12 THE MARINE RECORD. May 16, Igot. enna ee Truscott VAPOR MARINE MOTORS. HIGH GRADE PLEASURE CRAFT. TRUSCOTT BOAT MFG. CO. ST. JOSEPH, MICH. SEND 5 STAMPS FOR CATALOG. lighting. Pintsch Gas Lighted Buoys. Burn Continuously from 80 to 365 days and nights without attention, and can be seen a distance of six miles. . Controlled by 160 Broadway, New York City. Adopted by the English, German, French, Russian, Italian and United States Light-House Departments for channel and harbor Over 1,000 gas buoys and gas beacons in service. THE SAFETY CAR HEATING AND LIGHTING CO. CORRESPONDENCE. &@-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. DEAD FREIGHT. Oswkco, N. Y., May I1, Igot. To The Editor of the Marine Record: There is an argument, or perhaps a better way to put it, is, say, a difference on what is called dead freight and we have agreed to take your explanation of the term to settle the controversy. Will you kindly state through the columns of the MARINE RECORD a clear and full explanation of what we want to know in this matter. Hoping that you will cover all the points in dispute. J. RAMDING, An old subscriber. The term is briefly and decisively contained in the follow- ing: Dead freight is the damage payable by one who en- gages to load a ship fully and fails soto do. “Let us state a case, A charters with B to load a full and complete cargo of 1,000 tons, but towards the completion of the lading A finds that he is short 50 tons and that amount of space in weight or measurement, is left vacant when the ship sails, B there- fore collects freight from A on‘the full and complete cargo of 1,000 tons although his vessel only carried and delivered g50 tons. A parallel case is that of paying for a box car on the railroad and only using a portion of its storage capacity,—Ed. NOVICES ADJUST COMPASSES. CHICAGO, IL, May 14, rgor. To the Editor of the Marine Record. The last issue of the MARINE RECORD contained the fol- lowing paragraph in the editorial columns: “Apropos of the various strandings which occur on the opening of navigation each season, much must be credited to the entire neglect of, or faulty adjustment of compasses. In moving over the ground in thick weather the compass alone has to be depended upon (assisted of .course by the lead) andif it indicates incorrectly trouble is liable to en- sue. In clear weather a lookout can be kept so as to see that she doesn’t bounce on anything visible.” Since the publication of the Muaster’s Manual, and the es- tablishment of a nautical school, under the auspices of cer- tain underwriters, the novices in compass adjusting have multiplied. Everybody familiar with the book referred to, or having passed a course of instruction at said school, thinks himself capable of adjusting compasses; their only trouble being to get the proper magnets. ‘Captains have been run- ning all over this city in search of magnets, in order to do _ their own adjusting, assisted by a coal dock agent to curry favor. Other incompetents also have started in the busi- ness, juggling with compasses for any amount of money of- fered. Therefore, it is no wonder when vessels find bottom every now and then. An adjustment by an expert may hold good for many years, if the magnetism of the vessel does not change, and. proper care be taken, because he always uses the best of magnets retaining their power. But the practice of taking the compass out of its place at the end of the season, and putting it there again the next spring, without knowing ex- actly its previous position, vitiates the adjustment. For, a difference in position of but one-sixteenth of an inch, one way or the other, may affect courses more or less, according to the magnitude of the errors compensated. And as some owners shun the expenses of a new adjustment every season, the bungling in courses goes on until, by hook or crook, captains have down their courses. Under such circum- stances a change of captains means always a repetition of previous mistakes. As vessels generally are insured, under- writers pay the bill for fetching up, and the compass is the last thing aboard ship about which owners trouble them- selves. JoHN Maurice. Compass Adjuster etc., of 12 years standing. oO Oo 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. 1,567,000 SLL, O90). fy T7OLOOOI tains cage ksl whe sarees HOBROOO venir ee Geren ceca a|epa ee ones atie| Waves otal suaresing $0,055.000] 5,789,000] 2,860,000 338,000 167,000 SO O00: 2OQ OOO oe sa.\ immu eiaiac ei sw iheaiadl dase taboo 177.000 220,000 1,0 0 12,000 2,000 9,841,900] 5,212,000] 1,358,000 427,000 75,000 TRIO rhe sete a Safire crak Son aca ti winigie aoe [ul tae teres em Fort William, Uni. V{GGGIOOO Ler CRT SIRE Sande URE Sats haa ten Get Milwaukee........ 656 00¢ 739, 00¢ 3d 26000) ;.5 seca 17,000 MMAOAt Cate oe ra BMC Cn alt tr ee eer lee ak cre acta [ee ee Port Arthur, Ont... 25 OO eric yaaa ecillemuhtas noes Gailh marae anepal TOLEDO sieicccee sears sie 366,00 470,006 226,000 1,000 2,000 Toronto 43,00}. TOOK hes 50,000 On: Canals. se. 6543. 133,000 52,000 226,000 TO:000 |, ve) Sau OnsRakesi 25. ee: 2,606,0c0) 1,657,000} 2,279,040 62.000 184,0co Ou Miss. River...... Be a oer Re Ord Briann a ae ro ee eben erg orl pee eat Grand Total... 