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disease. It appears to be more rapidly fatal at sea than ashore, and decomposition sets in with appalling rapidity, causing a nauseating odor to prevade the steamer. Disposing of cattle dying aboard is a rather interest- ing operation, though far from being attractive to the uninsured shipper. The steam winch is promptly brought into requisition, and the remains hoisted out by tackle, swung to the side, and dropped overboard. The body floats, a feast for the fishes. The engines are stopped for a few minutes, in order to avoid any fouling with the screw. About as many shippers insure as do not. In policy- holding on horses shipped, the usual charge is 5 per cent for totality, and 8 per cent for mortality. Total- ity, is for total loss of ship axid horses, and even if one horse out of 100 gets ashore alive no insurance is al- lowed. So shippers are careful to see, if there is a totality, that it isa total loss. Mortality, is so much per head, and the amount insured varies according to agreement. Preparing horses for sea ‘is highly important. Of course there are always uninsured losses to be pro- vided against. Nowadays it is considered bad to lose 10 per cent. But horse-shipping is done so well at the present day that there is practically no loss, unless long | spells of bad weather are encountered. This compara- tive immunity from loss is due to the simple process of preparing the horses on land for the long sea-voyage before shipment. This consists in taking them from the fields and stalling them a couple of weeks or so be- fore shipment, also giving them for food the maritime diet—thus accustoming them to the sea-life before go- ing aboard. To horse and live-stock eorrespondents, or those de- sirous of more information concerning the shipping, insurance, etc., the author would say that he will be at all times ready to reply to inquiries, whether addressed direct to ‘‘Rodian, 12 Post Rest, Vladivostock, Kast Siberia,’? or through THE RxEcoRD. Those wanting direct replies of only personal interest will please en- close ten stamps. Most Americans are provokingly ignorant in fancying that two cents will carry their letters all over the uni- verse. Weigh your letters before sending; insufficiently stamped mail is refused. After wintering in the most southerly Pacific port of Siberia until Korea—another of Russia’s geographical necessities—becomes a Moscovite province, the writer proceeds in the early spring on the long and circuitous 8,000-mile overland journey to Paris. WALTER LODIAN. ————— 0 — ne TUGS IN WINTER QUARTERS. Tugs laid up at Buffalo are the Acme, Alpha, WI. Babcock, James Byers, Cascade, O. W. Cheney, Conne- aut, Grace Dauforth, Fabian, S. W. Gee, R. H. Hebard, John Kelderhouse, and KE. C. Maytham. . The following small craft are in ordinary at Lorain Tugs Cascade, Selah Chamberlain, Oscar Fobson, O. J. True, Susie B., Ciscoe, Daisy, and W. H. Moore, dredge Continental, eight scows, five pile drivers, three derrick scows and one freight lighter. The list of tugs laid up at Port Huron comprises the Jim Butler, Dan Runnels, F. J. Haynes, James Adams, W. W. Richardson, A. Sumner, Crosby, J. C. Ingram, Kittie Haight, J. P. Clark, George Brockway,'Sprite, and the dredges of R. J. Cram and McCullum & Lee, Tugs in winter quarters at Sheboygan, Wis., are the Sheboygan, Satisfaction, Fearless, Carrie Currans, and M. &M. The Gunderson Bros., Carrie Walter, Eliza- beth G., Louisa M. for Koehn and Hoffnung Bros. are fishing out of that port. : : Tugs laid up for the winter at Oswego are the Charles Ferris, Cornell, John Navaugh, May Queen, Drake and and William Avery. —<—————— ee The new Hydrographic Office Chart of Lakes Hrie and Ontario, is something no master sailing the lower lakes can afford to be without. It contains the latest infor- mation regarding depths of water, compass variation, lights and fog signals, and includes Lake St. Clair and St. Clair and Detroit Rivers, besides the lower end of Lake Huron, the southern part of Georgian Bay and all of Saginaw Bay. These charts can be obtained at the office of THE MARINE RECORD, No. 144 Superior street, . Cleveland, at 75 cents each. —— SS Postage is 5 cents under % ounce, THE MARINE RECORD. NEWS AROUND THE LAKES. CHICAGO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Fred G. Rogers, chief engineer of the Lehigh Valley Line of steamships is in Chicago this week. C. E. Benham, Ex-Congressman W. J. White and Capt. Joseph Todd of the steamer Say When, of Cleve- land are paying a visit to this city this week. Capt. G. William Chamberlain has been appointed master of the steamer Adella Shores for next senson. Capt. Thos. J. Beggs has been appointed master of the steamer Niks, towing the barge Churchill. This tow will do well under that congenial captain’s frugal management. Ata meeting of Chicago Harbor No. 33, of the Mas- ters’ and Pilots’ Association, held Thursday afternoon, January 2nd, at their hall at the Le Grande Hotel, the following officers were elected for the year 1896: Capt. Chales Hall, captain; Capt. E. J. Buscay, first pilot; Captain Dacodus, second pilot; Capt. A. C. Johnson, captain’s clerk. Captain Geo. Tebo was elected as delegate to attend the annual convention of the Grand Harbor, to be held at Washington, D. C., on January 22nd. Capt. James Shea was initiated as a member. The schooner Churchill was chartered by Captain John Prindiville for corn at 25c., for storage and delivery at Buffalo in the spring Only 2%c. per bushel on corn is the freight for wiu- ter storage and delivery, was offered on Tuesday, by shippers. 25éc. on corn was the ruling freight last week, and vessel agents, on behalf of owners, refuse to take less, as they consider that with the enormous quantity of corn to be forwarded from the western states, freights should be considerably higher later on. W. J. Wilson, assistant in charge of the branch Hy- drographic office at this port gives notice as follows: “Mr. Bronson, Pilot of the U. S. Revenue Cutter Calumet, has reported to this office the existence of a very dangerous obstruction, having twelve feet of water over it at the entrance of the Chicago River. It is sup- posed to have been material dumped from scows, and he was unable to determine the exact nature of the same, when he located it.’”