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" I Ca eT Kuogineering. INSPECTION SERVICE IMVERFECY. There is complaint among the licensed en- ineers as to the imperfection of the inspec. tion service. James H. Reid, president of the Marine Engineers’ Association, in a re- cent letter to the Marive Journal, treats this subject in an intelligent manner and makes some wise suggestions for remedying the evils complained of. He says he is in receipt of letters from several licensed officers, complaintug of the way that some local inspectors examine some of the engineers and pilots, and co whojn they give licenses, and if the repoms are true (and I cannot but believe that they are), as some of the men that are. going around with licenses, looking for positions, verify the reports. One of these men came aboard of ny boat a few days ago, and asked me tor a second engineer’s position, and showed me a license of achief engineer, empowering him to act as such on a steamboat of 700 tons. [asked him if he had ever sailed on a steamboat, and he said no, but that he had worked in the shop a year, und that he thought he would like to sail, and thata friend of his wus ac- quainted with the Inspector, and told him that he could get him a license, and as it on- ly cost fitty cents, he told his friend he would like to have one if he could get it for him, and if he could get on a boat he would stop working in the shop. His friend went with him to the Inspector’s and he got his license without any trouble, as the Lnspec- tor did not ask him any questions atall. [ thought that a strange way of granting a license to any man. Tled him to think that I was in need of a second engineer and asked him afew simple questions, and L found that he was very de- ficient in the first principles of taking care of aset of boilers. I asked bim wha’ he would do if he was ordered tu get steam as soon as possible? He answered: “Starta good fire underneath the boilers.’ 1 told him I had no use for hit, when he wanted to know if L knew of any boat he could get to run on, or it L thought there would bea better chance of a berth iu Detroit: than in Cleveland. {[ told him I thought not. He was one of those men that was not to be bluffed off. He asked me for a recom- mendation, andas it was the first time I had ever seen him, L could not do it, and told him that it wasa good deal to ask ot me. I find that there are several of this kind of engineers that are looking for ‘boats and are on boats. One of these days, when one of the boilers that are in charge of this kind of en- gineers, blows up, and several are killed, the public will say it was a mysterious vc- currence, and there is no one to blame, for the boiler was full of water, the engineer. was a careful man and held a United States license, and the Inspector states that he ex- amined him carefully and found him well qualified, whén, at the same time, he had never asked him one question. ‘This, Mr. Editor, is not an imaginary case, for L know of two firemen that have got licenses through the owners of boats asking the Inspectors for them. One of these same men had fired for me, and I did not consider him capable ot attending to the water, and [ would nothave trusted him to do 80. . The law is good, and no doubt has been the means of saving property aud lives, as Inspectors are Not allatike, and some try and enforce its provisions, but they are not supported in their efforts by some owners | of boats as they should, for the Cala‘ gity” dollar is in their way, and that is all they care about. Now, would it not be a good amendment to the law to require’ the Secretary of the Treasury or the Inspector General to ap- point, in each district, say three good engi- neers, and three pilots to meet with the In- gpector and examine engineers and pilots, say twice a month, for, the way itis now, it is one man whois the judge of the appli- canv’s qualifications, and he can grant a license, or refuse one, at his pleasure. : ‘There is a Civil Service Board appointed to meet and examine clerks tor positions in Government service. Ought not engineers and pilots to be as carefully unined? Are not their duties as responsible as clerks in the eustom and other departments? I think ~aphSee can be found wen in every district that.would devote their time to such exam- ations, without pay or reward, if necessar This is the rule that exists in Great Bri in regard to granting licenses to engineers and pilots, and when a man obtains a license from this board he is well qualified to per- form the duties of an engineer or pilot. The Government of Eugland claim that their officers are better qualified to perform the duties allotted to them than ours. Had not this subject. better be talked over, before the next Congress, by the licensed officers, and if it meets their views, then let them ask Congress to make an amendment to the law in regard toa board of this kind. ————-— The steamer Magnet, which ran on Cedar Island Sunday, was got off with slight dam- age by the wrecking tug Michigan and arrived at Owen Sound Out., on the 9 of June. YACHTING. Itis expected that acontract for the largest Mees Saar yacht in the world will soon be obtiined by the American ship building company and it will be constructed at their yards tn Philadelphia A Reau Beaury.