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which we trust will be consumma Ihe Marine Record. A PROPOSED SUBMARINE RAILWAY. A Halifax inventor has brought to the notice ot the minister of marine and fish- eriesa novel scheme for the construction of a submarine cable railway to connect Prince Edward island and the mainland. There is to be a single track of plate steel, in sections of 20 feet length, V-shaped 24 feet wide at the top and 1} feet in depth, which is to be made hollow and air tight soas to float. From the lower point of the V-shaped track two chains, running out obliquely and attached to heavy gran- ite pillars on the bottoms, will keep the floating track in its proper position at the required depth under water. On the top of the track, and attached to it by wheels running underneath flanges projecting on each side, there will move an air-tight cigar-shaped submarine car, drawn by an endless chain, worked from the shore at each end. This car is to be constructed of sheet steel, four feet wide, six feet high and thirty feet long, and the main inter- ual compartment will be fitted with seats on each side, and a passage in the center. Each seat will hold one person. At the end where the car tapers off there are to be air-tight compartments, which will give buoyancy to the car, and from which the passenger compartment will be supplied with fresh air. The car being light at the top and buoyant with compressed air, will retain its upright position and make the assage of ten miles throngh the water in about twenty minutes. The time to construct the railway is estimated by the inventor at about two months, and the cost at $50,000. BUFFALO ELEVATOR CHARGES RE. DUCED. A meeting of grain dealers’ elevator authorities and railroad officials was held in Buffalo, Feb, 18, to consider the prop- osition made by twenty-six leading grain dealers of the city, to put all car grain ae into elevator on arrival. The meeting _ Was private, but it was learned that the proposition to lower elevator rates from three-fourths of a cent per bushel was virtually agreed to for wheat and corn,|, but the roads did not agree to rebate - more than an eighth of a cent on oats. ie - The roads are.to rebate half this amount _ to the shipper when the latter settle. The former have no right to make rebates they say, but will arrive at the same result by ‘making their payments to the elevator di- rect. A letter received in Chicago from Buffalo on this matter suys: We desire to inform you that under an arrangement with the railroads centering at this point, soon, _ all grain shipped to us will pe put in store here immediately on arrival at an expense of one-fourth cent per bushel to the grain for elevator charges and five days, free storage. The subject of lake transporta- tion rates was not discussed at the meet- ing—Chicago Grain Trade and Elevator. SAGs etl SOB Sa OPENING LIFE SAVING STATIONS. Lieutenant Rogers, Inspector of the life- saving station of the eleventh district, says all of the life-saving stations under his di- rection will be opened for service April 1, next. Work on the new station at Michigan City, Ind, will be commenced forthwith, and the building will be com- pleted in time to be commissioned in Sep- tember. There will be seven surf men and one keeper employed there. A site has also been secured. Lieutenant Rogers says, for a new life-saving station at South Chi, cago, where so many wrecks occurred re- cently, and the building will probably be erected and equipped during the present season. The route of the Dixon, the new boat just bought by the A. Booth Packing company will be from Duluth to Silver Islet, thence across the lake and home. She will make this trip twice a week. The Camp will probably be sent to Man- istique to do fishing business. The Dixon; which has already been described in these columns, is a fine craft and will prove a great addition to the Duluth fleet. That veteran navigator Capt. Wheeler, will command her, and if any man can keep a boat out of trouble and up to her work, he is the man. Capt.Paul Harry,of Milwaukee, has com- leted an invention whereby vessels will enabled to communicate with each oth- of half a mile. It promises also to be es- pecially useful in reporting at night while passing Cheboygan or Mackinac City, or Port Hnron, and can be used to good advantage by life-savers in com- municating with crews of shipwrecked ves- sels while preparing to render them assis- tance. The invention does away with the old-time signals of the ocean, and relies en- tirely upon the Eeglish alphabet in letters two feet high, whereby names aud sen- tences can be spelled out in full so clearly. that no mistake is possible. It promises to be very handy on steamers and their tows during heavy weather for the purpose of conveying information concerning the condition of the fleet and their necessities Something of this kind has long been re- quired on the lakes and Captain Harry’s invention givespromise of filling the bill. His “machine,” which is by no means cum- bersome, can be inspected at P. A. Stamm’s hardware store on National Avenue. The Buffalo Yacht Club fleet at present consists of eleven yachts: Sloop Alarm of Buffalo, John S. Provoost, owner; sloo Edgar B. Jewett of Buffalo, C. B. Hill and