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' lats season. _ of paying. good wages, » — 4 OS = — oe ge Tn nee VOL. XX. No. 13. $2.00 Per Year. 10c. Single Copy LAKE CARRIERS’ ASSOCIATION. To consider and take action upon all general questions relating to the navigation and carrying business of the Great Lakes, maintain necessary shipping offices and in general to protect the common interest of Lake Car- riers,and improve the character of the service rendered to the public. PRESIDENT. Capt. JAMES W. MILLEN, Detroit, Mich. VICE PRESIDENTS. © J. S. Dunham, Chicago, Howard L. Shaw, Bay City. C. E. Benham, Cleveland, F, J: Firth, Philadelphia. David Carter, Detroit. _L. 8. Sullivan, Toledo. S. D. Caldwell, Buffalo. M..J:) Cummings, Oswego. W.H. Wolf, Milwaukee. Geo. Berriman, Erie. W.C. Farrington, Duluth. SECRETARY. CHARLES H. KEEP, as 2 Buffalo. “TREASURER. Grorce P. McKay, Cleveland, COUNSEL. Harvey D. GouLDER, Cleveland. FINANCE AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. ames Corrigan, Cleveland. W.P. Henry, Buffalo, ohn Mitchell, Cleveland. g J. H. Brown, Buffalo. . A. Hawgood, Cleveland. . P. Fitzgerald, Milwaukee. Thos. Wilson, Cleveland. C: W. Elphicke, Chicago. M. A. Bradley, Cleveland. H. G. Dalton, Cleveland. . C, Gilchrist, Cleveland. W.C. Richardson, Cleveland. . C. Waldo, Detroit. B.L. Pennington, Cleveland, D.C. Whitney, Detroit. COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION. L. M. Bowers Cleveland, Wm. Livingstone Detroit. E. T. Evans, | Buffalo. Spake,” >! Chicago. P. P. Miller, Buffalo, .D- Caldwell, Buffalo. H. C. French, Buffalo. Jesse Sprpicing, Chicago. Charles Paine, Buffalo. C. A. Eddy, Bay City. Edward Smith, Buffalo. Alex. McDougall, W. Superior. H. M. Hanna, Cleveland. F. J. Firth, Philadelphia. James Corrigan, Cleveland, a ey ’ COMMITTEE ON AIDS TO NAVIGATION. eo. P. McKay Cleveland, W.M. Egan Chicago. .H. Becker, ; Cleveland, Frank Owen? Ogdennbets. C. E. Benham, Cleveland. A.W. Colton, Toledo. G. Keith, Chicago. James Davidson, W. Bay City. a. Hawgood, Cleveland. Alvin Neal, Port Huron. Thos. Wilson, Cleveland. M.M. Drake, Buffalo. ohn W. Moore, Cleveland. Philip Minch, Cleveland, . A. Livingstone, Detroit. LAKE CARRIERS’ MEETING’ A meeting. of the executive committee of the Lake Car- riers’ Association was held at the office of Capt. James Corrigan on Tuesday afternoon. President James Millen of Detroit and Secretary Charles H. Keep of Buffalo at- tended the meeting. Considerable business was trans- acted, but the most important matter taken up was the : spring schedule of wages. The outlook in the vessel busi- ness for the early part of the season is not very bright -and in order to keep the boats running expenses will have to be reduced all around. The schedule adopted, which will go into effect at the opening of navigation, shows a reduction all around compared with the schedule adopted If there is any improvement in business wages will be advanced, as vesselmen as a rule are in favor The schedule adopted Tuesday is _ as follows: : On steamers: Per Month. Ist Class. 2d. Class. 3d. Class Hirst engineer’. .ics...,...+5 $105 $90 $60 to $75 Second engineer .......... 70 65 50 to 60 roi, Mice ake 75 65 50 to 60 PASOCONG-MAteS «sins -ccsiem yes 50 40 ee ae BREN GE ciiihipx. doejeres iiaes om 8 30 30 25 to 30 Wiheélmen: iswic. sce seen 30 30 25 to 30 BPRGICOHTGS «2G ies oi soemeiseserce' + 30 30 25 to 30 Meckhands. 6. 2.<s2[velses- 15 15 15 (Oh Sy FS rece pee 30 os e Conk 6 ts i Sk 8s ose 50 45 40 IEPOIDETS) 00. et See. ot ot 15 12 “3 On Consorts: Wates =. Soi ie sts ck: 45 30 to 40 Seconda mates ..: 666. .6e8% 35 sx OOS eee. Vedas Guin ee es 30 25 ‘ RreaNele oes i salase ow es wes 30 20 to 25 ae The schedule of wages which prevailed last year is here- with presented that comparison may be made: First class, chief engineers, $112.50: second engineers, $79. Second class, chief engineer, $67.50. Third class, chief engineer, $67.50 to -$84; second. engineer, $56. First mates, $56 to $79 second mates, $39 to $56; cooks, $39 to $56; helpers to cooks, $11 to $17; firemen, $28 to $34; wheelsmen, $28 to $34; lookouts, 22.50 to $34; deck hands, $13.50 to $17; oilers, $28 to $34. The committee appointed at the annual meeting in Jan- uary to try and secure a reduction in the cost of unload- ing ore from vessels asked for further time, as the ore men and dock managers wil not be ready to do business until sales are made and carrying charges are fixed. Capt. John Mitchell, H. A. Hawgood and W. H. Mack were added to the committee The members of the committee are confident of getting better rates this year. A. R. Rumsey will have charge of the shipping offices. The following assistants were appointed yesterday: J. W..Hanson and - Robert Anderson, Chicago; Maynard Fisk, South Chica- go; William Lemon, Milwaukee; William Fletcher, Buf- falo; Patrick Mitchell, Toledo; Daniel Harrington, Ash- land, and Charles F. Wall, Cleveland. The speed of vessels passing Grosse Point came up and the prevailing opinion was that if any change was made loaded vessels should be allowed to go nine miles an hour and lights boats eleven miles per hour. oor i EVOLUTION OF THE COAL BOAT. Many years ago Pittsburgh coal was floated to New Orleans in flat-boats and:barges in pairs, known in those days as “broadhorns,” the propelling power consisting of side oars and worked by crews of men; all under the di- rection of a pilot, who steered. the:tow to New Orleans, assisted by the side oars, and carried by the strong current in