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JUNE 19, 1902. OFFICERS ON DUTY UNDER THE LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Orrice oF THe Licut-Housrt Boarp, ees Wasuincton,' D. C.; June 7, 1902. The following is a list of the officers on duty under the Light-Hotise Establishment on this date, with the resi- dence or postoffice address of each: “MEMBERS OF THE LIGH'I!-HOUSE BOARD. Hon: Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury, and ex officio President of the Board, Treasury Department, Washinston, D. C. ' Rear-Admiral George C. Remey, U. S. N., Chairman, 1212 21st street N.W., Washington, D. C. Col. Walter S. Franklin, 24 East Vernon Place, Balti- more, Md. Col. Alexander Mackenzie, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., War Department, Washington, D. C. Dr. Henry S. Prichett, Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass. : Capt. Benjamin P. Lamberton, U. S. N., 1319 N street N.W., Washington, D. C. Col. Peter C. Hains, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., 812 St. Paul street, Baltimore, Md. Cant.. Washburn Maynard, U. S. N., Naval Secretary, The Portner, 15th and U streets, N.W., Washington, D. C. Maj. Daniel W. Lockwood, Corps of Engineers, U.S. A., Engineer Secretary, The Portner, 15th and U: streets, N.W., Washinston, D. C. INSPECTORS. 1st. Dist—Commander Greenlief A. Merriam, U. S. N., Custom House, Portland, Me. 2d.—Commander Arthur P. Nazro, U. S. N., Post-Office Building, Boston, Mass. : SG apt William M. Folger, U. S. N., Tompkinsville, N 4th—Commander John Hubbard, U. S. N., Post-Office Building, Philadelphia, Pa. 5th.—Commander John M. Hawley, U. S. N., Mercha1.t’s Bank Building, Baltimore, Md. 6th=——Commander Wells L. Field, U. S. N., Old Post- Office’ Building; Charleston, S. C. 7th.—Commander James H. Bull, U. S. N., Custom House, Key West, Fla. 8th.—Commander Kossuth Niles, U. S. N., Custom House, New Orleans, La. _ -otlh.—Commander Lucien Young, U. S. N., Marquette Building, corner Adams and Dearborn streets, Chicago, Ill. 1oth—Commander Andrew Dunlap, U. S. N., Federal Building, Buffalo, N. Y. rith—Commander Edward H. Gheen, U. S. N., U. S. Public Building, Detroit, Mich. 12th—-Commander John B. Milton, U. S. N., Safe De- posit Building, San Francisco, Cal. 13th—Commander William P. Day, U. S. N., Custom House, Portland, Oreg. - 14th—Commander William H. Turner,;,U. S. N., Post- Office Building, Cincinnati, O. ; 15th.—Commander William A. Marshall, U. S. N., New Custom House, St. Leuis, Mo. 16th._Commander Albert C. Dillingham, U. S. N., Cus- tom House, Memphis, Tenn. f ae ENGINEERS. Ist. District.—Lieut. Col. William S. Stanton, U. S. A. 25 Pemberton Square, Boston, Mass. 2d—_Lieut. Col. William S. Stanton, U.S. A., 25 Pem- berton Square, Boston, Mass ae 3d.—Maj. William T. Rossell, U. 8. A., Tompkinsville, v 4th—Lieut. Col. William A. Jones, U. S. A., Post-Office Building, Philadelphia, Pa. . sth.—Lieut. Col. William A. Jones, U. S. A., Post-Office Building, Baltimore, Md. 6th.—Capt. James C. Sanford, U. S. A., Custom House, Charleston, S. C. 7th.—Lieut. Col. Andrew N. Damrell, U. S. A, Mobile, Ala. oe 8th.—Lieut. Col. Andrew N. Damrell, U. S. A., Mobile, Ala. oth—Maj. James G. Warren, U. S. A., Custom House, Milwaukee, Wis. : roth.—Maj. Thomas W. Symons, U. §. A., Federal Build- ing, Buffalo, N. Y. 1th.—Capt. Lansing H. Beach, U. S. A., Old Custom House,. Detroit, Mich. 12th.—Lieut. Col. Thomas H. Handbury, U. S. A., Flood Building, San Francisco, Cal. : 13th—Capt. William C. Langfitt, U..S. A., Oregonian Building, Portland, Oreg. 14th.—Col, Garrett J. Lydecker, U. §. A., Custom House, Cincinnati, Ohio. 15th.—Col. Amos Stickney, U. S. A., 1515 Locust street, St. Louis, Mo. : 16th,—Capt. Charles L,. Potter, U. S. A., Memphis, Tenn. : : GrorcE C. REMEY, WasHeurn Maynarp, Rear-Admiral, U. S. N., Chairman. Captain, U. S. N., Naval Secretary. DanreL W. Lockwoop, : Major, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., Engineer Secretary. on or ico Admiralty—Priority of Liens—An admiralty lien for towage is inferior to anv statutory lien for repairs, the tow- age having been performed more than six months before, without effort to collect therefor till after the repairs. The Sleepy Hollow, 114 Fed. Rep. (U. S.) 367. THE MARINE RECORD. THE RAPID GROWTH OF THE PINTSCH LIGHT SYSTEM. ce An interesting statement has been issued by the Safety Car Heating & Lighting Co., showing the remarkable: in- crease in the use of the Pintsch Light System during the past twelve months, as well as giving the total number of cars, locomotives, buoys