Daily globe., 1878-11-19

sisted BY revenue cutters. The estimated
value of the property saved is about 81, ,70O,-
900, and l42 persons were actually rescued
from death F.; drowning. The expenses OF
| the revenue marine service for the year end
ing June 80, 1873, were ss44,001. Numbe,
of vessels in the service, 81.
srRAM INSPECTION SERVICE.
Supervising Inspector General James A.
Lamont, of the steam inspection service, in
his annual report, shows the total number Of
lives lost from various causes during the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1878, were, from explo-
sions, 33; fire, %; collisions, 31 snags,
wrecks and sinking. 104; accidental drown
ing, l8; miscellaneous casualties, a. total,
PIP. Whole number of accidents resulting
| in loss of life, A. He says: "The decrease
of fatal casualties in tho last two years is no
doubt due to the seyersr discipline that has
been established in that period as compared
with preceding years. Although the service
is yet susceptible Of improvement in that
respect, am proud to say that, so thoroughly
have its laws been administered, in upwards
of two hundred million persons carried on
American steamers during the last year, only
one person and onetenth were lost in each
million. ! do not hesitate to assert that
travel by steamer under the existing laws of
the United States is safer than in any other
country
He devotes considerable portion Of his
report to the question Of testing boiler iron,
and says: cit is evidently necessary that
positive and generally accepted rule be es-
tablished for deciding this important mat
ter. 1t is believed that efforts now being
made by the office, and supported actively
by managers generally, will introduce into
market iron of American manufacture for
marine boiler use, of q quality better than
made IN any part of the world. But, what
ever the qualities of new iron, the Q centric
manner OF its wear under steam
is not explained. Some plates oxidize
as soon as used. Others of identical texture
and position wear for years without material
deterioration, and others again wearing for
several years without apparent damage, sud-
denly o1idize and are decayed III few
months. This last condition was forcibly
illustrated by the steamer Magenta, which
exploded the outer shell OF her steam Chin
ney March Sd, near Sing Sing on the Hud-
son.
He refers at length to the Magenta e1plo-
sion and says: "Such disasters can be
Ous
There are places, however, in all boilers,
where personal inspection is impossible.
re saa44aaeild to ali steamboat owners the I'M
poltance of demanding such tests frequent
ly, especially when after a season of inactiy-
ity work is resumed, for experience proves
that boilers deteriorate more rapidly while
idle than while continuously used.''
He says in all his efforts to improve the
service he has had the cordial support of
steam vessel owners. II is true that they
claim that some statistics are unjust to them
while affording no advantage to the public,
and they are naturally opposed to being
compelled to purchase worthless franchises.
It is not appropriate for him to discuss their
wrongs, but he hopes justice may be done
them, for, as class, they are ready to COM
ply with every wholesome provision of law.
Of the total number of vessels inspected
26O belong to the Pacific coast, with a ton
mage of 108,5 ,532, and 1920 to the Atlantic
coast, with a tonnage of 466,767, S99 to
Western rivers, with a tonnage of 186,932,
857 to Northern lakes, with tonnage of
186,37S, and 81 to the Gulf coast, with
tonnage of 69,831.
WILL BE PAID.
WASHINGTON, Nov. lS.-The secretary of
NSSii.ASo,
contents of the dispatch mailed by him to
Minister Welch upon the receipt of Lord
Saulsbury's letter of the 18th inst, but there
is no reason to doubt that it contains the as
surance that the $5,5OO,Ooo awarded by the
fisheries commission will be paid before the
23d, the treaty limit of time for its payment.
OVERLAPPING LAND GRANTS.
In the long pending controversy concern
ing the large body of lands claimed by both
the central branch of the Union Pacific rail-
road and the Kansas Pacific railroad COM
panies, which are situated opposite the first
100 miles of constructed road west of the
mile limits of the two land grants, the secre-
tary of the interior decides that lands situ-
ated within overlapping land grant limits
should be held to inure jointly to both com
panies. In view, however, of questions
arising under the third sec
ton of the act of July 1st,
1862, which were discussed in his decision of
the Dudymott case, Secretary Schurz directs
that the subject OF transferring government
title to these lands he reserved for further
consideration. In course of the decision.
Secretary Schurz rules that the patent exc
cuted March 20, 1876, in favor of the Cen
trail Branch company for $4,000 acres of dis
puted land, was rightly Cancelled by his pre-
decessor, because it lacked one requisite of
transfer of title, namely, acceptance by the
grantee.
MISCELLANEOUS.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1S.-Subscription to
the 4 per cent. loan to. day, ST. ,13O, 400.
The following appointments were made by
the President to day: Myron E. b. Howell,
Michigan, principal clerk of public lands in
the general land Office; Walter r. Irwin,
Illinois, principal clerk of private land claims
in the general land Office.
Weather To-day.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 49, A. M.-Indications
For upper lake region, partly cloudy weather,
rain areas. followed by clearing weather, warm
southwest ycering to colder northwest winds,
followed by rising barometer. For upper Mis-
sissippi and lower Missouri valleys, clear OF
partly cloudy weather, cold northwesterly Winds
rising generally. followed by falling barometer
and winds becoming variable OF shifting te
warm southeasterly.
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