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12 THE MARINE RECORD. OCTOBER 18, 1900, Truscott VAPOR MARINE MOTORS. Pintsch Gas Lighted Buoys. BATES BROS, PROVISION MERCHANTS 22SHIPPERS OF EEF, MUTTON,VORK & POULTRY LARD, SAUSAGE,ETC » PHONE HIGH GRADE PLEASURE CRAFT. : : Itali VESSEL 43.44&845 ELK STREET MARKET English, German, French, Russian, Italian and €S Adopted by the glish, G ; ; ) Pe rentry SU AL © RAY. f ae TRUSCOTT BOAT MFG. CO. ST. JOSEPH, MICH. SEND & STAMPS FOR CATALOG. lighting. THE SAFETY CAR 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: .7.. .....% Controlled by 160 Broadway, New York City. HEATING AND-LIGHTING CO. Cleveland Telephone, — Glen. 87 F, CHAS. R. DITTRICK, SUBMARINE : DIVER “7 21 Everton Street, ht Call Day or Night Calls GLENVILLE, 0. Answered Promptly. THE —~_ LIQUID (iri) 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: AN IMPORTANT INDUSTRY. The American Ship Windlass Co., Providence, R. I.. have within ten days shipped to the American Ship Building Co.’s order two No. 8 steam capstan windlasses to Lorain, Ohio, and now on top of this comes this big order from the same company:. Chicago Ship Building Co.—Hull No. 43, 1 No. 8 steam capstan windlass, 1 No. E steam capstan; hull No. 44, 1 No. 8 steam capstan windlass, 1 No. E steam capstan; hull No. 45, I No. 8 steam capstan windlass, 1 No. E steam capstan; hull No. 46, 1 No. 8 steam capstan windlass, 1 No. E steam capstan; hull No. 47, 1 No. 8 steam capstan windlass. Detroit Ship Building Co.—Hull No. 139, 1 No. 8 steam capstan windlass, 1 No. F steam capstan; hull No. 140, 1 No. 8 steam capstan windlass, 1 No. F. steam capstan. Lorain Shipyard.—Hull No. 305, 1 No. 8 steam capstan windlass, 1 No. F. steam capstan; hull No. 306, 1 No. 8 steam capstan windlass, 1 No. F. steam capstan; hull No. 307, I No. 8 steam capstan windlass, 1 No. F. steam capstan; hull No. 308, 1 No. 8 steam capstan windlass, 1 No. F. steam capstan. : Globe Shipyard.—Hull No. 405,1 No. 8 steam capstan windlass, 1 No. F. steam capstan; hull No: 406, No. 8 steam capstan windlass, 4 No. E steam capstan. Superior Ship BuildingCo. —Hull No. 500, 1 No. 8 steam capstan windlass, 1 No. F. steam capstan; hull No. 501, 1 No. 8 steam capstan windlass, 1 No. F steam capstan. West Bay City Ship Building Co.—Hull No. 600, 1 No. 6 steam capstan windlass, 1 No. EK. steam capstan, 1 No. 2 steam towing machine; hull No. 601, 1 No. 6 steam capstan ' windlass, 1 No. E steam capstan, 1 No. 2 steam towing ma- chine; hull No. 602, 1 No. 8 steam capstan windlass, 1 No. F steam capstan; hull No. 603, 1 No. 8steam capstan windlass, 1 No. F steam capstan. oa ene __—_— IN 1899 the United States, the foremost pig iron producing country of the world, surpassed its former highest record, turning out 13,620,703 gross tons of pigiron. To supply the raw material for this amount of iron, the iron ore mines were actively wrought, and probably over 24,000,000 gross tons were mined. Until 1893 the United States was practically a producer for the home market only; butin that year the’ exports of iron and steel exceeded in value the imports and the difference has become annually more marked, until in _ 1899 the value of the iron and steel exports were $105,689,- 645, and that of the imports only $15,799,206. Most of the exports were manufactured products, thus securing a larger ' remuneration to producers thanif they had beenraw ma- terial. Theiron and steel exports of 1899, included steel rails, valued at $6,122,382; wire, $5,526,930; pig iron, $3,282,- 241; plates and sheets, $2,047,301; wire nails and tacks, $1,- 955,773; castings, $1,348,133 and cut nails, $482,382. — THEY SEEM TO ENJOY IT. To the Editor of The Marine Record: CLEVELAND, O., October 16, 1900. I received the following communication yesterday: The lightship which marks the wreck of the Martin is carried away by passing vessels on an average of every other day. If this continues to be the rule the government officials will doubtless cause its removal, as there is appar- ently nothing but carelessness on the part of vessel masters to cause its being run down. The statement above is perfectly absurd, and the person who wrote said article does an injustice to vessel masters, and at the same time, shows how ignorant he is of the con- ditiéns and circumstances with which vessel and steamboat masters have to contend in navigating the St. Clair river, especially at its entrance from Lake Huron. No steamboat or vessel master would willfully remove, by