the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. When tow-boats were introduced to handle these tows it was thotight impractic- able and believed by many that the tows would run away with the steam-boats. But the boats soon “caught on,” and the days of floating “broadhorns” soon passed away and they became a thing of the past. Tow-boats com- menced taking two, four, six and eight barges of coal South, and as time progressed, larger boats were built: and heavier tows hitched to. them, until ten or fifteen years ago, when a boat that took twenty barges South in safety was called a “record breaker.” Nowadays a tow of from twenty to thirty pieces hitched to a tow-boat and taken south in safety is a common occurance. Two years ago the big “Joe B. Williams” took, the biggest tow of coal on record from this city to New Orleans. It consisted of forty-six coalboats . The river was then in about the same condition it is now, and the same tow-boat proposes to wipe out her own record by leaving here for New Orleans with forty-six coalboats—ten more boats than she took before when she broke all records. The tow covers 16 acres in the river and comprises 1,500,000 bushels of coal. It would take 2,000 cars to hold it, and, divided into 20 trains, it would take 100 locomotives to pull it—“The Black Diamond,” Chicago. oor ir A NEW CHART. A chart of Green Bay and its approaches, made on a large scale, has just been published. by. the United States hydrographic office. The chart is corrected to March 1, 1897, and takes in with Green Bay, the west shore of Lake Michigan from Manistique to Kewaunee. This will be of great value to vessel men. Soundings are in feet and in addition there is a scale of statute miles attached. It is so complete in detail that it is larger than the single sheet charts of Lake Superior or Lake Michigan, and is pub- lished in the usual excellent form now customary with the hydrographic office relative to lake work. GEORGIAN BAY SURVEY. The survey of the Canadian shores was primarily a re- sult of the loss of the steamer Asia with many lives on the Georgian Bay in the fall of 1882.. Mr: Dawson of Algoma brought the matter up in the Canadian House of Commons. He contended that another survey should be made of the Georgian Bay. The government thought favorably of the matter, and in 1884 purchased the steamer U. S. Grant from Capt. Murray for a survey boat and had her fitted out at St. Catherines, Ont., for that pur- pose. She was rechristened the Bayfield, after Admiral Bayfield, who, with a staff of assistants, was sent out by the British Admirality to survey the Canadian coast line about the year 1815. The Bayfield is 126 feet over all and of 100 tons register. The boat's crew consists of Capt. McGregor and about twelve men. W. J. Stewart, hydro- graphic surveyor, and his two assistants, Messrs. Fraser and Anderson, constitute the survey staff on board. The work was begun under Capt. Boulton, who was in charge from 1883 to 1803. He was then succeeded by his assistant, Mr. Stewart, who has been in charge ever since. For eleven years the boat has been employed in surveying Georgian Bay, the last two seasons in service on Lake Erie. One more season’s work will complete the Lake Erie survey, which is a simple task in comparison with the work on Georgian Bay. The latter is claimed to be the most difficult piece of survey in the world. This is particularly applicable to the northeastern portion. The present survey is purely hydrographic and not as ‘accurate in detail as the survey made by the United States in 1875 and 1876 and which embraced part of the Canadian shores. The marine and fishery department at Ottawa has full control of the work and the Bayfield is the only sutvey boat in the employ of the Canadian government. The staff usually put in the winter at Ottawa. They begin their work about the Ist of May and finish about the 2oth of October. After the season’s work charts are drafted at Ottawa and a copy sent to the British admiralty, which has a copper plate made of them and from it charts are printed for sale. TS Or THE AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE. We know not for what reason or why an eastern con- temporary should endeavor to tell the truth so succintly as the following would appear, yet we know that they are about if not quite all right. Do you know that but one steel ship was ever built in America and that she was the last full-rigged ship ever built here, and that her name is Dirigo? That but two steel ships ever flew the American flag, and they are the Dirigo and Kenilworth, the latter de- nationalized? That the Clarence S. Bennett, May Flint and Tillie E. Starbuck are the only iron ships flying our flag? That the Annie E. Johnson and Archer are the only iron barks having American registers and that both of them were built in England? That the Josephine is the only iron schooner afloat that has the right to hail from an American port? That but eleven steamers flying the American flag trade between America and Europe, and that they are the St. Louis, St. Paul, New York, Paris, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Conemaugh, Miami and Metteawan, and that five of them were built in England? That most all the best steamships in our merchant ma- rine were built on the Delaware? That America has not 3,000 vessels going to sea, and that all steamers, ships, barks, barkentines, brigs, schoon- ers and sea-going coal barges are included, and that this includes the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts?