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noewine fi igo). EstABLisHED:, 1878, PusiisHep Every ‘THURSDAY BY _ THE MARINE RECORD PUBLISHING Ce. Incorporated. rf eer RusKIN........ DROSS Goma one octet viteet eg Manager Chri! Foun Swanson ci. bo ls oo a ear Editor ‘CHICAGO. 1 GpavELAND, Royal Insurance Building. Western Reserve Building. ” bee SUBSCRIPTION, One copy, one Wear, postage palds 0 fb... ee tie eee $2.00 One copy, one year, to foreign countries............. $3.00 Invariably in advance. ADVERTISING. ’ Rates. given. on application. All communications, should be addressed to the Cleveland eae office, ae a Tae, ‘Marine Recorp Pustisuine Co., 1 ‘Western Reserve Building, Cleveland, O. Abies Entered at Cleveland Postoffice as second-class an matter. No attention is paid to anonymous coninictcations, but the wishes of | ‘contributors as to the use’ of their names will be’ scrupulously regarded. i -)“GLEVELAND, O., NOVEMBER 14, 1901. “AMERICAN OWNED TONNAGE. asthe report of Hon. E. T. Chamberlain, Commissioner of Navigation, says that American tonnage has now attained practically the maximum of 1861, 40 years ago. The fig- ures of 1901, compared with; 1861, show an increase in coasting trade vessels from 2,704,544 tons to 4,582,683 tons, two-thirds: of this increase being on the Great Lakes; a decrease in foreign trade vessels: from 2,496,894 tons to 879,595 tons, and a decrease in whaling and fishing vessels from 338,375 to61,940 tons! Of the total tonnage, 3,623,201 tons “are. wooden vessels and only 1,901,017 tons are iron and, ‘steel... Great. Britain, launched 1,440,000 tons of. steel vessels i in 1900. Phere are some things that seem to be not quite in ac- cordance: with ‘our national standing, when it is stated that “Although: “registered American: vessels increased 62,435 tons: during the year, Ametican vessels carried only eight and. two-tenths: per cent. of American exports and imports, thexsmallest:percentage in the country’s history. The fleet ofsocean steamers in foreign trade, the report says, is too ‘small to be!compared with that of foreign nations. The ‘fleets: of each of the four large British and German steam- ship, corporations, exceed the. American fleet in tonnage, mileage and. business.” oe The report further: says: ‘heaton ie ee owns fully 670,000 tons of steamers under foreign flags, which in actual; carrying power exceed all American vessels now ae engaged. in foreign trade. The War and Navy Departments also, BW, 126,847 gross tons. of, foreign built transports and colliers,” PpraateaN ge @he. donviete built. ney décrmsesred in the United States during» jhhe, 3 last ‘fiscal ‘year, comprised 1,580 vessels of 483,499 .gross tons... Fighty-nine steel.merchant vessels, of 355,045 ° gross tons, valued -at- about $36, 000,000, are under construction or contract. Besides these, 71 naval vessels, 281,148. tons ‘displacement, are building. In this work, 44 plants, with, a capital of about aac 900,¢ 009, eaploying abouk ind men, are Saco cae “We hals Jotig: ‘Deen’ heralded that the era’ for. jamming the wihd with canvas a ‘as a means. of propulsion: had been’ wiped out, « of ‘the, field: ‘of commerce;and, that, as a factor in the oversea, catkysoe trade.of the world the. sailing. vessel had been relegated to the bye-gone. crease in proportion to their size. ‘taken, went’ ‘overboard soon after her rescue. THE MARINE RECORD While as a general rule; steam has supérséded sail, there is’ still lucrative employment to be found for the sailing . craft.and according to,the late, eminent spiehyslgets Arthur Sewall, there always will be; : Without. questioning the cane DEE of. ail a better of wood or steel, the turning out of five to seven masted, fore and. aft rigged vessels, seems now to be quite in favor on the:coast. It has, been found -by practical. ,experience that. the fixed, charges of vessels of this type do not in- The six-masted schoon- ers have been cheaper to handle ner ton of freight carried than the smaller craft, and now a still larger type has been laid down at Quincy, Mass.