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OCTOBER II, I900. THE MARINE RECORD. 13 EXAMINATION FOR NAVAL DRAFTSMAN. The United States Civil Service Commission announces that on October 23, 24 25 and 26, 1900, an examination will be held in any city in the United States where it has a local ‘board of examiners, for the position of mechanical drafts- man for marine engines and naval construction. The ex- amination will consist of the following subjects: Applied mathematics, design and constructional details, drafting, technical education and experience. Competitors should provide themselves with allinstruments necessary in drafting work. Special credit will be given for experience in naval drafting work. It is the desire of the department that the ap- pointee in this position have a good general education and be of genteel appearance and manners, for the reason that he will be required to assist in the instruction of naval ca- dets. Thesubject of drafting will embrace freehand sketch- ing of models submitted; the making of working drawings of the same to scale; complete pen and ink drawings of other pieces of mechanism, including tests in block-lettering; also the making of complete drawings to scale from portions of blueprints of machinery submitted, etc. From the eligible resulting from this examination it is expected that certifica- tions will be made to the position of draftsman at the naval Academy at a salary of $4.00 per diem, and to similar vacancies as they shall occur. Persons who desire to com- plete should at once apply at the United Civil Service Com- missioners, Washington, D. C., for application forms 304 and 375, which should be properly executed and promptly filed with the commission. a ee VESSELS CLASSED. Vessels classed and rated this week by the American Bu- reau of Shipping in the Record of American and Foreign Shipping: Bark Rebecca Crowell, schooner C. B. Clark, schooner Nelson E. Newbury, schooner City of Baltimore, schooner William H. Shubert and British brig Ocean Belle. Schooner Almeda Willey, schooner John W. Dana, British schooner Britannia, British schooner Clifton, and British schooner Mapleleaf. ‘ a NOTICE TO MARINERS. LIGHT-Hovusk ESTABLISHMENT, 4. OFFICE OF THE LIGHT-HOUSE INSPECTOR, I0TH DISTRICT, BUFFALO, N. Y., October 4th, rgoo. Notice is hereby given that Galloo Island Shoal Gas Buoy, No. t, Lake Ontario, New York, which was reported out of place on September 25, 1990, was replaced October Ist, 1900, in its prope position on the southwest side of Galloo Island - shoal. MUSKEGON LAKE BEACON LIGHT.—Notice is hereby given that, on or about October 10, 1g00, the intensity of this light, on the northerly side of the inner entrance to Muskegon Lake, will be increased by changing it froma lantern to a lens-lantern light. o other change will be made. RACINE BREAKWATER BEACON LIGHT STATION.—Notice is hereby given that, on or about October, 13, 1900, a fixed red post-lantern light will be established at the southerly end of Racine breakwater, Racine Harbor, westerly side of Lake Michigan. The light will be. suspended from a brown iron post, ata height of about 30 feet above mean lake level. Immediately in front of the lake side of the post there is a V shaped timber protection 6 feet high and 18 feet each way. By authority of the Light-House Board. FRANKLIN HANFORD, Inspector roth L. H. District. Commander, U.S. N. J. H. Darling, U. S. Asst. Engineer, at Duluth, reports that the mean level of Lake Superior in September, by the U.S. gauge, at Marquette, was 1.71 feet above low water datum, This is 0.52 higher than for the preceding month, and is 0.51 more than the normal rise, which is o.o1 from August to September, the water being usually stationary for those two months and at the highest for the year. The stage for last month was o.10 feet lower than in Sept. 1899 a year ago, but is 0.87 higher than the average September stage for the 26 years from 1872 to 1897, and should be very satis- factory to vessel men. United States Forecast Office Rich- ardson gives the rainfall for the month as 4.80inches, which is 1.18 in excess of the normal for September. DOMINION OF CANADA—ONTARIO., I. CHANGE IN SAILORS’ ENCAMPMENT RANGE LIGHYTS.— The two red lights, hitherto maintained in the axis of the old cut at Sailors’ Encampment, known as Sailors’ Encamp- ment upper range (Canadian) lights will, on and after the 17th instant, be discontinued, and the axis of the Sailors En- campment new cut, now marked at its lower end by the Pilot island (United States) range, will be marked at the upper end by two fixed white lights established on the sites of the day beacons on Rains hill, St. Joseph island, at the upper end of the cut. The front light is situated on the east side of the shore road, about 600 feet S. 30° E. true from the old front light, and is shown from a lantern elevated 50 feet above the wa- terona mast. It should be visible 5 miles in the line of range. The illuminating apparatus is catoptric. At the foot of the mast, which is 17 feet high, is a dia- mond shaped day beacon painted white, with a vertical black stripe through the middle of it. The back light is situated 648 feet N. 14° 35’ E. true from the front light, and is shown from a similar lantern elevated 70 feet above the water. Atthe foot of the mast, which is 22 feet high, is a diamond shaped day beacon painted white. Going up the river, these two range lights kept in one ahead, N. by E. % E., (N. 14° 35’ E. true), indicate the middle of the dredged channel from Mud lake turning gas buoy to the. alignment of Point of Woods range lights. LIME KILN CROSSING Buoys.