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tion boards would be taking a step forward if they would cut out a lot of their buga-boo questions which have no bearing on the safety methods of taking a ship from-one port to an- other. Such questions as the above example give the young man who is trying to get to the front rank of the profession an altogether wrong im- pression of what is required of a real lake navigator. If these are the kind of questions the steamboat inspection service persists in giving candidates that come before them then just so long will our men waste their time in studying them. It seems a shame that with' the wonderful growth and ad- vancement of the lake marine in the past few years that the steamboat in- spection service has made _ so _ little progress along the line' of examining candidates. We hear so much about our wonderful government but when individuals have got to step in and play the part that the government should play it is not right. The gov- ernment should take the lead in these matters and not wait for individuals to first clear the way. What are our representative men for, and what do they get paid for? There is a heap more that might be said on this sub- ject, but this will suffice fon the pres- ent. _ Lone. A FEW CORRECTIONS. That portion of the Navigation 'Les- sons on the Deviation of the Compass which appeared on page 28 of Jan. 10 issue in,regard to the rules of naming the deviation, was not printed according to the way it was written. The rules for naming the deviation, that is, to tell whether it is Easterly or Westerly are simply these: "When the. correct mag- netic course or bearing is on the right hand of the course or bearing shown by compass (or simply the compass course or bearing) the deviation is named East- ° erly." "When the correct magnetic course or bearing is to be left of the compass course or bearing the deviation 'is named Westerly." This is all there is to it. With Ely. Dev. the correct mag- netic points corresponding to the same po.nts by compass are to the left of . those shown on the compass. For this very reason Ely. Dey. is allowed to the ieft of the correct magnetic course we wish to make good in order to find that point on the compass that will correspond iO 1: netic points corresponding. to the same 'points by compass will be found on the right hand of the same point as shown by compass. For this reason if we de- sire to make good any correct magnetic _ course we allow the amount of our devia- tion to the right of what the correct mag- netic course is. For example: The Dev. miles per hour With Wly. Dev. the correct mag- © "TAE. MARINE. REVIEW is one point Ely. Suppose NE is the cor- rect magnetic course, then. the point on the compass corresponding to correct magnetic NE is one point to the left of NE, as shown by compass, or NE by N on the compass coincides with NE cor- rect magnetic. With Wly. Dev. it would be just the reverse. Always bear the rules in mind and you will make no mis- take. Remember that in turning a true course to a compass course that Ely. Var. and Dev. are always allowed to the left, and Wly. Var. and Dev. to the right. But when turning a compass course into a true course Ely. Var. and Dev. are al- lowed to the right and Wly. to the left. Remember that Ely, -Var.- and ~ Dev. means a pull of the card to the right so that if no allowance is made for either the Var. or Dev. the ship in steering the course by compass will follow the card. If Ely. carries to the right so will the ship be carried to the right, and if Wly catfries to the left so will the ship carry to the left if no allowance is made for either Wly. Var. or Dev. If we simply steer the course by compass without mak- ing any corrections the ship, according to the true direction is going to carry either to the right or to the left of the true course having, the same name as the course steered on by compass. It is for this reason that after we shave steered a course by compass without making any allowances that if we desire to find the true course the ship has been going in that we allow Ely. Var. and Dev. to the 'right of the compass course steered to find the true course, and to the left of the compass course for Wly. Var. and Dev. . LONG. MATES.--NO. 30. 445. Three observations for the deviation on the same point of the. oe give the following deviations: 834° and 814°, what is the mean ee 446. A steamer mate IT statute miles. an hour will. take how long to complete a run of 98% statute miles. How long should it trike a steamer making 114 knots to complete the distance of 98% statute miles? 447. A steamer making 1034 statute is 51%4 nautical miles ahead of another steamer advancing in the same direction which makes 12 knots. How long should it 'take the steamer making 12 knots to overhaul the steamer making 1034 statute miles and that is 5% nautical miles in ad- ' vance? 448. A sailing vessel sails due north for 30 miles and due east for 30 miles; a steamer starting from the same place the ship. did desires to steer di- rect to the 'point the ship has arrived at what must the steamer steer and 31 what distance must she run to do it? 449. It takes your boat 4 hours 23 minutes to make 47% miles, how fast is she going per hour? 450. If a steamer started from Lat. 43° 20° N. and sailed due north 70 nautical miles what latitude has she arrived in? 451. 'A vessel from Lat. 44° 14' N. sails due south until she arrives' in Lat. 43° 12', how many nautical miles has she sailed? 452. A boat steaming at the rate of 11 knots steams how many knots in 7 hours 30 minutes? How long will. it take a' boat that makes 11 statute miles per hour to cover the same dis- tance? 453. Two steamers are approaching each other on reverse courses or near- ly so, one steams 13 miles per hour and the other 9 miles. They are 3% miles apart how long will it take for them to meet? 454. A vessel sails due east from Long. 88° W on the parallel of 60° north until her longitude is 86° W, how many nautical miles has she cov- ered? 455. What is the principle of the 4- point bearing? 450. If a steamer makes 14 knots how many yards does she cover per Minute? a 457. What-is the difference in the sun's time between Ruffalo and Cleve- land? What is the difference in stan- 'dard time. between these ports? 458. What is-true noon? mean noon? 459. What is the difference between What is oe es _ true noon and mean noon? QUESTIONS FOR MASTERS AND QUESTIONS FOR WHEELSMEN AND WATCHMEN.--NO, 31. 315. A boat travels a mile in 5 min. | 20 sec. Find rate of speed per hour? 316, *-A« boat. travels a: mile in 3 min. 52 sec. Find-rate of speed por hour? ie 317. If a boat travels a mile in 11 min. 36 sec., how tat will it go in 1% hours? 318. A boat travels a mile in 8 min. Find rate of speed per hour. 319. A boat travels a mile every 5 . - min: 27 sec. how far will it go in an hour? - 320. A boat travels a mile in 6 in: 19 sec. Find rate of speed 'per hour. 321. A boat makes 16 miles per hour. What is the time per mile? 322, A boat makes 12%4 miles per hour. What is the time per mile? 323. A boat makes 11% miles an hour. What is the time per mile? 324. A boat makes 10% miles an hour. What is the time per mile? ' 325. A boat makes 11 miles an hour. What is' the time per mile?