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20 MARINE REVIEW Devoted to the Merchant Marine, the Navy, Ship Building, and Kindred Interests. Published every Thursday at No. 418-19 Perry-Payne building, Cleveland, Ohio, by THE MARINE REVIEW PUBLISHING Co. SusscriPTION--$2.00 per year in advance; foreign, including postage, $3.50, or 15 shillings. Single copies 10 cents each. Convenient binders sent, post paid, $1.00. Advertising rates on application. Entered at Cleveland Post Office as Second-class Mail Matier. ESS SES I EE a ee An inland nation, hampered in little by tariffs, may have a multitude of markets but nevertheless has its limitations. The pendulum of trade has the greatest swing in the nation of maritime instinct. The world be- longs to the ocean carrier. The nation with a navy and a merchant marine is the nation which will enjoy the fruit of trade in the foreign markets of the world. Therefore the building of ships has a vital per- sonal interest for every inhabitant of a country with a coast line. It is folly to say that the only persons who profit from ships are those who build them and those who own them. Their influence is direct not only to the mariner but to the manufacturer and agriculturalist. 'Ships open the way to the consumption of the products of the factory and the field. The revival of ship building is the clearest indication of prosperity, but more important than all, it is the one great means of maintaining that prosperity. All hail, therefore, to the renaissance of ship building. It is a healthful sign that the United Kingdom last year constructed ships of 1,416,791 tons; it would be gratifying as well as healthful if the United States was second in this procession. The shipping bill would give a wholesome stimulus to the construction of cargo carriers. Its passage would directly benefit the two great divisions of industry in the country-- "manufacture and agriculture. The element of mystery has now crept into the armor controversy. Hints have been vaguely thrown out that a projectile has been invented that will pierce Krupp armor with the same ease that it pierces ordinary armor. The senate of the United States thought so much of the report that it went into secret session to discuss the armor plate clause of the appropriation bill--a thing unprecedented in the history of legislation. Senator Tillman, supported by several other senators, gave formal notice that he would move that the senate go into.secret session to dscuss the subject. It is understood that an official-of the navy department has in- vented a projectile that will penetrate Krupp armor. It is to prevent the knowledge of this process from reaching the intelligence offices of other nations that the subject is discussed behind closed doors. In this con- nection it is interesting to note a Washington news dispatch which says that with one of the soft metal-capped shells of American manufacture, developed by the naval ordinance bureau, a 6-inch naval rifle plugged a clean hole through a piate of Harveyized armor 14 inches thick. The gun had a velocity of 2,580 foot-seconds, si In the race against time across the ocean the British liners have succumbed to the nerve-destroying competition of the German lines. The tamburg-American line has not resied since the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of the North German Lloyd fleet smashed the ocean record. 'he Deutschland was built to wrest the prize from the North German Lloyd line. She is under contract to maintain a speed of 23 knots an hour and will give a demonstration of her ability in less than a month now. The North German Lloyd company is not waiting, however, for the result of the initial trip of the Deutschland. It takes it for granted that the con- tract will be fulfilled, for it thas already started upon the construction of a steamer which is designed to have a displacement greater even than the Oceanic and an engine power unapproached by any ship afloat. This new leviathan of the deep is already classed as the four-day boat. It is to be built by the Vulcan company at Stettin. The navy has been agitated from center to circumference during the past two weeks over the attempt to transfer the ocean surveys from the naval hydrographic office to the Coast and Geodetic Survey. The house, under the leadership of Representative Cannon, reduced the appropriation for ccean surveys in the naval appropriation bill from $100,000 to $10,000, which translated meant that the navy was not to make the surveys at all. The house program left the lakes completely in the lurch, because the coast survey does not include the lakes. The senate naval committee has restored the appropriation to $100,000 and the conference committees will now settle the controversy. The hydrographic office has a superb equipment; it understands thoroughly what the mariner needs; its charts are the standard charts of the world; its aids to navigation