—a seven-masted schooner with the freight carrying capacity of a moderate. sized ocean liner, or say 6.300 tons, to be.used as a collier in the New England coasting trade. — a So OOOO MORE LEGISLATION NEEDED. In the annual report of James A. Dumont, supervising inspector general of steam vessels of the United States, it is shown that there were eighty less vessels inspected this year than last. ‘The total number inspected this year was 9,173. Mr. Dumont also includes in the report a number of recommendations which will be formulated in a bill to be presented to the next session of Congress. These will include the extension of the inspection service to cover craft other than steam and numerous other devices for the safety of the public traveling on sea and lake. The num- ber of lives lost in the jurisdiction of the steamboat in- spection service during the year was 340, or 190 more than for the previous year. This includes the 127 lost with the Rio Janiero at San Francisco in February last. $e or A RECOGNITION OF HEROISM. Hon. I. E. Burton, M. C., chairman of the house com- mittee on rivers and harbors, had a pleasant duty to per- form last Saturday at Cleveland in presenting Capt. William Wacker, 56 Bazetta street, Cleveland, with a life saving medal for an act of bravery carried out 14 years. ago and which resulted in rescuing 10 lives from drowning. The medal was sent to Congressman Burton by Secre- tary Gage. In making the presentation Mr. Burton said: “This speaks for itself... Your. act, the government be- lieves, was as noble as any ever done upon the field of battle and it delights to honor you with this token of a nation’s gratitude to a real hero, in caring for members of society. You risked your life for others, and in the face of what appeared to be certain death saved them from the sea, It is a personal pleasure to have the honor of handing you this medal. *“Thanks are also due to your attorneys, for the depart- ment writes me that. the evidence in the case was prepared in a manner following its rules to a letter. Unless the de- tails are as properly attended to as they have been in your case, it takes years to get the tangles straightened out.” Mr. Burton then read a signed letter from Secretary Gage in which the facts of the case were reviewed and the added testimonial of the department couched in the follow- ing language: “The extraordinary hazard incurred by you in effecting this remarkable result, is shown by the circumstance that the spars were in imminent danger of being destroyed. and that the mizzen mast, from which the woman was ( The force of the gale, the violent swaying of the masts, the unusually cold weather, and the fact that you performed the feat un- aided, shows the act to have been one of such an extreme and heroic dating to the peril of your life, as, in the opinion of the department, entitles you to the highest honor provided by the law, the gold life-saving medal ac- companying this letter.” The medal is a handsome one, and has a large intrinsic value. The front is engraved with a relief representing life-savers making.a rescue, while on the reverse is a ceno- taph surmounted by an American eagle with Columbia on one side and the American flag on the other. It is en- -graved with appropriate inscriptions. It should be mentioned ‘that the firm of attorneys alluded to in so complimentary a manner in the foregoing is com- posed of W. J. and George W. Shaw, 505 Society for Say- ings, Cleveland. Messrs. Shaw secured:'the evidence, ‘put it in'the proper form:and ‘sent it tothe department.’ Then they called the attention of Congressman’ Burton to the matter and he saw that there was no Mee in its considera- tion, 2 NOVEMBER 14, I9OI.. LAKE FREIGHT RATES. Ss In the monthly summary of the commerce of the faikes for September, issued ‘by the: Buren of Statistics, the as lowing. freight: rates are found: P The ttaffic taken account of in the following tables,i« eXe)> cept that reported as passing through the Sault, Ste. Marie canals, is eoastwise traffic only, and is confined strictly:-te . tic commerce between the domestic ports on the Great: Lakes and: connecting rivers. It does not include ;ship-. ments to or receipts from: foreign ports on the’ lakes: ,: The freight rates prevailing this)’*month on’ the »four: leading SONOS eer coal, lumber, and, Ore Werte as: follows: fo On grain, wheat, Chicago to Lake Erie souks, 14, WA, 1 3-8 to 14 cents’ per: bushel; Duluth to Lake Erie ports, 24% to 21-8 cents per bushel. On corn, Chicago to Lake. ..