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eS Y'HE MARINE RECORD. MJ VIOLATION OF SAILING AND STEERING RULES. The following is a list of vessels reported for violating the sailing and steering rules of St. Mary’s River: Northern King, June 7, Rule I. Harlem, June 10, Rule I. Merida, June ito, Rule I. T. D. Stimson, June 12, Rule I. India, June 13, Rules I and VI. Cadillac, June 13, Rules I and VI. Manola, June 13, Rules I and VI. Alva, June 13, Rules I and VI. Colorado, June 13, Rule I. Cranage, June 13, Rule I. List of vessels warned for violation of St. Mary’s River rules: Athabasca, Bangor, Bannockburn, Birck- head, Carnegie, Colgate Hoyt, Codorus, Chisholm, Coralia, Cort, Cadillac, Castalia, Curry, Colorado, E. A. eos Shores, Frontenac, Fulton, Fisk, Gould, Gratwick (steel), Griffin, Grecian, German, Glasgow, Gilbert, Green Bay, Harlem, LIosco, Italia, Joliet, Japan, Kearsarge, Lizzie Madden, Mohawk, Mariska, Maruba, Manitoba, Minnie M., Merida, McWilliams, Mahoning, Monarch, Mari- . tana, Marina, Murphy, Northern Queen, Northern King, Northern Wave, Northern Light, North Star, North Wind, Nimick, Neshoto, Nicol, Oglebay, Peerless, Port- age, Pontiac, Pope, Queen City, Rosemount, Roman, Roby, Republic, Rockefeller, Siberia, Stafford, Spokane, Stephenson, Stimson, Sauber, Sevona, Siemens, Shrigley, ‘Sitka, Shenandoah, Saxon, Trevor, Traverse, United Em- ‘pire, Victory, Wawatam, Wade, Wilhelm. In this connection we print the schedule of time to be run on the river, according to the present rules: Treasury Department, Office of the Secretary, Washington, D. C., April 6, 1897. The following schedule of the time required to be run - between certain points in the St. Mary’s River under a speed limit of seven miles per hour, is hereby published, in connection with the rules and regulations governing the movements ard anchorage of vessels in said river, for the information of all concerned, viz: Distance : Time in SECTIONS. ea ake minutes. Mud Lake Buoy to Everens Point ............. ... 2% 22% Everens Point to Encampment Crib Light ....... Y% 6% Encampment Crib Light to Dark Hole Turn...... 1% 14 Dark Hole Turn to Harwood Point Turn .......... 3Yy 28 Harwood Point Turn to Junction Buoy, Hay Lake 3 28 DIK Gretna epee ho ae SES ay Shek ¢-orar louenae wish, obs uO 1% 9% Junction Buoy to Upper Flats, lower cut. ....,.... 2% 23% Lower Range (Frichette Cut) to Red Can Buoy Cut 1% 13 Red Can Buoy to Lower Light, Little Rapids .... 1% 13 Lower Light, Little Rapids, to Light House (North SeIEIA NGG) ours case irs, sd tare AMO aU Ge) dae canoe 1% 13 Light-House, North Entrance, to Government Pier 1% 14 Little Rapids Cut, through island.................. 1% 9% —————$—$$—S So —— THE CANALS OF MARS. As the result of long-continued and very successful ob- servations in Arizona and Mexico, Mr. Percival Lowell concludes (as quoted in the New York Herald) that the canals of the planet Mars show such “a marvelous system as cannot well be due to any natural forces, and finds its best explanation in the presence of local intelligence on the planet, which has purposely created a system of irri- gation or the perpetuation of its own existence.” Mr. Lowell thinks there is little or no water in lakes or seas on Mars, and that the planet’s water-supply comes from the snow and ice at its poles, which melt rapidly in sum- mer. The canals he believes to have been constructed to care for and to distribute this annual flood from the fast- melting ice-caps of the polar regions. Such astronomy as this that Mr. Lowell has been busy with must be of great use to keep the imagination in a healthy state. It involves a real change of thought to get one’s mind off the earth entirely and to busy it with Mar- tian investigations. the observers who peep through the great Yerkes tele- scope, for which lenses of unprecedented size have been very recently completed, will have to say about the Mar- tian canals.—Harper’s Weekly. It will be interesting to learn what TACOMA COMMERCE. ; The following compilation has been made by the Ta- coma*Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade from statistics furnished by the Yokohama General Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of supporting its claim recently made to the Treasury Department, that the largest percentage of teas exported from the Orient to the United States passed through the port of Tacoma. The statistics given cover the exports of tea from Japan to America for the season of 1896-97, beginning May 6, 1896, and ending April 24, 1897: Pounds Tea. Per cent. Via Tacoma, Northern Pac. Line.... 16,450,560 38.56 Via Suez Canal, Tramp steamers.... 8,834,700 °- 20.70 Via San Francisco, Pac. Mail & O.. 7,727,646 18.10 Via Vancouver, B. C., Can. Pac.... 5,962,384 13.97 Via Portland, Ore., Ore.-Asiatic Line 1,937,546 4.54 Via Seattle, Wash., Japanese S. S. L.. 1,754,662 4.13 42,676,588 100.00 LDEBEGIBUEGIBUEDOD OND Queen City Hydraulic Steerer. THE BEST AND MOST 2 POWERFUL STEERER FOR ut ‘TUGS, STEAMERS, ETC, w& yt &* MANUFACTURED BY Queen City Engineering Co, Write for Prices and References. Tensile strength, one inch cold drawn rod, upward of 78,000 lbs. per square inch. Torsional Strength equal to the best machinery steel. Non-corrosive in sea water. Can be forged at cherry red heat. Round, Square and Hexagon Bars for Bolt Forg- ings, Pump Piston Rods, Yacht Shaftings, ete. 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