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Lg 1878. ESTABLISHED PUBLISHED EVERY Peete AT 144 SuPERIOR ST., (LEADER BUILDING), CLEVELAND, oO. GEO. L. SMITH, ) IRVING B. SMITH, $ WILLIAM L. MCCORMICK, - SOS - PROPRIETORS. EDITOR. BRANCH OFFICE, CHICAGO, ILL., - - - - 238 Lake Street. THOMAS WILLIAMS, Associate Editor, SUBSCRIPTION. One copy, one year, postage paid, - - - One copy, one year, to foreign countries, - Invariably in advance. $2.00. $3.00. ADVERTISING. Rates given on application. All communications should be addressed to SMITH & SMITH, 144 Superior Street, CLEVELAND, O. Entered at Cleveland Postoffice as Second-Class Mail Matter. CLEVELAND, O., JANUARY 2, 1896. LIS THERE is such unanimity of opinion in regard to the need for placing dams at the foot of Lake Erie in order to bring the level up to the point necessary for safe and profitable navigation that Congress will undoubtedly give it the attention it deserves. Senator Brice is conducting the campaign in the Senate, and Mr. Griswold of Penn- sylvania finds all the Congressmen of the lake region heartily with him in his championship of the same end. While local appropriations will undoubtedly be cut down the more on this account, yet the proposed improvement will prove of such general benefit that this can well be suffered. rr eo tt THERE should be an extra large turnout of the lake captains at the grand lodge of the Ship Masters’ Associa- tion at Washington this month. There is a great deal of legislation pending in which the masters are vitally in- terested both as captains and as owners, and they should make the best of opportunities which will be given them in the shape of hearings before committees. The same diligence should also be exercised by the marine en- gineers, whose national organization will also meet at the capital this month. Some bills have been offered directly trom the M. E. B. A:, and will doubtless be looked after. rr 0 tr Tue Secretary of the Treasury found himself con- fronted by precedent, and was unable to allow the Union Iron Works, of San Francisco, to amend its bid on the battleship, because Secretary Tracy had established a rule which allowed bidders to “scale down” only when their hid came within 3 per cent of the bid offered by the successful competitors. Such a general rule is cer- tainly wise, as unlimited amendment would demoralize business for the ship builders, as well as make endless trouble for the government; but it seems that if a man is capable of performing the general duties of the Navy Department, he knows enough to be permitted to exer- cise some personal discretion in awarding contracts. The British Admiralty is unhampered in this respect and is permitted to bargain for warships just as a pri- vate individual or company would arrange for a mer- chant vessel. The Admiralty has gone so far in this as to draw upon itself the just criticism of the marine press of England, because one builder is to receive sev- eral thousand pounds less for building a war ship than is another builder, in a different locality, for a duplicate vessel. It might, however, be to the interest of Ameri- can shipping interests, both constructive and commer- cial, if the government were allowed to excercise the freedom of an individual in bargaining for war vessels, THE MARINE RECORD. LAKE DISASTERS OF 1895... There occurred during the past. season about 1,000 casualties on the lakes which have occasioned losses.of amounts large enough to enter into recapitulations of underwriters. During the past season steel boats have been insured at from 25% to 3 per cent of their value on yearly policies, covering not only losses to which they may be subjected, but also for liability for collisions, in which they are held liable for the loss of the other boat. Wooden steamers of Al class have’ been charged about 1 per cent more, largely on account of the increased fire risk. For lower classes the charges have been all the way from6to15 per cent. The greatest: interest at- taches among underwriters to steel boats, owing to keen foreign ‘competion. for these risks.: Following have been the losses on that class of boats. Collision, $421,869; ashore, $211,118; disasters in Sault. passage, $154,879; fire, $232,000; Detroit to Lake Erie, | $48,150; aground at Grosse Pointe, $20,140; disabled, $9,930. Losses from various other causes, with a fair es- timate of repairs to be made during the winter, bring the. total on steel boats for the year to about $1,100,000. On wooden steamers and schooners of Al class losees were $529,514. ‘The main. items were: Collision, $167,082; disasters in Sault passage, $98, 943) ashore, $74,496; fire, $52, 325; ‘Grosse Pointe’ strandings, $43,742; strandings in Detroit river to Lake Erie, $28,-. 