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4 a 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 Carriers, and improve the char- acter of the service rendered to the public. PRESIDENT. J.J. H. Brown, Buffalo, N. Y. VICE PRESIDENTS. H. H. Brown, Cleveland. C. A. Eddy, Bay City. J. W. Millen, Detroit G. G. Hadley, Toledo W. P. Henry, Bufialo. James McBrier, Erie. J. G. Kent, Chicago, Conrad Starke, Milwaukee. G. A. Tomlinson, Duluth. F. J. Firth, Philadelphia. Frank Owen, Ogdensburg. SECRETARY. Cuar.es H. Kerr, Buffalo, N. Y. TREASURER. Ggorae P. McKay, Cleveland, O. COUNSEL. Harvey D. GouLpDER, Cleveland, 0. COMMITTEE ON FINANCE. H. M. Hanna, Cleveland. D. C. Whitney, Detroit. H. H. Brown, Cleveland. W.P. Henry, Buffalo. James Corrigan, Cleveland. J.J. H. Brown, Buffalo. H. A. Hawgood, Cleveland. David Vance, Milwaukee, Thos. Wilson, Cleveland. R, P. Fitzgerald, Milwaukee. M. A. Bradley, Cleveland. John G. Keith, Chieago. J. C. Gilchrist. Cleveland. J.S. Dunham, Chicago. E. M. Peck, Detroit. COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION. S. D. Caldwell, Buffalo. James Corrigan, Cleveland. James Ash, Buffalo. Wm. Livingston, Detroit. + E. T. Eyans, Buffalo. James Millen, Detroit. Pp. P. Miller, Buffalo. Jesse Spaulding, Chiergo. H. C. French, Buffalo. C. A. Eddy, Bay City. W. Bullard, Buffalo. Alex. MeDougll, _ Dulnth. Edward Smith, Buffalo. ¥F. J. Firth, Philadelphia. H. M. Hanna, Cleveland. COMMITTEE ON AIDS TO NAVIGATION. eP.McKay, Cleveland. W. M. Egan, Chicago. Ween Richardson, Cleveland. Frank Owen, Ogdensburg. H. G@. Dalton, Cleveland. A. W. Colton, Toledo. B.L. Pennington, Cleveland. James Davidson, Bay City. Thomas Wilson, Cleveland. Alvin Neal, Port Huron. John W. Moore, Cleveland. M. M. Drake, Buffalo. W.S. Mack, Cleveland. W. Bullard, Buffalo. David C: Carter, Detroit. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. Loading coal into vessels in ordinary at Ashtabula will soon begin at the car dumping machine. While constructing the Lake Superior & Ishpeming railroad another extensive body of ore was found near Marquette. Capt Arthur Dow has bought the little schooner, Mary formerly owned .by Capt. George Bolson, at United States Marshal’s sale, for $73. St. Clair County, Mich., farmers contemplate organ” izing a stock company for to build or purchase a steamer to carry their products to market. The Northern Michigan Transportation Company has agreed to extend its dock 125 ft. at Petoskey, Mich., for the accommodation of large steamers. Twelve new machines for hoisting ore are to be putin at Brie by the Pennsylvania Company. This will double the present capacity of the company’s dock. Saginaw River saw mills cut 433,683,033 feet of lum- ber during 1895, and have on hand 271,531,851. The cut shows a decrease, as compared with 1894, of 47,500,000. The cut of shingles was 52,845,000, and the amount on hand, is 26,250,000. Mr. J. H. Farwell of Detroit, says: ‘‘I can build every foot of a tunnel under Detroit River, by the aid of open coffer dams, for $3,500,000 and when the work is turned over for the use of the railroads will have $500,000 to put in my own pocket.’’ Bastern shipbuilders are buying up large quantities of the hard white oak that grows on the poor sandy land of Western Michigan. They say it is more com- pact and durable for shipbuilding purposes than any other oak they can find. The allotments between the various Lake Superior ranges by the recent agreement of operators is said to be as follows: Mesaba range, 3,500,000 tons; Vermillion, 1,100,000; Marquette and Menominee, 3,400,000; Gogebic, 2,500,000; total, 10,000,500. Ed. Schneideman, an old and faithful employe of the Goodrich Transportation Co., has just been promoted to the management of the company’s affairs at Racine vice Chas. Thompson, who has been forced to retire on ac— count of failing health. On July 30, 1895, Louis Kiltz fell down a hatchway on the steamer St. Paul and sustained injuries that crip- pied him forlife. He brought suit for $15,000 damages, but the jury found that the owner of the boat did not by his negligence contribute to the accident. Ata meeting of stockholders of the Sandusky & Is- linds Steamboat Co, owning the Arrow and American Bagle, held on the 6th inst., August Schmidt, Jr., was THE MARINE RECORD. elected president and director, vice President A. Wehrle, Sr., deceased. Eugene McFall, purser on the Arrow, was elected general manager. Frank M. Kelley, of Kelley’s Island, will manage the American Kagle. Propellor Pentagoet, late Revenue Cutter Bibb, of the lakes, has been overhauled and is again on the route to Eastport.