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THE MARINE RECORD. AUGUST 9, Ig00. Truscott VAPOR MARINE MOTORS. HIGH GRADE PLEASURE CRAFT TRUSCOTT BOAT MFG. CO. ST. JOSEPH, MICH. SEND 5 STAMPS FOR CATALOG. lighting. THE SAFE Pintsch Gas Lighted Buoys. Adopted by the English, German, French, Russian, Italian and United States Light-House Departments for channel and harbor Over 1,000 gas buoys and gas beacons in service. Burn Continuously from 80 to 365 days and nights without attention, and can be seen a distance of six miles. . . Controlled by 160 Broadway, New York City. TY CAR HEATING AND LIGHTING CO. BAINES BROS. PROVISION MERCHANTS £8 SHIPPERS OF , , EEF, MUTTON PORK & POULTRY LARD, SAUSAGE,ETC \ VESSEL 4845 ELK STREET MARKET cena SUPPLIES ENECA A SPECIALTY BUFFALO. MY. oseeee hae Cleveland Telephone, Glen. 87 F. CHAS. R. DITTRICK, SUBMARINE DIVER ~™yte 21 Everton Street, Day or Night Calls GLENVILLE, O. Answered Promptly. THE —=< a Ll liss LIQUID yi COMPASS Made in seven sizes by JOHN BLISS & CO., 128 Front Street, New York, is finely finished sensitive, accurate and durable. and is extremely steady. pass ever made in this or any country. For sale by ship chandlers generally. Moves quickly Is the best Liquid Com: A COMPETENT ENGINEER. An “engineer’’ of a stationary engine may get along if he can keep up steam, attend to the feed water, oil the engine and manipulate the throttle. A locomotive or a marine, however, cannot be too skillful and resourceful. It has been within the power of a marine engineer many times to be the savior of his ship and of the lives of those aboard. We do not know that engineer A. B. Geerie, of the Border Knight, which arrived in New York July 17 from Port Natal actually saved the ship, but he certainly accomplished a difficult feat in emergency engineering. The tail shaft broke on July 2, the propeller being lost with the end of the shaft. First, the cargo was shifted and the fore hold flooded, so that the stern bearing was raised above the water line. Then the thrust shaft, or middle portion of the line, was uncoupled and lift- ed out of the way, and the broken shaft drawn in, a tem- porary plug closing the hole. It happened that there was a spare piece of shaft and a propeller aboard, and these were successfully placed in position, the propeller securely keyed and the heavy nut behind it screwed up by an improvised wrench. This is all simple and easy enough as it is told, but it is to be remembered that this was not all done on a lake or river, but on the never resting Atlantic. The vessel never ceased its pitching, and he who worked outside to put in the plug as the shaft was drawn inboard was sometimes under water as well as sometimes above it; and then all the subsequent operations in detail in getting on the wheel and properly securing it, done under the conditions that must have prevailed, involved not only skill and’ judgment of the highest order, but also personal bravery and determination in no lesser degree. The entire job took a little over four days, and the steamer completed her voyage and came into port as though nothing had happened. If this repair had not been made, the steamer might have been towed in, and then there would have been an enormous bill for salvage. It is to be hoped that the services of the brave engineer were recognized and that he was paid, not given ‘‘an ade- quate compensation.’’—American Machinist. i OO ee EASTERN FREIGHTS. . Messrs. Funch, Edye & Co., New York, report the weekly situation on freights as follows : Since our last report this freight market has pursued a generally advancing tendency, although the enquiry for room in some branches, notably grain, is far from active, and whilst 4s. 3d. to Cork f. 0. has been secured by prompt steamer, shippers profess indifference to such further ton- nage at over 4s. a figure, which owners at the moment will not accept. Whilst prompt boats continue scarce, the list of steamers available for Fall business broadens; at the moment the views of owners of the latter tonnage and of charterers at the Southern ports are not quite in line however, and cot- ton fixtures from the Atlantic haye not been very numerous. The scarcity of sail tonnage in our market is almost un- precedented andthe prospects of aspeedy change in this condition is not very bright. Under these circumstances we have but little to say beyond stating that rates remain very firm with an upward tendency. TO SHIPBUILDING RETURNS. The Bureau of Navigation reports 105 vessels of 35,944 gross tons built in the United States and officially num- bered during the month of July, 1900, as follows: . selves the difference in the cost of labor here and abroad, and protect the hold as we protect the counter. The aver- age difference in cost of operation is met in the provision of one cent per gross ton per 100 nautical miles sailed for the first 1,500, etc. Neither can the term of compensation for any vessel extend beyond twenty years, nor its annual en- tries for compensation exceed sixteen in number. The con- tract entered into with the government must be enforced by a secured penal bond, equal to ten dollars per gross ton of the vessel, for its construction in one of our yards, its regis- try and readiness within five years; but no contract can be made after the lapse of ten years from the passage of the Woop. STEEL, : = TOTAL. SAIL. STEAM. SAIL STEAM No. Gross. No. Gross No. Gross No. Gross No Gross. Atlantic and Gulf................. 41 3,030 26 BOOS csi naa ie uae ses I 6,004 68 12,127, Racine: ee 8 1,997 5 re tie area I 277 9 2,472 .Great Lakes .......... 0.06. ee eee 3 9 265 I 2,790 17,350 I 20, Western Rivers: cove. dees cee ces. I 6 10 8665 ie Ree cos ee sae H ac Motels se ti Sele ieee cet. 48 5, 101 50 4,422 I 2,790 6 23,631 105 35,944 The largest steel steam vessels included in these figures are: Morro Castle, 6,004 gross tons, built at Philadelphia, Pa., for the N. Y. & Cuba Mail S. S. Co. Lafayette, 5,113 gross tons, built at Lorain, O., American Ship Building Co-, owners. ‘ Simon J. Murphy, 4,869 gross tons, built at Wyandotte, Mich , Eddy Transit Co., owners. Cornell, 5,082 gross tons, built at South Chicago, IIl., L. W. Powell, V. Pres., owner. The foregoing figures do not include craft without motive power of their own. From other sources than construction two vessels of 4,443 gross tons were added to the merchant fleet, the principal ones being: Steamship Californian, 4,436 gross tons, foreign wreck. Sloop Grit, 7 gross tons, foreign wreck. DO Ol Ne NO TRUST IN THE SHIPPING BILL. In an address before the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress, Hon. John R. G. Pitkin, of New Orleans, uttered some incisive truths on the Shipping Bill, in which he ex- ploded a good many fallacies in regard to the operations of the measure. Among other things he showed very plainly that the bill could not foster any trust, as some of its ene- mies have charged that it would. Mr. Pitkin said in part: _ “It is not proposed, while increasing the earning power of our labor by reaching to more markets, to diminish that power in building and sailing the ship which is the reach. It is proposed to do for the shipbuilding industry by subsidy what we do for other industries by tariff; to credit to our- act, and no compensation can be applied save as the vessel responds to the terms of the bond, and after its tenth year of service the bounty annually shrinks 5 per cent. If ship- owners combine to control freight rates, they forfeit all com- pensation under the bill; and if shipbuilders combine to con- trol yard rates, foreign-built tonnage, under the terms al- ready stated, replace the new products of such yards. In other words, no trust can ambush itself behind the measure to dictate a tax on either construction or carriage.” a er VISIBLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN. As compiled for THE MARINE RECORD, by George F. Stone, Secretary Chicago Board of Trade. CITIES WHERE WHEAT.| CORN. Oats.: [5 Ree, BARLEY STORED, Bushels, | Bushels. | Bushels. | Bushels. | Bushels. Buffalo: eos. ecieeas 2,075;000 432,000 654,000] ......... 83,000 CBICA BO c ceinie ce saais 10,884,900] 2,697,000] 1,457,000 325,000]... pee ae Bea ACRE ALA Se " 156,000 177.000 3,000 Ti; GOO. 222) Stes MENS ae a re 458,000 393,000 d00 000 6, Hos wieet) Orbis | 3 Fy AS; 000 | eitiorwiisinera icresnis bi Bau leieae = sae si lieraghe - Shes Milwaukee.......... 930,000 122,000 175,000 2,000 Il Port Arthur, Ont.... 67,000]...... Ca pits panes Sea ts one THlEIOV Geese cencn 755,000 534,000 40,000 TZO00). 3. ce TOLrOnte:. SoG shames 20,0005 (248 cscs ue GOOG ae iuere cline Soe o9 renee RaeKae mete 25,000 886,000 2B OOO cinta nel aatne mes TAOS, cenicaitc css 09,000} 2,664,000 8,000 17,000 On Miss. River......|... : oe. mate ne Sena _ Shien eee ses Sy = Grand Total..... 47,594,000] 12,320,000 85,000} 620,000 Corresponding Date, : 2 Se oe ISOS: cwsrcietcvenees 37,166,000} 10,461,000] 4.511,000 593,000 416,000 INCTEASE) cos c scree ces 1,240,000 628, 000] 205 sce wae G5:G0Gl) ox sunacs DeCheasO rie rriten cscaaleceenecs he eyaareenacaies TESO00 Rises 126,000 While the stock of grain at lake ports only is here given. the total shows the figures for the entire country except the Pacific Slope.