E. C. Roberts, owners; sloop Walrus of Buffalo, the Hon. H. H. Guenther, owner; sloop Turk of Port Dover, Ont., Judge Livingston of Simcoe Ont., owner; sloop Iolanthe of Bellville, Ont; yawl Emma of Buffalo, A.N. MacNabb and L, G, Northrop, owners; schooner May Belle of Buffalo, David Eckley, owner; cutter Sylvia of Buffalo, R. W, A. S. and H.L. Chisholm and H. E. Parrish, owners; cutter Vera of Port Dover, Ont., Andrew T. Ball, owner; cutter Erchless of Oak- ville, Ont, George H. Chisholm, owner, steamer Little Mack of Dunkirk, N. Y. A. J. Avery, owner. CAN SHE BEAT THE DAVY CROCKETT? An ocean yacht race over @ course near- ly 20,000 miles long would be a very ex- citing event were it an actual contest be- tween two vessels at the same time. The yacht Coronet, which put to sea.on Thurs- day for a voyage around Cape Horn to San Francisco, has no visible competitor, but her trip will still be regarded as.in one sense a race against time and against the eld speedy: kind of vessels known as clippers, so popular twenty five.years ago. The fastest. record ever made between Sandy Hook and the Golden Gate was achieved by the famons clipper Davy Crockett, whose time was eighty-four days. The distance is said by the sea captains on South street to be full 17,000 miles. The fastest time across the Atlantic, Sandy Hook to Lands‘ End, has been made by a merchant vessel, not by a ‘pleasure yacht, asmany people suppose. It remains to be seen phether the Coronet will break the Davy Crockett’s record. This is the reason so much interest is taken in her trip by the South street shipping mer: chants. A meeting of the Buffalo Yacht Club was held last evening in the office of Messrs. Hawkins & Williams, with Com- modore Williams in the chair. The build- ing commitee reported that the new club- house would probably be completed by next Saturday. The house is situated at the end of the sand-catch pier at the foot of Perter Avenue, which is under the con- trol of the Yacht Club. Messrs. R. (W. Chisholm, Charles B."Hill, and W. C.Cowles were elected asthe house commitee, and Messrs Henry S. Hill and S. L. Woodworth were elected active mem- bers. The following were then made life members: Messrs. E. N. Cook, O. P. Letchworth, Thomas Loomis, Edgar T. Brinker, G, N. McWilliams, Charles O’Day, N E. McIntyre, Andrew Langdon, Henry N. Box, and Captain Frank Perew. The next meeting. will be held in the new club-house in about two weeks, and arrangements will then be made for the formal opening. Petroleum as fuel for ocean steamers is mak” ing considerable head-way. Its advantage over coal lies principally in the fact of its com- parative cheapness. It occupies scarcely half the space of coal, and can be taken on board in much less time. Practically this would amount toaconsiderable saying of money, leaye more space for cargo and do away with much of the detention now incurred at coal ports. The first, however, is of the utmost er, either by night or by day, at a distance | importance to both cargo and passenger steam- | ers, particularly the fast Atlantic steamers. | Forest City. i tion.’ | ‘and equipped with ‘our’ mavhines.”: “The same an Immense amount of iron will be con- sumed in railway equipment, cars and the like. The demand trom these sources will be good. Coal handling will be greatly in excess of last year. Duluth alone will increase her receipts ‘by half a million tons and about 120,000 tons will be delivered at Port Arthur and Fort William by the Canadian Pacific. Wheat is not so plenty at upper lake ports at present but the chances are that the amount at several lake ports will be largely increased by the opening of naviga- tion and that considerable will move for- ward from the country after that.”? Con- sidering all the prospects the vessel men are waiting and are not willing to accept the rates ofered by either the iroa ore pro- ducers or grain shippers. OBITUARY. CHARLES LATIMER. The late Mr. Charles Latimer, civil engi- neer, who died suddenly at his residence last Sunday, was, during the early part of his eareer a member of the marine profession, and carried a hearty and cheerful recollec- tion of his nautical experience through life. The writer has good reason to remembar his extreme kindnessof heart and mind, ard his ever ready spirit to assist members of the fraternity in all cases brongbt under his notice. It was but the cther day in couver- sation with a seaman xcquaintance, he ex- pressed the belief that he could tack a square rigged ship just as smart and exact as he had done forty years ago. The city has losta splendid citizen, and his acquaintances an iuestimable, friend. Vessel Owners! The Cheapest Bedding Supplies! The consumption of coal by the latter is very great and eats up the most if not all of their earnings. If oil can be safely used as fuel on board of steamers and with as good results as that given by coal, it will do much to reduce a large item of expense to all steam vessels. ‘he Russian Admiralty has ordered a number of their gun boats to be fitted with furnaces suitable for burning oil. And it is stated that this fuel is likely to be adopted by a line of steamers between England and Australia. That these experiments will be watched with interest there isno doubt, and if successful they will havea large following among all