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AUGUST 17, I8g9. THE MARINE RECORD. 13 Ce eee ee ee ee ee LAKE CARRIERS’ ASSOCIATION. SAILORS’ WAGES ADVANCED. Ata meeting of the executive comniittee of the Lake Carriers’ Association, held at the office of Capt. James Corrigan on Tuesday, August 15, the wages of cooks, fire- men, wheelsmen, lookouts, seamen and deckhands were ad vanced Io per cent. The new schedule went into effect at once. No change was made in the wages of engineers or mates. The new schedule is not for the balance of the season, and if rates continue to advance another card will be adopted probably in September. The schedule is now as follows : ON STEAMERS, PER MONTH. Ist Class 2d Class 3d Class EOORS wu a pe eee siess #60 00 = $55 00 $49 50 Cooks’ Helpers. s...00..: 22 00 itolny (es ieraues TEUDR Sb caU She ga eee reteset 38 50 38 50 33 00 to $38 50 Wiheelsinen..c20 5-55: 38 50 38 50 33 00 to 38 50 HOGEOUTS eee cls. 38 50 38 50 33 00 to 38 50 WUSIS ima ee ae: BOUbOr recy srt cue cere eres, Deckhands: 25 3... 22°00) 22.00 | 22500 Fe. ., ON CONSORT AND SAIL, COOKS Ss ie eck PAS 50) haa200 a es sk DCAMIEN ey are ae eke 38 50 28 00 to $33 00 The foregoing shows a neat Io per cent. raise over the card adopted at the opening of navigation in April. The raise is to be paid on all vessels in the association, whether on the Jake or in port on the date of August 15th. Further- more, with a continuance of fair living rates of freight an- other voluntary raise will be made as the season advances. no or THE most striking feature of The Century for September, which wil be a salt-water number, isthe first installment of Captain Joshua Slocum’s ‘‘Sailing Alone Around the World.’’ This isthe narrative of a daring voyage of cir- cumnavigation, undertaken by the author in 1895, in a forty-foot sloop built by himself in Buzzard’s Bay, and taken back and forth across the Atlantic and thence around Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope, without assistance or companionship. The distance traversed was 46,000 miles, and the accuracy of the navigator’s landfalls throughout was a thing to marvel at, his chronometer for most of the time being a little tin clock of the cheapest kind. Captain Slocum was a thoroughly seasoned sailor when he started on his adventurous single-handed cruise, but his unique achievement was not without difficulties and perils that taxed to the utmost his strength, endurance and ingenuity. Other contents of this number of The Century are ‘‘The Way of a Ship,’’ by Frank T. Bullen, author of ‘“The Cruise of the Cachalot’’; ‘‘The Atlantic Speedway,’’? by H. Phelps Whitmarsh, author of ‘‘The World’s Rough Hand’’; and “Salvage,’? by Morgan Robertson, author of the forth- coming volume of sea tales ‘‘Where Angels Fear to Tread.” SPECIAL NOTICE TO MASTERS AND PILOTS— BUOYS AT THE ENTRANCE TO DETROIT RIVER. The Department of Marine and Fisheries under whose control the Dominion of Canada has placed the establish- ment and system of ‘‘Aids to Navigation’? on the Lakes, communicates as follows : MARINE AND FISHERIES, OTTAWA, Aug. II, 1899. Editor The Marine Record, Cleveland, O. SIR :—I beg to enclose, herewith, copy of a letter received by the Chief Engineer of this Departmeut from the light keeper at Bois Blanc island, who is in charge of the buoys at the mouth of the Detroit river, pointing out the great difficulty in keeping the black buoys 1n their present posi- uons, and I would ask you to appeal to the masters of vessels to assist this Department in maintaining this service efficiently. ‘These buoys are maintained chiefly for the ben- efit of the large draft American vessels, but if the destruc- tion continues as it has during the present season we shall be compelled to move them away from the edge of the channel, in the way suggested by Mr. Hackett, to the detri- ment o! shipping. If vessels would steer for Bois Blanc island as indicated in the sailing directions, this would give the buoys a berth of 4oo feet. I have the honor to be, Your obedient servant, F. GOURDEAU, Deputy Minister. The copy of the letter referred to in the foregoing is self- explanatory and therefore requires no comment on our part, further than to say, that we hope each master and pilot will appoint himself a committee to guard from destruction by all possible means in his power these valuable aids to navi- gation