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il Tn age . “ae eo $2.00 PER YEAR. ESTABLISHED 1878. 10c. SINGLE COPY. VOL. XVIII. ‘CLEVELAND, OHIO, SEPTEMBER 26, 1895. Lake Carriers’ ASSOCIATION. To consider and take action upon all general questions relating to the navigation and carrying business of the Great Lakes, maintain necessary shipping offices and in general to-protect the common interest of Lake Car- riers, and im: rove the character of the service rendered to the public. PRESIDENT. WILLIAM LIVINGSTONE, - Detroit, Mich. SECRETARY. Cuaries H. Keesp, - ‘ - Buffalo, N, Y. TREASURER, Grorce P. McKay, - - Cleveland, O. COUNSEL. Harvey D. Goutper. - Cleveland. O. VICE PRESIDENTS. J. C. Gricurist, Cleveland. Tuos. CRANAGE, Bay City. A. A, ParKER, Detroit. W. S. BRAINARD, Toledo. S, D. CaLpwEL, Buffalo. E. D. Carrsr, _, Efie.; Wiczey M. Eean, Chicago. J.C. RickKETSON, Milwaukee. F, N. LaSAtte, Duluth. F. J. Frrtu, Philadelphia. EXECUTIVE AND FINANCE COMMITTEE, H. M. Hanna,, €leveland, Ohio. D.C. Whitney, Detroit, Mich H, H. Brown, Cleveland, Ohio. W. P. Henry, Buffalo, N. Y. ames Corrigan, Cleveland, Ohio. 5 J. H. Brown, Buffalo, N. Y. i Hawezood, Cleveland, Ohio. avid Vance, Milwaukee, Wis. Thomas Wilson, Cleveland, Ohio. R. P. Fitzgerald, Milwaukee, Wis.. M. A. Bradley, Cleveland, Ohio. John G. Keith, Chicago, Ill. . C. Gilchrisf, Cleveland, Ohio. j. S. Dunham, Chicago, Til. . M. Peck, Detroit, Mich. COMMITTEE ON AIDS TO NAVIGATION: W.C. Richardson, Cleveland. Ohio. W. M. Egan, Chicago, IIl. George P. McKay, Cleveland, Ohio. Frank Owen, Ogdensburg, N. Y. H. G. Dalton, Cleveland, Ohio. A. W. Colton, Toledo, Ohio. B. L. Pennington, Cleveland, Ohio. James Davidson, Bay City, Mich. Thomas Wilson, Cleveland, Ohio. Alvin Neal, Port Huron, Mich, John W Moore, Cleveland, Ohio. M. M. Drake, Buffalo, N. Y. W.S, Mack, Cleveland; Ohio. W. Bullard, Buffalo, N, Y. David C. Carter, Detroit, Mich, COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION: S. D. Caldwell, Buffalo, N. Y. yemes Corrigan, Cleveland, Ohio. James Ash, Buffalo, N. Y, m. Livingstone, Detroit, Mich. E. T. Evans, Buffalo, N.Y. James Millen, Detroit, Mich. P. P. Miller, Buffalo, N. Y, Jesse Spaulding, Chicago, Ill. John Gordon, Buffalo, -N\ y. C. A. Eddy, Bay City, Mich. W. Bullard, Buffalo, N. Y. Alex. McDougall, Duluth, Minn, Edward Smith, Buffalo, N. Y. F. J, Firth, Philadelphia, Pa. H. M. Hanna, Cleveland, Ohio. NEWLY ENROLLED TONNAGE. Following isa list of lake vessels to which official numbers and signal letters have been assigned by the . Commissioner of Navigation, for the week ended Sept. 14: § TONNAGE. é Official | Rig, Name. —___________| Home Port. | Where Built. No, Gross. | Net. 107,191|St. s. | Adele 9 65 6 56| Detroit Mt, Clemens 127,106] St.y.s |Cynthia 103 76 70 56) Detroit Detroit 77,195|St.y.s:| J. S. 7.90 5.37| Detroit Detroit 98,129|St.s, |Zenith City 3 850.49] 3 429.06] Duluth Chicago 127,107|Cat |Carrie L. 8 82 8.32|Cleveland Pt, Clinton 155,278)Sch. |Oak Leat 93 06 82.54| Detroit Gibraltar ——— Pee ee IMPROMPTU REPAIR WORK. Capt. Harris arrived in harbor on Friday last with his tug Seagull. He was safe and sound, but his boat did not come through the heavy storms which he en- countered quite so safely. The captain in speaking of the matter says that he was at Kettle Point making up his raft when the Wednesday gale struck him which blew so hard here, but asit came off the land it did not effect him in the least. It was the blow of the following Fri- day night that gave him a shaking up that he will not forget for some time. It blew a perfect gale for ten hours. He ran into Kettle Point harbor, but he was no safer there than if he had been on open water. ‘The anchcrage was good, so he dropped his anchor, but it would not hold, and he was fast drifting on the rock when he threw out the other one, which held a short time, when the chain parted and the stern of the boat struck the rock, breaking the rudder, and injuring some of the plank in her bottom which started her to leak. For- tunately steam was kept up and the engine was put in ' motion, which kept the craft off the rock until the wind abated. ‘The rudder was then taken off and teamed back -into the country, where there wasa blacksmith who made the necessary repairs. Afterit was again put in position ‘the captain ran down to Sarnia, where he secured another anchor-and then went back, hitched onto the raft, Which had in the meantime again been repaired, and brought it down to Marine City safely.