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Iie. THE NEW PULSOMETER, The Engineering News in making a re- port on the Norfalks sewerage system, re- cords some interesting facts in regard to the new pulsometer. Itsays: While the sheet piling was able to a great extent to keep out the sand, it was of course of no service in keeping out the sub-soil water, Ordinary tin suction pumps were used for that purpose in the shallower cuts, and the pulsometer in the deeper cuts. ‘The pulsometer proved itself equal to the trying task of pumping this water, holding in suspension at least one-quarter of its bulk of sand. Lt msy be of service to others using this valuable in- vention to know how we overcame a difli- culty peculiar to the machine. In charging the machine with water, the old) method of filling it with a bucket of water through a funnel became very unhandy in cases where the pulsometer was hung in inaccessible places; so we would heat the chambers with steam, and disconnecting the steam hose, would quickly connect it with the water supply pipe. ‘Che cold water condenses the steam within the chamber and forms 4 partial vacuum, which draws in a full charge ot water. ‘Che hose is again quickly con- nected with the steam pipe, and the pulso- meter begins to breath, and thus the _engi- neer charges the machiue without having to leave the boiler. An illustrated description book with testimonalswill be mailed free by addressing Pulsometer Pump Company 83 John Street New York, YACHTING, The last number of Forest and Stream contains the following notes trom Belleville: ‘Ine ice is rapidly disappearing from our land-locked. waters, and within the next three or four weeks the fitting out for the season will be begun. It seems probable that the season now opening will be one ot the liveliest in racing circles that we have had for several years past, as the famous Katie Gray and equally well-known Emma will fight their battles over again, while the new twelve-tonner which Cuthbert has now in hand here, and another of the same size which Dave Claus is building at Brighton, will dispute the championship of the lakes (in their class) with the famous flyers above mentioned. In anticipation of a-hard strug- gle for victory the Katie Grey, which is now the pride of Oswego, where she is owned by Mr. W. B. Phelps, jr., has undergone a thor- ough overhauling by experienced hands, has had a new suit of canvass made for her, and is now in first-class racing trim. The Em- ma must also be in excellent condition, as’ her owner, Mr. Jobn Cooper, of ‘Toronto, re- cently offered to mateh her for $1,000 a side against any twelve-tonner on the lakes, The meeting between the four craft above par- ticularized, will be worth going many miles to sce, as they are the premiers of their size —on fresh water at least—and [ very wuch donbt whether cabin sloops of their size and sailing with fixed ballast, exist anywhere else that can beat them. The one which Cuthbert has in hand promises to be’ very fast: judging from her model. She is 30 feet keel, 10 feet 10 inches beam, and will draw 2 feet 10 inches of wa- ter aft. Asto Mr. Offord’s new vraft, Lean learn nothing except that she is to measure twelve tons. ‘hese latter cratt will be larger by over a ton than either the Emma or Katie Gray, and this superior bulk ought to give the victory. The steamyacht, 55 feet by 9 feet 6 inches, which Cuthvert-is building, will soon be ready for ther inery. She is a handsome craft, and ‘will/be speedy, her guaranteed speed being twélve miles per hour, wo cock and bull stories about the At- lanta have of late been circulated through the press. One was that she had been made as sinooth asa piano box, and that Cuthbert would sail her in. another match for the America’s cup. ‘The other ‘tyarn’’ was, that Mr. J. Ross Cumming, principal owner of the yacht, would take her to Chicago on the occasion of the great rega.ta there. It is only necessary to say, in reference to the first assertion, that the Atlanta t lain in the water all the winter, her bottom being thickly covered with barnacles that gathered on her at New York, but from which the fresh water has probably treed her ere this. Her owners, of whom Mr, Cumming is not one, have nointention of challenging again + for “the”? cup, Which they could do by join- ing the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron of Halifax, us they resent the shabby con- duct of the New York Yacht Club in shut- ting out competition from clubs located on the inland waters, and no longer