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10 GORRESPONDENGE. 8ax-We do not hold ourselves responsible in any way for the views or opinions expressed by our correspondents. It is our desire that all sides of any question affecting the interests or welfare of the lake ma- rine should be fairly represented in THz Marine Recorp. NANTICOKE SHOAL. To the Editor of The Marine Record: Replying to ‘‘Boatswain,”’ I would say that my object in writing to the MARINE RECORD was to gain informa- tion that would be of use to all who are engaged in my occupation; andI am sorry to find that although ‘‘Boat- swain’’ is apparently in close touch with said surveying party, he failed to say anything that would throw light on the subject. As to maps and school boys, there is no doubt about the educational ability of many Canadian school boys nor about the correctness of Canadian maps, but as we do our ploughing on the waters, land charts are of so little use in our business that I doubt if maps of Canada are carried on any United States vessels on our Great Lakes; andas for school boys, they simply “ain’t in it.’ I.don’t want to hurt any person’s feelings except when it is necessary to do so to gain information that will benefit mankind. Iam ready and willing to take any amount of abuse if it will bring out valuable marine information. “Since writing the above I have spent three days in Moor township, Lambton county, Ontario, and asked many school children and others, ranging in age from eightto sixty years, where Nanticoke is, but not one could tell me. By referring to a Canadian postoffice di- rectory we tound that Jarvis is the nearest railroad sta- tion to Nanticoke—distance about 414 miles, about SE. and NW. Iasked a man in the postoffice ifhe had any idea how large a place Nanticoke is. He replied, “I guess it is about the same asthe place you are in,—one postoffice and one inhabitant.”’ - MASTER MARINER. Port Huron, April 11. ED 2 a TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL NOTES. We are pleased to note that the Standard Rope & Twine Co., of New York, have established offices at Cleveland in N»>. 206 Western Reserve Building, where they intend carrying a large and well-assorted stock of the celebrated Sewall & Day cordage of every descrip- tion, including drilling cables, tow linesand all sizes of ordinary rope. The Standard being the largest con- cern in the world in their line and having the best equipped mills, should certainly be in position to pro- tect their customers thoroughly in the matter of price and quality. For half a century the Sewall & Day rope on the Great Lakes has been acknowledged to be with- out a peer and in that time has been sold by ail the leading ship chandlers. Carrying a stock at Cleveland will prove a great convenience to all purchasers of manila and sisal rope. The Almy Water Tube Boiler Co., says the Provi- dence Journal of Commerce, continue to do a good busi- . ness in their marine boilers. Since our lastissue they have shipped four boilers for the ferry boat Camden, now building at the Crescent shipyard, Elizabethport, N. J., for the Pennsylvania Railroad ferry between Philadel- phia and Camden. ‘They have alsoreceived orders for one boiler for the fishing steamer Ethel, owned by B. W. Latham, of Noank, Conn.; one for Henry A. Laugh- lin,.of Pittsburg, Pa., for his yacht Vesta; one for BK. R. & J. H. Ladew of New York city, for their steam- yacht Orienta; one for J. H. Howell, of New York city, for his steamyacht Magnet; one for N. H. Post, of New York city, for his steamyacht now building at Ogdens- burg, N. Y.; one for the Providence Dry-Dock and Marine Railway Co., for use in pumping the water from the dock; alsoone for C. W. Wharton, of Philadelphia, for his steamyacht Chepeta. One of the large contracts which the EF. P. Allis Com- pany, of Milwaukee, Wis., has recently secured is that of the Canal and Claiborne Street Railway company, of New Orleans, La. The company will build and furnish the latter concern’s power-house with two 450 horse- power tandem compound condensing engines, with Reynolds Independent air-pump condensers. The en- gines and condensers will be equipped with the most modern deyices for safety and economy, and will be direct coupled to General Electric Company generators, The machinery of the large pumping plant just com- pleted at Canon City, Col., was partially started up last THE MARINE RECORD. week. The plant consists of a set of 550 horse-power engines of the double compound Corliss duplex pattern, the power