—Loval critics say whe steam yacht Huntress is as beautiful a model us ever floated. She has upper cabins, and Is well adapted for excursions, provided she has good ballast aboard, Painted white all over, and tinished off finely as she is, no prettier craft can be imagined. ‘The Huntress plies between South Haven and Chicago, and will make oveasional ex- cursions out of Chieago She was_ built at Buffalo by the Union Drydoek Company in 1880, tor Imson, of Buffalo, but has re- cently been purchased by South Haven par- ties and brought up here. Her measurement is 114 tons, she classes A 1, and is valued at $16,000. No better advertisement of the art of beautifal shipbuilding could be had than the yacht Huntress. AMERICAN YacuTt Cius.—The certiticate of incorporation of the American Yacht Club as filed, in the office of the County Clerk, ‘The incorporators named are George S. Scott, Cornelius F, Simpson, Jay Gould, Henry A. Taylor, James B. Houston, Wash- ington E. Connor, William B. Dowd. William P. Clyde, George J. Gould Rufus Hatch, Alfred T’. Cordova, Christopher Mayer, Thomas C, Platt, Jesse R. Grant and Frank R. Lawrence. ‘The club will be essentially devoted to steam yachting, the articles of incorporation declaring the object of the club to be “thé promotion of suvial recreation in’ yachting, and to encourage bnilding, especially with regard to the de- velopment of steam yachting.” Seven tros- tees for the first year are named in the articles—Messrs, Scott, Simpson, ‘Taylor, Houston, George J. Gould, Lawrence and Dowd. THE ATALANTA’S TRIAL TRIP.—The Ata- lanta steamed away from her Philadelphia ship yard on June 9 on atrial trip testing her machinery. ‘The penant of the newly organized Ameri- van yacht club was plying at the fore peak and George Gould’s signal penant at the main, She rap down the Delaware amida suecession of salutes. She soon sighted the tug bearing Mr Gould and other New Yorkers and receiving them on board she ran on down the river keeping her whistle answering salutes that haled her first ap- pearance. ‘The trip was satisfactory to builders and owners. She is pronounced the swiftest deep-sea going yacht afloat. At times she made sixteen knots an hour or }about seventeen miles. The interior of the vessel will now be fernished. She will use new fluted signal lamps of Felthousen & Russel, of Buftalo, the best that. can te pro- vured, On the first of July she will be de- livered to her owners. E FirZzNoopLe N. A.—A_ correspondent of the Nautical Gazette says: ‘The so-called yachting dude, Fitznoodle, N. A., has re- turned, signalizing his return by a_ bitter attack upon one of his best friends, which is exactly what might have been expected from Dude Fitznoodle. He graduated (!) from the Naval Academy as a bilged middy, from a sporting paper as a bilged editor, and turns up from Central American climes as a bilged ingratiate. He will bilge on his own conceit ere long, mark my words. If Forest and Stream is anxious to lose all its yachting patrons, Dude Fitznoodle is the little boy to bring about that desideratum as quick as anybody can, He is a prolific writer anda more prolific newspaper bully, and loses no oppurtunity to hit a man when he is down, He neither can build nor sail auything, from atub toa frigate. His title of N. Aisa fraud if it stands for naval arehitect, but if it means nautical ass, it is quite proper, as ninety per cent. of yachtsmen will tell you. YacuTt M JREMENT.—The Foyest and Stream sa ht committee on yacht measurement came to the conclusion that any system that taxed either breadth, depth or bulk, each by itself, would favor or toster an opposite quality, and should therefore be rejected, | That length is the principal element for speed, but that length alone would tend to produce to an undesirable extent some one ot the foregoing attributes. That it would be impracticable to directly modify length by any one of the elements as stated, for the reasons mentioned. The bulk, beam or depth, with outside ballast, ora combination of the last two, with either or both modified, or in other words, “power or ability to carry sail, was the next most important element,and