regard the America’s cup as the emblem of the world’s championship, because ot the restrictions above alluded to. ‘The Atlanta may go to Chicago, but there is no certainty that she will doso, Mr. Wim, Pike, Treasurer B.Q. Y. C., will alter the rig of his keel sloop Sylvia to that of a cutter, and lower her ballast, hoping by this means to improve her speed, The schooner Ketchum, light) from Chi- eago, and bound for Organiz Bay, went nshore on the rocks near Pilot Island, Lake Michigan, during a fog Monday night. She will be released, Qnless the wind blows too hard. pthen informed him that he was very de- THE WESTFORD SUNK. A serious collision took place nearly abreast of Windmill Point lightuouse, De- troit river, on Monday morning. ‘The steam- barge Westford, lumber loaded, towing two barges and avchooner, collided with the schooner Grace Holland, in tow of the steam- barge Republic, bound up. A special dis- patch to the Lnter-Ocean says: ‘The vessels struck nearly head on, splitting the West- ford’s bows wide open and sinking her in three and a half fathoms of water, on the Ameriean shore, about half a mile below the lighthouse. ‘The Holland was not damaged, aside from the scraping off of paint and the parting of the towline, Kach captain claims the other at fault. [t will probably result in a lawsuit. The other craft of the tow escaped injury. ‘The propeller Nebraska, passing up at the time of the collision, to avoid collid- ing, ran agrouud on Belle’ Isie. She was lightered off by the ferry steamer Garland, returned here and is reloading her freight. ‘The steambarge Westtord was insured for $12,000 by Captain Crosby in the Crosby and Demick companies. The schooner Corsican, ashore at point ee Au Pellee, has been released and brought te Wright, night collecter. Windsor. She is unloading her coal. One pump keeps her free. (The steambarge Westford measures 375 tons. She was built at ‘Trenton by ‘Turner in 1869. and is owned by A. N. Spratt, et al, of Alpena, Her class is A 2, and her valua- tion $35,000. She had new deck and beams and other repairs in 1880, and in 1882 was refastened, had large repairs, and was given a steel arch.) NAUTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC. The Hamilton coal heavers struck for 20c. a ton and got it. There is trouble between the union and non-union sailors of Chicago. ‘The non- union crew of a schooner about to sail were suddenly induced to desert their vessél Fri- day night by the union sailors who paid them a visit. The largest: steamer ever built on Lake Superior is 78 feet in length, 14 feet beam, and 4 feet 10 inch hold. She is intended for the passenger trade, and will accommodate 100. She will be called the Hattie Lloyd. Captain George Sweet and son, of Oswego, are getting their two boats, the ‘Thorn and! Maynard, in readiness to run the coming summer. ‘he routes of the boats will be the same iis last year, the Maynard running between Clayton and Alexandria Bay, stop- ping at all intermediate points, aud the ‘Thorn will run among the islands as an ex- cursion boat. Kingston News: ‘There has been very little demand from the grain vessels this spring for men cooks. Almost every vessel wanted a female cook and this great demard cornered the supply in Chicago to such an extent that the only vay girls enough to go around could be obtained was by advertising, Old ladies were not in -demand at all, and eountry girls were preferred over those from the city. It is learned toacertainty that of the grain fleet now about to sail trom Chi- cago fifty have female cooks and many others are to have them. The President practically decided that the Marine Hospital ve should have cuntrol over the $100,000 epidemic fund. The Nati oval Board of ‘Health called on him and asked him formally for the control of the fund, Subsequently Colonel George E. Waring, Jr., of Newport, R.1., Mngineer, member of the National Board of Health and a personal friend of the President, called ov him and urged the cause of the National Board of Health. ‘The President referred him to Secretary Folger. ‘The latter listened to what Colonel Waring had to say, and cidedly in favor of giving control of the epidemic fund to the Marine Hospital ser- vice of the ‘Treasury Department. Still the board claim to have hopes. The Savannah river steamers are said to have a certain sort of dare-devil olow-up-as- you-go air that beats all other crafts in crea- tion. The ‘Toledo tug owners have formed an association and established the following rates for towing in and out: Loaded, $13 