THE. MARINE RECORD. $he purine Record, Entered according to tlio laws of tlio United States at tho Po»l Ollloc »t Cleveland as' second-class mailer. vF«bllshcd wrailr nt No. 2 South Water stroet, I '"" Cleveland, Ohio. A.'A^POMEM, Editor and.Proprietor. TKHM8 OF SUIISCRU'TlONl Ono year,, postiip.0 paid,..'..............'....................¥2*00 Six months, poilugo paid..................................... 1,00 Invariably In advance. . '1 ho MARINE UECOU1) on bo found for tale at tho following places: No, 2 South Water street, Cleveland. Joslph. Gray, No'. 284 .^oiith Wptcr street, Chicago. ■ T>. McMastcrt A Co., Suniln, Ontario, Win. Godloy, fccnnabn, Michigan. J. E. 8omervllle, Manistee, Allchlgnn. Articles, lettors uiul queries on all subjects aro solici¬ ted. »Tbo Editor assumes no responsibility for the opinions of correspondents. To insure notice, contributors must glvo namo and address, and write on one side of tho papor only. nnANtni okikk, 313 south water NTItEET. t'HICAUO. ADVERTISING RATES. Ten cents per line, nonpareil meastircment, or S1.20 per inch, each insertion; lour weeks £1.00; with a liberal ' discount ou ordcis amounting to 840.00 or over. The Supreme Court Ims decided thut.yes- «el property must be assessed In the town In. which the owner resided, or wheie filch property is tled^up when not engaged In tjclive trade. The Bhipplng bill, recently reported from the select eoinmiitee on shipping Is perhaps the most important measure before the House, and it is expected n motion will bo made by General Slocutn to-morrow to pro¬ ceed to its consideration in committee of the whole. Lieutenant Rhodes, of the.revenue mu- i ine service, who distinguished himself at the Columbus disinter on tlie Massachusetts coast Friday, is a Connecticut man, 33 years "of age. He has been in the service eleven years, and Is said to be a quiet and faithful ollUef. is C'Aitinoo Island, on Luke Superior, which lies In British waters, and la well known as a very dangerous locality, Is to be provided with a good und efficient lighthouse. The means to lhat end, it is stated, will be ap¬ propriated by the Dominion Parliament at i s present session. Rand, Avkiiy & Co., publishers and print¬ er.-', Boston, Mass., have in hand a thrilling tale of Mormnnikm, which they Intetid to circulate by subscription In the near future. This book, It Is hoped, will serve a purpose not unlike that obtained by "'Uncle Tom's Cubln," which wits published by this firm. It will be handsomely Illustrated. Mns. Many Mii.lek, w Louisiana, who ' sometime ago mnde'uppllcntlon lor,a license, is about to become a captain. Congressman Kellogg on tho 10th Inst., argued her right before the solicitor of the Treasury, who finally ack now lodged that there was no law to prevent her holding a license, and so de¬ cided. Secretnry Folger will, therefore, or¬ der her license Issued. dnngorous a plooo. of machinery its ft steam- boiler, they would bo attending to a matter which concerns thoraielvos and their fnmllloi nearly an much as the wage question. . As a matter of course'; the papers along the lower rivers arc greatly Incensed at tlio Hennepin canal people. Tho St. Louis Re¬ publican calls them tlie "Honncpln canal' grabbers," charges that they are only tlio advance guard of a long army of ditch pro Jcctol's, »hlch Is waiting a favorable time for anattack upon Congress. It says: "A bill appropriating money to construct the .Hennepin canal would bo the entering wedge to bri-ak open the national Wong box, and a breach once made It would be hard to stop the leak.." A good deal of tills wild talk must be looked upon as scare-crow hallooing set up by friends of the lower rivers to divert attention while they Mro -picking away at tlie "strong box" from the rear. Congressmen will tlo well to keep a sharp eye upon all quarters. It will take all their shrewdness and discrimination to determine just how much concern the na¬ tional government has in canal schemes; which must he decided by the aetlial amount of benefit the canals are likely to be lo Inter- State commerce. If this Is otitwelglied by the benefits lo accrue to a particular State or two or three States, tho Stiitcs-thcmselvea should pay-fox them. of trnde. The memorial severly criticises the action of- the government, which nliol- lihed tho light and sold tlio valuable pro¬ perty for $11400. It appears that the members, of tho Lighthouse Board nt Washington flro- tho following lines: Length over'all, 201_fcet; length of keel, 240 foot; breadth of .beam; 37 feet; depth of hold, 22 feet. She will hiivo two decks and six Im'chos, und will carry three pinsts. Her main kelson Is Skcijktauy riiANDLKit reported lo tho Serrate that there were ninety-two vessels on the naval register in November. 