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ESTABLISHED 1878. VOL. XV. CLEVELAND, OHIO, DECEMBER 15, 1892. NO. 5 7 L 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. Brapuey, - - Cleveland. . Vice-Presidents : Joun G. Keira, - Chicago. | Jamas W. MILLEN, - Detroit W. 8, BRarnarD, ‘Loledo. F. J Fiera, - Erie _ RP. Firvoeravp, Milwaukee. THomas Wiuson, - Cleveland ALEXANDER McDoveatt, Duluth P. P. Mruuer, - - Buffalo Secretary! Cuartus H. Kerr, Buffalo. Treasurer: Gwo. P. McKay, Cleveland, Counsel : Harvey D. Gounper, - Cleveiand, Board of Managers . FW. Baldwin, +. Ogdensby - Thomas Wilson, Cleveland. F. J. Firth, S 4 EB H. M. Bradley, - Cleveland, W.E Chyman, — - Jus, Corrigan, Cleveland, © T. Morley, Hanna, - Cleveland. Alvin Neal, - - cKey, . Cleveland, James Davidson, : y Da! ton. - Cleveland. Charles A Edy, Bay Cit} “vey H Brown, = — Cleveland. Alexander McDougal, Duluth. J. W. Moore, : + Cleveland, F, W. Gilchrist, - Alpena. 8 L. Pennington, - Qleveland, J, G. Gilchrist, Henry A. Hawgood, - Cleveland. JL. Higgie, | - W.C Richardson, | - . Cleveland. Jesse Spaulding, S. D. Caldwell, Buffalo, J.8, Dunham, Peter P Miller, Buffalo. John Keith, - s KE, T. Evans, - Buffalo. _ Joseph Austrian » 0. James Ash, - - Buffalo, David Vance. - Milwaukee. W. Bullard, - Buffalo, R P. Fitzgerald, Mil J. J. H Brown, . : Buffalo. W. Livingstone, Jr , i W P Henry, : - Buffalo. James Millen, "7 John Gordon, » + — Buffalo, David Carter, - a D. trot, Mv Brainard, - Toledo, EM. Pi - Detroit. L, 8. Sullivan, : - Toledo. D, C, Whi - Detroit. A.W Colton, « . Toleda HS Hodge. Derrnit MEETING OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE OF THE LAKE CARRIERS’ ASSOCIATION. The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Lake Car- riers’ Association took place at the office of President M. A. Bradley, in Cleveland Monday. Several import- ant features were brought to the notice of the commit- tee, and it was decided to hold the annual meeting at Detroit, on January 12th. A communication from Com- ‘mander Woodward was read, in which he said that there existed in Detroit River near Gibraltar, in the old chan- nel of Maumee Bay, in an unused part of Niagara River, and in an abandoned channel of the St. Lawrence, anum- ber of unnecessary buoys. He thought he could aid navigation better by discontinuing these buoys in their present positions, and placing them elsewhere next year. If the Lake Carriers’ Association decided favor- ably he would endeavor to obtain authority to do this. Secretary Keep and Treasurer McKay were appointed a committee to look into the matter and report at the annual meeting. Captain James Corrigan, Harvey D. Goulder and Captain McKay were appointed a commit- tee to examine the appropriation bills, and to select such aids to navigation as they deemed indispensable, that action might be taken later. An effort will be - made to have a meeting of Chicago vessel owners be- fore the annual meeting, with the view of securing a large delegation to Detroit. Suggestions are desired from the Chicago vessel men as to methods of improv- ‘ ing the service of the shipping office in that city. ‘ President M. A. Bradley reported that from what he had gathered at the meeting of urderwriters and others at Detroit it was probable a proposition would be made for yessel owners to join in the moyement for improved inspection. It is proposed to get up a Lloyd’s Register with a new or at least considerably modified classification which would cost about $11,000. The annual meeting is also expected to take up the question of coal shippers insisting on vessels taking _ their fuel at the same dock that gives them the cargo. _ At some ports this practice has grown into an abuse. : ethe president’s annual address has now taken the form ofa general report of the association, which will be lished some days previous to the meeting and sent | to all members, thus making it unnecessary to spend time in reading it at the meeting. According to the new constitution the president is not re-eligible for elec- tion, so a new president will have to be selected at the annual meeting. eo ro BRAVERY REWARDED, The collector of customs of Chicago has sent to the Treasury department his recommendation that Captain Martin Knudson, keeper of Pilot Island light, be awarded a second-class medal for bravery in saving the lives of the captain and crew of the schooner A. P. Nichols, which was wrecked at Death’s Door, Green Bay, on Oct. 28. Eo ee VESSELS CLASSED. The American Shipmasters’ association have classed in the “Record of American and Foreign Shipping” the following tonnage during the past week: American three-masted schooners A. H. Howe and R. T. Rundlett, screw steamer Bluefields, half brig Caroline Gray, barks Lucy A. Nickels and Willard Mudgett, barkentine James W. Elwell and British barks Barbadian and Europa. ro MARINE APPLIANCES JUST PATENTED. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. WasuHincton, D. C.