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4 THE MARINE RECORD. ~ Ghe Marine Record. ESTABLISHED IN 1878. Entered according to the ‘laws of the United States Post ‘Office at Clevélahd as second-class mail matter. ALANSON WILCOX, Editor and Proprietor. Published weekly at No. 2 South Water street, Cleveland, Ohio. Branch office, No, 244 South Water street, Chicago. T TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One year, postage paid.... Six months, postage pai Invariably in advauce. ADVERTISING RATES. Ten cents per line, nonpare’] measurement, or $1.20 per inch, each insertion; tour weels $4.00; with a libera discount on orders amounting to $40.00 or over. Articles, letters and queries on al] subjects are solici- ted. & 8@& The Editor assumes no responsibility for the opinions of correspondents. ae . To insure notive, contributors must give name and * address, and write on one side of the paper only. THE MARINE RECORD has an Agent in every port on the Lakes and Rivers, avd will consequently circu- late more or less in all of them. Asa medium for advertising it has no ‘superior, as it circulates among a class of peaple that can be.reached in no.other way.. EDITORIAL NOTES. THE Chicago tugs will burn hard coal af- ter-the first of August. : THE ‘longshoremen at ‘Erie are striking for an xdvance to 25 cents per hour. ‘Francisco Barea, Spanish Envoy, ete. to the United States, committed suicide with a-revolver on the 29th of July. ‘THERE scems, to be :in idea that the person who arrived in Montreal under the name of O’Neill is: Carey, the Lrish, intormer. EXteENsIvFE forgeries of Dominion ‘notes have come to light. It is said that Chicago and Toronto sharprrs ex cute | the work in Montreal, and Chicago and Montreal detec- tives have been’ employed to investigate. Tue death of General E. O. Ord, has re- “ vived the romance of his iife, which is based upon the fact that he was the grandson of George the Fourth snd Mre. Fitzhertert, to Whom the king was married while Prince of Wales. THE management ot the Star Line has been transfered from Detroit to Port Huron. We' predicted last week that Mr. Moffat would be the: manager, whieh has proven true, as he has beer elected to the position. THE Dwuth ‘imes saysa jam of loge, including -millions of feet, foreed its way down Grand river on last Thursday, de- stroying in its course the. bridges of the Grand Rapids, Indiana, and Chieago, and West Michigan — railroads.- An addi- tional number of logs were carvied out at Grand Haven, destroying all bridges in their course. DvrinG a heavy storm and-cloud burst on Saturday at the head waters of the A)- leglie1y a sudden rise in the river was produced which caused more disaster than any flooc since 1861, including the destruc- ‘tion of a fleet of rafts equal to an area of eighteen acres. Many of the rafts were ‘occupied by the families.of -the raftsmen: They made their escape to the shore , how ever, before the lines parted. Mareria. hag been ordered from Europe foi the construction of-two ten-inch breach loading cannons. ‘They are-to be used for new naval vessels, as are also the six inch steel guns’ now being constructed. ‘These are the only steel guns whose construction has ever been undertaken in this country, and ‘when completed. they, will be twenty- seven feet long, forty-two inches in diameter at the breach and will weigh about twenty- ‘four tong each, Considerable match lumber comes to this port in the course of a season. ‘The steam- barge Alpena lately towed down from On- tonagon three vessels with an aggregate cargo of 1,850,000 feet, gne of the four car- goes being destined for Cleveland. The Diamond Match Company’s yards, from which this fleet was loaded, still have from four to five million feet on hand, a large portion of which is match lumber, awaiting transportaticn to their various match facto- rios below. THE PILCT’S TREASURE, Few people are aware of the circumlocu- tions that a little simple slip of paper, Known as the regulations‘governing steam- bout pilots, goes through before it reaches its “conspicuous place”? on board such ves- sels where the law says it must be posted. New copies, which are constantly in de- mand, must first- be carefully revised and compared with the original, which is on file in the Treasury Department, and to: which the signatures of the eupervising inspectors have already been aflixed, after which they are sent to Baltimore, where they are signed by the supervising inspector of the third district; to New York, where they are signed by the supervising inspector of the second district, und so on to Butfalo, Detroit, St. Paul, San Francisco, St. Louis, New Or- leans, Memphis and Cincinnati. At each place they are,sigued by the resident super- vising inspector. Finally they are returned to Washington, where they are signed by the supervising inspector general, and then they are distributed among the districts. 