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THE MARINE RECORD. 7 FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. The depth of water in Sturgeon Bay canal is 13.7 feet. There is only about 9 feet of water at Peshtigo, Wis., There is 14 feet 10 inches of water in Sheboygan, Wis. harbor. William Marshall has been appointed keeper of the new Round Island light-station. Lake Superior transportation companies want the government to acquire Torch Lake Canal. The Darius Cole and City of Toledo will begin daily trips between Detroit and Toledo on June 10. The construction of a lighthouse on the pier at Port Clinton has,been ordered, and it will probably be built before July. The M. I. Wilcox Cordage & Supply Co., have pur- chased the tug Jessie P. Logie, and will operate her as a delivery boat. The Argo now tows the Johu O’Neil, Chas. Wall, and Nelson Bloom. The tow has a lumber capacity approx- imating 5,000,000 feet. R. D. MacKay, of Hamilton, has purchased the steam barge Sir S. L. Tilley, Collingwood, and her consort, tke schooner Merritt. Frank R. Bogan has been appointed keeper, Thomas Gallager assistant and Wm. A. Burke second assistant at Spectacle Reef Light. The tug Silver Spray will be stationed at Copper Harbor this summer, with Capt. Purdy, of Whitefish Point, as master, and Wm. Scott as engineer. B. B. Inman has libeled the tug Medina at Superior, in a claim of $4,- 921.15 as a result of colliding with and sinking the tug Pathfinder on Sept. 1, 1895. Joseph Beauvais and A. lL. Coulter, of Charlevoix, have begun work on the new :passenger dock at Mackinaw City, and will push it through to com- pletion. The Northern Steamship Co. has bought the schooner S. Clement from Capt. B. B. Inman, and will use her as a lighter for harbor work at Duluth and Superior. Sidney Cranston, the deck-hand on the Neosho, whose skull was fractured by a fall into the hold of the Neosho, has been operated upon by the Tracy Hospital, Escanaba, and may survive. On the recommendation of Hon. J. F. Wood, comptroller of inland rev- enue, an order in council has been passed abolishing the fee of 50 cents charge to owners of vessels navigat- ing the inland jwaters of Canada for entering or clearing at a port. badly and they fired distress signals with their guns. The party were landed at Ashtabula and returned to Detroit on the Sawyer. f.Capt. A. B. McArthur, formerly of the Christopher Columbus, while on his way to Duluth to take out the new whaleback steamer narrowly escaped drowning at the Sault Sunday night. In getting ashore from the B. lL. Pennington at the lower government dock, he fell into the river and was rescued very much exhausted by the Pennington’s crew. Traffic through the St. Mary’s Falls canal was de- layed ten hours, from 8 p. m. Thursday to6 a. m. Fri- day, by the breaking of one of the pipes connecting the valve engines at the lower entrance of the canal. About two-thirds of the water had to be pumped out before an- other valve could be putin. Repairs were made in re- markably quick time. ‘The Cananian ship canal opened for service at 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon. was the American steamer Thomas Cranage. The opening of the canal greatly reduced the number of boats of the big fleet which had been detained from 24 to 36 hours allweek. From 40 to50 boats were awaiting lockage allthe week, and the lock force was kept decid- edly busy. EEE aS — VISIBLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN. As compiled for THE MARINE RECORD by George F. The Benton Harbor & THastern Transit Co. has organized with $1,- 000,000 capital stock. One hundred miles of railroad will be built and a line of steamers operated to Chicago and Milwaukee. Chicago men are in the enterprise. Keeper John Nolen, of Gull Rock Light, writes THE REcORD that on May 2, the tug A. W. Colton, passed around Keweenaw Point with a raft of logs containing 3,000,000 feet of lumber, owned by the Nestor estate. This is the earliest date on record fora raft to round Keweenaw Point. Mrs. Helen M. Young has taken out a license at Cin- cinnati as mate of a steam vessel, and is acting as mate on the steamer Lee H. Brooks. Mrs. Callie I. French, of New Orleans, recently renewed her license as master and pilot on the Ohio and Mississippi River. She is captain of the Ruth. Nearly 20,000,000 feet of lumber was destroyed by fire at Ashland Sunday. Three lives were lost, and the money loss is $478,000, on which their is an insurance of $350,000. The Shores Lumber Co., lost $250,000 on plant and dock and 140,000 on lumber stocks. The losses of other parties aggregated $88,000. Capt. Johnson, of the Cambria, on her last trip down, was called to the assistance of the yacht Cass, of De- troit, with five Detroit men aboard, including the owner, George Lewis. The party had been on a fishing ex_ursion, and had gotthe yacht aground on Pelee Is- land Reef. After she was released she began leaking THE CHASE TOWING MACHINE. Stone, Secretary Chicago Board of Trade, May 9, 1896: WHEAT. CORN. OATS, RYE, BARLEY EU oe Bushels. | Bushels. | Bushels, | Bushels, | Bushels, Albany ooh oa cissitisceisoei| sinalsisaie¢ 60,000 BOS000 eee ee daclisseccciesnec Baltimore 35.455 5.22. 