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SEPTEMBER 27, 900, BAINES BROS. - PROVISION MERCHANTS22SHIPPERS OF EEF, MUTTON, LARD, SAUSAGE,ETC PHONE VESSEL 43.44845 ELK STREET MARKET 2 UEPECIALTY BUFFALO 4 INAYA SENECA woe cem 34g Cleveland Telephone, Glen. 87 F, CHAS. R. DITTRICK, SUBMARINE DIVER ~7™r9 21 Everton Street, Call Day or Night Calls GLENVILLE, 0. Answered Promptly. Is the best Liquid Com- ASTRONOMICAL DATA. Astronomical data. for October, Ig900, furnished to the MARINE RECORD by the Washburn observatory: The planets Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn are situated in the evening sky. The first reaches its greatest distance east from the sun on October 29, but is too low in the south- west to be readily seen. Jupiter remains the brilliant star of the southwestern sky, but its position becomes lower and its setting earlier each evening. Saturn is far south also, and is much less brilliant than Jupiter, but will be the more convenient planet to observe. In the latter part of the month Saturn also becomes very low in position, Mars rises at about midnight and will be seen in the early morning shining with a ruddy light at a high altitude east or north- east of the zenith. Venus is still the brilliant star of the morning, but the planet is drawing back towards the sun and is diminishing in apparent brilliancy. The times of sunrise and sunset at Milwaukee for the month are as follows; SUNRISE. SUNSET (GS Sh ie a Ree are SIA Oe eae ee ee 5:34 OCG siete coat Sactnie cain sie samedi are GOON kal aiarten kaa ute 5:16 OG aT ties eaiaasciic tered sane OST Sehr Reis noah watais 5:00 (OLS AU aC Gites ba Sane ee EO ee rae sce evacsewatatreaies 4:45 The times of the moon’s phases are: Hirst Quarters le se odes VS Ses We Oct, 63:11 prin: MATE GOT Oc k stevoaieecists ode eect aah os aos Oct. 8, 7:18 a.m. sihirdiquarter:. este vil aks aon es, Oct. 15, 3:51 a.m. NeW MOON io: hieiais <n sald a) eee Re eew Oct. 23, 7:27 a.m. ins Ouartet. sca. ces aes acn Oct. 31, 2:18 a.m. The principal fixed stars visible during the month are: In the evening hours, to the west, Vega and Altair; to the east, Aldebaran, the Pleiades, and Capella. rrr or COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF ANTHRACITE. The following appears in Mines and Minerals for August, 1900: “‘A committee of the Scranton Engineers’ Club is preparing for a series of tests to determine the compressive strength of anthracite coal. At a recent meeting of the Scranton Engineers’ Club, William Griffith, of Scranton, re- ported the result of a few tests which he had made. These preliminary experiments indicate that different seams in the same. colliery have different compressive strengths, and if this be the case, the present practice of laying out the pillars without respect to the compressive strength of the coal might be changed with great advantage to the operator in ee disastrous and expensive results. Such information would also afford a means of determining where larger pillars are necessary, where smaller ones could be used with safety, and whether any part of a mine is likely to cave or Squeeze, etc. Circulars have been mailed to the superin- tendent of every minein the Lackawanna and Wyoming valleys as given in the last report of the Bureau of Mines, asking them to send sets of specimens of coal to William Griffith, Coal Exchange, Scranton, Pa.; one set to Professor R. C. Carpenter, professor of experimental engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.; one set to Professor Louis E. Reber, Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pa. REPORTED BY THE LOOKOUT. THE Italian Minister of Marine has given orders for the construction of three new battleships of about 12,500 tons. A TELEGRAM received in Paris from Tunis reports that the operations were begun on Monday for the enlargement of the Biserta canal. THE vessel Bullmouth is discharging a cargo of 4,850 tons of iron ore at Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan & Co.’s wharf, Middlebrough. The cargo is from India. A DALZIEL’s Paris cablegram states that the French Government has decided to send a message of condolence to United States Government on the occasion of the disastrous hurricane in Texas. THERE are four large elements of lake transportation—ore, coal, grain and lumber, but the greatest of these is iron ore. Its volume exceeds that of the other three. It constitutes about half the traffic of the lakes. MESSRS, ELDER, DEMPSTER & Co., who have done much to develop the West India and Southern trade by the open- ing up of steam communication with these sections, now of- fer a prize of £50 for the most practical suggestions for the development of trade between the islands of the West