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THE MARINE RECORD. JUNE 19. 1go2 NOTICE TO MARINERS. Unirep Srares or AmerricA—NortTHERN LAKES AND Rivers—-New York AND MICHIGAN. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Orrick of THE LicHt-Housr Boarp, Wasuinecron, D. C., June 16, 1902. Lake Onvtarto.—Brappock Porn Licut-Sratton.— Notice is hereby given that, on or about June 30, 1902, the 3% order fixed white light will be re-established at this station, and the temporary fixed white lens lantern light, now shown from the top of the tower on its north- erly face, will be discontinued. The station is located on the southerly shore of Lake Ontario about 234 miles west-northwesterly from Brad- dock Point, New York. Derrorr River—Limexitn Crosstnc Soutn Licut- VESSEL.—Notice is hereby given that on May 31, 1902, Light-Vessel No. 54 was replaced on her station, at the westerly side of the southerly end of Limekiln Crossing dredged channel, lower part of Detroit river, Mich., and Relief Light-Vessel No. 63, temporarily marking the station, was then withdrawn. No change has been made in Light-Vessel No. 64, as to characteristics of light, fog signal, or general appear- ance. vs LAKE St. Cratr—Grossepoint Licut-VESSEL STATION. —Notice is hereby given that, on or about July 1, 1902, Light-Vessel No. 10 will be withdrawn from this sta- tion and the station will be marked, temporarily, by a gas buoy, painted red and showing a fixed white light. The station will be marked later by Light-Vessel No. 75, and due notice will be given when the date for plac- ing the vessel on the station can be determined. The station is located. on the southeasterly side of the upper end of the Lake St. Clair T'wenty-foot Channel, Take St. Clair, Mich. By order of the Light-House Board, Grorcr C. REMEY, Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy, Chairman. ‘Cawapian List oF Licuts ANd Foc SicnaLrs—NrEw Eprrion.—A list of all the lights and fog signals in the Dominion of Canada, corrected to the 1st Aprtl, 1902, has just been published. Copies will be supplied to mariners free on “application. i LAK® Errt.— PELEE Piasace Mipur Grounp.-—Gas Buoy Discontinurp.—The gas buoy heretofore maintained off the northeast point of Middle Ground shoal, Pelee Pas- sage, has been permanently discontinued, the middle ground being sufficiently marked by the new light-house as well as by the three spar buoys established in root. Laxt Ere —Pruee Passacr.-—Grupe REEr. —Gis ae EstaptisHep—A gas. buoy has been established by the Government of Canada in,25 feet of water. on Grubb Reef, Pelee. Passage. The buoy is a cylindrical iron buoy, painted red, surmounted by a red can-shaped slat- work cage bearing a red lantern, from which an occulting white gas light is shown, elevated 8 feet above the water. The light. should be visible 4 miles from all points of ap- proach. It is cut off automatically for a short time at intervals of, about.10 seconds. i The following sextant angles were taken from the uoy : Remains of old pier on Pelee spit (the Dummy) Light-house, Middle Ground, Pelee Passage Light-house..... Pelee Island Light- house Lake - Erté.—Drrrort Rie EN'TRANCE.— WRECK OF “Mont BLANC” Marxep sy Buoy.—A red spar buoy has been moored a little to the south of the sunken wreck of the schooner “Mt. Blanc,” about 1 mile east of Bar _ Point Light-house at the mouth of Detroit river, north- 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. ward of the regular track of vessels but where it might be dangerous to small vessels which cut across the point. Grorcian Bay.—Parry Sounp.—Drprot Harsour.— Storm SIGNAL STATION “EstapiisHKp.—A storm signal station has been established by the Government of Can- ada at Depot Harbour on the south side of Parry Sound, from which the storm signals used throughout the Do- minion will be shown. The steel signal mast, with the steel tripod from which it rises, is 50 feet high, and stands upon a bluff 50 feet above the water level of the lake, and 1,800 feet northeast. of Supply Point. It can be located when outside Three-mile Point on the horizon, at an apparent distance of 300 yards east of the large grain elevator which is situated just southeast of Supply Point. . GOURDEAU, Deputy Minister, DEPARTMENT OF MARINE AND FISHERIES, Orrawa, CANADA, 3rd June, 1902. Pilots, masters and others interested are earnestly re- quested to send information of dangers, changes in aids to navigation, notice of new shoals or channels, errors in publications, or any other facts affecting the navigation of Canadian waters to the Chief Engineer, Department of Marine and Fisheries, Ottawa, Canada. Such communi- cations can be mailed free of Canadian postage. All bearings, unless otherwise noted, are magnetic and are given from seaward, miles are nautical miles, heights are above high water, and all. depths are at mean low water. : -_——S eons —— TREASURY DECISIONS. EXTENSION oF Rou'tks oF Masters anp Mates. Routes of masters or mates of ocean or coastwise steam- ers can not be extended unless the applicants for exten- sion are navigators. TREASURY DrPARTMEN', June 5, 1902. Sir: The Department is in receipt of your letter of the 2d instant, with inclosures, in which you charge the local inspectors at Charleston, S.