.'I' .4- THE -MARINE.-'-RECORD* $he $[arine §ecor&. ICSTAltMf^lIEIt IN 1H?N. Kn'lercd nrcurdlng to the liiAva o! OioUnllul States nl tlW Pout Olllci-al <'luvulnti|l nn HetcffltlVliiiw .natter* Cleveland, 2 Boutli'Wntcr ■trcot, Ohio. Ta. POMEROY, Editor and. Pronrietor. riiawii orrirr., HTiiKtrr, 341 NOVT1I WATF.ll CIIIt'AUO. placed Jii tho hawao-plpo'ifii'd the sot-screws on each s|do given n few ttinia miikos mi nlr tight ftopper. The.apparatus can bcplncoil on n cliiiln hntrseriit miy point, mid, without reference to tho position of the anchor, gives n feo|lng Of perfect confidence tlmt no wajer can make Its way through, jl? Jihlp eiin get along without unbending Iter chains, unci tlie fuet tlmt It l» always In readiness saves labor, tlio extent of which la nppiireut to uvory vessel ninp. Sovornl of those stoppers nre already In use, and tlio Providence, Ship Windlass Company Is In receipt of'letters comniondlng thein in tlie highest tcrniB. ,82.00 , 1.00 TKItnJS OV SIIIINCIIIITIONI- 0.10 year, noitW'H'1.":"........... ...... Hlx months, postage I>»1«..................<•;........ ' Invariably hi n.Uniice. . '. ThrMAIUN^I'KOipcwui fl)11„a for .ale at tho ■ f .llowlriK plntcH: • •' ' . ■ n„» South W«l«r'«tr««t,CI»vfl|ind. lowpl. Ora"), No. 2S« South Water street, ( hfegn. V McMastoH. A. Co., Harilla, Onlarl... , Ueorgo Presto.., llecanaba, Michigan. . ,- Wm.liwllo), licanaba, Ml.hlgnn .1 l'„ Somorv.lh', Manl.too, Michigan. . Article., leU-'< »»<» I""1'9 °" M ™bi°eU T " '"iorTbo Wlior aisiiniM no responsibility for the opinion, of correspondents. To ln.nrcnoll.0, c.nlrlhnlor" mu»l si™ name and .dura., ao.l »rll.- on ono .Idoof llic paper only- ADVEUTIHINO ItATKH. Tea cents pur Hot', nonpareil measuri'mo p -r ii.(-l.,'e.iel. insertion,' lour weeks m.nO, with a littoral discount on onli r» amounting I1 ElUTOllIAL NOTES'. dtice vcssclmeii The present lowJprlee of Iron should In- io arc entcrtninliiB Ideas ^ of building iron ships, to close contracts ut once. Tim Quebec Shipping Chronicle snvs a wnrratil lias been Issued out of the Vlce-Ad- nilralty Court at the suit of the owners of tlie Norwegian hark Slgne for the arrest of tlie French bark Hose C. tur-nu action for age by collision. The amount claimed Is $8,000. This is a cross warrant arlidng out oLlhcj^oJlislonyvhlch occurred betweeji the above vesselSTlB arfc^yToported;--------------- A coiuu'jii'ondh.ni of the New York Herald makes a detailed statement eoncern- ftig the work now going on In tlie dlllerent iron and steel producing districts of Penn¬ sylvania which shows that the outlook Is quite as good as It was a year ago, and not nearly so alarming as (lie public has been h'd to suppose. It |s thought that a moder¬ ate lessening of production will bung the manufacturers through the present depres¬ sion without serious loss. , Mil. Jons Hociib Is building a drydock on the Quebec side of the St. Lawrence riv¬ er, destined for stcanibhlps ol tlie target class. 'I'he dock is to be live hundred feet in length, and It is expected that the work will be completed early in 1885. '(Mils dock and also the government dock at St. Joseph de Levis will be well furnished with tlie means of repairing any vessels that may be disabled In these waters, iron or wooden, This dock of Mr. Roche's Is an enterprise which deserves much commendation. NATIONAL BOARD OF STEAM NAV¬ IGATION. , The National Board of Steam Navigation met in New York on -the 24th of Octooer. A'report of the proceedings of Its two days! session will bo found In another column of this Issue. Considering the purposes of tlio board and tlie immense Interests It ropre. senls, the meeting was not a momentous one. .The slim attendance was the cause of much discussion. The nature of the busi¬ ness transacted was such inrto afford very little comment on our part. It appeals to us that a convention called for the purposo of devising means for the protection and ad' vnnceini'iit of an Industry which IiivoIvob over six hundred millions of capital and six hundred llioi^und Ions of marine measure¬ ment would create a great deal more inter¬ est among those engaged In the water car¬ rying trade than Iiiib (his n|ccting. It Is true, none of the trans atlanjlc steamship com¬ panies arc icprosontcd In this organization, which Is doubtless owing to the fact that the Board of N,nvlira(Jon Is somewhat inim¬ ical to railroad Interests, which doubtless ex¬ ert a powerful'influence over those compa¬ nies. But we would fain believe that the National Board of Steam Navigation needs no apOloglst In us. Resolutions were adopt¬ ed to the effect that Congress should be peti¬ tioned concerning the limitation of, tho lia¬ bility of steam vessel owners; that It be also petitioned to amend the acts relative to the jnsncetloh of steam boilers, and that evory^ time been tied up In tho Ohio Basin.' Pro¬ bably nobody expected ever to aoo her In business again. ■ , , ---------------!