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NOVEMBER 21, IQOI. SUN’S AMPLITUDES. The following approximate amplitudes of the Sun’s ris- ing or setting will be given each week in this column dur- ing the season of navigation. A second bearing may be taken by compass at stinset, by reversing the east bearing given for the nearest latitude, as the change in declination for a few hours makes but a slight difference in the true bearing of the sun’s setting. The bearing may be taken when the sun’s center is on the horizon, rising or setting. The elements which may be obtained by taking these am- ° plitudes are the quantities known as local attraction, va-~ riation and deviation, or the total difference between com- pass and true, or geographical bearings. LAKE ERIK AND S. END LAKE MICHIGAN, LAT. 42° N Date. Amplitude. Bearing P’ts. Bearing Comp. NOV.22). 63227? Si =="-S 5-5 56-H. Si Be by BE. 56 E. Noy. 26....E 29° S. = S$. 53% HE. = S. E. by E. % E. Nov. 29....E. 30° S. = S. 5% E. = SE’ by EB. % E. LAKE ONTARIO, S. END HURON AND CENTRAL PORTION LAKE MICHIGAN, LAT. 44° N. Date. Amplitude. Bearing P’ts. Bearing Comp. Nov. 22....E. 28°S. = S.5% E.=S E. by E. YE. Now. 26:,.. 30° S.)=— «S. 536 KH. — 5) eo %E. Nov. 29 ....E. 31° S. = S. 54%.E. = S..E. by E. & E N. END LAKES HURON AND MICHIGAN, LAT. 469-38 Date. Amplitude. Bearing P’ts. | Bearing Comp. Nov. 22....E. 29° S. = S. 534'R. = S. Eviby EF, 3% E. Novy,:26.1.. 8): are Si Sieh BS by. Ye. Nov. 29 ...B. 32°S. = S.53¢ Ea SiH. by Bee EH. LAKE SUPERIOR, LAT. 48° N Date. Amplitude. Bearing P’ts. Bearing Comp. Nov: 22)...8. 30 5S. = 9: 54° 2. = Sud. by Bow. Novy. 26.. 0. Hs 32° S. ="Si5s¢ Eb. = Sib. by HB. 47. Nove 20) Hn 33 1S 5 O65 be Sb. by EB. With a compass correct magnetic, the difference between the observed and true bearing or amplitude will be the variation for the locality. Should there be any deviation on the course the vessel is heading at the time of taking the bearing, the difference between the observed and the true amplitude after the variation is applied will be the amount of deviation on that course. If the correct magnetic bearing is to the right of the compass bearing, the devia- tion is “easterly, if to the left. the deviation is westerly. DO SOO OS EASTERN FREIGHTS. Messr. Funch, Edye & Co., New York, report the con- dition of the Eastern freight market as follows: The list of fixtures plainly indicates the continued de- pressed state of our freight market, and as tonnage offers freely for distant londing the prospects for any improvement are still very dubicus. The Atlantic cotton charterers now appear to be pretty wel: supplied with tonnage, and donot show much inclina- tion tov make further commitments. The situation frem the Gulf remains the same, and no business is heing done in that direction, with the exception of a few charters for timber at slightly improved rates for next year’s loading: Sail tonnage continues teglected and as is apparent by the occasional lower bcs made for far-off long voyage ves- | sels, suippers. view the situation with indifference. feeling secure in the co:viction that an early improvement of the market is in the highest degree impossible. Grain for Liverpool is “quoted at 2% cents, London 3 cents, and Glasgow 4 cents. ———<$ $< a Iv has become the fashion to sneer at submarine vessels in some que “ers, but English technical journals do not indulge in ~ .« practice, for they see in the growing fleet of French submarine vessels a distinct menace to English commerce. ‘“Mhere are 29 submarine boats’ now, of the elec- tric type, france, and five of other kinds, and-they are constant! “reasing in numbers. Engineering says that fel oe vessels were let loose at night in‘the Chan- ' a a > of establishi aselyes in carry on d be capable of establishing themselves ‘ns before davlight and do incalculable wave we British commerce; it thinks that. the ‘submarine boat has increased the dangers from torpedoes tenfold. f THE MARINE RECORD. REPORTED BY THE LOOKOUT. Seventeen naval vessels have been engaged for the most § part during the last year, in making marine hydrographic * surveys, and South Fox Island Shoals, take Michigan, has been surveyed by the U. S. S. Michigan, under the command of Commodore William Winder, U. S. N. On Sunday, Noy. 10, the ake Shore & Michigan South- ern ' Railroad transported from Ashtabula to Pittsburg, 39,200 tons of iron ore. ‘The ore was carried in’55 brains, , handled in 24 hours. Altogether. 65 locomotives were | used, 35 locomotives and 15 crews being borrowed fron. 4 the main line. Ben Tillett, a noted labor leader of England, will arrive } in this countrv November 20 as the authorized representa- tive of the Dock Laborers and Longshoremen of Europe. He will meet the executive committee of the International Longshoremen’s Association at Detroit, when it. is ex-; pe cted that'a complete amalgamation of the dock laborers , and longshoremen of the world will be effected. ‘ An English tar paid off at Malta, having only.a day in ve which to spend the money before his ship left port, hired forty: rowing boats, formed them into a procession, and , seating himself comfortably in the stern of the last boat, * he had himself and his forty boats rowed round and round . his ship, much to the amusement of his comrades. After making the tour several times Jack paid the boat hire and then returned