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April, 1910 'TAE Marine REVIEW 161 OCcectco OOoecoeCO OF ooee ee of 6 aia Foae ic brane ti a es ee te ee er ee ee a ee OUTBOARD PROFILE AND LAKE SEASON OF 1910. Navigation on the great lakes 'will open on Saturday next. The leading shippers have arranged to have their. fleets leave port as soon as insur- ance begins, which will be at midnight Friday. Some of the vessels of the Pittsburg Steamship Co., which oper- ated without insurance, will leave port eariler, arrangements having | made to open the Canadian lock on April 12. Nearly all the wup-bound carriers will carry coal on their first trip. Ore loading has begun at upper lake ports, the steamer J. J. Sullivan being the first to take on a cargo. She left Duluth for Ashland and load- ed on Monday, April 11. There has been no chartering in the ore trade for several weeks, but the coal rate to Lake Michigan was ad- vanced 5 cents over last year's charges on April 8, and chartering has been quite free in that trade since. The vessels will receive 35 cents to the fast docks on Lake Michigan and 40 cents to the slow docks at Milwaukee. The rate of 30 cents to Lake Superior was established at the begianing of the year. The underwriters have established the hull insurance rate at 6 per cent, which is an advance of 1 per cent over last season. Thé underwriters have agreed, however, to refund 10 per cent of the earned or net. prem- "tumer t0. ¢ all: been 5 the Saw e nc ne- DECK PLAN. OF THE NEw Patent FOR THE Can OF BALTIMORE. For" Beccnieaen see page 145. vessels that operate throughout the year free of damage claims. One-fourth of this refund is to go to the captain of the boat as a bonus. Under the new plan the re- fund on a steamer insured for $340,000 would be $1,744, of which the captain would receive $436. The paying of -.these bonuses to the captain is to be left to the discretion of the Advisory Committee of the Great Lakes Pro- tective Association for the following reasons: A captain might take his vessel through a season without dam- aging his boat to such an extent that the underwriters would be called upon to settle for it. On the other hand, he might have a number of damages of less than $500 each which, under deductable average clause, the owner will have to pay. Thus while the vessel would get the refund from the insurance company, the damage done under deductable average during the season might be so great as to totally extinguish the rebate. Under ' those conditions the boat would not gain anything under the refund and the owner might not feel like paying the bonus. Naturally, however, owners. are hoping that there may be no deducta- ble average claims and that they may be free to award this very consider- able bonus to their masters. It must be understood that this bonus would be in addition to the one that is now customarily paid by the leading com- panies to 'their masters who bring their vessels through a season with- out injury. The protection and indemnity rate which last season was one-half of 1 per cent, has been advanced to five- -- eighths of 1 per cent, while the deduc- table average remains at $500. The season for insurance will close at mid- night Nov. 30:48 against' Dec. 5-07 the former policy. It is probable also that the practice of extending the per- iod of insurance under an excess rate will be abandoned. The cargo insur- ance rate on ore and coal will be the published rates of last season with- out discount. This means an advance as the published rates in 1909 were shaded a bit. MARCH LAKE LEVELS. . The United States Lake Survey re- ports the stages of the Great Lakes for the month of March, 1910, as fol- lows: Ft. above tide- Lakes. water, New York. Superiot 2, 6.5 8 ease eee 601.54 Michigan-Furon 2. ia fc iene ee 580.00 Erie foci es ee eee 571.68 Ontario os. i eh oe 245.75 Lake Superior is 0.19 foot lower than last month, 0.19 foot higher than a year ago, 0.45 foot below the average stage of March of the last ten years, 0.74 foot below the high stage of 4