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£ Ghe Marine Record. tunnel so that a sufficient depth way be| the land militia, And, not least in import-| units of the naval militia organizations to) LAKE CARRIERS’ ASSOCIATION Marine Hecora. gained to permit the passage of the largest} ance, they would bring the ravy into | vessels owned or fitted out in the port where} —- vessel on the chain of lakes, leaving a foot] closer contact with the people, make it a sty organizations may be recruited. re oneaicke prsolinsingpttetydierrsmcais oe = ‘ Pablished nvely: intdrsaay. é 144 ‘Sihetioe or two of water to spare mnder the keel, s0| living reality in many Places where it is : ith oe a system as peace alg tar ee one ne ee a ee { Street, [Leader Building) Cleveland, 0. that vessels wonld have every chance. We}! now but aname, disseminate a knowledge of | in case of an emergency wi 1 have but to aanvi0e RENDEAKG:T0/1FR Puma tee | would suggest that the roof of the tunnel] the capabilities and needs of the service at| notify the selected steamers to proceed to their SE ea aia inc PaoliaTK Gee | AA POMEROY EDITOR AND PUB | be lowered <o as to leave clear tweuty feet} places where the people who think at all) ports of fitting cut; the contractors for altera- GENERAL WELFARE* meee : when dredged at any time in ‘the future, | about it imagine a naval officer’s sole duty is; tion may at once take in hand the work with BOARD OF MANAGERS, 1888. BRANCH OFFICE: thereby benefiting not only the vessel inter- | to sail a ship, or point to the rapidity with| which they have familiarized themselves; the tle meee EO age a See oh ae ! 252 South Water Street, Chicago, Mlinois, | oo. nut thejcity at large, and commerce gen- | which a fleet wes improvised under abnormal | navigating naval reserve complement can, if} W. Butnarn, - oo + = Buffalo) NJ ¥! he glee 4 grt i eT erally. As one of these large steamers car-| circumstances a quarter of a century ago, for- | necessary, be made complete, the guns stured i a CarDwel.t, President eae Bumaic! ae a | TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: ry the freight of several small vessels, the| getting the special service for which alone it| or in charge of the 1 cal naval reserve artil- ea Pe estckl ae miei tate a = a | ne year, postage paid... sserssees ssserers+$2,00 | traffic of the city would. be less, interfered | was organized, and the complete absence of a | lery battery be hoisted in. the battery take up Fraxx J. Firtn, Vice ‘President, - Erie,Pa, * : } Six months, postage paid.. 1.00 | with, if this class of vessels could use the| naval opponent. Any interest taken in the | its quarters on bc ard, and in avery few days|¥" 4 fuxwa, ae Glovelana! . Invariably n advance. pert to advantage, and a practical consider-| organization, increase, and improvement of | the ship could take tothe sea or assume her a:- as hee Witson, Vive President, Ne Cleveland, 0. h THE MARINE RECORD can ve found for ation of this sort should carry a weight] the auxiliary forces would naturally redound | signed duties, efficiently manned, armed, and Tames SW. MC Vice President, =Detrolt ich, p / sale by the following news dealers : with the corporate body, who are empow-|} +o the benefit of the parent service ; and that | equipped, and backed by the strong feeling of | ;2yes paviosox, - - = - Ba te Mi CLEVELAND, O,—G. F. Bowman, corner of ered to enact laws and ordinances for the/| such interest will be taken is reasonable. to| local pride and interest that would be sure to 08 ee tee eee ped i. } Pear] and Detroit Streets. welfare of the city; and as the owners of| suppose, judging fro1 the great number of | follow her furtunes. mi : Ina H. Owsn, Vice President, « ie Chicago, TU, Evans & Van Epps, Superior street, Cleveland. the Washington street tunnel are contem-! persons throughout the country with nautical] The scheme outlined is in accordance with | oi vip Vance ot eae he ay Milwecker Win | R. A. Castner, 254 Detroit street, Cleveland. plating extensive repairs, the present time} tastes. ‘The same reasons which draw men the traditions and policy of this nation. It} py mee be atoms ¢ gn Minn. ASHTABULA HARBOR, O.—C. Large. would be most fitting to carry out the de-! of ability, position, and wealth into the ranks | proposes no increase in the pers one of the | Jas. Canny EVANS, Treasurer, - Buffalo, N.Y: CHICAGO, ILL,—Joseph Gray, 9 West Ran-| sired improvements. or other rerationships with the national guard | regular navy, but places the main reliance for MARINE RECORD—OFFICIAL PAPER. ae t FORE AND AFT. The schooner F. A. Georger is laid up ag Detroit. . Most of the Chicago Jomber fleet is ex- ERR Te aN of the states, will draw similar men with| increas d naval strength on an organized sea PROPOSED UNITED STATES NAVAL | jautical tastes into the reserve organized from | miliiia, the localities most interest d in the RESERVES. the naval militia, efficiency of such organizations bearing a A careful perusal of a recent article in} 4 gioge touch with the reguiar navy is|great part of the expense and labor of their the Maring RecorD descriptive of the sys- maintained by providing for a uniform sys Hin ntannGes: dolph Street. CHICAGO, ILL,—H. B, Hansen, 33 West | andolph Street. BUFFALO, N. Y.