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= pee = THE MARINE RECORD. 8 _ LAKE CARRIERS’ ASSOCIATION. To consider and take action upon all general questions relating to the Navigation and carrying business of the Great Lakes and the waters _ tributary thereto, with the intent to improve the character of the service rendered to the public, to protect the common interests of Lake Carriers and promote their general welfare. OFFICERS FoR 1891. 8. D. Caldwell, President...... . Buffalo, N. Y. Frank J. Firth, Vice Presiden! Erie, Pa. Thomas Wilson, Vice President. . Cleveland, UO; P. P. Miller, Vive President. Buffalo, N. Y. Ira H. Owen, Vice President Charles H. Keep, Secretary. . Buffalo, N. ¥. ae Carey Evans, Treasuro . Chicago, Ills. BOARD OF MANAGERS, James Ash. . Buffalo, N. Y. W. Bullard, . Buffalo, N. Y. S. D. Caldwell, Gen. Ming’ ‘xr. Western Transit Co. Buffalo, . Y. E.T. Evans, Gen, Mng’r. Lake Superior Transit Co. Buffalo, N. Y. John Gordon, Gen, Mng’r. Northern §. 8. Co.. Buffalo, N, Y. W. P. Henry, Gen. Mng'r. Lehigh Valley Trans. Co Buffalo, N. Y. PLP. Miller.. Buffalo, N. Y. Frank J, Firth, President Anchor Line. . Erie, Pa. M. A. Bradley. . Cleveland, 0. . Chicago, Ills. HH. M. Hanna Cleveland, 0. Thomas Wilson, Manager Wilson's Line: . Cleveland, 0. Harvey H. Brown. Cleveland, 0. A.W. Colton... W. Livingstone, Jr., Mng James Davidson . Toledo, 0 Detroit, Mich. Bay City, Mich. Michigan Nav. C Ww.M. Egan . Chicago, Ills. R. P. Fitzgeral Milwaukee, Wis, David Vance. Milwaukee, Wis- Alex. McDougal Duluth, Minn. FP. W. Baldwin . Ogdensburg, N. Y. THE MARINE RECORD.—OFFiciAL PAPER. BUFFALO, N.Y. Special to The Marine Record. A waterway to the coast is simply ridiculed here, as it would let the foreign element into competition with our otherwise well protected lake trade. The Lake Pilots’ Aid Association has about completed the fitting up of their new rooms at No. 37 Main Street, and they have held their first meeting there. The rooms are very commodious and well adapted to the needs of the society. A new excursion company has been formed here to build a steamer for service on the Niagara River, she is to be of composite construction. Mr. John C. Level, who more than to any other man is due the popularity of sightseeing at Niagara, heads the enterprise and the legal adviser of the company is David F, Day. Russell & Watson, the well-known firm of signal lamp manufacturers and stove makers, are furnishing the bulk of the marine trade around the lakes with their reliable and well made goods. It is well known that what costs nothing is good for nothing, and the firm believe in sup- plying only first-class goods so as to keep a “cinch” and permanence on their well-earned reputation, Senator Hoar is preparing to use the information ob- tained in his tour as chairman of the Committee on Trade Relations with Canada, to introduce and push a bill di- recting the Secretary of War to inquire if any discrimin- ation against grain for American ports going through the Welland Canal is practiced, and if such is found, the Sec- retary is authorized to retaliate by imposing similar tolls on grain for Canadian ports that goes through the St. Mary’s and St. Clair Flats canals. Marine business is very dull here just now. Vesselmen talk as though the best freights were coming early this season. There is already ademand ‘for grain carriers, and so much of the crop is still West, that a fair rate of freight is likely to obtain well along after the opening. An offer of $1 for vessels to bring ore from Escanaba, was reported here this week, though vesselmen did not appear inclined to takeit. Last season the vessels got taken in on their contracts, the daily charters aver- aging higher, and in 1890 the vessels under season char- ters were delayed and the ore given to vessels on a lower freight; demurrage was out of the question, and conse- quently the season charters held the vessels down to a bare living. Secretary Keep, of the Lake Carriers’ Association, is back from Washington, where he went to look after the lighthouse bill in connection with the secretary of the Cleveland Vessel Owners’ Association. He has sent out circulars to the 38 business organizations that were rep- resented at the Detroit Waterways Convention, urging them to send delegases, as agreed at the coavention, to the joint hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee and the House, River and Harbor Committee, which will take place on January 30th. The subject to be taken up is the proposition of Gen. Poe for deepening the lake pass- ages to 20 or 21 feet. The Detroit convention pushed the matter as far as possible, and now another step is to be taken before these committes in Washington, sje TORONTO, ON’. the Murine Record. airs ace being made to the steam-barge Africa and Work on the new steamer for the Toronto and Port Dal- housie route is being pushed forward very rapidly, and she will be ready for business early in the season. Mr. J. A. Beatty of the Northwest Transportation Co., was in the city last week, and is well pleased with the business done by the steamers of the company during the past season. Copt. H. O. Jackson of the steamer L, Shickluna has been laid up with a very