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12 MARINE REVIEW. Some Appointments of Masters and Engineers. { Continued from page 7.) Barrey; Kaliyuga, Capt. John Lowe, Engineer Jos. Edmond §S. Pease, Capt. Thomas Sloan, Engineer ---- ---- ---- --, Schooners--Fontana, Capt. Henry Harris; Planet, Capt. Frank Parsons. Warner & Co., Cleveland, O.: Steamers--W. B. Morley, Capt. J. A. Nicholson, Engineer A. Manion; Keystone, Capt. Carlton Graves, En- gineer Kelley. Schooners--J. G. Masten, Capt. H. Parker; H. A. Kent, Capt. American Steel Barge Company, West Superior, Wis.: Steaniers-- Patterson; Colgate Hoyt, Capt. W. H. Kilby, Engineer Gilbert Newton; E. B. Bart- lett, Capt. M, A. Boyce, Engineer -------_---_; A. D. Thomson, Capt. A. R. Robinson, Engineer Ernest Sampson; Thomas Wilson, Capt. A. P. Chambers, Engineer Geo. Blauvelt; Samuel Mather. Capt. John H. Smith, Engineer Irwin Marshall; James B. Colgate, Capt. Robert R. Smith, En- gineer J. Hodgson Pierce. Barges--tot, Capt. ---; 102, Capt. George Gallant; 103, Capt. F. E. Johnson; 104, Capt. Carl D. Secord; 105, Capt. W.C. Butts; 107, Capt. H. M. Boyce; 109, Capt. Sam. E. Lewis; 111, Capt. George W. Smith; 115, Capt. William H. Dick; 116, Capt. ---- ----; 117, Capt. -- -------; 118, Capt. Thomas Tobin; 126, Capt. J.C. McLean; 127, Thomas J. Robinson; 129, Capt. EK. Emanuelson; 130, Capt. William S. Hoag; 131, Capt. James Leahy; 132, Capt. George Holdridge; 133, Capt. M.C. Cameron; 134, Capt. Wilbur Holdridge. In General. Capt. Frank Welcome will probably command the Northland, second of the Northern Steamship Company's passenger ships. Secretary Wm. Thurstone of the Buffalo Merchants' Exchange is send- ing out his year book of the statistics of trade and commerce at Buffalo. This work, always carefully compiled, is especially interesting this year. A fleet of coal boats recently towed down the Mississippi to New Or- leans from Louisville by the tow boat Joe B. Williams, contained 38,000 , tons, or more than a million bushels of coal. The fleet covered an area of more than eight acres. Thomas S. Negus, whose death was announced from New York a few days ago, was the surviving member of the firm of T.S. &J. D. Negus, manufacturers of nautical instruments, who were well known in their special line of businessin this country. The affairs of the firm have for some time past been conducted by the sons of the deceased brothers. Mr. E. Platt Stratton, chief engineer surveyor for the American Ship- masters' Association of New York, was in Cleveland during the week in the interest of the American Lloyds Vessel Register, the new book upon which representatives of the New York organization have been at work for some time past. The book contains rules for lake construction and the list of vessels is well arranged, and seems to have had careful preparation. In val- uations and ratings the compilers of the register undoubtedly aimed to sat- isfy vessel owners. In Cassier's Magazine for April Mr. Joseph Sachs has an article on "Flectrical Canal Boat Propulsion." After setting forth the requirements of a successful electric propelling system Mr. Sachs outlines what has been done and proposed in previous years, and finally details what he calls the motor locomotive haulage method, which is really an elaboration of the primitive mule method, but in which, instead of the slow and uneco- - nomical animal, a more rapid and efficient electro-mechanical mule is sub- stituted. This method he believes to be not only feasible but also the most practical of the various haulage systems thus far considered. Commander Nicoll Ludlow, U.S. N., is one of the members of the court ordered to try Commander Oscar F. Heyerman on charges involvy- ing negligence and inefficiency in connection with the Kearsarge disaster. Commander Ludlow was in charge of the Chicago light-house district when his brother, Col. William Ludlow, U.S. A., and Commander Heyerman were involved in difficulties with the light-house board over the Sault river lighting matter. Lieut. Charles H. Lyman of the Kearsarge is also to-be tried by court martial for the loss of the boat. Cablegrams from the expedition that left Boston some time ago for the scene of the wreck an- nounce that the Kearsarge has been blown up and burned by the natives. Trade Notes, A