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NOVEMBER 7, I9OI. THE MARINE RECORD. 13 SSS sss eA ga De Eo ead er NOTES. Rear-ApmirAy Crowninshield, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, will be succeeded by Rear-Admiral H. C. Tay- lor in December. The Olympia will:go into commission December 16, and Admiral Crowninshield will use that vessel as.a flag-ship on the European station. A SOMEWHAT peculiar item reaches us from Ottawa stat- irig that an important patent connected with St. Lawrence navigation has been carried through the patent branch, and the patent submitted to Minister of Public Works Tarte, by whom it will be laid before the cabinet. ‘The patent is designed to do away with lighthouses, buoys and the entire paraphernalia for night navigation between Montreal and Quebec, and substitute a submerged electric system. ‘The system will be applicable to all inland navigable waters. The idea is to sink an electric cable in the center of the navigable channels, with power transmitted from a power house at Montreal. Lines of colored lights will appear at or above the water level, each side of the channel, the lights on one side being of a different color from those on the other side. They will, it is said, be supported by. cork floats. It is reported that at a meeting of the directors of the Austrian Lloyd line the question of, new’ vessels for the fleet received consideration. The addition of three large steamers is shortly expected, and it is intended to proceed with the construction of four others, the cost of which is to be defrayed out of the fresh issue of preference capital. Notwithstanding this increase the .directors believe that they will be compelled to at once enter into negotiations with English shipping companies with a view to the ac- quisition of further vessels to meet the requirements of the traffic. The company considers that serious competition has been averted by the failure of the German Levant line to absorb the undertaking of the AYgean Shipping Com- pany (Courtgi and Co.), although it is thought that rivalry in the Adriatic may shortly be expected to take place. question of establishing a new line to South Africa, which has received attention in the past, is not to be proceeded with at the present time. Some of the German shipping companies make a prac- tice of abstainin~ from publishing in, their annual balance- sheets any statement as to the amount written off for de- preciation of the steamers, this being-apparently due, re- marks the Financial Times, to a desire to withhold informa- tion from competitive lines. The practice, which is fol- lowed by the Hamburg South American Company, the German Australian Company, and the German Levant Line, has occasionally given rise to severe critcism in Ger- man financial circles, and a shareholder of the Australian Steamship Company some time ago brought an action - against the company for amplification of the balance-sheet in the sense indicated. ‘The register judge decided in fa- vor of the applicant, and this decision was confirmed by the Land Gericht, but the Oberland Gericht has just re- versed this ruling nd held that the balance-sheet was not deficient. As no further appeal is possible, the law as now interpreted legalizes the positon taken up by the three companies, whose action is not regarded by the Berlin Bourse with any favor. GrEAtT BRITAIN with her colonies owns nearly one-half of the total tonnase belonging to the marine of forty nations, OF 14,000,000 tons out of a total of 20,000,000 tons. ‘This is divided among 28,350 vessels, of which 10,838 sail under The: the British flag. The English sailing fleet is sensibly de- creasing, and represents, with 2,000,000 tons, only about one-third of the sailing vessels of the world. On the other hand, Great Britain shows progress in her fleet of mer- chant steamers, with a tonnage of 12,000,000, all other ° countries giving a total of only 10,000,c00 tons. With re- gard to dimensions, it is stated that England has 1,600 steamers with a tonnage of over 3,000 tons; Germany, 127; the United States, 120; France, 60. For vessels of excep- tional dimensions—exceeding 10,000 tons—England really has the first rank, with 24 of these immense transports; Germany has 21. Is there anything in luck? The facts point to the danger of naming any British warship after’a snake or a stinging thine of any kind. Within the last six weeks the Viper and the Cobra, both of them engined on the turbine prin- ciple, have been wrecked. ‘The destroyer lost during the recent, manceuvres. was the fourth Viner that has been wrecked out of six Vipers that have hoisted the King’s penant since the Britsh had a navy. A Viper was wrecked in 1780. A Vipere, a French prize, commissioned into the British service was wrecked in'1793. A third was wrecked in 1797, and the fourth was wrecked last month off Guern- sey. The Serpent wrecked 11 years ago, was the fourth British man-of-war of that name to meet that. fate. T'wo Snakes have been lost, one in 1781, and one in 1847. ‘Three. Lizards have been wrecked; one in 1515, one in 1696 and one in 1843. An Adder was lost in 1806, and an Alligator in 1782, a Crocodile in 1784 and a Rattlesnake in 1781. ‘wo Dragons and a Basilisk may also be added to the list. ‘The conclusion is tolerably clear that the reptile class is un-. lucky. Of the poor fellows who lost their lives onthe Cobra no fewer than half had been wrecked in the Viper the month before.