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THE MARINE RECORD. Chicago Pautical School 1513 Masonic Temple, CHICAGO. W. J. WILSON, (Late Lieutenant U. S. Navy), Principal. A full and complete course of instruction in lake and ocean navigation. Also special branches taught those desiring to qualify themselves for better positions in the marine service. $200 in prizes (Great Lakes Regis- ter) awarded annually to students. Students taught by correspondence. Students may begin at any time. Send for circular. IS OF LAKE MICHIGAN IN POETRY. W.S. Shales, of White Fish Bay, Wis., writes to us as fol- lows: “Dear Sir—I take great interest in poetry and have written more than 300. Here is oneI wrote on Lake Michigan. If you print it I will buy 12 papers, and I think your circulation will go up in this place.”’ Even at therisk of having our White Fish Bay circulation “go up’’ we shall print Mr. Shales’s poem. We consider this a duty to those among our readers who may be yearniug for something that will cause them to forget their cares, who are looking for something that will win their minds away from the exacting duties that are theirs andthus adda re- freshing and appetizing spice to life. TO LAKE MICHIGAN, Farewell, Lake Michigan, fare thee well, Oft I’ve gazed on thy beauteous breast So peaceful in thy tranquil spell, So wild in thy wild unrest. Thy moods seem to thrill my soul In woe at thy element grand ! Awoke inspiration, save to one untold The thoughts that come by thy magic wand. The sun’s warm glances on thee must thrill The inmost soul in rapture sweet While the moon’s soft rays oft reflect thy fill Oft thy wanton soul in peaceful sleep. No more! Nomore! With thee to meet By thy blessed side where I loved to stray Gathering pebbles as thy billows kissed by feet The shifting sands smoothing their prints away. Adieu! Adieu! Ere another day comes on And smiles on three with gracious gleams I’ll be far away from thy ceaseless monotone. In parting, a dingering sadness o’er me seems. We are sorry Mr. Shales is going away without explaining whether he does so because the people of White Fish Bay found out that he wrote the poem, or for some other sufficient reason. In any event, we bid him cheer up and throw off the ‘lingering sadness that o’er him seems.’’ There is no reason for concluding that the moon will not keep on reflect- ing Lake Michigan’s ‘fill’? just as faithfully while Mr. Shales is far away as if he were here to watch her.—Chicago Times-Herald. Se eee A MONSTER plant has been erected by the U.S. Navy Department on Dry Tortugas, Florida, for distilling sea water for drinking purposes, and also for use in the boilers of naval vessels. The builders of the plant guaranteed an output of 60,000 gallons of fresh water for 24 hours, but this has been exceeded, it is said by 50 per cent. The plant con- sists, generally speaking, of a set of steam boilers, heaters and other apparatus for giving the sea water a preliminary treatment, and a Lillie automatic multiple effect evaporator, in which the actual distillation of the sea water takes place, converting about 75 per cent. of the latterinto pure water, the remaining 25 per cent. passing away as concentrated brine. or eo oo THE proposed experiments by the Army with the Marconj system of wireless telegraphy has been abondoned for the present, the inventor demanding what the Department con- sidered exorbitant concessions from the Government for the use of his system, nor is the condition of the Signal Corps such at thistime as to warrent the detail of men for the experiments, MARINE REPAIRING AT MANITOWOC, WIS. The Goodrich Transportation Co, are prepared to do all kinds of Repair Work to Machinery. Also Joiner Work. Goodrich Transportation Company’s Repair Shops include complete Carpenter and Joiner Shop. New Modern Machine Shop. Blacksmith Shop, including Steam Hammer, Punch and Shears, etc., Brass Foundry. Repair Shops are adjacent to Dry Dock and are equipped with best Modern Machinery. Porta- ble Electric Drills, etc., complete Electric Power Plant for supplying motors on board ships, and lighting. Night work a specialty. All work in charge of experienced and skilled mechanics. Charges moderate. Twenty-one feet of water alongside of shops. NOTICE TO MARINERS. LAKE MICHIGAN, GREEN Bay, Etc., BuovAGE.