909; disabled, dismasted, etc., $25,931; foundered, $85,000. The losses on A2 boats from Rong ashore form the largest item.. The list is: Ashore, $146,650; Grosse | Pointe, $7,592; mishaps in - Sault passage, $52.017; collision, $65,918; disabled, $22,908; foundered, $53,500; fire, $60,875; groundings in Detroit river to Lake Erie, $6,975. The losses on A2 boats from ~ all causes aggregated $374, 458. 3 On A1% boats losses were $44,322, . land oy $13, 950. Comparatively few boats of Bl rating are insured, owing to high rates. Estimates on that class are $32,493. The grand total of losses on boats reached $2,096,697, divided as to cause, as follows: Collision, $667,369; ashore, $476,914; disasters in Sault passage, $301,429; fire, $346,445; strandings from Detroit to Lake Erie, $140,611; disabled, $70,777; Grosse Pointe strandings, $71,374. ‘ A list of total losses of lake craft of the" various classes, valued at about 1,300,000. follows: SCHOONERS. este ¢ Date, NAME CasSuALTY VALUE. PiScembersecigikes see vt Adams, G, W , .,Sunk byice ..| $35 000 Alzora (Br, RE {Wreckea..... | 1,000 September 19.............- Ames, Gy eo cece c| WheCheGt, 1. 500 Arctiegsnsh tis. Collision | 1,600 Atwater, S. T 3,500 October 26,,..........-..-.|Bell, Mattie C 10 000 Brown, Ida May 600 October 20:........ Bote Bruce, B, F ‘ 15,000 - ‘September 20:. 0... ...5.0%% “|Carney, R. J 2,00.) ORGD GENO ccc. oc. sue aectes Commerce. Wrecked,.... 7,000 September 24.............. Comstock, A. W Foundered .., 45.000 November 20. . ...|Dauntless ... , ,..|Foundered.,.. 800 October 26.. ,| Vavis, G. W.; :«,|Foundered,,.. 5,000 October Agee Duff, Nellie A ..|Foundered.... 800 September 30..... .s.....-- Blma cia. sce een emee Wrecked.,... 4 000 October 19k, goss. scnees se Ellsworth, Col........ Wrecked .,... 3,000 AUCUB Oy op ociieetises +008 Perretiic cco Reemee Collision ...,. 1,000 JUNEAU eae ewe sed chase cg Greenwood, W.T.,,.,|Wrecked...., 300 6,000 2,000 October 1... 600 October 6... 5,000 September 2 A : 3,500 Qptober 1G rr a rencede case’ Johnson, €. Noni Poundered,. .. 3.000 May UG (cassccceuiedacssasirt Kelley, Kate.. ..,.,,|Foundered,,.. 3,000 September 29............005 Kent; H A Wreckei,. 2. 16,000 Th ay ON ia ae enero Kimball, S, H, ,.|Collision ,..., 1,000 September 26; 6.0 iss tse e's King, C.A ...| Poundered 2,500 September 30........000005 Lady Franklin ..| Wrecked... ., 2,000 AE Gr pies ie Dea Wrecked... ., 300 Septemiber 18.......0...000% Magruder, J, Wrecked... .. 1.000 October Biscs:ccs.nesrweewes Mary [Br,]............]Collision....., 5 009 Monitor |... .......0.4| Wrecked, 3 :, 500. September 29.0... si... ..000: Moonlight.........5.. Wrecked,,.., 23,000 October 18, 0c: sceiseactnut Mystic 2,500 October'262.\. dears. semen Nicholson, &. A, 18,000 Northwest oper . 200 October 11... vues -aase0 es RIOR Fs cage os cider Wrecked..... 1,500 ‘Phantom... 6. sti Wrecked .,,.. 300 September 24,.....,...0005 Queen City..... 0.0... Wrecked ..... 18 900 September.10). 05.3... .s 050s Raber, John,,........ Wrecked ,.... | 1,000 October:16.%... 55 csswaes poe Red, White and Blue, Wrecked | 5,000 October:6;cccsscbbeenryoet Reindeer............. Wrecked... ,| 1,000 Reput lic ..{Foundered,,.. 2,500 Octo per-OT eet cbssvavee es Richards ...|Roundered.,, .| 17,000 MOVER ss kee cacti Wrecked .... 5,000 Motober A. 00s seeone sivas STALE 0 ERE Ree Wrecked ,... 2,500 September 23... .5.......0.0% Williams, E; R....... Foundered..,. 2,000 |Worts, J. (Cuvee ABs f | Wrecked , 6,500 TUGS. Dare. NAME. |; CasuaLty, VALUE. December (io. cin: 89s ciocank Campbell, P. B,.... ia, Foundered. 0 Nea Bix ...|Evenson, John, .;,.;/Collision ...., ro ecember15...... ........ OVO Se ee gece Sunk by ice 12,000 Wells Co Wei ssccbes Burned,...... 7000 = ie ieee ee : oy STEAMERS. D.aTE. NAME CASUALTY, Whius, : ; rast ubephy Bead : SPH A as | Africay ce ey: _|Foundered..,.