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ee | MARINE REVIEW. Vessel Reports from Mackinaw. An interesting series of pictures illustrating the work of marine reporters at Mackinaw appears elsewhere in this issue. vessel owners. What they demand is to have their boats reported at the proper. hour. In this respect, the service which the Lake Marine News has established' at Mackinaw City this season has been highly satisfactory. The reports contained in the daily papers, particularly | since fall winds commenced,to blow, greatly excell the reports of past seasons. From day .to day, passages at Mackinaw: City have proved remarkably full and accurate. Vessel men can now figure to a large extent that if their boats are not reported at Mackinaw they are still on either side of that point. Of course, it will be impossible under any service to obtain absolutely perfect results, but the thoroughgoing system. of the Lake Marine News has succeeded in attaining a far higher percentage of boats reported than has ever been reached before in this 'service. This: was secured by the employment of veteran re- porters only, who are on the water most of the time. Their work is checked up constantly, and being responsible to a central organization, the new'system has proved of great advantage to vessel owners in giv- ing them more reliable reports, The station at Mackinaw, it may be added, besides its newspaper reports, is open for general commercial business, its telegraph address being "Lake Marine News, Mackinaw City, Mich.'"' All telegrams and letters sent to that address will be delivered to passing boats. Pleased with the Gas Buoys land, is in receipt of several letters from vessel captains ode the gas buoys near Point Pelee, Lake Erie. Capt. A. J. Greenley says: 'The gas buoys have taken doubt and worry from the minds of vessel masters and they. will all be pleased with them. They can be seen for a distance of five miles or more. The one on Southeast shoal is the best light, although the burners may be of the same size."' Capt. A.C. Chapman of the steamer Grecian says: "The gas buoys in Pelee passage are just what is wanted for the place. The flash buoy on the middle. ground works to perfection, and the steady light on Southeast shoal is also the right thing in the right place. From a note of time which I made upon first observing the lights, and frcm a knowledge of the steamer's speed, I judge that they are visible in clear' weather at a distance of seven or eight miles. They reduce by thirty-five minutes the Grecian's time between Cleveland and Bar point. This means.a little gain on a trip and some reduction in fuel. If I mistake not, they will greatly reduce the hump that usually gathers on an old skipper's back when getting in and out of this passage on a dark night. We are all grateful to the government of Canada and Col. Anderson: for the buoys."' Capt. F. A. Fiek of the te a Fedora: thanks for the gas buoys.at. Pelee passage. "T want toadda note of They fill a long-felt want. The two spots marked by them were the two worst unmarked places - on the lakes. I saw them at a ee of full five miles on a night that was dark but clear. ie Officials 'of the: Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Co. have sent to the marine department at Ottawa reports from their captains commending the buoys very highly. They also report that the lights _ can. be seen in' eeEee weather at a distance of full seven iniles. Regarding Limitation of Liability, In a case known as the Annie Faxon case (June 15, 1896) the United 'States circuit court of appeals for the ninth cireuit lays down a broad doctrine as to the "privity or -knowledge" of corporations in proceedings to limit: liability under sections 4283-4289 revised statutes. It was a boiler explosion case, in which a number of passengers. and employes. were injured. By the proceedings below, thé value of the steamer in her damaged condition, etc., was fixed at $3,520 and the liabilty of the owner limited to ihat eine There was negligence in using the boiler in the condition it was found to be, ana the ap- pellants urged that this negligence should be imputed - to the cor- poration, charging it with such privity as to take the case without the statute. The court said: "We are unable to see how there can be imputation of privity or knowledge to a corporation of defects in one of its vessels' boilers, unless the defect were apparent. 