severe attack of the grip, but I am glad to see that he is once more able to be around, and congratulate him on his recovery. Capt. Thomas Taylor of Kingston, Inspector for Inland Lloyds, is at present in the city holding his annnal survey of the steamers laid up here, for the purpose of giving them their insurance rating for next season, The Richelieu and Ontario Company are adding a uew steamer to their fleet. The boat is now on the stocks at Chest- er, Pa, She will run between Kingston and Montreal, and will be aday boat only. She is of the same general dimensions as the boats already on the route, but will be fitted up with all the latest and most improved equipments. She will be a twin boat and about 150 feet in length. Mr. A. M. Robertson of Hamilton, the well known ship- builder and owner of the propeller St. Magnus, fell down the hatchway of that steamer last Tuesday, while making some repairs. As he did not go home at his usual hour, his sons set out to look for him and after a long search found him ly- ing insensible in the hold. When picked up, it was found that his right arm was broken and he had suffered such a se- vere shock that he died the following moruing. His family have ihe sympathy of the entire community, as the deceased was held in the highest respect by all classes. A meeting of steamboat managers was held here last week to arrange for the coming summer the tariff which will operate between themselves and the railways. Mr. T. P. Carpenter, Buffalo, of the Lake Superior Transit Company, was in the chair, Mr. D. MeNicoll, Montreal, represented the C. P. R., Mr. G. 8. Beli, of Montreal, appeared forthe Grand Trunk, while the steamboat companies represented were: Lake Super- ior Transit Company, North-West Transportation Company, Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company, Niagara Naviga- tion Company, Empress of India, Great Northern Transit Company, Lake Ontario Steamboat Company, North Shore Navigation Company, Muskoka and Georgian Bay Navigation Company, and Ottawa River Navigation Company. The rates which held good last year were adopted for 1892 without any change. Sparra. ere ee FLOTSAM JETSAM AND LAGAN Last season 4,563,472 ‘tons of freight were carried through the New York State canals. Mr. Thomas Myles the veteran coal dealer and vessel owner, of Hamilton, Ont., died Monday, in his 81st year. Lieut. Hodgkinson of the Bristol Naval Reserve, and the members of the Veteran Seamen’s Benevolent Association, Cleveland, O., have offered their services to the Secretary of the Navy, in the event of war with Chili. At the annual meeting of the Dry Dock Associatiou of the lakes, held Jast week in Chicago, the following officers were elected: President, Frank Wright, Cleveland; vice-president, William E. Fitzgerald, Milwaukee; secretary and treasurer, H J. Mills, Buffalo. James Reid’s big tug Seagull started from Bay City last week toaid the schooner Minnehaha. When four miles from the mouth of the river, her wheel struck a sunken log, and all four blades were broken off. The weather became so cold that the tug was frozen in, and there she remains in a helpless condition. Seven of the crew walked ashore on the ice. Capt. James Reid says he will take a diver and put on four new blades and bring the tug back to port. Theice is from eight to twelve inches in thickness. The Canadian authorities state that in consequence of fre- quent complaints that sailing vessels on the lakes haye not been complying with the marine regulations which provide that side-lights should be protected by screens, which should extend at least three feet forward from the light, and be placed on the fore and aft line and be vertical; these regulations will be strictly enforced in the future. No side-light ought to be allowed to show across the bow, yet itis a well known fact that the majority of the tow barges and sailing vessels totally neglect this necessary precaution. It is reported that Boiler Inspector M. F. Chalk, of West Superior, has been offered $1,000, all expenses, and an insur- ance on his life for $14,000, if he will undertake a submarine search for the Pewabic, in which attempt Oliver Pelkey lost his life in November Jast. Agreement has also been made that if the vessel should be found, Chalk would be given one- half the proceeds of the sail of the cargo, which includes 555 tons of pure copper, worth, it is thought, over $100,000. He is yet undecided whether to accept the risky task, There is evidently an error in the above, as the cargo, as near as it can be ascertained, consisted of only 270 tons copper, 175 tons pig iron, 200 sheep skins, and 67 rolls of leather, with the usual amount of miscellaneous light freight such as was carried about thirty years ago. A bill of much interest to masters and shipowners has been introduced in the House by Representative Coombs of Brook- lyn, N, Y. It amends section 2,774 of the Revised Statutes (which requires masters of vessels arriving at a United States port to make, within forty-eight hours after arrival, to the col- lector of the district in which such port is situated, a report in the form of a manifest and containing all the particulars requir- ed to be inserted in and verified like a manifest), by providing that any master arriving at a port for orders, and whose port of discharge ur lading has not been declared, shall not be com- pelled to declare such port of discharge or lading within the forty-eight hours. It also amends section 2,807, Revised Stat- utes (which specifies what must be stated in the manifest), by providing that a vessel arriving at any United States port for orders may have it so entered upon the manifest in lieu of the name of the port of discharge and lading. 