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Ghe Marine Record. A Journal devoted to Commerce Navigation and Science, Published Weekly by FRANK HOUGHTON Editor & Proprietor aT CLEVEEAND, OHIO Office Nos- 171 Superior and 136 Bank Streets, Room 7. TERMS: $2.00 per Annum. INVARIBLY IN ADVANCE, AGENTS ARE WANTED IN EVERY PORT —_— ADVERTISING RATES. ‘Ten cents per line solid Nonpariel measuremeng. Twelv es of Nonpariel set solid make one inch, Twenty cen}s per line for reading notices, solid (ian measyrement, rticles, lgtters and queries on all subjects fare soli- cited. The Editor assumes no responsibility for the opinions of correspondents. To insure notice, contributors must give name and address, and write on one side of the paper only. THE MARINE RECOXD has jan Agent in every port on the Lakes and Rivers, and 1 consequently circu- late more or less in all ofAhem. Asa medium for advertising it has no superi¢gr, as it circulates among a class of people that can be reached in no other way.. THE CEREAL REPORT. The report of the Buffalo Board of Trade weighmaster for 1882, which lies before us, is full of potent facts and valuable data. It Rives the total recelpts of grain by lake, as reported by William ‘Thurston, Esq., Secre- tary of the Buffalo Board of ‘Trade, includ- ing the total work of the weighmaster; with the details of the kinds of grain, the method of receipt, the statements for the various ports and the work the various eleva- ‘tors at Buffalo, cron, Milwaukee, Duluth, and Detroit. Mr. Smith, the weighmaster, reports an increase in the proportion of work done un- der his care, and also reports still better re- sults in average shortage. He reports that it is evident that there are defects at certain points that should be remedied, and his cor- respondence with other elevator people show that they all have a desire to have any de- fects righted as soon as possible. The receipts of grain and seed by lake during 1882 were 53,582,740 bushels. The amount weighed under the supervision of the Board of Trade weighmaster was 33,- 642,672 bushels; the shortages being 18,743 bushels; and the number of bushels over, being 13,462, which would make an average per 1000 bushels of .156 which is equal to 9 wheat pounds. Mr. Smith was again appointed weigh- master for the year ending February 1884. OUR NEW MARINE LAW BOOK. We are sorry to announce that we can sup- ply no more of our Marine Law Books at pre.ent, as our first large edition is entirely exhausted. We, however, have a new edi- tion in press which we had hoped to get off before our other was entirely gone, but ow- ing to the change made in the form of the Marine RecorD and an unusual large in- crease in the circulation of the paper it has kept us so busy that it has been almost impossible to push the book ahead. (It is coming out much. improved in matter and appearance and will also be much larger than the former edition. We dislike very much to state that the number of orders we y, have on hand will be obliged to wait until “our new edition comes from press, as we have not a single copy of the old edition left. Due notice will be given when the new edition is issued which we hope will be very soon. TuHE hostility manifested in the legislature to the proposed ship canal across the penin- sula of Florida, regarding which an article will be found in a recent issue of the Ma- RINE REcoRD, is to us perfectly unintelligi- ble. This is an enterprise which, if it could be carried through,®would put Florida di- rectly on the highway of the world’s com- merce, and confer inestimable benefit to the State. There are a number of well known capitalists, comprising several Senatois, who pledge themselves to construct the canal; and there is a charter which practically grants nothing more than the right to con- struct it if the capitalists aforesaid are will- ing to do it. Why there should be the slightest hesitation in granting that charter is one of those mysteries which only a legis- lative mind can fathom. EDITORIAL NOTES. Some very interesting decisions in ad- miralty will be found in to-day’s Recorp touching upon important questions of de- bate in marine controversies, Worps of cheer as to the great improve- ment that has taken place in the MARINE RecorD continue to roll in, tor which we bow our acknowledged thanks, WE think this must be Mother Shipton’s year instead of 1881, when we take into con- sideration the large fires, floods and the great less to vessel property on the ocean. Coneress is evidently awaking to the fact that the commerce of the, United States has been neglected long enough and is trying to make amends by rushing through several bills. The time is not tar distant when our maritime interests are to take a prominent part in national affairs. THE Cleveland Marine Recorp is now printed in the quarto form and on the finest of book paper. It is a most excellent paper and when it becomes illustrated, it will be the best marine paper in the country. We hope that it will prosper greatly during the new year.