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THE MARINE ‘RECORD. SEPTEMBER -I9,. TQOI ESTABLISHED 1878. Published Every Thursday by THE MARINE RECORD PUBLISHING CO., Incorporated. C. E. RUSKIN, - - - - Manager. CAPT. JOHN SWAINSON,- - - - Editor. CLEVELAND, é CHICAGO, Western pee tbs Building. Royal. | Insurance Building. ix SUBSCRIPTION. One Copy, one year, postage paid, - - $2.00 One Copy, one year, to foreign countries, = - - $3.00 Invariably in advance. ADVERTISING. Rates given on apy on application. — All Coenmutitdaitons should be ‘ibe addressed to the Cleveland office, THE MARINE RECORD PUBLISHING 'CO., Western Reserve Building, Cleveland, 0. Entered at Cleveland Postoffice as second-class mail matter. “ No attention is paid to anonymous communications, but the wishes of contributors as to the use of their names will be scrupulously regarded. CLEVELAND, O., SEPTEMBER 19, 1901. TEESE ST TBA RR Ei EE AE 4 **It is God’s way, His will be done.’’ IN MEMORIAM. WM. McKINLEY, Twenty-fifth President of the United States, Died Saturday, September 14, 1901. Mor«e than usual care will be exercised against the per- nicious custom of “‘log rolling’? in the preparation of the river and harbor bill which is to be introduced in the House a winter. : OO DS OO THE save York Ship Building Co., Camden, N. J., lying opposite Philadelphia, Pa., is now one of the most important shipbuilding yards in the country, Work isat present being done upon ten large steel hulls and their engines, boilers, etc. OO oO oe LLoyp’s REGISTER statistics are quoted as showing that during the last three months while 224 vessels were removed from the list from various causes only 177 were launched. This looks like a loss, but it is only a sign of the evolution that i is going on in the marine world. The 177 vessels are reported to have four times as great a tonnage as those /that ceased to be available. This is the day of big and speedy carriers of both cargoes and passengers, and slow , small craft are fast becoming | obsolete. x : oe en {., ALL the recent triumphs of marine engineering to shorten the length of the voyage between here and the old world have not cut off at «stroke so many hours as: the invention of wireless telegraphy. Thus. the rua is shortened, in the _ sense of a break in the lack of communication with the shore .and of the. lack of news.of the day, by nearly or quite 24 hours, With messages flying after a ship when she sails, and with other messages to meet her while still 200 miles from her port, the feeling of being alone with the sea is one to be experienced for only a little more than four deye mule crossing the Atlantic ferry. ib irseae a THE recent,meeting at Milwaukee of the officials. of the Weather Bureau located in various parts of the United States ..... has brought to the attention of the people again the valuable ., service that is being done by this department of the,goyern- ment. . There is probably.no other branch) of) the:govern- mental service that is doing the good» atthe present time that is being accomplished by the Weather Bureau,;. Large sums of money and valuable lives-have. been saved.on the lakes and. much more on.the ocean. by. the..timely warnings of approaching danger ,on the part of the Weather Bureau. The people of this country owe much to the scientific gentle- men whose love for the work is more of an inducement for what they are doing than the meagre salaries they are paid by the government. Ninety per cent. of the predictions for specific localities are proven correct, while the forecasts made for a whole state or a large section of country are cer- tainly wonderful in the nearness with which the weather is predicted. , ——— i Oo THE policy of the combine interested in purchasing the British-owned Leyland line, or that branch of it necessary for the fulfillment of the scheme afoot, is to build upon the already established trade and prestige of the Leyland line by pushing forward an extensive and elaborate building plan which shall place in the running ships of the highest order, capable of capturing no mean proportion of the busi- ness now carried on by the great Atlantic lines, and this is no insignificant matter, supposing the subsidy’ bill to be carried through at.the next session of Congress. It is said that immense, , palatial liners and leviathan’ carriers are to be built and put on the route, and that passage rates are to be cut down, and indeed many other, things are talked about concerning the intentions of the Morgan trust, and all of which are possible of development along the ‘ines suggested, eee ne EEEEETEEEEEEEIEEEEEEEEEEEEE - In the current number of the North American Review? Mr. Boutell, a:member of Congress, has an article in which the changed conditions and the possibility of shipbuilding interests being promoted by the abrogation: of the Rush- Bagot treaty are dwelt upon.’ Mr. Boutell, however, does not advocate the entire abrogation of the understanding, and he sees that it would be unfortunate both for Canada and the United States if they began to create rival navies on the lakes, but he holds that it would be ‘beneficial to both coun- tries if they were to remove the present ban on the construc- tion of naval vessels. He would maintain the provision that war ships should not be kept upon the lakes after com- pletion unless a few training ships were permitted, and he expresses: the opinion that it is not likely that Canadians would object to a reasonable change. , : a One of the speakers at the convention of the weather fore- casters in Milwaukee urged the advisability of allowing greater latitude to the men who, make up and send out the jocal forecasts. He said better results could be obtained if the forecasters were not held down by hard and fast rules. This is no doubt true, toa certain extent, and it is also pal- pable that the present chief of the