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3 MARINE REVIEW. » Wy < 2 = & , . Gvee sy < yo ; M. A. BRADLEY. President. James W. Millen, Detroit, Mich. John G. Keith, Chicago, Ill. Se ee re ee Frank J. Firth, Erie, Pa. W.S. Brainard, Toledo, O. _. VICE-PRESIDENTS: » Thomas Wilson, Cleveland, O. R.P.Fitzgerald,Milwaukee, Wis. Peter F. Miller, Buffalo, N.Y. Alex. McDougall, Duluth, Minn. Charles H. Keep, Secretary, Buffalo, N.Y. Geo. P, McKay, Treasurer, Cleveland, O. Harvey D. Goulder, Counsel, Cleveland, O. The committee appointed by the Lake Carriers' Association to confer with representatives of the light-house board regarding the location of the several light-ships, secured through the civil sundry appropriation bill in the last congress, will meet the three light-house inspectors of the lakes at Detroit on Monday next. = At a meeting of the Cleveland managers of the association, Monday, a letter from Col. Jared Smith, light-house engineer of the tenth district, was read, suggesting discontinuance of the main light at Erie and the light at the corner of Water and Main streets, Cleveland. The Cleveland main light no longer serves any purpose in getting vessels into the harbor, as the piers and breakwater contain four lights, and a recommendation for its discontinuance was approved by the Cleveland managers, but the question of discontinuing the Erie light, to which a similar argument would seem to apply equally well, was left tothe man- agers of Buffalo line boats which trade largely at Erie. Work of the Ship Yards. Mr. A. W. Colton, of Toledo, general manager of the Lake Erie Transportation Company, says there is no truth in the ru- mor that his company will build two boats similar to the Rey- nolds. Rieboldt, Wolter & Co., of Sheboygan, have begun work on a wooden tug, 75 feet long for Capt. Gustav Gunderson, of Sheboygan. A tug for the Barry Brothers Chicago Independ- ent Tug Line, to cost $11,000, will also be built immediately by EB. W. Heath of Benton Harbor, Mich, A contract has been closed with the Hamilton Bridge and Tool Company to build a steel steamer for the Toronto & Niag- ara Navigation Company, which will be placed on the Toronto- Lewiston route next season. The new boat will be capable of 'carrying 2,400 passengers, and will cost $250,000. The wooden boat to be built by Wheeler & Co. of West Bay City for Hawgood & Canfield of Cleveland, will be of the same dimensions as the C. F. Bieleman, capacity about 2,600 gross tons from Escanaba. 'This steamer will, however, have | more boiler power than the Bieleman, Sauber, Williams and other boats of her class. Capt. McDougall and his associates in the American Steel Barge Company are deserving of a great deal of credit for build- ing at Superior one of the finest dry docks on the lakes, espe- cially when there is some question about a very large business for a dock at the head of the lakes for some time to come. With energetic management similar to that shown in caring for the Neshoto, a wooden boat, when the dock was barely finished and facilities were not on hand for repairs of this kind, there is no doubt of the success of the enterprise. At the yard of the Craig Ship Building Company, Wednes- day, was launched the first of the two car ferries contracted for by the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Michigan Railway. 'he boat is named Ann Arbor No. 1, and will have a capacity for twenty-four loaded cars. 'These boats are 261 feet over all, 52 feet beam, and 18 feet deep. The engines, three in number on each boat, are compound, the cylinders being 20 and 4o inches by 36 inches stroke. They have each four steel fire-box boilers. They will do a big business in transporting loaded coal cars across Lake Michigan. Official Numbers and Tonnage. During the week ending Saturday, Sept. 17, the bureau of navigation, E. C. O'Brien commissioner, assigned official numbers to, and passed upon the tonnage of the following lake vessels: Steam--Excelsior, built and owned at Buffalo, 73.24 tons gross, 36.62 net, No. 136,325; Anna, built and owned at Grand Haven, Mich., 25.03 tons gross, 12.52 net, No. 106,966; Eliza, built and owned at Duluth, 15.25 tons gross, 8.24 net, No. 136,324. - MARINE Review for one year and Patterson's Nautical Dictionary for $6. The Menominee Transit Company's Fleet. ne of the steel steamers of he ee i is presented with this issue of t 1e REVIEW. Spe le Nea one of six boats, all duplicates, built by the Globe Iron Works Company and engaged for two seasons past in the Escanaba ore trade. 'The names of the other vessels of the fleet are Briton, Grecian, Roman, German and Saxon. These steamers are 312 feet over all, 292 feet keel, 40 feet beam and 24 feet depth of hold. Their engines are triple expansion, the cylinders being 24, 38 and 61 inches by 42 inches stroke, and the indicated horse power 1,200. On a draft of 16 feet 8 inches this season these vessels are carrying cargoes Tunning from 3,000 to 3,030 gross tons. Some information in detail re- garding the work of the Norman during the season of 1891 is given below, but it is of course, not as good a showing as the record of this boat or any other steamer in the fleet during the present season. 