classes of steam vessels. ‘ a THE CHASE FOG WAHIS(LE MACHINE. The dangers attending fogs on the lakes are well known to all of our sailor men, and all know that the regulations require that during fogs, a signal shall be sounded at regular inter- vals. Under the old system of fog signals, the serviee and close attention of a man was re- quired at all times while navigating in a fog, and this service bécame so monotonous that Mr. Chase, engineer of the steamer Ohio, ‘devised and patented a machine which, when atiached to the engine, would sound the fog whistle auto matica'ly. The cut shows the position of the machine and its action on the whistle, Are furnished a3, Comfortadles, Blankets, Table linens, Towels, ete., as well{y~ Sheets, Pillow-cases, are sewed to order, at shortest notice _g}ior 20 per cent less than big ex- pensive establishments are accustomed to charge. Owing to the extreme small ex- penses of the Boston Dry Qoods Store of Kohn & Co.; 213 Detroit st., second door from corner Pearl it is them only_geqwho save 20 per cent unnecessary taxes. Give a ’ During theseason of 1887, the following named’ steamships ‘thirty “in number’? were ‘supplied second door from corner vf Pearl. _ having yiven entire satisfaction ‘in each “and ev- | ~— ery case, we refer with’pléasure, al] those inter: |. i ef ‘ ested, to the owners. and masters of said steam~ entuny M ayazine rs. $3) Ma Ree hind ete LO : Wilson Transit Line, Cleveland,.O.—Steamers |. . With the November, 1887. issue The Century Spokane, Wallula, Kasota, Tower, Yakima, | commences its thirty-fifth volume with Missoula, Sitka. | _ [circulation of almost asnee. N Western Transportation Co., Detroit, andthe Lifé‘ot Linco Mich.—Steamers Fayette Brown, R. J: Hacket, pao Cleveland Transportation Co., Cleveland, O.—Steamera Sparta, Havanna; Vienna, Towns- end. . : ; i Bradley Transportation Co., Cleveland, O.— tea mers City of Cleveland, Henry Chisholm, Superior, E. B. Hale, M. B, Grover, J. 8. Fay, R. P. Ranney. ‘ H.'H, Brown, Cleveland, O,—Steamers Smith Moore, Chas. J, Sheffield, ; Owen line, Chicago, Il].—Steamers Ira H Owen. : Cambria, Outhwaite, Saml, Mather, B.. B. Rhodes, Columbia, Aurora. ; The machine is at all times under the contro! of the captain. — That is if it is necessary that a signal shall be given to a passing steamer, or for any other purpose; the mo:yent the captain pulls his wire, the fog whistle machine is thruwa out of gear and will not resume its sounnig un- til it is permitted to do sq by the master, . Following is the report presented by the com- mittee. © aie $ To the President and Board of Supérvising Inspectors of Steam Ve ssels. Sede Your committee to which was referred the “Chase Fog Whistle machine” beg leave to re- tort: That we have carefu'ly examined the same and find that it blows at regular intervals, belug worked by the, engine, thereby insuring regular and continuous blasts for any length of time that may be required und’ would redom- mend it or similar device to owners of steam vessels as an additional safe guard to naviga ‘| quainted, Under the caption j LINCOLN IN THE WAR, | the writers now enter on the more important part of their narrative, viz: the early years of the War and President Lincoln’s part therein. SUPPLEMENTARY WAR PAPERS, following the “battle series” by distinguished genera's, will describe interesting features of army life, tunnéling from Libby prison, narratives of pe adventure, etc. General Sherman will write on “The Grand Strategy of the War.”” .. KENNAN ON SIBERIA, Except the Life of Lincoln and the War Arti- cles, no more important ser es has ever taken by The Century than this of Mr, Kennan’s. With the previous preparation of four years’ travel and study in Russia and Siberia, the author under- took a journey of 15,000 miles for the specia! in- vest gation here required. An introduction from the Russian Minister of the Interior admitted him to the principal mines and prisons, where he be- came acquainted with some three hundred state | exiles—Liberals, Nihilists, and others—and the series will be a startling as well as accurate reve- )tions by the artist and photographer, Mr. George A Frost, who accom: Tad ihe author, will add greatly: to the value of the acticles, tee A NOVEL BY EGGLESTON | with illustrations will run through the 4d. 8. Lupsoox; Se GEO. H. SrARBUOK, > Committee. W. D. Roprnson. i The manufacturers are the Chase Fog Whistle acMhine Co., corner of Elm and Spruce streets, Cleveland, O. Gite , —-_oOoO oe = Tue Duluth Herald, commenting on the views of local vessel men, shows that luke carriers and ore produces are still far froma settlement of their differences regarding freight rates and from the feeling displayed by the heavy vessel owners it js evident they are not discouraged nor anxious. They agree that “there is to be a good season in the | ( iron ore business, although neither ore pro- fits nor the profits of the mines will reach the figures of last year. Railways have made money and traffic is constantly growing and | § shorter fictions will appear every month, ' MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES trial order to KOHN & CO., 213 Detroit st., kien Pie | ane lation of the exile system. The many illustra. ~ ear. Shorter novels will Tollow iby Gable ana ceaghrrs ;