being supplied by two boilers of 200 horse- power. ‘The pumps have a capacity of 11,000,000 gal- lons per diem. The gross weight of the pumps is 110 tons, said to be the largest plant of this character ever constructed in-that state, the F. P. Lannon Foundry and Machine Works, at Pueblo, being the manufactur- ers. The King Bridge Company, of Cleveland. has secured a contract to construct a bridge over the Tar River, at Tarboro, N. C., at a cost of $14,950 The superstructure of the bridge will be 510 feet long and of steel. There will also be 30 feet of earth abutment at each end. The bridge will have an 18-foot roadway with a sidewalk on each side. The new mill of the Illinois Steel Company, at Joliet, is doing good work. The second week after starting it made 2,500 gross tons, running both finishing rod trains. It is thought that the capacity can be increased to 600 tons per day, double turn. : The M. T. Davidson Steam Pump Company of New York is executing a contract for the Baltimore & Cantonsville Railroad Company, for four vertical David- son twin air pumps of 25-inch air cylinders, 10 14-inch pressure pumps, and three small pumping engines. The company is also building the air pumps for the United States cruiser Chicago and is.equipping two torpedo boats. ae The recent contract between jhe General Electric and the Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Cos., relative to the - common use of patents of the two companies, was fin- ally executed on April 1, and ratified. It is now re- ported that the agreement isa forerunner of a closer ar- rangement between the two companies and consolida- tion talk is again renewed. . ALPENA, Mich. April 2, 1896. MacKinnon Mfg. Co., Bay City, Mich: GENTLEMEN:—Your wheel furnished the tug Ralph, gives good satisfaction. Think the tug does better work with less fuel than she did with the other wheel that she had. Weconsider this a good wheel. Yours truly, F. W. GILCHRIST. The Cramp Ship and Engine Building Co. have pur- chased the right to manufacture the Yarrow water-tube boiler in the United States. The new boiler works of John Mohr & Son, South Chicago, are nearing completion and will probably be ready for operation in May. The Detroit Dry-dock Co., will install an extensive 2-ton tram rail system, including turntables, etc., for the new shops in its shipyard at Wyandotte. VISIBLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN. As compiled for THE MARINE RECORD by George F. Stone, Secretary Chicago Board of Trade, April 11, 1896: WHEAT, CORN. OATS, RYE, BARLEY ee Bushels. | Bushels. | Bushels, | Bushels, | Bushels, Albany: ......ceceseee| secs serve. 10,000 BOON Nice g amine eaten ata ee Baltimore ............ 105,000]. 614.000) 250,000 WBOO0!,. caccse an Boston's are. co scitcte ici 114,090 36 000. WSTIDOON Ss cceee cree dite ceute wees Buffalo..... 901,000 17,000 32,000] 185,000] 250,000 Ae PALIGAL 3 RAD bie |Ve nied o:ait Um acl pln Spa Biola | ie aie atecaladeieis| Shae cesteMe a RAIL eta e aah Chicago.cc. 32s. .| 17,053,000) 6 443,000) 1,916,000 457,000 17,000 «afloat 1,411,000) 6,781,000) 1,525,000) 2... ee} ee... Cincinnati occ. ees oe 11,000 8 000 20,000 1.000 26 000 Wetroteere akan 247,000 18,000 5,000 13,000 3,000 SG BOAL HEE dis Gviail Rial dbie sis. oveel Os otha aia pre al ia etetacar hae alsea ae anae o eel oar Mee ate Duluth and Superior. ,| 14,352,000 144,000} 1,180 000 220 000 456,000 i *« afloat DBLAOOO a eRe tae esate sillave cites niee Verses Indianapolis ............ 100,000 BI ONG i ssisincs wsisrall as datomueneni ees ee Kansas City,.., 1,220,000] 160,900 66,000 98,000) . . Milwaukee,...... 407,000). 0... eps ee 17,000 271 000 35,000 1 afloat .,... PIG MOO ee eee, QED OOD oo s ei caiave sihewan eee sacs Minneapolis, ..... .| 19,086 000 57.000 739,000 116 000 179,000 Montreal cree atwanisis 907,000 75,000} 417,000 6 000 62,000 New York. .........- 783,000 101,000} 1,484,000 14,000 6,000 ee afloate sis. TOs QOD aioe acave as | ohautaceresipeiall oat ease aire 10,000 Oswegos crs sche Gel es cntaeeeine lowe a oeitae sas ceteinreae aeeaasoe. 17,000 Peoria ....... Beatie. 11,000 17,000} 260 000 Philadelphia ......... 114,000 55,000 132,000 St, Louts33.45 4 879 000! 506,000 oD afloat, 451,000) 30.00.08. MOCO secre oes. 594,000} 701,000 68,000} 115,000 per ee ANOBE DD occa lines Beanies 140,000)... ...... Sil: sistowow anminake cine Toronto ..... 29,000 240001 101,000); <.. osscas 38,000 On Canalin ceeeiis tics |ia sskteckat 8,000 12,000 ON BMOR eae aabiek sic Sanwa Cane Kon ea cueal oe eae On Mississippi... 2...