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THE MARINE RECORD* $he$Iarine§ecord, Emend according to the tune of. tho United States hi tho Poit Ofllro it CloTaleml » aecond-clAea mailer. rebllilledV weeily at No. 2 8outh Water etwet, Cloreland, Ohio. L A. POMEROY. Editor anil Proprietor. TKIlrf8 OF SUDSCIUTTlONl ..fflfc............... ....12.00 .....1.00' Ono jear, po'stago paid....... BU months, iioHtago paid. InrarlablT In adfeue*. The MARINE RECOUD can be (ound (oraaleotthe tollowlog plana': No. 2 South Water atreet, Cleveland. Joatph Gray, No, 284 South Water atreet, Chicago. ' D. McMaatera A Co., Barnla. Ontario. Wm. Godlev, Eicnnabn, Michigan. J. E. Somervllle, Manlitee, Michigan. Articles, letter! and queries on all Subject! are aollef- led. 4ue"Tbo Editor otisutnea no responsibility for the opinions of corrospondonta. To Insure notice, contrlbutora must give name and address, and wrlto on ono aldo of tho paper only. BBANt'H OFFICE, 343 SOUTH WATER STREET, CHICAGO. loiullnir vessels, lit ports where* grain Is shipped mill received, nro haying h hearing bvfore the Huns* committee on patents. The putont on tho sliovol expired a year ago, and those Interested tire endeavoring to have It extended. Much opposition is manifested against nny extension of the patent, nnd sev¬ eral boards of I rude, chambers of comulorce, nnd the like hnve already entered vigorous protest against the bill. The Senulo during Inst Congress voted to Indefinitely'postpone the measure. ADVERTISING BATES. Ten cents por lino, nonpareil-measurement, orel.20 per Inch, oach InscrUon; lour weeks 14.00, with a liberal discount on orders amounting to 140.00 or over. Canadian Inventors petition for the adoption of tho Ameilcnn patent Jaw entire. The village council of Superior desires an appropriation of $400,000 with which to Im¬ prove that harbor. It Is feared by the people Interested In the passage of the naval bill that It will not command a majority. During tho year 1883 the Siemens Bros, fit¬ ted their electric l'ghtto twenty steamships. Tho total number of lamps was over 4,000, or more thah 200 per vessel on tho average. TnB old ship New Orleans, recently sold by the Government,'fell from the stocks at Sackett's Harbor and Instantly killed John O.itcs and Ralph Godfrey, and seriously In¬ jured two other workmen. Captain Wm. Cask's wife died on the 7th Inst,, and on the 0th her body was taken to the .Riverside cemetery and placed In the iratilh—Mrs.-Case-was.born at Snekett's Har-- ' bor, N. Y., In 1835. A great many captains and vessel owners attended the funeral. Mb, ForaN expects in u vveek-nr-soJlxliiivc ' ready his bill providing for the cutting of a channel from the old river bed to the lake. He is awaiting estimates from Engineer Cooper Overman as- to tho probable cost. Mr. Foran does not expect much opposition to the measure. lr tho new cruisers prove failures, It will be a good while before our navy otllcora get another chance to waste money deslgulnt! ships. There Is no chance to plead Con¬ gressional interference this time. The navy, and the navy, alone, w is allowed to plan the vesso'a now building. Tmk Toronto Yacht Club is making an ef¬ fort tow ard the formation of an association to be composed of all the yachting organiza¬ tions of the lakes, and has Issued a circular Inviting thu different clubs to take action In the milliter at their next meeting and report the result to the Secretary of tho Toronto Club. The object is lo effect a.unllorm sys¬ tem of yacht meuourmcut, time allowance and signals. Tut. success of thu Hudson Day route to England Is not yet assured. It would cost $20,000,000 to build the necessary railroad from Winnipeg, and, as this road would run through a comparatively barren country for the greater part at the way, It would, require a large sum of money to'keep It running. Yet there is no doubt the scheme should tiu- fully Investigated. Parliament will, doubt¬ less, take some action In the matter during tho present session."