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12 THE MARINE RECORD. DECEMBER 21, 1899. Cricago Nautical Sepool 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. 5S OF MARINE REPAIRING AT MANITOWOC, WIS. 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. Capt. Samuel W. Gould, 265 MARCY AVE., CLEVELAND. The Goodrich Transportation Co, are prepared to do all kinds of Repair Work to Machinery. st Gives instructions in Ocean Navigation and prepares” candidates for the examina- tions for Master and Pilots’ Licenses, before the Local Steamboat Inspectors. st — TAKE — Wade Park or Payne Ave. Car. THE STORY OF A LIFE SAVING STATION. The transfer of Capt. T. St. Peter of the Jackson Park life saving station to North Manitou Island, and of Capt. William A. Adres of the latter station to succeed Capt. St. Peter at Jackson Park took place in due order as announced several days ago. A Chicago dispatch gives the true in- wardness of the transfer as follows: The reason for the shifting of Capt. St. Peter was given as a violation of rules of ‘the service. He has been in the ser- vice twenty-three years, and it is said he has allowed disci- pline at the station to grow lax and to have lost control of his men. Marine men say that this is not to be wondered at for Jackson Park station is of very little use and the men have nothing to do. ‘‘There are fifty places along the shores of the lakes which needa life saving station more than Jackson Park,’’ said a marine man. ‘The station would never have been placed there except that the house was built as an exhibit for the service at the World’s Fair. When the fair was over the officials did not want to tear the house down and tried to remove the Chicago crew there, eight miles from their work. Marine men protested stren- uously and retained the station at the mouth of the river. With the exception of going to the assistance of some reck- less youth in a rowboat, the crew has had absolutely nothing todo, The Chicago station is on one side and South Chi- cago on the other. The whole distance is only thirteen miles and to place acrew inthe center of this stretch is needless. The marine interests would be far better served if the men were taken with their boats to some of the dangerous stretches of the coast line now unprotected.” re et OTTAWA AND GEORGIAN BAY CANAL. At the last session of parliament, says the Toronto corres- pondent of the Paper Mill, a grant was voted for the im- provement of the upper Ottawa navigation. It was gener- ally understood that this was for the purpose of aiding in the obtaining of a survey of the Ottawa and Georgian Bay ‘canal. Atall events, a survey is now in progress, and it is expected that it will be completed to the height of land by the middle of this month. Borings has been made in every hundred feet, and not much rock has been found. When this survey is completed the canal company will have sufficient data to put the work under contract. The section between Trout Lake and Lake Nipissing has been found not to be the solid mass of land as it was supposed to be, but the engineer in charge of the survey party has been able to utilize a chain of fire, tiny lakes between these bod- jes. That will overcome the chief difficulty of the route, for the track between Trout Lake and Lake Nipissing is on the summit level, or the ‘‘divide,’’ between the Ottawa basin and the Lake Huron drainage. Ree DETENTION OF LAKE TRAFFIC. _ Senator McMillan this week introduced a resolution call- ing upon the War Department to supply the Senate with data showing how many days’ traffic was stopped by accidents and casualties in the St. Mary’s and St. Clair rivers, The resolution also requests information as to the amount of damage caused vessel interests by the delay. The resolu- tion is the first step towards causing relief in these direc- tions. It is recognized that there is urgent necessity for the widening of the channel at various places in St. Mary’s _ fiver, particularly at the entrance to the Hay Lake cut and through the cut to Hay Lake, in the vicinity of the En- cammpment, and at all other points where there is now only a 300 foot channel. It is the only means of preventing blockades to navigation similiar to those caused by the Douglass Houghton and Siemens-North Star disasters this summer, which caused a loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the vessels and other interests depending on them. Action can be taken none too soon to remedy the evil. or oo AN INCENTIVE TO JOIN THE NAVY. The navy is 4,000 men short of the legal maximum, and this in spite of the best efforts of the recruiting officers. Secretary Long has written a letter calling the attention of Congress to this state of affairs and suggesting that it might offer a decided incentive to enlistments by extending to sailors enlisting the benefit of the act allowing to apprentices a full outfit of clothing not to exceed $45 in value. Under the present system the men are kept in debt for months after enlistment by the purchase of necessary outfit from advance payments. —————_$<_ > ee IRON ORE SHIPMENTS. Transactions in Lake Superior iron ores for next year’s consumption have been very large during the past two weeks. The large producers of iron and steel