1883, Of those twenty iwere built prior to the re¬ bellion, thlrty-ono during th.e war, and forty-one slncq the close of hostilities. The original cost of the ninety-two vessels was 140,700,012 and repairs $41,200,822, makes the total cost $81,097,435. The repairs exceeded tho original cost $101,201). If the engineer who pttt a brick on-the Biilety valve of the boiler In a tannery at Rochester wero the sole victim of the ex¬ plosion which naturally followed, the acci¬ dent would have been a and one even then; unfortunately four other men were killed as a result of his stupidity, and a number more were badly hurt. If the labor organizations to which soinitnv <>f the firemen and ongi^ neers throughout the country belong would take some Bteps to prevent ignorant or care¬ less men from being put In charge ol >o O&EAN TRADE. Mr^ohn Koaeh, who, however Illogical some of his schemes may seem, Is a man of energy, and is doing more than any' other one Individual to build up American ship¬ ping on the high seas, has carried the New York Hoard nf Trade and Transportation against free ships, that Is, against the right of foreign built Rhips to American register when not owned by Americans. Ills, pro¬ gram, beside this, includes the exempting of vessels in the foreign trade- from State or local taxation, thus pulling them upon an equal footing with British ships, which are taxed only one per cent, on their net earn¬ ings, and therefore pny no tax at all except as they realize prollt. Again Amer¬ ican vessel owners are required to pity thiee qionttiV wages tn'sallorS (Uncharged abroad above what*they have actually earned; lo bring home shipwrecked seamen at a certain price Irrespective of distance; and are sub¬ jected to consular exactions pot imnpsed by other countries, It Is Mr. Kmich'.s phtn to place our vessel owners upon an equal foot¬ ing In these respects also. Thus far he Is right. His manner of raising subsidies, how- evor, Is plainly open lo exceptions.. It is for a tonnage tux of twenty cents per ton per 1,000 miles on toreign vessels, from which American vessels should be exempt, the pro¬ ceeds of the discriminating lax to be divided among American vessel owners. Such a tax would not put a penny hito the pockets oT American veBsol owners, for the simple rea¬ son that other countries .would retaliate In kind and the relative positions would be maintained. We believe In subsidizing American shipbuilders, but It must bo done In a way that will benefit (hem. Our plan of protecting home manufactures by imposlngi a duty on articles Imported from abroad, as any one aan see after a little thought, con tracts our trailing with .foreign countries and Is, therefore, delilinrntnl to ourforeign carrying trade. It is but right that vessel owners should be benefitted alike with man ulactureis; and when pro.ection falls, as It does, they should bo subsidized. Wo do not, however, believo In adopting free trnde to give vessels employment, as that would bring a host of evils to other Industries; therefore, tho only way out Is to relieve them from unjust taxes and encourage them In other, ways. How It Is'to be done we shall not nt present Inquire, but It can nqt, be done In the way suggested hy Mr. Roach fess to know more about tho value of tlre-f-thTtfc feet four Inches In depth, und her floor light to mariners than do the mariners them¬ selves. One nf the board stated to an Erie gentlemen who Avent to Washington In the Interest of vessel owners, that theso lake cap¬ tains deluded themselves Into thinking the light a sorvjeenbio ope, and that the board, with lls^great Influence and scientific te- sourccs, was better nblelo judge of whatjwas best for lake captains. This light wiiBostnb- llshed at the tlmo when .Commodore Perry was building his fleet In Erlohnibor, and when the entire shipping In the merchant service of Luke Erie consisted of a few small schooners. It bus stood through nearly three generations, a