€ ports, 1 >-8 to 1% cents per bushel. On oats, Mil- waukee to Buffalo, 1 1-8.cents per bushel. ae On coal, the rate from Buffalo to Duluth was 35,,cents. per ton; to Chicago, Kenosha, and Escanaba, 50 cents; per ton; to Milwaukee, Manitowoc, Menominee, and Racine, 60 cents per ton; from Cleveland to Manitowoc, 50 cents per ton: from Erie to Milwaukee. 60 cents perton. . On lumber, the rate of $2.50 per-thousand feet from Lake: Superior ports to Chicaso, which has held firm all through. the season, was broken! this: month by the advance of 1243 cents per thousand feet, and $2:75'per thousand was’ paid’ on a few special cargoes both: to Cbinege and Lake» dene ports. On ore, the same: rates which nave been effective alt through the season ‘were in effect in September, viz, from Escanaba, 60 cents) per ton; from Marquette, 70 cents per: ton, and fromthe head of the lakes, 80 cents. per.ton to. the lower lake ports. These rates are subject to the usual addition of 5 cents per:ton to Buffalo. ———_—$ $$ a ST. LAWRENCE INSURANCE RATES: fies In a letter to Hon. J. Israel Tarte, Dominion Minister of Public Works, Mr. D. W, Campbell, manager of the Elder-Dempster Co., gives ‘some facts ‘illustrating the dis- crimination. against the St. Law rence route in the matter of insurance rates. — Mr. Campbell says: “I dislike to bother you, but it is self-preservation for us all as regards the St. Lawrence route. Either the business out of here must’ stop at the end of August or else the insurance companies will have ‘to treat the St. Lawrence route in a more reasonable manner. For your information, by the Lake Champlain route, the. William Davies Co., of Toronto, shipped 80 boxes of bacon. The ocean rate of reight, on this bacon was 6s 2d per ton weight, which of course is an extremely low rate, but this’ was the rate ruling out of Portland, and therefore we had ” to meet competition. The rate of insurance charged on this shipment” was 55 cents per ‘$100 more than out of Portland, or on the shipment $32.45. The freight we re- ceived from Montreal to Liverpool on this lot was $35. 40, or, after we had rebated the difference of insurance, $2.95, or equal to 6d per ton. The cost of loading and discharging this season is three shillings per ton, and we are therefore out of pocket 2s 6 d per ton after carrying the stuff to Liverpool for nothing. We had a similar shipment on the Lake Ontario that went out in the first half of October, on, which the difference in the rate of insurance was ‘35 ‘cents. © At 6s 3d per ton on this shipment we received $35. 50, but _ after deducting the difference in the insurance it only leaves us $15.21, or equal to 2s 8d per ton weight. ‘As ale ready stated, it costs us three shillings per ton to load and discharee this traffic, and we are therefore out of pocket, after carrying the shipment for nothing, 4d per ton. There may be glory in running the boats to the St. Lawrence, but’ ° we fail to see where, from ’a' commercial standpoint, the profit is to come in’ on business like this. How can it be’ - expected that an increased trade will'come to the port’ of Montreal with drawbacks such as I have above cited?” te ae eee 5 pee reir iets Shipping—Dead Freight—Under a charter which re- quired the ship to go to the port of loading, “or as near as he can ‘safely go,” and required the charterer to load a full cargo of ore, where the. ship could not load a full cargo at the berth assigned her by the charterer, beause of a bar in the harbor which she could not cross, it was the duty of the charterer. to. complete her load, outside the bar, no cus- tom to, the contrary being shown, and his failure to. do so renders him liable for dead freight. rto Fed.Rep. (U. S.) 4oq. 3acon vs. Ennis,