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MARINE REVIEW. Voi. XIV. CLEVELAND, O., AUGUST 13, 1806. No. 7. --_--_ --_ "Three Immense Grain Cargoes, The Queen City, Coraha and W. D. Rees, three of the largest class of steamers on the lakes, all built in Cleveland during the past winter, carried away from South Chicago within two days 516,130 pushels of corn and 61,650 bushels of wheat, making a total of 577,- 780 bushels or 16,300 net tons. An idea of the volume of these cargoes may be had from the fact that it would require 54 miles of freight cars, making 27 trains of 30 cars each, to transport what-these steamers did. The cargoes were carried at a cost of an average of 14 cents a bushel. There was considerable rivalry among the masters of the vessels as to which would carry the largest load. The particu- lars as given out by the Chicago elevators are as follows: Queen City--205,500 bushels corn, 5,754 tons, 174 feet draft. W. D. Rees--124,500 bushels corn and 61,650 bushels wheat, 5,885 tons, draft not given. Coralia--186,130 bushels corn, 5,211 tons, 16 feet draft. It is unfortunate that the Coralia's cargo was for Fairport instead of Buffalo, as there is only 16 feet draft at the elevator at the former port, and her rival was enabled to load 14 feet deeper. Figuring com- paratively, the Queen City on the Coralia's draft would still have some 73 tons more cargo, this leaving them in about the same position as -before. The Queen City has the Babcock & Wilcox water tube boilers, while the Coralia, has Scotch boilers. The former are supposed to weigh from 60 to 70 tons less than the boilers in the Coralia. Steam Yacht Race, If nothing unusual arises two good-sized steam yachts will race at the Cleveland regatta Thursday afternoon. The yachts are the En- quirer owned by W. J. Conners of Buffalo, and the Say When owned by W. J. White of Cleveland. Both are self-made men, Mr. Conners having gained his wealth in the stevedore system and Mr. White having got his start in the chewing gum business. Both men are plucky in business ventures, and if either withdraws from the race it will be for good cause. Both believe implicitly in the speed of their yachts. The Enquirer was built during this-year, having come from the Union Dry Rock Company's yard recently. The Say When was built by the Herreshoffs at Bristol, R. I., in 1888, the hull being of mahogany, while the Enquirer is of steel. The particulars of the two yachts are as follows: Enquirer :--146 feet long, 174 feet beam, and 10 feet deep, having triple engines 104, 17 and 27 by 16 inches stroke, built by Hodge of Detroit, the boiler being of the water tube type, Taylor pattern and built by the Detroit Screw Works. Davidson Will Build Two Tugs. A Detroit correspondent writes as follows: While repair work is about all that is expected at this time at the different marine engine Works here, it is very gratifying to note an order that has just been Placed with the Frontier Iron Works by Capt. Davidson of West Bay City, for two complete outfits for tug boats. The engines are to be of the fore and aft compound type, cylinders being of 15 and 30 inches diameter by 26 inches stroke. Steam is to be furnished by boilers of 8 feet 6 inches diameter and 13 feet long, with a working pressure of 130 pounds, Independent condensers will be furnished as well as feed pumps, ete. The same firm are making considerable repairs to the Alanson Sumner, a small steam barge lately rebuilt from a tug of the same name, Engineer For the Chicago Ship Building Co. ee REVIEW has the pleasure of announcing the name of the new nding and designing engineer of the Chicago Ship Building Bee ee engine works, It is Mr. Henry Penton, at present oc- take tie a similar Position with 8. F. Hodge & Co., Detroit. He will ee new position the first of September. Plans are completed for eH Works, and work on them will commence soon. "sinning with a common school education, Mr. Penton served an apprenticeship as a machinist, afterwards taking up marine engi- neering, and has served as chief engineer of various lake and ocean steamers. He gave his spare time to study, whether afloat or ashore, and so acquired a knowledge of mechanical drawing. During two or three winters Mr. Penton was associated with the late H. W. Granger, M. E., of Detroit, really the father of the modern lake marine engine. For five years he was mechanical engineer to the Frontier Iron Works, whose work has become well-known not only on the whole chain of lakes, but on both seaboards. Some of the more remarkable engines that have come from his hands are the W. H. Gilbert, which is said to have beaten the famous Chemung; the Pacific coast steamship City of Everett; the Madagascar and Nicaraugua, whose performance made quite a stir, and the famous whaleback towing steamer Pathfinder. It is said of Mr. Penton and his engines that he has "been there" him- self and that his engines are designed not only to do their work cheap- ly but to be as convenient and handy for the engineer as possible. He is thirty-one years of age and has lots of time yet before him. Lake Freight Situation, Grain is moying pretty freely at Chicago at a little better figure. than is paid on ore, but otherwise the lake freight market is very quiet and is in practically the same condition it was a week ago. Chicago shippers are taking care of nearly all the wild Lake Michigan traders and only for the activity in that branch of the trade many of the wild carriers would be forced to lay up as ore cargoes are very scarce. Fur- nace men have in some cases notified ore sales agents that they will not want ore that they arranged for early in the season and shippers have in turn arranged to carry some ore that was covered by lake freight contracts over, and some of it may not be moved until next season, although it will all be brought down if dock room can be found for it. Ore is going forward to the furnaces very slowly and while shipments from the upper lake ports have been cut down mater- ially the docks at the receiving ports are filling up, and some of them are already in pretty bad shape. Rates are unchanged at 60 cents from -- ports at the head of Lake Superior, 50 cents from Marquette and 40 cents from Escanaba but very little chartering is being done. ' Coal boats are offered at 25 cents to all ports and boats from the head of Lake Superior are more plentiful than cargoes. Owing to the loss of time in getting cargoes for Lake Michigan owners of large lake steamers have sent their boats light to Chicago for corn at 1} cents. Several small vessels have been laid up during the past week, but others that were out of commission have started out again so that the number of boats in ordinary is about the same as it was last week. There is nothing in the outlook that indicates a change and everything points to a quiet freight market the balance of the month. A little grain is moving from the head of Lake Superior but not enough to cut any figure and owners do not look for an active demand for ton- nage from that quarter until next month. Winter's Work for the West Superior Yard. At the recent meeting of the board of directors of the American. Steel Barge Company, enough work was planned to keep the West Superior yard busy during the coming winter. Capt. McDougall is quoted as follows: "We have planned the building of a steamer 408 feet long, 48 feet beam, and 27 feet deep, to be in all all respects a duplicate of the John Ericsson, except larger. We will lengthen barges No. 201 and 202 which were brought from the Atlante coast by putting 61 feet in the middle of each one. We are to build a new dry dock 450 feet long by 100 feet wide at the top and 56 feet wide at the bottom with 19 feet of water over the miter sill. All of this has __ been approved by the board of directors and the money is ready to pay for it. Iam preparing plans and models for the large vessel, getting out details and estimates and doing other work in connection with the commencement of the ship.'? Work will be commenced as soon as there is assurance of a settled condition of the movey market. This may mean until the fall elections are over.