| ..c0..000. 137,000 19,000), as Grand Total, ...,,.... 59,330,000} 16,847,000} 9,250,000) 1,509 900) 1,099,000 Corresponding date Een rae See 70,487,000) 12:221 000] 5,727 000) 213,000) 489,000 | REE SELB IE aL jel Rte OES The Empire Boiler Cleaning Compound, which Mr. Alex C. Bates is introducing on the Great Lakesis rapidly making its way. ‘The last contract closed was for the steamer Castalia. NOTES. : é The bill to repeal the compulsory pilotage system, s far as it affects sailing vessels engaged in the coas' wise trade, was defeated in the House by a vote of 117 to 52. ae At her trial made on April 7, the steam ram Katah- din made a maximum speed of 13% knots for an hour and a half. with two main and one auxiliary boilers in use, under natural draft. During the rest of the time — only the two main boilers were in use. The average speed for the entire run was 11 knots. : The largest electric auxiliary yacht in the world is now being constructed for John Jacob Astor. She is — 72x12x4 feet and will have twin screws run by electric motors of 75h. p., supplied from immense storage bat- teries. She will be schooner rigged, with two Tobin bronze centerboards raised by electric power. The whistle will be blown with compressed air. 3 The Pennsylvania R. R. Co. has contracted for the construction of two large ferry boats, one of which will be built by the Cramp Co., the other by the Charles > Hillman Co., for a new service between its Jersey City Terminal and 23d St., New York, where the company will erect a station to accommodate its up-town passen- ger and freight traffic. The Mohegan, the second of the two iron steamers being built at Roach’s shipyard for the New London Steamboat Co. in connection with the Central Vermont R. R. was launched on Thursday at Chester, Pa. There will be no accominodations for passengers. The steam- ers are 285 ft. in length, and are built for battling with the heavy seas of Long Island Sound during the winter season. The battle-ship Iowa was christened at her launching on March 27th with champagne, as is customary, and not with buttermilk or raspberry vinegar, as some of the folks in the State of Iowa seem to have desired. Something might be said in favor of breaking a bottle — of Congress water, for its name’s sake, on the nose of a __ new battleship, but champagne seems to have done good service at ship christenings heretofore, and doubtless it was felt to be safest to stick to that. Weare told, how- | ever, that sundry officials of the W. C. T. U. of Iowa re- monstrated at the use of it, and that Governor Drake’s daughter, who did the christening, received many let- ters of expostulation. These signs of an abstinent spirit encourage the apprehension that there will be no punch-bowl in the Iowa’s silver service (if she gets one) and no spoons either, for they might be used to stir toddy.—Harper’s Weekly. — anno The Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Com- pavy’s steamers are now running daily (except Sunday) between Detroit and Cleveland. When traveling east or west, north or south, try to arrange to take advan- : tage of these luxurious steamers between Michigan and Ohio. If you are contemplating a summer outing, write A. A. Schantz, G. P. A., Detroit, Mich., for illus- trated pamphlet, which gives full information of a trip to Mackinac via the Coast line. -_ <>. a ‘The proposed improvement of the Wheeling and Lake > Erie terminals and the Huron Dock Co.’s property at Huron, O., contemplates the removal of 350 feet of the government pier, ahd the construction of 1830 feet of dock front and an ore dock 300 feet wide by 8,000 feet long; also the dredging ofa slip 150 feet wide by 800 feet. long and 18 feet deep. ‘The work is all'to be completed by August 1. Copies of the specifications can be seen at the RECORD Office. sem + <> cge PROPOSALS. U. S. ENGINEER OFFIC, 185 Buclid av- enue, Cleveland, O., March 28, 1896, Sealed proposals for removing and re- building part of east pier at Cleveland Harbor, Ohio, will be received here until 2 o’clock p. m., Standard time, April 25, 1896, and then publicly opened. Infor- mation furnished on application. JARED A. Sirs, Lt. Col., Eyng’rs. U. S. ENGINEER OFFICE, Telephone Building, Detroit, Mich., April 4, 1896. Sealed proposals for dredging at several ofthe harbors on east shore of Lake Michigan, between Charlevoix and Mus- kegon, Mich., will be received here until 12 0’clock M., Standard time, April 25, 1896, and then publicly opened. Apply here for information. G. J. LYDECKER, Lt. Col. Eng’rs. 15-17