it was, some damage was done. Within the last seven or eight years the German navy has incrased: considerably. On April 1, 1888, the fleet numbered seventy-nine vessels, and on April 1, 1895, ninety-one vessels, not including torpedo boats, of which there are more than 100. In 1888 the agregate tonnage of the navy was 182,470 tons, while in 1895 it was 266,237 tons. In the former year the aggregate horse power was 182,470, while in the latter year it had reached 305,220. Secretary Herbert of the navy department has directed a test, in the New York navy yard, of a machine designed to send a vessel through water without propellers. By burning oil a gas is generated which is allowed-to enter a steam cylinder, where it isignited by means of a spark, the force of this explosion driving the piston. A jet of air is blown out of the tubes in the stern of the vessel by the explosion and the resistance of the water causes the boat to forge ahead. The engineering experts say that the invention, which has been tried privately, has not given very good results, and they do not believe it will be useful for naval pur- poses. The inventor claims that it will be of service in the case of tor- pedo boats, and will drive them with phenomenal speed. The department desires to fit the apparatus to a 104-foot boat, but in deference to the wishes of the inventor a 28-foot boat will be used. If Capt. James Davidson of West Bay City does not sell, this spring, any of the vessels which he now has built or building, he will have a fleet of twenty-one ships on the lakes during the coming season. Capt. Frank Welcome of Buffalo will be superintendent of this fleet. The first large steamer commanded by Capt. Welcome was the Siberia, and the berth was given to him by Capt. Davidson. When Capt. Welcome left the employ of the Northern Steamship Co. last summer Capt, Davidson again engaged his services and gave him command of the big wooden steamer Shenandoah. After laying up the steamer Shenandoah in Chi- cago last fall he was appointed first officer of the Davidson vessels.

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