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vad . THE MARINE RECORD. 9 desirable changes and improvements, and in this con- nection the system of advancement by promotion in the service of skilled keepers to superintendents and inspect- - orsis of great importance, strictly on the lines of good service, and identifying itself with the best disciplined service systems ever advocated. Whether the White Fish Point life saving station is endorsed by the superintend: ent of the service, or otherwise, we hope that the petition to Congress from the Cleveland Vessel Owners’ Associ- ation, and other representative bodies asking for a sta- tion to be erected at White Fish Point, also that tele- phone or telegraph communication be established be- tween the neighboring stations will be acted upon, and the improvements granted, especially is the connection desirable, as we understand the stations were supplied with instruments as far back as 1889, but there seems to have been no provision made for using them and they still lay there representing a useless outlay to thé Government and an incumbrance to those working the stations in which, they were placad apparently for ornaments. SEEN pepeeemeenciniieeetieeneeemeeeeeeeee A PAINTING VERSUS PUNCH BOWL. “The picture that is turned to the wall,” is the title of a very pathetic song that during the past two theatrical seasons has been sung on every American stage and is doubtless familar to most of our readers. ‘The citizens of Detroit now have a picture of their beautiful city that may properly bear the title of the familar song that we cite, as the following correspondence will show. Mayor Pingree of Detroit wrote to Secretary Tracy of the navy in regard to presenting the new cruiser Detroit with an oil painting representing the city as viewed from the Canadian shore, and received the following reply: Washington, January 2, 1892. “Sir: In answer to your letter of the 24th ult., with the information that the municipality of Detroit desires to present a testimonial to the cruiser Detroit, and suggest- ing that a painting of the City of Detroit would be an appropriate gift, I have to state that the limited space in the cabin of the Detroit precludes the hanging of oil paintings, and the department would suggest for a pres- ent a piece of silver for the table, suitably engraved.” Very respectfully, B. L. Tracy, Secretary of the Navy. The Detroit Tribune suggests the following which would Jead us to infer that the Z’ribwne is dead on to the Navy's wants! “A punch bowl with the same engraving as was intended to be copied in colors on canvas would make a suitable present, and room would be found for it in the asmallest naphtha launch of the navy.” We cannot think that the people of Detroit meant to present the cruiser with a panoramic view of the Detroit River or any com- plete cyclorama of the city, whatever their measure of generosity was it must have suffered a severe chill at the hands of the Secretary, the cold cruelty of whose letter is only too apparent. EDP OO + oe TuE Montague Iron Works has just closed contracts for the following work: One fore and aft compound marine engine with cylinders 19 and 36 inches by 30 inch stroke for the steambarge Luella H. Worthington, owned by the Spalding Lumber Co., of Chicago, Ills. One fore and aft compound marine engine with cylinders 14 and 28 inches by 20 inch stroke; also one marine boiler 7 feet in diameter by 12 feet long, 130 pounds steam, for the A. Booth Packing Co., Chicago, Ills., to be placed in their new boat being built at Grand Haven, Mich., by the Grand Hayen Ship Building Co. One fore and aft com- pound marine engine with cylinders 10 and 20 inches by 16 inch stroke for C. Endress & Sons, Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, Mich., to be placed in their boat at Mani- towoc, Wis. All of the above engines are to be ready for duty May Ist. —_ rr OBITUARY NOTICES. The call seems to come more regular and closer for the early navigators of the lakes to take their departure. Among the old retired lake men, Capt. J. L. D. Kimball of Oswego, N, Y., had, for the past fourteen years, held quietly and easi- ly to his moorings in that brisk little city, and as quietly lifted his ground tackle and passed across the river to more perma- nent movrings last Saturday morning. The Captain went to his place of business early in the morn- ing, sat down in his chair, suddenly became unconscious and died before medical aid could be summoned, Capt. Kimball was born near Buffalo in the town of Ovid, in 1814, and spent most of his life on the Great Lakes. The first vessel he sailed was the Winnebago, then the Texas which he sailed for two years. He afterwards sailed the Dreadnaught, which was lost at Roundeau, Canada, He also sailed the Grace Greenwood and several other yessels, among them the Plymouth Rock, Young America and Northwestern, He Ae bought the tug Oswego at Philadelphia and sailed her for some _ time afterwards, finally selling her to the Government and de- livering her at New York city. The last sailing vessel the captain commanded was the bark Austen. After which he Z commanded the tug Admiral Porter. , = He was 78 years old and leaves a wife and two sons—Joseph Chicago, and Edward of Oswego. THE CLEVELAND FLOATING BETHEL, Few cities on the lakes are blessed with such an excellent institution, and so zealous a worker for chaplain and superin— tendent, as Cleveland