—KingMon News. And eVon the monopoly outlined at the recent meeting at Winnipeg wo,uld not make It pay should It be started. The In. dex finger of Lake Superior points toward Dulutu. THE HENNEPIN CANAL AGAIN. Americans are" ever looking forward to the new. Tho latest scheme out Invariably ! has the moat admirers, while the oldoi ones, not bcontiso of less merit, but merely for lack of novelty, nro with. Incredible speed relegated to the shades*of antiquity. This Is probably In accord «Hh the nineteenth cen¬ tury wind and our boasted Yankee enter¬ prise. Certainly U agrees conspicuously with Chicago methods, which lead far In ad¬ vance the rest of our swiftly moving genera¬ tion. That city Is nothing if not enterpris¬ ing. Having luken hold of the Hennepin canal project, it admits of no rest or impedi¬ ment, and that canal must Of necessity ma¬ terialize. We shall not be surprised If wjthin two or three years Its calm and placid bosom Is covered with grain-laden craft on the way to pour their cargoes Into the tall elevator) of the metropolis of the lakes. There is probably very little solid foundation In the project ascrjbed by some of the Chicago journals to England to build the Hudson Bay route to open the Manitoba and North¬ western regions to the seaboard through the British possessions and Canada. If English capitalists ever entertained the Idea, their eves arc likely to* be opened wide with sur¬ prise at the speed with which they are being superceded. Our Illinois friends know how to do these things. They elected two or three representatives, to CougresB, . loaded and primed expressly with this Hennepin canal scheme and took the necessary steps to have them placed on the proper committees to push the measure. They weie prepared with two or thrte different schemes, each embody¬ ing the main one, but couched in ambush, so that In the event of tlie failure of ono or more nndlhci might succeed, and so pull the canal through. Moreover the Illinois and Iowa delegations in Congress, saturated In the same canal glory, are to sweep forward at the proper time und flood the proposed new waterway as with a tide. Following This owners of the patent oiijjteaui shov¬ els, very extensively used In loading and un- Is^irexposHlotninnrilfrrby an ardehTBuT not altogether discreet Washington special telegrapher lo the Chicago Tribune, under date of February 0: "The commitjeo on railways and canals, acting In accordance with Hie wishes of the Illinois and Iowa del¬ egations In Crfngress, adopted Judge Mur¬ phy's bill Instead of that of Mr. Cullom. The lormer provider for constructing the Hennepin canal, which would give the ad. vantage of water communication lion, Chi¬ cago to thu Mississippi at an earlier period, while Mr. Cullom's bill simply provides for the acceptiiiK'O and cnlmgemcnt of the Illi¬ nois and Michigan canal. The Committee hold that witli Murphy's proposition accom¬ plished, Mr. Cullom's proposition would mutually follow In good time." In I net, Judge Muiphy Is a veiy useful man in llie prer.6nt cmeigeney. Tho canal scheme had to orlgli.ate In Ihe committee on railroads and canals, but oncu reported by that body, It u ill be lefcrcd by the House to the com¬ mittee on livers and harbors, and Judge Murphy "has the good fortune to be a mem¬ ber of both committees." Mr. Chase, ol Rhode Island, was not favorably disposed towards Hennepin and somehow he was ta¬ ken from the rivers and hurbori committee and replaced by a man w ho Is In full accord wllli it, Mr. Thomas, of Illinois. These are all very good symptoms for the passago of the bill. They also exhibit the Indomit'ablo push of the western man, which Is carried to a point to command admiration. It Is evi¬ dent, from nil these movements, that Mr. Murphy has been ordeied by tho committee on railways and canals lo leport favorably to llie House A bill making an appropriation ol one million dollars with which to begin work on thu canal. The trlcmUof the Ma¬ ryland and Delaware ship-canal wanted to annex their measure to the Hennepin bill, but tho Hennepin folks would not listen for a moment lo the pieposterous idea of being loadol with any other national business but their own. They pre bnbly believe In every Stale carrying lis own national Interest*. The Maryland and Delawaie people threat¬ en to make trouble, but It Is not at nil likely that their doslre for trouble' can equal the da> ger of death to both schemes, which would result should they try too msny na- lloonl blessings on the country at once. ' The