and beacons equipped with this system throughout the world. Upon reference to the table we find that there are at present in the United States and Canada, 18,653 cars equipped with the Pintsch system of lighting, while in the territory controlled by the American company, there are sixty-six Pintsch gas man- ufacturing plants in operation. ‘The complete statement appears below. STATEMENT OF CARS, LOCOMOTIVES, BUOYS, ETC., USING THE PINTSCH SYSTEM OF LIGHTING TO MAY, 1902. Cars. Locomo- Gas Buoys tives. Works. & Beacons. Germany 40,156 4,786 71 124 Denmark 45 2 21 England 18,859 18 87 272 France 6,741 27 240 Holland 3,487 5 10 86 Ttaly 1,528 5 15 Switzerland 380 ae I I Austria 4,218 10 Russia 3,041 112 13 13 Sweden 679 43 4 2 Servia 216 Bulgaria 08 I Turkey 114 Egypt 42 3 118 eee 166 3 65 razi 974 I Argentine - 1,096 st 10 = Chili 46 2 38 India 9,584 16 172 Australia 2,053 13 4 United States 18,407 63 15 Japan ~ 100 2 China I Mexico 81 j I Total 112,191 4,007 347 I,211 Increase for the year 6,527 525 II 49 rr NEW DOCKAGE FOR BUFFALO. The Sparrow-Kroll Lumber Co., of Kenton, has received a contract for 7,000 pieces of Norway piling to be deliv- ered at Buffalo. This means the largest single piling con- tract awarded in the upper peninsula in years. The piling is to be used in the construction of a foundation for a large steel plant. The magnitude of this deal can be realized when it is stated that the freight on the shipment will amount to sev- eral thousand dollars. The piling is being gotten out along the Sparrow-Kroll logging rcad and is from 45 to 75 feet in length. The order already has been one-half filled. The Sparrow-Kroll Lumber Co. is one of the few in the upner peninsula or Wiscoi.sin which is in a nosition to furnish Norway piling. There is a lumber company at Tomahawk, Wis., which gets some of it out, but not in such large quantities. he Kenton lumber company has tracts of land from which this piling can be gotten out and it has the facilities for handling it cheaply. A big order for piling for the St. Paul road was recently filled. oo oo LATEST MARINE PATENTS. 701,927.—Binnacle-Compass. John Pacli, Hoboken, N. J., assignor to the Keuffel & Esser Co., a corporation of New Jersey. 702,029.—Apparatus for unloading dore P. Patne, Irvington, N. J. 702,129.—Controller for Propellers. William Cooper, Denver, Colo. scows, etc. ‘Theo- = $< STATEMENT OF THE VISIBLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN As compiled by George F. Stone, Secretary Chicago Board of Trade Saturday, June 14, 1902. CITIES WHERE WHEAT.| CoRN. OaTs. RYE. BARLEY STORED, Buskels. | Bushéls. | Bushels. | Bushels. | Bushels Buffalo .............- 849,000 387,000 319,000 32,000 194,000 CICA ROS os a0i4 ole eres 3,474,000| 2,430,000 410,000 209,000 a GET OLE: 5.5 cio casei nis ie 154,006 3,000 4,000 10,000) ). ious cr WUIDENS ies ne cecee ses 5,433,000 52,000 5,000 7,000 54,000 Bort (William: Ont: |. }:¢1, 464,000) 2 Seis ates aes So loa ceiew ba copesaues Milwaukee..... Pe 61,000 108,000 165,000 5,000 15,000 Port Arthur, O TOO, 000) ii scde tees nestceetn « Beer aici Wi Leatears Sewn Told Oi c.c6csoie 22,000 226,000 130,000 53,000 1,000 TOTOUtCO vias scciceusees Be 0} Ue RA RR GjO0B au ee 1,000 On Canals..........- 581,000 77,000 194,000] 5. 5..... 20,000 On Lakes... cece. 1,074,000 572,000 304,000 LAA OOO. 6 visinsiie,e 0 Grand Total..... 23 570,000| 4,719,000] 2.444.000 554,000 346,002 Corresponding Date, IQOL...deescevoccses 35,139,000| 17,271,000] 10,832,000 616,000 546,000 Increase for week..|.......... ASOLOOO| A sie eeee eke Mae ete Decrease ‘‘ rt B SZ OOOls iis: tks 39,000 145,000 60,000 at lake ports only is here given. While the stock of grain : for the entire country except the total shows the figure the Pacific Slope. SHIPPING AND MARINE JUDICIAL DECISIONS (COLLABORATED ESPECIALLY FOR ‘SHE MARINE RECORD Collision—Oyertaking Vessel—Duty to Give Signals. It is the duty of an overtaking vessel to see to it that she does not come so near the overtaken vessel as to cause danger of collision; and, if she does come within the line of danger, it is her duty to warn the other vessel by sig- nals, whether she intends to.pass or not. 114 Fed. Rep. (U. S.) 4009. Duty of Tug with Tow—Navigating Channel.— While a tug with a tow has the right of way over an unencum- bered vessel, it has no right to unduly or unnecessarily obstruct the pathway of other vessels, and in navigating a channel known to be constantly used by other vessels it is its duty to take all proper and reasonable measures to have its tow under control, and: to lessen the danger of © The Jamestown, 114 Fed. Rep. (U. 8.) 