established at the mouth of the Detroit river. Bots BLANC ISLAND, AUG. 9th, 1899. Colonel Anderson, Ottawa, Ont. Srr : The Bar Point lightship is moorea 260 feet west of the west line of the channel. Captain McKay has been trying all summer to get them to move her out but the Inspector thinks there would be more danger of collision if they moved her out. The boats at night come up past the Detroit river light and steer for the lightship instead of Bois Blanc island light and that bringsthem right in the line of our black buoys. They have been carrying them away all summer but last week was the worst we have had. I replaced them alland left them all right and now there are two gone and I have nothing on hand belonging to you to replace them with. I find there is water enough to let us move the first five black spars over in line with where the lightship is now moored and doaway with the two lower ones altogether as those two are the hardest to keep; it seems almost impossible to keep them as they now are. The heavy draft boats are the ones that need them and the light ones do not damage anything in the shape of a boat that is out just now. What am Ito do? Yery respectfully, (Signed) ANDREW HACKETT. a SHIPPING AND DISCHARGING SEAMEN. Returns of United States shipping commissioners (except Norfolk), for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899, show 75,106 men as having signed articles, and 45,444 discharged, compared with 72,643 shipments and re-shipments and 43,752 discharges for the previous fiscal year.. The increase is chiefly at Boston, San Francisco and Port Townsend. Shipping commissioners at New York and San Francisco co-operated without extra pay with the War Department in shipping crews for army transports. Such shipments in New York numbered 7,059. While the work of the service was considerably greater than during the previous years, the cost to the government was $51,727 the past year, compared with $58,387 for the previous year. Of 120,550 shipments and discharges, 35,627 were at New York, 30,441 at San Francisco, 13,043 at Boston, 10,442 at New Orleans, and 8,014 at Philadelphia. Of 75,106 ship- ments, including in many cases repeated voyages of the same seamen, 27,009 were Americans, 16,117 were Scandin- avians, 13,722 British, chiefly of British North America, 6,711 Germans, and the balance of other nations, including many Portuguese on the Massachusetts coast. Shipments in the deep sea trade across the Atlantic and Pacific were 11,542 on steamships, and 7,262 on sail vessels. Owing to repeated voyages the shipments on steamships, however, represent less than 2,500 individual seamen. Shipment be- fore a commissioner is optional in the coasting trade or trade to British North America, the West Indies, Mexico and Central America, so the returns give no indication of the nnmber of merchant seamen in these trades. cum? ae _—_—_ SUEZ CANAL PASSAGES. From a weekly return of the passages of ships through the Suez canal it is learned that out of a total of 61 steamers which navigated the canal during the week ending July 22, five did not avail themselves of the electric light for night navigation, the average time taken by these being 25 hours 33 minutes; they are, however, shown as being quarantined. Of the others which utilized the electric searchlight the shortest time made was 14 hours 20 minutes, this being done by the Gladys Royle, from Port Said for Kurrachee, in ballast. Six exceeded 20 hours in transit, the remainder being under that time, while the average time occupied by the 56 steamers in passing through the canal was 16 hours 50 minutes. Of the 61 steamers 39 were British, 8 German, 4 Dutch, 2 each of French, Italian, and Japanese, and one each of Russian, Norwegian, Spanish and Austrian. xc qg3€§8 D>. __ Admiralty—Jurisdiction—Injury to Property on Pier.— Where a steamship struck against a pier extending into navigable water, breaking it and causing property lying thereon to fall into the water, where it sank beyond recovery, the legal injury was done upon the pier, which is land, and not in the water, and a suit to recover for the loss is not within the jurisdiction of a court of admiralty. The Haxby, 95 Fed. Rep. (U. S.) 170. OBIN BRONZE (Trade-Mark 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. Non-corrosive in sea water. 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