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VOL. XX. No. 20. ATTAIN 4 = zZ = = Fd — 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. CaprT. 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. S. 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, Buffalo. TREASURER. GeorGE P. McKay, Cleveland. COUNSEL. Harvey D. GouLpER, Cleveland. COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION. L, M. Bowers, Cleveland. Wm, Livingstone, Detroit. E, T. Evans, Buffalo. .S. Dunham, Chicago. P. P. Miller, Buffalo. S.D Caldwell, Buffalo, H.C. French, Buffalo. Jesse Spaulding, 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. FINANCE AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. ames Corrigan, Cleveland, W..P tenry:, Buffalo. ohn Mitchell, Cleveland. . 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. I C. Gilchrist, Cleveland. W..C. Richardson, Cleveland, . C. Waldo, Detroit. B.L. Pennington, Cleveland. D.C. Whitney, Detroit. . COMMITTEE ON AIDS TO NAVIGATION. : Geo. P. McKay, Cleveland, W.M. Egan, Chicago. W.H. Becker, Cleveland. Frank Owen, Ogdensburg. C. E. Benham, Cleveland. A.W. Colton, Toledo. . G. Keith, ‘Chicago. James Davidson, W. Bay City. . A. Hawgood, Cleveland. Alvin Neal, Pert Huron Thos. Wilson, Cleveland. M. M. Drake, Buffalo. ohn W. Moore, Cleveland. Philip Minch, Cleveland, . A, Livingstone, Detroit. A DULUTH BRANCH HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE. Under the provisions of the sundry civil bill just passed, Duluth is to have a branch hydrographic. office, and _ it will be provided with all apparatus and hydrographic in- struments, for which $5,000 is appropriated. The head of the lakes will, therefore, receive full reports on marine meteorology and other information relative to navigation. These branch hydrographic offices on the lakes will prove of much benefit to trade and commerce, The first branch office was established in Chicago in 1893, and it excited so much favorable interest and comment that Cleveland took up the matter and demanded a similar es- tablishment at that point. Thisoffice was granted in Sep- tember, 1894. The usefulness of both branch offices is now recognized generally throughout the lake region, and in the last annual report of the Secretary of the Navy the question of the selection of Duluth as a suitable point for a branch office was favorably recommended. The office at Duluth will issue notice to mariners, bul- letins, sailing charts and directions for pilots during the period of open navigation, and will of course be placed in charge of a naval officer regularly detailed to’ the station for duty. oo DETROIT MARINE POSTAL SERVICE. The postoffice department has just completed the annual trial balance to determine the status of the appropriations for the remainder of the fiscal year. It has been feared that the sum set aside for the free delivery service might be so much reduced as to interfere with the continuance of the marine postal delivery at Detroit, but it has been as- -certained that after making proper allowances for all other expenses the balance will meet the cost of the contract until July 1, with exactly $4 to spare. Supt.. Machen, of the. free delivery service, is much pleased at this result. He said: “I have given this matter special attention and am glad to say that under the new contracts for this work the department has been able to cut down the expense several hundred dollars per annum. We have money enough to last out the present fiscal year, and the appor- tionment which has been made of next year’s appropriation will carry the service from July 1 until the closing of navi- gation and from the opening of navigation in the spring into July 1, 1898. Our contract just entered into provides for the service until next winter.” oo oo GRAIN ELEVATOR FOR KINGSTON. A company of Chicago, Duluth, Toronto, and Kingston capitalists has been formed to erect a half million bushel elevator at Kingston, Ont., to cost not less than $100,000. On June 16 the electors will vote to grant the company a bonus of $25,000. er a oO TUG CAPTAINS CANNOT LIBEL. At Duluth this week Judge Lochren of the United States district court decided that masters of tugs are not entitled to mariners’ liens and dismissed all libels for wages filed by captains against the owner of the tugs of the de- funct Inman line. Judge Lochren held that captains of tugs must look for their pay to the party. who hires them. The decision imposes a hardship upon masters of this class of floating property which it is safe to say was never intended by the framer of the act. ae a ei eee NEW LAKE BUILT TONNAGE. The Bureau of Navigation, Treasury Department, Wash- ington, D. C., assigned official numbers to the following lake built tonnage during the week ending May 8, 1897: Sailing—W. Le Baron Jenny, 3,423, gross and 3,280 net tons, built at W. Bay City and hailing from Duluth. Ath- ens, 2,074 gross and 1,054 net tons, built at W. Bay City and hailing from Port Huron. Crete, 2,041 gross and 1,921 net tons, built