monument to.the wisdom add forethought of the distinguished civil en¬ gineer who reconiuicndediiB location at that spot. Not less thnn $100 000 had been ex¬ pended on the structure, and the cost of maintaining the light wns it mere bagatelle. In all the years that passed since It was erected no complaint was made; on the con¬ trary Its usefulness was demonstrated lu hundreds of Instances, and yet within a lew weeks of the appointment of Captain Hay¬ wood, of the Michigan, to the position of lighthouse inspector. This valuable aid to navigation wa< demolished, THE EltlE 'LIOJITUOUSE. The Erie board of Hade Is determined to havo the lighthouse at lhat port restored, which was removed by the government in tho face of earnest protest from the lake marine interests. A committee ap¬ pointed by the board has concluded Its Inbois and matlo a draft ol a memorial to Congress, which, embodies the views of marine, men and merchants. Tho judge of the 0th judi¬ cial district Is chairman ol'the committee, mid, with four other influential gentlemen, has blgned the memorial In beluill of the board LABGE AND SMALL SHIPS. We have long felt It to be one of the In-, evltable lacts of tho logic of events, though hot deeming It necessary or politic to express too decided an-eplnlon, that sooner or later the grain and coal traffic nf the great, lakes would, In order tq be profitable to the car¬ riers, be relegated to tho largo steam craft. To compete with railroads one thing has be¬ come hbsolmely necessary, namely,' cer¬ tainty as to length of time required to dis¬ pose of a cargo. To compete with railroads another factor steps In, which Is quite as im¬ portant, and that is, the quantity to be car fled by the vessel. The rate of speed of as GOO ton or a 20,000 bushel vessel Is about the same as that of a 000 ton or a.40,000 bushel vessel, while the lotal prollt must be In favor of the latter. This > fact Is .useful only as a parallel, fpr within late years It has been pretty thoroughly demonstrated that even the larger of tho two craft mentioned cannot make reasonable profit. In the coal or grain trade. The Union Steamboat Company, of Buffalo, Is uniting the llrst td take ttullve measures In the light ol thl» logic. The company has disposed of the Jay Gould, Hazard and Gcorgtu-, three vessels with a capacity of 2,080 tonfynnd will build a pro¬ peller of 2,300 tons, which will ylold a muc,h larger prollt than all the others. The new boat Is to be built of steel, another point of particular Interest In many ways, and will i uii between Buffalo and Dulutli. It is cal¬ culated her being of steel will give her a carrying capacity of three to live hundred tons more than tlie propeller II. J. Jowclt, as It will make her Very mpch lighter than the Jewell, though ol about tho same size, on account of the Jewett being built of Iron. Tho new' sleainW will bo much fuBtcr than the Jewell. She Is designed to attain a speed of eighteen tulles an hour, making it possible to cover the dlt-tiinco Wlwceq Buf¬ falo and Duluth In three days. Like the other steamers-(>f, this line, she will carry passengers as well as freight, bo that she will come In direct competition with the rail¬ roads in all ways, with the additional cer¬ tainly of making money atall events. As the Buffalo Courier said lu an article printed In the Marine Recohd last week, "the change to be mide by the company, from three ves¬ sels to one, will put It In a condition to make money beyond it doubt, a thing It hud great difficulty hi doing with those disposed of." The project carries lu all respects Its own lesson, one which vessel owners will nut bo slow lo perceive. Rut this Is not the onlj evidence of the,approaching revolution-In the carrying trade of the lakes, lu the Ouo- ko the builders and owners have shown tho superiority of the large and siauiiclr'Bteiini- Bhlp, her enormous carrying capacity hav¬ ing demonstrated the economy of her grand proportions; and It would not'be amiss to add that her builders, the Globe Iron Works, have well under way annthoi equally fine Iron steamer which we descilbe In I foot 0 Inches deep. She will hnve thrqo sister kelsons on eauh side of the main kel¬ son, running fore and alt on top of the floor. Her Irames are of steel, 4x0; which Is an en¬ tire hew feature -on these lakes, and will bo of the sumo weight us though made of