have been free buyers and producers of ore have had no difficulty in disposing of their entire estimated output for the coming year, based up- on the scale of prices recently adopted at Cleveland. The information to be gleaned is that the producers of iron and steel are of the belief that ores will be scarce next year. Some estimates are that 20,000,000 tons of ore will be shipped on the lakes in 1900, as against 17,500,000 tons this year, but the conservative estimate among ore men is that next year’s business will probably not greatly exceed that of 1889, be- cause this year not only was the greatest possible mining output shipped, but also the accumulation on docks, in some instances of many years’ standing. ro or NAVAL CONSTRUCTION. The following is the degree of completion of vessels of the U.S. Navy under construction, according to the figures computed at the office of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, Dec. 1, 1899: Battleships—Kearsarge, 98 per cent.; Kentucky, 97; Illinois, 72; Alabama, 91; Wisconsin, 82 : Maine, 17; Missouri, 1; Ohio, 7, Sheathed Cruiser—Al- bany, 96. Monitors—Arkansas, 8; Connecticut, 32; Florida, 19; Wyoming, 27. Torpedo Boat Destroyers—Bainbridge, 35; Barry, 35; Chauncey, 34; Dale, 50; Decatur, 49; Hopkins, 30; Hull, 29; Lawrence, 72; Macdonough, 69 ; Paul Jones, 55 ; Perry 55 ; Preble, 55 ; Stewart, 10; Truxtun, 6; Whipple, 6; Worden, 6. Torpedo Boats—Dahlgren, 99; T. A. M. Craven, 98; Stringham, 87; Goldsborough, 95; Bailey, 58; Bagley, 3; Barney, 3; Biddle, 3; Blakely, 63 ; De Long, 63; Nicholson, 43; O’Brien, 43; Shubrick, 72; Stockton, 70 ; Thornton, 67 ; Tingey, 41; Wilkes, 22. Sub- marine Torpedo Boat—Plunger, 85. ee SS THE Kingsford Foundry and Machine Works, Oswego, N. Y., have published a dainty little brochure in the interests of their steam and hydraulic pumping machinery. ‘The en- gravings are very fine. Thiscompany also makes a specialty of the manufacture of internally-fired boilers, with rectangu- lar or cylindrical furnaces, for stationary and marine work. THE SHIPPING BILL DEFENDED The American shipping bill of Senator Frye and Repre- sentative Payne is undoubtedly open to attack, as is any bill in Congress assailing established interests. If there are any “vested rights,’’ in shipping in this country, they are British and German steamships interests, which are naturally hos- tile to American competition with their lines. American newspapers, accordingly, should at least study the proposi- tion in Congress before unwillingly striking hands with European corporations which profit by existing conditions. It is not fair to say that the subsidy bill means an expendi- ture of $9,000,000 a month when, by its terms, that is the maximum expenditure a year, not to say that $9,000,000 a year isthe minimum expenditure when the bill fixes that amount as the maximum. All Americans favor an Ameri- can merchant marine. No progress will be made toward getting it if careless and indifferent statements are to appear in print as facts. It would bea pleasure to show that the new expenditures under the bill cannot now exceed $3,000,- ooo a year, and that under the maximum fixed we shal- compel European capitals to send their passengers and mails for Asiatic ports through New York. This fact is appreciat- ed in London, Paris and Berlin. It will be better nnder- stood in New York if our people study the globe,—Eugene T. Chamberlain, in New York Herald. rr ee ANOTHER PROPELLING DEVICE. Several months ago mention was made in these columns of anew boat, a roller, or more properly, a revolving boat, which was being constructed by Walter Dean, of Toronto, . for Mr. Shaw, of Lake Rosseau, and a syndicate interested in the development of this new idea of propulsion. The boat has advanced to that stage when she is nearly ready for launching. Imagine a cigar-shaped hull about thirty feet in length, supplied with engine, steering gear, etc., in this instance the hull of the small experimental craft differs from the usual construction in that it consists of a cylinder about one- half the length of the boat, situated in the center of and passing entirely round the hull proper. This cylinder is supplied with fins or wings running diagonally around from one. end to the other, and rotating through the water that gives motion to the hull. The keel, connected at both ends to the hull proper, hangs below the revolving cylinder. There is a principle being developed in this little craft, which, if a success, it is thought will cause considerable comment and attract attention from all parts of the world. Walter Dean recently shipped a fine lot of canoes to Paris. This shipment of mahogany canoes will be followed soon by another lot, all going to a club on the Seine. lS OO NOTICE TO MARINERS. LiGHT-HousE ESTABLISHMENT, OFFICE OF THE LiGH?T-Housr INSPECTOR, gTH base, } CHICAGO, IIl., Dec. 16, 1899. CLOSING OF LIGHT S'ra‘rIons. Notice is hereby given that the Fog-Signal Station, Lake Michigan, Petoskey Breakwater Light, Petoskey, and Portage Lake Range Lights, entrance to Portage Lake, Michigan, have been closed for the winter. By order of the Light-House Board, F. M. Symonps, Commander U. S. Navy, Inspector Ninth Light-House District. 5 ee Skilligallee Light and