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10 THE MARINE RECORD. NEW 1896 COAST PILOT SCOTT'S Jit Wh Gita ntti, ty, pitti N. WHEELER & COMPANY, BUILDERS OF ALL KINDS OF tepebinetiy, qct beast tet: ee ee : Se IRON, STEEL AND FOR THE LAKES PRICE $1,50. WOODEN SHtra FOR LAKE OR OCEAN SERVICE. FOR SALE BY THE MARINE RECORD, CLEVELAND. WESTERN RESERVE BLODG., West Bay City, Mich. F. W. WHEELER, Prest. C. W. STIVER, Secretary & Treasurer. PROM TI *) ) IRON WORKS, MARINE ENGINES, DETROIT, Micu. INCORPORATED 1!1794 Insurance Company of North America, CAPITAL, PAID UP IN CASH, “ % ASSETS, vA = a CHARLES, PLATT, President. EUGENE L ELLISON, 2d Vice President. GEORGE H. McFADDEN, Vice President. GREVILLE E. FRYER, Sec’y and Treas. JOHN H. ATWOOD, Assistant Secretary. LAKE MARINE DEPARTMENT, SEORGE x. McCURDY, Manacen MARINE AND INLAND INSURANCE. ___——_ $3,000.000.00 9,487,673.53 Atlantic Mutual Insurance 66., Organized 1842, Office 51 Wall Street, NEW YORK. Insures against Marine and Inland Epes she ica hel Risks and Issues Policies making Loss Payab e in England. Assets over $10,000,000 for the Security or its Policies, The profits of the Company revert to the assured, and are divided annually upon the premiums terminated | during the year; thereby reducing the cost of insurance, until ordered to be redeemed, in accordance with the charter, J. D. JONES, Pres, W, H. H, MOORE, Vice Pres. A. A, RAVEN, 2d Vice Pres, J. H, CHAPMAN, Sec, For such dividends, certificates are issued bearing interest GORRESPONDENGE. ae We do uct held vurselves respousible lu wuy way for the views-or opinions expressed by our correspondents. It is our desire that all tides of any question affecting the interests or welfare of the lake ma- rine should be fairly represented in THz MARINE RECORD. SCREW PROPELLER DESIGNING. To the Editor of The Marine Record: 2 Powis PLACE, QUEEN SQUARE, LONDON, W. C. November, 14, 1896. My letter of September 6 was written with the sole object of correcting an error in a published book, and I am at a loss to understand what Mr. Gray, whose letter you print in yours of October 22nd, has to do with it. That letter, however, is easily disposed of. Mr, Gray first says that it is not possible to invent a formula for designing propellers, and he then says this has been done by a firm, whose work he eulogises. _ But he does not tell us that he is the London agent or salesman for this firm. ‘That, however, is the case; and it at once lowers what appears to be impartial praise to mere advertising declaration. Immediately my invention was announced over four years ago, a host of imitators sprang up (as is always the case) professing tu be able to design a perfect pro- peller, and they advertised in these terms. I never needed to advertise; my success was my advertisement, and that reminds me of what Dickens wrote: ‘‘If aman would commit an inexpiable offence against any society, let him be successful.’’ Yours faithfully, C. PURCELL TAyror. CIRCULAR LETTER, 10 the Editor of The Marine Record: 234 LA SALLE St., CH1caco, Nov. 2, 1896. The undersigned have this day formed a co-partner- ship under the firm name of Sickel Bros. for the trans- action of business as steamship and insurance agents, with offices at the above address and a branch office at 307 Pine St., St. Louis, Mo., under the management of Mr. T. O. Martin. Both of the undersigned have~been associated with the Atlantic Transport Line and Lord Line for eleven years, and with the Hamburg-American Line for nearly seven years. Besides other interests, we retain the representation as general Western freight agents of Atlantic Transport Line, Lord Line, National Line, & Bristol Channel Line, Hamburg-American Line, Scandia Line and Empire Line. We.have, also been appointed Western managers for the well-known insurance firm of Johnson & Higgins, head offices 69 Wall St., N. Y. o_O ED — RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. Lieut. Col. Jared A. Smith’s monthly report of the operations on the lower Lake Erie harbors has been forwarded to the War Department. It covers the month of October. At many of the harbors in Col. Smith’s district the work has been pushed rapidly on account of the near approach of winter, when operations will necessarily have to cease. Following is a synopsis of the work: CLEVELAND HARBOR.