found direct expression in the sail plan or area of sail, which could therefore be used as the modifying tactor of length without singling out any of the before mentioned element’s or limiting the owner or designer in his particular fancy for form or type—and that, as an expression of this power, only such sails as are ordinarly carried when sailing to windward could be justly considered, And your committee have therefore come to the conclusion that length in some torm modified by sail area in some form, should be the principal adopted. And the correct- ness of this decision has been acquired in by most of the representatives of the,clubs we have been in communication with, either in person at many of our meetings, or by letter, And since this committee began its labors und reached its conclusions, the Yaeht Racing Association of Great Britain has taken up the subject, and has advised the adoption of a similar principle, as the only means of checking the evils which have arisen from taxing directly some one or more of the elements, as therein stated, and allowing other elements to go free. NAUTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC, A Neapolitan gardener, after years of ex periment, has produced a camelia with a delicate perfume, and he thinks it probable that these flowers may in the near future be so cultivated az to rival the rose in the fragrance of its odor. A new theory of the so-called fascinations of birds by snakes is that the bird mistakes the snakes tongue, which the reptile keeps in rapid and constant motion, for a lively worm, and watches it intently with the anticipation of devouring it. The Journal de Pharmacie says thata mucilage composed as follows will unite wood, porcelain, or glass; eight and a half ounces of gum arabic in strong solution, twenty grains of solution of alumina dis- solved in two-thirds of an ounce of water. Some experiments by M. Gautier appear to prove that human salvia possesses, in a milder degree, the satve poisonous property as that of serpents. ‘The human salvia injected under the skin of a bird causes death, with symptoms very closely resembl- ing those trom serpent bites. The propeller A. Everett, ashore on Eleven-foot shoal, was released by the har- bor tug Owen and arrived at the docks at Escanaba June 9. rhe Owen took a lighter, and by unloading about 400 tons of ore, was able to pull her off. She is leaking some, but can be kept free with the pumps. Late investigations of German scientists have shown that the electric light is not only healthier than other methods of illumi- nation in leaving the air purer, but that it increases the power of vision in some re- spects, especially in distinguishing colors. Red, blue, green and yellow are much more distinct Under this light than by daylight. MILWAUKEE, Wis., June 9.--The wind has been northeast and brisk sinve last night, with frequent rain. Vessels arriving re- port large quantities of shingles and posts afloat outside. ‘The crew of the svhooner A. G. Morey, on the rocks at Bailey’s Har- bor, are living in the lighthouse at that port, but nothing has been heard from the vessel for several days. ‘The propeller Clarion, of the Anchor Line, which sank the schooner Hercules in St. Clair River on the way up, arrived in Chi- ago yesterday. Captain Sisson claims that the schooner wasat fault, and that the propeller was in no way to blame. ‘The captain of the schooner G.aims that propell- ersrun the rivers, and that the Hercules happened to be on the Clarion’s range. M.. Pasteur has resolved to ‘extend his studies in vaccinnation to yellow fever, with a view of determining whether or not the disease is due to parasites and can be guarded against by inoculation. .A broad field of investigation is open to Pasteus, as itis suggested by his discoveries thus far that all coutagious maladies may be due to parasitic growths, the virulence of which may be so reduced by hig method of inocula- tion as to render this class of diseases no louger a matter of dread. Inter Ocean :—The schooner Wollin, with a cargo of hardwood lumber for Chicago, went ashore ten miles north of Grosse Point during Friday night. It was thick and foggy atthe time, with frequent squalls. When the captain left ber she was full of water. The captain arranged tor the tag William L. Ewing to go to her witha steam pump. ‘The vessel was lying easy, and, anless a gale should spring up, can be rescued, ‘Tne Wollin was built in 1855 and rebuilt in 1872, and again in) 1878, and classes B11. Her tonnage is only 48, She is valued at $1,800, and is partly insured. Captain Bergman “of Holland” is the owner. ‘The eargo of hard- wood Lumber is very valuable, and will all be saved. _____— SAILORS’ SLANGED. An exchange