to duty, evidently well satisfied. The Public Works Department at Ottawa has completed ! the estimates for 20-foot navigation between Georgian Bav and Lake Nipissing. The distance is 61 miles, and the estimated cost will be about $4,000,000.” Minister Tarte ' says the exports of grain’from Manitoba and the Canadian = northwest will reach 100,000,000 bushels within the next . few years and the onlv wav to divert this from American channels :is to construct a short route through Canada: The comptroller of the treasury has rendered a decision that the government has no authority to pay the hospital expenses ‘incurred by Light-keepers Snields and Macauley, after their exposure on Dec. 14, 1900, when Shields, two * assistants, and his wife and niece, left Squaw Island in a small boat for the mainland. ‘The boat capsized and the two women and one of the asistants perished from the cold. Shields and’ Macauley were badlv frozen and required medical care for a long time. Sir Israel Tarte, minister of public works of Canada, ; will submit to his cabinet a novel patented plan. for the protection of navigators of the St. Lawerence river. patent is designed to do away with the light-houses,.buoys, “and in fact, the entire paraphernalia for night navigation between Montreal and Quebec, and substitute a’ submerged electric system. The main idea is’to sink an electric cable in the center, of the navigable channels with power, ;trans- . mitted from a power-house at Montreal and lines of col- ' ored lights at or above the waterlevel each side of: the from those on the other side. ‘The lights will be supported by cork buoys: Capt. Hendrick van Schuysen, while conversing in a London restaurant, said he had been in the seafaring pro- fession, man and boy, for 69 years, and had just passed his 84th birthday. ‘My father,” he ended up, “was the first sailor to discoversthe practicability of screw propellers for steamers, instead of paddlewheels. When I was a young lad of 15 I sailed to India with my father in an old wooden brig called the Vrow Sneider, of Amsterdam, for Calcutta. We had fearful weather off the Cape of Good Hope, and, in fact, narrowly escaped foundering. One day it was blowing a gale of wind, the brig was under her main lower topsail and doing about 2 knots an hour. whale crashed right into our stern. For a moment we thought all was lost; then my father gave orders to take off the after-hatch to see how much water there was’ in the hold. When we did so the whale’s head appeared, and as fast. as the water poured in through the leak in the stern the whale blew it out of the after-hatch.” With the continual struggling’ of his tail the old brig began to go ahead, and we went*into Cane Town safe and sound at the rate of-7 knots an hour.” We returned to’ Amsterdam,” said Capt. Schuysen solmenly ‘“and shortly afterwards the Archimedes and the Rattler, the first screw steamers, were built, and proved a great sticcess.” ¥ The © Suddenly a‘big GOLD MEDAL FOR STEAM TOWING MACHINE. The announenieae front Buffalo that. the Shaw and Spiegle ‘patent automatic steam towing machine, manufac- tured by the American.Ship Windlass Co., of Providence, R. 1. had Been’ awarded the gold medal at ‘the Pan-Ameri- _ can Exposition: was not Surprising in view of the part that “it has taken in developing the practice of steamers towing immense -barges, and thus. moving freight in great quanti- . ties on minimum of steam power-requirement and very low” fuel, expenditure. The manufacturers now have negotia-’ tions under way that will resulé.in several of the machines going into Great Britain and Germany during the coming year. No project of the tow-barge.kind- will he under- 1 taken in the future without the use of this machine, as the towing of big barges*is. impossible without ity The Amer--~ ican Ship Windlass Company also secured at,the Pan- American Exposition a: silver medal for their. steam hes —Maritime Register. ees _—————————— —————————————— ~MARLNE PATENTS. 1 085274. © Calking Device. «Michael Dunn, "Dennison, hio. es st 680.291. Ship’s Port Hole. J. D. Hannah, Shrewsbuty;< England, assignor of one-half to J ‘Walton; bury, England. * : 686,317. Yielding Guide Roller for Ridder Chains~ on Ships. -A. May, Hamburg, Germany, assignor to C. O. Lange, Hamburg, Germany. 686,412. Life-preserver. Ernes S$. Magnin, Chicago, III. 686,441... Capstan. or Windlass. - 686,490. Gang-plank. » William R. Uphoff Chicago Ill. 686,557. Tackle-block. » Arthur E.*T'aylor, Elyria, Ohio, - -assignor of one-half to Heman Ely, Elyria, Ohio. ~- Shrews- 686,597. Apparatus for Floating. Vessels. Albert Se Debose, Cuero, Tex. * 686,618. 'Life-preserver: Florian Krajca, Carlsruhe, Germany. 8 i] CHART OF SANDUSKY BAY. W. L. Fisk, Major, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, announces that a new chart, in colors, of Sandusky Bay has just beer issued>and is now on, sale at the U. S. Lake Survey Office, 33 Campau. Building, Detroit, Mich., at 13° centstper copy. rt While the steamet*Elfn Mere, aie took fire at. Green Bay early Saturday morning, was not’ totally destroyed, her d: image is sufficient to’ constitute a constructive total loss. »"The hull is practically destroyed from ami:lship aft, the boiler lines ati the -bottom ‘of the hold, having fallen when the beunis supporting it had burned away. 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