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10 MARINE REVIEW. : EE ere ne en aa evn aaa In General. The new ore docks at Huron are being cleared with a view to receiving ore jnst as soon as possible. Now it is said that Capt. Alexander McDougall when in Europe in 1874 got his ideas of the whales from Winans’ cigar shaped craft about which a great deal has been said of late. Wilson & Hendrie, proprietors of the Montague Iron Works, Montague, Mich., have closed a contract with Captain Charles Gnewuch of Manistee, Mich. for a fore and aft compound marine engine 18 and 36 inch cylinders by 30 inch stroke, to be placed in a new steamer being built at Manitowoc, Wis. by Burger & Burger. The boat is to be ready for sea by Oct. 15th. 1891. Buffalo keeps up the heavy movement of coal begun early in the season. Shipments in June aggregated 396,083 tons, against 327,670 tons for last month and 212,224 tons for June 1&90. ‘The total of shipments this season amount to 812,290 tons, more than any previous record for the first three months of navigation. last year a total of 547,611 tons was shipped dur- ing April, May and June. In mentioning the property of the Coxheath Copper Com- pany recently an error was made in stating that some of the stock could be purchased. No stock is for sale, nor will be for the present, and the only way the stock can be obtained is by pur- chasing bonds, 50shares of stock being given as bonus to each bond, making a valuable security in addition to the investment on the bond, which is excellent in itself. Boatmen of the Ohio river are complaining about the pro- posed enactment of a law providing that no person be licensed as master of any craft exceeding one hundred tons burden, unless such person shall have served at least one year in the capacity of mate. Such a regulation would work no hardship to anyone in the lake trade. The masters of lake vessels give many years to the service before being placed in charge of a boat. The announcement is made by Vice President E. C. Smith of the Central Vermont Railroad, operating the Ogdensburg Transit Company, that Manager F. W, Baldwin of the transit company has been appointed assistant general superintendent of the Vermont Central Railroad. Mr. Frank Owen in addition to his general duties as general freight agent of the Ogdensburg Transit Company is appointed superintendent of that company. Vessel owners are complaining that Buffalo docks still insist on charging 18 cents a ton for unloading ore, although the rate - was long ago reduced to 16 cents at all other ore receiving ports. If it is true that Buffalo will not give a rebate on ore already re- ceived or reduce the price, such a proceeding on the part of the dock managers will certainly result to the disadvantage of that port. Vessel owners will not stand the long water haul with no difference in the freight rate and a high unloading charge. The days when state directories were considered to be an or- nament or luxury have gone by and they are now considered by most business men a great convenience if not a necessity. The state directory is to business houses what the city directory is to the resident of the city. ‘The one in mind is the Ohio State Directory, published at Cincinnati and for accuracy of addresses its pages are unimpeachable. A manager of a prominent mer- cantile agency questioned its correctness, compared it with his agency reports and ended his criticism by ordering a copy of the directory. Address the Williams Publishing Company, Cincin- nati, for particulars. Some flour was shipped from Buffalo to New York by way of the Erie canal, a few days ago. It was the first shipment of flour by canal since 1886 when Pillsbury sent forward several cargoes for the purpose of bringing the lake and rail lines to his way of figuring rates. About all the northwestern flour, ex- cept that of the Imperial mills which made the shipment by canal, is brought down on through rates by the lake lines having rail connections for the seaboard. ‘These lines thus control the busi- ness practically. ‘The Imperial people send their flour down on outside steamers, and therefore are under on obligations to ship by rail from the lake terminal. ‘The rate by canal is said to be less than one half that by rail.—Buffalo Courier, The Roberts Safety Water Tube Boiler Co. of 18 Courtland Steet, New York, and Red Bank, New Jersey, report a very favorable season. ‘They have sold seventy-one of their boilers this season, so far, with more orders coming in, and all the boil- ers have given thorough satisfaction. Three hundred and forty- one of these boilers have been sold altogether and the works now cover over 12,000 square feet of ground and contain many ex- pensive and special tools for building the boilers, which are made of special material manufactured for this purpose only. They report four or five boilers still remaining 10 stock as a result of change in dimensions by some of their customers. Parties re- quiring a good boiler, all ready for immediate delivery, would do well to communicate with them. They are highly approved by the United States Inspectors. You wanted to place some advertising and you did not know exactly how, when or where to place it. You decided to await developments. About this time along came a silk-hatted in- dividual with a ‘‘pig'in a poke.’’ You naturally wanted to see the pig before you paid $2.00 or $3.00 for 2, 3, 4, OF 5 inches of its space, but the s.-h. individual was not paid to show the pig, he was paid to talk about the pig’s advantages and beauty, its capacity for rooting up business from pole to pole etc. The chances are even that the pigs in the pokes got all the money you expected to spend for advertising and more too. You nat- urally expected to gct some return just enough to encourage you if nothing more. But you never even heard a grunt from any of the pigs. Next year an advertising solicitor has to crawl over the transom to see you and even though he is leading the pig and shows him to you, you wont invest. You lose the advantages to be gained by judicious advertising in proper fields and the proper mediums lose your business. That is wrong, but but happily a means has been provided for righting it. Senda dollar to Rowell & Co., New’ York, for a ‘‘knife’’ that will cut the poke and the pigs wide open. The knife is labeled ‘‘Geo. P. Rowell & Co’s Book for Advertisers.’’ It mentions about one third of the papers published; cuts out a boquet that will please the advertiser with its lasting fragrance. Affairs in Admiralty. CLAIM FOR GENERAL AVERAGE. A libel to recover upon a general average bond by Shoe et al. vs. The Low Moor Iron Company of Virginia et al. was heard by Judge Brown in district court, southern district, New York: The schooner Tantum, loaded with iron and drawing g feet of.’ water, was in a gale inside of Deleware breakwater. She parted kledge and starboard anchors,but drifted in the trough of the sea with her port anchor until she was within 250 yards of the outer bar, when the master to save life, cut the cable and let the vessel run head on to the shore, where she grounded and became a total loss, part of the cargo being saved. A bond had been given by the cargo owner to pay any amount found due on general average and the libel was filed to recover $2,939, the amount charged against the cargo by average adjusters. It appeared that when the cable was slipped, the vessel would have drifted on the bar within five minutes; that there was no reasonable pro- bability that she would have sunk before reaching the bar, if the cable had not been cut; that its only effect was to drive her upon the bar earlier, and that the cutting of the cable was no benefit to cargo or vessel. Therefore it was held that no claim of gen- eral average arose. c DUTY TO CHARTERER’S MEN. The case of Doyle vs. the Jersey City was also heard in dis- trict court, southern district, New York. ‘The libelant was em- ployed to put up a refrigerator in the hold, and leaving work at midnight he fell down the hatchway, claiming that the hatch was not covered and no lights were maintained. It was held that the ship was not under duty to supply lights or cover hatches for charterer’s men, nor was libelant’s fall due to lack of light but to his own negligence, therefore the libel was dismissed. A large pontoon for the 120,000 ton floating derrick was successfully launched June 4 at Cramp’s ship.yard. ‘This is one of the largest derricks in the world, andas it was built on the side of a ninety foot basin and was sixty-two feet wide, the problem of launching was one of great interest. __ Jury Fourr Excursions: The Erie Railway Co. will sell excursion tickets to and from all stations on the N. Y. P. & O. division July 3d and 4th, returning July 6th, at one fare for the round trip. I FROM.END TO END. ‘The entire length of the line, tickets 3 will be- sold at one fare for the round trip, July 2nd, 3rd and 4th, between any two stations on the Nickel Plate. CORES es