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' FEBRUARY 6, Ig02. AIDS TO NAVIGATION. The Cleveland members of the Lake Carriers’ commit- tee on aids to navigation, held a conference with Capts. Henry Stone, Frank Rae, George B. Mallory, and. Alfred Greenley of the Ship Masters’ Association. >’Dhe members — of the last named organization have been: discussing. the need of new lights and fog signals since. the close of navi- gation last fall. . The delegates to the grand lodge meet- ing, which was held at Washington last week, took the. matter up with the officials of ‘the Light-House Board. At the Cleveland meeting the vesselmen: and masters went over a long list of aids to navigation that have been * - suggested, and they made the following recommendations: *" _ Rauleaux ranges at Point Aux Pins; eight gas buoys in the straight channel, at Toledo, four on each side of the channel, gas buoy in the river near Craig’s shipyard, and a buoy near Presque isle; range lights on Point Edward near the mouth of the St. Clair river. The Point Edward ranges were recommended by the masters because several strandings have occurred after the lightship was removed on account -of ice, leaving the dangerous channel unmarked. Gas buoys. for the lower end, of St. Clair canal cut on the east bank; three gas buoys to mark the American channel at Stag Island, St. Clair river; two gas buoys to mark the St. Clair middle ground; elevation of the bea- cons and range lights at St. Clair flats from the canal to Hurson’s island. For Lake Superior: A fog whistle for Michigan island; a light-house and fog whistle at Rock of Ages near ‘the western end of Isle Royale; a fog whistle at Sand island, and a gas buoy to mark the channel in the “Soo” river near the Dark Hole. Lake Michigan: Gas buoys for Manhattan shoal near Death’s Door, North Graham shoal, Hog island reef; Driscoe shoal, Green Bay; South Fox island shoal, Boul- der shoal, south of Gull island, and a gas buoy for Major shoal.in the Straits of Mackinaw; gas buoy for Garden island shoal; permanent light-house and fog whistle to be placed on Racine reef; light and fog signal on outer water- works crib off Chicago harbor. ‘ For Lake Erie the committee recommended a light and fog signal at Point Abino, and gas, buoys for Seneca and Wayerly shoals near Buffalo. : All the new light and fog signals that were recommended are badly needed, and Capt. George P. McKay, chairman of the committee on aids to navigation, of the Lake Car- riers’ Association, and the members of the legislative com- mittee will take the matter up with the officials at Washing- ton at an early date. i or LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD OF THE UNITED STATES. (Organized in Conformity to the Act of Congress ; Approved August 31, 1852.) : List of MrempBers oN JUNE 30, 1901. Hon. Lyman J. Gage, Secretary of the Treasury, ex- officio President. Rear Admiral Norman H. Farquhar, United States Navy, Chairman. ' Col. Walter S. Franklin. : Col. Alexander McKenzie, Corps of Engineers, United States Army.. ’ Brig. Gen. George L. Gillespie, Chief of Engineers, United States Army. Dr. Henry ‘S. Pritchett; Institute of Technology. Capt. Benjamin P, Lamberton, United States Navy. Capt. Washburn Maynard; United States Navy, Naval Secretary. Maj. Daniel W. Lockwood, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, Engineer “Secretary. Executive Mremsperrs cr tHe Boarp. Rear-Admiral. Norman H. Farquhar,- United States Navy. Capt. Washburn Maynard, United States Navy. Maj. Daniel W. Lockwood, United States Army. OFFICERS IN CHARGE of LicHt-Housr Districts on JUNE 30, IQOT. : Ninth District:—Inspector, Commander F. M. Symonds, United States. Navy, Chicago, IIL. Engineer, Maj. James G. Warren, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Tenth District—Inspector, Commander A. Dunlap, United States Navy, Buffalo, N. Y. Engineer, Maj. T. W. Symonds, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, Buffalo, N. Y. Eleventh District.—Inspector, Commander J. C. Wilson, United States Navy, Detroit, Mich. Engineer, Lieut. Col. Thomas H. Handbury, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, Detroit, Mich. Fourteenth District—Inspector, Commander William H. Turner, United States Navy, Cincinnati, Ohio. Engineer, Maj. William H. Bixby, Corps. of Engineers, United States Army, Cincinnati, Ohio. a MARINE PATENTS. 692,278.—Life-preserver. George Hamberger and Gus- tav A. Stelzer, Berne, Switzerland. 692,355.—Apparatus for loading or unloading bulk car- goes. Aiexander W. Robertson, London, England. 694,400.—Means for disengaging and replacing the sup- ports of boats on ships, etc. . Thomas. Wilson, Sunder- land, England. 692,417.