'The work of all boats in the fleet during 1891 is fully equal to that of the Norman. In 1891 the season for all of these vessels was short, and low water was against large cargoes. 'he Norman did not leave Cleveland on her first trip until May 9 and was laid up Nov. 26. Following is the data: An engraving of 0 Number Of trips...0.0sscssccectcnccecceeesccececceecsscoscracescsarccsserccsoosecs ith Hours run ae AS Com ag in dines tee renee ees Or Tine acta Ceeeetan 2,833 NGS Selec crest teem cpa crrdnetten eet Weleasscareseeesewire: 32,990 Miles run per hour.......cccsscerecesseseseeeeeseraeneceeseeereseceeesseees cee 11.64 Ore carried, Escanaba to Lake Erie ports, cargoes........--++++++-+--- 26 Ore carrled, GroSS tONS.......c..ccse-sreeeeseeneaeeceeeee ese sceerseseesess 66,95] Average cargo Of O©e, QTOSS tODS.....+-.+-seeererereeesenseesereresesce ees 2,575 Grain carried, Duluth to Buffalo, Cargoes........csseeeseesereesee ree eseees 1 Grain Carried, tOMS.........sccseeeresecnseecscteeeeseneeseee ees aeetceseeaecees 2,168 Buel used, soft coal, net tOms........ccccececeseeseeeee ses eeeeeaeereeees 3,690 Average fuel per trip, Met tOMS ..........50sseesee nee eecneee settee eter eeens 137 Average fuel per hour, pounds......... 02+. seceeseeeeeeerer eee eeeccneee 2,604 Average fuel per mile, pounds ............:s.sssceeteeceeeees neces nes tenees 223 ERG tall te OSU Ole TUG lepeseee efectc ct «te cetelae ete ere cio ac netctare tiie ete oie 39,344.95 Average cost of fuel, "per tot........ssseesesseeeceeeseserereeec eee eneaes $2.80 Average cost of fuel per trip...c.cscceeesereeceeereeesencen seeeenetsees 5346.10 Average cost of fuel per mil@...............sseseceeereceee ese etteee ees $0.28 3-10 Motal-CostOtso1ls amd allows secerestsa: soccess tere teens cenuee $393.00 Average cost lubricants per trip........csssscosssscneneccesceeesernceee $14.54 Average cost lubricants per mile........ccscssecssceseseseecee se coveee $1.18 EOP CM USCC OS tee teeta ste cette oe aeltne tepasere Newel ar ec ee ene $119.47 IBTOVABIGNns sLObaleC Osten tnen ee ca. tee unten atc <> atc eeaeeneecee 51,986.00 BUG wABLOME, COS tee Remner Ta) Cle Cy sectaceericatee sack seco eectelse se eeeee 50.473 Total time handling cargoes and fuel.........20...0e+0+ 69 days 7 hours Ostet e ATE PALES .CUCrscnecm mca ck iancn wenast a Snccom ince dnceteebee este ecaee 1 day WUOEt Time; ACCOUuntOb weathere ac. cctscrenets cna tene 14 days 14 minutes Cost of engineers' supplies and repails.............0.-.ccessee-ee one $177.39 In one respect particularly, that of speed, the record of this steamer is not fairly representative of the entire fleet. The Norman's average speed per hour for the season was but 11.64 miles, while that of the Briton was 12.81, Grecian 12.66, Roman 12.49, German 12.27 and Saxon 12.20. Notwithstanding this wide difference in the speed of the Norman and that of the other boats, the operating expenses of the other boats will not average higher than those shown above. A defective wheel during the greater part of the season was the cause of the Norman's poor showing in speed. 'This is proven by the fact that the speed of the Norman for twenty-four trips this season is equal to that of the other boats with no increase in operating expenses. Stern Construction in the Cunarders. Regarding the peculiar construction at the stern of the new Cunard steamer Campania, Engineering of London says: , '"The stern of the vessel has evidently received the most serious con- sideration of those responsible for the design,as although she has twin screws, there is still an aperture in the stern frame similar to that in an ordinary single screw steamer. This is made so that the propellers may work freely, though fitted close to the cen- tre line of the ship in order to avoid damage from, or to, the quay walls. No struts are fitted at the stern frame for support- ing the outer ends of the shafts, as in most twin-screw steamers. The use of these is avoided by the frames of the hull being bossed out aft to form the stern tubes, at the outer ends of which are fitted strong castings of steel. These serve the purpose of shaft brackets, and, being in continuation of the lines of the hull, are calculated to interfere the least possible with free pro- -- pulsion. The rudder, which is fitted entirely under water, is of the single plate type, formed of a heavy steel casting with mas- sive arms, between which a thick plate is fitted and riveted. Al- together the arrangement of the stern of the Campania strikes one as being out of the common in other respects than that of its immense size."' : The nip chandlers' outfits on the Menominee fleet of steamers, illustrated in this issue, were furnished by Upson Walton & Co., Cleveland. 7