at W. Bay City and hailing from Port Huron. ye small schooner Sofie Fournica of 22 tons, built at W. Bay City, hailing from Port Huron. Steam—Erie, 44 gross and 30 net tons, built and owned in Detroit. John A. Aliber, 33 gross and 19 net tons, built at Saugatuck and owned at Grand Haven. sa A Le ee ee PETREL VERSUS GRACE RUELLE. Ex-District Attorney J. W. Finney, of Detroit, has re- ceived the reply of the British government to his state- ment of the Grace Ruelle case.. The reply covers 135 type- written pages. It will be remembered that on June 6, 1895, the Canadian government fishery cruiser Petrel fired on the tug Grace Ruelle, owned by Capt. Alex Ruelle, of Detroit, off Amherstburg, Ont., at the mouth of Detroit river, when she was towing a scow loaded with garbage, took the crew in charge and locked them up. Reparation was asked for to the amount of $75,000, and both sides of the case have been presented in part so far. “T can’t say that I am greatly alarmed by the arguments employed by the British attorneys,” said Mr. Finney, “and I don’t expect to-have any trouble in convincing the Brit- ish government of the right of our claim. They admit that, if the facts are as we represent, it was a flagrant vio- lation of international law, but they do not agree with our statement of the case. It is really a more important matter than people seem to think. If such a thing happened a thousand miles away, it would raise a great outcry among the people of this country. It will be a year or two proba- bly before the case is settled.” ie ‘trial trip of the boat, but he refused the request. NOTICE TO MARINERS. CHANGE IN TYPE OF TWO RIVER DETROIT BUOYS. When the Canadian buoys at the mouth of River Detroit were set out for the season, on the 23rd ultimo, the two. buoys marking the exterior of the shoal off Bar Point and Big Creek, respectively, which were heretofore red barrel buoys, were replaced by red spar buoys, similar to the other spar buoys in the river. REMOVAL OF WRECK OF “DAVID MASSEY.” The United States Government have given notice that the schooner “David Massey,’’ which was sunk 1250 feet E. S. E. from Bar Point. Lighthouse, was removed last autumn. F. GOURDEAU, Deputy Minister of Marine and Fisheries. Department of Marine and Fisheries, Ottawa, Canada, 3rd May, 1807. All bearings, unless otherwise noted, are magnetic and are. given from seaward, miles are nautical, heights are above high water, and all depths are at mean low water. Pilots, masters, or others interested are earnestly re- quested to send information of dangers, changes in aids to navigation, notices of new shoals or channels, errors in publications, or any other facts affecting the navigation of Canadian waters to the Chief Engineer, Department of Marine and Fisheries, Ottawa, Canada. a 2 oOo THE HOLLAND TORPEDO BOAT. The successful launch of the Holland Torpedo boat at Elizabethport, N. J., on Monday last is of more than usual interest on account of the first boat of this type having been built by the Detroit Boat Works and experi- mented with, tested by a naval commission and_ other- wise proved the success of the newly-invented craft on fresh water, the inventor later receiving this his first order from the Navy Department on the showing made by the Detroit-built craft. In the Record of May 6, we gave the dimensions and other particulars of this unique craft and now it can be ‘said that the inventor of the boat, John P. Holland, has closely watched ‘the construction all through. The vessel was christened “The Holland,” by Mrs. Nixon, wife of Lieut. Lewis Nixon, the constructor. There were few present at the launching. Mr. Holland says there will not be any attempt at submarine evolutions for several weeks, It is stated that Mr. Holland was asked by several gov- ernments to allow a representative on board during the After a trial trip he says he will allow an engineer from each goy- ernment to see the workings of the boat, which, it is be- lieved, will revolutionize warfare. Several foreiga nations have bid on plans for the vessel, but it is likely that Mr. Holland will sell them to the United States and keep the question of construction as secret, as it is possible for him to do. Of course if the plans are bought out and out by this Government, Mr. Holland will lose all further rights or interest in his invention, at least to the extent of not being in a position to dispose of his plans to any other government, company or individual. —_—_—$ $i ee ASHTABULA BRIDGE. Secretary Alger has approved plans for the construction of a bridge by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Rail- road Co. over the Ashtabula River at Ashtabula. This bridge is to replace one destroyed by fire in September, 1895, but its construction was opposed on the ground that it would be injurious to public and private interests, because it would shut off part of a navigable stream from access to the lakes. After thorough investigation and a hearing of all parties in interest, the plans were approved as stated.