45 761,00¢| 17,338.00 | £1,449 000 g63,000 749,000 Corresponding Date 1899.......,..+. .»-| 47 621,000] 16,155.00] 7,246,000] 1,025,000 953,000 Increase....... pale wales ia 17,000 24,000 Decreases) 626.2% 907,000} 1,327,000) 1,077,COO)..........] wee. se eee While the stock of grain at lake ports. only is here given he total shows the figures for the entire country except the acific Slope _————— 2 or THE PADUCAH DISASTER. Information of the wreck of the steamer Paducah, of the St. Louis & Tennessee River Packet Co., which occurred at Brunkhorst Landing, Ill., last Sunday night, was obtained upon the arrival of the steamer City of Clifton, atSt. Louis, on Tuesday. Fifteen persons lost their lives, six whites and nine blacks. The City of Paducah stopped at Brunkhorst Landing, Sun- day night, and took on a load of corn. When in the act of backing away from the wharf the boat swung around and struck the bank heavily with ‘her stern. A snag imbedded in the bank tore a hole in the hull through which the water rushed. She at once began to settle and at the end of three minutes nothing but her texas deck and pilot house remained above the surface. The passengers lost all their belongings and had to be supplied with clothing by those on shore. ‘ The steamer lies in thirty feet of water. She was valued at $15,000 and is a total loss, : OO Ol OO ' ‘Do you believe the earth is really flattened at the poles?’’ “Well, I dunno. I’ve never studied the subject much. But if itis, it must be because J. Pierpont Morgan prefers it that way.’’—Chicago Times-Herald. NOTES. THE Gas Engine and Power Co. and Charles L. Seabury & Co. Consolidated, announce the removal of their down town office, from 50 Broadway to 11 Broadway, Bowling Green Building, New York. BiDs were opened at Cincinnati, O., May 8, by Major Wm. Bixby, Corps of Hagineers, U.S. A., for furnishing 4,000 barrels of Portland, or 6,000 barrels Natural cement for Chanoine Dam No. 2, Ohio River, received in response to advertisement dated April 2, the firms submitting bids were: The Lawrence Cement Co., Philadelphia, Pa. Glenn Falls Portland Cement Co., New York, N. Y. D. J. Kennedy, Pittsburg, Pa. Empire Portland Cement Co., Warners, N. Y. W. 4H. Williams & Co., Pittsburg, Pa. Wm. Wirt Clark & Son, Biltimore, Md. Cummings Cement Co., Pittsburg, Pa. Houston Bros., Pittsburg, Pa. L. S. McKallip & Co., Pitts- burg, Pa. Lawrenceville Cement Co., New York, N. Y. New York & Rosendale Cement Co., New York, N. Y. ‘THE seven shipbuilding companies which are about to go intoa combine have orders in hand aggregating more than $63,000,000, which will keep them busy for more than eighteen months,’’ says the B»ston Transcript. ‘‘From this total, Government work must be deducted to get at the im- portance of these companies to the rehabilitation of the mer- chant marine, but this process is going on merrily. The great Cramp plant is not in the combine, neither is the com- pany at New London which has now under construction the two largest vessels ever laid down in American yards, levia- than steamers of 29,000 tons displacement each, designed for J. J. Hill’s Oriental line. This year will be a red letter one for the additions it will see made to the American mer- chant marine.”’ - ; THE] H. W. Johns M’f’g. Co. 100 William Street New York, are sending out their bulletin No. 5 containing a re- vised price list of the ‘‘Noark’’ fuse (Sachs patent). It is stated that for use on high tension alternating lines no pro- tective device is comparable to the ‘‘Noark’’ Fuse. Absolute- ly positive in its opening of the circuit under any conditions without’ the disastrous results accompanying ordinary fuse devices, the ‘‘Noark’’ at the same time is positive proof against personal injury, as it does not require any guesswork or tests to indicate to the user the condition of the fuse. Used on transformer primaries or subway boxes the Fuse for this service can be relied upon to work at any and all times without danger to life or property. The ‘‘Noark”’ Fuse fur-: nishes a perfect protection in many cases where the use of other fuses is impracticable and in fact impossible. A NEw writer of sea stories, James B. Connolly, is now coming to the front with his tales in Scribner’s Magazine. There was one in the April number entitled ‘‘A Chase Over- night,’”? and the June issue will contain another, ‘‘On the Echo o’ the Morn.’? They are the best Gloucester fishing stories that have appeared in many a year. The author gets his material at first hand, and has been on many voyages with the skippers, and through his skill could at any time secure a position on board one of the Gloucester schooners asa full hand. He hashad a most romantic career, He was at Harvard in 1896, left the university and went to the Olympic games, where he won a first prize. He was in the Spanish-American War with a Massachusetts regiment, and has been an inspector and paymaster on Government dredg- ing operations. He has also crossed the ocean several times in thesteerage, as a sailor, and as a hand ona cattle-boat. Fe ET ne oem OOM