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6 . : INTERNATIONAL ELECTRICAL EXPOSITION. At the International Electrical Exposition now in progress at New York, one of the most popular and fetching exhibits is a model of the Erie Canal, which occupies a position in the west central part of the main hall. The model is 40 feet long, six feet high,and three feet wide, and-contains a conduit raised about three feet from the ground, and having about nine inches depth of water to represent the canal. Three model boats, each two feet long, represent the new steel craft of the Consolidated Canal Co. ‘There are eight poles five feet apart, and between the two cables stretched on these runs a trolley representing about one-quarter horse power. The force of this will be taken from the stored power sent down from Niagara Falls, also from the regular circuits of the building occasionally. The three model boats work their way along the minature canal,(which has a painted background of rural scenery), and on arriving at each end of the section the motor reverses the action automatically. The model is the work of Richard Lamb, civil engineer and inventor of the present Tonawanda system of canal bank haulages. The great central point of attraction of the Exposi- tion and most popular exhibit is, without doubt, the large and beautifully finished model of the canal power house, wheel pits, turbine wheels and tunnel by which the gigantic force of Niagara Falls is utilized, harnessed and transmitted a distance of 468 miles to the City of New York. Hitherto the longest transmission of electrical power was on the Leaffen-Frankfort line in Germany, a distance of 110 miles, but the United States now holds the banner, with the above-mentioned record- breaking achievement. si The good old Joseph Dixon Crucible Co. is just about to enter the seventieth year of its existence, but no signs of old age or decrepitude are apparent in any of the environments of this concern. ‘The company’s stove polish, pencils, paints, grease, crucibles, electric resistance rods, etc., are better than ever, and seem likely to continue to make their mark in the United States and abroad for at least another period of seventy years. ‘Their exhibit is a small and compact one, but they have a large factory and a well founded trade behind them. ~ From Cleveland a competitor shows up in the line of incandescent lamps, and by a marked simplicity of design endeavors to win a share of what trade is going in that department. [he Adams-Bagnall Co., of the said city, present samples of their A B style of lamp, which is nicely rounded off at the bulb end, thus showing no curve or projecting’ point, as in other incan- descent lamps. EEE Oe WORKING WITH FIVE CRANKS NOW. The Inchmona, engined by the Central Marine Engine Works of Wm. Gray &Co., Ltd., West Hartle- pool, for Messrs. Hamilton, Fraser & Co., Liverpool, went on an extended trial trip May 4and 5. The prin- cipal feature consists of the engine, which is provided with five cranks instead of the usual three. There are two low-pressure cylinders of equal size, .and the engines work on the quadruple principle, each of the five cylinders driving one of the five cranks. The cy- linders are allina straight line on the center-line of the ship, and all the valves are on the same line, imme- diately over the crank shaft, and Griven by the ordin- ary link-motion type of valve gear. The five cranks are set at equal angles around the crank circle, so that the propeller receives no less than ten impulses per rev- olution, besides which a much higher speed of revolu- tion may be freely adopted than is usual with three- crank engines. A three-crank engine at 60 revolutions per minute, having six impulses per revolution, gives 360 impulses per minute; while a_ five-crank engine running 80 revolutions per minute, with ten impulses per revolution, will give the shaft 800 impulses per min- ute, or more than twice as many as the three-crank en- gine. At the trials the engines ran so smoothly that at over 100 revolutions per minute there was no vibration of the ship whatever, although she was entirely without cargo. At this speed there are more than sixteen recip- rocating impulses delivered per second. The high speed in the reversal of impulses accounts for the absence of cating weights can without difficulty be made exactly vibration in the ship. With five cylinders, of which, as in the case of the Inchmona, the diameters are 17 in., THE MARINE RECORD. 