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| 23 - 4 | Pe lig DEVOTED. TO — tg "OMMERCE, : EW ESTABLISHED 1878. VOL. Xv. CLEVELAND, OHIO, SEPTEMBER 29, 1892. NO. 40. LAKE CARRIERS’ ASSOCIATION. To consider and take action upon all general questions relating to the navigation and carrying business of the Great Lakes, maintain nec- essary shipping offices and in general to protect the common interest of Lake Carriers and improve the charac- ter of the service rendered to the public. President: M. A. Brapury, Cleveland. Vice-Presidents : Joun G. Keita - Chicago, James W. Miuutsx, — - Detroit W, S. Brainarp, + ‘Toledo. F.J Fiera, . * Erie R, P. Frrzeeraup, Milwaukee. Tuomas Winson, Cleveland ALEXANDER McDoueatt, Duluth. P. P. Mivuer, Buffalo Secretary :- Cnarurs H. Keep, . Buffalo. Treasurer; Gro. P, McKay, Cleveland Counsel: Harvey D.Gouuper, - Cleveland. Board of Managers . F, W, Baldwin, = Ogdensburg. ‘Thomas Wilson, Cleveland, FE. h, - = Erie. H. M. Brailley, - Cleveland, W.E. Chapman, - Sandusky,’ Jas. Corrigan, Cleveland, C T. Morley, Marine City. H. M. Hanna, Cleveland. Alvin Neal, - + Port Huron. G P. McKey, Cleveland. James Davidson, - Bay H. G. Dalton, - Cleveland. Charles A. Eddy. - Bay City. Harvey H. Brown, - Cleveland. Alexander McDougal, Duluth, J. W. Moore, - - Cleveland, F, W. Gilchrist. - Alpena. —B. L. Pennitigton, Cleveland. J. C. Gilchrist, > Vermillion. Henry A. Hawgood, ~- Cleveland. JL. Higgie, ” - Chicago. =W.C Richardson, -- Cleveland. Jesse Spaulding, Chirago. S. D. Caldwell, - - Buffalo, 3.8. Dunham, Chicago. P Miller, Buffalo. John Keith. . ~ Chicago, E. T, Evans, - Buffalo. Joseph Austrian” Chicago, James Ash, - Buffalo. Wil Vance Milwaukee. W. Bullard, - Buffalo. RP. reerald, - Milwaukee, J. J. H_ Brown, - Buffalo, W, Livingstone Jr , - it W P. Henry, - Buffalo. James Millen . John Gordon, Buffalo. David Carter, W. 8. Brainard, Toledo, E M. Peck, 2 L. 8. Sullivan, - Toledo, - D.C. Whit'ey,. = - A.W Colton, Toledo. H & Hodge, 3 FINANCE COMMITTEE OF THE LAKE CARRIERS ASSOCIATION. The semi-monthly session of the finance committee of the Lake Carriers’ Association held on Monday was a short one, little business requiring attention. Secretary McKay was instructed to send the following letter to the Lighthouse Board : “We are informed that the new light house at Squaw Island, Lake Michigan, is finished allready to light, but some difficulty exists about funds for putting it in oper- ation at once. Wecall your attention to the great need for this light. For the coming two months of fall navi- gation the exhibition of this light will beof the greatest aid as the most important and useful guide through the northern passage where disasters have occurred nearly every fall, which might have been avoided with such a light in operation. We respectfully urge and request that if any plan or arrangement can be devised, that this light be put in operation at once.” A communication was received by President M. A. Bradley from Col. Jared A. Smith, Corps of Engi- neers, U. S. A., in charge of the 10th Lighthouse district, written at the request of the Lighthouse Board, stated that the main light at Cleveland is not necessary as a coast light, for the reason that vessels passing east or west can see the location of Cleveland more distinctly by the lights of the city than from the lighthouse, and that it does not serve any purpose in guiding vessels into the harbor,as there are lights for that purpose. The com- munication also stated that the main light at Erie has lost its usefulness since the establishment of the light on Pres- quile as a coast light. Col. Smiih asked the committee to express their opinion on the subject. The finance committee unanimously recommended that the Cleveland light be discontinued. They declined to make any recommendation as to the Erie light, but left the matter with the Buffalo vessel owners to pass upon. The Cleveland light has for years been superflu- ous. When the electric masts are lighted they can be seen at a distance far beyond the government light, and the lights on the piers and crib, and at the end of the breakwater furnish all the ranges necessary to get into the river safely. A very substantial brick cottage is located on the property, which has a large frontage, and f well sold, ought to net a good sum for the Lighthouse CONTRACTS FOR NEW LAKE TONNAGE. Abraham Smith at Algonac has commenced work on a schooner for the Comstocks of Alpena. ‘The new ves- sel will be 170 feet keel, 34 feet beam, and 11 feet depth of hold. She is designed specially for the lumber trade. Messrs. W. A. Hawgood, C. C. Canfield, and others, of Cleveland, O., have just placed an order with the F. W. Wheeler Company, of West Bay City, for the con- struction of a large modern steamer of the following dimensions: Length over all, 315 feet; keel, 291 feet; beam, 41 feet; depth of hold, 24 feet. She will be pro- pelled by a triple expansion engine with two 12x12 feet Scotch type boilers, and will be ready for service April1. She is about the size of the steamer C. F. Bielman, re- cently built at the Wheeler yard, and is larger than the William F. Sauber*and the George F, Williams. She is expected to carry 2,600 tons of ore on the usual limited draft. The engines for the new boat will be built at Bay City, and the boilers at Saginaw. The North Shore Navigation Co, have awarded a contract to Capt. John Simpson, of Owen Sound, Ont., for the building of a fine new steamer for the ‘‘Soo”’ route. She will bea propeller over 200 feet in length, with special qualities for making fast time, elegant ap- pointments throughout, and will cost, it