1t costs just one hundred dollars to send one thousand copies 6f the piinted régulations tor General Dumont has to spend a good many diys inthe course of the year to the utterly useless work of signing these printed copies of the pilot rules. It ix supposed the object of the requirement that these rules should be signed by the supervising inspec- tors, was that of their authentication, ‘with a view to their use as originals in court. But as the courts will not accept them as.such, ‘demanding a certificate as to tneir authen- ticity trom the Secretary of the ‘Treasury under the great seal of the department in every case, it would seem that the law ought to beso amended as to permit tne signature to be printed with the regulations. "lhe in- spector general: has tried to hive Congress ‘see the matter in this light but that august body has not yet been able to get a focus on it.. Steamboatmeii should guard this paper as something of a unique treasure, consider- ing its travels and cost. z SS ‘ CHICAGO YACHT CLUB REGATTA. The regatta will be held on the 3d and 4th of August. On the firat day theschooneis will compete for the Chicago Club challenge cup, value $700, and a cash prize ot $200, The course is 15 miles to windward or to lee ward and the race will be started at 10:45 a.m. ‘The yachts Idler and Countees, of Chicago, and Oriole, of Toronto, are entered for the above race. -On the second day the sloops and cutters will compete‘for the Fisher challenge cup, value $500, and cash prizes Of $500 and $300 for first and second glass yachts and prizes of $250 and $125 tor third and fourth class yachts. ‘he course is 10 miles'to windward or leeward for firet, second and third class yachts and 5 miles to windward or leeward for fourth class yachts. The race will be started at noon. ‘The yachts Wasp, Cora, Aileen, Harry Burk, Atalanta, Berrie and Zephyr have already entered and several others are expected to do so, A special steamer’ for invited guests will ac- company the races. Great interest is felt in the events in consequence of the eompeti- tion to be had with the Canadian yaehte. oil ee THE WEAR OF MACHINERY. Some men, says a writer in the Industrial World, believe, or act as if they believe, that no machinery should be run to its full capacity, Jést-it should require important repairs after atime. This would be only another way of saying that machinery is made merely for the purpose of being kept ql the time in fine qrder, regardless of any work it may do; whereas, the truer thing is to run amachine for abit is worth, and when it is worn down or worn ont, to repair it or geta new one. .It may be claimed, and with some showing of truth, that a wiiform low speed is the most profitable for any ma- so moderate that no repair need be made from month to month. It is more likely to be true, however, in the majority of cases, that the great profit will lie in the the fastest speed that the material under treatment machinery. ‘The experience of leading rail- roads is quite to the point in this particular, for tiiere are cases in which the call for new locomotives has been eqtial to one in every four or five days, this requirement chine which is constantly employed, a speed | will permit, regardless of the repair of the | being due not alone to the amount of busi- ness, or to its earley increase, but rather to the gradual wearing out of the older engire , and we -may say in this connectjon, and it is interesting to know, that the American built engines may sately challenge com- parison with those of any part of the world, and which is also true in respect to all other kinds of machinery, what ever may be the ser- vice required of them. How far this sugges- tion of driving an engine to its utmost, re-, gardless, in ‘a certain sense, of the rep airs it will eventtvilly require, will“commend itself to the average vessel or mill owner, we can-: not say, but the general principle has so often proved true in all lines of manufacture that it cannot profitably be iguered by any one. One other suggestion, based pon actual, experience, is worth noting... Some my claim that a faster speed will entail so much greater labor an the man who looks out. for the working of each machine that he can not. keep all the little ins “and outs sharp to thelr work, In other words, he“ ought to have: more pay or an additional helper of some kind, ‘tor it is certainly true, and the statement will bear repeating, that increase over the grand circuit. Supervising Laspec-| of production is the chief element. in, an.| Cygnet inerease of profit, and that,.toa, in the face of any probable increase whatever in the need or cost of repair, ‘ DULUTH AND MINNEAPOLIS. Duluth ind Minneapolis areat hot warfare over the wheat market question, A late ‘issue of the Duluth ‘Tribune makes--tlie assertion of the tact that that city had be- cothe a wheat market that will. rival the great Minnéapolis. sind eventually take the bulk of her trade. It says the discovery can no longer be kept from the public eye, and alaym. is naturally created in the city of the big’ mills. “The new era means that now a direct trade with mills springs up here, separate and apart from the general elevator and commission business and -adding-just so much more to the grain trade. Mills like tho e at Milwaukee are finding out that they can do better by negotating at once with Duluth’ than to depend upon the’ market, buy