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TOBIN BRONZE “Insurance JULY 13, 1899. THE MARINE RECORD. 13 eee ee mcm oe nects with a series of smaller cog-wheels, by which the power is transmitted. The boat, therefore, performs about the same part in the new contrivance as the weights doin the clock. Its rise and fall may be as imperceptible as the rise and fall of the clockweights, but its power in turning wheels will be transmitted in the same way. It is freely admitted that similar projects, when on paper, looked feasible and of great practical benefit, but, when put into mechanical shape were found to be failures. Mr. Reed is fully prepared to demonstrate the actual working and practical value of his invention preparatory to a stock com- pany being formed for its further exploits. ‘ ro or oe PEACEABLE MERCHANTMEN. It is greatly to be regretted that the representatives of Great Britain, France and Russia in the Peace Conference did not feel at liberty to fully discuss the principles of ex- empting from capture private property at sea. England’s opposition is the marvel of the world. Her situation is one which would seem to make it more for her interest than for that of any other nation that the commerce of the seas should be undisturbed by the depredations of war. Conti- nental nations, among them Russia, Italy and Germany, have at one time or another accepted the principle and have some of them embodied it in treaties. The most eminent publicists and text writers are earnest advocates of exemp- tion. It is logical and in accord with the humane spirit of modern times, which tends more and more to look upon war as an affair between governments‘ which should cause the least possible molestation and loss to non-combatants. Yet the United Kingdom unaccountably puts herself in the position of chief objector to the proposed reform. Lawrence says in his recent work on international law that in her wars with France, having destroyed the commerce of her enemy and added millions of tons to her own merchant marine, ‘‘her rulers and people became fully convinced that it was far more important to her to retain the liberty of striking at the enemy’s merchantmen than to secure the safety of her own.’’ This may explain, but it does not ex- cuse. We might expect of Spain such a rooted adherence to a worn-out idea. We do not expectit of enlightened Britishers. What is more, she takes a position completely opposed to our own, which we have consistently held since the foundation of the republic re or ee EASTERN FREIGHT REPORT. Messrs. Funch, Edye & Co., in their weekly freight report to the RECORD, state as follows : The firmer tone of our freight market, to which we re- ferred in our last, has continued, but fixtures show a numer- ical reduction as against the preceding week’s business, owing partly to the intervening holidays, partly to the gen- erally firmer attitude assumed by owners of the not exces- sive tonnage heading for this coast. Charterers for grain, in the interim, appear unable to advance their limits beyond the figures previously paid, although the enquiry is some- what broadening, and appears likely to lead to an advance in rates, shortly. Whilst other! trades are not very active, the enquiry from the Gulf continues brisk, and rates suffi- ciently good to cause the shifting there of tonnage from ports North of Hatteras, in preference to accepting rates as offered from our range of loading ports. Business in sailing tonnage for last week was restricted by our National holiday, as well as by the continued scarcity of offerings on the part of owners. The volume of business accomplished since our last is, therefore, necessarily small, but our market remains firm, and no change in rates has taken place. : ———————— eS SO ANOTHER LONE NAVIGATOR. Capt. Firmin Moindron, a California navigator is making unique preparations for going to Paris to attend the big Ex- position next year. Heis going toseainatrunk. Not the ordinary trunk, but the trunk of a tree. A trenchman by birth and a Californian by adoption, he is prompted to his novel venture by a desire to show the people of his native land, as well as the world at large, what great things in the vegetation line exist in America. He is going to make a boat out of the trunk of a huge red- wood. “T will build,’’ he says, ‘‘a schooner from one of the largest treesin Humboldt county. The hull shall be one solid piece, simply the trunk of the tree hollowed out and hewn into shape. I will take atree from twenty-two to twenty- four feet in diameter for my boat. “‘She shall be forty-eight feet long, fifteen feet beam and ten feet deep, and will be rigged asa schooner. I figure that it will take me two or three months to makeit. I will sail from San Francisco go around Cape Horn, or through the Straits of Magellan, across the Atlantic and down the Seine to Paris. I hope to be ready to start in time to reach Cape Horn about the last of December of this year, so that I will arrive in Paris next May. “T think of sailing 16,000 miles in the trunk of a tree. To do that and show all the world at the Exposition what won- ders California can produce I am willing to risk my life.’’ Perhaps so, cum grano salis. oor oo or A statement prepared at the Navy Department, July 3, shows that during the fiscal year just closed 16,123 men enlisted in the Navy of whom 2,147 were enlisted for the THE WRECK OF THE PARIS. The report of Captain Watkins, late of the wrecked steam- er Paris, submitted to the local inspectors at New York, says: “I was master of the steamship Paris when she left South-~ ampton at noon on May 2oth last, bound for New York via Cherbourg. ; “TI regret to say that the casualty was owing toan unac- countable erroron my part. It is about 131 miles from Cape La Hogue to the Lizard and the run between these points would, I calculated, occupy six hours and 45 minutes. Unfortunately, I reckoned the time on this basis for coming up with the Lizard from 7:35 a.m. when abeam of the Cas- - quets instead of from 6:38 p. m. when abeam of Cape La Hogue, and the vessel was thus really 18 miles ahead of the position I was acting upon. In addition thick weather over-land obscured the Lizard lights. I attribute the strand- ing to the above cause, and take upon myself full responsi- bilities for it.’’ Captain Watkins makes a statement of his sea service since 1851, during which time he has crossed the Atlantic nearly five hundred times, and to his record as navigating © officer of the Paris which was the cruiser Yale during the war with Spain. The report of the United States local inspectors at New York is in part: “We have carefully read the report made by Captain Wat- kins, in which Captain Watkins took the entire responsi- bilities of the disaster upon himself in making a mistake in the time when he passed the Casquets, thereby overrun- ning the distance. ‘We find that the report is very meagre in details. Giving all due considerations to the matter, we are under the opin- ion that Captain Watkins has not acted with the necessary care and attention requisite in the navigation of his vessel — which a master should have used, and we therefore suspend his license as a master of ocean steamers for a period of two years. (Signed. ) Thomas H. Barrett, Peter C. Petrie, United States Local Inspectors.”’ ——— OO OS Shipping—Construction of Charter Party—Risk of Col- lision.—A provision of a charter party that “the owners shall pay for insurance on the vessel,’ to be given any effect as between the parties, must be construed as requir- ing the owners to insure against all such losses as would otherwise fall on the charterer; and, where the owners failed to procure insurance, they made themselves insurers, and cannot cast upon the charterer the burden of paying damages recovered against the vessel for collision, against which they might have insured. The Barnstable, 94 Fed. Rep. (U. S.) 213. \ (Trade-Matk Registered. Tensile strength of plates one-quarter inch thick, upward of 78,000 Ibs. per square inch. Torsional strength equal to the best machinery steel. 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