Indies and England. There will be no restrictions as regards the length of the essays, but they must be sent in by Nov. Te 1900. The essayists must write on a stricly commercial line, and no literary elaborations or padding are wanted. UNITED STATES Consul, HILL, at Amsterdam, reports that the new Elbe and Trave canal, which has been building five years, and has been completed at a cost of 24,500,0co marks ($5,831,c0o0) was formally opened by the German Emperor on June 16. The length of the new canal—which is the second to join the North sea and the Baltic, following the Kaiser Wilhelm skip canal, or Kiel canal, which was finished five years ago at a cost of 156,0co,0co marks ($37,- 128,coo)—is about forty-one miles. The available breadth of the new canal is 72 feet; breadth of the lock gates, 46 feet; length of locks, 87 yards; depth of the locks, 8 teet 2 inches. It is crossed by 29 bridges. SoME rot contributed by Waldon Fawcett to the Scientific American ina page article reads as follows: ‘It must not be supposed that the sailing vessel of steel construction, or rather metal construction, is an absolute innovation, Harly in 1883 there was launched at the shipyard of John Roach, at Chester, Pa., the Tillie E. Starbuck, a full rigged iron ship, the first metal sailing ship built in the United States and one of the first turned out anywhere in the world. The Starbuck was also the first sailing vessel in the world to carry metal masts. She was 273 feet in length, 42 feet beam and 26 feet depth of hold. She was somewhat over 2,000 tons burden and cost $150,000. The seaworthness of the iron sailing ship was early proved by the behavior of the Starbuck ina terrific gale around the Falkland Islands, * veston, 1; Tacoma, 1; Cleveland, 15. when her iron masts neither broke nor stranded, and the general efficiency of this class of craft is attested by the fact that the vessel in question is to-day trading around the world.’”? Iron vessels were built before he was born or thought of and how iron masts could be stranded is beyond our comprehension. M. WILLE?Tt, chief inspector of French telegraphs, ina paper to the electricians’ congress at Paris, indicates a belief that in the wireless telegraphy as now practiced the projec- tion of the matter telegraphed leaves the masts at the bottom instead of the top, this being probable from the fact that neither the roundness of the earth’s surface nor intervening hills intercepts the signals transmitted. His theory involves communicating through the geological bedsin which the earth’s electricity has the same tension, the idea being that any disturbance at one point on the same electric level cre- ates what would be called a swell in the whole level, leaving the higher and lower strata comparatively undisturbed. The French telegraph department has appointed a commit- tee to sink shafts to ascertain the distribution of these elec- tric levels. THE following is the degree of completion per cent. Sep- tember 1, 1900, of vessels under construction for the United States Navy: Battleships—Illinois, 85; Alabama, 99; Wiscon- sin, 96; Maine, 34; Missouri, 12; Ohio, 28. Sheathed protect- ed cruisers—Denver, 24; Des Moines, 6; Chattanooga, 8; Gal- 41; Florida, 46; Wyoming, 51. Topedo boat destroyers— Bainbridge, 73; Barry, 72; Chauncey, 72; Dale, 82; Decatur, 79; Hopkins, 67; Hull, 67; Lawrence, 97; Macdonough, 95; Paul Jones, 75; Perry, 75; Preble, 75; Stewart, 34; Truxton, 31; Whipple, 31; Worden, 31. Torpedo boats—Stringham, 98; Goldsborough, 99; Bailey, 96; Bagley, 83; Barney, 96; Biddle, 65; Blakely, 92; De Long, 92; Nicholson, 75; O’Brien, 77; Shubrick, 90; Stockton, 96; Thornton, 9%; Tingey, 61; Wilkes, 53. Submarine torpedo boat Plunger, 85. MESSRS. KIDDER, PEABODY & Co., confirm the report from Baltimore that they have ordered of the Maryland Steel Co. two freight steamships of between 11,000 and 12,000 tons cargo capacity each. These are the largest tramp steamships ever built inthis country; in fact, there are very few tramp steamers in existence any larger. They will not be operated on a line between Boston and England, but will be for service all over the world and go wherever there is the best-paying cargo. The form of securities which will be is- sued has not been definitely settled upon, but either a stock company will be formed or trustees will own the vessels. In either event securities will be issued within a few months. Meanwhile all financial arrangements will be made by an underwriting syndicate, as other people will be associated with Kidder, Peabody & Co. Over $1,500,000 is involved in the enterprise. If a shipping bill should becomea law, these boats will only be the nucleus for a large fleet. Monitors—Arkansas, - ma ne a ae Me