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18 | MARINE REVIEW. DISBURSEMENTS OF LAKE OARRIERS’ ASSOCIATION, 1899. Salaries of officers: C. H. Keep, secretary, balance of 1898 and on account 1899, $2,550; Geo. P. McKay, treasurer, balance of 1898 and on account 1899, $1,450; H. D. Goulder, attorney, balance of 1898 and on account 1899, $1,750; total, $5,750. Salaries of shipping masters in full for 1899: A. R. Rumsey, Cleve- land, $2,000; Wm. F. Wall, Cleveland, $700; Maynard Fisk, Buffalo, $787.50; Edward Nesbitt, Buffalo $142.50; Dan Harrington, Ashtabula, $680; Patrick Mitchell, Toledo, $600; J. W. Hansen, Chicago, $1,000; Robt. Anderson, Chicago, $640; M. P. Felt, South Chicago, $600; Jesse Raymond, South Chicago, $37.50; Wm. Lennon, Milwaukee, $900; total $8,087.50 Expenses of shipping offices: Cleveland—Office rent, $113.66; office supplies, provisions, telephone, etc., $750.42. Buffalo—Office rent, $200; office supplies, telephone, etc., $108.29. Ashtabula—Office rent, $125; office supplies, etc., $19.25. Toledo—Office rent $125; office supplies, fuel, etc., $6.93. ‘Milwaukee—Office rent, $150; office supplies, fuel, etc., $25.65. Chicago—Office rent, $210.03; office supplies, telephone, etc., $416.77. South Chicago—Office rent, $172.50; telephone, office supplies, etc., $137.07. Total expenses of shipping offices, $2,560.57. Extraordinary expenses: For maintaining private lights at Lime- Kiln crossing, Amherstburg and at various points in Sault river, $5,334; traveling and other expenses incurred account aids to navigation, De- troit river bridge matter, grain bill of lading, grain shovelers’ strike and for reporting stage of water at Detroit, $1,395.11; traveling expenses C. H. Keep, Buffalo to Cleveland and return to attend meetings of executive committee and grain shoveling committee, $25.25; traveling expenses of Chief Shipping Master A. R. Rumsey visiting various shipping offices, $265; total, $7,019.36. In addition to the foregoing are the following items: Payment of $1,000 note held by Union National Bank of .Cleveland, $1.000; interest on $1,000 note held:by said bank, $30; incidental expenses, offices of sec- retary and treasurer, $165.55; printing and telegraphic expense of secre- tary’s and treasurer’s office, $452.96. Grand total of disbursements of all kinds, $25,065.94; balance on hand, $8.06. BANQUET OF LAKE CARRIERS. The banquet, which was held at the Cadillac hotel on Thursday even- ing, the 18th, was a very informal affair. The attendance was fairly large and the menu served was excellent. William Livingstone of Detroit acted as toastmaster, and brief addresses were made by Harvey D. Goulder, W. C. Farrington, M. A. Bradley, John C. Shaw, Capt. Dennis Sullivan, Alexander McDougall, Harvey W. Brown, James Corrigan, L. C. Waldo, 7G. Kew, Capt. H. E.-Stewart, ‘O,..C. Pinney, C. E. Benham, A.B. Wolvin and H. Coulby. PROGRESS WITH NEW NAVAL VESSELS. The percentage of work done on new vessels of the United States navy as reported to Chief Constructor Hichborn on the first of the present month, was as follows: ‘Battleships—Kearsarge at Newport News works, 98 per cent; Ken- tucky, Newport News works, 97; Illinois, Newport News works, 73; Ala- bama, Cramp & Sons, 92; Wisconsin, Union Iron Works, 84; Maine, Cramp & Sons, 18; Missouri, Newport News works, 1; Ohio, Union Iron Works, 10. Sheathed protected cruisers—Albany at Armstrong’s, England, 97 per cent; Denver, Neafie & Levy, 0; Des,Moines, Fore River Engine Co., 0; Chattanooga, Lewis Nixon, 0; Galveston, Wm. R. Trigg Co., 0; Tacoma, ° Union Iron Works, 0; Cleveland, Bath Iron Works, 0. Monitors—Arkansas at Newport News Works, 12 per cent; Connect- ° icut, Bath Iron Works, 35; Florida, Lewis Nixon, 21; Wyoming, Union Iron Works, 82. Torpedo boat destroyers—Bainbridge at Neafie & Levy works, 38 per cent; Barry, Neafie & Levy works, 88; Chauncey, Neafie & Levy works, 37; Dale, Wm. R. Trigg Co., 538; Decatur, Wm. R. Trigg Co., 52; Hop- kins, Harlan & Hollingsworth, 31; Hull, Harlan & Hollingsworth, 31; Lawrence, Fore River Engine Co., 77; Macdonough, Fore River Engine Co., 75; Paul Jones, Union Iron Works, 60; Perry, Union Iron Works, 60; Preble, Union Iron Works, 60; Stewart, Gas Engine & Power Co., 11; Truxton, Maryland Steel Co., 7; Whipple, Maryland Steel Co., 7; Worden’ Maryland Steel Co., 7. _Torpedo boats—T. A. M. Craven at Bath Iron Works, 99 per cent; Stringham, Harlan & Hollingsworth, 93; Goldsborough, Wolff & Zwicker, 97; Bailey, Gas Engine & Power Co., 63; Bagley, Bath Iron Works, 4; Barney, Bath Iron Works, 4; Biddle, Bath Iron Works, 4; Blakely, Geo. Lawley ‘& Son, 67; DeLong, Geo. Lawley & Son, 67; Nicholson, Lewis Nixon, 45; O’Brien, Lewis Nixon, 45; Shubrick, Wm. R, Trigg Co., 74; Stockton, Wm. R. Trigg Co., 74; Thornton, Wm. R. Trigg Co., 70; Tingey, Columbian Iron Works, 42; Wilkes, Gas Engine & Power Co., 23. peatne torpedo boat—Plunger at Columbian Iron Works, 85 per cent. ae Mr. J. E. Whittlesey of the American Stoker Co. was in attendance at the annual meeting of the Lake Carriers’ Association, making the ac- quaintance of vessel men, who have become very much interested in the successful installation of a mechanical stoker of the American com- pany’s manufacture on the large freight steamer Pennsylvania. Mr.’ Whittlesey closed arrangements with Ashley & Dustin of Detroit for the equipment of their fast side-wheel steamer Frank E. Kirby and has nego- tiations under way for stokers to be applied to the large passenger steamers of the Detroit & Cleveland line. There is, of course, a great field for a mechanical stoker suited to marine service and Mr. Whittlesey is meeting with a very favorable reception from lake vessel owners on account of the success attained on the Pennsylyania with the device which he represents, [January 18, CARNEGIE VESSEL INTERESTS, It has been announced within the past few days that recent trials of the ore unloading device on the Carnegie docks at Conneaut, O., have proven so successful that two more of the large machines will be built at once by the Webster, Camp & Lane Machine Co. of Akron, and that the work will be so hurried as to admit of their use in unloading a large part of the ore to be taken into Conneaut by vessels next season. It is said that officials of the Carnegie company have never entertained doubt of the ultimate development of this machine for the purpose for which it was .designed, but it was hardly expected in the first experi- ments that it would so soon be engaged in the actual operation of unloading vessels. The possibilities of this machine as a labor saving device are undoubtedly greater than anything as yet introduced in the handling of freight on the great lakes. The formal organization of the Pittsburg Steamship Co. brings to- gether all the vessel property of the Carnegie-Oliver interests, the new company taking over the vessels of the Lake Superior Iron Co., the steamer C. A. Black, steamer Lynn and consort Carrington, and the several modern steel freighters now under construction at different works of the American Ship Building Co. Headquarters of the new steamship company will be in Pittsburg, but the office of the general manager, Mr. Edwin S. Mills, will, of course, be in Cleveland, as he is the Cleveland representative of the Carnegie and Oliver companies. Officers of the steamship company are: President, H. W. Oliver; vice-president; James Gayley; secretary, C. D. Fraser; treasurer, H. C. Daft; general manager, Edwin S. Mills. It is understood that Capt. E. Day of Conneaut, who has been in charge of the Carnegie docks at that port, is to return to Cleveland to take the position of traveling inspector in connection with the vessels and other matters pertaining to the vessel department of the Carnegie offices in Cleveland, COMMANDER OF THE ALBANY. A dispatch from the Washington correspondent of the Review says: “Capt. Jos. E. Craig, chief hydrographer, a sketch of whose naval career appeared in the naval edition of the Review, has been ordered to com- mand the cruiser Albany, just completed at Armstrong’s, Newcastle, Eng- land. He will leave Washington at ingi E g once for the purpose of bringing the vessel across the Atlantic to New York. A crew of 200 men is ne femme formed by the navy bureau of navicat; 1 2 re vigation for the vessel and will b to England in the auxiliary cruiser Prairie.” ae sire ore STEAMBOAT INSPECTORS, _, Washington, D. C., January 18—The United St er- vising Inspectors of Steam Vessels began its annual eee epee mon block on ‘Wednesday of this week. The following supervising in- spectors were present: John Bermingham, San Francisco: George H Starbuck, New York; John W. Oast, Norfolk, Va.; Ralph 1 Whitledge, St Louis, Mo.; John D. Sloane, Dubuque, Iowa; Eugene L. Dorsey, Louisville, Ky.; Samuel R. Crumbaugh, Cincinnati; Charles H Westcott, Detroit; James Stone, Cleveland; John A. Cotter, New Orleans A num- ber of men interested in various mechanical appliances are also ‘in attend- ance, The sessions will continue for two weeks. At the opening session James A. Dumont, the supervising inspector general, presented a large number of communications on different subjects pertaining to the rules of the service and to various devices that will be considered by the board These: matters are all referred to committees and it will be several days before the reports of these committee i ) sare submitted f i - tion by the general body. of AnsGsopetdcrs J. G. Keith and others of Chicago now control th e steame per and Ira Owen. A few weeks ago these vessels were pence. ag A. McVittie, iC. BR. Calder, J. G. Keith and others for $220,000. Now r. McVittie and his associates have sold their interest to id G. Keith and others on a basis of $260,000 for the vessels. ee __ Capt. Fred. La Salle of Duluth was en i : ‘ of L was y much missed at th ineeting of the Lake Carriers Association in Detroit. He has OE ce: ow with heart trouble at his home in Duluth since returning from a oe to Europe, but his friends still have hopes of his recovery, - ‘ a 3 Pe: a A