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14 MARINE AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. The light-house board has transmitted to congress an estimate for an auxiliary steam steel light-vessel for Martin's Reef, Lake Huron, and an estimate for a light-ship for Grosse Point, Mich. Senator McMillan has asked congress to amend the agricultural _ap- propriation bill by allowing $15,000 for a telephone line between Glen Haven and South Manitou island, in order that a signal station can be established on the island by the weather department. The old West Shore dock on the ship-canal opposite the Great North- ern elevator at Buffalo is to be rebuilt at once and converted into an ore receiving dock. The New York Central & Hudson River Railway Co. owns the property. The docks will be 620 feet long and 26 feet wide. Frank E, Kirby has prepared plans for a new ferry for the Detroit, Belle Isle & Windsor Ferry Co., to run between Amherstburg and Bois Blanc island, Detroit river. The new boat will be 70 feet long and 20 feet beam and will be so constructed as to be used for towing and ferry pur- poses. She will be called the Pappoose. Although it was announced that the docks at Buffalo would charge 25 cents a ton for unloading ore this season, the indications are that the charge at that port will be the same as at all other Lake Erie ports, which is 22 cents a ton. The manager of the D., L. & W. dock at Buffalo has sent out a circular to the effect that until further notice the charge for un- loading ore on that dock will be 22 cents a ton. The wooden steamer P. P. Pratt, first vessel to go up the lakes from Lake Erie this spring, is certainly in as good condition as any of the first fleet to cope with ice that may be encountered. After a thorough overhauling during the winter she was given a rating of 100, the best that is accorded in lake registration, and the inspectors laid special stress on the careful mannet in which the work had been looked after by W. H. Mack, who is in charge of the Pratt. James Graham, who operates extensive coal docks for the supply of fuel to steamboats just below the crowded ferry portion of the Detroit river, has ibeen calling on vessel owners in different parts of the lakes recently in preparation for another season's business. He is not particu- larly disturbed on account of the consolidations in the coal trade. He says he is getting his share of the steamboat fuel trade and will very probably continue to get it on account of the favorable location of his dock and the constant effort that is made to satisfy the steamboat cap- tains who patronize it. George W. Johnson has been promoted to the position of superin- tendent of the Great Lakes Towing Co.'s fleet at Buffalo. He was with Hand & Johnson for eight years, and last year was bookkeeper and cashier under the new management. John Johnson has been appointed bookkeeper and cashier and has Alfred Smith for assistant. The fleet of the Great Lakes company this season for Buffalo and Tonawanda is as follows: Buffalo tugs--G. F. Dunbar, Cascade, Fabian, S. W..Gee, R. H. Hebard, Conneaut, Acme, O. W. Cheney, Grace Danforth, W. I. Bab- cock, James Byers, Alpha, W. H. Gratwick, John Kelderhouse, Wel- come, James Martin. Tonawanda tugs--Tonawanda, C. S. Parnell, De Graff, A. A. Bellinger, Michael Davitt. SEEKING GOVERNMENT AID FOR LIGHTS. _ Secretary Keep and Treasurer McKay of the Lake Carriers' Associa- tion are still working with the United States light-house board in an effort to have the government relieve the association as far as possible from ex- penses of private lighting. It will very probably be fotind when vessels begin to move through Lake St. Clair and the St. 'Clair river that addi- tional gas buoys in that locality will have greatly improved the lighting this season, and it is hoped also that before the season is very far ad- vanced some of the private lights in the Sault river will also be replaced by gas buoys, but there is still the question of lights in Canada, both on the Detroit and St. Mary's river, that can not be hurriedly disposed of. The Lake Carriers' officials feel that as the lights are necessary for the naviga- tion of channels constructed or partially constructed by the United States government, they should be paid for by the government until such time - as permanent lights are provided. This could be done either through con- tract with the Lake Carriers' Association or with the light keepers them- selves. It is on the score of payment for these lights that Secretary Keep and Capt. McKay are now making an effort with the Washington board. aes are also urging the construction of another light-house tender for ake service. SPEED IN TOLEDO STRAIGHT CHANNEL. Under date of Sept. 29, 1899, Col. Jared A. Smith, United States engi- neer, acting under authority from the war department, amended the rules and regulations for the government of the straight channel through Maumee bay, Toledo, O., so that the speed allowance is ten miles an hour instead of eight. The speed of eight miles per hour, heretofore called for, proved to be somewhat of a hardship to vessels but they can probably reduce to ten miles an hour without special inconvenience. At the regula- tion speed of ten miles per hour, which equals six minutes per mile, the time allowance in passage is as follows: From outer can buoys Nos. 1 and 2 to main crib..31-3 miles 20 minutes From main crib to black spar No. 28............ 2% miles, 1314 minut From black spar No. 28 to inner red can No. 34. 