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4 THE MARINE RECORD. Ghe Marine Record. ESTABLISHED IN 1875. Entered according to the Jaws of the United States at the Post Office at Cleveland as sec S marlers Published weekly at No. 2 South Water street, Cleveland, Ohio, by the MARINE RECORD PRINTING COMPANY, BRANCH OFFICE, 244 SOUTH WATER STREET, CHICAGO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: $2.00 One year, postage paid... Six months, postage paid. Invariably in advance. 8s ADVERTISING RATES. Ten cents per line, nonpare’l measurement, or $1.20 per inch, cach insertion; four week's $4.00; with a libera discount on orders amounting to $40.00 or over. Articles, letters and queries on all subjects are solici- ted. 8@ 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 RECORD has an Agent in every port on the Lakes and Rivers, and 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 people that can be reached in no other way.. EDITORIAL NOTES. ‘Tue ‘Toledo sailors intend making an ef- fort to get a portion of the higher freight rates. THE Chicago tug owners say: there has been no summons served on them under the smoke ordinance. ‘ THE ladies of Mackinac have presented the new steamer City of Mackinac witha \ new set of colors. THE offering rate on ore from Escanaba to Lake Erie is $1.25, but vessel owners are demanding $1.35 and $1.40. Other freights are firm all slong the line. CuicaGo has had the novelty of a Chinese excursion, including about two hundred of the celestial geutlemen. ‘The reporter: is in doubt as to the presence of any ladies as the whole party wore Mother Hubbard dresses. A pispatcr from Chicago says ‘hat See- retary Folger accompaniéd by Collector Spalding left that city for an excursion to Lake Superior on board the United States cutter Andy Johnson. ' The Secretary will go to the Pictured Rocks and return to De troit, thence go to Geneva, N. Y. — ‘THE surveyor general of the marine hos- pital service at Washington has received a dispatch from John B. Guttman, president of the board of health at Pensacola, Fla., saying that yellow fever is on the wane at the navy yard there and that all possibie landings are guarded so that it cannot be in- troduced in other quarters, STEAMY ACHTS gidW In favor in Great Brit- ain. In 1863 there were only thirty steam -yachts of 3,952 tons; there are now 466, and the aggregate tonnage is- 51,809. One-third -of these are of 400 tons and upward, and an- other third of 200 to 400 tons. ‘heir aggre- gate value is over #11,000,000 and the cost of maintenance is proportionately heavy. A pIspATcH dated at Syracuse on the 20th instant, says the water is to be drawn off the Erie canal in that city on Thursday morn- 4 ng, (to-day) as lock 48, just. west of the rail- road tunnel, is in a dangerous condition, and should it give way, the city would be tlood- ed. Superintendent Stanahan will superin- tend the repairs. Navigation will be stopped for several days. Tux Inter Ocean says it has been published in 4 number of papers that hereafter there would be no lights at the Limekilns crossing, (- owing to work having been suspended. ‘This is not the case, as the eastern light has been left for the present. If permission can be ots tained the light will be left here permanent- f ly. At present only the western light has been removed. Captains are warned not to | hug the light too closely, as the channel, 1£0 feet feet wide, ison the eastern side. Sev- eral deep draught vessels are said to have struck recently by keeping tov close to the light. Q ‘ re WIRE ROPE TOWAGE. It has been discovered that wire rope haul- age has proved itself much more economical than any other form of marine propulsion. | Since 1876 a large proportion of the towage upon the Rhine has been effected by wire rope haulage, and more particularly at points where the stream is most rapid. In fact it has been quite open to question whether the traffic could have been dealt “ith in the more rapid portions of the stream in any other way than by the method of wire rope haulage. The wire rope lies in the bed of the stream and the rope is passed over a geared drum and a series of guide wheels at each side of the towing steamer. ‘he power of the engine, the Marine Kngineer says, in- stead of being applied by means of the screw or paddle, is applied direct and rotates the winding drum, and this hauls the boat along by its tractive force on the wire rope. There is thus a total absence of the ordinary slip essential to all forms of propellers. ‘The principal dimensions are 140 to 150 feet along over all, with a beam of from 23 to 24 feer. The boats are fitted with twin screws, which ean be used when required in giving extra way to the boat, to aid the steering at awk- ward places during the journey up stream, The boats are provided with water ballast tanks, so that in ordinary circumstances they have a draught of 4 feet 4 inches, which ‘is necessary to give proper immersion to the screws;- when the water falls very low the water’ ballast can be pumped out, and the tugs cau be run with a draught of 3 feet 3 inches, and it is.thus possible to keep them at work when all other towing steamers have to be stopped. ‘The tugs haul-on the average from 2,200 to 2,600 tons, contained in tour wooden barges, at an average speed of 2.8 miles per hour, against the stream running at the rate of 4.5 miles per hour. In iron