—American Shipbuilder. zs It is expected that the total appropriations under the river and harbor bill, as reported by the House Com- mittee on River and Harbors, will not exceed $6,000,000. Gladstone shipments for the season of 1895 were as follows: Ore, 109,211 tons; grain, 4,000,000 bushels; flour, 1,200,000 barrels; lumber, 35,000,000 feet; cedar ties, 800,000. Receipts were: Coal, 205,000 tons; mer- chandise, 40,000 tons. The New York State Assembly is considering a bill appropriating $170,000 for six floating elevators for Buf- falo and New York; also a bill appropriating $12,000 to equip with boats and life-saving appliances the volun- teer crews on inland waters. Noopen opposition to either has materialized. Congressman Mahany has introduced a bill authoriz- ing the Lighthouse Board to proceed with the construc- tion of a temporary light and fog signal on North Man- itou Island, to be used uutil a title to property for a per- manent structure can be secured. The annual report of shipments and receipts at Muske- gon for 1495 shows a total tonnage of 441,289. There were thirty-two steamers and sail vessels in the trade. The item of merchandise received and shipped shows an increase of 700,000 tons, equivalent to 3,500 carloads. John Fitzgerald and John Joys have each sold a one- sixth interest in the Neosho to C. H. Starke, for $12.000. Mr. Starke has transferred a twelfth interest each to his two daughters, Mrs. Eliza Gensche and Mrs. Ernes- tine Wallaeger, for nominal considerations. Representative Corliss has reported formerly from the House committee on Interstate and Foreign commerce a bill to provide for telegraphic service between South Manitou Island and Ellen Harbor, Mich, It is to be similar to the service between Thunder Bay Island and Alpena, and for the same purpose. Representative Bishop has introduced resolutions in the House requesting the Secretary of War to inform that body as to the probable cost of deepening the chan- nel into Ludington so as to, admit vessels of 19 feet ee and into Frankfort, to admit vessels drawing 14 eet. Sturgeon Bay M. E&. B. A. has elected and stalled its new set of officers for the year. They are: Wm. O. Helmholtz, president; Oluf Sanders, vice-presi- dent; Chas. O. Chapman, corresponding secretary; Ash- ley Cofrin, financial secretary; Oluf Sanders, treasurer; Joel Ashby, conductor; Henry Dumann, door keeper. J. H. Hill of Flushing, Mich., has invented a destroyer of gunboats and other vessels. It is a hollow brass ball five feet in diameter, ballasted to remain in one position inthe water, to which powerful magnets are attached, which will carry to ball toany steel hull and attach it- self thereto. ‘The explosive is within, and is set off by clock-work. There is little doubt that there is nothing but wind in the feather-brained scheme which was given publicity in the Chicago Times—Herald, concerning a proposed barge line to carry grain between Chicago and New York. Any man who is at all acquainted with the facts could figure the scheme into ruin in five minutes. Who knows better than vessel men how little show 12,000- bushel barges of unquestionable seaworthiness would stand against great ships of 150,000 bushels capacity. The question of expense of traus-shipment speedily dwindles into nothingness, when compared with this handicap. in- Pees eT OTS eae 6 ee 6 ime sr SOUVENIR OF ROACH’S SHIPYARD. W.G. Duffield, of: New York, has just published a very. fine souvenir of Roach’s Shipyard, now better known as the Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding and Engine Works, Chester, Pa. Steel engraved portraits of John Roach, and his son John B. Roach, head the illustrations, which, in addition to a view of the yard, consist largely of fine half-tone pictures of ships built at this yard. The book contains the cards of a number of firms which furnish material to the Delaware River yard, among them the Cleveland City Forge and Iron Co., American Ship Windlass Co.. Ausonia Brass and Copper Co., Pencoyd Iron Works, W. & A. Fletcher Co., and the George F. Blake Manufacturing Co. SUPERVISING INSPECTOR GALWEY’S REPORT. The report of Supervising Inspector Galwey, of the eighth steamboat inspection district, shows that in the Detroit local district