593. collisions. Collision—Steamship and Tug with Tow—Presumption. of Fault.—A tug with a vessel in tow occupies the posi- tion of an encumbered vessel, and it is the duty of a steamship approaching it, unencumbered, to keep out of the way. b be on the safe side, taking no chance of collision which can be avoided, and it. will be presumed to have been in fault for a collision unless fault of the tug or tow ise The Jamestown, 114 Fed. Rep. (U. S.) 503. shown. Objections to Computation by Commissicner—Waiver— Practice on a hearing before a commissioner in admiralty is analogous to that before a master in chancery, and cb- The Fleetwing, — Its action, under any circumstances, should ~ jections to computations made by the commissioner should ~ be taken by exception to this report, and, if not so taken, or at least urged on the hearing before the court on such report, they will be treated as waived, and will not. be considered when raised for the first time by assign- ments of error in the Appellate Court. 114 Fed. Rep. (U.,S.) 307. ° The Eliza Lines, Towage—Validity of. Contract—Services in the Nature of a Salvage—An agreement fixing the price to be paid _ ss for towing a vessel into port will not be set aside as ex- orbitant, although the. price is considerably in excess of — customary towage rates, where, owing to the perilous sit- __ uation of the tow, which was unable to make headway against the seas, and the fact that there was no other tug in the vicinity which could have rendered assistance, the — The Atkins Hughes, service was in the nature of a salvage. 114 Fed. Rep. (U. S.) 410. Contract of .-itreivhtment—Termination by Abandon- — The involuntary abandonment of a vessel ment of Ship. by her master and crew under stress of weather, without | eS any actual intention to renounce the contract of affreight- _ ment between the ship and the’ cargo owners, does not terminate such contract, but on the bringing of the ship into port by salvors in a condition to resume her voyage _ without unreasonable delay the master is entitled within a reasonable time to reclaim the vessel and cargo, and on ~ indemnity to the salvors to take the cargo to the stipulated © ~ port of destination. The Eliza Lines, 114 Fed. Rep. (U Ben-307: ih Injuries to Ship Carpenter.—In an action for a ship car- penter’s death owing to the breaking down of a staging on which he was at work, assisting to place cant timbers in ae position, as a result of a cant timber striking it, an instruc-. tion that whatever was necessary or useful to do the work in an ordinarily safe manner, consistent with care and caution, were appliances, whether the same were ropes, engines, etc., or servants, and that it was the duty of the” master to furnish all necessary appliances, whether ropes, etc., or servants, reasonably suitable and competent, was not objectionable as binding the master, at all hazards, to ~ furnish competent fellow servants. instead of requir- in~ him to use reasonable care in their selection and re- tention, other instructions stating that the master would | discharge his duty in this respect by exercising reasonable care to provide competent fellow servants. Sroufe et al. vs. Moran Bros. Co., 68 Pac. Rep. (Wash.) 896. Evidence Considered.—A large ‘steel barge laden with freight cars, while passing up the Elizabeth river to Nor- © folk, at about five in the evening, in tow of an ocean tug, — came into collision with the steamship Jamestown, which ~ The barge was on the hawser of ' seventy to one hundred fathoms, the tide was flood, andes? a gale from the northwest made it difficult to control the - was passing down. tow, so that the two vessels occupied the greater part of the channel. to the Jamestown, which saw the tug and tow when two and one-half mile away, but kept its speed of fourteen or fifteen miles an hour until opposite the tug, when its. ef- fort to avoid collision by stopping and reversing came too late. This fact was known, or should have been, Held, that both the steamship and the tug and tow ~ were in fault. the former for approaching at too high a- speed and failing to stop before there was danger of colli- © sion, and the latter because it was negligence, under the | circumstances, to enter the channel, at a time of day when’ outgoing steamers were known to be coming down, with? | out shortening the hawser, or taking other measures to bring the barge under closer control, she having been to’ the east of the center of the channel at the time of colli- sion. The Jamestown, 114 Fed. Rep. (U. S$.) 593.