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- Tonawanda Iron and Steel Co. NOVEMBER 30, 1899. DETROIT. _ Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. The Cherokee and Chippewa are being stripped for the _ winter at Marine City. The old wooden steamer St. Paul will be placed in winter quarters here this week. Ben Hargrave, a sailor on the steamer Ira H. Owen, hailing : from this port, fell from aloft on Monday while the steamer was lying at Erie, Pa. ries. The schooner Sunshine, 370 tons, built at East Saginaw in 1856 and still classed and rated has gone into winter quarters. She was rebuilt in 1883 and is still a fairly good old bottom. Capt. James Corrigan, of Cleveland, who has bought a large number of vessels this season, has added two more vessels to his fleet. He bought the schooner Ashland from D. Whitney, of Detroit, and the steamer Quito from the The price was not named. He died from the effects of his inju- Insurance agents do not wish to extend lake policies at any terms. November 1 and December 5 is the season limit and the rates for an extension will be almost prohibitory. The marine insurance companies rule the season and not owners, builders, shippers, masters or pilots, not even the various government departments, or judgés of the Supreme Courts can make the season one day longer than the under- writers desire. A vessel well imbedded in sand is a difficult object to re- lease. Barry Bros., of Chicago, who purchased the stranded schooner Sophia Minch and spent several thousand dollars in trying to float her have now let the contract to James Reid. It was thought all along that the Barry’s would accomplish what they started out to do but they will have an expensive and costly old schooner on their hands when Capt. Reid gets the Minch afloat for them. oo re or OTTAWA. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. An adverse decision has been given the Michigan lumber- men who brought a test case into the Ontario courts, to settle the dispute over the power of the Ontario Government to forbid the export of logs from that province into this country. The case was dismissed with costs. It will proba- bly be appealed and carried through the higher courts until a final decision is given by the Privy Council of Great Britain. The argument of the Michigan lumbermen was that the licenses under which they had purchased timber limits in Ontario previous to the order forbiding the export of logs, and which are renewed from year to year, should not be affected by the order; also that the regulation of international trade devolves upon the Dominion Government exclusively, and that any interference in this trade by the Ontario Government is thus unconstitutional. Justice Street, in his decision of the case, holds that the province of Ontario owned the timber on the limits for which licenses to cut logs were sold to the Michigan lum- bermen, and that the Ontario Government has full control of these limits and therefore has the right to impose upon purchasers such conditions as they deem proper, with regard to the destination of the timber after it is cut, including the state from which it shall be exported. When the Ontario _ Government forbade the export of logs from that province, some couple of years ago, it provided the only means acceptable to the lumbermen of Canada for retaliation upon the form of competition in the trade given by the Dingley tariff. Only from the Georgian Bay district were logs being taken to this country in large quantities. The Dominion Government refused to take action in the matter because of the provision of the Dingley tariff for doubling the im- port duties on lumber coming from a country forbidding the export of logs intothis country. When the,Ontario Govern- ment took individual responsibility, there was raised a deli- cate question as to whether the Dominion Government became committed. To test this question the Michigan lumbermen requested the Ontario Government to permit the submission of a case to the courts. The Ontario Government demurred for a short time, and then acquiesced. Following quickly upon the published decision of Justice Street comes the announcement that the Ontario Government has forbid- den the export of nickel and coper ore or matte. This will compel the manufacture of nickel armor platein Canada. The Ontario Government is endeavoring to persuade the British Government to form a partnership for the manufac- ture of nickel armor plate. Buta short time ago an order forbidding the export of pulp wood from public lands in Ontario went into force. If it should happen that the Privy Council decides that the Ontario Government has been act- ing unconstitutionally in forbidding the export of raw material, the question of damages to Americans who have purchased the lumbering and mining licenses in that pro- vince, will become a question for the provincial treasurer to look into. ¥ ————$— $$ a a ASHLAND, WIS. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. “A new record was made on Tuesday for loading iron Ore into boats for this port. The rate is now 2,000 tons per hour. The barge George E. Hartnell] received a cargo of 5,000 tons in two and a half hours to-day at the Wisconsin Central docks, © THE MARINE RECORD. BUFFALO. ' Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. The India and Japan, of the Anchor line, are in winter quarters here, and the China is making her last trip. The steamer Baldwin and consorts Carpenter and Burman are in winter quarters at Black Rock. Coal has been shipped quite lively this week and a total of 105,000 tons is an easy showing. Chicago took about one-third of this and Milwaukee and Duluth fully another third, while the rest was distributed between several of the minor ports. Lake freights as quoted run about this way, although Green Bay has had two cargoes at 5 cents better: Chicago, 75 cents; Milwaukee, 75 cents; Duluth, 50 cents; Racine, 85 cents; Waukegan, 75 cents; Toledo, 50 cents; Green Bay, 75 cents; Gladstone, 50 cents. Fuel is now up to $2.75 and not enough can be procured for the ordinary traffic out of the port. It is not thought that there is any desire to deprive vessels, but the coal is not here, nor can the agents get it, and steamers go with just enough to carry them to the next fueling port. The acquisition of property and dock frontage, adjoining its present holdings by the Tonawanda Iron and Steel Co., is preparatory to the erection of two additional blast fur- naces, at least so it is understood here this week, and that the Tonawanda Iron and Steel Co. is a factor that must be figured with in the near future. A bottle floated ashore at Erie, on Monday, containing this message, under date of October 10, 1897: ‘‘S. Idaho sinking, all on board, no one saved. Cook.’ The steamer Idaho was lost on Lake Hrie two years ago with nearly all ‘on board and the best authorities are of the opinion that the message is genuine, although being such a length of time before discovered. Shipments of coal westward by lake from Buffalo last week aggregated 104,720 tons, distributed as follows: Chi- cago, 44,100 tons; Milwaukee, 25,750 tons; Duluth-Superior 24,500 tons; Racine, 2,300; Waukegan, 2,100 tons; Depot Harbor, 2,050 tons; Toledo, 1,350 tons; Green Bay, 1,200 tons, and smaller amounts to other ports. Freight rates 75 cents to Lake Michigan and 50 cents to the head of the lakes. on orn or FLOTSAM, JETSAM AND LAGAN. Mr. Thomas Henry Ismay, the founder, and chairman of the board of directors of the White Star Line Steamship Co., died suddenly last Thursday evening, at Liverpool. He was born Jan. 7,:1837. The contract for constructing the League Island drydock, at Philadelphia, has been awarded by the Navy Department to the Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Co. This company has re- ceived the award upon a bid of $782,000. The marine underwriters made a good thing on grain in- surance the past season. ‘The losses were trivial, while the business was large. Last year, on the other hand, was a bad year for the marine insurance people.—American Elevator and Grain Trade, Chicago. An International Salvage Congress will be held at the Paris Exhibition, on July 17,1900. The programme includes the consideration of salvage in mid-ocean, collision, signal- ing, pigeon post, and salvage off the coasts. It is possible that a similar arrangement can be made in the lake service. Capt. Hans Hanson has resigned his position as keeper of the light-house and fog signal stations, at the mouth of the river, to take immediate effect. Capt. Chas EK. Young, for- merly light-house keeper at Algoma, has been appointed to succeed him. Capt. Young will be in the city ina few days and take charge of the station.—The Eagle, Marinette, Wis. An exchange says: ‘“That is a good yarn they are telling of Admiral Dewey, who, while at Manila, accumulated a big pile of coal at Cavite. One day one of the bureau chiefs sent him this cablegram: ‘What have you bought such an enormous quantity of coal for?’ The return cable didn’t cost the Government much for cable tolls. Itread: ‘To . burn.’ ” A factory was burned at Wautagh, L. I., a few days ago, and with it 10,000 stuffed sea gulls, 20,000 wings of other birds, and 10,000 heads of birds of different kinds. This was only one factory. One man, during one season in Florida, shot 141,000 birds for this trade. Itis high time that this wholesale slaughter was stopped.—Leader, Cleve- land, O. The Black Diamond, the leading coal and trades journal of Chicago and New York, states that one dollar and ninety cents was paid per ton for vessel charters between Newport News and New Haven, Conn., last week. This rate would show that coal is carried on the lakes simply for ballast, and the RECORD can not too strongly deprecate the now almost established custom of making the down cargo pay for that carried west. Since a fourteen feet depth of water has been secured in Canadian canals, it is possible for a steamship of a moderate draught to run from Chicago to Liverpool by way of Mon- treal. Not to be behind its opportunities, a line of three steamships is reported as being organized to run between the Windy City and the great seaport on the Mersey, with a quay space of twenty-five miles. Outside the period of closed navigation, it is not unlikely that considerable traffic may be diverted from other ports to the new route. It is the begin- ———oosSrrrTTEeEe eee ee ning, however, of a movement that may yet result in a canal connection to the Mississippi with the lakes, and thence to deep-sea navigation. On the 22d inst., telegraph messages were