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March: 1913 THE MARINE REVIEW 103 CHUTES FROM 1HE PRESQUE ISLE ORE DOCK LOWERED INTO THE HATCHES OF THE J. H. SHEADLE whole work was carried out under the general supervision of R. H. Harris, general manager of the Lake Super- ior & Ishpeming railroad. Dock Charges at Shipping Docks The railways carrying ore to Es- canaba, Ashland and Marquette have issued their tariffs for the year 1913, which work out at an increase of five cents and more over the tariffs of pre- ceding years. The rail rate is not increased at all, but the haul applies strictly to dock yards and furnace tracks. In other words, it ends at the approach to the shipping docks. Where the ore is for vessel delivery for points beyond it will be subject to the following additional charges: Storage in cars at dock yards, unloading from cars to docks, storage in docks and loading from docks to vessels: If loaded into vessel within ten days from arri- val of cars at dock yards five cents per gross ton of 2,240 Ibs. When not loaded into vessels within ten days a storage charge (same will not be made during the closed season of lake naviga- tion, i. e., the interval between de- parture of the last vessel and ar- rival of the first vessel) ; for each day of fraction thereof. YZ cent per ton of 2,240 lbs. per day after the first ten days. ' These tariffs were put into effect by the railways during the latter part of February and include the Chicago & Northwestern railway serving Escan- aba and Ashland, the Chicago, Miuil- waukee & St. Paul railway serving Es- canaba; the Soo Line railway serving Ashland; the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic railway serving Marquette, and the Lake Superior & Ishpeming railway serving Presque Isle. It was reported a few weeks ago that the railways: had decided not to impose. this additional charge, but that was an error. They had decided to impose a charge of five cents per gross ton for the second ten days that the ore re- mained 'at the dock yard, but this charge was later withdrawn and the charge of 1%4 cent per ton per day substituted in place of it. Corrigan, McKinney & Co., of Cleve- land, have made an independent issue of the matter, and have submitted pro- test against the charge to the Interstate Commerce Commission at Washington, as well as to the State Commission. The ore shippers as a body have also met and considered the subject of con- certed action against the increase, but have reached no conclusion. The rail rate to all these points is 40 cents with the exception of Marquette, where i€ 48 32 cents, though it will be understood that the ton-mile rate is higher from these ranges than from the Mesabi and Vermilion ranges, where a flat rate of 60 cents is charged. There is a feeling among some of the shippers that the matter should be held in abeyance for a year at least, as con- tracts for 1913 delivery were all made before this proposed change in the schedule was announced. Alexander McNab, president of the McNab Co., Bridgeport, Conn., has organized an English company with ~a- capital' stock of $175,000, to handle his engineering specialties throughout Great Britain and Europe. It is only three years since the McNab indica- tor was first introduced in the United States, and today over 3,000 of these instruments are in daily operation on vessels ranging from tug boats to battleships. It is understood that the North Ger- man Lloyd, which is the only ship- ping company in the world which owns and maintains an experimental tank for the purpose of its research work, is about to construct a new tank of similar lines, but with a length of 900 ft. or approximately twice the length of the existing tank. The Griscom-Russell Co., New York, has secured the American rights for the Sterling Destructor, which is an English high temperature furnace for the disposal of all municipal ref- use and industrial waste.