|. $12,000 October d6r2 uss ss tese ees Allmen dinger, Je M._||Wrecked..... 000 September 26 . ,|Barker, oe ‘\Burned:,.... a 8,000 August 24... Burlington . , ...|Burned . 12,600 May 11..... Cayuga :.... *__ Collision’ 225 000 January: 24 5 nics seesie oe wsacete Chicora i. |Sunk by-ice..| Ds 000 Gibdige ewe te: Burned |....,| 127,000 Domiwion ,.....7.-+-- Wrecked,,...} _ 1500 April » ude cg Seta ee rear Everett, A..........-. Sunk by ice., 50,000 AY Aina cticah beck unis nee Fairbank, N. .K ;| Burned... 4... , 100 November 22............... Groh, Michael Wrecked 9,000 aka Ae = et Wrecked, .4 3,000 Séptember 29.. .|Kershaw, C. J.. Wrecked..... 45,000 November 4,,, Missoula.,. 22 2Ji0T.ex Romie wei 95 900 May 81 coos nica on cnen sece a NOLAN oes deeh ae ard goearits 160,000 5 : Otego. _|Burned., “Th > 5° 9,000 St. Macates (Br). .|Burned,,....4] 5.000 October 26,. .|Sheriffs, Jim. .....-.-. ‘lWrecked..... 80,000 The ta year’s Fed ended with the ‘practical destruc- tion on Tuesday by fire of the Graham & Morton steamer Puritan, which was lying in winter quarters at Manis- tee. She burned to the water’s edge, and her machinery is thought to be ruined. She was built in 1887 by Ran- dall, of Benton Harbor, ata cost of $70, 000, and was valued in last year’s Lloyds at $30,000, rating A 1 and measuring 163 tons net. She was one of the fastest of the smaller class of steamers and was fully insured. - THE SHIP MASTERS’ ASSOQIATION. ‘CLEVELAND LODGE. Cleveland Lodge No. 4, of. the Ship. Masters’ ‘Reoae tion met in regular weekly session at their rooms.on Water Street last Friday, and elected the following officers for the year; president, J..A. Holmes; first. vice president, Richard Neville; second. vice: président, Wik i - liam Cumming; treasurer, Thomas:Jones; financial sec- — retary, W. W. Brown; recording secretary, Robert Prin- gle. Delegates to the grand lodge, which will be held at Washington, January 22, will. be PPReDetS to- morrow. : The lodge took action formdtix ites ane ‘azainee any changes in the laws governing fog’ signals, and in- structed the ‘secretary to forward to Sone Se, Burton and Beach: noticesof their action. - Captains W. Ai Collier, Clint Ennes, C. E. Hewbau Charles Wallace, John McNeff, Robert Pringle, and Richard Neville-were appointed acommittee of arrange- ments for the annual ball.: Negi ih . CAPT. CLARK'S. MEDAIs:.. . , ri Alex Clark, who was the first erccideat of the “Ship Masters’ Association, and whois practically its founder, has received the gold medal badge voted to him by the grand lodge at its last antiual* meeting. - Capt. Clark was.for seven years president of the asso- ciation, and was then retired only because he insisted upon it, The badge is mounted on red silk and is pend- ant from two bars. On the upper bar isa rising sun witha diamond in the center, the legend--on the bar being, “Past Grand - President, S.-M. :A,’’ and the hanger being a triangle with a sun in the «center. At each angléis a jewel representing the nautical. colors— ~ garnet and emerald for the port and starboard lights, » and diamond for the masthead lights, with-a“larger diamond for the center 6f the sun.- The lower bar bears two crossed anchors,; from which is suspended.a large medal on which is engraved the figure of a steamship, » brigantine rigged. All is solid gold except the — ee ce ee anne ean Fe ALPENA’S LAKE SHIPMENTS-FOR 1895." The total amount of lumber, shingles, lath, cedar posts, railway ties, etc., shipped from*-this port, «since the opening of navigation in 1895, by. vessels that te-~ ported at the Alpena custom house; is contained inthe © following: Lumber, feet, 124,878,000; shingles, 11,425,- 000; lath, 8,916,000; cedar posts, 658,5003 railway ties, 614,900; staves, 300,000; telegraph poles, 7,900; -pail - bolts, cords, 733; cords of cedar, 760; tan bark, cords, - 100. f < 3 — De LIEUT. BLOW’S SUCCESSOR. Lieut. Charles S. Ripley, of the United..States navy, is appointed successor to Lient. Blow as officer in charge of the hydrographic department of the Great Lakes. Lieut. Ripley comes from coast survey schooner. Ergre. He was appointed naval cadet in 1875, midshipman in 1881, ensign in 1883 and lietenant i in 1891, rr THE citizens of Brooklyn have raised $10, ,701. 57 to purchase a silver service for the cruiser Brooklyn. De- signs will be submitted on January 15. =