light, 70 cents. A comparative statement of the wheat shipping by water from the port of Detroit during the months of April since 1881, is as follows: 29,975 bushels; 1882, 408, bushels; 1883, 73,211. The steamer City of Dresden was int spected by Government Inspector Tav- buckle, at Windsor, and both ‘steamer and crew stood the test. The steambarge 8. J. Macy was the first boat to 4 through the Straits of Macki- naw this year, which event took place on the 28 of April. The steambarge Raleigh and Consort were the first deep crafts to pass the Lime Kilns. They were drawing 14 feet 8 inches, Dull & Gathfield piloted them over, The M. L. Collins was the first sail vessel to clear Milwaukee for’a Green Bay port this season, She went to Sister Bay after wood, . Dull & Gatfield the Lime Kiln Pilots, have two tine new clinker-built boats, paruly decked, for their use at the Lime Kilns, They are 20 feet long, and are named “Kis- mev? and “Pilot.” ‘They are handsome and very light on the water. Nothing does so establish the mind amid the railings and turbulence of present shings as both a look above them and a look beyond them above them, to the steady and good by which they are ruled; and beyond them, to the sweet and beautiful end to which by that hand they will be brought. The Oliver Mowat, when sailed by Cap tain) Beaupre, is credited by the American papers with having made the fastest: round trip on record between Toledo and Port Colborne—two days and fourteen hours, She also made the quickest run from: Detroit to Kingston—three days and a half, The Sturgeon Bay Advocate says that hereafter all craft which desire to avail them- selves of the advantages afforded by the ship canal must either pay or guarantee the toll before passing through, Edmund Cayo has nh appoinied day collector and Judge This rule has been decided upon so that the trouble experi- enced by the canal company last year in en- forcing the payment of certain toll bills, will not be repeated this season. ‘Thirty tugs were represented at a meeting of tug owners to adopt a card at Detroit. E.G. Merrick was elected President, S. B. Grummond Vice president, and S. A, Mur- phy, secretary and treasurer. ‘he card rate of last fall was adopted, and the old tonnage will be used as a basis for calculating bills. ‘The rebate of 10 percent. on the tow bills of schooners belonging to tug owners will not be allowed this season. ; The schooner Maumee Valley is reported by marine underwriters as having put into Detroit with a wet cargo of grain. The late cut on cargo insurance rates at Chicago brings the figures down to 30 cents .to Montreal, 15 cents to Buffalo, and 12}¢ cents to Sarnia and Midland. The schooner Arrow, stranded three miles north of ‘two Rivers last week, has been stripped. All efforts that have thus - far been made towards her release were in vain. She lies easy in about. three feet of water with a bar just outside of her. The captain says he will make another attempt as soon as the water becomes settled. An Exchange says: ‘The Dominion wreck- ing and Salvage company has lately pro vided Canada with a much ‘needed outfit, consisting of tugs, wrecking steamers pon toons, steam pumps and other wrecking ap- apratus of late patterns. They will be sta- tioned at the principal coast and inland ports, and will be in charge of Captain Merritt of New York and Captain Donnely of Kings- ton. ‘The company is now at work raising her Majesty’s war-vessel Phoenix, which was wrecked on Prince Edward island last fall. ‘The vessel cost the British govern- ment over $1,000,000. She is steel-plated and sheathed over with six inches of teak. ‘The machinery alone cost over $125,000 and she had been in commission only six months. ‘The company hope to raise her safely,. and in so doing they will reap a rich reward as she was bought of the government for $3,000. An idea of the value of such apparatus is perhaps — best obtained by a glance at the Island of Anticosti in the lower St. Law- rence, Whose rocky shores are covered with wrecks, no less than 120 vessels ing gone to pieces within the last ten years. The preparations for the business on Lake Superior for the se.son by vessel owners are about completed, fad when navigation opens in earnest a larger fleet than ever before will compete tor the business of the ports on this lake. Prince Arthur’s Landing will al- so demand and receive her share of trade. There will be about 1,000,000 bushels of wheat in Duluth elevators for shipment by the time navigation opens to Buffalo. ‘The Northern Pacific