—Boiler, W. B. Mack, Boston, Mass. Boiler cleaner, G. E. Truax, Denver, Col. Boiler feeder, C. E. Van Auken, Chicago, Ills. Steam boiler indicator, G. I. McDermott, Neenah, Wis. Compass, P. J. Kaiser, Noordeine, Netherlands. Do a A NATIONAL NAVAL RESERVE. Commissioner O’Brien of the navigation bureau has made a special report to the Secretary of the Treasury in regard to the shipping interests of the United States, in the course of which he advocates the organization of a national naval reserve. He said it should be local in character, with a fixed term of enlistment and recruited from shipwrights, naval architects, pilots, marine engi- neers and citizen seamen froza along the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts.and the Great Lakes, the entire organ- ization to be under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Navy. In the commissioner’s opinion it should consist of four divisions, one for the lakes and one for each of the other coasts, and he suggests that the Government place at the disposal of each division a merchant steamer so constructed as to be as a war cruiser when needed, but otherwise to be used as a practice ship under the direc- tion of the Secretary of the Navy. ED oo ae ONWARD AND UPWARD. The appeal of the Duluth Chamber of Commerce for Congressional action on the construction of a ship canal, running through United States territory, from the Great Lakes to the Hudson River, and thence to the sea, is put into plain words that are worthy of attention, The freight passing through the Sault Ste. Marie Canal for this year has exceeded 11,000,000 tons, whichis 2,000,000 more than the tonnage of any previous season, and just about double the average tonnage passing through the Suez Canal during the last ten years. The saying in cost of transportation, directly by the tonnage on the lakes, and indirectly by the reduction of railway freights to avoid diversion of freight to lake routes, is estimated at $400,000,000 a year. ‘ Who,” says the appeal of the Duluth Chamber of Commerce, “dare estimate the annual saving to the people of the United States if the Great Lakes practically are made a part of the ocean, and if ocean steamers are enabled to sail from any lake port to any port of the world?” rr LOSS OF THE STEAMER NORTHERNER. Notwithstanding the report that the steamer North- erner owned by the Rochester Transportation Co., had arrived all well at Duluth, it is now learned that after jettisoning several hundred barrels of oil, off Keweenaw Point, Lake Superior, she reached L’Anse only to burn up at the dock on Monday morning last, and become a total loss. The fire was caused by a deck hand dropping a light- ed lamp in the hold, which ignited the cargo of oil shipped at Cleveland by the Standard Oil Co., con- signed to Port Arthur, Ont. The loss on cargo is esti- mated at $10,000, and on the hull at $50,000. The Northener was built by Hill, at Marine City, Mich., in 1876, and underwent a thorough rebuild in 1887, her capacity was 1,136 tons. eee cert A HOME FOR AGED SEAMEN. General Superintendent Frankland, of the Western Seamen’s Friend Society, isthe reputed owner of Credit island, near Rock island, on the Mississippi river, and he has responded to a call to found an institution de- signed to meet a need felt throughout our entire trans- portation service. It isa permanent home for aged, decrepit and disabled men who have been worn ont or incapacitated in the employ of the commerce of the inte- rior of our country, and who, having endured the hard- ships of aspecially hazardous calling, need and deserve, as public servants, a home for their declining years. A memorial was acted upon at the recent annual meeting of the directors, which emanated from a body of nearly one hundred licensed officers in the Mississippi steamboat service. They point as an ideal to that noble institu- tion for sailors in ocean service on Staten Island, in New York harbor, called the Sailors’ Snug Harbor, which affords shelter to 800 old men. These men of western marine service conceived the thought that the body to champion their cause was the Western Seamen’s Friend Society. They also suggested what appears to them an ideal site for sucha home. This is Credit Island, which is situated in the Mississippi river, two miles below the United States Arsenal Island. The eastern Snug Harbor, on Staten island, N. Y:, is built upon a tract of 140 acres, and has accommodations for 1,000 men, thirty buildings, and with an annual endow- ment of $400,000. Superintendent Frankland, in speak- ing of the new Snug Harbor, says: ‘‘Our hope will be to provide for needy men of all classes of transporta- tion service. Brought to light in this Columbian year, when the world does homage to the Christian ‘sailor, Columbus, it is proposed to give this home the cognomen of the Columbian Snug Harbor; for Columbus, after all his wondrous life of peril on the sea, spent his last days, as many another sailor has done, in obsurity and penury. “Our endeavor will be to raise during the coming year for this object the sum of $50,000; afterwards to add buildings and endowments until an institution commensurate to all needs is acquired. We ask that all bethel societies and friends of the cause, so far as may be consistent with local claims, take an interest in pro- moting this undertaking, which, when founded, will re- ceive inmates from all their ports, and be a firung crown to the entire bethel system. In conclusion, we will say, our work is a work of defense, as it is also a work of rescue, and pre-eminently a work of hope.”