—Notice is hereby given that the work of changing the iron buoys in the Ninth Light-House District, for the winter, to spar buoys, similarly painted, will begin on the dates below: _ Gas-lighted buoys, entrance to Fox River, Green Bay Wis- consin, November 7. Gas-lighted, bell andiron buoysin Green Bay, channels between Lake Michigan and Green Bay, on Wiggins Point Shoal, and in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin and Michigan, No- vember 8. Gas-lighted buoys, Fox Island and Rush Shoal buoys, Lake Michigan, Michigan, November 12. Mackinac Straits (West of Old Mackinac Light Station), and channels north and east of Beaver Island Group, Michi- gan, November 15. Off Sheboygan, Wisconsin, November 18. Off Milwaukee and Racine, Wisconsin, November 21. Off Chicago, Illinois, November 28. By order of the Light-House Board : FRANCIS J. HIGGINSON, Rear-Admiral, U. S. Navy, Chairman. OFFICE OF THE LIGHT-HOUSE INSPECTOR, IOTH DISTRICT, BuFFALO, N. Y., Novy. 1st, 1899. The Light-House Tender Haze will leave Buffalo N. Y., about Noy. 15, 1899, for the purpose of taking up the buoys in Lake Erie and the Detroit river. All important buoys will be replaced with winter buoys. The buoys at Dunkirk, N. Y., will be taken up about November 15th. The buoys at Erie, Pa., will be taken up about Novem- ber 16th. Those at Sandusky, Ohio, and the islands, about Novem- ber 20th. Those in Maumee Bay, about November 25th. Those in the Detroit river (excepting the gas buoys) about November 30th. The gas buoys and light-vessels in the Detroit river will be left in position as late as circumstances will permit, prob- ably until about December roth. The position of the Bar Point light-vessel after its removal will be marked by a black spar buoy. Waverly Shoal buoy and the Niagara river buoys will be kept in position as late as the season will allow. The St. Lawrence river and Lake Ontario buoys will also be left in place as late as possible. ° By authority of the Light-House Board : FRANKLIN HANFORD, Comdr. U. S. N., Inspector 1oth Light-House Dist. ro oo SHIPPING AND MARINE JUDICIAL DECISIONS, (COLLABORATED SPECIALLY FOR THE MARINE RECORD), Fellow Servants.—One employed by the owner of a ship* yard in operating a steam winch supplying power with which to unload lumber from a ship by means of a rope and tackle running from the wharf to the ship, and a workman also employed by the owner of the yard in piling the lumber as it is unloaded, are fellow servants, and their employer is not liable for an injury to the latter due to the negligence of the former. Olsen ys. Starin, 60 N. Y. Supp. 134. LicHt-Housk ESTABLISHMENT, Appliance for which Employer is Liable.—In unloading a vessel in a shipyard, an iron hook was fastened by the owner of the yard to the wharf, to hold a rope and tackle used for the work, running from the ship to the wharf. Held, that the hook must be considered an appliance used in the business, for reasonable carein main- taining the security of which the owner of the yard, for whom the work was done, was responsible to his employes. Olsen vs. Starin, 60 N. Y. Supp. 134. _ Master and Servant—Personal Injury—Contributory Neg- ligence.—A bark lay at a pier in defendant's shipyard loaded with lumber to be delivered to defendant. It was unloaded through the port hole bya rope and tackle, the power being supplied by a steam winch in the yard. "The is a book valuable to the Vessel Owner, Mas- ter, Naval Architect, and, in fact, all inter- ested in vessel handling and construction. A simple explanation of the stability, con- struction, tonnage and freeboard of ships. Specially arranged for the use of ships’ offi- cers, superintendents, draughtsmen — and others, By Thomas Walton, naval architect; lecturer to ships’ officers, government navi- gation school. Fourth