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More Suggestions for Gas Buoys. Mr. Charles Paine of Buffalo, general manager of the Union Steamboat Co., has consulted masters of vessels in his line and sug- gests, through Secretary Keep of the Lake Carriers' Association, a list of places where gas buoys would be desirable. In view of an appropri- ation of $25,000 for these buoys, which will be forthcoming shortly, the association has under consideration a long list of places where the buoys would be of advantage, and distribution will be made in accord- ance with the number of recommendations in each case. Mr. Paine suggests the following locations, a few of which are, however, already covered by the buoys: Middle island, Lake Huron; Cheboygan point, Straits of Mackinaw; Nine-Foot shoal, Lake Michigan; Death's Door, Lake Michigan; Fisherman's Shoal, Lake Michigan; Seneca shoal, Lake Erie; Sand point, Lake Michigan; South Fox Reef, Lake Michi- gan; Lansing shoal, Lake Michigan; Poverty island shoals, Lake Michigan; Gravelly island shoals, Lake Michigan; north side of chan- nel, entrance to Erie harbor, Erie ,Pa., Lake Erie; lower end of Stag island, St. Clair river; head of Port Huron middle ground; Point au -Barques reef, Lake Huron; Ottawa point, Lake Huron; North point, Lake Huron; Major's shoals, Straits of Mackinaw; North and South Graham shoals, Straits of Mackinaw; Waugoschance sixteen-foot shoal; a newly discovered shoal about 1} miles in a south-easterly direction from Gray's reef lightship; Boulder reef, Lake Michigan; Hog island reef, Lake Michigan; South Fox island, inside shoal, Lake Michigan; Hyde Park outer shoal, Chicago; South point, Milwaukee; Outer shoal, Pilot island passage; Drisco shoal; Little Bay de Noque shoal; east end of Whaleback shoal; Horseshoe reef; Strawberry channel; Quarry point in Sturgeon bay; also that the association should use its influence to have the Canadian government place a light at Point Abino, Lake Erie. The Experimental Tank at Washington. The experimental tank which is to be constructed at Washington by the navy department for trials with models of new ships will be the largest basin of its kind under cover in the world. Its dimensions will closely approach those of some of the largest dry docks, and the depth will be sufficient to float many of the smaller ships of the navy. - On all sides it will be covered, and the water will be supplied by the city reservoirs or pumped from the Potomac river. From end to end the tank will be just 500 feet long and 50 feet across, and inside the water space will be 475 by 43 feet. Its depth will be 14 feet. Run- ning across, close to the water, will be a carriage upon which there will be attached a dynamo meter to register the resistance due to tow- ing a model through the basin. Models, varying in size from 10 to 20 ft , of every new ship to be built will be attached to this machinery and drawn through the water. The wave motion will be observed and the resistance it offers will be calculated. The models will be plain affairs, constructed only with a view to presenting closely the actual lines of the ship it is proposed to build. Through the experiments it is esti- mated that the plans of all proposed vessels can be improved and valu- able information gathered for use in designing the lines of ships. The cost of the tank will be $100,009. Atlantic Was Sunk in 1852, Editor Marine Review :--I notice a statement from a correspondent in your issue of April 15 to the effect that the steamer Atlantic was sunk in 1854. I beg leave to correct this statement by saying that _ the Atlantic was sunk in August, 1852. The reason thatIam positive is that my father came up on the boat from Buffalo to Detroit in August, 1852, on his coming from Germany, and she was sunk on the next trip up. Herman G. Runge. Franksville, Wis., May 5, 1897. Considerable interest will attend the official trials of the new gun- boats Wheeling and Marietta, which will take place at San Francisco about the middle of this mon th, as one of them has Babcock & Wilcox water tube boilers and the other has Scotch boilers fitted with the Howden system of hot draft. A list of country homes along the south shore of Lake Erie open tosummer boarders will be mailed to any one enclosing a two cent stamp to B. F. Horner, general passenger agent of the Nickel Plate road, Cleveland, Ohio. 54 Jul 15 MARINE REVIEW. Important Admiralty Matters. Owners of Canadian vessels on the lakes sometimes go far away from home to settle legal disputes. C. E. Kremer of Chicago and Harvey D. Goulder of Cleveland are to try a case in the U. §8. district court at Duluth shortly, in which both vessels are owned in Canada, and the accident for which damages are claimed occurred in the Wel. land canal. The case is that of the Marine Insurance Co. against the steamer Arabian. The insurance company with other underwriters paid the Montreal Transportation Co. some 15,000 for damages sus- tained by their vessel, the Minnedosa, through disturbance in the canal caused by the Arabian crashing into and breaking one of the canal lock gates, and they are now trying to recover from the owners of the Arabian. The case of the Umbria, decided by the United States supreme court a few weeks ago, brings 'out some important points as to the ""probable profits of a charter' entering into the liability of a vessel that may be at fault for collision. It was sought in this case to charge the vessel at fault with the "probable profits for charter" made about a fortnight before the collision. The court said: "There is nothing in the peculiar facts of the case to take it out of the general rule that in cases of total loss by collision, damages are limited to the value of the vessel, with interest thereon, and the net freight pending at the time of the collision. The probable net profits of a charter may be consid- - ered in cases of delay, occasioned by a partial loss, when the question is as to the value of the use of the vessel pending her repairs. * * * * But in cases of total loss, the probable profits of a charter, not yet entered upon, are always rejected. * * * * In cases of a partial loss, there is no injustice in allowing the probable profits of a charter for the short time during which the vessel is laid up for repairs, but in cases of a total loss the recovery of such profits is limited to the voy- age which the vessel is then performing, since, if the owner was en- titled to recover the profits of a future voyage or charter, there would seem to be no limit to such right so far as respects the time of its con- tinuance; and if the vessei were under a charter which had months or years to run, the allowance of the probable profits of such charter might work a great practical injustice to the owner of the vessel caus- ing the injury."' Stocks of Grain at Lake Ports. The following table, prepared from reports of the Chicago board of trade, shows the stocks of wheat and corn in store in regular eleva- tors at the principal points of accumulation on the lakes, May 8, 1897: Wheat, bushels. Corn, bushels. CIN CACO cet. Peet g ic cy ty se 7,750,000 7,022,000 © DE cc ge ae nas 4,770,000 23,000 Milanese oS one. 3 286,000 3,000 Detroiter Mri fe. or, a. 90,000 8,000 Ole Ose eee in sa 932,000 457,000 SUITE OPM Nee eee et een ci 779,000 57,000 14,607,000 7,570,000 As compared with a week ago, the above figures show, at the sev- eral points named, a decrease of 1,657,000 bushels of wheat and 1,033,000 bushels of corn. An excellent chart of Green bay and approaches, on a large scale has just been published by the United States hydrographic office and may be had from the Marine Review. The chart is corrected to March 1, 1897, and takes in with Green bay the west shore of Lake Michigan from Manistique to Kewaunee. It willbe of great value to masters of Lake Michigan trading vessels, as well as the men in charge of the larger ore and coal carriers trading to Escanaba. Soundings are in feet and there is a scale of statute miles attachea. The price is $1.25, but the chart is so complete in detail that it is larger than the single sheet charts of Lake Superior or Lake Michigan. The large single-sheet chart of Georgian bay, just issued by the British admiralty, was prepared from the surveys on which Staff Commander J. G. Boulton, R. N., has been engaged for several year's past. This chart may be had from the Marine Review for $1.75. The price is higher than is usually charged for navigators' charts, but this one takes the place of probably ten sectional charts and is corrected up to date.