will receive 35,000, tons.of railroad iron at Duluth and 15,000 at Super- ior. ‘The Western Express Line of steamers is now partly under way tor the summer. ‘The vessels of this line are the Acadia, Glentin- las, St. Magnus, and the fine new steamer the Myles, ‘These vessels will form a weekly line between Montreal and Duluth, the ex- treme points, and calling atthe river ports and Kingston below, at ‘Toronto, ports on Detroit river, and Prince Arthur’s Landing, Sylvester Bros., the ‘Toronto agents, an- nounce that the Myles will reach ‘Toronto from Montreal about next Friday, on the way west. Captain Boynton is experimenting with a kind of submarine balloon, It is made of sheet iron, and so arranged with pulleys, weights and air chambers that it: will navi- gate the ocean at any depth below the sur- face. By the aid of some newly discovered chemicals the balloon is able to make air for breathing purposes at the rate of 5,000 cubie feet per each pound of chemicals. I he cap- tain says he went down into the sea off the [rish coast. and remained under water six- teen hours by the aid of fifty pounds of his discovery, Which by the way, costs only 40 cemis a pound. Ife proposes to organtz n company for recoverlng treasures) from sunken vessels, ‘THE TUG GARDNER BURNED. A dispatch was received in Oswego an- nouncing the burning of the well known lake tug Gardner near the Galloo Islan ‘is Jast night. ‘The particulars were not given. The dispatch requested Mr. C. C. Buel to send the tug Seymouy at nce bata later dispatch countermanded the order saying that the two barges the Onondaga and ‘Tus- jcarora had reached Cape Vincent in safety. The tug left Fair Haven last) bound for Ogdensburg with coal. She was owned by George Hall & Company and was sailed by “Datel”? Leonard. ‘Mhe cause of the burning is not stated. ‘The owners, George Hall & Company of Ogdensburg, could give no particulars in re- gard to the loss at noon, and C, C. Buel Wad heard nothing at 3p.in. ‘The tug was in- sured for $10,000. It is understood that the barges reached Cape Vincent in safety.— Times. A dispatch from Cape Vincent says the tug Gardner of Ogdensburg was burned about two o’clock this morning near the Gal- loo islands, about twenty miles west from this village. She left Oswego last night with two barges in tow loaded with coal for Montreal. ‘lhe fire originated under the boiler and > within five minutes after it was discovered the tug was all in flames and the engineer had barely time to back her to the first. barge to allow the men to get off. Several escaped in this way and the rest took to the life boats. No hands were lost although a few were some- what scorehed.: ‘The tug is a total loss which ‘amounts to about twenty thonsand dollars and is no doubt fully insured. ‘The wind ble vy agale from the southwest and: about 10 o’clock to-day the two barges sailed down. and anchored in this harbor all right. OPERATOR. ‘THE PROPOSED SAHARA SEA. M. De Lesseps reports favorably on the proposed Sahara Sea scheme. © Soundings 73” meters deep have shown the existence of - nothing but sand. The African inland sea might easily be made, with the aid of 100 excavators, representing the work of 100,000: men. M. De Lesseps has met with the best reception trom the Arab. soldiery and population. On the third he arrived at Biskra, having completed a survey of the country between Gabes and the Marsh Lakes. He. declared that the soil will allow of the excavations necessary to connect the lakes with the ‘Mediterranean, that the works will present no extraordinary difli- culty, and that the concessions asked for with regard to the forest and adjoining lands will make the scheme remunerative and wholly independent of State aid, subvention, or guarantee. : . THE DEMON OF THE ORIENT. ‘The book bearing the above title or “Our opium smokers as they are in ‘Vartary Hells and American Paradises,” is a timely pro- duction, De Quincy wroute ‘Ihe confessions of an opium eater” but this book gives a view of the whole subject of the opium traffic in the following chapters: A trip to China ‘Town, Hitting the Flute, Women Who Smoke, An American Palace Joint, A Dog in an Opium Asylum, Cravings on the road Be- hind the Bars, Victims in the Dramatic Pro- fession, Fetters Stronger than Steel, Legisla- tion and Death at the Margue, Price per copy, cloth $1: paper, 50 cents. Adress Allen S. 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FP. ‘The lumber was taken from the lighters and placed back on the dock, and the end is not 2) | gation case at