are the most precious bits of literature to the navigator; and viewed from whatever point one may, it would seem to be the course of wisdom to leave this work with the naval hydrographic office. The William R. Trigg Co., ship builders, Richmond, Va., writing to the Review say that they contemplate improvements in the way of new buildings, tools and real estate covering an expenditure of about $600,000. MARINE REVIEW. [May 10, FORILY PAGES REGULARLY IN THE MARINE REVIEW. With this issue another addition of four pages is made to the Marine Review and the regular issue in future will be forty pages every week. Our readers will therefore agree with us that we are justified in issuing the following circular to subscribers: "The Marine Review begs to inform you that beginning with June 1, 1900, the subscription price will be $3 per annum in the United States and Canada and $4.50 in foreign countries. It is a well recognized prin- ciple in newspaper making that the price of the publication must cover the cost of paper and press work, which enter into its composition--other- wise the more subscribers a paper would have the more it would lose. The Marine Review has grown to such proportions (double what it was eighteen months ago) that the cost of paper and press work in the indi- vidual copy is more than the price of it to the subscriber. This, in itself, is a most healthful sign, for it bespeaks a constant growth in the volume and variety of reading matter and illustrations. The Review has hesitated in taking this step, but the wholesome and healthiul increase in the cost of production has compelled it to do so. It is founded upon the soundest of business reasons, and, we hope, will ccmmeiid itself to your judgment." LAKE SUPERIOR FREIGHT MOVEMENT. On May 1 a year ago only a few small vessels had passed through the St. Mary's Falls canals. They carried no freight. This year there was moved through the canals to May 1 a total of 473,482 tons of freight. The opening was earlier than in 1899 but not as early as in 1898 when 710,366 tons of freight was moved through the canals in April. Follow- ing is the record of both canals (Canadian and United States) to May 1 of each year for three years past: VESSEL REGISTERED FREIGHT PASSAGES. TONS. TONS, To May 1; 1900........2.-.....0-- 427 539,191 473,482 Wo May i, 18900. ....2.c css. ce 42 10,280 ae To May 7 1808s. 0.0. .sc3.-- 856 735,713 710,366 MOVEMENT OF PRINCIPAL ITEMS OF FREIGHT TO AND FROM LAKE SUPERIOR. : To May 1,| To May 1, | To May I; ree: 1900. 1899. 1898. Coal, anthracite, net tons............... AS 242 iii. cecsssc ces: 3,600 Coal, bituminous, net tons............ TTT 4007 iii tec cccsesccetes 195,972 Tron Ore, wet TONS 6.206.622 61500502 0 sso 0 204 O08 |e icc icnsssec ices 282,314 Wheat, buShels.(00.5iic55. 6c... ccsecscss ee DSOLT O20 Gl siskestus secs ries 1,910,500 lOUiy HALON. 5..-.c cccsncc cen seeoes sees D100) ce tscseeccceusces 232,250 REPORT OF FREIGHT AND PASSENGER TRAFFIC TO AND FROM LAKE SUPERIOR, FROM OPENING OF NAVIGATION TO MAY 1 OF EACH YEAR FOR THREE YEARS PAST. EAST BOUND. ey To May 1,| To May 1,| To May 1, ITEMS. Designation. 1900. 1899. 1898. Copper a... Beis laa Net tons.... O74 esccsiswe Ge scics 7,097 Grain, other than wheat} Bushels..... 629 0002). sie aces, 8,019,455 Building stone............ Wet LORS psec cctecsccs | sp secera tees Seeealeete Sader ies Bourn fete iene Barrels...... OT O00 eer ite across es 232,250 TOM OG eed os Net tons... 20E B08 Shoes 282,314- TRON Pigs. es INet fons: Gf. cccesesudcetele aes Senin eRe guar see teen ak DMMDER sce ices. sores Me fteby tcl sees ecce eal oo ee eee 11,919 Silvervore: 2205. ois INGE ICONS sek eases aoe ss tsa ee ccloeny eo ee ann cose Wieat 2.5.02 08 52,0003 Bushels..... 2,041,627 |..... isl aeewes 1,910,500 Unclassified freight .....;Net tons... EO0S) ocr ee 10,780 Passengers. ...622.0305 62. ..| Number.... 129 cee ssase ee 100 WEST BOUND. Coal, anthracite......... .| Net tons... AOD a De cs 3,600 Coal, bituminous......... Net tons .. 409 nae 195,972 FIOUL ........0scscneee: ancees -| Barrels ..... Sia Basergannrrs Boece tes coon ae Sysri Grain ....:. Ce eres vie USHOIS.c.55 |e cscs e aes stcess Blecion Sescewesce 250 Manufactured iron...... Net tons... 1410 es 11,403 Salts. 428: widen deroie ee ee: |BATTEIS 2.03 DB OTT ea ase ee 12,156 Unclassified freight.....) Net tons... T5800 ee cce sou caccuse : 19,723 Passengers............ Rees Number ... TA Sehastaccssseanees 272 SUMMARY OF TOTAL FREIGHT MOVEMENT IN TONS. To May 1, 1900. | To May 1, 1899. To May 1, 1898. West bound freight of all kinds, net tons.............. 167,804 |...... ieee 233,800 Kast bound freight of all kinds, net tons...........: a SOS GTS ck sec seas bivees 476,566 (4040. Lo. 710,368 _ The mean level of Lake Superior in April was four-tenths of a foot higher than in 'April a year ago and about half a foot higher than. the average April stage for the twenty-six years from 1872 to 1897.