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VOL XIX, NO.3. - FL CLEVELAND, OHIO, JANUARY 16, 1896, $2 PER YEAR. 10c. SINGLE COPY. i THE LAKE CARRIERS’ NEW PRESIDENT. (SEE WLLUSTRATION.) .Capt.JdeteoH. Brown,¥the newly chosen president of ‘the Lake CarrierS”NS86ciation, is a native of Ohio, hav- ing been born in Cleveland in 1838. He began sailing on the Great Lakes at the age of 12 years, and when he approached young manhood, sembled, That the committee heretofore appointed by the President, under and by virtue of the provisions of the sundry civil act of March 2, 1895, chapter 189, 28 statutes, 910 to 950, and known as the International Deep Waterways Commission, to make inquiry and in- vestigate as to the feasibility of constructing a deep- water channel between the Great Lakes and the Atlan- spent three or four years at sea. He then returned to the lakes and sailed until 1877, being in command of vessels during the last 12 years of that period. In 1877, Capt. Brown decided to remain permanently on shore, and entered the vessel _ broketage business at Buffalo with Daniel Rodgers, under the firm name of Rodgers & Brown. In 1885 Capt. Rodg- ers died, and the firm has since continued under its present name of Brown & Co. Ever since the present or- ganization of the Lake Car- riers’ Association. | Capt. Brown has been prominent and active in the association’s work at the foot of the lakes. He is peculiarly adapted for solving knotty problems, and for overcoming apparently insurmountable difficulties. To his untiring efforts and unremitting watchfulness was due chiefly the success of the Lake Carriers’ two great crusades in Buffalo—against the excessive charges made for shoveling grain, and against the fueling abuses practiced by coal shippers. His tact is so remarkable that his insistence in these matters was felt no more than is the pressure of the atmosphere about us, but it performed as great results as does that at- “mosphere when compressed and directed in an effective manner. The brokerage firm of Brown & Co. is one of the most extensive of its kind in Buffalo, and its bulletins and predictions in freight matters are looked upon as the highest authority. Capt. Brown is eminently qualified for the duties of the position he has been selected to fill, and mem- bers of the association may rest assured that he will per- form his executive duties in a manner at once thorough, conservative and wise. ——_3.2—_____ THE DAM PROJECT INVESTIGATION. The full text of the bill introduced by Senator Brice, on the 3rd inst., is as follows: _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- tives of the United States of America in Congress ‘as- of Canada, to make an inquiry to Congress as soon as practicable as to what concurrent legislation is required on the part of the United States and of Great Britain or the Dominion of Canada to authorize and permit the erection and maintenance of any dam or dams or other works that may be necessary to regulate the waters of the Great Lakes and maintain them practically at a uniform level, from the head of Lake Superior to the foot of Lake Erie. Suc. 2. That said commit- tee, either by themselves or in conjunction with said com- mittee of Great Britain or the Dominion of Canada, are fur- ther authorized and directed to make an inquiry and an investigation as to whether in their opinion it is practic- able to control the waters of the Great Lakes and main- tain them at substantially a uniform level at all seasons of the year by a dam or dams or other works placed in the Niagara River at the outlet of Lake Erie, and by a sys- tem of wing dams or other structures placed in the De- troit River, and in the St. Clair River, and in the Sanlt S.e. Marie or St. Mary’s River, at or near the re- spective outlets of Lakes St. Clair, Huron and Superior; and if so, to furnish an es- timate of the probable cost of said structures, together with an estimate of the probable length of time required to build the same under any plan submitted, and report the results of such inquiry and investigation to Congress at as early a day as practic- able. : SEc. 3, That the sum of $——., or so much thereof as may be required to pay the actual traveling and other necessary expenses of said committee, is hereby appro- priated for that purpose. Cg eat CLEAN BOILERS. The importance of keeping the tubes of a boiler clean, not fairly clean, but clean, was brought home to usin a very impressive manner by the re- view of atest recently meade by a well known expert, znd which we hope to publish shortly in detail..A horizon- tal tubular boiler of ordinary size and proportions was given a thorough cleaning in- side and out, and then put under test, frequent observa- tions of the coal consumed, water evaporet.d and up-take temperatures being made. From the beginning to the end of the test, extending over a number of days, there Was a progressive increase in the coal required to evapo- rate a given quantity of wa- CAPT. J. H. H. BROWN, President for 1896 of the Lake Carriers’ Association. “tic Ocean, in addition to the duties devoiving upon and required of them by that act, are hereby directed and required, either by themselves or in conjunction with a similar committee which may be or has been appointed by the government of Great Britain or of the Dominion ter and in the stack tempera- ture. <A repetition of the test with a device in service which scraped the tubes while the boiler was in use, showed a maintenance of the initial efficiency, and quite a considerable increase in the aver- age efficiency as compared with the boiler as ordinarily run. Keep your heating surface clean. It is worth while, especially if you have not much of it,—Power,