is. Chaplain Jones, a former mariner of the hardest type, with all that the phrase impliel upwards of a quarter of acentury ago, is the well known pilot of this strictly conducted and prosperous home for the spiritual wel- fare of poor Jack. It is not seamen alone that chaplain Jones draws the line on religiously and charitably, but every known case of destitution is sufficient to make him clap on all top hamper, shake out canvas alow and aloft, and shape his course to relieve the ne- cessities of his fellow man—or woman, It matters not when, where or how he sights a signal of distress, he is not long in seeking and securing aid, and he seems to have acted consist- ently and persistently on the old truism of being a friend in need, The result of a quarter of a century’s pioneer workin the mission field for seamen is amply evidenced by the annual report of the Sailors’ Floating Bethel Society, showing results unequal- ed by any other similar city mission, and it is a matter of grat- ification that the arms and will of the chaplain are nobly strengthened by public sprited citizens who devote a portion of their time and substance to the carrying out of the noble work recorded in the annual report, which space forbids us to reproduce at this time. The following directors were elected for the ensuing year, all of whom, with the exception of Mr. 8, P. Fenn, were members of the old board: Capt. William Lacey, Capt. George Stone, Stiles H. Curtiss, Capt. C. Rewell, Capt. Thomas Wil son, Hon. George H. Ely, C. O. Scott, H, F. Lyman, Samuel Mather, Samuel Barker, Frank Rockefeller, Rey. J.D, Jones, W. D. Rees, J. L. Taylor, and $8. P. Fenn. The directors elected the following officers: Capt. Thomas Wilson, president; Capt. George Stone and Stiles H. Curtiss. vice presidents; W. |- D. Rees, treasurer, Samuel Barker, secretary; and Rey, J. D. Jones, chaplain and superintendent. SS ee ey ECONOMY OF LAKE TRANSPORTATION, A feature of the Detroit deep waterways convention was the important data brought out in the pamphlet prepared by W. A. Livingstone of Detroit, and entitled ‘‘The Twenty Foot Channel.’”? In this pamphlet Mr. Livingstone says: The ton- mileage of the lake marine for 1890 was 18,849,681,384 ton The average rate of freight received by the railroads of the United States per ton mile for the year ending June 30, 1890, according to the report of the interstate commerce com- mission to be issued shortly, was 9.41 mills. At this rate, the transportation by rail of lake cargoes would have cost $177,- 375,502, Freight rates on the great lakes during 1890, varied from 3.5 wills per ton mile to .3 mills per ton, the former rate being received on certain high class package freight, and the latter being the rate on coal over a certain route. The writer had at hand the statements of the freight earnings of several typical vessels engaged in the gross freight trade, whose average earnings for the season of 1890 vary from .8 mills to 1, mill per ton mile; this rate including such terminal charges as un- loading iron ore. The great bulk of the gross freights were carried at less than one mill per ton mile, and it is probable that the average rate on all freights was about 1.1 mills per ton mile. Assuming however, that it was as high as 1.2 mills, the cost of the total water transportation was $22,619,617.66, ora saving of $154,755,884 overthe cost of transporting the same freight by rail. From official figures given in the annual reports of the St. Mary’s Falls canal, it is shown that the saving by water transportation, over rail, of the traffic through the canal was $46,138,512 in 1889, and $55,234,648 in 1890, or a total saving of $101,373,160 in two years. miles. re AIDS TO LAKE COMMERCE. At the regular meeting of the Cleveland Board of Trade, Monday, Mr. B. L, Pennington read a petition largely signed by the vessel, iron ore and lumber interests, addressed to the Senate and Honse of Representatives, after which the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: “Resolved that the Board of Trade of Cleveland heartily in- dorses the petition to Congress, dated November 15, largely signed by members of this board and others representing the vessel, iron ore, grain and lumber interests on the Great Lakes, inviting attention to the urgent necessity of increasing aids to navigation on these waters, providing additional lighthouses and fog signals and the opening of channels, remoyal of ob- structions etc., as particularly set forth in said petition. “Resolved that this board recommends that adequate appro- priations be made at this session of Congress, to provide these safe guards to the vasl interests at stake. ‘Resolved that copies of the resolutions be sent to the Sena- tors and Representatives of Ohio in Congress, In addition to the foregoing, it was agreed at the Detroit Waterways Convention, that every lake organization should send a delegate to appear before the Congressional committees having lake matters in hand, und also to enlist the aid of the Members of Congress from the lake districts. Itis expected that fully 50 delegates will be in Washington soon, looking after the interests of the lakes, It is strange how much effeet a little judicious effort in this direction has produced. ‘The Lake Carriers’ Association was a pioneer in this direction, and it was largely through the re- presentation which that body kept in Washington several sea- sons, that attention was turned to the