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6 MARINE REVIEW. Trial of the Calumet, Engineer-in-Chief Collins of the revenue cutter service, navy depart- ment, has kindly sent us a report of the trial of the new revenue cutter Calumet. The trial took place on Lake Erie and the Niagara river, Sept. 22. The Calumet is a steel boat 94 feet 6 inches long over all, 87 feet on the water line, 20 feet beam and 10 feet 3 inches depth of hold. She is propelled by a compound inverted direct acting engine with a high pressure cylinder 18% inches in diameter, anda low pressure cylinder 32 inches in diameter, the stroke of both cylinders being 26 inches. Steam is generated by a Ward boiler of the size known as P. 30 with Q. fire box, which contains 2,490 square feet of heating surface and 74 square feet of grate surface. She is provided with a Wheeler admiralty surfare condenser mounted on combined independent air and circulating pumps. The air and circulating pumps are each 9 inches in diameter and 10 inches stroke; the steam cylinder 8 inches diameter and 10 inches stroke. She has a four-bladed, solid, true-screw propeller of 8 feet diameter and 12% feet pitch. The helicordal area of all four blades is 24 square feet. The trial consisted of a run of four hours under full power and was solely for the purpose of testing the machinery. Owing to the firemen being unaccustomed to that type of boiler, considerable difficulty was experienced in maintaining a uniform steam pressure. On the average, however, the steam was carried at about 110 pounds, which drove the engine at about 115 revolutions per minute. The horse power developed was 470, which gave the vessel an average speed for the four hours run of 13.4 statute miles per hour. The trial board consisted of Engineer-in-Chief John W. Collins, Chief Engineer D. C. Chester and Asst. Engineer C. M. McAllister, while Capt. Geo. W. Moore, the superintendent of construction, and First Lieut. John Dennet were present to take observation as to the vessel's speed. The Calumet when fully complete will leave the yard of her builders, the assignees of David Bell at Buffalo, N. Y., for Chicago, where she will be used for boarding purposes, and for the enforcement of the new anchorage laws, passed by congress, and which have recently gone into effect at that place. ~ War Ships of China and Japan. Since the outbreak of war between China and Japan, some particulars about the natures and relative strengths of their fleets will doubtless be of interest to some. The Chinese fleet includes five armored ships and twenty-four unarmored vessels, in addition to twenty-four small gunboats and six floating batteries. Particulars of the armored ships follow: Horse Armor Speed NAME OF IRONCLADS. Tons. belt, in Power. Inches. Knots. Ghen=VUlenGsne: ciscve scenes tecetescse 7,430 6,200 14 > 14.5 Rapp NAC B A fe cboccs dec encdan. 2,850 3,600 9% 16.5 ONO EM oiee cde osc. seecssusscencaea 2,850 2,400 8 10.5 Net Natt Nis 2 Need scot cae cose eddeta cae 2,850 3,600 9% 16.5 PRPS OVEN scxadeck- catiecasseesenconce ss 7,430 6,200 14 14.5 The Chen-Yuen and the Ting-VYuen are of fair size, the others being small, one of them, the Ping-Yuen, comparatively slow. The ships are well armed. The Chen-Yuen and Ting-Yuen have 12-inch Krupp guns, the King-Yuen has 8-inch and the Ping-Yuen 10-inch guns, besides smaller ones. Among the unarmored ships the Chih-Yuen and the Ching-Yuen are the most formidable, being of 2,300 tons displacement, 5,500 horse power and 18 knots speed. They have 10-inch steel barbettes and three 8-inch 12-ton guns each, besides quick-firing and machine guns. ° The Tshao-Yong is a vessel of 1,350 tons displacement, 2,677 horse power, and 16.8 knots speed. She was launched in 1881, and armed with two 10-inch Armstrong guns, four 4.7-inch quick firers, and seven machin guns. The armored ships of Japan are not formidable as ironclads. They are as follows: Horse Armor Speed NAME. Tons. belt, in Power. Inches. Knots. BU-SOO. .......ssseeeeeeserereecnccecees 3,718 3,500 7 13.2 GERI CAGS, esis uses sing awicicead cwayaeees 2,200 2,490 4% 13.0 KOn-Go .....0.-.