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10 THE MARINE RECORD. OCTOBER 25, 1900, ESTABLISHED 1878. Published Every Thursday by ’ THE MARINE RECORD PUBLISHING CO., I nico rporated, C, E. RUSKIN, - - - - Manager. CAPT. JOHN SWAINSON,~ - - - Editor, CLEVELAND, CHICAGO, ~ Western Reserve Building. Royal Insurance Building. SUBSCRIPTION. - One Copy, one year, postage paid, ai - $2.00 One Copy, one year, to foreign countries, - = - $3.00 Invariably in advance. ADVERTISING. Rates given on application. All communications should be addressed to the Cleveland office, THE MARINE RECORD PUBLISHING CO., Western Reserve Building, Cleveland, O. Entered at Cleveland Postoffice as second-class mail matter. No attention is paid to anonymous communications, but the wishes of contributors as to the use of their names will be scrupulously regarded. : CLEVELAND, O., OCTOBER 25, 1900. TO REMOVE THE MAINE. Secretary Long has given his consent to the removal of the battleship Maine from Havana harbor, Immediately upon the return of Gen. Wood to Havana he will make arrangements for the raising of the wreck. Several months ago applications were made to Gen. Wood by persons willing to remove the Maine if they were given the hull in return for the work, and it is possible that they may still be willing to observe the same terms. Besides the Maine, Gen. Wood will probably make ar- rangements for the removal of the armored cruisers Vizcaya, Almirante Oquendo and Cristobal Colon, that now lie along the south coast of Cuba, and the gunboat Jorge Juan, which is lying in the mud in the harbor of Nipa. Gen. Wood will have a representative present during the removal of the Maine, and Lieutenant Commander Lucien Young, the captain of the Port of Havana, will witness the operation. Should any evidence be discovered bearing upon the cause of the destruction of the ship, it will be immedi- ately reported to Washington. The Maineis pretty far down in the mud and it will probably be a difficult task to raise her. . OO SO IRON’AND STEEL. Iron and Steel, the organ of the Western iron trade, says: If the producing capacity of the country were to remain stationary, there seems little question, in view of the heavy inquiries now visible, that a strong market would ensue in near future. The uncertainty is whether the magnificent increase in the comsumption of iron and steel has kept even with the increase of production, which will make itself manifest during the coming months. Thereare said to be many projects ahead, which are waiting only for the assur- ance that business affairs are not to be distributed, to become concrete factors in the trade, but their relative weight to that of production is the uncertain factor. Surveying the markets widely there is probably a slight gain in the volumeof trade. The rail situation is clearing and while the Pennsylvania road at this writing is not known to have allotted its heavy requirements among the respective producers, the initial movement towards purchase taken by that company has had a good effect upontrade. About 15,- 000 tons of rails were sold at Chicago this week. There is a stiffening of values in sheets, due as much as anything to the inadequate stocks in the west. Users have allowed supplies to run very low and are now asking for material in excess of the ability of producers to promptly fill. Bars also have much strength, modified in part by the hunger of afew mills. With the bulk of the producing ca- pacity engaged for months ahead, the present tendencies point to strength. The trend of plates is upward, not so much on account of an improved demand as because makers, when they made the low prices under the stress of competi- tion, did so under the belief that the prices would be tempo- rary. They are said to be tiring of the depressed levels and to be in a mood to get a little more money for the product. The outlook for plates is reasonably bright. Thus in ship- building there are said to be enough orders pending the battle of the ballots to engage well through next season the capacities of the lake shipbuilding yards. Actual business this week has on the whole been of a mod- erate character. Current demand, in the aggregate, is less than the possible output, and in consequence much pro- ducing capacity is idle. But calls are a little larger, even for immediate use, and the industrial activities continue to slowly expand. There is great disparity in the prices of pig iron this week. Some prominent producers have not varied from their quo- tations of two weeks ago, but the trade assert that iron can be bought considerably lower. Some new furnaces recently opened in Ohio and a few of the southern furnaces are said to have been looking for business so earnestly that lower quotations resulted. There has been some iron sold at low quotations, the deliveries of which could not be made, and the purchase of substitute iron was necessitated at higher levels. Quotations heard vary from each other fully a dollar per ton, and transactions at the higher figure are not uncommon. The market is therefore quite ragged. i oro AERIAL NAVIGATION. Mr. E. J. Pennington, the man who gained fame by his experiments in aerial navigation, writes: ‘‘We certainly live in the age of rapid mechanical develop- ment. We have just read the full description of Zeppelin’s airship. Itisa wonderful machine and/represents a long stride in the right direction. I think that its designer has accomplished all that could have reasonably been expected and that he deserves high commendation. “Count Zeppelin started right. He provided a proper house or harbor from which to launch his craft on her aerial voyage. Every ocean vessel must havea port in which it finds protection against theelements, From this port it goes forth, and at this portitlands. An airship requires the same kind of accommodation. All the governments of the world should go to work constructing harbors for airships, which should be built in many places inevery civilized country. “If such ports existed to-day Zeppelin could travel around the globe in his latest invention. Furthermore, accurate charts should be made of atmospheric conditions at different periods of the yearinall places where airships can be ex- pected to'go. My own investigations prove that well- defined air currents prevail with regularity at different alti- tudes. These