barges one and a half times the quantity of useful load can be drawn. The average Consumption of coal per hour is from five to six.ewt. The best paddle-tugs employed on the Rhine burn three and one- half times as much fuel, even when com- pound engines and patent wheels and all the latest improvements are used. ‘The old puddle boats, with low pressure and non- compound engines burn four and a half times as much’ The latest screw tugs burn two and one half times as much coal as the wire rope tugs doing the same work under the same circumstances, and at the same time the draught of the screw tugs is 8 feet 2inches. ‘The horse power required by the hauling engine of the wire rope tugs does not exceed trom 150 to 180 indicated, whil: the screw tugs just referred to, are fitted} wi h engines of 560 indicated horse power. ‘Yhe first rope, laid in 1876, was laid in lengths of about a mile, spliced together and was not galvanized, and suffered nine fractures, during the first three years of its use, realizing 16 per cent. of its original val- uyas old material when renewed. A new rope, laid in 1880, had a length of 7437 miles and was galvanized. It has now been 23, years in use, in which time there have | been but three fractures. It is supplied in long Jengths of 71g milea each, so that the number of splices is greatly reduced. This certainly marks a new departure in river, haulage, and may be the pioneer of a con- siderable number of similar enterprises. FLORIDA SHIP CANAL. The enterprise of cutting a ship canal through the Isthmus of Florida is just now attracting considerable attention, and its practicability and value to the commerce of the world is unquestionable. It is estimat- ed by General Stone, its chief engineer, that the construction of such a canal would | eave from three to seven days time for all the steamers and sailing vesesls going into and out of the Gult of Mexico, one fact alone, which is very significant, as the sal- ary and running expense account of the large, ocean steamer averages about $5,000 per month, or about $170 per day and the cost of coal between $300 and $400 per day additional, making a saving in expense, at the lowest estimate, of $1,500 in the mere matter of time. But this is not the most important feature in favor of the enter- prise. The navigation through the straits of Florida is the most dangerous known, the average loss of vessels and cargoes being enormous, which makes insurance on ves- sels bound to the Gulf of Mexico rate very high. On this secount the canal would save an insurance of from one to one and a halt per cent, which would alone pay a@ handsome revenue, Then the increased ‘safety und the lower cost the ship canal ; would give to vessels, would greatly increase | traftic now making use of the gulf, for the reason thitin a very short time after the ; completion ot the canal a great proportion of the grain and cotton of the west and | northwest which now goes east by rail, ;would find its way down the Mississippi and through the exoa). It has been gener- erally understood (hat the high elevation of | the water-shed was the principal obstacle to | the construction of a ship: canal, but which | General Slone says, is a mistaken one, as it can be crossed at x considerably lower ele- | vation than the highest on the Suez Canal. | Another important point he says is that the j backbone of the: peninsula rises and de- | seends, sharply, consequently, the cutting, though deep, would be short, and a6 avail- able entrances frou leep water ean be found, harbors can be mule that will aceommo- date yessela ot the oveatest draught. THLE FRED CARNEY. Tre Milwaukee shipyard Company will | this ‘week launch x very handsome barge which they have built for the Marinette | Barge Line Company to be used in the Jum- i ber trade. She will be named the Fred Car- ney. Her dimensions are 155 feet over all, 30 feet beam, 10!4 feet depth of hold, and her earrying eapacity about 450,006 feet of lum- ber. She is thoroughly well buile of the very best miterials, and as strong as wood and iron can make hey, and will class Al in every respect. She tas ‘a very heavy keel and keelsons. Wer beams are 10x10 and 10, x12, 31 inches from. centres, resting on very heavy shelf pieces kneed off with tamarack hanging knees, she bas four inch plank from the gurboard streaks to the rail, which is square fastened, sod she is edge-bolted from below the bilye so the rail. Captain J. C. Perrett, the superiatendent of the Mari- nette Barge Line Co., is looking after the of the Milwaukee Shipvard Company, is de- termined that nothing shall be. wanting in her construction, and that she shall provea great success, both to ner builders and own- erg. ‘ BOOK NOTICES. The September A:iantic continues -the serial stories “A Roman Singer,’? by Mr.. ;Crawtord, and “Newport,” by Mr. Lathrop, both of which have av cacted marked atten- tion, and are jikely co 5 read with increas- ing interest tothe ens. Dr. Holmes furnishes acharacteriatic poem oa ‘King’s Chapel,” one of the oldest of B ston ehurches, which dates back to and) beyord the revolution; it is the churehy which Dr. Holmes has for years attended. Geo Walton Green has a timely article on “Our Nominating Ma- chines,” which js instructive reading for those who are willing 19 know just how po- litical matters are -<metimes frequently managed, and who -a-e willing to lend ahand to reform the s.anagement. H. H. writes her Impression. of Edinburg in an article entitled Glin‘. In Auld Reekie.”’ Henry James continues ais series of articles on French country sce.ery and experience, —this time treating ©: Bourges, Le Mans, Angiers, and Nantes, Edith M. Thomas, ! under the title of “Ajo: z an Inland Beach,” writes concerning Lake Erie in-the charm- ing style which has male ber so great a fa- vorite with the reacess of the Atlantic. Ozher noteworthy artic.¢s are “Annexed by the Tsar,” by William). Stoddard; ‘Poets and Birds,” a ecriticist: on some articles by Mr. Phil Robinson in segard to birds and poets, by Harriet C, W. Stanton; “Merimee in his Letters,” by Mx -ia Louise Henry; “Character in Feathers,” by Bradford 'Tor- rey; and poems by Dr. 2. W. Parsons and A. F., the initials of Mes. James 'T. Fields, Several important new >ooks are reviewed, and the number concludes with an unusu- ally diversified Contri):.:ors’ Club, and the customary running acco int of books of the month, THE CANADIAN’S RIGHT, The Canadian authorizes have done per- fectly right in warning Captain Rhodes that any attempt made by his) or any one else to swim the whirlpool rapids at Niagara Falls would be looked pon as coming from an in- company’s interest,25d Mr. Lewis. ’Pahlow, |: sane person, and would be treated accord; ingly. If Rhodes wants notoriety he has gained enough by announcing his intention, He can always fall satisfactorily back on the assertion that he was prevented from carry- ing out his designs by the Canadian author- ities. All breakneck a‘tempts like these are to be discouraged. ‘hey do no credit to those who get them up, and still less credit \ to the thousands who assemble to witness them. ‘The guletstill courage of a man who always does his duty is intinitely preferable to these glaring feats which dazzle the eyes of sensationalists. Tue Buffalo Express says that the pro- peller Oregon has arrived from Marquette witha cargo ot iron ore. Her scorched af- terworks, hastily patched with rough boards, do not give her a handsome appearance. As soon as she is unloaded she will go into dry- dock for extensive repairs, which will amount to from $3,000 to’ $5,000. She leaves her consorts Bruce and Crosthwaite at Ash- tabula. The three brought down 3,600 tons of ore. Captain Wilson, of the barge Alleghany, has filed a protest. The damage, including two bills, ete, was pluced at $1,200, Her steering gear was repaired yesterday and she was ready last evening to leave for Erie in tow of the propeller Philadelphia, Five tugs, the Arctic from Grand Haven, Aloha and. Admiral from Chicago, Sill from Ra- * cine and Welcome from this port, all went, in search of the Alleghany atter'she was reported in distress, but the Welcome was the successful one. ‘The tug Alpha arrived here from Chicago and reported that she was unable to find her, and returned to Chi- cago. The Arctic, which left Grand Haven, has not been heard from, ‘he tug Sill got to the Alleghany first, but parted. her line. — Milwaukee Sentinel, 23d.. AROUND THE LAKES. CLEVELAND, : The schooner Havana is ‘'n the Globe dry- dock for ¢alking. Everything is dul! except treight rates, . which are active and firm. The I, H. Quinby went into Smith’s dry- dock for a calking and a thorough overhaul- ing ce CMe gett ‘The Floating Bethel tifs’a' great‘ imany vis- itors these hot days, and‘entértains them in good style. a The tug S. S. Stone ran on:a-snag in the old river bed afew days ago, breaking a shoe. She went into Smith’s drydock. The Paragon, with coal.from-th’s pors, ran aground at Camp Meeting: -Cove, . Bay of Quinte, and will be lightered before she ean be released. aot The tug Belle King, which sunk off Gib- raltar Island six years go, has-been found. She is owned by M. A. Patchen, of South Toledo. : Captain Lohmeyer’s steamyacht Cyclone is lying in the river waiting for an excursion party. She is registered to carrv 135 paseen- gers, can speed sixteen miles an hour and will make it pleasant for those who go with her. The tug Mary Virginia and steamlighter Robert Greenhalgh, Jr. went to the assist=- ance of the schooner John J. Hill, which sprang a leak and was beached off Dover bay on the 2lat. She was released and ar- rived here with a cargo of stone which she discharged at Ecson’s lime kiln. She will be repaired at the Globe drydock. Freight rates still remain firm, with the exception, probably, of those on grain, which are a trifle weaker, although vessels are still scarce, brokers having but small tonnage to offer. ‘The following charters were made on the 2lat: Schooner Southwest, coal, Lorain to Green Bay, 70c; schooner A. Boody, coal, from Cleveland to Milwaukee, 70c, and re- turning, ore from Escanaba to Cleveland, $1.25; schooner Swallow, coal from Cleve- land to Milwaukee, 70c, and returning, ore from Escanaba to Cleveland, $1.25; and on the 22d ore was firm at $1.25, with charters, The echooner Jura carries stone from Kel- ley’s Island to Marquette, 0c per ton free; same veseel, ore on return trip from Mar- quette to Cleveland, p. t.; steambarge Queen of the West, coal, Cleveland to Chicago, 70c; schooner Cook, toal,'l'oledo to Sheboygan, Wie., $1.00. During Tuesday afternoon the following dispatch was received at the marine ingur- ance agency of Mr. W. B. Scott in the Iron Exchange building, on Water street: “Sun- nyside collided with schooner S. H. Foster . = one