+-see0es Ganadeae abana 2,200 2,450 4% SEY PST One rer ets csiecccsasearcescre- 1,459 975 4% 9.0 PERSCHTYV OUR! crcerst scr: ccesccasscss cee 2,450 5,600 | 4% 19.0 The last of these would be better described as a protected cruiser than anironclad. The others are small, weak and slow. There are thirty- two unarmored ships, of which the Akitsuschima, the Hasidate, the en ---- Itsukushima, the Metsuchima and the Yoshino are the most formidable, The latter is one of the most rapid cruisers afloat, having 15,000 horse power and 23 knots speed. The Japanese cruisers are more numerous and larger than the Chinese, and many of them are model craft in the eyes of those who believe that armored protection is not worth what it costs -- Invention. Avoid the Floater. With the elevator combine again in full control at Buffalo, some trouble may be expected by vessel owners from consignees trying to send cargoes to one of the floaters that is stillin use. About three weeks ago the Western Elevating Association was reorganized, and all the floating elevators except the Cyclone were laid up. Previous to that time there had been no elevator combination this season, and all the grain intended for canal shipment was transfered from lake craft to canal boats by float- ing elevators. The Cycloneis in some manner in the association, but transfers grain to canal boats for five-eights of acenta bushel, which is one-fourth of a cent less than the association rate, and as a matter of course the consignees of the grain wish to avail themselves of the differ- ence in the rate. Vessel owners or agents do not object to having cargoes transfered by the Cyclone, except for the reason that in order to do so vessels are compelled to moor at the Erie basin breakwater. In doing this they are placed broadside to the wind when it is down the lake, and they are exposed to nearly the full force of rough weather with nothing to moor to except some rings in the breakwater. At this season of year, when gales are so prevalent, a vessel can not tie up to such a place in safety, and owners are fully justified in refusing to expose their property in this way. The schooner Fitzpatrick was being unloaded at the Cyclone in the same locality last fall when she broke adrift, doing considerable damage and incurring a bill of expense in getting out of the trouble. Anyhow the floating elevators, operated as they have been without sufficient back- ing to result in any great opposition to the elevator combination, are a nuisance to vessel owners, for while they transfer the grain cheaper, the vessel has to pay the same price for shoveling, The floaters have no storage capacity and can only unload when there are canal boats ready to take the grain, and as a rule there is more or less waiting for canal boats. Some time it amounts to very serious detention to the vessel, and as the situation is now, with only one floating elevator, the Cyclone, in commis- sion, vessels that are sent to that elevator are very likely to be compelled to wait for one another. Ship Building During the Last Quarter. Following is a statement of vessels built in the United States and officially numbered, as shown by the records of the bureau of navigation, treasury department, during the quarter ended Sept. 30, 1894: Steel Iron Wooden |} Wooden Steam Steam Steam Sail Vessels. || Vessels. Vessels. Vessels. w 3 H 5 H 5 H 5 Oo ~ 41 oO » oO ~ o a ee alte eae re oe ae alee mises. llaiaes 2 5 2 Z © ZA\| O) Z Oo Z Oo Atlantic and Gulf coasts...|) 4| 1,057.25)| 1} 408.88]/30) 1,734.80)}111/10,472.74 RAGUTCRROASt scacemeem ten arce 5041 (op [cose sriusnctal|acak smeecasees 5| 677.17)| 15} 1,087.09 Greaulakes is cecssssr ss sciecn: Ne2 G2ACOS le a lsees cece: 22| 4,402.81)| 8) 187.88 NWEStSTM Ee tIVeLSs 105.5: ricocte oes Z| 963.78) |ocsleec. santas RS |EZ;009-00|...05\sssce mere elu talline ener veers ches ceck 7! 4,245.06I! 11 408.881176| ¥,224.7411134111,697.66 Thus the total of vessels of all kinds built during the quarter was 218 of 25,576.34 tons gross, of which eighty-four of 13,874.68 gross tons were steam, and 134 of 14,697.66 gross tons were sail or unrigged vessels. During the previous quarter the total new vessels was 304 of 48,503.28 gross tons, and of these 105 of 35,065.25 gross tons were steam, and 199 of 13,438.03 gross tons were sail or unrigged. Stocks of Grain at Lake Ports. The following table, prepared from reports of the Chicago board of trade, shows the stocks of wheat and corn in store at the principal points of accumulation on the lakes on Oct. 6, 1894: : Wheat, bu. Corn, bu. CHicagOrieamusccsy rhe rene rh 25,498,000 1,834,000 dD end hieecenar aac eeetrea doswiete tcc oe ees TAO 000 een Milwaukee Rosle siesta cs oticie sitacteeteins nseae ane G3S:000k 2a Be DEUOME er nceeemncea ae cise ct ak le 1,600,000 11,000 MOLE AO st meee te tates cicscc a 3,349,000 29,000 Buta ee Ce ort ey 1,978,000 234,000 Mal oe esc y 2: 36,464,000 2,108,000 At the points named there isa netincrease for the week of 371,000 bushels of wheat, and a net decrease of 305,000 bushels of corn.