transmitted by the Pollak-Virag system of rapid telegraphy from Chicago to Milwaukee and return at the rate of 122,000 words an hour. On the same day a test was made on a line extending from Chicago to Buffalo and return—1,062 miles—in which messages were suecessfully sent at the rate of 90,000 words an hour. Owing to the fact that it was not possible to get all the apparatus into position, the results of the tests were not as satisfactory as could have been expected had the con- ditions been otherwise. The tests were conducted under the supervision of the inventors. ae Acting under instructions from the Secretary of the Navy a board has made an investigation as to the facilities of the Burlee Dry Dock Co., of Staten Island, for competing with other firms in the matter of building the ships of the Denver class, on which this company were bidders in the recently — concluded competition. The report is quite exhausive and finds that the company possesses the necessary facilities for doing the work within the time specified in the contracts. It does not follow from this report, however, that the Burlee Co. a secure a contract.—Army and Navy Journal, New York. The track of the longest-lived storm in the history of the American Hydrographic Office—the hurricane of Septem- ber—is plotted on the October chart of the North Atlantic Ocean. The blow started August 3, midway between South America and Africa, and north of the equator. It swept the West Indies from September 7.to Io, and was off Florida September 14. It struck Cape Hatteras September 17, and passed Cape Henry September 19, and then put ont to sea and swept the Atlantic to the coast of France, occupying a period of I9days. The storm traveled across the ocean, and was last heard of in Italy. This was the hurricane that blew 160 miles an hour at Cape Hatteras. : ‘ : The North German Lloyd steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse arrived in New York on the 22d inst. from Cher- bourg, France, after a passage of 5 days, 17 hours and 27 minutes, beating her own best record by 11 minutes. The average hourly speed was 22.9 knots. The daily runs were as follows: 388, 548, 552, 535, 552 and 475 miles, making a total of 3,050 nautical miles. This vessel holds other ocean records, namely, the eastward record to Plymouth of 5 days, 15 hours and ro minutes, with an average speed of 22.61 knots, and the eastward record to Southampton—5 days, 17 hours and 18 minutes. On her trip from Cherbourg she carried 600 cabin passengers and 633 steerage passengers, — Reports are current to the effect: that the wreckers em- ployed by the Cendoya Co., of Cuba, found $190,000 in Spanish gold in the wrecked cruiser Almirante Oquendo. The money is reported to have been found in the safe, which, fell to the bottom of the hold when the vessel was burned. — This wrecking firm has been employed during the last six months in stripping the Spanish war vessels destroyed by Americans in the battle of Santiago, and a commercial firm which has furnished the diving apparatus, has paid the men a stipulated price per pound for brass and copper recovered. It is said that a controversy has arisen between the wreckers and the agents of the commercial concern, over the rightful ownership of the money found. The Naval Academy practice ship Chesapeake will be placed in commision at the Boston Navy Yard on Dec. 2, and on Dec. 18 will have her official trial trip. After this is concluded the ship will receive her full equipment and then will probably be sent on a short cruise prior to assign- ment permanently to Annapolis. This vessel has sail power alone, and is one of the most gracefully designed ships of the — service. Her bow resembles the clipper ship of the old days and her great spread of canvas is expected to send her through the water with a quarter wind at 12 knots or more. This ship has a record to beat for sailing ships in the Navy, and if she does as well as the beautiful Constellation in her best sailing days, when she often reeled off thirteen and fourteen knots, the naval men will be pleased. This craft with the gunboat Annapolis will serve the naval cadets as their cruising ships in the summer. —_— =e OES NOTICE TO MARINERS. LiGHT-Housk ESTABLISHMENT, OFFICE OF THE LIGHT-HOUSE INSPECTOR, 10TH Distnich | BuFFALO, N. Y., Nov. 25th, 1899. Notice is hereby given that the lens of the Galloo Island Shoal gas-buoy No. 1 has been badly damaged, that it will not be practicable to re-light the lamp before navigation closes this year. Navigators are therefore cautioned that this buoy cannot be relied upon during the remainder of the present season. By order of the Light-House Board : FRANKLIN HANFORD, Comdr. U. S. N., Inspector Tenth Light-House District. —— OO oe own Collision—Sailing Vessels Meeting—Change of Course— Under the sailing rules governing the navigation of the lakes (28 Stat. 645, rules 16, 20), which require a vessel run- ning free to keep out of the way of a vessel closehauled, and the latter to keep her course and speed, the luffing half a point bya vessel closehauled on approaching one running free, and the subsequent falling off half a point, do not con- stitute a change of course, within the rules, so as to render her in fault for a collision. The Emily B. Maxwell, 96 Fed. Rep. (U. S.) 998.