Jakes, It used to be the rule to ignore the lakes qnite generally, even when large sums were spent to keep alive the waning navigation of the Western rivers. It isdifferent now. The lakes are not getting their fair share yet, but they soon will. A strong effort will also be made to push through a bill em- bodying General Poe’s plan for a 20-foot channel in Detroit, St. Clair and Sault rivers, and the repeal of the line carrying projectile law. EEE oe FLOTSAM JETSAM AND LAGAN, John L, Jackson, builder of duplex hoisting and deck en- gines, Saginaw, Mich., is receiving a fair patronage in the line of his compact and powerful hoisting engines, orders for sey eral of the machines having been received since the close of navigation. The Escanaba River Land & Iron Co, are reported as hay- ing sold a block of 25,000 tons of iron ore for next season’s delivery at a good price, Negaunee capitalists control the new mine, from which the ore will be mined, and operations will be pushed during the winter. Capt. David Genaw of the barge Redfern, was fatally stabb- ed in Port Huron last week. John Diem, who had sailed mate with him for a number of years, is accused of the cutting. Drink seems to haye beeu the cause of the sad accident, as both men had been firm friends heretofore. The Americun Steel Barge Co. will compete for all classes of iron and steeltonnage. The whaleback type isa specialty, as the composite build is of the Wyandotte yard, of the Detroit Dry Dock Co. At the same time some of the best steel boats on the lakes were first built by the latter company. Ao old steamer known as the Greyhound lies at the bottom of the Gananoque river, and the Gananoque people are anx- ious to get the wreck out of the way. They put two charges of dynamite in the wreck last week and succeeded in knocking a few shingles off one of the churches some distance away.— Og- densburg Journal. Capt. J. W. Church of Harbor Island, in a communication to the Sault Ste Marie News, supports the theory of eleven year cycles in the rise and fall of the lake levels, being an ob- server for the Smithsonian Institute and in the Engineers’ topographical survey, Capt. Church speaks with some degree of authority and his experience goes to show that the water is spreading, as opposed to the reclaiming of land. Indian ac- counts dating since 1800 seem to verify the statements set forth by Capt. Church. Daring the past two years there has grown into prominence what is comparatively a new calling, that of an advertising writer whose business it is to write and to put in shape for others, advertisements of their business, until to-day there is scarcely an advertiser of any moment but who has his adver- tisements put up by the aid of members of this profession; some of the men in this line of business have gained almost world wide reputations as writers of advertisements, Among the newer mén in this field of labor is Mr. Frederick B. Goudy of Chicago, Ills., a sample of whose work may be seen in this issue of the Record, in the advertisement of Beeson’s Inland Marine Guide on page 15. Mr. Goudy has put together some very paying as well as attractive advertisements, and his future in the field seems promising. His work has been accepted and used by leading publishers such as Printers Ink, the Inland Printer, etc. No higher compliment can be paid his work, than to point ont the fact that in this advertisement referred to, he is employed by one who is, as all our -readers know, a writer of advertisements himself. ——EEE MILWAUKEE, WIS. Capt. Fred C, Starke having decided to concentrate his cap- ital in the shipyard business, has disposed of his interest in the floating property of the Milwaukee Tug Boat Line, which embraces six tugsand the steamers Veronica and Helena, to his partners, C. H, Starke, Conrad Starke, and William H, Meyer. ae the annual meeting of the E. M. B. A.; the following officers were chosen for the ensuing year: President, James Leisk; first vice-president, F, C. Mexon; second vice-president, W. P. McGregor; financial and recording secretary, John Mc- Sweeney; treasurer, F. C. Starke; marshal, John Cochrane; warden, John Gorman; sentinel, Henry Consaul; chaplain; William Jamieson. James O’Brien and Charles Gnewuch were elected members. The case of Capt. Elmer W. Oraine, the defaulting master of the steamer W. H. Wolf, came up in the shape of a resolution of expulsion from the lodge, which was adopted. ASHTABULA, 0. Captajn Kerwin has gone to Dakota on business. Activ® works on the Lakefront Docks will be commenced again soon, if the open weather continues. Laird & McLaren will try to navigate the new tug which they bave just launched, to Vermillion, before the lake freezes _ over, if it is going to do so this winter. The boiler and ma- chinery have been set,up. ‘ The recent visit of P. Y.& A. officials here, brought to light ~ the intention of the company to build a passenger depot at the _ foot of Market street, neur the site of the old depot. = Between January 1, 1891, and December 10, 1891, theswing — bridge was opened 12,093 times, for the passage of craft up and down the river. ‘This record alone shows what bridges over nnvigable channels may mean. ~ Mark Gary, Deputy Collector of Customs at this port, and nephew of Capt. M. , Gary, Collector of Customs for the — district, died very suddenly of pneumonia on Saturday night. Among vessel men he was the most popular deputy that was ever at the Harbor. 8