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42 THE MARINE RECORD. JUNE 6, I9gOI. VA TRUSCOTT BOAT SIMPLE, ‘SAFE, RELIABLE, SPEEDY. lighting. It may be possible to build better and safer boats but it hasn’t been dene yet. We send a completely illustrated catalogue and price list free, which tells you all about boa sand WHY TRUSCOTT BOATS EXCEL. Truscott Boat Mfg. Co. ST. JOSEPH, MICH. Pintsch Gas Lighted Buoys. Adopted by the English, German, French, Russian, Italian and United States Light-House Departments for channel and harbo: 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. . - 8 © 6 Controlled by THE SAFETY CAR HEATING AND LIGHTING CO. 160 Broadway, New York City. : OWNER AND PRESIDENT OF THE NORTHERN STEAMSHIP CO. Who is Mr. J. J. Hill? asks Henry Lomis Nelson in Har- per’s Weekly. He is not a dealer in general securities. He has never been inside the New York stock exchange. When he buys stocks and bonds it is for the purpose of gaining the ownership of a property which he desires to own and manage as a business enterprise and for the purpose of making money for himself and fellow-shareholders. To those who are asso- ciated with him in the railroad business he seems to be the greatest railroad manager of his times. He began lifeinthe west, 45 years ago, asaclerk in a Mississippi river trans- portation business at St..Paul, and then went back into Canada, whence he came, and into service of the Hudson Bay Co. There he met Lord Strathcona, who had not quite earned his peerage, with whom he has been associated for 30 years. Again he returned to Minnesota, and, at last, began the construction of the Manitoba railroad, which ran into the Red river wheat country. He was regarded as an intruder by the old Northern Pacific magnates, and he was not popu- lar with them. But he kept on building and operating his own road untileventually it became the Great Northern rail- road, It was buiitas a private enterprise. It is the only trans- continental road constructed without a dollar of govern- ment money. Its bonded debt is small. It has never missed paying a dividend. In the panic years, 1893, 1894, 1895, when railroad wrecks were tumbling all about, the Great Northern not only paid its dividends, but increased them. Mr. Hill is a commanding personality who wins loyalty and devotion from hisassociates. He is possessed of a warm imagination, restrained by a thorough knowledge of details. He knows what his road cost, the cost of operation, the cost of wear and tear. Every dollar that his road earns belor gs to thestockholders. No one connected with his road, officially makes money out of it from patents or any of the devices by which some railroads are bled. Mr. Hill knows thoroughly the country through which his road passes, its products, its capability, its people and their capacity. He knows also the promise of each season and his imagination walks into the future as sure-footed as itis permitted the imagination to do. a AMOUNT OF CEMENT USED IN CONCRETE. Mr. Wm. Pierson Judson, Deputy State Engineer of New York, in answer to an irquiry as to the amount of cement used in concrete in the new specifications for the New Vork state canals, says that the margin of 1 to 2 percent. in matrix in excess of the measured voids of the total mass of the loose aggregate is, as it was intended to be, a maximum amount of mortar, and that the result usually shows a slight excess of matrix after filling the voids. rr WORTH REPEATING. This from the Marine RECORD, Cleveland, is true as preaching: ‘No maritime power can ever make a more judicious expenditure than that voted for the up-keep of her gates of commerce, and, it may be said, that we furnished but a sorry burlesque in the final handling of the late River and Harbor Bill in the closing hours of the last Congress. "— New York Mirine Journal. - Cai CONSOLIDATION OF COAL COMPANIES. In these days of ccmmercial amalgamations and industrial consolidations it was not to be expected that the larger coal and fueling firms would escape the touch of the magical, get-together wand, which has been hovering over Europe, Africa and America. The most recent firms to embrace the latter conditions are made known to us by circular letter in the following terms under date of June 1. “We beg leave to announce that we have this day sold te the Milwaukee-Western Fuel Co. (whose circular we en- close) our plants, business and good will, and as we are financially interested in the new company, we earnestly re- quest a continuance to them of your valued patronage. The new company expect to retain the services of our salesmen, and your interests w ll be looked after with the same care and attention as in the past. While we feel a natural regret in giving up the old firm name, we wish all our friends to feel and know that itis a change in name only. We have made this change after long and careful consideration, and only because we believe the economies effected under the new arrangement, and the greater and better facilities we will have for serving you, will be of great advantage, both to you and to ourselves. With sincere thanks for your many evidences of friend- ship to us in the past, we remain, Very truly yours, B. UHRIG FUEL, Co.’’ The Milwankee-Western Fuel Co., having this day pur- chased the plants, business and good will of the following firms, B. Ubrig Fuel Co., H. M. Benjamin Coal Co., The R. P. Elmore Co., F. R. Buell Coal Co., George'S. Eastman, begs leave to announce that its main office will be at Nos. 2to12 Grand Avenue, Milwaukee. That it has eleven docks with unexcelled receiving and shipping facilities, with stor- age room for over 500,000 tons of coal, with docks located on all of the railroad lines entering Milwaukee, and that it is prepared to quote you prices for the standard grades of authracite and bituminous coals. We will also carry a line of high-grade imported and do- mestic Portland cements, also fire brick and clay. We represent the following white ash coals: D. L. & W. R. R. Co’s Scranton, The Delaware & Hudson Co,’s Lackawanna, and W. L. Scott Co.’s Lackawanna; also Castner, Curran & Bullitt’s celebrated Pocahontas smoke- less coal. We can always promise you prompt service and quick shipment, and we hope to be favored with a share of your patronage. We remain, Very sincerely yours, MILWAUKEE-WESTERN FUEL Co, ELE ee ' WHEN the steamship Northwestern, from Chicago to Hamburg, with a miscellaneous cargo, passed out of the Gulf of St. Lawrence into blue water, she was six weeks out from her port of clearance. However, only ten days of this was actual running time, the remainder having been spent in the ice jam at the mouth of the St. Clair river, in dock at Detroit repairing damages due to the ice, aground in the St. Lawrence and in dock at Montreal repairing damages result- ing from grounding. She was the first vessel of the new line, and it was but natural that vicissitudes should beset her, even if we discard the prevalent ‘Chicago opinion that she was “‘hoodooed”’ by carrying a large consignment of the printed matter of the Rev. John Alexander Dowie, one of Chicago’s most enterprising citizens. TREASURY DECISION. REPAIRS TO AMERICAN VESSELS IN FOREIGN PORTS. When an American vessel engaged in the foreign and coasting trade on the northern, northeastern, and north- western frontiers of the United S‘ates is docked in a Cana- dian port and any repairs made thereto, the cost of docking is dutiable as an expense incident to such repairs. TREASURY DEPARTMENT’, May 22, Igor. Gentlemen: The Department isin receipt of your letter of the roth instant, in which you asked to be informed whether duty is chargeable on the amount paid for docking American steamers in Canadian ports. You state that you understand that all alterations and repairs are dutiable, but you would like to know whether the amount paid on such steamer for the mere docking itself is dutiable. In reply, I have to inform you that section 3114, Revised Statutes, provides for the payment of an ad valorem duty of 50 per cent on the cost ‘‘or the expenses of repairs’’ made in a foreign country upon vessels enrolled and licensed under the laws of the United States to engage in the foreign and coasting trade on the northern, northeastern, and north- western frontiers of the United States, or a vessel intended to be employed in such trade. The language of the statute is considered to be sufficiently comprehensive to include all expens:s incident to such repairs. Therefore, if such vessels are docked and any alterations or repairs whatsoever are made thereto, the cost of docking would be included in the amount upon which the aforesaid duty is leviable. Respectfully, O. L, SPAULDING, Acting Secretary, Thousand Island Steembcat Co., Ltd., Kingston, Ontario, Canada. 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, Bunalo;, veces os 3,3 °2,000 808,000] 1,0¢7,000 73.000 307,¢00 ‘SahOate eee hiaale Siscathe «| ba Ia liars ge ears tes os sta i| hea eee aa CHICK IO inches cae 6,640,000] 6,613,000] 3,758,000 IgI,000 134,000 PMAMOMC rote nine csc cc e k eee 2 aig ecg sifee fathenagnce eBags a ganas Detralts. 5 si ipeee cs 203,000 146; 000| sce cae 4,000 2,c00 TOtUIEN Ss cca ier caece 5,463,900] 3,203,000] 1,055,00¢ 273,000 44,000 WAU Bileh Rie ou earn Sa Ripa ten hes Pecans ages a) inci yar. ip autres Fort Willian Ont cn) :15505,000 ais ate sik nee as sas |acne wu Gal tunes Milwaukee 455,000 686, 00c 441,000 20,000 16,0c0 Wafloaticcnce. aap: © cea ounl Caner eee! anal paral peeer teat. ulochan mem Port Arthur, Ont... VATOOO ose aise lage sae ay Toledovsc vores «vies ess 199,000 607,00¢ 169,000 4,000 1,000 TOLOnto soken schtacn 54,000 1.000}... Soro 67,c00 On Canals. rocks. 631,000 189.0 0 93,000 58,coo I ',000 OnsRakes'2. 3.1238 1,543,0C0| 1,271,000 E24 O00 aie la ssl city boas On Miss. River...... 120, O00 |i: iss) aectin ee ae deo yh Pca, | Aa ae aes Grand Total..... 63 932,00c| 16,413,000] 11,218,000 743,000 822,000 Corresponding Date, TBQQMINS? aes Reider 44 794,000| 12,378,000] 7,043,000] 1,051,000 810,000 TO CVORSE oi) icicceiscivectnees een 1,€93,000 780,000 G4;00C) is. ec aess DeécKreaserr ers can in S132, 000/ se easel es Peis cinietsrall athens 239,000 While the stock of grain gt lake ports only is here given, the total shows the figures for the entire country except the Pacific Slope. _—_— OO Oo Oe THACHER—Of course you understand the difference between liking and loying? Pupil—Yes; miss; I like my father and mother, but I love apple pie.—Boston-Globe.