facetiously says: Sailors are sea-dogs that never bite, because they are usually confined to barks. ‘They go to sea in ships, but 1 r schooners—-when on shore. ‘The sailor is an odd specimen of hu- manity, but nevertheless has his mates. His main business is handling ropes nicknamed lines. They are hard lines, but the sailor always complains when he comes to the “Yvope’s end’’—perhaps because he has to back up to it. He is fed on hard tack, and being constantly engaged on spars, is an un- pleasant opponent to tackle, especially as he usually spars with yard arms, ‘The fact of his being “piped to grog’’ illustrates the tendency of smokers to become drinkers. Ever alert, he is a singularly ignorant man for one living where everything is taut. He differs trom the sails on which he depends, a8 they are steadiest when they are full. ROD AND CANOE. A suap weighing eight pounds was re- cently caught in the Convecticut river. A CANOE club hag been formed at Pitts- burgh with fourteen members and seven canoes in commission, ‘I'wo canoe clubs have been formed in Canada, the Lindsay and the Lakefield with twenty and thirty members respeztively. SPorTsMEN are fishing, these days, tor black bass, off Point au Pelee, in Canadian waters, Where the law does not interfere with the pleasure seekers. A. H. Mure, in Forest and Stream says on June Ist, in Miltord, Pike Co., Pa., we gave the Saw Kill a two hours? visit and secured a hundred speckled beauties that made a yood twelve pound mess. Bass are sometimes shot In the streams ot Florida, “the rod, however, is more suc- cessful in filling the string with good fish free of lead. Recently in one day a man caught twenty black bass. ‘he smaller ones averaged about three pounds, four weighed six pounds, one weighed ten pounds and the largest one balanced the scales at twelve pounds. Ar the London International Fishery Ex- hibition, in the Uniten States department, is the United States Fish Commission steam- er Albatross, of about 1,000 tons, a model of which is shown, and which will arrive in the ‘Thames toward the middle of June. She is designed especially for deep sea research, and is titted with all kinds ot fishing appa- ratus, so that she can catch anything in. the seas from the tiniest fish to whales. She ia under command of Captain ‘Tanner, and forms a part of the exhibits, to which the American Commissioners intend to extend special invitation. Stop anD Go Fisuinc.—Peck’s Sun puts this in a good light: ‘The Cleveland mill- ionaire who committed suicide, did so be- cause he could not sleep. How many mill- ionaires are there who would give one of their millions if they could sleep as’ well nights as Pat who takes care of their horses, or the poor man who works in their gardens. Every million dollars a man ‘accumulates after he has a competency isa weight of lead upon his brain. He does not enjoy his money and no.one else can. What does it profit a man to gain a bushel of money,and lay awake nights and see spooks, and roll and tumble on a soft bed until every nerve is on astrike, A millionaire who can take a fish pole and go off toa pond and eatch bull heads and forget that he is worth a hundred dollars, has got an easy time, but few of them can do it. The spectacle of «a man who has got six million dollars blowing his brains out, ought to make thousands who are rich aud who are rustling for more, stop and think, and then quit business and go tishing. ‘ a ‘ THE LIQUOR QUESTION. A sufficient qnantity of liquor is used in the United States annually to filla eanal four feet deep and fourteen feet wide and 120 miles long. But what has that to do with Swayne’s Pills, the best family medicine in the world? Millions of boxes have already been sold and there isa eall tor millions more. ‘They cleanse and build up the overtaxed system no other medicine san, "1 for a quarter of a dollar. Do not de- lay, bat give them a fair trial. ————~——____ HOW TO MAKE ADTERTISING PAY, Rotert Bonner, the New York publisher, and one of the largest: advertisers in the country, gives this advice on a subject of equal interest to wholesalers seeking the trade of retailers or the latter class seeking the customs of the people generally : “One of the points of good advertising is to address the same people over and over again. Kor instance: Suppose you were’ introduced, with about 509 others, to the President, the chances are that the Presi- dent would not remember you. Butif you had an opportunity of seeing him again, and said, ‘Mr. President Lam Mr, Charles Wole sey, of Brooklyn; Senator So-and-so did me the honor of introducing me to you,’ and you did this two or three times, you would be sure to be remembered. 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