Mississippi river convention was nt work on a platform or plan of operation at Washington last week. The Hennepin poo- plo.hnve been trying to get them to reeom- mond their measure, but not with entire success. They may ptevall upon them to recommend east and west watet^nys, which the Honnepin' folks are prepared to construe Into a fierce ndvooacy of their canal, no, for¬ sooth, What other east and* west waterway but the one in Chicago's Interest possibly dare exist at the present moment, XX. DINGLEX'S BILL. « Mr. Dlngley's Inter-State conlmeroe bill, which Is probably the most meritorious that hns been laid before Congress, defining ias it docs the needs and advocating the immedi¬ ate relief of the .shipping Interests of the country, Is In danger of defeat, not from natural opposition, but by being Incorpo¬ rated with objectionable measures. Ho made the mistake, early in .the session, of Intro¬ ducing four different bills on this subjeer, and the Senate now authorizes Mr. Frye to Introduce a measure which is Intended to cover the whole groiuid,Jncliidlng not only Mr. Dlngley's bilMn a modified form, but a bill from Its own committee, providing for the registry of foreign built vessels, nnd the admission of shipbuilding materials tree of duty. This latter clause is meant to satisfy the friends of the subsidizing tleoiy. We do not believe It will serve this purpose and the prospects are that the whole inter-state measure will suffer by it. Mr. Frye's bill Is entitled, "a bill to remove certain burdens from tho American merchant marine and encourage the foreign carrying trade." Mr. Frye made an oral explanation of the bill, and In concluding said ho hoped It would receive careful consideration. It would en¬ able America to take a step In advance of anything duno for its shipping Interests for the last twenty years, flo hoped the burdens'aud barnacles placed on those. Im¬ portant Interests by our own law would bo removed and somethingdone to enable us jo recovtr ourttiprenmcy on the ocean. Speak¬ ing for himself ulone, he Bald there was but one way on earth, In his opinion, by which Interest, all time draft*, to bo with Interest and exchange. 4. Tho business of furnishing labor 'and materials for work done In dry dock balongi to the proprietors of the drydocks'ahd-not to'tho vossols repnlred therein, or toother parties nnd cannot be surrendered for the • benefit of any one. 6. The profits on. wages during the season of navigation to bo fifty, cents- per day 'for .workmen ;'r°remon to bo charged for ac¬ cording to'their ability. t The drydocks were all represented, three or four being by proxy, however, as fol¬ lows : George Presley represented the dry- dock of Cleveland; Thomas Miller, of Girl- oago, Ihe drydocks of Chicago and Milwau¬ kee; A. McVlttle, of Detroit, tho drydocks of Detroit, Buy City and Port Huron; Hamil¬ ton J. Mills, the Union nnd Mills' drydocks of Buffalo."'MtvGeorge Presloy, of the Globe drydock was elected president of the asso¬ ciation and H. J. Mills, of Buffalo, secretary and treasurer. Adjourned lo meet the second Wednesday in January at the Weddell House, of Clove- . land! to revive American shipping, and that was to pay subsidies and bounties, and, so far as he was concerned, he was in favor of both MEETING OF THE DRYDOCK ASSO¬ CIATION. At tho annual meeting of the managers and ownel's of drydocks around llie,-lakes held at Detroit on the 12th Inst, the regula¬ tions governing dockage, laydays, wages andteimsof payment In force during the past year were maintained with the excep¬ tion of a I'hunge of local rates on small steamers, sail vessels, and barges and lorry- boats, which last year were docked on the basis of 100 tons, and which has been changed to 160 torn. The general regula¬ tions are asifollow a: "On vessels from 150 to 500 tons, dockago to be 20 cents per ton, and for all veBsela In ox- cess ol uOOiuiih, the dockago to be 10 cents per ton upon tho excess. The tonnagoof upper deck propellers to be taken under the ton¬ nage deck. Docking loaded vessels 10 cents por ton for the cafgo in addition to the regular rates. Dockage on tugs and vessels of less than '50 tons, for floating and shirt¬ ing In the blocks to be fixed by the dock proprietors of the different ports. 