-C., with having treated you unjustly, in that those officers had refused an ex- tension of your license as master and pilot of steamers to cover the Atlantic Coast waters from New London, Conn., to Key West, Fla., in addition to the waters named in your present license, issued September 10, 1807, for a term of five years from date thereof, the reason given by the inspectors being that. you are not a navigator—a fact admitted by yourself in your letter. In reply, you are informed that, having given careful consideration to your complaint, the Department can: find no sufficient cause therefor, the local inspectors at Charles- ton having been governed in their decision in your case by the rule of the Board of Supervising Inspectors. goy- erning such cases, namely, section 14, Rule V, which pro- vides that “no original license as master or mate of ocean or coastwise steamers shall be issued to any person, or grade of license raised, or route extended, who does not understand navigation. and who is not able to determine a ship’s position at sea by observation of the sun, to ob- tain longitude by chronometer, and to determine a ship’s latitude by meridian altitude of either the sun, moon or stars,” such examination to be in writing and kept on file for reference. Had the local inspectors not strictly observed the above- quoted rule in your case, and had conceded your request, they would have laid themselves liable to dismissal from OMmce tt Fs Respectfully, Leste M. Suaw, Secretary. Capt. IsAac C. Rrtyra, Charleston, S. C. EXPLOSIONS ON PASSENGER STEAMERS. TreAsURY DrpartMEN’t, June 3, 1902. Sir: This office is in receipt of. your letter of .the 28th ultimo, in behalf of the Masurite Explosive Company, in which you refer to the receipt of a letter from the New York and Cuba Mail- Steamship Company; in which that company informs you that it is impossible for them to Pintsch Gas Lighted Buoys. ‘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. Burn Continuously from 80 to 365 days and nights without attention, and can be seen a distance of six miles. ...... THE SAFETY CAR HEATING AND LIGHTING CO. 160 Broadway, New York City. Controlled by handle masurite on their passenger steamers between New York and Mexican ports, by reason of advice from this Department, dated the 15th instant, “ander the pre- cautionary requirements of section 4472, Revised Statutes, in relation to dangerous articles.” In reply, you are informed that the Department as- sumes that the advice received by the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, dated the 15th instant, refers to a letter from the Supervising Inspector- -General, Ber Steambcat-Inspection Seryice, to Mr. C. Neale, the at- . torney of the company in this city, the substance of which is approved’ by the Department, and is quoted here for your information, as follows: May 14, 1902. © Str: I am in receipt of yours of the 12th instant, and.” a small bottle containing a sample of so-called masurite, © alleged to be “a new, powerful, and absolutely safe explo- att sive.’ In reply to your request for a ruling as to whether the Department considers that the explosive referred to can be safely accepted and safely carried as freight on passen- . ger steamers, would say that after due consideration of the precautionary requirements of section 4472, Revised Statutes, against the carriage of “dangerous articles” on passenger steamers, this office must respectfully de- cline to take the responsibility of deciding that so power- — ful an explosive as “masurite” is claimed to be by its man- ufacturers can be safely carried as freight on passenger — steamers, notwithstanding the claims presented in their printed pamphlets that the material can only be exploded by percussion. Respectfully, ge Jas. A. DuMONT, = Supervising Inspector-General. Mr. S. C. Near, Washington, D. C. Referring to your suggestion that the Department sean : a representative to Sands Point on the 14th instant to witness certain proposed tests of the alleged safety of “masurite,’ and to suggest additional tests for the same purpose, you are informed that the Department, notwith- standing the success of your tests, if they. should be suc+ cessful, would not be disposed | to.decide that so power~ ful an explosive as “masurite’”’ is claimed to be by its manufacturers could safely be carried on passenger steam vessels, but would prefer, if passenger steamers do take the risk of its carriage as freight, that the courts take the responsibility of deciding the matter, in case of prose- = cution for the penalties “provided for a violation of the provisions of section 4472, Revised Statutes. Respectfully, O. L. Spaunpine, Acting Secretary : Mr. T. Lupntow Cryst, New York, N. Y. or oe Steamship and Barge in Tow—Fault of Tug—The tug Sea King was coming up the lower New York Bay, havy- ing two barges in tow tandem, in all about 1,200 feet long, when the second barge came in collision with the steam- ship Buffalo, outward bound, and was sunk. The col- lision occurred from 250 to 300 feet to the west- ward of the center of the channel. After signals for passing port and port were exchanged between the Buf- falo and the Sea King, the latter ported her helm two points, and continued on such course until, she had passed, and then at once resumed her former course. Held, that the Sea King was in fault for failing to take proper meas~ ures to counteract the effect of the flood tide, which drifted her and her tow into the westward side of the channel, contrary to rule 25, and also in resuming her course before her tow had passed the Buffalo. Held, also, under the evidence, that neither the barge nor the Buffalo was in fault; that, while the latter was aware. that the tow was drifting nearer her course, after the tug ported both she and the first tow drew away and passed at a safe distance, and had she continued. on such course as the Buffalo had reason to expect, the second tow. wou also have been drawn, out of danger, and that after danger became apparent she made all proper efforts avoid collision. ‘the Sea King, 114 Fed. Rep. (UW. 535." Bes