Iron, thereby adding greatly to the strength of the vessel. The main deck. Is 3J& inches and the spar deck 3 Inches. The Iron and steel plating will bo of the following thick¬ nesses : Seven-eighths,ihree-qtlnrters, five- eighths, and one-half inch. Her bottom and sides to above the upper turn of bilge for sixty feet att of tlio stem will be of steel nnd tho remainder of Iron. She will.have a water bottom capable of holding 000 tons of water ballast, which, will bo divided Into six water tight compartments on each side, n a collision bulkhead twenty feet aft from the stem, carried up to the upper deck. The' ihaln deck from the bulkhead forward Is of Iron, which, converts the' forop'eak of the vessel Into a waler tai.k capable of holding 100 tons of water, which can be filled when necessary to trim the vesBel In heavy wenth- er. Tne three freight holds jue divided by Iron water tight bulkheads, giving her live water tight bulkheads, one at the collision bulkheads two In the frolght holds, one nt the fore side of the engine and one uft at the stuffing box. Her hatches Mid hatch comb- Ingsand bollerhouse .will all be 6f Iron, sim¬ ilar l.n every respect to the stcamsblp Onoko, built at this ynra two years ago. From the model wo.hnve seen of the new'shlp she will no doubt attain gbod speed nnd be n good carrier.' In addition to the facts produced above the Detroit Drydock Company has contracted to build two steel propellers for the Western Transportation Company, to cost about $200,- 000 each. The dimensions glveh are as fol¬ lows: Length, 270 feet; beam, 38 feet; depth of hold, 17 feet. They will be some¬ what after the model of the propeller Bos¬ ton, which Is built of -iron. Wo will give a detailed account o' them at the proper time. IRON MARKET REPORT. Cleveland, January 20. An Improved movement is noted In the Iron market with good prospects for the future. It Is generally considered that the lowest prices have been reached, and the demand lor working material Is beginning with the opening of the year. It may bo said that pig Iron is moving briskly for this season and alter the dullness experienced. Though there are large orders taken in Chi¬ cago for ore, the movement Is noj lelt id this place, though there Is n good demand, lu tact betteiuhun for soire tline. Following aro tlie quotations: CUAltCOAL PIO IKON. No. 1 Lake Superior charcoal....................823 O0@24 50 No. 2 Lake Superior charcoal.................. 23 00(924 50 Nos. Saint 4 Luko>8uperlor....................24 00@25 00 Nos. Band fl Lake Suporior............... 23 006*25 00 Nos 1, 2, 3. 4, J, bWlsbury.........„............ 35 00(i$»7 00 Southoru charcoal................................. 27 00(330 00 Reported by li. L. Jlarjtcr Ac Co., Cincinnati. The btiblnesH ol the week litis been large and has bordered ou sprlglitlltiess. Inquiries continue numerous, und sales quite liberal. The Indications that Jiave steadily pointed to a more heultiitiil condition ol the Iron Interests are giving assurance at this writing nf realization. The statistics of the condition of the furnaces January 1 reveal tlio facts that the furnaces In blast January 1, 1883, numbered 530, In '84 but 288. Tho lurnnces out of blast January 1 '83 numbered 280, and lu 81, 410 showing that of the 704 fur¬ naces of the country nearly 00 per cent aro out of blast. Tho demand temporarily la in .advance of production and while mnny turnaccs would promptly avail themselves of any udvance that might occur, und qufetely blow In, there Is a strong probability of tho ' demand continuing sufficient to tako up all the good Iron lhat can he profitably made during the spring. Wc quote us prices cut rent. . FOUNDRY. Hanging Hock Charcoal No. 1.................J22 60 to}23'B0 IlnnglW Hock Cluircoal No. 2............ 2125 " 22 26 Strong Neutral Coko No. 1....................I8 60 *■ 10 00 ......No. 2..........1.......... 17 60" 18 00 American Scotch, No. 1..........................10 00 to 10 60 01IEY t'OUOK. Neutral Coko.........................................510 75 to 117 25 Cold Short........................................... 11120 " 10 75 CAH WIIUKL ANlt UALLKAM.B. Hanging Rock, slrlctly cold blast..........S 27 75 II " warm blast,...................2400 "2460 Ijike Superior "Vulcan" ull (trades.......... 24 00 " 25 00 Southern Cur Wheel strictly cold blast... 20 60 " 27 00