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PE ee a ne ae ESTABLISHED 1878. VOL. XXIV, No. 23 CLEVELAND -- JUNE 6, 1901 -- CHICAGO. $2.00 Per -Year. 5c. Single Copy LAKE GARRIERS “ASSOCIATION. To consider and take action upon all general questions relating to the navigation and carrying business of the Great Lakes, maintain necessary shipping offices and in general to protect the common interests of Lake Car- riers, and to improve the character of the service rendered to the public. PRESIDENT. A. B. WOLVIN, Duluth, ist VICE-PRESIDENT. Capt. J. G, KEITH, Chicago. SECRETARY. 7m CHARLES H. KEEP, Buffalo, TREASURER. GEoRGE P. McKay, Cleveland. COUNSEL. HARVEY D. GoOULDER, Cleveland. EXECUTIVE AND FINANCE COMMITTEE. JAMES CORRIGAN, Chairman, Cleveland. COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION. Grigsson L. DovGras, Chairman, Buffalo, COMMITTEE ON AIDS TO NAVIGATION. GEORGE P. McKay, Chairman, Cleveland. ACTION FOR LOSS OF LIFE. The Canadian Court of Appeal has delivered judg- ment in the case of Sims vs. Dominion Fish Co., known as the Buffalo Fish Co. This was an action tried at Gore Bay last year, wherein damages were asked for the loss of the life of Edward Sim, who fell overboard off the tug Seagull, owned by the defendant company, and was drowned. It is said that the accident happened while the deceased was dragging a fish box along the deck of the boat, and that the immediate cause of the casualty was the break- ing of the handle of the box, the wood of which ‘was imperfect. The jury awarded the plaintiff $1,500 and from this decision the company appealed. The Court of Appeal holds, for the first time, with the Steamboat Inspection Act, which requires that all steamboats, tuys and other craft, plying the waters on the Great Lakes, must be equipped with certain life-saving’ appliances. It was contended on behalf of the company that this provision was only made in favor of the passengers and not in favor of the crew; but the Court of Appeal held that the provisions of the Act are made for all those who have any connection with the vessel. The plaintiff alleged that if a life-buoy with a life-line had been hanging in a convenient place on the tug’s deck it ‘ could have been thrown to Sim when he fell overboard and that his life would have been saved. From this out it will be necessary for all tugs, as well as every other vessel, to have the life-buoy placed ina convenient position on the deck of the vessel. The appeal of the defendants was dis- missed with costs. ———— OS LAKE SUPERIOR POWER. Accordingto bids asked for excavation work, etc., the Lake Superior Power Co, have in immediate contemplation the building of a second water power canal on the Canadian side of the St. Mary’s river. The present canal generates power for the operation of the big pulp mill, alkali works, electric light plant and iron works, and has a capacity of 25,000 horse-power. The new canal will parallel the one in opera- tion on the north side, and will be 150 feet in width and of sufficient depth to give a head of water so as to develop 4o0,- 000 horse-power. Most of this will be utilized electrically in the operation of the big steel plant now building, and for other enterprises yet in embryo. It is designed to complete the canal within eighteen monthsif possible. The project is one that will materially benefit the two ‘“‘Soo’s.”” When the water power developments now under way are finished, the company will have at its command the vast amouut of approximately 120,000 horse-power of what is usually con- sidered the cheapest motive force on earth. IRON ORE DOCKS. The lake season in ore traffic opened with one new dock of modern design added to the already marvelous equipment at the Lake Superior points of shipments of iron ores. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway, by way of the new Escanaba & Lake Superior railway from Channing to Escan- aba, gains access to the ore handling business on the upper lakes. The company completed its ore dock at Escanaba in October, 1900, but too late to figure prominently in last year’s movement, This pier is the twenty-third in number at the seven great shipping ports—Duluth, Two Harbors, Escanaba, Superior, Marquette, Ashland, and Gladstone. The new St. Paul pier is 650 feet long, 52 feet wide at the top, and 6634 feet above high water mark. There are 120 pockets, and its capacity is 28,000 tons or ore. The dock carries four railway tracks. This addition to the storage capacity of the ore piers at the upper lakes will bring the total equipment up to 820,00c tons capacity at the immedi- ate point of shipment available for the season of Igor. or or or ASTRONOMICAL DATA FOR JUNE. Astronomical data for June, 1901, furnished the MARINE RECORD by the Washburn observatory: Mercury will be very favorably situated for observation the middle portion of the month. On June 15th it reaches greatest elongation east, and for some days preceding and following this date the planet may be seen asa bright star in the evening twilight, slanting down to the horizon in the same course with the sun, and setting at the same point, On June 15th the planet does not set until 9h 25m; so that there will be a good interval for observing it, if clouds or smoke do not obscure the low western sky too much. Venus is becoming higher each day as the brilliant evening star, This planet also sets at about the same point as the sun, but about an hour earlier than Mercury when the latter is at its highest. Mars is still