currents should be carefully noted on the charts so that an aeronaut could seek the one best calculated to carry him in the desired direction. “Some persons are disposed to smile at Count Zeppelin’s achievement. They forget the difficult nature of his under- ‘taking. Do they not know that even the bicycle rider must try many times before he can manage his machine? Count Zeppelin has made only two trials and has done better than a novice could have done on a wheel in the same number of attempts. An up-to-date railway locomotive would be of little use in the hands of a man unacquainted with the proper method of its manipulation. It would no doubt suf- fer greater damage in a trial trip with inexperienced hands than Zeppelin’s admirable apparatus has suffered. “Great men like this gifted count should receive sub- stantial encouragement from those capable of devoting financial means to the mechanical progress of the age. Every large problem requires infinite pains and patience. Only a little while ago telegraphy and telephony in their modern development were not dreamed of as within the realm of practical things. The world moves from one miracle to another, and aeronautics is gradually being brought down from the sphere of mist and cloud to that of practice. “Tf Count Zeppelin accomplishes in 100 trials what a great many think should be accomplished in the first, he will have achieved much, and will be entitled to the gratitude of man- kind.” EDD oe er A Glasgow man has in his garden what he calls a “‘tree clock.’’ Fir trees are planted in such positions that one of them will shade a portion of the house at every hour of sun- light. For example, at 9 o’clock in the morning the So o’clock tree’’ shades the dining room, while as the sunlight changes the “‘1o o’clock tree’’ shades the room above or the room adjoining it, and so on through the day. Ona sunny day this ‘‘tree clock’’ insures a succession of shady places around the house.—Ex. CHANGE OF SUPERINTENDENTS. The Lorain Daily Times gives us the following particu of a very pleasing and gratifying presentation to a worth and respected citizen: : ““W., W. Watterson, the retiring superintendent of th, Lorain shipyard, was called to the Magnolia club. rooms on Monday night and given a beautiful and costly watch charm and ring. The presentation was made by , Edward Rowley who reviewed the two years’ work of Mr. Watterson among the men. ‘‘T'wo years ago,” he said, ‘‘we had a dread. of the new man who was to come among us, but we have found him to be by his general disposition, by his kind and manly ways, aman among men. Our relations to him have been as man to man not as superintendent toemployes. We have grown to love him and now he is about to leave us. On the part of the employes of the American Ship Building Co., I am asked to present to you, Mr. Watterson, this gift that we would have you prize not for its intrinsic value, but for the esteem that prompts the giving.”’ : Mr. Watterson had had an intimation that something was coming, but the kind words more than the gift ummerved him. Hetried to reply but his eyes filled with tears, his voice failed him and he asked a friend, H. P. Watson, to read a brief response which he had prepared. This was as follows: Fellow workmenI can hardly find sufficient words to convey my feelings to youfor your kind- __ ness tome now and during the past few years that I have spent here with you. I have tried to do my duty tomyem- ployers and make this yard successful and I have done my best to make you all feel satisfied and that I was and am your friend. Iam going away now and may never return to this town, may never see you again, but the memory of this moment and your kindness to me in the past will also be a pleasant one, The gifts you have made meI accept asa token of your friendly feeling for me. I will always treasure them as the most valuable treasures I possess. ; What success I have had here has been very largely due to your efforts, and I appreciate them and your kindness to me. Possibly some of you have considered me a hard task- ‘master, but let me say that I consider every man and boy in Lorain shipyard my personal friend andit grieves me to leave you. One request I have to make, and that is that you will serve your new superintendent faithfully, do all you can for him and earn his highest respect and esteem as you have done mine. There followed a handshaking and hearty goodbyes and well wishes as the superintendent and his former workmen parted. The charm presented is a beautiful one set with diamonds. It opens up into three parts, displaying the Knights Temp- lar and 32d degree emblems. The ring was of heavy gold with a diamond set. Mr. Watterson expresses sincere regret at leaving Lorain and his friends in and out of the shipyard, but his regret is no more sincere than is that of his friends who are to lose him during his service in Buffalo for the same company. We may add that Mr. Robert Wallace, one of the principay stockholders of the American Ship Building Co., hold Wattersen in the highest esteem. ro or or RANKINE in his ‘Steam Engine’’ bases his calculations of results with forced draft on an air supply of only eighteen pounds of air per pound of coal, while those upon chimney draft are based upon twenty-four pounds, and then remarks that ‘‘with a forced draft there is less air required for dilu- tion, consequently a higher temperature of the fire, conse- quently a better economy of heat than there is with the chimney draft.”” Soalso D. K. Clark, in his work on the same subject, states that “the system of forced draft opens the way for increase of efficiency in facilitating the adoption of grates of diminished area in combination with acceleration of combustion.’ --e——oe aa IN the presence of a crowd of about 200 persons the cornet stone for a flying machine factory to manufacture airships” on the Carl Dryden Browne patent was formally laid last Sunday at the Freedom Labor Colony, a socialist settle ment eighteen miles northwest of Fort Scott, Kan. The corner stone was laid close to the little cabin occupied by Carl Browne and his wife, the daughter of Gen. Coxey, who is now rich, but has disinherited her for marrying Browne. _ The proposed factory is for the construction of an experi- mental machine of such proportions that the scientific prin- ciples of the invention may apply. oe