•_■•>--------------' '■' BOARD OF STBAM NAVIGATION. Sfeclat CormjtofldeiKs ajthe ^fartm Record, NbwYoiik, October 20. The twelfth"linnual convention of tho Na¬ tional Board* of Stoiim.Nnvlgatlon mot at tho Metropolitan Hotel, In thin city, on the 24th orOctpbor, President E. W. GoOld, of St. Louie, presiding. Amoijg those present were Mr. T'. C. Korscy, President of tho Interim, tlonul Stcnmshlp Company; Mr'.WIrHamT. {"Mllliken. of the Pokland, Bangor aiid Ma- ehllifl SteamboaUioropnny; Mr. J. Bt Coyle, |V.t|io Portland Steamboat Company! Mr. F. W. 'Nlclterspn, President of the Snvannah Steamship Cqmpany, and of tho Halifax Steamship Company,, Mr. C. H. Boyer,- Secretary ol the association; Captain Rich¬ ard Slnnott, of New. OrleatiB; Captain' B. S. Osbdn, of the Ocean Steamship Company,of Savannah; Mr.D.F. Barmoreand Mr. J. M. Glass, of Joftersonvllle, Intl.; Gen. James S. Negloy, of Pittsburg, nnd D. M. Mungor, Isaac L. Fischer mid David Cox, of this city. None of the trans-Atlantic companies belong to ihe association, It being composed entirely of l)oino representatives, No business or special Importance was transacted during thev llrst day's session, tlie time being occupied, in discussing the tolatlvo merits of carriers on the water and railroads, and the prospect of the former In being able to hold their lines against the encroachments ol the railroads. Resolutions were referred to the executive committee asking that Congress be petitioned to limit the liabilities of owners ol Bteam- vcssels, to amend the acts relative to the in¬ spection of boilers, and that every ofllcer of a vessel should he obliged to place his license, properly framed, where passengers could see . The Board continued Its scfbIoii during yesterday, the morning being spent In the discussion of the position and prospects ol the carrying business on the water as affect¬ ed byiVcceut legislation, it being the gencrnl opinion among the members that Ihe work' Wk have seuurcd the most efficient corps i.i orrespondeiits at Mime of the principal I'mii- uuJiiu great chain of lakes that can be .'l.talncd, with the view of making the Ma- i.i.vK RixoitD a necessity to all peoplejmter- . ,-n-d in lnke navigation, beside having a re- 11..Lie correspondent lu Ne\v York City to k>. p on rreiiders posted in regard to all new ......Ine enterprises in that direction. It Is our iiliu in milking these Improvements to deserve the confidence of our readers, and to extend our circulation. We lire novy preparing the most comprehensive history of the dlraslcrs which have Declined during the sciifon ol 18811 that can be compiled. It w 111 be read) for publication at the close of navigation. v Considerable interest Was awakened among marine men by the Maiiink Kkcohd's illus- t.atcd article last week on the Herrean Win¬ ter hawBO-plpo stnppor, which the American Ship Windlass Co., of Providence, R. I., has tlie exclusive right to manufacture, The great apparent .advantage gained and the simplicity of Its iiiechanlsm hawbeeu much commented upon. A rubber ball Is clasped on the chain. It.ls then enclosed .In a sock¬ et having a plate nearly coveting tile ball 11111! a, set screw on each s.ldc. The whole master, male, pilot and englneci^Qj a vessel should be obliged to place hia.llcense, pro- perly framed, where passongors could see It. The time of the board was occupied princi¬ pally In discussing various matters pertain- Itrg to tlie best interests of stemp navigation, Among these tlie most important was a rec¬ ommendation to have an Influential member stationed at Washington during the next session of Congress, and an amendment of the by-'aws permitting all persons, indi etinitniitely, to