— Duluth News. Ir is the aim of the publihers to forth put every effort in his power to enhance the value of the Marinze ReEcorD, and to this end he wishes to state that illustra- tions of new inventions in the gen- eral line of marine interests are always de- sired, whether docks, engines, ships, vachts or ship machinery at, large and promise that the same shall have a prominent posi- tion and satisfactory explanation. Ir the American people expect to com- mand the first place in the commerce of the lakes, they must wake up to the necessities of the times and do more the coming year for the improvement of the Erie canal! than heretofore, or our friends over the way wil be taking a large amount of trade from/us. Making the Erie canal free has stiyredAhem up to no little extent, and the taste for blood has begnn to rankle in the bosoms of the Dominion daddies, and they will no doubt abolish tolls on the Welland canal in the spring. Taery are having a nice little rumpus down at Annapolis, and a lot of trrepressi- ble middies are cooling themselves off aboard the prison ship Santee. We can commend the conduct of Secretary Chandler in this matter, as he announces his intention of not interfering, or if interfering, only to uphold Superintendent Ramsay in every particular. Insubordination of any sort is death to ef- fective army or navy organization, and these young chaps at Annapolis areold enough to appreciate that official authority should be respected without regard to individual feelings. They should throw off all feclings of independence, as the Government edu- cates and cares for them for the express purpose of rendering them officers for its navy. In our Washington letter this week will he found a short account of their do- ings. . On a very few occasions the MARINE ReEcorpD has given its readers a brief in- sight into its home life. But the flatterIng success with which it has been attended this year so far fills it to overflowing with con- ceit that it feels justified in\ giving vent to its feelings. It is really surprising on look- ing over our increasing mail list to see how the columns have extended down. Then again it is not surprising that its growth has been so rapid when we take into con- sideration the vast amount of time, money and energy that has been invested in it. In many cases we have to thank the many ‘agents who have been very solicitous in its behalf and have worked for it as they would at a business entirely their own. All are well aware that a large circulation makes a paper a good advertising median and we justly claim the Marr Recorp to be the best advertising medium in the West. as its circulation is among aclass who are abund- antly able and willing to purchase that which is desirable and good. Our advertis- ing columns are filled. with advertisements representing good responsible firms, which we call a high recommendation for any pa- per, WASHINGTON LETTER. ' WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 1883. Editor Marine Record. The cadet trouble at the Naval Academy at Annapolis has cauged no little comment in the Naval Departments although the mutiny is almost at an end. ‘The cause of the trouble was that Cadet Woodruff, of the first class, was reported for dishonorable conduct, having certified on honor to a falsehood, which he acknowledged in writing afterward. He was reduced to the ranks, Cadet Lieutenant Steel then led his command in cheering a cadet. ‘The lieuten- ant was reduced to the ranks, and on read- ing the order a number of cadets groaned and hissed. The first class men participating in the mutinous conduct were sent aboard the Santee, and the cadet officers were broken, Several et officers resigning the cadet rank in insubordinate letters were pliced in confinement on the Wyoming. As the demonstration was general the super- intendent stopped all privileges and the usual hops, Iwas talking to Secretary Chandler in regard to it a few days since and he was of opinion that the disturbance and insubordina- tion would doubtless subside if the super- intendent is allowed to work out a result without interference, but if the cadets are encouraged to persist by their parents and triends, the dismissal of forty or fifty may result. ‘he great difficulty in the manage- ment of the academy is that the boys and their relatives fail to realize that the school is not an ordinary seminary of learning, where students pay for education which they receive, but is an institution of military disci- plin, where boys have their expenses paid by the United States in order that they may be thoroughly educated and trained to a life of self-denial and self-control and fitted for the restraints and duties of the military pro- fession. If the boys expect the same tivileges, liberties and easy life which they may have in an ordinary: academy, they should resign and let their places be filled by young gentlemen who are willing un- reservedly to commit themselves to priva- tions and labors of the academy in. order that through its discipline as well asinetruc- tion they may become qualified to command the naval vessels of the United States. So far as the department now understands the difficulties at the academy, it will austain the superintendent even to the extent of dis- missing a large part of one ot the classes.” ‘AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR AFTER TWENTY YEARS. J+CKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb, 5, 1881. Editor Marine Record: Twenty yeurs ago I sailed from New York on board the British schooner Good Will, Captain Johnson, master, bound to Nassua, New Providence, and while becalmed inthe Gulf stream the steamship North Star, be- longing te Vanderbilt, bound. from Aspin- wall to New York, crowded with passengers, came alongside of us, fired a gun, set her colors, and stopped her engines. Our cap- tain immediately ran up the English flag. The captain of the steamer hailed us with the words, ‘‘How is the war in the States. Have the Federal gunboats taken possession of the. Mississippi river?”