—Arnold White, in Philadelphia» Public Ledger: rr oor or Shipping—Demurrage.—Where a charter required the ship.to receive cargo “from the charterer’s shippers,” and provided that lay days should not commence until she was “in evry respect ready to load or discharge,” such days for loading do not commence to count until she is not only ready to Joad, but is at the berth where the shipper’s cargo is lying, where she is delayed in reaching such berth by the rules of the port, and without fault of the charterer. Bacon vs. Ennis, 110 Fed. Rep. (U. S.) 404. ————$ owen. —_—_ Power of Congress—Crews of Foreign Ships.—A foreign vessel is a part of the territory of the country to which she belongs, and, although she is subject to the laws of the United States in certain respects while in our ports, Con- gress has no power to control her domestic affairs, such as the terms on which she ships her crew, or the time or man- ner of the payment of:their wages, which are matters that properly concern the ship and crew alone, subject to:’the law of her flag. The Eudora, r10 Fed. Rep. (U. S.) 430. or or ior TREASURY DECISIONS. ISSUE AND SURRENDER OF MARINE DOCUMENTS—QUARTERLY ACCOUNTS OF TONNAGE. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, BurEAU oF NAVIGATION, Wasuinecron, D. C., Ocober 24, 1901. To collectors of customs and others: Issugk oF Martné Documents.—The serial numbers on marine documents must commence anew with No. 1 on July 1 of each year. Separate series of serial numbers will be used as follows: ’ ; (a) For registers (not generally used on northern fron- tiers and western rivers). ( (b) For enrollments. (¢) For’ licenses issuing to: vessels not enrolled (not used on northern’ frontiers). (d) For license issuing to enrolled vessels. (e) For licenses issuing to enrolled yachts. (f) For licenses issuing to yachts not enrolled. ' Every register, enrollment, and license to a vessel not enrolled should: contain the date and place of original building and a citation of the previous marine document. ‘This citation snould be in the following form: JR. E. Gusert PR, TAR. Pe H, tes Be aor bicaea Nor 80, issued at Bath, June 1, 1%95, propertv chaneed.” (In- sert the cause of surrender.) The year and day of the month, should be in figures in the citation, and the name of the district should be omitted. SURRENDER oF Marine DocumMEN’s.—Every marine docu- ment surrendered should be so indorsed as to show the date, place, and~cause of surrender; and on the next line below, the number and description of the new mariné paper issuing. Copies of lost marine papers should be indorsed ‘im the ‘same manner as originals, with.the addition of’the words, “Copy; original lost.” ' The monthly abstract (Cat. No. 340), together with all ‘marine documents surrendered elsewhere than at the port of issue, or, if there be no transactions, (Cat. No.. 333), must be sent promptly at the end of each month. ~ Neither of these abstracts shouldbe sent in the package ‘with the quarterly accounts of tonnage. Quarrerty. Accounts oF TonNAGE—The quarterly ac- counts should embrace: “ 1. A transmitting letter (Cat. No. 334), and abstracts for each, division, mentioned in Catalogue No. 334, under which there have been transactions during the quarter, and Catalogtie: No. 332, when there is an outstanding balance but'no transactions’ during’the quarter. 2. Separate abstracts (Cat..No. 325) of vessels built, lost, abandoned, sold foreign, wrecked and repaired (for- eign véssels), and an‘abstract: of ‘changes of home port, rig, tonnage, dimensions, etc., when there have been .transactions under these titles during the quarter. 3. ° Duplicates of: all registers (Cat. No. 335), and en- rollments issued (not to have paper seals). The existing department regulations do not require that duplicates of license issuing shall be sent. 4. All registers, enrollments, and license surrendered during the quarter, together with indorsed copies of lost documents. Poli i The complete jaccounts’ of tonnage for each quarter should be forwarded in one package (unless otherwise in- structed), with the transmitting letter. (Cat. No. 334) on top. The duplicate registers should be arranged in the order of their serial numbers without regard to the ab- stracts to which they belong, the smallest number first, and the duplicate enrollments'in a similar manner. The surrendered registers, enrollments, and licenses should, _however, be arranged with reference to the abstracts to which they belong-and in the order in which they are sur- rendered on the abstracts. E. T. CHAMBERLAIN, Commissioner. Approved: H. A. Tayzor, Assistant Secretary. een GS ee ; THE NEW BAUSCH & LOMB-ZEISS STERE Binocular Glasses. Used by the Armies and Navies of the World. Invaluable for Tourists, Sportsmen and Every-day Use. —_ Booklet Free. Bausch ¢ Lomb Optical Co., Rochester, N. Y. New York. 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