—Miss McCabe, Elk Street, near Ohio. tems of naval reserves, adopted by nations |, f Sears : ‘ ‘ Incidental! t is given to the § ‘ Reon : em of organization, instruction, and equip- : fally encouragement is g pected to Jay up this week. 5 DETROIT, MICH.—Connors’ Marine News which make the art of war a serious study» | ment under the control of the navy depart-| ship | uilding and ship-owning interests, and A $50,000 fishing company is applying for Co. and of the arguments by which they have| ont. the examination by a board of naval | inceutives are extended to the seafaring Classes | Quebec incorporation. MILWAUKEE, WIS.—T. S. GRAY, CO. 126 Wisconsin St. SAULT STE MARIE—J. P. Haller. ASHTABULA HARBOR—O. M. Kahne. ERIE, PA.—Reed Caughen, 816 State St. DULUTH, MINN.—C. F. Johnson, 323 West Superior Street, MARQUETTE, MICH.—J. A. Vannier. ESCANABA, MICH.—Wm. Godley. ESCANABA, MICH.—George Preston. SARNIA, ONT.—D. McMasters. OWEN SOUND, ONT.—J. Sharpe, Jr. KINGSTON, 'ONT.—F. Nisbet, corner Brcok and Wellington Streets. been governed, will present euflicient rea-| mcers of candidates for commissions fr m | for improvement in their callings. sons why the views of the Navy Depart-|th¢ president; and the annual mustering of | ‘I'ne scheme is comprehensive in that it pro- ment coincide in general with the provis-| tho entire force into the service of the United | vides for an expansion equal to any possible ions of the bill introduced by Mr. Whit-|ciotes for a period of training on board |needs, and definitely assigns each unit of the thorne and now pending in Congress, he ship or in batteries, during which time it| proposed organizations to duties to be per” most important features of the bill are the would be an iitegral part wf the navy, with | formed in time of war. establishment of the right of the Govern-) yank, pay, and privileges, and subject to the} It is economical in that it will place atthe ment to the services of a certain portion of same regulations as officers and men of the| disposal of the government a strong, well- its citizens for duty in the navy in the event regulur service. trained naval force, second to none in the of war, and the provision for organizing | ‘po supply the nautical experience necessary | composition of its personnel, and will render and instructing a part of this available force | + omplete the complements of auxiliary ves-| a fleet of steamships, built by private enter- in the duties they would then be called up-|geis, and, if necessary to supplement the reg-| prise and maintained in ordinary trade in time on to pertorm. ular force, the second tranch is provided for. | of peace, immediately available for auxiliary The organizations provided for are volun- | T; will be known as the navigating naval re- | naval service on the outbreak of war, the cost tary and largely self-supporting and self-|serve, and is t> be composed of masters. | to the gvvernment being but nominal in view instructing. They are to be aided by money | m,tes, engineers, petty officers, seamen, and | Of the great national value of possessing such grants from the government in the shape Of | sremen of vessels of the mercantile marine and | @ reserve force of men and ships. pay and »llowances during the annual) \o)unteers from any of the classes enrolled in| If the number of trained men exceeds the drills; by the transfer of such materiel as | yaya) militia who may be found, by a board of | force required to supplement the regular naval can be spared from the navy, and by the | yaya) officers, to be physically and profes-| Strength and-man the auxiliary vessels, the details of officers and petty officers of the |, onajly qualified, and who are citizens of the| Surplus becomes available for manning the regular navy to direct the training, and | (nited States. These men will be enrolled in | Shore defenses or for other duties assigned by care for the government property. This | grades and ratings corresponding to those of |the president. The board of fortifications, force would be available for sea service 0n | the navy for which they may be qualified. | appointed under act of congress of March 8, national naval vessels, if called upon, and |'They will not be required to attend drills, and | 1885, in its report recommends an expenditure for furnishing the combatant compijement | will be subject only to annual examination by | of $126,377,800, of which $87,965,800 is for of auxiliary mercantile cruisers when | authorized officers to ascertain their continued | guns and mountings, $14,054,000 for torpedo armed for war service. In a comprehen- | fitness for duty, in consideration cf which eerste $18,875, 000 oe five cheat aie A isiataniee has hee Captai re sive scheme of coast defence its additional | they il receive an annual retaining fee, and her and the remainder for the necessary his ee i ia see ta pr A put in shape for active The Welland canal is to be open all day Sundays during the remainder of the season, The schooner William Home of Detroit will undergo $1,500 worth of repairs at Che- boygan. Two more boats and the L. M. and L. Transportation Company’s season is at an end. It has not been an overly proepems one. It is said that the Susquehanna mishap, cost pi the Anchor line, loss of time included, fully — $25,000. Cuarles Keegan, mate of the steamer