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12 THE MARINE RECORD. Aprir, 18, Igor. Truscott VAPOR MARINE MOTORS. HIGH GRADE PLEASURE CRAFT. TRUSCOTT BOAT MFG. CO. ST. JOSEPH, MICH. SEND 5 STAMPS FOR CATALOG. lighting. THE SAFETY CAR HEATING AND LIGHTING CO. Pintsch Gas Bates Baos. Lighted Buoys. PROVISION MERCH TANTS 88 SHIPPERS OF Adopted by the English, German, French, Russian, Italian and VESSEL 43,448 49 ELK STREET MARKET PHONE United States Light-House Departments for channel and harbor 2 SPECIALTY JUFFALO. RY. Pa ale Over 1,000 gas buoys and gas beacons in service. Cleveland Telephone, Glen. 87 F. Burn Continuously from 80 to 365 days and nights without attention, and can be seen a. distance of six miles... « i... Controlled by . CHAS. R. DITTRICK, SUBMARINE DIVER ~™ire> 21 Everton Street, Day or Night Calls GLENVILLE, O. Answered Promptly. 160 Broadway, New York City. TH E—~ i) a fi fi Bliss Made in seven sizes by JOHN BLISS & CO, 128 Front Street, New York, is finely finished sensitive, accurate and durable. Moves quickly and is extremely steady. Is the best Liquid Com- pass ever made in this or any country. For sale LIQUID Grit COMPASS by ship chandlers generally. CORRESPONDENCE. 4@-We do not hold ourselves responsible in any way for the views or opinions expressed by our correspondents. It is our desire that all sides of any question affecting the interests or welfare of the lake ma- rine should’ be fairly represented in THE MARINE RECORD. THE CELTIC’S DECKS AND DIMENSIONS. CxHicaco, April 16, Igor. To the Editor of the Marine Record. In your issue of the 11th inst. you state that the new White Star Liner Celtic, just launched for the trans-Atlantic service, has mine decks, but you only give the names of seven. As I am somewhat curious to know how the nine decks‘are named, I would thank you for this information at ‘as early a date as you can find it convenient to look it up— also give me her hull dimensions. J. E. W. The names of the several decks of the Celtic are as fol- lows: Lower-orlup, orlop, lower, middle, upper, bridge, upper-bridge, boat and sun decks. The general over-all dimensions of her hull are: 700 feet in length, 75 feet -beam and 49 feet depth of hold; tonnage 20,880 gross and 13,650 net; her displacement will be according to the quan- tity os cargo carried.— ED. ——— OOOOOODI™mMm RESPECTING TEVIBIES INTO STRANDING. CHICAGO, April 16, 1891. To The. Editor of the Marine Record: The editorial suggestions in last issue of the MARINE REC- ORD, as to the line of inquiry to be pursued in cases of strandings, do- not’ cover all the essential points for deter- mining the guilt or innocence of the navigating officer. 1. The question as to tide and currents cannot be answer- ed satisfactorily by anybody aboard, because of vessels lack- ing the means, of determining currents.’ The supply of the means is essential to answer that question. 2. The time of the adjustment of compasses is immaterial. Of value is only a knowledge of the deviations, when and by whom they were last determined. 3. The actual course and distance made good is obtainable only by the ground log, with which vessels are not equipped; it is, therefore, impossible for any one to answer the ques- tion, and to make out how far the vessel was from her sup- posed position at the time of foundering. Her position by common log would avail nothing, because of being one of the principal causes of stranding. 4. What a competent lookout can accomplish in thick weather, it is impossible to'imagine. Used to trust in the lookout in clear weather, more than in their faulty methods for finding position, thick weather brings always vessels to _ grief, in spite of their lookout. 5. Sounds from shore are never to be trusted (see the warning of the Canadian Lighthouse Department), it is only the sounds of such guides as are approachable close to for verification, namely, whistling and bell buoys. The lead is of no use, if the bottom of the sea possesses no dis- tinguishing features that can not easily be mistaken on the course made good; and as the latter is not known, because the ground log is not used, deception by soundings is gen- erally the case. Without safety curves, the haphazard cast of the lead is like the attempt of a drowning man to catch hold of a straw. Therefore, so long as vessels use faulty methods in ascer- taining position, and ignore the ground log (within the 100 fathom line) as the only true guide for finding course and distance made good, so long will all inquiries into the causes of stranding, conducted on the same erroneous basis, amount to nothing. JOHN MAURICE. Civil Engineer and Nautical Expert. oo or ior VISIBLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN. As compiled for THE MARINE RECORD, by George F. Stone, Secretary Chicago Board of Trade. CITIES WHERE WHEAT.| CORN. Oats. RYE. BARLEY STORED. Bushels. | Bushels. | Bushels. | Bushels. | Bushels. Buffaloes W{GZOOO0 | oss hs ae tee Peewee 18,000 222,000 anoat..