2. Laydays In drydock to commence twenty-four hours after tho dock has been pumped out, and to be-charged nt the rate of seven cents por ton per day nnd fractions of days. But In cases where over thirty men are engaged, a rebate of twenty-four hours Irom lay time will be allowed; nnd where ovor fifty men are employed a robato of 48 hour6 Irom lay time will bo allowed. All boats that use docks for repairs to macliHiery or surveys to be charged tho legular rate of seven cents per ton per day and fractions thereof alter twenty-four hours. 3. The terms of payment for all repairs shall bo not casli; credit not to bo given ex¬ cept bj special contract, upon good and suf¬ ficient secuilty, aside from liens, and with The American cnuoe association has lo. cated a campMng ground at tho foot of Grind¬ stone Island, In Eel bay, and n rnae course has been surveyed. The association will meet about the 1st of August. A grand time Is expected. Arrangements are being tirade with the St. Lawrence river steamers to stop ttier-e both ways. .Charles A. Nelde, their present secretnry. will have nil ar- rnngements made to make everything pleas¬ ant for all who come. --------------^—-------------- • ,4 The bill introduced in the Senate by Sen¬ ator Gibson to amend the act which created the Mississippi river Commission provides for an extension of the work of the com¬ mission to all the navigable tributaries of the Mississippi river and for an Increase of membership/of the commission from seven to nine, the additional members to be ejected from the Engineer Corps of the army, and an Increase In compensation of the civilian members of the commission frpm $3,000 to $4,500.per annum. It also provides the com¬ mission shall report to tire Chief of Engineers and Secretary ol War, Instead of directly to the Secretary of War, and shall report upon the "chamnel, dyke, and training -wall'* system, as well as upon the outlet, jotty, and levee avstoin. IRT3^lAKKET KEPOBT. Cleveland, February 13. Although prices have given way SO cents peraon there Is n strong tone to the market and dealers are ol the opinion that the bottom has been ranched. Some lots have been sold to realize. Wo quote: ' charcoal no mo*. Ho. 1 fake Superior charcoal..................„922 S0(Q No. 2 Lake Superior charcoal.................. 22 60@ Nos. 3 and 4_Lake Superior.. It SO .... . . ...................2*60328 50 Noi. 6 and 0 Lako Superior............22 60024 V> Nos. I, 2, 8, 4, 8, Srllsburjr........................ 84 mSSO 6« Southern charcoal................................. 27 606382 60 Reported by E. L Harper Sc Co, 6'incfntujfl. Thu extraordinary and disastrous flood thrnughout'Che Ohio Valley, embracing all tlmt Important area from Pittsburg to Evnns- vllle, and reaching back to many industrous points lu the Interior, has materially lessened the demand, temporarily suspending busi¬ ness throughout the section. Neiirly all tho mills on the Ohio river are at tills writ-' ir.g Inundated, and more or less submerged, and though the waters will quickly recede no doubt, the Interruption and damage will preclude Immediate resumption of opera¬ tions. The aggregate reduction of production of manufactured Iron will prove large, and thu accumulation of orders will prompt as early a start as posslbje. The foundries along the Ohio river have suffered proportionately perhaps more than the mills Aside from the curtailment of production In the section referred to, business has continued notlva, and prices are well maintained, small ad¬ vances being granted for favorite brands in many Instances. We quote as prices current. VOUNDttY. Haughig Rock Charcoal No. 1.................(22 so WJ23 80 Hanging Book Churcoal No. 2........... 2128 " 2226 Strong Neutral Coke No. 1...................18 80 '• 1000 " " '■ No. 2.................... 17 60" 18 00 American Scotch, No 1...........................10 00 to 10 80 QltKY VOROIC. Noutral Coke........................................810 76 to J17 28 Cold ShorU.......................................... 1S25" 1076 CAK WIIKKL AHll UALLKAULE. Hanging Rock, strictly cold-blast......... % 27 76 " " warm blast................... 2400 "2460 Lake Superior "charcoal" all grades........24 00 " 28 00 Southern Cur.WhoiljSlrlctly cold blast . 28 50 " 2760