Kiverside, has been succeeded by Gus Blin- key, of Wyandotte. The lake death record in October shows upa total of 23—drowned, 19; naturaleau 4; accidental, 5. It is expected that the contract for the Canadian Sault ste. Marie canal will be awarded this week. a Five steamers, ten schooners, and one barge changed hands in October. The cap. ital invested is $125,400, ; The barge C. W. Chamberlain, light, Collins’ Inlet, went aground at the Subscribers and others are respectfully invited : to use the columns of the MARINE RECORD | for the discussion of pertinent topics. Entered at the Post Uiice at Cleveland as second- class mail matter. CLEVELAND, 0O.. NOVEMBER 15. CLEVELAND VESSEL OWNERS’ ASSN’ ORGANIZED IN 1880. -TMembership, 13871 = ie inenign ea ent wou ne ae pac oe , Thomas Wilson, R. 1 Rees, J. H. Palmer, J. W. Moore, W. C. ined to tl SHIPPING A. R. Rumsey, 98 dock, Cleveland; Bennet, assistant, 98 dock, Cleveland; Wm. Reunick, ) Ashta- bula Harbor. MARINE RECORD—OFFICIAL PAPER. the aval militia, and the second com- lana tl en ice: posed o1 seafaring men pessessing the tech-| signed duies will require ahigh | nical training necessary for the efficient nautie: b management of ships and engines. who do From the naval militia it is proposed tojar:s will | ; organize two distinct corps, one for gunnery sailing-master . class of early, naval history, duties, to be called the Naval Re:erve|and will be entrusted with the navigating and Artillery, and one for torpedo work, to be watch-keeping duties, while the engine-room called the. Naval Reserve Torpedo Corps. | force will be required only to continue in the compact, local ized, The duties of the first-mentioned corps will excercise of their customary occupations. | the navy department in deciding that a force be confined to manning the guns on regular | The enlisted force for deck duties will organized, trained, and maintained as herein or auxiliary naval vessels. The duties of|be composed of thoroughly trained sea-| Outlined in a general way, appears to be the AS the second corps will be the manipulation | men of the merchantile marine, and prefera- oy Deco Com ae gene ection Lee : ae pal report. of torpedo armament, mobile and fixed. | bly the quartermasters, boa'swains, and mates opened on Thursday. with all their accessories, Both corps will| not qualified fér commissions. ‘he number CH Detroit and Cleve-| The old steam tug be liable for service wherever needed, at the | required is not large, but their duties are im-| land Steam Navigation Co., has issued special | Many New Yor = Bao, discretion of the President. rs portant, and efforts will be made to secure a| instructions to the ‘masters of that line ap- | t the Cholera Complete units, or tactical parts of units | sufficient number for quartermasters’, boat-| plicable when navigating in thick or foggy } —the battery, the gun crew, and the torpedo | swains’mates, and coxswains’ dutes. These| weather, a copyof which is printed below: crew—will be organized locally in sea-| duties, being purely professional, will not re-| To the Masters of the Detroit and Cleveland bcard, lake-side, or river-port towns; and|quire a knowledge of naval gunnery, anda| Steam Navigation o.’s steamers: lake front. when detailed for service will be kept to-|compulsory course of technical training in| GZNTLEMEN: We are admonshed by the | from etic Ry gether and not separated trom their own| that art can be dispensed with. numerous collisions between steamers running} Captain D. A. Mi officers. When naval vessels are furnished| In addition to the personnel of the naval| i foggy, or thick weather, that navigating at | son, have command ¢ for the instruction of the units, naval officers | reserve, the bill referred 10 provide sfor a re- | SUch times is extremely dangerous. Now, there- | palace steamer, City wil] command. serve of vessels, to be enrolled from such ves- | °'¢ iis my request and order, that you shall ty ote The naval militia branch is placed first in | sels of the mercantile marine as fills the re-| 20% *¥4 Our Steamers in thick weatber, unless | troit and Clevelan line. importance because it is upon the coast de-| quirements provided. In anticipation of leg. shea Santas pesky sce - oH agg Captain ‘D: vi say. fe ite ; . avvid collisions or other dangers incident there- fenders that the brunt of 2 maritime war |islation of this character, a system of inspec-| +, There may be eases when you know you are | @UC2 against the finishin would fall, and the men to bear the weight) tion of merchant steamers by naval officers | near a port, and which you could reach by pro- atthe end of Wellington of a foreign naval attack should bave the|has been inaugurated, as a result of which | eeediug very slowly and carefully, by using the burg, but th few best system of organization, drilt, and | there are already classed at the navy depart- | jeaq, etc., when this rule might be deviated, or, equipment that it is possible to give. ment, on the auxiliary navy list, a number of | in case of being on a da ngerous coast, or place, | The organizations being local, the officers | vessels suitable for cruisers, transports, dis- | where your steamer is in danger, when you will and men would have an intimate knowledge | patch, torpedo, and gun vessels, with accurate | be