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M4 'ocean liner is run, and he keeps an 'ocean log. This is a new departure, 'because lake captains generally have theit mates write up the log. ' The log the captain keeps is so com- plete that nothing could happen aboard 'ship without his having a record of it. It is divided in thirty columns-as. fol- lows: Date,'time, place or position, standard compass course, variation, deviation, leeway, send of sea or pro- CAPT:. HUBERT. G,. HAYBARGER. peller, geographical course, distance by propeller, distance by ship, slip in miles, percentage of slip, revolutions, log, wind, force of wind, sky, weather, sea, barometer, thermometer, steering compass course, deviation, bearing of objects terrestrial or celestial, distance of objects, fore an' aft trim, athwart- ship trim, consumption.of fuel and re- iiatks: Capt. Haybarger, who is a graduate of the New York Nautical College, has a complete nautical library, including "Wrinkles of Navigation,' and every conceivable instrument to assist him in his work. He has a bar azimuth circle, to figure the deviation with, and a pelorus, used for the same pur- pose. Tis < steering - compass "is equipped with an adjustable compass which was lately adopted by the Deted Signs navy." He has a parallel rule cut to degrees and points, so no compass rules are needed -on charts to obtain courses or bearings. He has a chronometer set on Green- wich time and a sextant fitted with sun and star telescopes, both direct and inverted. Compass observations are taken twice every watch and re- corded by the officer of the watch. It is said with considerable truth that it is up to the engineers on a boat to make her perform creditably. TAE. MarRINE REVIEW In view of the fact, therefore, that the Pollock carried three cargoes between Cleveland and Superior in eleven days, Edward Reilly, the chief engi- neer, and L. W. Stewart, the second éngineer, deserve credit for the good work done so far. One of the three cargoes. carried was coal. The last trip up from Erie, the Pollock loaded coal for Duluth. 6 EXPERIMENTAL TANK FOR -- JAPAN. Messrs. Kelso & Co., electricians and model makers, Glasgow, have re- ceived an order for all the' apparatus for an experimental tank, which is to be constructed at the works of a lead- ing Japanese ship building firm. The name of the firm has not yet been offi- cially divulged, but it is almost certain to be the Mitsu Bishi Co., Nagasaki. This is: the orincipal firm in Japan, and during recent years extensive im- provements have been made at their works. The new tank is to be practically a duplicate of that recently constructed in the yard of Messzs. John Brown & Co, Clydebank. 1t° will 'have a waterway about 445 ft. in length, of which 400 ft. is deep, varying from 9 ft. at one end to 10 ft. at the other. The breadth will be uniformly about 20 ft., and in connection with the tank there will be small wet and dry docks for the storing of models, a drawing office, superintendent's. office, the necessary rooms for preserving the records, and a department in which the models used in the experiments will be made. The making of the ac- tual tank and the building covering will be done by Japanese contractors, but otherwise everything will be sup- plied by Messrs. Kelso, their con- tract including not only the carriage and recording apparatus, but also the dynamos, the model-cutting machin- ery, and. even the rails on each side of the tank, on which the carriage sup- porting the apparatus will run. The intention of the ship building firm is that everything 'shall be in working order and capable of being tested in Messrs. Kelso's shop before being sent to Japan. Like the Clydebank tank, that - in Japan will have apparatus worked by electricity. As yet, Messrs. John Brown & Cos tank is alone in Britain in this particular respect, other tanks having steam as a motive power. Messrs. Kelso have already supplied the principal parts of the apparatus for the Clydebank tank, that at Messrs. Denny's yard at Dumbarton, the gov- ernment tank at Gosport, one in Italy, and one in St. Petersburg. - Ash, FROM PITTSBURG TO THE SEA. .. "Pittsburg needs a good shaking to wake her up to the realization of the opportunity presented in the near fut- ure, of vessels of 2,500-ton capacity being loaded at her wharves and sent by way of the Lake Erie and Ohio ship canal, Lake Erie, and Erie canal to New York city." Such was the advice and prediction offered by President H. D. W. Eng- of the chamber of commerce. "In six years, at the furthest," con- tinued Mr. English, "I predict this as ai actial fact." The chamber of commerce is about to enter unon an active campaign for the betterment of the wharves and landings in Pittsburg, following upon the improvement of the waterways. President English has every -confi- dence in the hope that this city will soon attain marvelous growth through improved waterways and urges early preparation to take advantage of the opportunities to be afforded. "Add to the ship canal project the possibility of a nine-foot stage to Cairo, said. Ma. Eaglish' "and . you have a prospect of Pittsburg having navigation which will embrace 24 states and an otitlet by water to the Gulf of Mexico on the southwest, to Buffalo on the north and the Atlantic seaboard on the east. Continuing, President English said: The United States has chartered a company which proposes to connect the waters of the upper Ohio river with Lake Erie across the 'isthmus' at its narrowest point, where the annual interchange of traffic is now more than 30,000,000 tons, or nearly three times that traversing the Isthmus of Suez.. While in its inception this is a Pittsburg enterprise, re- ceiving its breath of life through the active efforts of a commission under the auspices of the chamber of commerce of Pittsburg, in real- ity it is a great project of national importance, and was so regarded by every speaker in the halls of congress. -- The incorporators of this project have as- sured the public that the canal can be com- pleted and opened to navigation within a per- iod of about five years, while perhaps in less than five years we may expect to see the com- pletion of the enlargement of the Erie canal upon which the Empire State is expending $100-, 000,000. -When finished. vessels of 2,500 tons can pass from New York to Buffalo, and if the existing canal of only about 500-ton capa- city exercises considerable regulative effect upon transportation' charges between the lakes and the Hudson river, as shown hy the reports of the inter-state commerce commission, there need be no misgivings as to the utility of the en- larged canal having a still greater effect. With such a grand prospect before us, what efforts are being made by the city of Pittsburg to improve her harbor by -adapting it to the large and deeply laden craft which will. apply for admission to her wharves? The city has done nothing. Room is being more restricted. We must hold on to every foot of room we now possess, and secure more if possible, or regret it always. Fortunate it is, indeed, that the city still controls some of its river front, for every square foot of this area will be needed for wharves for the receipt and discharge of freight. Not to speak of the present unsightliness of our river banks, which gather filth from every flood, it may be asked, are such sloping wharves adapted for landing places for vessels of 8 to 12 feet draught? It is fortunate that the city of the Exposition building. The exposition is a worthy enterprise and has done and_ will continue to -do much good for the city, but owns the site