—On or about the 2oth in- stant the eastern edge of the dredged cut through Lime Kiln Crossing, in the river Detroit, above Amherstburg, will be marked by the Canadian government, by three red spar buoys moored respectively at the upper end, in the middle and at the lower end of the Candian side of the dredged deep channel. _The buoys will. be moored in 20 feet of water, as close to the rock side of the cut as possible, and this side of the cut should be favored by upward bound vessels. The two light vessels maintained by the American govern- ment will, as heretofore, mark the west edge of the channel. These buoys will be taken in and put out at the same time as other buoys in the Detroit river. F. GOURDEAU, Deputy Minister of Marine and Fisheries. Department of Marine and Fisheries, Ottawa, Canada, 22nd September, 1900. 4@y- All bearings, unless otherwise noted, are magnetic and are given from seaward, miles are nautical miles, heights are above high water, and alldepths are at mean low water. Pilots, masters or others interested are earnestly requested to send information of dangers, changesin aids to navigation, notices of new shoals or channels. errorsin publications. or any other facts affect- ing the navigation of Canadian waters to the Chief Engineer, Depart- ment of Marine and Fisheries, Ottawa, Canada. SHIPPING AND MARINE JUDICIAL DECISIONS. — Right to Priority in Distributing Damages.—Where both vessels were in fault for a collision in which one was sunk, with her cargo, the cargo owner has the superior lien upon the fund available for reparation, in the absence of the con- tract affecting such right. In re Lakeland Transp. Co, 103 Fed, Rep. (U. S.) 328. Total Loss of Vessel— Measure of Damages.—Where a vessel is sunk and totally lost in a collision, and-her full value is awarded her owners as damages, they are not entitled, in addition, to recover the amount she would have earned under an unexpired charter. In re Lakeland Transp. Co., 103 Fed. Rep. (U. S.) 328. Contracts with Passengers.—The tickets sold passengers from Seattle to Dawson contained a provision by which the purchaser waived the right to hold the vessel or charterer responsible for any damage sustained by their failure to for- ward him to his destination, unless resulting from actual negligence or incompetency of the carrier, and providing that if he could not, for any reason, be safely landed at the port of destination, he might be landed at the next port at which such landing could be safely made. Held, that such provision contemplated only a case of necessity arising otherwise than by default of the carrier, and could not be invoked by the charterer as requiring the captaiu of the ves- sel to land his passengers at some other port than St. Mich- aels, where there were no military authorities to interfere, and where they would be left uuprovided for, in violation of their contracts, The Progreso, 103 Fed. Rep. (U. S.) 505. Shipping—Breach of Charter—Default of Charterer.—A steamship company organized for the purpose of doing a transportation business between Seattle and Alaskan points chartered a steamship for two trips between Seattle and St. Michaels. She was loaded with passengers, a large number of whom were sold tickets through to Dawson, and a cargo, much of which was contracted to be delivered at the same place. The company sent an agent on the vessel, but, as its officers knew, he was without sufficient funds to carry out its contracts from St. Michaels, and the company was insol- vent and without credit. On reaching St. Michaels the mil- itary authorities refused to allow the landing of the passen- gers until arrangements were made to forward them to their destination. In this emergency the captain took charge of affairs, compelled the company’s agent, by threats of crimi- nal prosecution, to turn over all claims for freight, took pos- session of the company’s supplies, and certain coal merchan- dise which had been purchased by the company, but. not paid for, and shipped on the vessel, and paid for the same to the vendors. By the funds and supplies so secured, and the money received from passengers for the return trip, and by pledging his vessel for the deficiency, he secured passage for his passengers to their destination, and was enabled, af- ter a considerable delay, to discharge his vessel. Held, that as the vessel was bound, not only to carry her passengers and cargo, but to discharge them at the end of the voyage, the failure of the charterer to provide for the same was a breach of the charter, which justified the captain in an ac- tion taken by him, and gave the charterer no cause of action against the owners, beyond requiring an accounting, and that the owners were entitled to recover the excess of fulfill- ing the charterer’s transportation contracts over the amounts realized by the captain; such expense being necessary to en- able the vessel to discharge, and to fulfill her own obliga- tions. The Progeso, 103 Fed. Rep. (U. S.) 505. rr Walter Oades, after having made a survey of the wreck of the schooner J. S Richards, on the middle ground below Belle Isle bridge, Detroit river, reports the hull is damaged beyond repair. 5.F. HODGE & CO MARINE ENGINES, PROPELLER WHEELS, DECK HOISTERS, MARINE: REPAIRS... @ 3i2 ATWATER STREET DETROIT, MICH. Chas. E. & W. F. _ §8 William Street, New York City. § and 6 Billiter Avenue, E. C., . Insurance ®: BROWN &CO., - - - J.G. KEITH & CO., - Royal Insurance Building, Chicago, Ill. C. T. BOWRING & CO. 202 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. A. A. & B. W. PARKER, 15 Atwater St., W. Detroit, Mich. 138 Rialto Building, Chicago, Ill. LA SALLE & CO., Board of Trade Building, Duluth, Minn. Are prepared to make rates on all classes of [Marine Insurance on the Great : Lakes, both CARGOES and HULLS. Peck, Victor Signal, London, England. Marine Valve Oil, Eldorado Engine Oil, Renown Engine Oil, Atlantic Red Engine Oil, Mineral Seal Oil, Arctic Cup Greases, are trade mark brands manufactured by the The best goods are most economical. Standard Oil Company and found on sale at all lake ports, Remember the names.