the red planet seen in the western sky in the evening. Jupiter and Saturn appear in the southeast in the evening, and form an interesting pair of planets, the former by far the more brilliant, but the latter also conspicuous, and a little east and north of Jupiter. SUNRISE. SUNSET. SJ AUNR OT rsh hy oss she oy ensanmaticois = ASD Sit ia oisee a cies ee a 7:23, UIST Dio as fos ccensteieusia oiejesgin spear AMID. elateiceceie’ sien aes cs 7:30 IME De tltsge ett. ss ss Re (ile tee cosberrat hdc nce 7:34 MIME BO eae as eet ea. eaters ATS io asa -aaiek ste ees Si ondeeeetake 7:34 The times of the moon’s phases are: Fallimoon: ie ta 22.8 FOP. 2 JUNS S20. hier seer 3:53 a.m Thirdequarterts ..t65ni5 JNO sng.) Garin ovste a5 4:00 p. m, New: Moon .o5 2. ws 3 sc. UMETON cries 7:33 a.m. ITst, QUaTCCE ssc c esas JUME 2 Fee sete Nee 2:59 Pp. m. The principal fixed stars visible during the month in the evening hours are: To the west, Regulus. Near the meridian, Arcturus and Spica. To the east, Antares and Vega. own FULL DEPTH OF THE ST. LAWRENCE CANALS. The certainty of the 14-foot navigation in the St. Lawrence channel and canals between the Great Lakes and Montreal, has been placed beyond doubt by the late passage of the Ot- tawa Forwarding Co.’s propeller Arabia. The steamer reach- ed Montreal last week, drawing 14 feet 2 inches. Thisis the deepest draught under which any vessel has ever been taken down. —— eS “Tur pen is mightier than the sword,’’ quoted the man who clings to proverbs. ‘‘My dear sir,’’ rejoined the .nod- ernist, ‘itis no longer a question of pens or swords. The debate now is as to whether the typesetting machine is mightier than the Maxim gun.’’—From the Washington Star. ATLANTIC PASSENGER TRAFFIC. “One of the chief reasons for the marked increase in the saloon travel between Europe and this country is that we are now Sending goods to every corner of the earth,’’ said the American agent of one of the larger steamer lines, to the New York Mail and Express. ‘‘Many Americans make six or more trips a year to the other side, where formerly they did not cross at all. Englishmen and Germans who are en- gaged in the manufacturing trades, industrials and even food raising, visit us much oftener now. Quite a few come to look around with an idea of ascertaining how we have made such gigantic commercial strides in such a short time, but the great majority, realizing the necessity for adopting Amer- ican methods where practicable, come here to purchase ma- chinery and the like, without which it would be impossible for them to copy Yankee thrift and industry. “The English ranchman bound for the far west is not nearly as common on ocean ships as he was five or ten years ago. Heis nowin the mining or engineering business in Mexico and Central America, although there are still many Britons engagedin the cattle rising business out west and throughout Canada. Some of the older vessels of our line shipped a large number of the mules and horses that were sent to South Africa from New Orleans for English army service. It was surprising to discover what a big percentage of these animals came from the ranches of Englishmen who had settled in the north and west. ‘‘Another reason for the increase in the number of travel- ers across the ocean is the renewal of the good feeling be- tween the two continents, particularly between England and the United States. There was a time, not long since, when neither cared to buy from the other. England was then in a superior position commercially and industrially, and we were not making locomotives, steel rails, cars, heavy ma- chinery or other expensive creations for the export trade. Since we began to send whole railroad trains to not only England, France and Germany, but to Australia, Russia, China, Japan and the Hast Indies, our drummers, merchants, engineers and artisans have broken through the foreign rush line like a champion football eleven, and a display of their wares and samples in every cubby hole of the globe has caused buyers to come in person to look us over more fully. ‘‘Where ships in the past were satisfied with sixty or sey- enty-five cabin passengers each trip at this season, they are carrying from 120 to 225 now, if not one way certainly the other. The number of buyers who are constantly on the deep has become enormous, Naturally Canada has benefited by this eagerness to patronize American methods and manu- facturers, and she is sending drummers abroad. The ideal drummer’s lair is no longer the American Pullman car, but the smoking saloon of the big trans-Atlantic liner.’’ oo CONTINUED LITIGATION. H. R. Spencer, Esq., of Searle & Spencer, Duluth, will appear in behalf of the steamer Arabian, in the admiralty case of Marine Insurance Co., of London, to be tried again at St. Paul, Minn. The case is one that has attracted much attention. It is now before the United States Court of Appeals for the second time. The insurance company claims to have paid for heavy damages to the Minnedosa, which damages, it is claimed, were due to the steamer Arabian. Judge Lochren of the United States Circuit and District Court awarded damages against the Arabian and the case went to the United States Court of Appeals, where the decision was reversed. The case went back to Judge Lochren’s court for a rehearing on other points subsequently, and now it is up to the United States Court of Appealsagain, Judge Lochren having awarded damages a second time as he did inthe first case. The award against the Arabian is about $9,900.