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JANUARY 25, I900. 12 THE MARINE RECORD. INE a a en en Sc ea ne eee reece ee ee 2, Pintsch Gas Lighted Buoys. Chi ¢ a 4g 9 I) a il ti ¢ al S ch 0 | Adopted by the English, German, French, Russian, Italian, and United States Light-House Departments for channel and harbor lighting. 1513 Masonic Temple, CHICAGO. Capt. Samuel W. Gould, 265 MARCY AVE., CLEVELAND. Pd Over 800 gas buoys and gas beacons in service. (Lat ees “ gee he ) Burn 1 Gives instructions Hi pie eerie i Navigation and pre : uma Pontes y crfaidatss for the examina- 3 from 80 to 365 days and tions for Master and Pilots’ a nights without atten- Licenses, before the Local ee: on ene ee Steamboat Inspectors. 23 ays distance of six miles, a A full and complete course of instruction in lake and ocean navigation, Also special branches taught those desiring to qualify 2 ge _ the United States.”’ _ retained on shipboard the same duties as __ master, mate and sec- ond mates on the sea trade. ate licensed by the lo- cal inspectors of any district, for each or _ every branch pilot, or mas- ter, is considered eli- _ gible to takea steamer - anywhere the issuance of his ment is thereafter per- ther ado. In many _instances, full branch : lake pilots, known as several years they are ordered to a port, or _gailed for half a life- offi 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. Som LOCAL INSPECTORS TO LICENSE LOCAL PILOTS. _ Mr, Daly, of New Jersey, has introduced the following bill in the House of Representatives, which was referred to the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries : “A Bill Regulating Pilots.—Be it enacted by the Senate - and House of Representatives of the United States of Amer- ica in Congress assembled, that the government licensing) and controlling of all pilots throughout the United States, on bays, inlets, rivers, harbors, and ports of the United States, heretofore exercised by the various states, wherein such pilots may be, shall be placed solely in the United States Steamboat Inspection Service, and that the United States Revised Statutes as to the government of _ pilots, shall apply to all pilots now licensed by the various states; ‘and all pilots heretofore licensed by authority of the laws of any state, shall be permitted to practice their profes- sion as though they _ had been licensed by virtue of the laws of All lake pilots are as officers and fulfill coasts and in the over- . These men \ganeeren” lake. A full on -fresh water at the time of license, and the docu- petuated without fur- masters, sail for a. eries of years or sea- — sons on one route only, if, at the expiration of improvement of Buffalo Harbor. on a particular route boilers furnish ample steam for t which they haye not ~ ime, they usually seek the aid or assistance of a local pilot _ to conduct them safely through the rivers, Georgian Bay, _ or other less frequented localities. All sailing vessels can do as they please, as they are not under government. jurisdic- ion, in so far as masters, mates or pilots are concerned. wn already with its multifarious revisions of U. S. Revised tutes? Does it desire, or is it aiming at having a board : of pilot commissioners at each seaport? ‘The present duties f local inspectors are, principally, to examine and license rs, and inspect the equipment of steamers, why, there- Hix: Water Tube Boiler Co., Red Bank improvement of New York Harbor. This. dredge is owned by Messrs. Hughes Bros. & Bangs of New York. She is entirely of steel and w ’ { Controlled by fore, should they be called upon to watch the eccentricities of moving sand banks, the changing depths of water at har- bor bars, or the natural sluicing out or silting up of any of the several channels at the entrance of a port, an officer can’t be inspecting deck fittings, life boats, rafts, cork jackets with other appliances and be out taking soundings on the bars and in the channels, so as to be certain that another man is as well pusted in local pilotage as he is or may be himself. We may state at this writing that it is somewhat beyond our vision to sight ‘‘the nigger in the woodpile,”’ but we feel morally and technically certain that he is there somewhere, although our conception or comprehension is now slightly at fault. It is good logic and sound common sense, to let the “shoemaker stick to his last,’’ it is equally as pertinent to THE SAFETY CAR HEATING AND LIGHTING Co. {60 Broadway, New York City. — TAKE — Wade Park or Payne Ave. Car. NOTES. ON Dec. 16 the 31-knot Japanese torpedo boat destroyer Niji was launched, with steam up, from the English yard of Yarrow & Co., Ltd., in the presence of a large number of the Japanese naval authorities. On Dec. 18 a preliminary trial was made, when a speed was obtained of 31.206 knots. THE Gas Engine & Power Co. and Seabury & Co., con- solidated, of Morris Heights on the Harlem, have contracted to build for Geo. W. Weld, Boston, a steam launch 50 feet long and 7% feet beam, to be presented to the Weld and Newell Clubs, of Harvard, She is to speed 18 miles per hour, ' EaRLyvin February the first of two new cargo steamers will be launched from the yards of the Harlan & Hollingsworth Is Ship Building Co., Naa =e 7 ‘ Wilmington, Del., for ee the New York and Bal- timore Transportation Co. The natnes of the two freighers are to be Chesapeake and Man- ask a department of the Federal Government to keep its hands off purely local affairs. From Pensacola bar to Boston narrows, on the east coast, from the Golden Gate to Tacoma on the west coast, local pilots have been and are depended There is something sinuously sinister in this measure of “PO” me ee oes ae ene, they nave oe ieee dove it Mr. Daly’s to nationalize local skill and talent. Is the 2"4 Will continue soto do without being overborne and United States Steamboat Inspection Service not loaded weighted down under the zgis of U. S. Revised Statutes. The question is, who framed the bill, and with what in- tent and purpose? Why has Mr. Daly, in particular, fath- ered or become sponsor for such a ridiculous and iniquitous ameasure. Perhaps the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries will elucidate the whyness of the wherefore, nahatta. They are to meet the requirements of the sea route from Baltimore to New York if needed. A HISTORY of the mavufacture of armor plate for the United States Navy, complied by the American Iron and Steel Association and published under date of December 1, 1899, is magnificently illustrated by 37 full page engravings, show- ing places, processes, product and tests and is a pretty full review of congressional legis- lation relating to the price of armor for the United States naval vessels. DURING the year 1899 there were launched from the ship-building yards of the United Kingdom 825 steamers and 303 sailing vessels, aggregating 1,731,543 tons, as against 1,661,252 tons in 1898, 1,122,824 tons in 1897, 1,391,249 tonsin 1896, 1,154,018 tons in 1895, and 1,124,000 in 1894. The pro- portion of these vessels launched on the Clyde last year was 243 steamers of 491,074 tons and 41 sailing vessels of 14,618 tons. The next most-productive district was the Tyne with Le steamers of 307,157 tons and one sailing vessel of 794 ons. ACCORDING to the Weather Bureau statistics, any ten consecutive years selected at random will average in tem- perature with any other ten years, similarly taken and com- pared. Hence it is inferred that the chances are there will be enough frigidity coming along in these latitudes to even up for the mild winter experienced up to the present,