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M. A. BRADLEY. President. James W. Millen, Detroit, Mich. John G. Keith, Chica bal Millen, I seus x. ' go, Tl. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Frank J. Firth, Erie, Pa, ; W.S. Brainard, Toledo, 0. Thomas Wilson, Cleveland, 0. R.P.Fitzgerald,Milwaukee, Wis. atest okt Peter F. Miller, Buffalo, N.Y. Alex. McDougall, Duluth,Minn. jharles H. Keep, Secretary, Buffalo, N.Y. Geo. P, McKay, Treasurer, Cleveland Harvey D. Goulder, Counsel, Cleveland, O. f wa Mr. C. H. Keep, secretary of the association, was in Cleve- land Wednesday on his way to Buffalo from Chicago and spent some time with Mr. Harvey D. Goulder and Treasurer McKay, planning matters pertaining to affairs of the association in Wash- ington. In accordance with instructions trom the finance com- mittee, Messrs. Keep and Goulder will visit Washington as soon as they receive answers to letters seeking appointments with officers of the lighthouse board and other government officials. They go mainly to consult the executive members of the board regarding the light-ships building at Toledo and the expense of maintaining float lights at the Limekiln crossing, but will also urge immediate action on the part of the state department in the matter of reciprocity in wrecking. a Dispatches from Washington announce that the heads of different departments of the government will, on account of the extra session of congress beginning Aug. 10, be required to pre- pare before that date their estimates for appropriations, in order to facilitate the work of committees. The estimates from the treasury department for lights, fog signals, etc., will accordingly be made within the next few weeks, and the recommendations of Secretary Carlisle in this regard will be of considerable import- ance to lake vessel interests. Messrs. Keep and Goulder will do what they can while in Washington to secure proper recognition for the lakesin the secretary's recommendations, which have an important bearing upon the distribution of appropriations. Asa very large number of aids to navigation throughout the lakes were authorized by the last Congress, there should be less diffi- culty this year in securing, appropriations. On account of the depressed condition of the lake freight market, there was some talk several days ago of reducing the schedule of wages, which was marked up this spring to last year's full opening scale, but the proposition met with opposi- tion, and although conditions in the freight market have not changed there is now no indication of a change in wages. The Skipper's Spook. Night was brooding on the wave, and distant was the land where we laid our captain in his grave. 'The mate was in command. Onward dashed our gallant craft ; the wind was fair and strong ; the mate walked proudly fore and aft, nor dreamed that aught was wrong. But, sud- denly, why did he stop? Why did he stare in wonder? A voice came from the mizzen top:-- "Below there! Stand from under!" ~- "fhe mate was bold, but his blood ran cold, and his flesh began to creep. 'Twas the yoice of one whom he knew was gone--gone to his last long sleep. "All clear below," he cried, "let go!" His answer was too rash; for a coffin, black ag hell's smokestack, came down with an awful crash. Fear gave each cheek an ashen hue and palsied every limb. The mate stood staring at the crew; we stood and stared at him. At length he spoke: "There will befall bad luck if here we leave it. Lay hold, my hearties, one and all, and overboard we'll heave it." What seaman true at duty's call was ever known to flinch? We seized and lifted, one and all, but couldn't lift an inch. "Together lift!" the boatswain said, 'or the ship is doomed to wreck" But, alas! 'twas either filled with lead or fastened to the deck. Then from within a deep voice came: "I am the captain's spook. There's no one here whom I can blame; but bring on deck the cook."' Then out the trembling cook we dragged from his snug hiding place. Fain would he behind have lagged; we saw it in his face. We brought him where the coffin lay and mystery seemed to lurk, and heard the voice within it say: "Wretch ! behold your work !"' Down on his knees the steward went, and raised a fearful cry: "Oh, captain; captain, I repent! IJ know it was that pie!" The ghost spake: "Vengeance I don't crave, but I for justice pine. The pies that sunk me in the grave must sink him in the brine. "Now lash him to my coffin--tight, that he may not get free ; then lift it--you will find it light--and fling it in the sea." 3 Moral: Let cooks, if pies they can not make, forget not this galoot ; nor undertake like him to bake the leaden substitute.--[Wade's Fibre and Fabric. 8 MARINE REVIEW. 