edition greatly en- — larged. Illustrated; cloth, $2.50. ae THE T1ARINE RECORD, Third Floor, Western Reserve Building, Cleveland. ‘ line did not lead straight from the vessel to the winch; its direction being changed by passing it through a pulley or block attached to aniron hook fastened in the wharf, and from there to the winch. Plaintiff was employed in piling the lumher after its removal in the space lying in the bend of the line, and when a draft of lumber became ‘‘jammed” or wedged on the vessel, the winch not being stopped in time, the iron hook straightened out, and plaintiff was injur- ed by the block striking him as it and the rope were drawn inwards. Held, whether he was guilty of contributory negligence in occupying a position within the bend of the line was for the jury, as it involved danger if any of the ap- pliances should fall or the rope should break. Olsen ys. Starin, 60 N. Y. Supp. 134. Evidence of Defective Appliance.—A hook fastened to a wharf, and used to hold a rope and pulley for unloading a vessel, gave way under an extraordinary strain, and injured aworkman. In an action for the injury the only evidence of a defect was the testimony of a fellow workman, who said that he looked at the hook after the accident as it lay on the wharf. He said there was an old spot on it which looked like an old crack across the grain, but that he could not say for sure. He did not measure it, but judged it to be about an inch deep. On cross examination he reduced the depth of the crack to a quarter of aninch, and said that hedid not handle it, and that he did not look at it closer than five — feet. Held, insufficient to satisfy the burden of proving the defect, such proof constituting at most, only a scintilla of evidence. No such presumption arises as to a defect in an appliance which gives way under an extraordinary strain, as in a case where it falls in the ordinary conduct of the work for which it is being used. Olsen vs. Starin, 60 N. Y. Supp. 134. rr oo SUN’S AMPLITUDES. The following approximate amplitudes of the Sun’s rising will be given each week in this column during the season of navigation. A second bearing may be taken by compass at sunset, by reversing the east bearing given for the nearest latitude, as the change in declination for a few hours makes but a slight difference in the true bearing of the Sun’sset- ting. The bearing may be taken when the Sun’s centeris __ on the horizon, rising or setting. The three elements which ‘ may be obtained by taking these amplitudes are the quanti- ties known as local attraction, variation and deviation. ve LAKE ERIE AND S. END LAKE MICHIGAN, LAT. 42° N, Seti GT ne Se (Fn es ee ARR ane Sunrise. Amplitudes. Bearing P’ts. Bearing Comp. Nova Gen es EK. 20°S. = S.6%E. = E. byS. %S. Noy. 6.2 2...% EH. 21°S. = S.6%E. = E. byS. %S. Novy. Oe orcs Be 23°S. == $56 | By = Ser LAKE ONTARIO, S. END HURON AND CENTRAI, PORTION LAKE MICHIGAN, LAT. 44° N, Sunrise. Amplitudes. Bearing P’ts, Bearing Comp. Nowe aig E.21°S. = S.6%E. = E.byS. 4S. = Nov: 26.004 5.65 K.22°S. = $.6 EB. = E.S.E. Noy: 202: 4525, E2°S. = S.54E. = E.S.B. KS. N. END LAKES HURON AND MICHIGAN, LA. 46° N. Sunrise, Amplitudes. Bearing P’ts. Bearing Comp. INOW Ss eae H.21°S. = S.6%ER. = E. byS. %S Novi6. soi. B.23°S. = S.6 Bo = BG NOVi Qs et dec EB. 24°S. = S.5K%E. = E. SE. ¥%S. LAKE SUPERIOR, LAT. 48° N. Sunrise. Amplitudes. Bearing P’ts. Bearing Comp. Nove 3 a BE. 22°S. = S. Pa Hee B: < RK. , INOW Gewese EK. 24°S. = S.54EB. = E.S.E. KS. NOV! Oa. H.25°S. = S.54E. = E.S.EB. KS. With a compass correct magnetic, the difference between the observed and true bearing or amplitude will be the vari- ation for the locality. Should there be any deviation on the course the vessel is heading at the time of taking the bear ing, the difference between the observed and the true ampli tude after the variation is applied will be the amount of de- viation on that course. If the correct magnetic bearing is to the right of the compass bearing, the deviation is easterly, if to the left, the deviation is westerly. :