High-Tide Tables FOR GOVERNOR'S ISLAND (NEW YORK HARBOR). (Specially prepared from the Tide-Tables of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey for THE WORLD ALMANAC.) Lifeboat Requirements. HIGH-TIDE TABLES-Continued. TIME OF HIGH WATER AT POINTS ON THE ATLANTIC COAST, 75 The local time of high water at the following places may be found approximately for each day by adding to or subtracting from the time of high water at Governor's Island, N. Y., the hours and minutes annexed. EXAMPLE-To find the approximate time of high tide at Atlantic City, N. J., on any day, find first the time of high water at New York under the desired date, and then subtract 20 minutes, as in the above table; the result is the time of high water required. AVERAGE RISE AND Charleston, S. C... 5 1 Newport, R. I.. 9 8 San Francisco, Cal.. 4 2 New York, N. Y.. Galveston, Tex.. 1 1 Old Point Comf't, Va. 2 5 Seattle, Wash 12 Key West, Fla... 1 2 Philadelphia, Pa..... 6 O Tampa, Fla. Mobile, Ala.. 2 Portland. Me.. 9 1Washington, D.C.. Highest tide at Eastport, Me., 218 inches. Lowest tide at Galveston, Tex., 13 inches. Lifeboat Requirements. As announced by the United States Steamboat Inspection Service in Bureau Circular of June 29, 1912, and as amended in circular letter of September 13, 1912: All pleasure steamers, and all other steamers over 150 tons, but not exceeding 750 tons, limited by their certificates of Inspection to routes not more than 15 miles from any harbor, shall not be required to have more than one of the lifeboats to be of 180 cubic feet capacity. Nothing, however, in this proviso shall exempt any such steamer from carrying the aggregate cubic feet of lifeboat capacity required by the rules. All steamers other than steamers carrying passengers, except as otherwise provided for in the rules, must be equipped with lifeboats of sufficient capacity to accommodate at one time all persons on board. One-half of such equipment may be in approved liferafts or approved collapsible lifeboats Ocean steamers carrying passengers must be equipped with lifeboats of sufficient capacity to accommodate at one time all persons on board, including passengers and crew. One-half of such lifeboat equipment may be in approved liferafts or approved collapsible lifeboats. Coastwise steamers carrying passengers must be equipped with lifeboats of sumelent capacity to accommodate at one time all persons on board, including passengers and crew Provided, however, that such steamers navigating during the interval from the fifteenth day of May to the fifteenth day of September in any one year, both dates inclusive, will be required to be equipped with lifeboats of only such capacity as will be suclent to accommodate at one time at least 60 per cent, of all persons on board, including passengers and crew; two-thirds of such required lifeboat equipment throughout the year may be in approved liferafts or approved collapsible lifeboats. Lake, bay and sound steamers carrying passengers and navigating the waters of the lakes, bays and sounds tributary to the Pacfic coast, the Atlantic coast south of the 33d parallel of north latitude and the Gulf of Mexico must be equipped with lifeboats of sumclent capacity to accommodate at one time at least 30 per cent. of all persons on board, including passengers and crew: Provided, however, that such steamers navigating routes lying at all points within a distance of five miles from land, or over waters whose depth is not sufcient to entirely submerge the vessel In case of disaster, will be required to be equipped with lifeboats of only such capacity as will be sumelent to accommodate at one time at least 10 per cent. of all persons on board, including passengers and crew. Three-fourths of the lifeboat capacity required on lake, bay and sound steamers may be in approved liferafts or approved collapsible lifeboats. River steamers carrying passengers must be equipped with lifeboats of sufficient capacity to accommodate at one time at least 10 per cent. of all persons on board, including passengers and crew. Three-fourths of such lifeboat equipment may be in approved liferafts or approved collapsible lifeboats. The navigation of ferry boats must be confined