collision or otherwise, a lightship located at a certain place for their protection. The removal of the lightship men- tioned is not the result of carelessness,. but is the result of conditions arising from the current, which is effected by obstructions. : There is no class of men more careful in the avocation they follow than the steamboat and vessel masters of the northwestern lakes and_rivers. « ° Cc. E B. nt tt tg A TREASURY DECISION. SPECIAL TAX—HEXHIBITION ON A ‘BOAT. In case of an exhibition or show for money given on a boat moving from place to place on rivers, the proprietor must hold a special tax stamp for each state in which the boat lands and such exhibition is given. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, WASHINGTON, D. C., October 9, 1900. S1r—In reply to your letter of the 2d instant, stating that you are ‘‘requested to issue a special tax stamp for a public exhibition, being an entertainment by a single phonograph, for which an admission is charged, maintained on a boat traversing the Mississippi river and its tributaries,” you are hereby advised that the special tax stamp should be issued by you for this exhibition expressly for the state of Mis- souri. The special tax stamp then, under the statute, will be good for any landing place within that state. When the boat lands at any place in another state the proprietor of the exhibition must take out a special tax stamp for that state, and so on. state in which this boat lands and the exhibition is given. Respectfully, Rost. WILLIAMS, JR., Act. Commissioner. H. C. GRENNER, Collector ist Dist., St. Louis, Mo. : —_— OO or THE steamer Paraguay will leave Lorain for the coast at the end of this month. A special tax stamp must be taken out for each | NOTES. It is stated that a fleet of five vessels with a capacity of © 15,000 tons, will be engaged next season to operate in con- nection with the Great Northern Railway. THE name of the five-masted schooner now being built by H. M. Bean at Camden, Me., for Capt. Murdock McLean, will be Van Allens-Broughton. The new five-master will carry about 3,500 tons. A six-masted schooner was launched at Bath, Me., on Wednesday last, from Percy & Small’s shipyard. She will be named the Hleanor A. Percy, will carry 5,coo tons of coal and will load her first cargo at Philadelphia or Baltimore. THE great ice-breaking steamer, which was built for the Siberian Railroad to use in conveying trains across Lake Baikal, is described by Henry Norman and pictured in the November Scribner’s. This steamer can crush through ice — 20 feet thick. BETHLEHEM forgings have again scored in the remarka- ble results attained in the trial trips of the U. S. battleship Wisconsin and Russian cruiser Variag. The Wisconsin’s shafts were forged from fluid-compressed nickel steel, and those for the Variag from fluid-compressed carbon steel, all. being shaped under the hydraulic press, carefully annealed and finished according to standard practice at the Bethlehem Steel Co. works. They have just cause for pride in the per- formance of both ships. A penalty of $200 and forfeiture of the property in question was recently imposed by the collector of customs at Port Huron against Thomas Lillisowner of the tug John Owen, because of a violation of the navigation rules for ihe govern- ment of the St. Mary’s river, on or about Sept. 14 last. The offense consisted in passing down the new channel witha raft of logs in tow, which interfered somewhat with the work now in progress there. As Mr. Lillis hasa good record as an observer of the laws, according to the collecter, Gen. Spauld_ ing ordered that the penalty imposed be mitigated toa fine of $15. re THE navy officials are perplexed over the unexpected re- “port which has.come from the Board of Civil Engineers de- tailed to determine the extra cost of building concrete docks at the Mare Island (Cal.) and League Island (Pa.) navy yards, instead of timber structures, which were originally contracted for. It was expected that the additional expense would not be more than $350,000, making the total cost of each concrete dock about $1,000,000. The contracts for the timber docks were about $750,000 each in amount, The Board of Officers which has been attempting to adjust the extra cost at Mare Island finds that the expense will be fully double the amount originally estimated, while the contract: ors insist that they are entitled to an additional $1,000,000 on each of the two docks on account of the change in the spec- ifications,. ‘