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312 | THE MARINE REVIEW THE MARINE REVIEW DEVOTED TO MARINE ENGINEERING, SHIP BUILDING AND ALLIED INDUSTRIES Published Monthly by The Penton Publishing Company Penton Building, Cleveland. CHICAGO - - eye: - - - 1521-23 Lytton Bldg. CINCINNATI - - - 503 Mercantile Library Bldg. NEW YORK - - 507 West Street Bldg. PITTSBURGH 2148-49 Oliver Bldg. WASHINGTON, D. C. - - ae 301 Metropolitan Bank Bldg. BIRMINGHAM,, ENG. - - : : x Prince's Chambers Subscription, $2 delivered free anywhere in the world. Single copies, 20 cents. Back numbers over three months, 50 cents. Change of advertising copy must reach this office on or before the first of each month. The Cleveland News Co. will supply the trade with THE MARINE REVIEW through the regular channels of the American News Co. European Agents, The International News Co., Breams Building, Chancery Lane, London, E. C., England. Entered at the Post Office at Cleveland, Ohio, as. Second Class (Copyright 1914, by Penton Publishiing Company) August, 1914 Careful Navigating That vessel owners are sincere in their instructions to their masters to navigate their ships carefully is well borne out in a recent letter, which Hutchinson & Co., of Cleveland, one of the large independent oper- ators on the lakes, sent to-one of their masters com- mending him for delay in reaching port even though they had previously instructed him to hurry. The delay, of course, was due to proceeding under check during fog and the letter of Hutchinson & Co. to the master was as follows: "When you arrived at Calcite you wired us you had been delayed by fog, which we assume meant you had been running under check because of fog. If that is what it meant, we desire to express our approval of. your safety first policy, as well as our appreciation of your proper ob- servation of the navigation rules. It is especially gratifying to us to know that although you had been requested before leaving Indiana Harbor to hurry if conditions justified it, that you placed the proper interpretation upon that request and did not jeopardize the safety of your ship, as well as the safety of other ships, in order to make time. Much as we now need cargoes, we would prefer to lose a cargo through being late than to have you take chances and violate the rules relating to navigating in foggy weather. "Please understand that whenever you are re- quested to hurry, it means that you are to do it if conditions are such that it is a safe thing to do. Do not sacrifice safety for speed. | "Remember our motto, 'Safety First'. Under August, 1914 all circumstances, please, have it uppermost in your mind." Copy of this letter was transmitted to every master in Hutchinson & Co.'s fleet, with the following nota- tion: : "What we said to this captain applies with equal force to you. Please, therefore, read care- fully and in the navigation of your ship, please, conduct yourself accordingly, and; please, re- member that while it gives us pleasure to com- mend compliance with the rules making for safe navigation, we shall condemn with all the vigor at our command any violations of rules or any evidence of reckless or unsafe navigation of your ship. We trust you will understand and ap-. preciate that it is our desire to promote safe navigation on the Great Lakes, and if you will do your part, it may help others to also be careful. In any event, if you are careful, it will satisfy and please us." : It is not sufficient, however, to commend a man for observing the rules of navigation. He should be condemned when he fails to observe them, regardless of the success of his venture. A master belonging to this same fleet performed a very successful maneuver not long ago and one which reflected his extraordinary skill, but there was nevertheless a large element of chance in it. If he expected commendation he was mistaken for what he got was a very sharp rebuke and a positive injunction never to attempt any such performance again. Nothing is gained by shutting one's eyes to success- ful chances. That kind of a navigator will sooner or later do mischief. No man can come through the rivers in thick weather with scores of boats at anchor without running risk. Smoke in Harbar Two vessel masters were recently fined in Mil- waukee for violating the smoke ordinance. Munici- palities in general are now paying considerable atten- 'tion to the production of smoke, which is really a most destructive nuisance. Among the notable offend- ers are railway. locomotives and vessels in harbor, especially tugs. There is no doubt that a great deal of the smoke caused by the bulk freighters of the Great Lakes while in harbor could be eliminated by careful stoking. In entering harbor the proper place for the fireman is in the stokehold. have a habit of putting on a heavy fire while navigat- ing the rivers and then going on deck to see the Staite... In entering harbor care should be taken to see that the fires have not been allowed to get too low, because if there is any river work ahead with probable dragging of the bottom, the engines will have to be worked at full speed. In this extremity, of course, the fireman will try to hold the steam or raise it to the regular working pressure and in order to do this will throw on two or three heavy fires, Some of them |