—Wallaceburg Herald. EEE From the New York Marine Journal, A DOWN EAST SHIP BUILDER OUT WEST. CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 14, 1895. To the Editor of the Marine Journal: Iam troubled in spirit! all the romance in shipbaila- ing was taken out of me to-day, while visiting the Cleveland Ship Building Company’s yard. I had not been in a modern yard for fifteen or twenty years. Then the ribs were shaped from keel to gun’l, in one piece, and you could see some symmetry of shape, even in the primary stages of construction. To-day Ilook on 418 feet in -length,’a part of the floor completed, some sections receiving floor and foothooks, and then one dead level of top construction, making of the bottom (say three feet average depth), one huge (subdivided) water tank (ballast). This ship (steam) will draw 3 feet light with ballast 7 feet, and carry 5,000 tons of ore. Machinery does a large portion of all the work, punch- ing, shearing, lifting, placing, hugging, everything except designing. ‘That asin our past observations of lake construction was always on the lines of utility, and not for symmetry; we never accused them of wasting any labor on that, in the old days. In fact one ‘‘Down Fast’? shipmaster told me with solemn face, that he passed Hatteras in rough weather 24 hours after a lake built craft that we loaded, had passed, and the water was stillsmooth in the wake she had left. (It wasn’t “Steve Babbidge” who told the story either.) I guess they are building strong boats now. if good steel and plenty of rivets produce that result. But there is no music in metallic thuds, and we who are on the gray side must give place to the thuddists of to-day, who show us how to carry 5,000 tons with the expense not increased above cost of moving 1,000 five years ago. Shipyards 1,000 feet long and 100 feet wide suffice for room to construct two five thousand tons capacity steamships, and‘a little ‘‘crik’’ 60 feet wide suffices for room tolaunchthem! Neptune, goodnight. Ben! yoke up the oxen, let’s drive home. ‘“WOOD-CHUCK.”’ NOTES. THE cruiser Brooklys will be launched Oct.2. THE Cramps have declined‘to dock the battleship In- diana at Port Royal, and she will have to go to the_ British dock at Halifax. THE principal newspaper of Japan, the Jiji Shimpo, urges upon the government the advantages of Japan buying war vessels in the United States. many reasons given for this course, among them being the first class quality of the American vessels in every regard as war craft, the sound policy of buying vessels © from a country having the least chance of becoming in- volved in Asiatic complications, and from a ‘country that is already about the best customer ae Japanese - products. SHIPPING, a° highly iustrated English marine maga- zine prints in its issue of September 1, a picture of the whaleback steamer Christopher Columbus, and describes her as a “‘typical American river steamer.’’ This maga- zine also contains a highly interesting criticism of the Cunard line management for over rating and valuing the tonnage owned by this company, and pointing out the reasons why ‘‘regrets,’’ instead of dividends, are be-- ing disbursed among stockholders by the directors. A STEERING telegraph, invented by Lieutenant Fiske, U.S. N., is being applied to United States naval ves: sels. Transmitters placed in the pilot house, on the- bridge and in the conning tower are connected depend- ently to two receivers, or indicators, one near the steer- ing engine and one near the hand wheels on the after part of the upper decks. In event of an-accident the helmsman has simply to step to a transmitter of the steering telegraph and move the little lever exactly as though it were the helm of the ship, thereby indicating to the man stationed at the stéering engine (or hand wheels) exactly how he wishes the helm to be placed. Each indicator, or receiver, is simply a very large gal- vanometer, of whichthe needle moves over a scale that is marked ‘‘port’’ and ‘‘starboard’’ and is graduated in- degrees of angle. =-na<namnxn«wwoa—a 20 PERSONAL. Mr. James Graham, the Detroit fuel dock manager, spent a couple of days in Cleveland last week, looking after his trade. President William Livingstone, of the Lake Carriers’ : convention was in attendance at the sessions of the deep waterways convention this week. Capt. Charles Tuffts, keeper of the U.S: life- saving’ station at Ludington, has gone, under orders from Gen. Supt. Kimball, at Washington, to the Atlanta Exposi- tion, to take charge of the life-saving exhibit to be. made there by the department. The firm of Fisher & Porter, will be dissolved by mu- tual consent on September 30th. Mr. Albert Fisher will retaln their present office, Room 1025, Monadnock Block and will represent Wm. Todd & Co., of Youngstown, O:, on their high grade and heavy duty engines, rolling mill‘ and blast furnace machinery. Mr. H. F. J. Porter, will > retain the agency of the Bethlehem Iron Co., and ae ry move to Room 1433 Marquette Building. so 4 NO. 39. There are