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10 THE MARINE RECORD. Amateur Boatbuilders. Boats built and rigged entirely or in part, stems, stern posts, F. W. WHEELER & COMPANY, BUILDERS OF ALL KINDS OF keels, and frames worked to shape in the wood for amateurs. Entire frames set ep and mark- ed and shipped “Knockdown” to any part of the world. [ron, Steel, and Designs made and enlarged to full size for rowboats, sailboats, launches and yachts. Send 50 cents for 72-page “Album of Designs.” Address Station ‘‘A’’ FRED W. MARTIN, Yacut DESIGNER, RACINE, WIS. PRON TI r= ai * Wooden Ships FOR LAKE OR OCEAN SERVICE, West Bay City, Mich. F. W. WHEELER, Pres. EE. T. CARRINGTON, V. P. C. W. STIVER, Sec’y and Treas. Iron Works. MARINE ENGINES. DETROIT, MICH. WM. WILFORD’S*5— MATCHLESS WATER-PROOF CANVAS ‘The best in the market for hatch | covets, is stronger, lighter, and more ‘gp.durable than any water-proof goods 7 yet produced. It is made of a twist- ed thread of pure flax, which renders it very strong. It will not crack like cotton goods, which is a great advan- tage Be ee ee Ee Ue Ue Oe ee EDWARD A. BUNKER, Room 617 27 and 29 William St., New York. exclusively by NEW YORK. 16=24 Woodward Ave. 202-210 S. Water St. 193=195 Bank St. Peerless —© Rubber Mfg. Co. 18 WARREN STREET, Detroit, Mich. Chicago, Ill. Cleveland, O. RAINBOW PACKING The color of Rainbow Packing is red. Three rows of diamonds in black, ex- tending throughout the entire length of each and every roll of RAINBOW PACKING. Patented and manufactured Thousands of imitators. Will hold highest pressure. Don’t have to use wire and cloth to hold RAINBOW. Can’t blow it out. No equal. THAT ‘‘SOO’’ DRY DOCK. Anent the recent report that Cramps, of Philadelphia, intended to embark in lake industries, a similar report was spread a few seasons ago, and at that time in a letter to The Record, the Philadelphia firm intimated that they were enjoying a sufficient share of business and had no intention of locating a plant on the lakes. In this con- nection, Charles S. Osborne, editor of the Sault Ste. Marie News, is quoted as saying: “For nearly two years the Cramps have been interested with others in the develop- ment of the water power at the ‘Soo,’ on both sides of the river. They and their associates have already con- structed the largest pulp mills in the world on the Canad- ian side, and the plant is being still further enlarged. They propose to develop the power on the American side at once and erect paper mills to consume the pulp prod- uct of the Canadian mills. The promoters of the enter- prise are F. H. Clergue, late of Bangor, Me., and Mr. Douglass, of Philadelphia. I saw Mr. Clergue in Wash- ington, where he told me that there was likelihood of also interesting the Cramps in a dry-dock at the ‘Soo.’ Mr. Clergue took the matter up with them recently, call- ing their attention to $68,000 in the Michigan treasury, belonging to the United States, for dry-dock purposes at the ‘Soo,’ but which would be devoted to the erection of a marine hospital at the ‘Soo,’ in the event of the passage of a bill looking to that purpose and now pending in the Michigan legislature. Mr. Clergue said that if this money could be secured for dry-dock purposes as originally in- tended and placed at the disposition of the Cramps, they would add $200,000 to it and build a dry-dock at the ‘Soo.’ Shipbuilders on the lakes say this could not be done; that the application of the money referred to would be in effect a bonus to assist in creating an industry to directly compete with private plants adequate to do all the work there is, and which have never received public bonuses of any kind or government subsidy. They say the money should go to build a marine hospital at Sault Ste. Marie, which is a practical public necessity, and which would be a disposition of the money that could not be criticized as unfair or unjust.” oo oo or DRAIN LAKE MICHIGAN--TO PREVENT POLLUTION. A bill introduced by Mr. McGoorty, Feb. 3, 1897, and referred to House Committee on Drainage and Waterways of the Illinois legislature at Springfield: Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Sec- tion 23 of ‘“‘An act to create sanitary districts and to re- move obstructions in the Desplaines and Illinois Rivers,” approved May 209, 1880, in foree July 1, 1889, and amended by an act in force July 1, 1895, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 23. If any channel is constructed under the pro- visions hereof by means of which any of the waters of Lake Michigan shall be caused to pass into the Desplaines or Illinois Rivers, such channel shall be constructed of sufficient size and capacity to produce and, maintain at all times a continuous flow of not less than 300,000 cubic feet of water per minute, and to be of a depth of not less than fourteen feet, and a current not exceeding three miles per hour, and if any portion of any such channel shall be cut through a territory with a rocky stratum where such rocky stratum is above a grade sufficient to produce a depth of water from Lake Michigan of not less than eighteen feet, such portion of said channel shall have double the flowing capacity above provided for, and a width of not less than one hundred and sixty feet at the bottom capable of pro- ducing a depth of not less than eighteen feet of water. If the population of the district draining into such channel shall at any time exceed 1,500,000, such channel shall be made and kept of such size and in such condition that it will produce and maintain at all times a continuous flow of not less than 20,000 cubic feet of water per minute for each 100,000 of the population of such district, at a current of not more than three miles per hour, and if at any time the general government shall improve the Desplaines or Illi- nois Rivers, so that the same shall be capable of receiving a flow of 600,000 cubic feet of water per minute, or more, from said channel, and shall provide for the payment of all damages which any extra flow above 300,000 cubic feet of water per minute from such channel may cause to pri- vate property so as to save harmless the said district from all liability therefrom, then such sanitary district shall, within one year thereafter, enlarge the entire channel lead- ing into said Desplains or Illinois Rivers from the said trict to a sufficient size and capacity to produce and main- tain a continuous flow throughout the same of not less than 600,000 cubic feet of water per minute, with a cur- rent of not more than three miles per hour, and such channel shall be constructed upon such grade as to be ca- pable of producing a depth of water not less than eighteen feet throughout said. channel, and shall have a width of not: less than one hundred and sixty feet at the bottom. In case a channel is constructed in the Desplaines River as contemplated in this section it shall be carried down the slope between Lockport and Joliet to the pool commonly known as the upper basin of sufficient width and depth to carry off the water the channel shall bring down from above. The district constructing a channel to carry water from Lake Michigan of any amount authorized by this act, may correct, modify and remove obstructions in the Desplaines and Illinois Rivers wherever it shall be neces- sary so to do to prevent overflow or damage along said river, and shall remove the dams at Henry and Copperas Creek in the Illinois River, before any water shall be turned into the said channel. And the canal commission- ers, if they shall find at any time that an additional supply of water has been added to either of said rivers by any drainage district or districts, to maintain a depth of not less than six feet from any dam owned by the State, to and into the first lock of the Illinois and Michigan Canal at LaSalle, without the aid of any such dam, at low water, then it shall be the duty of said canal commissioners to cause sueh dam or dams to be removed. This act shall not be construed to authorize the injury or destruction of private existing water power rights by the canal commis- sioners without just compensation. or oo In the admiralty case of G. Herman & Son, libellants, against the steamer Belle Cross, in the United States Cir- cuit Court at Duluth, an intervening libel for $731.32, al- leged to be due for supplies furnished Port Huron, Mich., has been filed by Dunford & Halverson. ee The tonnage capacity of steamboats, tugs and barges be- longing in Pittsburg is said to be greater than that of all the vessels registered at any seaport in the United States.— Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune,