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OCTOBER 31, I9goI. CHICAGO. Special Corresponaence to The Marine Record. The Frederick B. Wells, built at the South Chicago yards of the American Ship Building Co., registers 4,897 tons gross and 3,630 tons net. . The Lockwood, after being ashore at Milwaukee and Jre- leased, will have to stand a repair bill of about’ $75,000. A part of this will be changed to wrecking expenses. Grain rates were advanced on Wednesday to 13% cents for wheat and 1% cents for corn to Lake Erie. The rates now seem as if 134 will be paid on wheat before the end of the week. The following meteorological observationsare furnished by the office of the U. S. Weather Bureau for the week ending Oct. 30: Prevailing wind directions for the week, N. E.; highest velocity 38, N. E., Oct. 27. Mean temperature for the week, 56°; highest temperature, 82°, on 23d; lowest 42°, on 25th. Itis understood that the steamers Williams and Kaston of the Williams Transportation Co. are to be sold as soon as the contract for the company’s new boat is placed. The City of Kalamazoo, it is said, will be practically rebuilt dur- ing the winter and given more cabin room for the purpose of using her as a night boat. The Chicago branch of the Lake Seamen’s Union has ad- vanced wages on steamers 25 cents per day to take effect in accordance with action taken by the unions at Buffalo, To- ledo, Milwaukee and Ashtabula, and is intended to prevail all over the lakes. Union sailors on steamers will receive $1.75 for the rest of the season. Wages for sailors on schooners are $2.00. ‘While bound down the river with a cargo of grain from the north branch on Wednesday the steamer Roswell P. Flower came to a sudden stop on La Salle street tunnel. After working on the steamer for half-an-hour she was re- leased by the tugs Green and Dickinson. Water in the river is at a low stage on account of the strong southerly winds, and it is said that the drainage canal is not helping the depth anything as the inflow is certainly being taken away. The first waterspout on the east shore of Lake Michigan was sighted between South Haven and Saugatuck last Thursday. Tons of water in the form ofa round column shot up into the air fully fifty feet. The little steamer Ale- bar, which operates between Saugatuck and South Haven, suddenly encountered the waterspout. Tons of water fell upon her decks and fora few minutes it was thought the boat would sink under the weight of water. No sea prevail- ed and the steamer continued on her journey to South Haven. The Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., of this city, has added catalogue No. 15 to their list of pamphlets pertaining to pneumatic appliances. The illustrations show the tools in operation on steamships, structural work, pressed steel cars, salt mines, boilers, etc. The company announces the award of a gold medal for pneumatic tools and a silver medal for the exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition. The catalogue should be sent for by those interested in pneumatic tools, though I presume that the company has fairly well covered the ground inso faras shipbuilders, engine builders and boiler works are concerned. A notice to vesselmen has been sent out by Isham Ran- dolph, chief engineer of the drainage canal, warning against loading too deep for the south branch of the Chicago river. The notice reads as follows: ‘‘The past midsummer level of the lake gave a good stage of water over the Washington street tunnel, but the annual recession has reduced that stage to an extent that should be carefully noted by vessel owners loading in the south branch of the river. The depth over the tunnel in the west draw is only seventeen feet with the water at datum, and that depth for a width of only twenty-eight feet. Conditions in the east draw are much worse.’’ The formal investigation of the charges preferred against local Steamboat Inspectors Richardson and Moore by the Barry Bros. was begun by special agent of the Treasury Department, J. J. Crowley. The hearing of this evidence will go on this week and then the inspectors will be given a chance to make their defense. Usually affairs of this kind are investigated by the supervising inspectors, but an excep- tion has been made in this case. It is not likely that Mr. Crowley will make known any of his findings, but will report directly to the Treasury Department at Washington. The general workings of this branch of the Treasury De- partment under Capt. Dumont are held asa sort of a one man secret service bureau and politics pulls like a plaster, - or half a dozen of them. It is said that the trouble arose THE MARINE RECORD. over the action taken against the steamers Robert EB. Burke and State of Michigan. C, H. Westcott, of Detroit, super- vising inspector for this district, was in Chicago last week, but gave no hint of his mission to people outside of the inspector’s office. The rules of the service forbid the local inspectors from discussing department matters, but it is generally believed that the charges have not been given to Richardson and Moore for their answer. It is expected that the Lake Superior lumber rates will go up to $3.50 per M feet in the course of afewdays. The sea- son is getting late and shippers have plenty of material to ship before navigation closes, and after Nov. 1 it is expected that the higher rates will be paid without any grumbling. At lower lake ports it is said that nearly all lumbermen are short of the commodity and are beginning to rush in their supply for the winter months. Lake Michigan rates have advanced from 1234 to 25 cents per M feet within a week, and there is a bigger demand for sailing vessels than can be supplied. Menominee, which is the basing point for this lake, is paying $1.75 per M feet on dry pine cargoes. Hard wood loads are now commanding $2.50 and cedar ties and posts have advanced 1 cent and ¥% cent respectively, to 9 cents and 5 cents. —— or oro DULUTH-SUPERIOR. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. Compared with what Duluth usually expects in the wheat trade during the fall months, this fall can come pretty near being called a dead one. Some charters have been made here this week at $1.10 on ore and 3 cents on grain. Detention at discharging ports is the worst feature in the business just now, as it has-been all ‘season. About 14,000,000,000 feet of lumber went up in a blaze last week at the Alexander-Edgar Co.’s mills, Iron River. The fire engines from Superior were invaluable in prevent- ing the fire from spreading, Itis estimated that the loss will amount to $300,000, as over 400 piles of lumber. were burned. The intermediate crank-pin on the steamer Frank Rocke- feller broke when that boat was fifteen miles from here on her way to Lake Erie witha cargoof iron ore. The signals of distress hoisted on the disabled boat were seen and a tug was sent from here in response to a telephone ‘message. Re- pairs will take two or three days and she may not get away before Monday next, though every effort will be made to have her ready to leave on Saturday. TT DD Ol SvOl LETTERS AT DETROIT MARINE POST OFFICE. OCTOBER 30, I9oI. : To get any of these letters, addressees or their authorized agents will apply at the general delivery window or write to the postmaster at Detroit, calling for ‘‘advertised’’ matter, giving the date of this list and paying one cent. Advertised matter is previously held one week awaiting delivery. Itis held two weeks before it goes to the Dead Letter Office at Washington, D. C. Baxter Wm. T., Hattie Lumby Geo. W. Booth Geo.-—2, Briton Lyons Robt. W. Bullock Jas., City of Genoa Mills Jos., Spencer Baufford Ed., Wyoming Malott J. W., Fedora Ball Fred., Minneapolis Mercier Calix, German Balfour Jas., Neshoto Mountain James, Montgomery Brown Daniel D. Martin James, Case Cosgriff John, R. Fulton McEachern Alex., Bermuda Comairi Jas. McCarthy Wm, Carter Frank, S. Mitchell McLeod Alex., Pabst Cottrell Frank, Sauber McLarty A. J. Campbell Edw., Quito Neri John Corbett Jerry, Hoyt Nielson Niels M., Ed. Kelly Cannen Jno. Nilli Loo, Haskell Duell Walter, Spencer Noel Jos., Yosemite Driscoll P. Palmatteer Geo., Armenia Dawson Harry Padden Elmer Danners Richard Rose Frank, Continental Daniels Wm., Manola Randall J. D., Maricopa Kaston Fred. Runnum Chas., Donaldson Fuller Mrs. Della Rossman Jno. J. Full Otto Rogers J. C. Harper Ed., Harvard Rattray Capt. Andrew Halliman H. T. Shrader J., Bangor Hill Will Shaw James Hanson Tony Taylor Edwin, Baldwin Hatch Ester J.-2, Shenandoah Tisdale Edwin, D. P.—4-134 Hinman Mrs. E.-2, Colonial Verner Mrs. M., Mowatt Johnson Jno. C., R. Richards Wilson Geo. B. ss Geo. Warner Clarence Kervin Geo. H. Welch Chas. Law Luie, Bradley Warwick Frank Lyons M. J. Welch Geo.-2, Rees Leunceford Geo. Williams Jno., Manola F, B. DICKERSON, P. M. NOTES. THE article written by Capt. William J. Goodman, on “‘the gradual disappearance of the sailing-ship’’ and published in this issue of the Recorp from the columns of the Com- mercial News, Sam Francisco, is worthy the attention of all our readers, | . JENKINS BRos.’ valves, manufactured of the best steam metal and guaranteed, have been awarded the following prizes for their goods at the Pan-American Exposition just closing at Buffalo, N. Y.: Gold medal ‘for Jenkins’ Bros.’ valves; gold medal for Jenkins’ ’96 packing; two silver medals for rubber specialties. THE Shelby Steel Tube Co. advise us that after Novem- ber I the sales office of the company will be consolidated and transferred to the Empire Building, Pittsburg, Pa. The seamless stec] tube portion of the business is reported as gaining steadily in favor and demonstrating the excellence and superiority of their manufacture. ONLY two of the nations having any commercial marine had a lower record than the United States in the tonnage of shipping passing through the Suez canal for the year 1900. This country stood twelfth in the list, the record being but six-tenths of one per cent. of the shipping passing through this great waterway. Turkey and Belgium are the only two nations with a more meagre showing in this connection. Japan, Italy, Spain, Denmark and Norway exceeded our record. Great Britain is credited with 56.7 per cent. and Germany with 15 per cent. A GOLD medal has been awarded The Continental Iron Works, of New York, Borough of Brooklyn, for the Morison suspension boiler furnaces exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition. These furnaces are in great favor for land and marine boilers. Their form of construction offers the great- est possible resistance to distortion or collapse and a freedom from leakage not to be obtained in furnaces which consist of sectional flanged and riveted cylinders, reinforcing rings in- terposed between the flanges, or any other method. The Continental Iron Works are the sole manufacturers in this country of the Morison suspension furnace. THE first submarine boat built for the British Navy was launched at Barrow on Oct. 2. It is one of five, which have been ordered by the Admiralty, and the construction of the vessel is treated with as much secrecy as possible, no an- nouncement of the launching having been made to the pub- lic. A new implement of naval warfare, said to be more valuable than the submarine boat, has engaged the interest of English experts. It is called the ‘‘Actinaut’’ and is de- scribed as ‘‘a kind of torpedo,”’ containing motive power operated and controlled in a manner-analogous to the Bren- nan and Sims-Edison torpedoes. But, instead of wires being employed, the impulse is communicated by a system analo- gous to wireless telegraphy, and the operator may be on shore, on board ship or even aloft in a balloon. The appar- atus is small and light, and can be fixed almost anywhere. DO ODD TREASURY DECISIONS. WHEN IMPORTATION IS COMPLETE—ISSUANCE OF PERMIT FOR DELIVERY. GooDs IN BOND—LIABILITY TO CHANGE OF Duty.—As long as goods remain in the custody of the officers of the government they are to be deemed in a ‘“‘bonded warehouse,” so as to be affected by any new legislation in relation to duties which Congress may adopt.—Hartranft vs. Oliver (125 U. S., 525; 8 Sup. Ct. Rep. 958) followed. WHEN IMPORTATION IS COMPLETE. When the govern- ment ceases to exercise control over imported merchandise, and delivers it over to the importer, the act of importation is complete, and the rights of both the government and the importer become fixed and determined, and will be unaf- fected by a change in the rate of duties. ISSUANCE OF PERMIT OF DELIVERY.—The issuance of a permit for delivery to the merchant of his imported goods, whereby he is enabled to withdraw them without further permission of the officers of the customs, is, in lega! effect, a constructive delivery of the merchandise and brings the custody of the government toan end.—A change in the rate of duties occurring thereafter will not affect such mer- chandise. UNAUTHORIZED ISSUANCE OF COASTING LICENSE.—It seems that if a collector of customs, without authority of law, grants a coasting license to a schooner to proceed to another port of entry, and the vessel so proceeds and discharges her cargo, the act of thus making an illegal voyage does not affect the dutibility of the cargo. Before the U. S. General Appraisers at New York, October 17, I90I. : Se A A The Lachine canal will, until the close of navigation, open for traffic on Sundays, as well as week days. This is for the purpose of transferring the cargoes of grain and lumber to the ocean vessels, so that the latter will not be delayed dur- ing the severe weather.