—Repairs to the breakwater were continued by an inspector and a small force of men. Sheathing plank on the east breakwater were replaced, piles were driven and capped, and the space enclosed was filled with stone. The work of decking the crib with timber and placing blocks around the edges of the crib was completed. The contract work is being continued this month. ToLEDO HARBOR.—Dredges removed 18,258 yards of material from the ‘‘outer section’? and 5,365 yards from the ‘‘inner section,”’ SANDUSKY HARBOR.—Dredging was done as follows: Upper end of the dock channel, 11,959 yards; widening entrance to the straight channel to the dock channel, 3,232 yards; outer bar, 1,253 yards. Fifty-one boulders were removed from the channel by dynamite. ‘The work of constructing the jetty was continued through- out the month and a portion of it was completed. Huron Harsor.—A small force of men continued the work of re-constructing a part of the old west pier. A timber crib 180 feet long and 20 courses high was made ready to sink. VERMILLION HARBOR.—Stormy weather interfered with the work of removing and rebuilding the pier. But good results were nevertheless accomplished. BLACK RIVER HARBOR.—Dredges removed 8,171 yards of material from the channel. FAIRPORT HARBOR.—Fromsthe bar at the entrance to the piers, 22,015 yards of material were removed by dredges, but bad weather interfered with the work. ASHTABULA HAarBor.—The work of excavating rock from the channel was continued, 5,200 yards being taken out. VISIBLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN. As compiled for THE MARINE RECORD by George F. ia Stone, Secretary Chicago Board of Trade, November 21, 1896: ITIES WHERE | WHEAr. CORN. OATS. RYE. BARLEY. ¢ eae Bushels.} Bushels.} Bushels.| Bushels.| Bushels. Alpany soto sks SP acco 50,000 110,000) 2S cee 22,000 Baltimoreuncscceoon 504,000) 1,340.000} 1,762,000 187,000 —atign OSUOM Aiia.siis eee 1,764,000 351 000 125,000) oc connie bcnen cetane Buffalo AOR in Rice pe 1 1,998,000 746,000 608,000 172,000 967,000 Chicago . “ice .| 15,044,000] ’ 5,106,000] 3,107,000] °"* 868;600|" * 350,000 fr MN OBtoce st jmmas Sk game lease yee or alee amelie cach an aaa ee eee Cincinnati .. 1,000 4 000 14,000 5 000 60,000 Detroit. : A 5 i rere: 469,000 23,000 63,000 82,000 34,060 amoat.-...... Oe fk <i. 2 ieiniale a Gein @ 6 fein eres tlhe bieieeieleta aie Duluthand Se aa 3,890,000 2,000 409,000 eae k 706,000 a Tee POHOatl oc cs aos pan aaee anieoa| eae betas < |reiaege BF os ooasas Indianapolis........ 163,000)" "142,000| Sis. el ooo cece ee eee Kansas LGV coaesreeet 464,000 39,900 155,000 6000) 253 site. Milwaukee fi Ps ‘ Bocas 391,000 3,000 6,000 112 000 94,000 ALLOA eis |'a:, wiwiaiele osle [sc anince vsisillus celeessiesl ae ee eee acl tamale Minneapolis......... 18,498,000 9,000 224,000 16 C00 26,000 ontreal............ 632,000 42,000 115,000 13,000 38,000 N ew. Workers sc. utr 8,083,000} 6,126,000} 3,494,000 469,000) 1,523,000 afloat 104,000 26,000 69.000) foes 97,000 sidheislarnjs/s niaiote'oval| d'aceatett cons [are seaanere glee iar cetera 160,000 202,000 122 ,000 481,000 7,000 16,090 667,000} 1,244,000 218, 000) 5 25 Sea cncl acer 2,798,000 229,000 94,000 59,000 7,000 Oe aie 943,000] 218,000] 454,000|"""* 97,000] 272217222. MOronto paver ec OBB OOO ee al oe 61.000] 772272772") 704.660 On Canalo y en 560,000 542,000 172,000 132,000 728,000 n akes,. tte ewe eee 2.560,000) 1,586,000 478.000 125,000} 1,214,000 On, Mississippi sci. 200,000 S000) Ce oe cen cen aces Grand Total........ 59,971,000] 18,150,000 12,208,000} 2,657,900 6,146,000 Correspondinz date weer Lh hee tpa Wan 62,221,009] 4,642 000 « 6,055,000 1,382,000} 4,957,000 —_—_—e a ; DuRING President-elect McKinley’s fourteen years in Congress, from 1877 to 1891, he with Mrs. McKinley oc- cupied rooms in the Ebbitt House. In fact the Ebbitt House was practically their home for this long period of time, and Mr. EB. Platt Stratton, now chief engineer. surveyor for the American Shipmasters’ Association, publishing the Record of American and Foreign Ship- ping in New York, was quite a frequent visitor of the Major’s anda strong political adherent of his. In re- ferring to the foregoing, Manager Burch, of the E\bbitt House, said: ‘It seems impossible to realize that it’s nearly twenty years since Major McKinley came to. But it was in Washington and made his home with-us. 1877 that we assigned him the suite of rooms that he and Mrs. McKinley occupied continuously till 1890, They became so thoroughly identified with the place, and Mr. McKinley’s form and face so well known to the fre- quenters of the house that we all ceased to look on him penne and thought of him and his wife as ‘home E. T, CARRINGTON,V.-Prest