6 Yachts at the Fair--Chicago Marine. WESTERN OFFICE, MARINE REVIEW, { No, 701 Phoenix Building, CH1cAGoO, II1., July 6. Cleveland has taken the honors for steam yachts at the world's fair. The Say When, Comanche and Wadena represented here the flower of yachting on the great lakes. Congressman. W. J. White is having a great deal of pleasure out of the Say When by giving yachting parties every pleasant afternoon, His guests are delighted with her magnificent appointments. The Wadena gener- ally goes to Jackson park and lies at anchor there while her people visit the fair, bringing them back in the evening. The Comanche's usual anchorage was off the new Chicago Beach hotel at Sixty-third street. Although a num- ber of New York yachts have been here this summer, none of them are equal to any one of the three Cleveland yachts. In time Chicago will get there along with Cleveland, but at present she is not in it. -- The first trip of the Manitou showed that she is a good, solid sixteen-mile boat. With her engine turning over eighty times, she made 154 miles an hour on an average from Mackinaw to Chicago. Atno time did the engineer take chan- ces of heating the new machinery by crowding it. Capt. McIntyre is confident that she can make 17 miles an hour without effort, and that her normal speed, trip in and trip out, will be fifteen miles. The cabin arrangements of the Manitou are certainly unexcelled on any boat which ever came into Chicago. After a trip or two the actual test of her accommodations will be worthy of an extended article. After a suspiciously quiet spring, the Seamen's Union sprung into promi- nence this week. They boarded the Edward Blake and, after a hard fight, - succeeded in putting her crew of Canadian sailors on the dock. They then seized their baggage and started to make off with it, but the timely arrival of a patrol wagon loaded with policemen scattered the union delegates, and under police protection the Canadian sailors boarded their boat and were allowed to keep their jobs in peace. Tuesday night the schooner Mosher was boarded as she lay on the Jumber market by a number of union delegates and a fight ensued, Although roughly handled by their assailants, the crew of the Mosher beat off the union men. Perhaps these two defeats in succession will stop these . ontrages for some little time, but it is hardly the nature of a union delegate to allow a "scab" to hold a job when he is unable to place any of his men on boats. Captains who thought that they would not be molested this season, however, will find that the union is still alive, even if there has not been such a fight against non-union sailors this year as last. one Saturday night the electric buoys to the fair grounds were lighted success- fully and for the first time Lake Michigan along Chicago's water front was a blaze of light. The buoys proved themselves to be all that was expected of them. Captains of the excursion steamers carrying passengers to the park are loud in their praise of this mode of lighting dangerous channels, and say that they never navigated a plainer route, In the daytime the red spars are plainly visible for two or three miles, depending on the clearness of the weather. Several changes were made in the system before the last trial. The alternating current was done away with and a steady current was substituted. Great praise is due to Commander John J. Brice, who planned the buoys, and personally superintended the work. I. W. Henry, who brought out the scheme of haying the lights on one cable instead of haying two cables running to each light, has made a name for himself in the electrical world. Mr. Henry directed the work for the Bishop Gutta Percha Company, contractors. Inventions of a Marine Nature. Specially reported from the patent office, Washington, D. C., for the MARINE REVIEW. 500,267--Chain cable, by Gustay Lindenthal of New York; filed Dec. 22, 1892; serial number, 456,007. 500,399--Cable protector, by Albert W. Lackey of Gold Hill, Nevada; filed May 2, 1893; serial number 472,731. 500,411--Steam passenger boat, by Alexander McDougall of Duluth, Minn.; filed March 28, 1891; serial number, 386,167. This is another of the whaleback series and isan application of that form of vessel to passenger ser- vice. The Christopher Columbus is of the type described. Movement of Hard Coal. Notwithstanding the great shrinkage in soft coal shipments from Ohio ports this season, the movement of anthracite from Buffalo is nearly 25 per cent. greater than during the first three months in 1892, as shown by the following table: 1893. LSQ2.4 JAMES ence pega setae k eer 391,580 374,069 MAY cosa c cancivele emake wey eties sareree enren B7a74 53 273,463 Aprils 2k tic taser toit es otis ant tee 178,040 112,971 Tahal: hc ee acre emerge 943,053 759,971 The excess of shipments for three months of this season is 183,087, or 24.1 per cent. British charts of Lake Superior cover the entire north shore. We have them for sale at $1.