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Avcust 1, r9ot. THE MARINE RECORD. 15 THE SEA SERPENT LEAVES HOME TO FILL SUMMER ENGAGEMENTS. “Now, my dears,’’ said the widowed, sea serpent. as she called the children ‘and sat down to a light lunch of jet- tisoned bananas and jellyfish, ‘‘I must leave you and start for the Jersey coast. ark “But before I go I want you to listen to me. Pass the anemone salad, please. As you know, my first appearance this seasin is at Atlantic City, as usual, and I am booked solid right through the summer. They’re lighting kitchen fires with money in the States, and the whole push, from Illinois to Oklahoma, is: coming East to dally with the sad sea waves and the elusive nine spot, all of which means business for your mamma. ee “But beware, my dears, of tempting offers in my absence. Stay at home. There-are only-a-few of us left. Remember that it’s nicer here than playing Terre Haute and Pittsburg ‘fnatankcar. Your turn will come. a “After this season I shall rest for a year _in our cave near the gulf of Aden or else g@¢ to Australia, where I have prom- ‘ised.toappear in some new undulations. ~ Don’t worry about ‘mein my absence. The hotel men on the Atlantic circuit are my friends. They pay my acci- “dent insurance. I have confidence in them. And remem- ‘ber not to eat ‘any of those green crabs that poisoned your ;poor father.” ; So saying, she bade them goodby, and gazing on them ‘fondly with eyes that glistened like two washtubs full of ‘brass filings, she floated away. Then, suddenly stopping, ‘she called back to them: -- “Ts my dorsal fin‘om straight?”’ ° They nodded assent, and she disappeared amid the green shadows.—Life. REPORTED BY THE LOOKOUT. A new tug is building at Sturgeon Bay for Smith Bros. of Waukegan, and will be ready for work in a -hort time. The tug is 73 feet long and 15% feet béam, and’cost $7,000 Capt. Cameron of the steam:r Aletha, was summoned ‘Monday morning to appear at the police court Thursday for landing his boat at Brockville on Sunday. The case prom- ises to be an interesting one and they threaten a counter action against the town. This too, at the fag end of the nineteenth century. i : Many attempts are now being made to discover the North Pole by adventurous explorers, the last among them being Cept. Bernier of Quebec, who willtake with him strong kites fitted with cameras;.by which, even if he fails to get near the Pole, he proposes to take photographs of such points as he cannot reach. The success that has attended the use of the camera by the aid of kites at great heights leads him to believe that the method may be practicable in the Arctic regions. The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger calls attention to the fact that the world-famous dispatch of Commodore Perry reporting the battle of Lake Erie is not onrecord. According to all the popular accounts, Perry’s dispatch said: ‘‘We have met the enemy and they are ours,’’ followed by an enumeration of the force captured. This correspondent says that no such dispatch ever reached the Navy Department, and he quotes Perry’s report to the Secretary of the Navy, in which no such expression occurs, During the past two weeks 23 Norwegian steamships have been chartered for the West India fruit trade. Their charters are for periods varying from 12 months to five years, and are to trade from Jamaica, Cuba and Central American ports to Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore. The Eng- lish and American steamers, have been practically driven ont of the trale, The Scandinavians, not content with their conquests in the fruit trade are supplying tonnage for other lines of West India trade, particularly the Cuban coal trade and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Noah’s Ark is generally supposed to be the earliest craft of which we have any record, but there exists paintings of Egyptian vessels immensely older than the date 28j0 B. C., usua ly assigned to the Ark, being indeed, probably between 70 and 89 centuries old. Moreover there are now in exist- ence in Egypt boats which were built about the period the Ark wasconstructed. ‘These are, however, small craft, about 33 feet long, 7 or 8 feet wideand 2% to3 feet deep. They were discovered six years ago by the eminent French Egyptologist, M. J. Morgan, in brick vaults near Claire and were, probably, funeral boats. They are constructed of three — inch acacia and sycamore planks, dove-tailed together and fastened with trenails. They have floors but no ribs, ard, though nearly 5,000 years old, they held rigidly together after their supports had been removed. a Burning Wharf—Towage Services——The Coya, a steel steamship valued with her cargo, at $230,000, was moored in the Erie Basin to a pier, from which she was breasted off about twenty feet by two intervening barges. During the night the shed on the pier was set on fire by a burning steamer, and burned. Some small boats and other articles on the upper deck of the Coya took fire, but it was extin- guished by the ship’s own fire apparatus, and otherwise she was uninjured. After the shed had been burning for an hour or more, the steamer was towed out of the ship to a place of safety by’ libelant’s tugs, six of which partic- ipated, to a greater or less extent, in the service, which required about an hour. Held that, considering the fact that the ship was not at the time in present peril, $3,450 was a reasonable and proper allowance for the salvage services, to be divided between the tugs and their masters and crews, in proportion to the services rendered by each. The Coya, 108 Fed. Rep. (U. S.) 413. THe CuHase MacuHine Comp ENGINEERS AND MACHINISTS. MANUFACTURERS, UNDER THE CHASE PATENTS, OF , Fog Whistle Machines, Hoisting Engines, ‘Power and Diop Hammers, and other lachinery. 111 ELM STREET. TELEPHONE, MAIN 994. Steering Engines Engineers’ Supplies and General Jobbing. JOHN DONNELLY, SR., Pres. Automatic Towing Engines, CLEVELAND, O. Applied to the requirements a5 of the sailor. By Thos. Mc- LAKE OURS. Kenzie. eee 12 ty cloth, $1.50, by mail, prepaid. MECHANICS. ‘the Marine Record, Western For further particulars see ‘ Passenger Lines on the Lakes,” page 18. BETWEEN DETROIT AND CLEVELAND.— Detroit & Cleve- land Navigation Co., Detroit. 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