there were inspected in the year just ended 166 boats of 49,232 registered tons; Chi- cago, 261 boats, 123,235 tons; Grand Haven, 206 boats, 22,667 tons; Marquette, 107 boats, 4,580 tons; Milwaukee, 245 (boats, 64,867 tons; Port Huron, 214 boats, 56,417 tons; total, 1,199 boats, as against 1,121 the previous year, and 320,988 tons, as against 256,322 tons the pre- vious year. There were'built in the same period at Detroit district 12 boats of 852 registered tons; Chicago 8 boats, 6,422 tons; Grand Haven, 21 boats, 1,108 tons; Marquette, 4 boats, 11 tons; Milwaukee, 12 boats, 109 tons; Port Huron, 26 boats, 14,498 tons; the total is 85 boats, an in- crease of 7 over the previous year; total in tons, 22,951, an increase of 8,823 tons over the year before. It will be seen that in the Port Huron district, which includes the several shipbuilding ports on the St. Clair river, the output was nearly double that of all the other districts combined. There were inspected during the same time 1,449 boil- ers, or 93 more than in the previous year. In the entire district there were licensed 2 masters, 1,233 masters and pilots, 3 mates, 795 first-class pilots, 819 second-class pilots, 95 joint pilot and engineers, 1,486 chief engineers, 969 second and special engineers, a total of 5,402 licenses, an increase over the previous year of 21. ; Seven masters, 59 pilots and 58 engineers were refused licenses. ‘The licenses of 8 masters, 2 pilots and 2 en- gineers were suspended or revoked. Four accidents, causing loss of 8 lives, by explosions or accidental escape of steam happened. Thirty eight steamers were wrecked or foundered, with 33 lives lost. There were 35 collisions. with 6 lives lost. There were 14 accidents by fire. One life was lost by a wreck. 4 by accidental drowning, 4 by miscellaneous causes; 9 were saved by life-saving apparatus carried aboard boats, as required by law. Thirteen steamers went out of service, with a net ton- nage of 4,449. The total in the year before was 8, with a tonnage of 2,427. The amount of property lost by explosion was $10,020; by fire, $6,210 in the Chicago district, $32,800 in Grand Haven, $18,000 in Marqnette, $18,000 in Milwaukee, $5,- in Port Huron; total, $80,010. In Marquette district there was lost $8,000 by snags and in Milwaukee $600. There was lost by wreck or foundering $4,500 in De- troit district, $17,400 in Chicago, $193,000 in Grand Haven, $252,800 in Marquette, $22,040 in Milwaukee, $66,000 in Port Huron; total, $596,240. The total salaries of the district officers amounted to $33,016 93; traveling expenses, $7,128; incidentals, $984; total, $41,130. ———— ED VISIBLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN. As compiled for THE MARINE RECORD by George F. Stone, Secretary Chicago Board of Trade, February 8, 1896. WHERE WHEAT. | COkN oaTS, RYE, BARLEY EES ene Bushels. | Burhels | Bushels, | Bushels. | Bushels, WAtbanyec oo ek eae 60,000} 140 000).......... 45,000 Baltimore 156 000| 1666 000 70 600)» 100 000 eS Boston 1,008 009 850 000 tt pete wee ded ene ieee Rudalooe. 2.456.000] 107,000 30.000) 451.000] 1 192,000 “ Ie KUN eee anh a 223,000]... 250,000 Chicago ‘| 20 932.000} 8431000! 850000) 293,000 21/000 «al 188,00] 3,221,000]: 227,000)... cc eclocc eo. Cincinnati 26,000 6.000| 25.000} 97,000)” 101 660 Detroit. 296,000 28 000 13,000 9,000 6,000 Duluth and Superior..| 9,914.00] 73,009} 803 000|'”” 164 000!" ” 149.600 © SeF afloat! ? Ss OLQMWOF Tie ioc. aes Le oretee Indianapolis......... | , 950000] 20000)........0/. ssc cease e[e NS Kansas City... 1 432,000 5 000 40,000 27.000}.22 Milwaukee... 416 000 DONO kv Seaersiss 202 000 7,000 «afloat THGOOD |. screened DOOOU rcs coal gs ; Minneapolis... 920 144000} 132.600] 824,000!” * 121 000)” 227.000 Mc ntreal..... 2.2.65 427 000 7.000} 192.900 3000] 47,000 New York........-- 4 592 000} 657 000! 1 812 000 22,000) 142000 £§ afloat .... .. 532 000 75,000) 226,000)... 2.2... 178,000 OG eines ae 6000] - 24 000].......... see ease 110 000 Peoriay 26 bee 11.000} ~~ 335.000} 252 000 8000). Philadelphia ......... 441,000; 714.000/ 101 000/..........|.... 1... St, Louis........ ....| 1,828000) 545000} 644 000 6 000 6,000 |" 759 000 "134,000 ee “"" 31,000 “"" 73,000 tae ee 12 000 On Mississip: i........ ie "32,000 187,000 re “16,000 Grand Total, ......... €6,119 000} 12 174,000 16 541,000 BAA SOR a ,000} 1,554 000 2,562,000 1896, Soc ssenceeees 82,322,0U0| 12 883 000! 7.186 000] 364,000! 1.738 000