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Marine Review (Cleveland, OH), 27 Sep 1894, p. 11

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MARINE REVIEW. II In General. Now it is proposed to establish a direct line of steamships between _ Antwerp, France, and Canada. The question will probably be presented to the dominion parliment at its next session, It is estimated that their English trip has cost the Gould brothers close onto half a million dollars in hard cash since the Vigilant was negotiated for, and that they will spend in Kurope during the coming winter the best part of another half million. Of this amount, the Vigilant cost $25,000 to buy, $10,000 to prepare and $10,000 a month to run, besides $5,000 bonus to Capt. Haff. A notice from Philadelphia announces that the general offies of the Erie & Western Transportotion Company (Anchor Line), the Connecting Terminal Rail Road Company, Western Warehousing Company, and the Canaland Lake Steamboat Company, located at No. 234 South Fourth street, were removed to the new General office building, No. 26 South 15th street, on Monday, Sept. 17. A curious development is noted from England in one department of the iron ore trade. The rapid expansion in the introduction of the basic process has brought it about that a higher price is being paid for ores high in phosphorus than for similar material carrying less of that ele- ment. Phosphorus, once looked upon asthe "devil" in the steel trade, is now actually sought as a friend. Trials that have been made with the new plan of wire shafts for steamships, are said to show that when the shaft is in position and rotat- ing stress is applied a tensile force is exerted upon the individual wires and their several fastenings--each a unit of strength sustaining its part of the total amount of stress. The strength of the individual wires and of the fastening being known, the strength of the shaft as a whole can likewise be ascertained. Mere mention is made in the British newspapers of contracts for new ships of a size that would cause columns to be devoted to them in this country. A few days ago, the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navi- gaton Company placed contracts for four steamers for their Indian trade, that are to be of 4,800 tons gross register and 6,000 tons deadweight ca- pacity each. Two of the contracts were secured by Caird & Co. of Green- ock, and one each by Messrs. Alex Stephen & Sons of Glasgow, and the Palmer's Shipbuilding Company, Jarrow-on-Tyne. The use of oil as a fuel for steamers may now be said to be increasing. Whether it will eventually take the place of coal for the purpose is one of those things that is yet unknown. Some English steamers in the petroleum trade on the Atlantic have already been fitted with furnaces and jets to enable them to burn oil instead of coal, and some English firms are making preparations to bunker steamers with oil instead of coal. The experiments with oil have been succéssful enough, but the question of cost varies in different localities and is of more importance than that of practicability.--Maritime Register. Makes His Own Oil. A paragraph in one of the latest publications from the United States hydrographic office tells of a Norwegian vessel master, Capt. Reynolds of the bark Hovding, who keeps harpoons aboard his vessel and captures porpoises from which oil is extracted, to be used in rough weather. This vessel master, writing the Washington office of the hydrographic service, says: "Of all the different qualities of oil I have tried, I have found por- poise oil to be the very best, as it contains scarcely any stearin and does not thicken in cold weather. On the voyage from Mobile to Antwerp, vessel deeply laden with heavy deck load of pitch pine, I am quite certain that we would have received great damage if we had not attended care- fully to our oil distributor during a gale. The sea ran enormously high for this season of year. To save oil, mixed strong soap suds, which did good service, but I think oil is better and safer and is certainly less trou- ble to prepare. I have asmall churning machine with which I mix the soap suds in a very few minutes." It will be observed that the soap suds were here used on salt water. They are much more effective in fresh water. Of course, readers of the REVIEW who are familiar with the Atlantic records of the Cunard ships Lucania and Campania knew that it was the former and not the latter boat that should have been credited with the title "Queen of the Seas," in the note in last week's issue about a further lowering of records. It is the Lucania that now holds the best records for both east and west bound trips, Take No. 6.