become members upon pay¬ ment of an annual fee of live dollars. This Mime ol the members concoived would let In railroad men, the natural enemies of mitiga¬ tion. A hot dUcusslou followed, which showed that tlie hoard was not as much averse to Mils as one would Imagine. The representative of tlie Mlpslsilppi Valley Transportation Company asserted that Jay Gould was u friend to his company, and had Invested half u million dollars in Ihe enter¬ prise, General Negley, of l'ltlabiirg, thought the marine intereois were overshadowod by railroads because the former did not look to their Interests in Cougiess. Another member claimed that the enemies ol American steam navigation were really our trans-atlantlc coii»ln» In Great Britain. Notjilng, howevor, was done during the entire session for the Immediate benefit of steam navigation, un¬ less the benefit Is to be found in tlie, set ot resolutions referred to. It may he;on the contrary, that much harm was accomplished In the passage of the by-law admitting all, Interests to membership. In pogaod to bO(h matters.we are In no position to jildge,uutlt the olllclal proceedings are at liandV-^ VJiSSKI. SALES,. Tim bcow Mary A in.din was sold by United States Marshal S. S. Mathews yesterday to Sarah K. Hudson lor JOS,".. The steamer Huntress was sold under the hammeraiHl was bid In by tlie mortgagee, Captain Imaon, of Buflalo.'for $10,000, John L. Crostliwiilte, Iiiib sold the old profiler Plymouth to .1. II. Lorseu & Co.of Miu Ine City, who will take the craft at once to that port and rebiiil her. The Plymouth was owned by T. CoatsAorth, and formerly ran in the Western line. In her day bIio lngT)HheT)rC8ent-statiite»-arfdTtniiig8"woro adverse, In a rrtcasurc, to navigation Interests and fnvorahle to railroads, vessel owners and boatmen being compelled to endure ninny hardships and evils which, should be miti¬ gated. A resohillon was adopted to have a man of Influence kept at Washington dur¬ ing the coming winter to look after tho In- tcrc'sts of navigation, and to secure, It possi¬ ble, the passage of the amended steamboat law, Which will make the certificates of In¬ spection, now required Io be hsucd. to each boat annually, presentable as evidence nnd [a bar lo damages In civil suits, as showing llint owners of vessels had taken proper and uerchrarv precautions to Insure the safely of passengers. After the adoptloiuif the above resolution dlseussli.il was had on Ihe defense of the car- rylng.lnterests upon tlie water against the encroachments of the railroads, some of the niembors advancing tho opinion that the running of railroads parallel to water routes would eventually lead lo the abandonment Bf tlie latter, while others declared that there would always remain a paying business for the vosselmon. The representative of the Portland Steam Packet Company, .7. II. Coyle, however, said that the railroad inch were already recognizing the need ot taking possession of the walcreouikes, and that the greatest inouopollot of the Country bad gained control of bout lines, and soon the wrecking and cutting nl Inland steam navi¬ gation would be seen that ut&ndcil his inan- agment of the railroad lystcm. Mr. II. L. Marsllck, representative of the Mississippi Valley Transportation Company, at once lespoiVled In defense of Mr. Jay Gould, who, he Bald, owned an luiercstof half a million dollars lu the Mississippi Val¬ ley Company, which created quite o warm discussion, Mr. llaarstlck lusl-iliu; that there was no intention on the part ol any one, so lar as he knew, to creato aiiy cprners or schemes that Die most coiiBcrvnllvc steuui- bpat owiicib would not approve, and Mr. Coyle advancing the theory that Mr. Gould had obtained this Interest lu tlie Vnlley Transportation Company to further the In¬ terests of his railroad system at the expense ot tho Transportation Company. (leu. JiunesS. Negley suit) that steam miv railroads7,' CecTiuso nonjeCo_f_ tho gontlemcn roprcHcnilng.nnvlgatlon had npponrod In tho halls n.1. legislation aiid demandod' their rights, fyiptain It. 8. Osbon said that tho real enemies of-Amorloflti steam navigation ivero their transatlantic coiibIiis In Great Britain., For yeara they had stood within tho halls bf Congress and defeated ' tho ob- ■ Jects of tho board. It was known that a Sen¬ ator was In tho