%4 ce. BAT OOO) is Sains csere phe .ch tala: aqivallquten’ Bauistet Seis: erm. coasena matte Chicago..............| 10,830,000} 5,505,000] 2,776,000 474,000 201,000 Sta oOatins cpsau ce - 1,283,000] 3,484,000] 1,344,000 BOON iw Weree. Detroit ose. caens 490,000 446,000].......... 30,000 15,000 Duluth ei hcs 9,902,000] 5,187,000] 1,294,000 406,000 74,000 Bort wilhia in CONE os 522551000] aleve cincitscisllic <siecpostvie. co lla ase wicahae wills bund. cbualeres« Milwaukee.......... 1,029,000 638,000 635,000 1,000 22,000 ‘Sahoaties,. his ios 75,000! 331,000] ‘ 472,000].......... 72,000 Montreal viccsrscc.s 137,000 12,000 370,000 10,000 41,000 Port Arthur, Ont. PURIOOO nik Veet oy cultnn ooeene Valais Sok heas| Seats he be MOCK O: bi'5.5 vis csisces sive 914,000] 1,095,000 RAAGOOO hrs cele cok nicie 1,000 POTONLO 7. canis ica BHOOO iceman sac BOO! eave ce ss 35,000 Grand Total..... 51 873,000] 22,019,000] 11,271,000] 1,095,000 819,000 Corresponding Date, LOG sisis fesvie ous tein acess 55,273,000] 24,789,000] 7,543,000] 1,311,000 871,000 TNCTOABEHA5. Slelacing asl ite ois shies 29; 000s Ree Tees Sie PP Pee ke. Decrease ............ ZOU, O00l 3.55 «sess 128,000 17,000 31,000 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. oo or eS VESSELS CLASSED. Vessels classed and rated this week by the American Bureau of Shipping, New York,in the ‘‘Record of American and Foreign Shipping,” are as follows: American screw Hyades, screw Pleiades, ship Bangalore, ship Foohng Suey, schooners Rebecca Palmer, Malcolm B. Seavey, Landseer, Metinic, barge Matanzas, Swedish brig Svante, Norwegian bark James G. Pendleton, and British half brig Harry. or SOO Construction of Insurance Contract.—Where the construc- tion of a policy of marine insurance depends on questions of general commercial law, the federal courts are not bound by the decisions of the courts of the state in which the contract was made, but by those of the supreme court of the United States. Washburn & Moen Mfg. Co. vs. Reliance Marine Ins. Co., 106 Fed. Rep. (U.S.) 116. . NOTES. W. L. Capps has succeeded Francis T. Bowles as secretary and treasurer of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. Messrs. LEwis & CRANE, Seattle, Wash., lumber mer- chants, shippers and brokers, handlea great deal of Douglas _ fir for use as spars, deck planking and all upper works. The writer was under the painful necessity of cutting away a ship’s three lower masts which were of this Douglas pine, after fifteen years service they were as sound and fresh as the day , they eame out of the woods. THE Scientific American of April 13 says: ‘‘When the last Congress adjourned without making any provision for new battleships and cruisers—the first time such an omission has been made in ten years—the United States Navy was set back among the growing navies of the world by just twelvé months in time, and by exactly the number of bat- tleships and cruisers which represent the average annual addition that should be made at this time to our navy, if we are to maintain even our present relative standing among the world’s powers.”’ THE new torpedo boat destroyer Goldsborough, recently finished at Portland, Ore., in her second speed trial, on April 9, over the prescribed course, attained a speed of 31.84 knots, the requirement being 30 knots. Cardiff coal was used, and the engines and boilers worked to perfection. With coal obtained from a mine on the Pacific coast a speed’ of 28.5 knots was obtained on a previous trial. The Perry, asimilar boat, constructed at San Francisco, in a trial on thesame date failed to obtain the contract speed. As a result, the hull of the vessel will be subjected to some alteration. THE Bullock Electric Mfg. Co., through its secretary, Mr. James Wilson Bullock, has acquired control of 15 acres of land directly opposite the present plant, at East Norwood, O. Upon this tract the Norwood Foundry Co. will erect a foundry building 200 feet long by 150 feet in width; a pattern storage house, fire-proof construction, 50x150 feet, three stories high; anda modern office structure. All these buildings will be built of buff pressed brick with steel frames and trusses, to conform to the present buildings of the Bullock Electric Mfg. Co. The foundry will be equipped with three electric cranes, the largest of which will have a capacity of 50 tons. The side bays, which will be 25 feet in width, will be served by hand traveling and jib cranes. The plant will be of the most modern character, and electricity will be used for power and lighting throughout. While this foun- dry will be operated under the name of the Norwood Foundry Co., it will serve primarily the needs of the Bullock Electric Mfg. Co. It will also be in position to handle outside orders in the most satisfactory manner. That it will be operated successfully is guaranteed by the fact that it will be under the direction of Messrs. Hoffinghoff & Laue, of Cin- cinnati, a firm whose skill in handling foundry work is everywhere acknowledged.