24 miles, 1 a icaes ee Pict ie Reet ee wor: 4614 minutes Wm. T. Blunt is the assistant United States engineer in charge of this channel. CRUISE OF THE BUFFALO. Plans for the cruise of the training ship Buffalo are now com: The training ship has just left the Broakien navy yard with hal hal from the receiving ship Vermont. She will proceed to League island navy yard where ninety men will be taken aboard and forty more at the Nor- folk navy yard. These men will be fitted to become first-class seamen and will be assigned to the vessels now in ordinary. The itinerary of the Buffalo includes the Azores, Gibraltar, Lisbon, Gravesend, Christiania Copenhagen, Stockholm, Kiel and Havre or 'Rouen. REVIEW. . [April 19, HARRISON'S VIEWS ON SUBSIDIES. j een discovered that on April 18, 1891, President Harri- son ae oe before a club in Galveston, Texas, in advocacy of a measure for the stimulation of American commerce. This is quite interesting, now that the shipping bill has been reported to the house with an admirable majority report upon it. Harrison's arguments are as sound today as hey vas day upon which they were delivered. i e said: . eS Oe ach and great enough to reach forward to grander. conceptions than have entered the minds of some of our statesmen in the past. If you are content, I am not, that the nations of Europe shall absorb nearly the entire commerce of these sister republics that lie south of us. It is naturally in large measure Ours--ours by neighborhood, ours. by nearness of access, ours by that sympathy which binds an empire without a king. We shall need American steamships to carry American goods to these ports. Some say we ought not to go into this business. that it is subsidy. But, my friends, every other great nation of the world has been doing it and is doing it today. Great Britain and France have built up their great steamship lines by government aid and it_seems to me our reference to that is amply portrayed by an illustration I used the other day. In olden times no wholesale merchant sent out traveling men: to solicit custom, but he stood in his own store and waited for his cus-. tomers. But presently some enterprising merchant began to send out. men with their samples, to seek the trade, to save the country buyer the cost of the trip from 'New York or Philadelphia, until finally that practice has become universal. A merchant must adopt the new methods or go out of business. We have been refusing to adopt the universal methods: of our competitors e ee to stimulate their shipping interests | one out of business. ; - ' ' = the skienineg bill in its amended form will doubtless again be heard of in a forcible way, as it is more than probable that it will pass the sen- ate by a large majority of the votes of that body. ; NEW WORKS OF THE BERLIN COMPANY. The Berlin Iron Bridge Co. of East Berlin, Conn., has made an ex- tensive purchase of real estate at Pittsburg, Pa., and has already started. on the plant to be located at that point. They have bought fifty acres of land between the Pennsylvania railroad and the Ohio river, upon which they will locate their plant, and in addition fifty acres back from the river. Upon this latter piece they will put up a number of houses for the use of their employes. Foundations for the buildings are now being put in place, and it is the intention that this plant will be in complete operation by July 1, as the orders for the machinery have been placed for some months. The office building will be 60 feet square and four stories in height, and will be a fireproof structure throughout. The template shop will be 60 feet in width and 300 feet in length, two stories in height. The main shop will be constructed entirely of steel and glass, and will be 220 feet in width and 700 feet in length. The entire plant will be equipped with new machinery, which will be of the heaviest and most modern design. Orders for this machinery have been placed with the Hilles & Jones Co. of Wilmington, Del., Cleveland Punch & Shear Works Co. of Cleveland, Niles Tool Works of Hamilton, and the Brown Hoisting & Conveying Machine Co. of 'Cleveland. The hydraulic plant will be very elaborate, and will be furnished by Wm. H. Wood of Media, Pa. The floor surface of the main shop is to be controlled by twenty-three traveling cranes of various sizes and design and of the heaviest capacity, all furnished by the Chisholm & Moore Mfg. Co. of Cleveland. The fuel used will be natural gas, the engines being furnished by the National Meter Co. of New York. The machinery will be operated throughout by electricity, the generators and motors furnished by the General Electric and Westinghouse com- panies. . The Berlin company has a very large experience, extending over long years, in designing and building manufacturing plants, and they intend that this, their own plant, shall be the most perfect and complete of its kind in the world. No pains or expense have been spared in making it such, and the company is now taking contracts to be executed at these ae after July 1. The capacity will be from 3,000 to 4,000 tons per month. CARNEGIE COS NEW MERCHANT MILL. The Carnegie Steel Co. of Pittsburg have decided to put up a new merchant mill at the Duquesne Steel Works, Duquesne, Pa., which it is understood will be the largest of its kind in the United States. The mill will enable the company to compete for the trade of large agricultural implements such as are made by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. of 'Chicago, and the Deering Harvester Machine Co. The building will - be 150 by 600 feet in size and there will also be a large boiler house and other subsidiary buildings. The plant is to be erected on the Athletic park property near Oliver station. Contracts for some of the machinery and other necessary apparatus have already been let. The company has had under construction for some time at Duquesne a new open hearth plant to contain fourteen 50-ton furnaces and a very large blooming mill and a billet mill to roll billets down to 1% inches square, NAVAL POLICY BOARD'S ¥IRST MEETING. The naval policy board held its first meeting at the navy department on Monday of this week and elected Lieut. H. H. Ward of the bureau of navigation as its secretary. The utmost secrecy was maintained and it was announced to the press that, from its very nature, the board would never have any of its proceedings to impart to the public. All of the members of the board were present including Admiral Dewey; Rear Ad- miral A. S. Crowninshield, chief of the bureau of navigation; Capt. C. H. Stockton, president of the naval war college; Capt. Asa Walker, principal assistant in the naval war college; Capt. Charles D. Sigsbee, chief intelli- gence office, and Lieut, Commander R. T. Mulligan, principal assistant in the intelligence office; Capt. H.C. Taylor, C. E. Clark, R. D. Evans, and ee Chadwick, and Col. G. C. Reid, general inspector of the marine 'The citizens of Albany will ¢i iy ceaiser "Alfiaae. y will give a silver service worth $3,500 to the