—Dredge or Alex. grapple. Hoboken, N. J. Bechers, THE MARINE RECORD. BUFFALO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. The coal men are taking things easy and they will not do anything until season ore rates have been fixed. Accord- ing to. reports..from the head of Lake Superior, coal is moving off the docks briskly and the docks at all the upper lake ports will be in good shape at the opening of navi- gation. That means that there will be a good demand for‘coal carriers from the start and that the movement for the-season will be heavy. The Pittsburg Coal Co., it is understood,will,send considerable coal forward from ‘To- leda, the coming season. An adjustment of the differences between. the local tug firemen and the Great Lakes Towing Co. was reached early Saturday morning, and the firemen required on the two tugs now in commission reported for duty. No fur- ther trouble or delay in the shifting of vessels about the harbor is likely to occur. Settlement was made on the basis of $50 a month, the regular summer rate, and two firemen will be employed on each boat, when the amount of work to be done warrants, their services. ‘The demand of the men was for $1.75 a day and two men to each boat whenever a tow was made. ‘They get $1.66 and two men in the discretion of Captain Vroman, the local manager. Capt. Wolvin, of Duluth, who. has’ decided to make Quebec the center of his Canadian transportation opera- tions, has returned home. Mr. G. Smith, who is named assistant general manager, remained in Quebec to organ- ize that end of the business. In the meantime, the trans- portation company is negotiating with the Great Northern railway for the use of their elevator, and, if arrangements can be made with the latter, the transportation company will make use of it until its own is constructed, and, if sat- isfactory arrangements cannot be made, it will bring on a floating elevator. The transportation company has ar- ranged. to place 20 lake vessels in the service immediately on the opening of navigation, and these vesels will enter the Inner Louis Basin, to discharge cargo into the elevator. The company has one year to complete all arrangements, including the construction of the elevator, and its ship- ments will be made between Montreal, Liverpool, Manches- ter and Londan. Efforts of the three great passenger associations, Trunk, Central and Western, to induce the lake lines to discontinue the commission system of stimulating summer business and to agree on tourist rates for the coming season have failed. Representatives from the passenger associations held a conference with representatives from the lake lines a few days ago, and although over twenty prominent lake transportation men were present, they decided not to com- mit themselves to any agreement, the reason given by them being that there were six other lines, not repre- sented, and an agreemnt without their presence might re- sult in friction. The cause of the railroads was: present- ed by F. C. McDonald, of the Central Passenger Associa- tion; Eben E. Mcleod, of the Western Passenger Associa- tion and C. L. Hunter, representing Commissioner Hunter of the Trunk lines: Among the representatives of the lake lines were Joseph Berolzheim, of the Manitou line; C. C. Church of the Northern Michigan; C. F. Spencer, of the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior ‘Transportation Co.; E. C. Davis, of the Goodrich line; J. W. Brown, of the Georgian Bay Transportation Co.; W. F. Herman, of the C. & B. line; A. A. Schantz, representing the Detroit & Cleveland. Transportation Co. and several others. While the representatives of the lake lines present would not commit themselves to whether or not they would like to come to an agreement with the railroads, as it was inti- mated that if all of the lines had sent representatives, some adjustment would have been agreed to. “As some of the lake lines were not represented, we did not feel it our ‘privilege to agree to any plan without their consent,” said one of the lake men. The question of the new Detroit & Buffalo steamer line rates was stated that a rate of $3.50 from Buffalo to Detroit had been decided upon. ‘This was considered too low by’ the railroads, and was one of the rocks on which the conference split. It is understood that the railroads will decline to issue interchange tickets, unless the rate of the new line is made the same as that of the Northern Steamship line. There is an effort be- ing made to establish a system of summer excursion rates by which a railroad ticket will be accepted for transporta- tion by the lake lines and vice versa, as was the case dur- ing the recent Exposition. It is. claiméd the low rate con- templated by the Detroit & Buffalo line is a bar to such arrangement, at least so far as that line is concerned. _—_—_———— OS Oo OO ; DULUTH-SUPERIOR. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record: M. J. Hecking, draftsman at‘the Superior Ship Building Co.’s yards, will. leave about February 1, for Richmond, Va., where he has accepted a position in the engineering and drafting department of the W.R. Trigg Ship Building Co. Mr. Hecking has been engineering and hull drafts- man at the local shipyards for about four years, and leaves now because he is offered a larger field and more lucrative position. The name of his successor is not yet made public. ; Wm. Lowrie, general passenger agent has announced that the management has decided that the steamers North West and North Land will be operated between Chicago and Buffalo during the season of 1902, and on the exper- .ience of last year it is their purpose to continue these boats in this service permanently. The Northern S ship Co. is spending between $350,000 and $400,000 - improvements on those two steamers and is substituting Scotch boilers for the Belleville boilers, which will de-, © velop a material