'and of such a character to be seated by the inspection of an unskilled person." But the pic- turesque features of vessel reporting are of no great interest to. explosion, ete., happening 'through any neglect or failure to compl » with the provisions of this title'? (inspection), ° the _vessel shall be The court holds that they are statutes in pari materia--one ce Having in view the purpose of the law, and the liberal construction called for and given in the furtherance of that purpose, "it is suffi- cient if the corporation employ, in: good faith, a competent person tor # When it has emplaved such person in good | * | faith, and has delegated to-him that branch of its duty, its liability °° make such inspection. beyond the value of the vessel and freight ceases, so far as concern injuries from defects of which it has no knowledge, and which are not apparent to the ordinary observer, BUN sos ee oo cs detec- tion the skill of an expert."' - On the hearing, however, it de eclobed 'tee repairs aia been made to the boiler in a substantial part, and that no inspection was had thereafter. For this failure to comply with the inspection laws, the court held the owner liable to the passengers injured, "to the ' ae full amount of damage," section 4,493 United States revised statutes providing that if quae occur. to a passenger or his: baggage. from liable. creates a rule of general limitation, and the other makes an exception in favor of passengers. _ Cargo and Speed Records--Lake Freight. Ships. Tron ore--Coralia, Mutual Transportation Co. of Cleveland, 5,088 gross or 5,699 net tons, Gladstone to'Ashtabula, draft of 16 feet 10 inches; 8. S, Curry, elesraood & Avery Transit Co. of Cleveland, 4,569 . tons gross or 5,117 net tons, Escanaba to South Chicago, aati of 18 ~~ feet; From Lake Superior--Steamer Sir Henry Bessemer, Bessemer Capt. Geo. P. McKay eae Woes Caren: ceo levee es Steamship Co. of Cleveland, 4,214 gross or 4,720 net tons, Duluth to Conneaut, draft of 14 feet 8 Pichen! Grain--Steamer Quéen City, AL. Wolvin of Duluth, 207,000, bushels of corn, equal to 6,210 net tons, Chicago to Buffalo, 16 fet 8 inches draft; steamer Maricopa, Minnesota Steamship C5. Cleve- land, 191,700 bushels of corn, Chicago' to Buffalo. » From. Lake Soom cimct Queen.City, A..B. Wolvin of Duluth, 134,000 ~ bushels of. wheat and 42,000 busliels- 'of rye; Jequal to 5, 196. inet ons, : Duluth to Buffalo, draft of 15 feet 6 inches. Coal--S. 8. Cline Hawgood & Avery Transit Co. of Clevsianal Rddy Bros: of Bay City, Mich., 4, 202 net tons anuifacibe: pale to Milwaukee. © Speed--Owego, Teen Line of Buffalo, Buffalo fo Bliteo, 889 miles, 54 hours and 16 minutes, 16.4 miles an hour; Centurion, Hop- _ kins Steantaiiip Co. of St. Clits Mich., Buffalo to Duluth, 997 (mons, 65 hours and 10 minutes, 15.3 miles an woae. - Stocks of Grain at Lake Ports.' | The following: table, prepared from reports of the Cibes tigerd. & of trade, shows the Blocks of wheat and corn in store in regular eleva- Si tors at the prineipal points of accumulation on the lakes, Oct. 10, 1896: Wheat, bushels. Corn, bushels. se - 4,535 net tons bituminous, Conneaut to Gladstone; 'Selwyn Rady" pave ChiCAC Oe er tate con): Brot na: 14,614,000 6,685, 000° Muliths apeser ye. Eee Fat 5,533,000 10,000 ; Milwaukee......... eet 452,000 71,000 'Detroit. .24 8.) Rea Ne, SHEER SD. 000 ooo gry), OS. ae 23 Moledaca sous -set ate. ieee st Neste 31989" 000: © "* 20,0005 Soe PB uiteal Oasys A. OR. umes ee 2,261,000 - 364,000 Total 24, 155,000 71 1505000 As compared with a week ago, the apo ngites cee at the sev- eral points named an increase of 1,589,000 bushels of wheat, and Ge t 1,006,000 bushels of corn. Lieut. Geo. H. Stafford, U. S. N., who was recently assigned to the branch hydrographic fice Cleveland: has taken up his new) duties. Tonnage of the' Rockefeller steamer Robert Fulton, built by the Detroit Dry Dock Co., is 4,219.74 gross and 3,181.95 net tons, FOR SAL E,, Naphtha Cruising Launch, 38 feet long, 8 feet beam, > cabin with four berths, with wash room, ice' box, and 'all modern conveniences, beveled' edge plate glass. windows, and mahogany Speed 10 miles per hour, bran new last year, For further particu, . finish throughout. and for sale cheap for cash if taken at once. lars address Box 616, Toledo, O. Dees ers ae eS 7