24 in., 34in., 42 in., and 42 in., the three larger recipro- equal, and witha little scheming the weights of the whole five can be made equal. PENNSYLVANIA COAL PRODUCTION. The reports of mine inspectors of Pennsylvania show that the production of that State was 50,847,104 tons, as compared with 45,506,179 in 1884, which was the next greatest production year except 1892, when 45,738,373 tons was mined. ‘The total number of tons of bitumin- ous coal produced in the State during 1895 was 51,813,112, which is also the largest on record. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. From present indications the coal handlers at Duluth and Superior will not strike this season. April coal business at the head of the lakes amounted to 5,325 cars moved away from the docks, against 6,806 in March. By The Brown hoists on the Pennsylvania & Ohio Fuel Co.’s docks at Duluth were blown down last Thursday by the high winds. The price paid for the fine Crescent Line steamers re- cently by the Union Transit Co. is now stated as $230,- 000 on long time. The W.D. Rees reached Buffalo Thursday morning with 136,000 bushels of wheat on 14 feet draft, the larg- est wheat cargo ever taken tothat port. The Racine Boat Manufacturing Co. have succeeded to the boat building business of the late Racine Hard- ware Manufacturing Co., at Racine, Wis. Henry Gattie has been appointed keeper of Bailey’s Harbor range lights, vice John Millidge, removed. Gat- tie is succeeded as first assistant at Sturgeon Bay canal by Charles Bavry. A thousand tons of structural steel has reached Hough- ton for the new coal dock of the Tamarack-Osceola Co., where about 50,000 tons of bituminous coal will be de- livered this summer. General Superintendent Kimball, of the Life-Saving service, has issued a circular forbidding members of a life-saving crew, during the active season, ferrying, boating, oystering, crabbing, fishing, shooting game, gathering moss, or engaging in similar employment for pay or market, in competition with other persons en- gaged in such business. Harvey H. Brown, of C'eveland,' has been elected president of the Northwestern Transportation Company in the place of the late Capt. Peck. George EK. Hart- nell succeeds Mr. Brown as vice-president, and lL. C. Waldo of Detroit is the secretary and assumes Capt. Peck’s duties as managing owner. ' One of the more interesting cases pending in the U. S. court for western New York is a suit by the Buffalo Forge Co. ‘against the owners of several large steamers tor refusing to pay for forced-draft apparatus furnished them by the company. The owners claimed that the blowers did not come up to guaranty and took them out. Several of the Corrigan steamers had them in, and also the Curry. The Northern Steamship Co. last Saturday leased all of EK. W. Bissell’s property, Detroit, between First and Second, from Atwater street to the river, for a term of six years, beginning June 1. The rental is said to be $10,000 per year. The name of the new Detroit agent has not yet been announced, but Robert Hart, formerly of the Sault, will probably be the man. Mr. Bissell ex- pects to take a trip to Europe. The sale of the Bell Lewis & Yates Coal Company’s plant to a syndicate composed of New York capitalists, has caused considerable comment in coal trade circles. The sale includes all the mines in the Reynolds Valley Region, Pennsylvania, and some forty-seven miles of railroad, the Falls Creek and the Reynolds & Falls Creek. ‘The property is to be transferred to the buyers about January 1, and the price isspoken of as being about $3,000,000. The annual convention of the Wholesale and Retail Coal Dealers’ Association offOhio will be held inToledo, June 10. One fare for the round trip has been secured on the leading railroads in the State; in connection with the convention a lake excursion to Detroit is being ar- ranged for, and a general good time is anticipated. The W. &R.C. D. A. of Ohio is ina flourishing condition, having nearly trebled itself in numbers since the conven- tion last year. A general invitation is extended to all coal men from any direction to attend. — BEESON’S INLAND MARINE DIRECTORY. The full value of the annual edition af Mr. Harvey C. Beeson’s Inland Marine Directory can berightly appre- ciated only by those who train themselves to look inside it for any information that may incidentally be desired at any time during the year. No matter what one may want to know on marine lines, the chances are 99 in 100 that it will be found between the covers of this directory, which has been largely increased in size every year. The best review of a work of this sort is a resume of its table of contents. ‘The directory feature is most com- plete, including a carefully revised list of lake vessels of all sizes and classes, with general dimensions, class - in Inland Lloyds, and name and address of managing owner; a full list of firms engaged in any business con- nected with lake commerce, arranged in alphabetical classification; record of largest cargoes; custom house list, giving location of each custom house, amount of tonnage registered in each, names of collector and all special deputies in charge of marine department; also a list of United States courts, with names of judges and marshals; resumes of freight rates for 1895, and of traffic passing through the Sault and Detroit river; table of distances between all ports; list of vessels whose names have been changed; miniature chart of the Great Lakes with short discription of each; list of important marine patents for 1895. All these are interlarded with a large number of attractive illustrations and made the book a publication unequaled in its class. The value of the in- formation contained therein is greatly enhanced by the arrangement of the work, which renders it so readily accessible. No person engaged in the marine business can afford to be without it. re NEW STURGEON BAY CANAL RULE. | The following new rule regarding the navigation of the Sturgeon Bay canal is now in force: 18. Vessel or craft sinking in canal. (Additional Rule approved January 29, 1896.)—In case of any boat, vessel, or other craft, or raft, sinking or grounding in the canal, or otherwise obstructing it, the officer or agent of the United States in charge of the canal shall have the right to take such possession of such vessel, boat, or othercraft, or raft, as shall be necessary for the purpose, and remove it, and clear the canal of the obstruction caused by it, and no one shall interfere with or prohibit him from doing so; or do anything that will tend to interfere with or prohibit him from doing so; Provided, That the officer, or agent of the United States may, in his discretion, give notice in writing to the owners of any vessel, boat, or other craft, or raft, obstructing the canal aforesaid. The range lights formerly maintained by the Engin- eer Department for aiding navigation into and through - the canal, were on Thursday transferred to the U. S. Lighthouse establishment, and will in the future be cared for by Keeper Chapman and his assistants. The extra work of properly attending to these lights made it necessary to appoint a second assistant, and Capt. Michael Reagan, formerly master and owner of the schooner Mary Ludwig, has been appointed. RRR 0 gn VISIBLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN. As compiled for THE MARINE RECORD by George F. Stone, Secretary Chicago Board of Trade, May 16, 1896: WwW — | WHat. CORN. OATS, RYE, BARLEY CS anes Bushels. | Bushels. | Bushels, | Bushels, | Bushels, Albany io se So caseces| cs B0.000(— 98,0004 cia oe eee Baltimore .........-+: 742,000 630,000] 134,000}. 28,000]... 02222. BoSton oe ssiccileie de siue 126,000 71 000 BT 0) ive sGuegs |e epee oman’ Buffalo, wgongct 1,547,000) 477,000} 300,000} 148,000] 106,000 sf afloat Se ewe esl eccwiccsccsl|veceesecselecs Sees ee a Chicago... 15,225,000] 4 137,000] 1,724,000] 363,000] 10,000 {© alOat . occ cc cl cccsecnvcclecensccecs Secseseclececscccce|cceeccccs . GuieiinaG 9,000 3000} 28,000 1,090| 26,000 Detroit. eects 197,000 21,000 6,000 13,000 2,000 LOL TIAMOAE:{ Po dialects) wines aiviclei sini vie Gesateuie Si |uluaie gin Se melas We wccees| sevnccecce Duluth and Scab e .| 8,574,000)......... 85.000} 184,000} 211,000 e PE APAROME Ce diy teases eaeeee seclecene cecclecccuccecslecvecs Indianapolis.......e00| 67,000 @:000[¢-s0-sc 5. a elle ete ie Kansas City... 01... 0< 1,066,006 72,900 34,000 29,000). . cae Milwaukee........... 667,000 ROO S33 Sse sae 365,000 64,000 Minneapolis, . ; '17.702'000|”” 73 600 618 000 79 000 : 24,000 Montreal 502.000 54,000 396,000 6 000 64,000 New York 1.362.000} 1,306 000} 1,540,000 50,000 2,000 “ 48 O00) 83,000 128, QUO} Oo as I. Ba OSWOROs. ion couspace ss 9,000 94,000)... .s.0ce sont gees ae 10,000 Peoria Geese se SoNE 14000 2:00] 106,000!" ~""8.000]...... Souk Philadelphia ......... 172,000 184.000 182,000! ois asinles diviniltre eee sae are St-Louis ake ag 696,000 278 000 38,000 1000) cccccieneee BBINOO | 5 waa cte el cine a wkd eae sae, on ealawedneelecan 490, 000 78,000 44,000 126,000)....... ses Awe: 30,000] 17,000] "*" 98.000 |°27222252.]'""” 2a}000 1,632,000 116.000 950,000 118.000 146,000 akes.... -| 2,094,000} 1,205,000) 1,220,000 41,000} 121,000 On Mississippi,....... 87,000 214,000 162,000) <3. caecliccecesecen Grand Total, ......... 53,146,000] 9,163,000 ; Corresponding date oe f EOD O00 POE eae TEOB cc cunceeecanien 56,484,000) 7,867 000) 6,333 000}. 148,000} 182,000