increase of ‘speed, power and safety. The : ports of call will be Milwaukee, Harbor Springs, Mack- inac, Detroit and Cleveland. ; 4 The Minneapolis Journal says that a merger embracing + practically the whole coal trade of the Northwest, both anthracite and bituminous has been brought so near ac- complishment that there is no question of its success. It is part of the plan followed to consolidate an agency here and one in St. Paul. This will put all’ the retail dealers now purchasing supplies from large companies out. of business. President C. FE. Wales of the Pioneer Fuel “ Co. will be the general Northwestern manager of the consolidation. The plan followed has been to ‘join tHe + anthracite and bituminous branches of the trade separately. © This having been accomplished, the two are now brought together. The combination naturally originates with the large companies owning coal docks at Superior and Dus luth. It is believed that the combination of coal interests is general and that in other large districts it will be han- dled from convenient centers as will be done in the North- west. Minneapolis is to be the head office in this’ section. a The first of the new Tomlinson boats, a steamer, to be launched at the shipyard of the Superior Ship Building Co., at West Superior, will be the Sultana. She will be christened by Dorothy Moore, the daughter of Alderman and Mrs. W. S. Moore. The date. of the launching has not been announced, but. it will take place within ‘a few days. It will be the second winter launching at the West. Superior shipyard this year, is of steel and is designed especially for the grain trade between Duluth and Buffalo. She will be ready to go into service at the opening of navi- gation, and will represent an outlay of $230,000. The Sul- tana will carry 5,000 gross tons on 18 feet draft, the usual summer draft on the connecting waters of Lake Superior and Huron. She will be equipped with two Scotch boilers 14x12 feet in size, and a triple-expansion engine, 20x3314- 55 inches, with 4o-inch stroke. ‘The Sultana will have ac- commodations for eleven passengers, and these apartments will be superbly finished and furnished. The ship will be lighted by electricity and provided with all approved mod- ern improvements and facilities. The house flag of the Sultana will be the color of the University of Michigan, yellow and blue. It is expected that she will have a speed of twelve miles an hour loaded, her general hull dimensions are, length, 366; beam, 48 feet; depth, 28 feet. - The Eastern Minnesota road has invited bids from con- tractors for the construction of a_600-foot addition to its new ore dock on Allouz bay. ‘The new addition will make the structure the biggest iron ore dock in the-world. It will have a total storace capacity of 100,000 tors, thus making it bigger than either of the two largest docks of the Missabe road in Duluth, which are at present the largest ore docks in the world. ‘The 600-foot addition will provide for 100 pockets and a storage capacity of about 40,000 tons. This dock is the highest in the world. being. 72 feet from the water to the top. ‘Barnett-& Record were the contractors fo: building the dock two years ago, but the contract for the addition has not been awarded as yet. The new addition to the dock will have fifty pock- ets on either side. The great height of the structure is provided on account of the very. large class of boats. becoming more numerous each year, which require «greater dock elevation for the convenient movement of ore from the dock to the hold. The Eastern Minnesota has come rapidly to the front as an ore handling road. It expects to handle 3,000,000 tons this year, which will be an increase of about 700,000 tons over 1001. The company is con- stantly adding to its list of shipping mines, and is every year enlarging its volume of ore traffic. ‘The addition of 100 new pockets to the bie dock will give it important in- creased facilities for receiving and ‘shipping ore.: It is expected that the new addtion will be ready for shipping during a part of the approaching season of navigation. en LAUNCH OF THE E. M. SAUNDERS. The new Gilchrist steamer EF. M. Saunders was success- fully launched on Thursday, from the yards of the Ameri- can Ship Building Co., at Lorain. As the steamer glided down the ways Miss Caroline, the daughter’ of E. M. Saunders, for whom the vesel is named, broke a bottle of wine over the prow, christening the boat. ‘The launching party, which arrived on a special Lorain & Cleveland mo- tor, was made up as follows: A. J. Gilchrist. C. P. Gil- christ, F. W. Gilchrist. Capt. Lewis Weeks, J. D:' Mitchell, Capt. J. D. Todd. Capt: William Kennedy, Capt. Ben Mosher, F. C..La Marche, J. C. Wetmore, secretary of the shipbuilding company. all of Cleveland; C. A. Kennedy, of Oshkosh, Wis.; Mr. and Mrs. EK. M. Saunders and daughter. of St. Paul. and Mr. Arnold Saunders and fam- ilv, of Cleveland. The Saunders is a sister ship of the F. W. Hart and F. M. Osborne, recently launched here for the same company, and ‘is 4co feet long, 50 feet beam, and 28 feet depth of hold. The fourth steamer for’the same company is now on the stocks and will be ready for launch- ing in a few weeks. The fifth steamer will occupy the berth just vacated by the Saunders. eh oe 4 22 ,