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8 THE MARINE RECORD. MAy 30, Igol. ee SLOOP THAT SAILED AROUND THE WORLD AT THE EXPOSITION. Capt. Joshua Slocum, and his famous sloop Spray, in which the daring Yankee sailor cruised around the world, are at the Pan-American Exposition. The noble sloop rides the waters of Park Lake, and is an object of great curiosity to all Exposition visitors. ‘The Spray was brought from Brooklyn to Buffalo through the rivers and the Erie canal. At every bridge and landing along the route the skipper and his sloop were given an ovation. Capt. Slocum and the Spray will be at the Exposition dur- ing the entire season. From boyhood Joshua Slocum has followed the sea. In his time he has commanded some of the largest sailing craft, and in them traversed all the marine routes. He came to know the sea like a well-thumbed book, and to regard it as more naturally his home than the land. Through misfortune he lost his all, but was still as fond as ever of ocean life. The idea of sailing around the world came to him, and he at once began the construction of a boat for the purpose with his own hands, using for a model an old sloop which had apparently passed its days of usefulness. The sloop was 36 feet 9 inches over all, 14 feet 2 inches hold, her burden being g tons net and 12% tons gross. He named this craft the Spray. Cupt. Slocum sailed from Boston on April 24, 1895, and his voyage around the world consumed three years and two months. He was too poor to buy a chronometer, and in lieu of this he took along an old tin clock, one hand of which was miss- ing, but he wasrarely at fault in hislongitude. Aftera voyage attended with many unusual incidents the sloop on June 27th, 1898, cast another at the moorings she had left on her remarkable voyage. rr BUFFALO AND TORONTO WEATHER FORE- CASTS. A weather forecast is issued from Buffalo daily, covering practically the same territory as that covered by the weather bureau of this city. The forecast from the former cffice is, as a rule, more accurate than that of the Toronto bureau. In the probabilities issued by the two bureaus for Sunday, for instance, the Buffalo office seemed to hit it right, while the Toronto office was considerably off color. A comparison of the two bulletins will be of interest: Buffalo: Weather forecast for Buffalo and vicinity—Partly cloudy weather to-night and Sunday; continued cool, with possibly light frost in exposed places to-night; brisk north- west winds. Conditions favor generally fair weather to Mon- day at least, with continued cool conditions, and may cause frost Sunday morning in exposed places and away from the influence of the lakes. Toronto: The temperature will be higher Sunday, and a period of fair weather may be looked for; winds northerly and northwesterly will blow to-day, but the day will be fair. There is no doubt as to which of these forecasts is the more accurate. were known alike to both bureaus. If there is anything like scientific accuracy in forecasting the weather, there should not be such a wide divergence between these two bulletins. —The Toronto World. ———— won se ; ‘EASTERN FREIGHTS. Messrs. Funch, Edye & Co., New York, report the condi- tion of the Eastern freight market as follows: The amount of tonnage chartered for grain during the past week reflects the continued depressed state of the market, and shippers do not seem able to effect new busi- ness under the existing conditions of the grain merket. A prompt steamer has been obliged to accept Is 10%d to picked ports and 2s for Hamburg, which is the lowest charter effected for sometime. There is little or no inquiry for tonnage from the Gulf ports, and what steamers are being chartered are chiefly to fulfill old commitments for phosphate, oil cake, etc. Some further business has been done in coal from this coast to the Mediterranean on the basis of 12s to 12s 61 perton. There is a better inquiry for coal tonnage to load for the Brazils and River Plate, for which direction two steamers have already been taken. In all directions, however, the demand is of a limited nature, and until grain commences to move more freely, we fear there is little chance of an improvement in freights. The business in sail tonnage during the past week has been too insignificant to warrant any change in rates, or to permit us to form any idea in regard tothe movement of the market in the near future. The condition upon which they were based © NAVAL COURT MARTIAL SENTENCE VOID. Kighty-nine officers and seamen, formerly of the U. S. Navy, now of the merchant service, are suing in the Court of Claims for pay of which they have been deprived by sentence of court-martial and other action of the Judge-Advocate-Gen- eral of the Navy, who is merely a Lieutenant Commander and without professional legal experience outside of his naval service. Their attorney is George F. Ormsby, of Washington, D. C., a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy and naval Judge-Advocate. The nautical experience ofa commissioned officer of the navy introduced into the solution of a recent intricate problem before the Court of Claims has enabled their counsel to win for them the only case in which that court has ever adjudged void any sentence of the many Army and Navy court-martial cases before it, and the only case in the history of the country in which a naval sentence has been set aside by any civil