--For Buffalo, New York and Boston, itis the fast train east on the Nickel Plate road and carries through palace buffet sleeping cars. 156-8 A remarkable reduction in rates has been made to points in the west for Sept. 25 and Oct. 9. Ask agents of Nickel Plate road. 154-8 Mike, the Irish Sailor. "We had among our crew on this voyage an Irishman, a genuine son of the soil. He kept us in almost constant merriment by his wit and his marvevlous 'bulls.' He was always in hot water. One calm day we were shifting our foretopsail. Mike was sent aloft to bear the sail off as we were hoisting it up. It had jammed at the lower side of the top sail-yard. Anybody but Mike would have clung to the topsail tie with one hand when bearing the sail off. He had no such thoughtful care of himself. He caught hold of the gantline with both hands, and throwing the whole weighed of his body outwards, got the sail in a position to clear the yard, and shouted to us to hoist away. Whether there was a flaw in the rope or not i do not know, but with the first pull it parted, and we were horrified to see the sail and the man coming down by the run. As this was a sheer fall of about 60 feet, we made up our minds that the poor fellow would be killed. He was not. As fortune would have it, the sail fell under him, and, to our amazement, he at once scrambled on to his feet. Scratching his head, he cried, 'Howley Moses, is there any wan hurt?' It was quite clear that he was not, for he continued his duties as though a fall of 60 feet was a trifling occurrence to him."--"Reminiscences of: a Sailor," by Captain Wm. R, Lord. An Office on the Pacific Coast. The Detroit Dry Dock Company will open an office on the Pacific coast, about Oct. 1, and Mr. EK. A. McAllaster, who has been in the Detroit office of that company for a number of years, has been appointed western agent. He will make his headquarters at Seattle, or Tacoma, Mr. Mc- Allaster is a man of marked ability, and his friends think he will make a mark on the coast in his new line. The Detroit company has been doing some business in engine work throughout the Puget sound district and hopes to increase its trade. Suez Canal Traffic. Only three American vessels passed through the Suez canal during the calander year of 1893. The distribution of shipping in the canal by nations in 1893, as shown by the following table, will prove interesting : Ships. Net tonnage. Epolishe: sa cence ao eee eee 2,405 5,752,934 Gernian essa eee eeee a eee weeer mance anes 272 590,750 ren Chis. osseees eee ee ee ree 190 461,197 Dutch! 222235) se6e 55. eee eee 178 327,465 WAC UAS tenga Tp a 71 - 166,779 Ttalians2 sos sen a ere rte es 67 119,827 INOtwe slat Sass aeee one ae eee 40 88,674 Spanish --- == ee ee ne 29 70,660 Russian? £22222 S25 _ te See eee eee eee 24 53,048 hurkish@e 52- se eee ees eee eee 34 39,601 IRORGU SUES Cae ee ae eee 10 11,309 IE yy, po tees = oe ee ere 4 4,441 2iAnmericane: Hi 22 gee SCS ee oe 3 3,200 Bel gat <see se ean ane eee eee ee 1 1,761 Japaneses aes a= ea eee ens ee eee 1 1,280 Brazilianyts2 ea ees a8 Jee we eee 1 634 The number of ships passing through the canal during the year was 3,341 of 7,659,068 tons net, as against 3,559 ships of 7,712,028 tons in 1892and 4,207 ships of 8,698,777 tons in 1891. There has been a large gain in the tonnage of France, Austria and Russia, a slight loss in that of Eng- land, Italy, Norway and Turkey, and a great loss in that of Portugal. Germany shows a slight gain. England crrried 75.11 per cent.; Germany, 7.26; France, 6.02; Holland, 4.27; Austria, 2.18; Italy, 1.58; Norway, 1.16 ; Spain, 0.92 per cent. of the gross traffic. The number of passengers passing via the canal decreased from 189,809 in 1892 to 180,432 in 1893. Of the passengers 71,880 were soldiers. Stocks of Grain at Lake Ports. The following table, prepared from reports of the Chicago board of trade, shows the stock of wheat and corn in store at the principal points of accumulation on the lakes on Sept. 22, 1894: Wheat, bu. Corn, bu. G@hicago.....:..... OSLER Gasset ebiess coscaees 26,058,000 1,953,000 Wot latileses see ccc ahs ste ncscnescacec ee ses cccees DSIOO00 oe anerenes Mialwattkeese ese cemectebeesssceceser aces 5 > LALO papocnb00 Wetrolticcctmetsoccecrereccccecevennensers 1,623,000 1,000 MOLEM Oe vee eseecesocettamiees sone enecenccs 3,264,000 29,000 Buittal Obese ccceccs avovcetee se reesaee ce sseacee 1,544,000 124,000 gi Bray 2 eee Saab cocoecenoanescnotoos 35,430,000 2,107,000 At the points named there isa netdecrease for the week of 155,000 bushels of wheat, and a net increase of 206,000 bushels of corn. On account of the death of Capt. Thomas Hackett, several changes will be made in masters of the steamers of Alger," Smith & Co., Detroit. Capt. William Rolls of the Gettysburg will take command of the Volun- teer; Capt. Currie of the Torrent will sail the Gettysburg, while Ralph Hackett, a son of Capt. Thomas Hackett, and now mate of the Torrent, will command her.

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