Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Marine Record (Cleveland, OH), May 8, 1902, p. 12

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THE MARINE RECORD. May 8, 1902, A TRUSCOTT BOAT SIMPLE, SAFE, RELIABLE, SPEEDY. It may be possible to build better and safer boats, but it hasn’t been done yet. We send a completely illustrated catalogue and price list free, which tells you all about boats and WHY TRUSCOTT BOATS EXCEL. Truscott Boat Mfg. Co., ST. JOSEPH, MICH. lighting. Pintsch Gas Adopted by the English, German, French, Russian, Italian and United States Light-House Departments for channel and harbor Over 1,000 gas buoys and gas beacons in service. Lighted Buoys. Burn Continuously from 80 to 365 days and nights without attention, and can be seen a distance of six miles. ...... Controlled by THE SAFETY CAR HEATING AND LIGHTING CO. 160 Broadway, New York City. NOTES. Tur U. S torpedo boat destroyer Stewart, will be launched from the yards of the Gas Engine & Power Co., and Charles L. Seabury & Co. Con., Morris Heights, N. Y., on Saturday, May toth. Emprror Wit11Am has ordered Director Fritz, of the government shipyard at Kiel, to proceed to the United States and study the methods of the American shipyards, particularly as regards labor saving machinery. THE invasion of American steel and iron products has caused such alarm that German cast iron works and foun- dries are preparing to form an iron trust to defend the home industry. Negotiations now under way disclose that an’ agreement has already been signed by all the large iron concerns. ‘The combination will fight the “Ameri- can invasion” tooth and nail.” stag tariff commission will take up the debate on increased tariff on American goods. Ligrut. Brgcuer, U. S. N., the naval expert in wireless telegraphy, has returned to Washington from his trip to the North Carolina sounds, where he inspected the Weather Bureau system of wireless telegraphy installed between Roanoke’and a point on the main land opposite Hatteras, a distance of 50 miles as the crow flies. ‘Ihe system was found to work over that distance with absolute accuracy. reliability and high speed. The latter is attained by abandoning thé troublesome “coherer,’ which is an indis- pensable part of almost every other style of apparatus. For the first time in history all the lake custom houses are receiving. instructions to register the crews on the various boats which are registered in their districts. The facts thus gathered will be registered in the government marine blue book. The Marquette office expects . that it will Shortly be asked to compile a list of seamen now em- ployed on boats in that district. This is a new departure by the ‘Treasury Department, and is regarded as an effort on the part of the officials at, Washington to ascertain the true maritime strength of the country. When the statistics are complete, every sailor, and individual, in anyway con- nected with shipping on the lakes, rivers and seas, will be registered by the government. , TE steam sirens for fog signals were investigated last summer by the British light-house board, but apparently without any important discovery’ regarding the curious soundless zones that surrounded the sirens at various distances. The fact that such zones exist: was discoy- éred by the American light-house authorities, and more than a quarter of a century ago ‘Tyndall expounded the theory that they were caused by an interference with the direct sound waves by those reflected from the ‘surface of the water. One result of the late investigation was the discovery that in calm. weather a low-toned siren, with notes of 98 vibrations, will carry more than 20 miles, while higher-pitched tones are lost at ten. In windy weather, however, the high notes are heard the greater distance. ro oe ORIENTAL COMMERCE ets a teview before the National Geographic Society of Washington, O. P. Austin, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics says that in spite of the disadvantage under which -the United States labors as compared with other. countries, it has made more rapid gains in commerce with the Orient than any other nation, our exports to the yrient having grown from $40,000,000 on 1891 to $115,000,- 000 i I90I, an increase of 180 per cent., while the total exports were increasing but 50 per cent. Our imports from the Oriental countries increased during the same time from $105,000,000 to $162,000,000, an increase of over 50 per cent., while the total imports of the country were iricteasing but ro per cent. An examination of the com- merce of other nations with the Orient shows that that of the United States has grown with much greater rapidity than that of the other countries competing for that com- merce. In a few days the Reich- THE GERMANS AND MORGAN STEAMSHIP MERGER. An official statement of the terms of agreement be- tween the German steamship lines and the syndicate formed by J. Piernont Morgan, is now published. ‘The agreement with the Hamburg-American Packet Co. and Mr. Morgan, it appears, was concluded last March. Under the contract, it is claimed, the German lines have preserved their independence in every respect. The syn- dicate is bound, not to send a-ship to any German harbor without permission of the German lines, which in turn bind themselves not to increase their present traffic from England to the United States beyond a certain fixed point. Many other clauses in the agreement aim at preventing mee ANOTHER ARCTIC EXPEDITION. Plans for the auxiliary Baldwin-Zeigler expedition to northern polar regions have been completed, and the men who have been entrusted with its direction and manage- ment will shortly leave for Europe. The steamer Frithjof, which, with the America, conveyed the Baldwin party to Franz Josef land, has been chartered for the work and will depart from ‘Tromsoe on July. 1. The auxiliary expedition will be in charge of W. S. Champ, secretary to Wm. Zeigler, who will sail for Europe on the steamship Cambric. The Frithjof will go from TTromsoe to Camp Zeigler, on Alger island, which is 80.24 north, and there secure the last instructions left by Baldwin. AS eee Vea ie NN REGINA. 60 foot naphtha yacht, Two 12 H. P. Motors built by the Gas Engine & Power Co., and Charles L. Seabury & Co., Con. competition between the syndicate and the German lines. Neither may acquire shares in another, but they are to mutually support each cther, by chartering steamers or otherwise, in fighting competing third parties. , A committee is to be formed, consisting of two repre- sentatives of the syndicate and two representatives of the German lines, for the settlement of all questions concern- ing their mutual interests. This committee will have no executive power, and any differences in construing clauses of the agreement must be submitted to arbitration. The duration of the agreement is limited to twenty years, but either may terminate it after ten years, or demand a revision of the contract, and withdraw if revision is re-. fused. Morris Heights, N. ¥ It is believed here that Baldwin has worked to the north- ward of Alger island, and that the America is fast in the ice. When the America is found an effort will be made to refill her bunkers with coal and work her out of the ice pack. It is thought Baldwin used the America for winter headquarters, and worked north with sledges, establishing caches preparatory for the dash to the pole. Baldwin’s associates are of the opinion that he began his northern movement for the pole about the middle of February, and that he will reach the highest point about the middle of June, and the Frithjof. expedition is timed to meet him. Mr. Camp’s plan, after releasing the Amer- ica, will be to establish:a patrol with the hope of picking up the Baldwin party.

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