Weather Bureau is well enough informed, aggressive enough to change old rules, and professionally pliable enough to adopt suggestions for the betterment of the service even to the smallest detail. It is furthermore a foregone conclusion that Prof. Moore has ‘a better knowledge of the men and matters under his juris- “amg than any of his predecessors ever enjoyed. ab Wie big te TA ete ee WHEN well navigated and full powered steamers deliber- ately shape a course that lands them one on top of the other on the rock-bound coast of Cape Race it is time to learn something about the special characteristics of the locality. The total loss of eight steamers in six months and two ‘occurring on consecutive days, leads one to inquire what particular mill race sets in towards Cape Race during thick weather, or what other distinct and, special attraction lures vessels to their doom. The Newfoundland Minister of ‘Marine ought surely ‘to be able to suggest some measures preventative. oa rrr Lawson, the owner of the yacht Independence, has'given orders for the breaking up of his boat and the conversion of her metal into a monument to commemorate the incident of his being refused permission to enter the craft in the trial races of ,the New York Yacht Club «for. the! bois ih a defender of the American cup. ; RO ‘country, exclusive of continuing © contracts, DETROIT:& CLEVELAND: NAVIGATION CO. 4 »-(MRy:-DAVID CARTER). apse.) tT ‘The unusual dictinesion of having served one cteaphialpe for half a,century can ibe claimed by David Carter, general ‘man- vagenof the-Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation:Cor!):” |}) Hex began,at ithe-bottem) of.the:dadder whenj<in 1852, ‘he shipped. as .clerk aboard, the, steamer BKorest City, andj step by step;.due to his untiring ¢fforts'and» zeal, he has climbed jto, the, tep: until now, after: haying, served one company. for fifty. years, he is:the general manager of the line and was » recently,selected,to\a, similar position with: the. new ‘Detroit .& ‘Buffalo; Transit. Co.,’ w nich will, be eS ‘summer, ada Mr. Carter is a nell: made man, ace ip disci fpr all he has made, striving with that-same untiring effort: which has marked his career from the beginning: to:make the tiost of.every advantage and stopping at nothing short of success and the mark. at which he;has aimed. .' siya sor He was born in Ohio City, now the West Side, Cleveland, February 27, 1832... When young Carter was but eight years old his father died, leaving.a widow and four small children. In 1843 his mother remarried and removed to iSt.. Clair county, Mich., where he lived, working upon a farm until 1845, when he went to Sandusky to live and worked’ with his uncle, Capt John M, Coyle. , While there he ‘attendéd -winter schools, but when sixteen years old he took’ to ‘the lakes and went‘sailing for a year in various capacities. During the several.succeeding years he filled the position of bookkeeper for various firms’ and acquired considerable expertness in that line, until in 1852, he went to’,Detroit; to accept the position of clerk on the steamer Forest City, then building for the D, & C.:line. . This position Mr: Carter held until 1861,:when he became agent. for the line, and siti¢e ‘that time his management of the: line has béen ‘continous. The D. & C. line, under his management, has becOme one of the best paying properties.on the Great Lakes.) * When the company was reorganized .in 1868 Mc. Carter was made -secretary and. afterwards saintly oo the position which he now. holds. sropeeng cbodbe ee eee ties RIVER AND. HARBOR: ESTIMATES. > 0. The Chief of Engineers, Corps of Engineers, U.S. A.,'has made a compilation. of the estimates of the engineers for rivers and harbors improvements to be constructed during the year ending June 30, 1903." Thesé estimates produce ie following results: - Total estimates of the engineers in different parts of the try, ; $33,299, 169; continuing contract estimates $6,289,204; under Mississippi river commission $3,695,000; under Missouri river a sion $1,065,200; total $44,348 404, . The total estimates of last year were $44,292,770. The e es- timates of the Secretary. of War including continuing con- tracts and the Mississippi and Misouri rivers was $33,881,317. The estimates of.the Chief of: Engineers and of the-Secre tary of War, to be made to Congress, have not been compiled: »: CAPT. COLLIER RESIGNS. Capt. W. A. Collier who has been géeneral-manager of the Great Lakes Towing Co. sincé it was organized, tendered his resignation some time ago and at a meeting of the Board of Directors held at Cleveland on Wednesday it was accepted. His successor has not yet been appointed. Capt. Collier had much to do with organizing the tug trinst. With Mr. T. F. Newman, who is president’'and treasurer of the company, he secured options on all the leading tug lines at the lake ports. - He also assisted in inspecting the: boats and fixing the pricés that were paid for the property. ‘At the first meeting of the stockholders he was elected general- manager and he appointed all the local managers at Ports between Buffalo and Duluth. Capt. Collier is one of the oldest tug men on the lakes. For many years he was’ manager of the Vessel Owners’ Tow- ing Co. of this city, and when the Ashtabula Tug Co, ‘was organized he was elected“manager of that company also: ‘He was always fair in‘ his‘dealings with the men ‘in’ his eniploy, and the’ different lines ‘he has seers Pe little time: of er ie A ieee trouble.’ ee a ollier is one-o e.0 paper Association, .. For many dest member sof the Ship tary of the organization and is now grand treasurer, His business during the past ‘fifteen years has taken him to every vest opie aes ‘atid thete is nota more eae men in Capt. Collier will take s a rest. fora few, months ‘and -will probably not engage in business aga of the year. ~ Be gain until after the feat