is estimated, about $100,000. Her engines will probably be built by the Doty Engine Co., of Toronto. Capt. Bassett, of the North Shore company’s steamer City of Midland, has resigned from that steamer, and will superintend the building of the new boat. Capt. F. X. LaFrance, for- merly of the Carmona, and more recently of the Garden City, has been appointed to the command of the Mid- land, vice Capt. Bassett. The Hamilton Bridge and Tool Company, Hamilton, Ont., has signed a contract to, build a steel pleasure steamer for the Toronto and Niagara Navigation Com- pany. The work will be done at Robertson’s shipyard and the steamer must be in the water by April, 1893. She will bea side-wheeler, 311 feet long by 68 feet beam, and will have five boilers 21 feet by 11 feet in diameter, and a guaranteed speed of over 20 miles an hour. The steamer will be elegantly fitted up and will be licensed to carry 2,400 people on the route from Toronto to Lewis- ton and Queenston, connecting with the new electric railway. All the work will be done at Hamilton, except the engines, which will be built by a New York. firm. The cost will be $250,000. EEE A REVISION OF THE ST. MARY’S FALLS CANAL TOLLS. Assistant Secretary Spaulding, of the Treasury De- partment, has issued the following circular: ‘Tolls as provided by the department’s circular No. 145 of 1892 will be collected in the case of vessels pass- ing through St Mary’s canal consigned to American ports, but whose manifests state that the cargo is to be exported to Canada, either to be retained there or for export to a foreign country other than the United States. When the manifest shows that the final destination of the cargo is the United States or a foreign place other than Canada yia the United States, whether the mer- chandise be subject to shippers’ orders or otherwise, the collector will issue landing certificate accordingly unless upon investigation he shall find that the manifest was made out with intent to defraud the United States or to conceal the true final destination, and that the tolls were properly payable, in which case he will withhold his certificate and take measures for the collection of the tolls due.’ and remained awake throughout the night. TO SURVEY AND CLASS LAKE TONNAGE. The Record of American and Foreign Shipping has had an agent on the lakes for the past two years, during which time F. W. Wheeler & Co., of West Bay City, Mich., has had three steamers built under their rules and inspection and another one is now in course of con- struction by the same builder. The wooden steamer James J. Hill, built at Morley’s yard, was also built in accordance with the requirements of the ‘‘Record” rules. It is now learned that this Association is disposed to make their rules conform to all the reasonable require- ments of lake commerce, and as their classification is endorsed by the United States government as well as the Boards of Underwriters of New York, Boston and San Francisco the best results ought to follow from a “Record” rating. rr ec PUNCHING EXPERIMENTS ON SOFT STEEL. At the September meeting of the Civil Engineers Club of Cleveland, Prof. C. H. Benjamin, of Case School of Applied Science, read a paper on ‘‘Some Experiments on the Effect of Punching on Soft Steel.’ The experi- ments described were made at the mechanical labora- tory of Case School of Applied Science, under the direc- tion of Charles S. Howe, and had for their objects, first the determination of the ultimate resistance to shearing of soft steel plate for different forms of punch; second, the determination of the effect of the punching on the elastic limit and ultimate tensile strength of the plate in the various cases. In every test the material was Otis steel boiler plate one qtarter inch thick and stamped 60,000 Ib. tensile strength, the pieces all being cut from the same plate. The experiments showed that the average resistance to punching with the common forms of punch was 50,000 Ib. per square inch, while with the spiral punch it was only 38,000 lb. Also that punching a plate with the or- dinary form weakened it 7% per cent., while the use of the spiral punch only weakened it 3 per cent. A con- siderable change in clearance affected the results but slightly, but good or bad centering of punch and die was very noticeable in its effects, rr NAVIGATING THE ATLANTIC IN A SAIL BOAT. — ‘The intrepid Captain Andrews, now ferrying across the North Atlantic in his 1412 foot boat, was spoken recently by the German ship Adolf and if all is well he should be now in the locality of the Azores or West- ern Islands. During his two hours’ conversation with the officers of the Adolf he appeared to be in a cheerful mood and told interesting stories of the manner in which he amused himself throughout the long and dreary passage. For weeks he had not spoken to any one and sometimes would argue to himself in order to make sure he had not lost the use of his tongue, Dur- ing thé daytime he said he did nearly all his sleeping He read and studied a good deal and never felt lonesome till nightfall. He said he had met with several misfor- tunes, the most serious one being the breaking of his lamp. Consequently he was in utter darkness through- out the nights, and on several occasions came near be- ing run down by the fast line steamships. "The experience while foolhardy, is of paramount im-- portance to the sailing community as demonstrating. the efficiences of a small boat to live in hard weather when skillfully handled, and will induce a vast deal more confidence in the small boat than has hitherto obtained, but at all times the big boat is the best. © We