as they can, or wait foi wheat contracted be- forehand, to reach them by the long and slow rail routes, Milwaukee realizes this vital point and starts the trade by coming at onee to Duluth and buying of her reserve. Lake transportation adds a second benefit to- the first advautage of the Duluth wheat mar- ket. It isimmediate and quick. Duluth-fur- nishes the wheat in the first place and every day of the week there are steamers, -barges ;and schooners in port ready to convey it, as | quickly as itcan be loaded, to mills that buy. Daluth is more and more extending its pur- chases of wheat in the. vast wheat belts in the further Northwest, gaining steadily in facilities for buying anc handling and mak- ing better credit asa wheat market. Her advantages are marked. . ‘They are apparent to those who sell to Duluth and to those who buy of Duluth. The truth of this at last strikes home to Minneapolis and she takes alarm. Vesselmen, while imputing a just proportion of .his talk to local pride, and to the wish that fathers the thought, will at the same time preceive in this some advantage to. themeelves, OBITUARY. Captain John M. Griffin, one of the oldest and best known navigators and vessel-own- ers on the lakes, died on the 26th ult. Cap-, tain Griffin had been out in Leadville, Col., ‘for two yearsup to the present spring, when failing health eompelled him to return home to Osweg». He sailed from youth, was snecessful, and beeame a vessel-owner, and-tinally a large eapitalist. Of late years he has lived ashore, looking after and man- aging his vessels. the schooner Mystie Star, and wholly owned the Blazing Star and other vessels. | had mining interests in Colorado. Deceased a half brother of M. J. Cummings, Keq., of Oswego, and was an old time friend: of Captain Patrick Finn, of this city, (formerly of Oswego), and of his brother, Nicholas ‘Finn, Esg., now engage] in mining interests | wy jin Colorado, He had hosts of friends in all! | the lake cities and will be sincerely mourned. | Captain James Bennett, of Mackinaw, } whose death is announced.this week, was ‘well-known and respeeted for his sterling | qualities all along the lakes. a | —- ‘ ‘produce exports for the week, $6,041,000, He owned an interest in} He also-| YACHTING, AMERICAN YACHT LIST, The American “Yacht List for 1883: is at hand and-is replete with valuable informa- tion, It ia the work of Nils Olsen, steward of the New York Yacht. Club. It comprises a list of 1,400 yachts of all classes, ineluding the fleets of forty-eight clubs. A‘ list of the amounts won by the various yachts in 1882 is given. ‘The signal code for ocean vessels and the flags of the more prominent yachts are published, * ‘Lhe following list of yachts belonging to the cities of the great lakes is a leading fea- ture; : CHICAGO. Tonnage.! “Name, . Mischief., Nameless 5.20) Neli.. 23.50 Neroid . Tonnage, 1 [Qui Vive. 11.19 Triton,, 84.63) Viking Goodenough Harry Burke. Idler | Wasp. Wonder 4 Mary Jane. Zephyr, +7 Mignon. .: Alarm. Lady Stanley Lapwing. Madea Gerald Gy psy ... Guinorve Imogene Jamboree . . Verne ... BUFFALO. 9.84) Kittie 4.57) Lo'tel 6 8.02) Petre! 114.67] Titiana MILWAUKEE. BO Sos sce scisigdesin JAN. cece oapastiaivaceesuts [Mamie 16 ONTARIO, Rambler... | Whisper... 2, - CLEVELAND. Belle...... - fLulu...., :.|Mi-chief. 24,10 v./Mita. Hamming Bird Kittie Walsh . |Unknown L dy Ida «| Wianifred. ERIE. ~ OTTAWA, Crier ...e. ees cece. ceeeeeeeeees 47- DETROIT, NAAR ssc ssicsensessed coverages «i | Sigma... ELLEVILLE. Amorette. Dauntless. Gricre. M be! Norah . Sylvia. OSWEGO, ; Cricket ..... 10 {Ela,., ! Fascination . 12. ‘|Katie Laura... 12 |Maud.., Phaatom 5 |Rhoda, KINGSTON EAM oi. oes cesses cos esesecsee cee BAY CITY, Mermaid... eee Permelia........ ees ‘Fhe register for Jay Goulds’ y Jay acht Ata- lanta was signed atthe ‘Treasury Depart. ment last week authorizing it to 1 i wnat around the world. - * ReaD Commercial Advertiser : The ‘schooner Rival, Captain James ‘T, Holling, seems to be out of luck. She isin hot water with the revenue officers at Toledo about her official measurement. It appears thaton arrival at, that port an. officer from the United States revenue cutter Perry stepped aboard and after examining the vessel’s papers finding them all right, he asked as to where the ton- nage of the vessel was cut. He declared thet the official measdrement shonld be cut on the forward side of the main beam. Holl- ing said he had been on vessels several years, but did not know Where that was He had heard of the main boom, The pa- pers of the Rival have been tuken away and have not yet been returned, The captain says he has the officiai register cut in the place pointed out to him and expects to have his papers returned, Captain Holling told the officer that if the register Was on the wrong side he thought it would bea good idea to turn the vessel around and it: would ibe all right. The officer di er did not that light. reciee | — —_ ~The Angus Smith, has reached here with 87,000 bushels of Wheat from Milwaukee for the K. & M. Company. She is the lary est sailing vessel. that has eome to Kingston wk year, Last season she went to Ogde nebiirg, |