employ of tho foreign steam*, ship companies, audit had never boon de¬ nied by that Senator. Ho said that tho day was coming when - transatlantic freight would bo carried by. tonnage built by the trunk lines of the United States. Alter somo further dixousslon a now set of hy-lnws' wasjidopTed which simplify tho business of tho board. The resolutions pre¬ sented to the board on the 21th were adopted, nUoa resolution to ask for h reduction ol tho required test on steamboat oil from 100 de¬ grees fire teat to 120 degrees. , In the evening nn election of offlcBrs for tlio ensuing year took place,, which resulted lu tlio cholco of the following: President, E. W. Gould, St. Louis, Mo. First Vice-President, W. Bullard, Buffalo, N.Y. """"■ - ' • ■ Second-Vice President, J. L. Fisher, Now York C,ity. . , Secretary, Clius. II. Boyer, 00 Wall Btreot, New York City. Treasurer, Addison Lisle, Pittsburg, Pa.' Executive Committee, J. S. Negley, Pitts¬ burg, Pa.; U. S. Hanrstick, St. Louis, Mo.; R. Slnnott, Now Orleans, La.; T. C. Horsey, Portland, Me.; I). M. Mungor, New York City. The convention adjourned to meet again in Now York City In October, 1884. C, J. BOOK NOTICES. In Illustrations, Important articles, and American Action, the November 'Century attempts to raise its own Bta'ndard of excel¬ lence—a sigiilllciiiit way of Beginning the new magazine year. Among the engravers of the number, live are women, who con¬ tribute seven engravings. In technical skill, Mr. Colo lias hardly surpassed the full-page engravlnjf of Wyatt baton's portrait of Kodjeska, accompanying a study of Moil- wiis one of tlie best of the lake steamers, but old age overtook her, and she has for some I Igatlou ran tho risk of bolng eclipsed by the jeska's Shaksperlun characters, by J. Ranken Towto. T. Johnson's engraving from Thomas Sully's .portrait (owned In Phll- adelphla/of Queen Victoria at the ago of nineteen, Is the frontispiece of the number; i.|so, with Mrs. Ollpliiint's sketch of tho life of tlie Queen, Is printed a ccpy of a recent portrait. Mrs. Ollpliiint's paper Is valuable for Its analysis of character, which Is Inter- cstlngly shown, also, Is several anecdotes of Queen Victoria's courtship and <>' her atten¬ tion to public nllalrS. A particular liftereHt attaches to Cole's engraving of (lie full-page portrait of 'I'ourgueiiolT, Bluce It Is an ' authentic likeness Iro'm life, painted within the last iwo yens by E. It. Butler, specially for The Century. Alphonso Daudet con¬ tributes reminiscences of "TourguonelV In Paris," ihe paper having been written early last summer. Besides affording a charming estimate of the Russian novelist us author and limn, by the leading modern French novelist, it gives n delightful view of literary felloivshlp In the Fiench capital. All Important contribution to the hlsloiy of tlie War, and a most entertaining anec¬ dotal paper wltlinl, Is the account of "'fin! CapturoW Jefferson Uuvls." It Is by Bur¬ ton N. Harrison, Kbij., of the New York bar, who was the Confederate Prcildenl's private secretary,,who accompanied'Mr. Davis and his fumlly, with Ihe leading members of the Conledeinte government, In their flight from Richmond. Charles Dudly Warner's recollections of "The Hull-Fight" In Spain are Impressive for the evident fidelity of the description and tho picturesque and humorous treatment. Robert Blum's drawings are striking for the Bamo qualities expressed with the brush. "An Amorican Artist in England" 1b a sketch, by Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, ol Wlnslow .Homer's career, Illustrated by his lecent -English drawings, which have been engraved for this papor by T. Cole, two of them being, full-page llliistniliong. ■(IllnipPes ol Purls," bv'J. D. Osborne, l» pro- lusely Illustrated byE, R. Butler. W-c learn liom It that the Freiichnro weary of "French • lints," and what'traltsot nationalI'luiriloter— not all of them lovely—aro revealed In' their dally life. John Itiirroughs's Btudv of .Nature In England" Is illustrated In a sympathetic spirit by Alfred Parsons. -I.al- cudio Ileum wrlteBo! "Tlio Scenes of Cable's Romances," with enthusiasm and personal knowledge: Joseph Peunell sketches them. A matter of grcuter moment, howevor," than the scenes of Cable's romances Is the opening chapters of Cable's in!w romances,