to the ferry routes specified in the certificate of inspection, but such vessels may be permitted under excursion permits, to go beyond their authorized routes with passengers only, or without such permit to lighten or relieve vessels in distress. When any ferry boat leaves her ferry route and carries passengers she shall be required to carry the same officers, crew, and equipment, as required of other steamers carrying passengers. Missouri Mobile Mohawk Monongahela. Nebraska Neenah... Sources. Junction of Coosa and Talapoosa, Ala Junction of Chattahoochee and Flint R., Ga. Adirondack Lakes, N. Y...... Formed by Locust and Mulberry Forks, Ala... Junction of Haw and Deep Rivers, N. C.. Mott and Meherin, N. C Llano Estacado, Tex.. ....... Junction of Green and Grand Rivers, Utah. Lewis and Clark's Fork.. Connecticut Lake, Vt. Junction of Oostenauls and Etowah Rivers, Ga... Junction of Poor and Straight Forks, Ky Catskill Mountains, N. Y Lake Shetek, Minn Alleghany Mountains, Ga.. Allegany County, N. Y Sierra Madre Mountains, N. M Southern lowa.......... Highlands, Mich...... Yadkin River, N. C.......... Cumberland Mountains, Ky..... Lake Sanford, Adirondack Mountains, N. Y.. Des Plaines River, Wis.. Jackson and Pastur Rivers, Va........ Highlands, Mich.. Junction of Greenbrier and New Rivers, Va. Smoky Hill River, Kan... Grand Prairie, Ill.. Forks Cumberland Mountains, Ky. Mouths. Mobile River.... Ohio River.............. Appalachicola River. Moosehead Lake, Me Rocky Mountains, Ore.. Junction Brule and Mequacumecum Rivers, Wis. White Mountains, N. H. Itasca Lake, Minn Junction of Tombigbee and Alabama Rivers, Ala... Oneida County, N. Y Rich Mountains, W. Va Junction of Sweet Water and North Fork, Wyo. Eastern Dakot.. Rocky Mountains, junction of Jefferson, Madison, Gallatin Rivers, Mont. Mississippi River... Gulf of Mexico..... Highlands, Wis. LENGTH 175 460 140 Gulf of Mexico.. 110 Mississippi River.... 400 275 145 50 135 300 1260 Green Bay 180 Pamlico Sound 250 Ohio River..... Behring Bay...... Opening and Closing of Navigation. Opening and Closing of Navigation 77 ON THE HUDSON RIVER AND THE ERIE CANAL, AND OPENING OF LAKE ERIE Opening of Lake 10, 1829 Mar. 22, 1891.. April 1, 1892. April 1, 1893. Mar. 18, 1894. April 2, 1895.. April 17, 1896.. April 29, 1897. Mar. 14, 1898. Mar. 99, 1899 April 9, 1900. Mar. 28, 1901. Mar. 17, 1902. Mar. 14, 1903. April 4, 1904. April 3, 1905, Mar. 22, 1906. Mar. 29, 1907. Mar. 23, 1908. Mar, 15, 1909, Mar. 17, 1910. Mar. 29, 1911.. Mar. 26, 1912. Mar. 17, 1913, At Buffalo. The record in the above table is kept by the State Superintendent of Public Works. 78 Seed Planting in the United States. (Compiled from reports of the Department of Agriculture.) NEW ENGLAND. (1) The standard varieties of seed planted in the several sections of the United States are as follows: Corn-New England, leaming, sanford, flint; Middle States, leaming, white dent, yellow dent; Central and Western States, leaming, sanford flint, white dent; Southern States, hickory king, goardseed, Cox prolific. Wheat-Middle States, fultz; Central and Western States, fultz, poole, fife; Southern States, fulcaster. Oats-New England, white; Middle States, white, black; Central and Western States. gray Norway, silver mine, Russian; Southern States, Texas rustproof. BarleyMiddle States, mansbury; Southern States, Tennessee Winter. Rye-New England, white; Middle States, white, Winter: Central and Western States, Winter; Southern States, excel-ior Winter, Buckwheat-Middle States, silver hull; Central and Western States, silver hull. Potatoes-New England, green mountain, carmen 3. rose; Middle States, rose, carmen 3, rural 2; Central and Western States, hebron, rural, early rose, early Ohio. Tobacco-Central and Western States, yellow prior, Spanish, white burley. yellow Jersey: Southern States. yellow Jersey. Cotton-Southern States, Texas stormproof. Spring Hay, clover-Middle States. medium red. Sweet Potatoes-Middle States, wheat is to some extent grown in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and many other States. It matures in eighteen to twenty weeks (2) In Texas the black loam is a good soil for cotton, corn, wheat and most other field crops. |