tribunal. ———— OO Ole NORWEGIANS DISCOUNT CANADIANS. It is noteworthy that the coal trade between Cape Breton and Montreal is carried on almost exclusively by Norwegian steamers, to the exclusion of Canadian and English vessels. This is due almost entirely, it is stated, to. the low rates of insurance charged by the Norwegian companies, in which these coal boats are insured, as compared with that charged by the Canadian and English companies. They have had NOTES. THE H. W. JoHNs Mre. Co. recently secured a contract for covering all the new work installed in the plant of the St. Regis Paper Co., Watertown, N. Y., in which asbestos fire felt covering was used, and they have also secured a con- tract for covering the new boilers installed in the Iron Steam- boat Co.’s boats, Columbia, Sirius and Taurus, asbestocel sheets and asbestos cement being used. This company is getting up a neat little pamphlet on asbestocel pipe cover- ing, sheets and paper and it is expected to be ready very shortly. One of these pamphlets can be had by addressing The H. W. Johns Mfg. Co., 100 William St., New York. SEVENTY-TWo recruits for the navy, enlisted in Omaha, Neb., left that city on May 12 for San Francisco to be as- signed to the training ship Pensacola. The naval recruiting station for Omaha opened May 5 last, in charge of Dr. Cran- dall and Lieutenant Blamer, U.S. N. For two days, on ac- count of bad weather, few applicants presented themselves for enlistment. Since then, however, the officers and their clerks dida rushing business, and on May 12, when the offices opened, there were fully 75 young men in line, with more comingevery minute. Of the young men who enlisted at Omaha, the youngest was 14 and the oldest 34 years of age. The average was about 17 years. PoLLock Rip light-ship No. 73 was launched at Biltimore, Md., May 18. Sheis constructed of steel, and has a length THE GREAT RACE TO BE RUN ON LAKE ERIE JUNE 4, BETWEEN 6 4k tf ETASHMO® EE ooletpuvee White Star Line steel steamer Tashmoo, built at the Wyandotte yards of the American Ship Building Co., 1899; launched Dec. 31st, 1899. Hull dimensions, 320 feet in length and 70 feet extreme width. Engines, inclined triple-expansion with cylinders 334%”, 51” and 82”; stroke, 72 inches. a working pressure of 170 pounds. considerable experience in this trade, and they discount con- siderably the reputed dangers of the route. It looks as though a conspiracy has been hatched against this particu- lar trade by British underwriters, but the Norwegian under- writers, who have had a large experience, are quite willing to underwrite risks on vessels carrying coal from Cape Bre- ton to Montreal. Mr. Cookson, of the Dominion Coal Co. which charters these vessels, admits that the insurance is much less. A shipping authority states that there was an- other reason still. Owing to the low wages the Norwegian sailors receive, and the small cost of living, the ships are cheaper torun. This, he said, was perhaps a small item, but in a large fleet, making many tripsina year, it totaled up a respectable saving in a year. / or oo or THE Sirene, a French submarine boat of the Narvel type, but not quite so large, was launched at Cherbourg on May 4. She is 111 feet long, 11 feet beam, and 106 tons displace- ment, and she draws 5 feet of water when afloat. Her speed is calculated at 12 knots with a triple expansion vertical en- gine of 217 horse-power. The Sirene, which when finished will cost about $160,000, has four torpedo launching gears. At Havre onthe same day the seagoing torpedo boat Mis- tral, which belongs to the Sirocco type, was launched. She is 147 feet 8 inches long, 15 feet 6 inches in beam, and has engines of 4,200 indicated horse-power. Her nominal speed is 30 knots. Steam is supplied by seven boilers 11 feet in diameter and 11 feet long, allowed Licensed to carry 3,000 passengers. of 128 feet over all and 112 feet between perpendiculars. The beam is 28% feet and the depth of hold 14 feet 10% inches. The ship will have fore and aft compound engines to enable her to sail under her own steam if she breaks from her anchorage. Electricity will be used to light the twin lamps at the mast-heads. The vessel will be equipped with an automatic riding windlass, to take up slack and let out the cable chain during a blow, and will have a fog-bell and steam siren. Heavy bilge keels have been built in the hull to prevent the ship from rolling. THe Lutine, a 32-gun frigate in the British Navy, sailed from Yarmouth Roads for Hamburg on Oct. 9, 1799, carry- ing a large amount of treasure, but, striking a sandbank during a gale, was lost between the islands of Vlieland and Terschelling, lying off one of the entrances tothe Zuyder Zee. Salving work has been carried on from time to time at the Lutine for nearly a century, aud out of the treasure orig- inally shipped, calculated to have amounted at least to $2,- 185,335, as muchas $504,120 has actually been recovered. Five different salvage operations in all have been carried out with varying success, but resulting in that very respectable total, to which it is hoped to add, as the result of the find- ings of another expedition now being organized. The wreck, the after part of which is broken up, is lying on the clay at a depth of 50 feet below mean sea level, and at the present time a depth of 35 feet of sand hasto be cleared away in order to uncover the clay.—Army and Navy Journal.