? The obstruction covers over a distance of about 200 feet running east and west, and lies about 165 feet north of the return portion of the easterly breakwater facing the river. The Dunham Company towed the steamer John Plankinton to her winter dock Tuesday morning. The Plahkinton loaded grain about two weeks ago, and when going up the north branch of the river got on the bottom just above Chicago Aventie bridge, where she remained until Tuesday. They towed the steamer Chas. A. Eddy from Cox Bros.’ coal dock to near Madi- son street to her winter quartars, and towed the schooner H. D. Alverson to Cox. Bros.’ dock to unload. The Independent Tug Line towed the barge Galatea Thursday, and the barge Churchill on Saturday to the Rock Island A Blevator to load corn. They towed the steamer KE). C. Pope from South Chicago Saturday, and the steamer City of Genoa to the Youghiogheny Coal Co’s Dock on the North Branch. ‘They started to tow the schooner Mary Mclachlan to South Chicago Tues- day morning, but were prevented by heavy drift ice which they encountered off 18th street, and returned to port. They will tow the barge Iron Cliff from South Chicago to this port. They towed the schooner John Martin from Hines’ lumber yard Slip to the Burl- ington Slip to her winter quarters. WILLIAMS. BUFFALO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record, Capt. M. M. Drake has been appointed a member of the commission of Public Works. Capt. Drake’s thor- ough knowledge of Buffalo’s harbor needs, and also of the requirements of the lake and canal shipping inter- ests, makes him a valuable member of the board, and an influeatial advocate of necessary improvements. The old schooner Columbian, which was sold at U. S. Marshal’s sale here last week, brought $300, being bid in by Walter EK. Chilson, a relative of the owner. There is a great deal of uncertainty as to what caused the death of a great number of fish which are being thrown ashore at this end of the lake as far west as Angola, N. Y., and Crystal Beach, Ont. are gilled, but others show no marks of disease or vio- lence. An ice bridge has formed at Niagara Falls. The real estate exchange has declared by resolution for the construction of the Stony Point breakwater, and for an appropriation of $200,000 for deepening ‘the Niagarariver as far down as Tonawanda. ; PORT HURON. | Special Correspondence to The Marine Record, Colin McLachlan will leave next week for Chicago with a gang of calkers to work upon Mr. McLachlan’s boat. The schooner Fanny Campbell was sold by the Cana- . dian court in admiralty for $650. Captain Ryan, bridge tender, reports that the bridges were turned 2,020 times during 1895, as follows: Mili- tary street bridge, 1,513; Seventh street bridge, 507. The lightship has been moored at Jenkinson & Mc-— Morran’s dock for the winter. KENDALL’ DULUTH AND SUPERIOR. special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Congressman Towne, who has been appointed a mem- ber of the House Committee on Rivers and Harbors, has written to friends here that he hopes to be able to accomplish a good deal for the head of the lakes this session. He expects to introduce a bill providing for the establishment of a branch hydrographic office here. The Duluth & Iron Range Railroad Co. has let a contract to the Barnett & Record Co. for the erection of another iron ore shipping dock at T'wo Harbors. This will be the fifth dock built by the company for the shipment of iron ore. It will be 1,600 feet in length. and over 6,000,000 feet of lumber will be used in its con- struction. The addition of the dock to the already ex- isting facilities for shipping iron ore, will make Two Harbors the largest ore shipping port in the world. CLEVELAND. Mr. EB. P. Motley, of the Thunder Bay Island Life- Saving crew, is spending the winter with his brother, Capt. Charles Motley, of the Cleveland crew. Mr. C. Louis Allen, was married at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Wednesday, to Miss Ella Rempbey: of that city. They will live at No. 44 Root st. Mr. J. R. Oldham has the sympathy of all in his late bereavement in the death of his daughter, Miss Nellie, who passed away very suddenly on New Year’s day. Miss Oldham has assisted her father in his office for three years and more, and was personally well known to many of the lake fraternity. The annual meeting of the Ship Owners’ Dry-Dock Company was held Wednesday. The following direc- tors were elected: Thomas Wilson, Robert Wallace, J. EK. Upson, Valentine Fries, George Stone, H. D. Coffin- berry, and H. D. Goulder. as follows: Thomas Wilson, president; George Stone, vice-president; George L., Quayle, secretary, treasurer and general manager; Gustav Cold, assistant general manager; H. D. Goulder, general counsel. <A 3 per cent semi-annual dividend on stock was declared. The firm of Hawgood & Canfield, vessel brokers, has dissolved. Mr. W. A. Hawgood will continue the busi- ness. OO -rDo a The annual meeting of the W.& M. Railroad Co. will be held at Marinette in January. ‘The directors will submit a proposal to extend the road from Faithorn Junction to Florence, Mich., penetrating the Menominee range. This will greatly increase the transportation facilities of this range. _ oir THE RECORD is in receipt this week of a number of handsome calendars, including one from George B. Car- penter & Co., ship chandlers and sail makers, Chicago, four with excellent reproductions of classical paintings from the Roberts Safety Water Tube Boiler Co,, New York; and-one from the Penberthy Injector Co., Detect The ‘‘Soo line’? which is owned by the Canadian Pacific, contempletes the absorption of the Wisconsin & Michigan and the Lake Michigan Car Transportation Company. This will give C. P. an entrance into Chie cago and will have a marked effect upon the freight traffic. ‘The old officers were elected