expected to exercise your own best judge- of the capabilities of their immediate neigh-| data ag to their capabilities. The bill also| ment. I know you are all running on schedule borbood for oftense and defense, and would provides that provisional contracts may be| time, and it is your ambition to keep onit, But keep pace with the immense growth of the} be much more valuable at such a place than | made with the owners of suitable vessels for | 1 would rather you would be behind time, than landed interests, knowing full well that the | would a body of entirely strange seafaring|aterm.of years, by which the owners hold | ave you peril our steamers and the lives of pas- fact of Chicago being a lake port was the | men suddenly ordered to that service. them subject to call of the government, ata sengers on board, origin, and the standard of the city’s in-| Owing to the desire of every man to have| fixed price for sale or charter The scheme| bese instructions may be considered in- creasing industries. Hence the commercial | his own home in a condition of defense or| contemplated that the fittings for mounting valuable to seamen having charge of lives demand for large tonnage, and quick des-| state of preparation for war, the officers| the guns shall be placed on such vessels as are | #04 property on the lakes, tor, besides in- patch mean a smaller margin of profits to} and men of the organized part ot the naval|to be armed, that the guns’themselves shall |vencing the masters to a degree of care- the men that build and equip the finer class | militia could be trusted to instruct them-|be stored at convenient places, or placed in| fu/ness, they haye the direct authority to | by lake than they wat of vessels, and who are obliged to compete | selves as efficiently as the means placed at| charge of the local battery of the naval re.|¢xercise their discretion and seamanlike| are one or two who re’ with the railroad service in the transporta-| their disposal by the Government would |serve artillery, and that the plans for all nec.|1Ualities in all cases of emergency, while |; tion of freight around the chain of lakes, | allow. essary alterations shall be carefully drawn up | instead of receiving a sneering aliusion to a| off of the general ipm. having secured this large class of boats.| Appropriations and voluntary subscrip-|and filed with responsible firms under pro-| Protracted though arduous passage, they| ‘The Cunard ¢ The municipal authorities ought to take im. | tions to maintain and properly equip such | visional cuntracts. may now enjoy the moral support of the! collision with the G mediate steps toward improving the harbors | organizations may be reasonably expected} To each vessel aproper assignmentof thena- | OW ners of the vessel. There would be less| Ruzer off T and-rivers so as to accommodate them. from local governments or individuals | valreserve forces will be made, efforts being di- | danger and fewer accidents if rules such as| Part of the ere’ We hope that Chicago, at least, will un- | whose moneyed interests they are intended | rected towards retaining the officers and men, | the above were in more general use and in | fate of the remainder an dertake to facilitate the important interests | to protect. As an always available, efficient | for both deck and engine-room duties, of the | the interest of safety to life and property. | the Nantez is involved by placing the contract at an early | land force, these organizations could be| navigating naval reserve who are already | We heartily commend these regulations to | During O¢ date for lowering the Washington street | used in emergencies to re-enforce or replace | serving on the vessel; also to assign the : CHICAGO KIVER TUNNEL. The Washington street tunuei at Chicago has, for several years past, been an obstruc- tion to loaded vessels using the river, and the action taken recently by the managers of the Lake Carriers’ Association at Buffalo is to be commended. Every owner, whose vessel draws fifteen feet of water, or any- thing over that draft, is directly interested in the resolutions framed by the Lake Car- riers’ Association, and consequently should give all the assistance in bia power to bring about the desired change, even if it involves a complete reconstruction of the tunnel. All vessels on chartering to a large port like Chicago expect to receive facilities which are not obtainable in smaller and less fre- quented ports, this assumption very often influencing the captains and owners to ac- cept a limited margin on the 1ate of freight; whereas, if detention, lightering, towbills, and other expenses are liable to accrue, a more liberal rate of freight would bej re- quired from merchants and shippers. Sma! ports hail with pleasure the advent of extra tonnage, and endeavor to facilitate the busi- ness, interests of the vessels, who bring trade and influence to their town, The citizens of Chicago recognized these valu. able points and have endeavored in the past to give their marine trade all due attention with every possible convenience so as to THE moenager ot Dougall of Daluth, Mi at Wilmington, Del., a cigar boat to carry 25 009 bush vessels in. port, and m little over 26 hours, y the way? It is reported at Chicago receivers are actually Discs meting hia the lake marine,