315,000 323 000 121,000 821000) 55h od elamrd BOSTON 2 taaisccisistaters oxsicts 91,000 242 000 27,000). oseisigmieinss 20,000 Buffalo, ey rnates 1,252,000 507,000 359,000 268,000 215,000 SeeeaTlOOU tt. Reale chal sigarsks caiaal liv sielels ie erste tiaras esteeieres4 sib paint |inisinsist ouieee Chicago EE eae: 15 242,000} 6 142,000! 2,347,000 366,000 10,000 Ge PAMOALS cieicleleicinil'= Ses ioleloiale’silla elelehaieio ow ollie Sivinie W bile o|l‘a'a’ou ae aiateeilialciele <b bininie Cincinnati ae ices 9,000 2 000 29,000 1000 30,000 Detrothy Ry. cheese 205,000 22,000 , Sa aanloat rindi.) Wiehe. 5)| Soaaiauaies Duluth ana Superior..| 9,736,000].......... a fh rahloatliancecad sun ota atte ds oe Indianapolis 68,000 18,000 Kansas City, , 1,102,000 76,900 Milwaukee..,.. 820,000 2,000 se afloat ..... Skat eels SSReten Minneapolis,......... 17 907 000 64000} 722 000 Montreal iis csia. aaisien 681.000 51,000 429,000 6 000 61,000 New York... ......- 874.000 955,000} 1,401,000 9,000 1,000 << afloat.... .. BAA FR baer pee ibieisfataietereallts <iojais aiviavace't-oiniatd: stale alate OSWEZO! eas cde esine 9,000 GL-OOU ics aceres Reoriat 2 sates 15,000 3.000 189,000 Philadelphia ......... 103,000 88.000] 108,000 Stihowish, -O Ress 878.000 308 000 104.000 40,000 94,000 26,000 573,000 91,000 51,000 30,000 21,000 104,000 768,000 249,000 715.000 8,189,000) 1,088,900 703,000 93,000 337,000 48,000 Grand Total.......... 54,000.000| 10,337,000] 7,852,000] .1,555,900| 1,112,000 Corresponding date PAOD cs cae veneer 59,623,000) 7,981.000) 6,155 000 145,000 240,000 The first boat locked through ' terly manner. THE CHASE TOWING MACHINE. The Chase Machine Co, have received advices’ from Washington that a patent has been granted to them on their steam towing machine, for which application has been pending for some little time. The machine is only a simple modification of the Chase Machine Co.’s ordinary deck engine. : The device is well shown up in the accompanying picture, but is worthy a full description. At. one end of the drum which the tow line is wound is a gear wheel some 51 inches in diameter which meshes with a gear operated by two 10x10-inch cylinders. The throttle is operated either by hand or automatically, as desired., The throttle valve is governed by the cross-head of the engines, and after the slack of the tow line is wound up,. any additional strain on the line beyond the ordinary. strain of the towing vessel causes the line to pay out slowly, but at the same time these revolutions of the drum cause the throttle to open, thus admitting the steam necessary to wind up the drum again. The main valve is in the middle at the after end of the machine, and steam passes from it both ways to the cylinder on either hand. ‘The throttle to this valve is worked by a most ingenious arrangement. A shaftruns *thwartships on the machine, extending from one cross-head to the other. In the middle it meshes with a gear which turns a shaft running fore and aft. Onthis is a thread, which, when the machine is moving autom- atically, engages teeth at the end of a lever operating the throttle valve. There are two hand levers, one of which is used to throw on, or off the automatic gear, and the other to.move the throttle by hand. They are close together, and the change from hand to automatic control, and vice versa, can be effected in an instant, An- other peculiarity of the machine isa powerful brake. By screwing it up, it tightens a.band which passes around the wide flange at-the end of the drum, and by this means ther eyo- lutions can be stopped by a few turns. This brake is said to be powerful enough to stop the machine with a full head of steam on. Besides the simplicity in construc: tion of the machine, which gives vit little chance to get ont of repair, it can be used, when not engaged: in caring for the tow line, as an ordin- ary deck hoist, if desired, by means of two spools which can be placed oné at either end of the axis. This is an economy in equipment that will be ap- preciated by both builders and own- ers. The illustration given herevis photographed from a machine now in: their shop, which is connected with the shop boilers, and can be operated at any time for the satisfaction of visitors. rr THE LITERARY TABLE. “In the Balkans—The Chess-board of Europe,’ is the title under which Henry Norman, that famous corres- pondent of the London Chronicle, discusses in June Scribner’s the Kuropean ‘‘Rastern Question” in a mas- In the second installment of ‘'Vailima Table-talk,’’ Isobel Strong, the stepdaughter of Robt. Louis Stevenson, tells some more interesting things about that great author. A second article on ‘‘The Trotting Horse,’’ by Hamilton Busbey, is another fea- ture of the June number of Scribner’s. Harper’s Magazine for June will open with a vivid descriptive sketch of ‘‘A visit to Athens,’’ by the Rt. Rev. Wm. Croswell Doane. ‘‘The Greatest Painter of Mod- ern Germany’’ will be the title of an appreciative paper on Adolph Menzel, by Dr. Charles Waldstein, illustrated with specimens of the. artist’s work. KE. TI... D. Chal- mers will contribute an enthusiastic article on fresh- water salmon fishing in Quebec, under the title. ‘*The Ouananiche and its Canadian Environment,” -The second of Howard Pyle’s paperson his unconyentional journey ‘‘Through Inland Waters,’’ charmingly depicts a quiet life on canal and Lake Champlain. James Her- bert Moore will contribute a poem, ‘‘The Sea,’’