shipping directory of all vessels documented at Pacific coast ports, giving dimensions and particulars as to ownership, etc., has been issued by the San Francisco Commercial News. It makes a neat work of 60 pages, The office of W. A. Kearfott of Cleveland, who represents Henry R. Worthington of New York in Ohio, has been removed to No. 24 South Water street, where a large store room will admit ofa liberal stock of pumps being carried. Among the steamships having electric light plants installed by the F. P. Little Electrical Construction and Supply Company, Buffalo, N. Y., is the large steel steamer No. 118, being built by the Detroit Dry Dock Com- pany at Wyandotte, Mich. It is proposed to make this plant one of the . -- ' finest on the lakes, especially the switch-board, which is worthy of exam- ination by anyone interested in electric plants. A catalogue issued by the Standard Steel Casting Company of Thur- low, Pa., will prove interesting to any of the attaches of lake ship yards. The engravings show steel bed plates for triple expansion engines for United States cruisers weighing 12,780 pounds, a stern post for the Colum- bia weighing 49,520 pounds and stern shaft bearing weighing 67,135 pounds, A steam yacht 83 feet long, for cruising purposes, is being built by the Gas Engine and Power Company of Morris Heights on the Hudson for a New York yachtsman. This company's attention heretofore has been directed to naphtha launches with great success and it is probable that they will be equally successful in the new line. In advertising matters the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company of Jersey City, N.J., is always original. Here is one of the latest notices sent out to the trade papers: "In the 'good old days' the engine room staff had a single cylinder low pressure engine to look after. Boilers were only built for 35 pounds or so of steam. See the difference now! 'Triple ex- pansion engines, with pressures way up toward a couple of hundred pounds to the inch. Every year greater power and more mechanism is placed under the charge of the engineer and he is expected by education and study to keepup with the times in appliances and materials. The compound engines, the great motors, the heavy shafts and gears now so common, present many new questions of friction and lubrication. Under ~ these conditions pure flake graphite has solved so very many of the prob- lems in friction that it would seem to be the key to solve many others. The graphite should be soft and yielding, absolutely pure and free from grit, and the flake of uniform size. We have lately issued an interesting pamphlet concerniug lubricating graphite which we will send to any ad- dress free of charge." Graphite Paint. The illustration shows a two-bushel grain bag, painted with L.S.G. graphite paint in July,1892. It has been kept full of water ever since with- | out leaking. This is evidence of its water- proof qualities. Some canvas coated with this paint has several times been held over a gas flame a minute or two, in the same place, without becom- ing ignited and with- out hardening. This speaks for its fire proof qualities. A piece of tin painted with it has been warped back and forth until it broke, with- out cracking the paint This is evidence of its non-cracking, non- blistering qualities. A year ago alternate flues in a boiler in Detroit were painted with this paint. They were examined re- cently and the painted flues were found to be in first-class condi- tion, while the others were badly corroded. Even brine will not corrode it. Capt. G. R. Innes, manager of the Michigan Central car ferries at Detroit, has the following to say of this paint: "We : have used it for near- ly three years, and although we have tried nearly every paint in the mar- ket, yours is the only kind we have yet found that would not blister, and that would stand the action of salt-brine in our steel decks." The Standard Oil Company's manager at Detroit uses the paint on tank wagons, and says it resists the action of the weather and the corro- sive action of the petroleum products. This was stated after a two years' trial. It has also been proven to be an excellent stack paint. For particu- lars write the Detroit Graphite Manufacturing Company, No. 541 River street, Detroit, Mich.