5 —<—$—— aD A A “KAPE HER NOR’-NOR’-AIST.” A rather good yarn is told by the master of a Sturgeon Bay canal tug-boat, which runs as follows: ‘A fellow has some pretty good jokes played on him, but I got played for a sucker in great style one day. It was a rather quiet day on the lake, there not being much of any wind, but the fog was thick. A couple of the tugs were down the lake ahead of me but I had hung around off the canal and had sneaked one vessel in dur- ing the day and was thinking if I could only catch another one and the other fellows didu’t get anything I’d have the laugh on them. Well after a while I run across a schooner in the fog, went alongside and asked him where he was -going. He said he was bound for Escanaba, and so I made up my mind that I could get him to take a tow through. I asked him if he didn’t want to go through the canal, and he said he didn’t know, and asked what the tow bill was, ete. I made up my mind I had a ‘cinch’ on that fellow all right. Now it just happened that there was a keg of beerin our ice-box that hadn’t been tapped so just to make things sure I asked the captain, who was an old Irishman, if he wouldn’t haye some- thing to drink, Of course he didn’t refuse and one of the boys rolled out the keg, put iton the rail of the vessel, and tapped it. I felt just as sure of that tow as if I had her line, of course. Well we went through the keg all right and the captain began to get a little ‘boozy.’ About the time we got down to the bottom of the keg what does he do but say. ‘I guess I’l] be turnin’ in and get a bit av slape, I’m much ob- and then he sings out to the wheelsman, ‘Kape her nor’-nor’-aist,’ and went below. I fired the empty keg onto the schooner, think- ing he might as well have the whole shooting-match, and got back onto the tug. That fellow had a great head on him all right. liged to yez, young man, fer ye’re company,’ ——— A MACHINE TO NAVIGATE ON ICE. During the past week a stock company has beer formed in this city says the Sturgeon Bay Kepublican for the purpose of building a craft designed to create something of a revolution in our means of communication with the outside world during the winter season. The machine is the invention of Captain Ed. Cox, of this place, who has been working on the scheme for several years past, and who ias finally got it in such shape that all the mechanical experts by whom it has been examined have pronounced it a success. The aim of the inventor has been to produce something that would be operated by steam power, that would rua on ice or ordinary winter roads, aud that would carry a load and at the same time make a good rate of speed. The foundation of the ice boat, as it may with propriety be called, is two bob-sleighs, made very eubstantial and larger than usual, being 8 or 10 feet wide and a corresponding length, The machinery used to drive the craft will consist of a pair of 7 by 9 engines. The craft will be propelled by means of two large wheels, about six feet in diameter which are placed a few inches apart on the ex- treme end of the forward sleigh. These wheels are heavy and about a couple of inches wide at the tires, being shod with iron spikes long enough to take hold of the ice, These wheels are connected with the crank shaft of the engine by a sprocket wheel and chain, being geared so as to make 100 turnsaminute. The large propelling wheels are set in a bearing which allows the sleigh to lift up when it strikes snow or obstructions of any kind while the wheels cut through till they find a solid foot- hold. The machine is simple and it certainly seems as if the craft had simply got to go. It is steered by the hind bob, a wheel being arranged for that purpose. It is proposed to build a boat 28 or 80 feet long, with a cabin for passengers on the rear end and also room to carry freight. A speed of 20 miles av hour is claimed and it is calculated that the boat would have no difficulty in taking the route run by the steamer Moore in the summer time and making the round trip in about eight hours. It can also be used on any ordinary road that has the necessary width. As stated before a com- pany has been organized here and one of the boats will be con- structed immediately it being the intention to get it ready for trial in about two weeks, If the scheme works and we see no reason for thinking the contrary, it will be a big thing for {bia part of the country in the winter. s a eo a cr Ex-Conaressman Wick1am of Norwalk is at atin a looking after the interests of Ashtabula. The navigation inte od ests of Ashtabula desire an appropriation of $315,000 Woextent d the piers and to dredge the channel to deep water. An author ey ization of the expenditure is all that is asked for, ee