? A passenger on board of our schooner, who had just been liberated from Fort Lafayette for running the blockade, shouted back, “The Confeder- ates hold New Orleans and the whole Miss- issippi river, and their flag will soon float over the capitol at Washington.”” Knowing this statement to be incorrect, I jumped into the forerigging and shouted, “Farragut has taken New Orleuns; Ben Butler holds it; the stars and stripes float from the mouth to the head of the Mississippi, and the Yavkees are sure to win!” The captain of the steamer turned to the crowd of passengers and said: “Three cheers for the Yankee on board the English svhooner.”? Three rousing cheers went up from the lips of the passengers and crew; the steamer dipped her flag, rang her bell, fired a gun and proceeded on her voyage. Yesterday I went down to Root’s wharf, and there was the same schooner, Good Will, that I was on board of twenty years ago. I had not seen her since I met the North Star on the ocean. © T.S. KE. The Marine ReEcorp has gained seventy five per cent. in circulation over last year. hot boiled coul tar. ‘I'he boards should be taid in. st 80 apart, to leave air chan should be a chafing course o! planks in parts where more sf! thickness against. wear is require under course wonld be nailed to th timbers and fastened upon the sides t reversed angles of the frames, with 8) screws and nuts; and the supervening courses spiked or nailed through all—with pointeu wrought nails at the metal frames, driven so as to strikesthe faces of the re- versed angle bars, and be turned and clinch the boards of the under course. This ceil- ing will greatly outlagt the ceilings made of thick oak planks used in wooden vessels, It need not be extended higher than the lower deck beam gussets, where a series of air-tight stops should be inserted between its edge and the outside planks. No ceiling is necessary between decka, All the spuces between the frames coy- ered are connected by the air channels left between the strakes in the under course of ceiling. ‘The.whole connected with the open air by four large pipes—one on each side near the apron forward and the stern post aft—furnishes an inexpensive means of per- tect ventilation—automatic through the action of the bilge water, driving out the foul air and drawing in the fresh during rough ‘weather, and by the aid of wind sails, ventilators, air pumps, ete., while in port or insmooth waters elsewhere. ‘his device will give you perfect and ample ventilation at the ship’s ends as well as amidships; - with which no good reason can be shown why the timber at the ends should not last as long as that along the sides between them, where ventilation is forced without, special provision being made for it by the motion of the bilge water when the ship rolls ina sea-way. Salt is very useful in neutralizing - the acids in timber that cause it to rot. But when applied after the ship is built it can reach only a small percentage of the timber. Were it possible to make it reach and pene- trate all the timber it would compensate only in a very limited degree for the lack of thor- ough and ample ventilation. - Figure I of the diagrams represents a two saan 7 frame midship, fractional cross section of a double-decked vessel of 35 feet beam and 20 fzet depth of hold. The white and lighter shaded parts represent wood, and the dark parts metal. All the parts shown, except the hold stanchions are sectional. A repre- sents the keel; BB, garboard; C C, keel- sons; D D, wooden floor frames; E E, metal bends and top frames; F F; metal deck- beams, g'issetted and riveted; H H, water- tight ceiling; P P, outside planking; W W, waterways; S 8, deck stanchious; L L, tim- bers. The bilge section of planking repre- sents a thickness of ten inches at the centre of the curve, diminishing to six inches on the bottém and to seven -inches on the side. Figure II shows upon a larger scale, the lap of the metal section E of a frame upon a timber floor D, how they are bolted to- gether, the adjacent planking P and the heads ot the wood screw bolts that fasten the planking to the metal portions of the frame. ‘The laps are represented as three feet lung, but muy be longer if thought bet- ter. ‘he planks are fastened the same as elsewhere, to both the wood and metal parts of the frames along the laps—thus = giv- ing double fastening for this distance, end greater strength to the frames than at any other points between the keel and deck frame. a I have now explained briefly and without much comment, the chief peculiarities of this new system of composite ship bu‘lding, in such a manner, I hope, as to give those having some acquaintance with the present systems of marine architecture, a fair idea of it as a whole; and will proceed to discuss its compartive merits. J. B. Haun. Since the Marine Recokphas changed its form and comes out as a four column quarto its appearence is very much improved. The Recorp is one of the best marine papers published in this country. It is ably edited and its news is always tresh, consequently any person who is in any way interested.in marine matters should not fail to subscribe { for it.—Duluth Bee. The Rxecorp, being the only paper of the kind in the West, isthe best advertising medium.