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AUGUST I, IgoI. A TURRIBLE EXPERIENCE, (BY THE MAN ON THE DOCK.) The yacht races at Chicago have brought about much excitement and some confusion at the Club House of the Chicago Yacht Club. The other day I heard one of the waiters telling another waiter of the terrible ordeal that the yacht Detroit under- went on her trip from Milwaukee to Chicago. One o’ them fellows on the Detroit told me all about that trip, it was turrible—they got caught in a storm, you know, and the wind was blowing so hard that it blew 15 knots in the ropes and was going 20 miles an-hour. When the storm first hit ’°em the Captain told ’em, I aint got only 12 reefs aboard and we better put some of ’em in the mainsail, so we put 8 in first and we kept putting ’em in until we had the hull 12 in and then she kept tippin’ and her spreaders got in the water but this done no damage till the port spreader sprung a leak and then the water commenced to come down into the hollow mast, and then we wus in a fix. The water rushed through the spreader into the mast until it was all filled up and something had to be done to pump the mast out—for hollow masts: is turrible dangerous when they get filled. Well, we sent a man down in the basement of the boat to pull the plug out of the mast, but he nor none of us could do it, and J don’t know what we would have done if it had not been for one of our men being from Kentucky and having a corkscrew with him. He pulled the cork out and that emptied the mast. When we started we had a companionway, but it got ‘so dark that we lost our companionway and then our gasket blew out and we could not see our compass and we could not light the gasket again. The only way we could see the compass was by the light water mark, and in them big waves this was hard to see. Well, the storm kept getting worse and worse and they all got turrible scared and it was pretty hard. Well, sir, after carrying away the forecastle back stay they was in awful bad shape, but they used the mizzen topping lift and that helped them out, but they bent a lot of ropes all out of shape and parted all their bedclothes, putting them into the hole, and then they lost all their shrouds, but the worst thing that happened to them was they got their gar- board streak soaking wet, and the man said it was the closest call he ever had and he never wanted another, al- though he had been all through the Detroit River rapids and cver the dangerous middle ground at Belle Isle, and he had been in the Detroit naval militia, too, and often said he had his life in both hands many times, but he didn’t want any more of that kind of experience, and he looked pretty tough, and he said he wanted a shave and then he would reform, and he needed it. SS 8 oo MAKING OF SUBMARINE CABLES. One of the great submarine telegraph cable-making works in Germany covers an area of 120,000 square yards, about three-quarters of which is under roof. Castings are produced of copper bronzes and aluminum; and in the mill three double sets of rolls, arranged.in two rows, re- duce within a few minutes the copper bars, mostly elec- trolytic American copper, to 300 yards of wire of 14-inch. The further reduction of the copper and bi-metal wires to fine wires of the smallest gauges is effected by means of diamond dies which yield wires two-thousandths part of an inch in diameter. The diamonds are mounted in SF HODGE &Cl ‘and the Amur river. THE MARINE RECORD. copper, which is. cast round them, pierced, and applied in multiple sets, consisting of a series of trays diminishing 1n size from the lowest to the top tray. The drawn wire is cleaned of oxide in baths of sulphuric acid and an- nealed in- special furnaces, unless to be employed hard drawn. Copper plates of oval shape are rolled in Krupp machines, and then converted into a long narrow ribbon by a machine which makes its cut near the circumference. The hot lead presses for the cable sheaths are of the Huber system. For the insulation tests, the pressure can be raised to 50,000 volts alternating. Stabilit is used for in- sulation.’ This flexible stabilit, owing to its high insulat- ing strength, can be applied in very .thin layers. In the halls for the preparation, the masticating, kneading and pressing of rubber and gutta-percha, the electric motor's are placed along the walls, and drive the respective rolls by means of long belts. Sulphur chloride is used for vul- canizing, and the vapors are drawn off from below. The rubber is applied to wires both by the tape method and the die method, which yields a seamless covering—En- gineering. SP OD a” CIRCLING THE GLOBE. Charles C. Fitzmorris, a boy who was sent around the world on a time race by the Chicago American newspaper, arrived in Chicago July 2oth, having made the tour in 60 days, 13 hours, 29 minutes and 42-4-5 seconds. The dis- tance covered by land and sea was 20,455 miles. His route was by way of the Siberian railroad as far as completed His record was as follows: By water— Miles. @bean Steamers oss os et oe eee eee 8640 Channel Doase ogee ae is Sa es ae 235 River Steamers a. fa cates ca eeetis aa ee eae 1100 PROD Aibece Slice cori cc sd cogs VR Cas eee Os 300 FRUSDORE et ee te ci ese Oe ee Uae es 75 Merry boats. fat Aes . sss cee el One eid 40 Totally cies cecieues vcsustacle ss wig Ov a eetean ee Renee cea 10,390 By mavroads: or lands. else voce. fis Dae 10,055 PRG tall ete eee tees cane aera Na chen Cpls mapa ra 20,455 The Russian minister of railroads estimates that when the Siberian road is completed the whole trip can be made in thirty-three days, little more than half the present time, providing only that the fastest trains are taken and there is no missing of connections. His estimate of the stages of the journey is: Days St: «Petersbune to” Viladivostoka %..: ses ee 10 WViadivostok to san) Pranciscoe .c25. ceases 10 Sane Prancisconto: News Ork wis... . sv. 0 © epibenteds 4% NeW Otc TO™ ok CIMEM: fcr. = ale) seetpidae: eleetsviic gel auessl «sei aeeys Bremen to. Sts. PeterspUne. o5:. foc ci. osc wearer te chia bus 14 RE OCA ee te Bee eee cc tsree Set ors GG wiyiars wha} 33 THE State Department has learned through Consul Kehl, at Stettin, that operations have begun on the proposed ship canal between St. Petersburg and the White Sea. The na- val port, Cronstadt (the entrance to St. Petersburg), is to be connected with the new naval harbor, Sorotskaja, on the White Sea, by a canal of sufficient breadth and depth to admit the passage of Russia’s largest cruisers. The ex- treme depth will be 31 feet, while the water surface will have a breadth of 200 feet. The length of the canal will be 963 kilometres (about 602 miles). SUN’S AMPLITUDES. The following approximate amplitudes of the Sun’s rising or setting will be given each week inthis column during the season of navigation. A second bearing may be taken by compass at sunset, by reversing the east bearing given for the nearest latitude, as the change in declination fora few hours makes but a slight difference in the true bearing of the Sun’s setting. [he bearing may be taken when the Sun’s center is on the horizon, rising or setting. The ele- ments which may be obtained by taking these amplitudes are the quantities known as local attraction, variation and deviation, or the total difference between compass and true, or geographical bearings. LAKE \ERIZ AND S. END LAKE MICHIGAN, LAT. 42° N ae ipa Bearing P’ts. Bearing Comp. Aug. .. EB. 25° N. =N. Sas Ney Aug. 2a NG SONG, oko —— NB ie an ..E.22°N.=N.6 E.=E.N.E. LAKE ONTARIO, Ss. END HURON. AND “een PORTION LAKE MICHIGAN, LAT. 44° Date. Amplitude. Bearing P’ts. ee Comp. Aug. 2....E. 25° N. =N. 5% H.=N. E by E. % E. Aug. 5.. ..H. 24° N. = N.5% HE. = N:. E by E. 2% EH. Aug. Qu... 23° N= NG. ho aN oe N. END LAKES HURON AND MICHIGAN, LAT. 46° N Date. Amplitude. Bearing P’ts. Bearing Comp. Aug. -2....H. 26° N. =N. 554 B. =N. E. by EH. 56 EH, Aug. 5....K. 25° N:=N. 5% EH. =N. E. by EB. % EH. ANUS 2 Optics. 2a Nk —ONe6 ee, she Nes, LAKE SUPERIOR, LAT, 48° N Date. Amplitude. Bearing P’ts. Bearing Comp. Aug. 2.,..H. 27° N. =N.5% E. =N. E. by E. 5% E. Aug. 5....E. 26° N. =N. 5% E.=N. E. by E. % E. Aug. 9.:..H..24° N. = N. 576 En NOE. by Ha E With a compass correct magnetic, the difference between the observed and true bearing or amplitude will be the vari- ation for the locality. Should there be any deviation on the course the vessel is heading at the time of taking the bear- ing, the difference between the observed and the true ampli- tude after the variation is applied will be the amount of de- viation on that course. If the correct magnetic bearing is to the right of the compass bearing, the deviation is easterly, if to the left, the deviation is westerly. ior i oo THE four-day-to-Europe steamer is now in evidence. The Deutschland, of the Hamburg-American line, leaving New York July 11, crossed to Plymouth at an average speed of 23.51 knots an hour, covering 3,082 miles in 5 days, 11 hours and 5 minutes. Had she taken the shorter Liverpool route she would have made the run over in 4 days and 18 hours. rds 3 aS , as ae =a ee ZA | ieee eS; ; Ei a MARVELOUS ‘, ny THE NEW BAUSCH 6 LOMB-ZEISS -ow Pied meres Zanes er STEREO Binocular Glasses. Used by the Armies and Navies of the World. , Invaluable for Tourists, Sportsmen and Every-day Use. Booklet Free. Bausch 6 Lomb Optical Co., Rochester, N. Y. New York. Chicago. 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