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20 MARINE REVIEW. 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. Supscription--$3.00 per year in advance; foreign, including postage, $4.50, or 19 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 Matter. pe The old story is again afloat that negotiations are pending fora con- solidation of the interests of Vickers Sons '& Maxim of England and the Cramps of Philadelphia. Mr. Grant Browne of London is said to be in this country for the purpose of getting the Philadelphia firm to manu- facture the ordnance of the English firm. However, we shall see what we shall see. a Two great passenger steamers costing $650,000 each are building at Detroit. Francis J. Clergue, who has planned to spend $25,000,000 in various enterprises at the Sault and on the north shore of Lake Superior, and who has already spent a very large part of that sum, says he will soon open up the beauties of the north shore to tourists from all parts of the world. All of the existing passenger lines are badly in need of new ships. The passenger business of the lakes is entering upon a period of great development. It will be a natural and substantial growth. There's nothing in this wide world so fascinating as the romance of the great lakes. Some day it will be fixed in pigment and prose. The great Am- erican novel never will be written until it is written against the back- ground of these lakes. There's nothing so distinetly American as these unsalted seas. Niagara is only an infinitesimal part of them; and yet an innumerable caravan of poets and painters have each taken their separate fall out of Niagara. There's nothing which so fitly illustrates the indus- trial greatness of the United States as the commerce of these lakes. It is the country's great workshop. People are just beginning to grasp the advantages which the lakes have to offer for summer cruising. Those who have put hundreds of thousands of dollars into passenger boats might think that they have fairly realized them already. But they have not. They are only just beginning. When one man grasps a great prin- ciple it is seized upon by thousands of minds in all parts of the country almost simultaneously. This alacrity of comprehension is so instantan- eous as to lead one to believe in the existence of a universal mind, that things are never discovered but merely interpreted and that it is quite possible that two may interpret at the same time. Such reasoning may account for the fact that Gray and Bell reached the patent office the same day with the same invention. As soon as a great central fact is revealed to one man it is communicated to thousands. They seem to resolve its essential qualities from the very air itself. That's it, it's in the air. The picturesque quality of these lakes is just beginning to be understood. They were picturesque when the waters lapped nothing bigger than the sides of the Indian's birch bark canoe; they are fully as picturesque yet. Nothing stirs the primitive instinct of man as to be given a new land to explore. The north shore of Lake Superior is an untrodden wilderness. A passenger boat has just begun to nose along its bays and native har- bors. There are thousands of persons who are eager to spend money to see these sights. Not alone the north shore of Lake Superior, but the beauties of connecting rivers, thousands of islands and natural harbors in all parts of the upper lake region. It is quite likely that there may be developments in the strike of the engineers during the next two or three days, but at the present moment the situation is probably more complicated than it ever has been. With no substantial differences existing between the engineers and the owners it is unfortunate that the situation should have arisen. There is every reason to believe that it has been brought about against the wishes of Mr. Uhler, who is a very clear-minded gentleman. Last January the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association prepared a schedule of wages and classification of vessels for the consideration of the Lake Carriers' Association and gave it to Mr. Uhler to present to the vessel men. The singular thing is that the schedule-of wages is in some respects lower than that which has been paid by the vessel men. Mr. Uhler submitted it and awaited a reply. None was sent him until last Saturday when the following letter was posted: : "At its first regular meeting the executive committee has taken up the subject of your communication of Jan. 26, 1901, and the proposals therein set forth, as you were advised it would be, by the chairman and beg to say that this committee cannot discuss matters governing the mariagement and administration of vessels controlled by members of the Lake Carriers' Association, and must decline to take up the subject' of your communication as suggested. We may say, however, that on the opening of navigation there will be no change in the wage schedule adopted at the opening last year." 'What the engineers were contending for, more than the adoption of their schedule of wages or their classification of vessels, was the recogni- tion of their organization. This was one of the things that the vesse! men felt they could not do; but it is plain to be seen in the adroit phrase- ology of the letter a disposition to let the letter be taken as an inferred recognition and an opportunity to bring about the end of the strike in a dignified and honorable manner. It was felt that as there is no question of wages really existing it would present a respectable avenue for the return of the men. There is no denying the fact, however, that the situa- tion has been further complicated by the employment of engineers by some of the vessel men who were becoming restive as the season of navi- .gation neared. These men have doubtless been employed in good faith and doubtless will be retained. It is unfortunate that the situation should have arisen at a time when there was no real excuse for its existence and it is to be hoped that cool and capable reasoning on both sides will bring it to a speedy termination. : The secretary of war has issued orders for the manufacture of a number of 12-in. Krupp armor plates, 8 and 16 ft. in length, to be used in constructing a representation of.a side of a battleship to be used in tests that will determine the comparative effectiveness of the Gathmann tor- pedo gun. Duplicate structures will be erected from the plates, similar in every particular. Against one will be trained a modern 12-in. coast defense gun, throwing armor-piercing shells, which will be allowed ten shots. The inventor of the Gathmann gun, which expels a torpedo loaded _ with a high explosive, claims he can produce with one round as much destruction as can be done with ten rounds from an ordinary gun PROGRESS OF NAVAL CONSTRUCTION. The monthly*summary of naval construction ich i 1 V , which is the first tha ie Admiral Poles has tepid saee he became chief constructor oe e progress of the various battleships, cruisers and ip ae other war ships to be : Degree BATTLESHIPS. s fou oe Mar. 1. y THiMOIS 20... . cece eee eee eee seen Newport News 4.c¢6.s¢..c08 90 -- Maine ...........eeeereeeeeecneee Cramp & S0ne..-2 2 44 46 MisSOUFI ...........seseeeeeeeeeee Newport News .. 4:29) 25 28 OHIO... ee eee eee ee eee cee eee eee Union iron' Works 23234203. 39 39 WARGAMES As ie vation aoc as pete Newport News :<. 302225, 0 Nebraska ...........-+-ssee eee ees Moran. Bros: Coss. 0 } GeOreia esis fae one eek eee Bath Iron Works 0.6) 0 INOW ° ROTSOY oisics ccessaevieae Hore: River Co.) 3 ee 0 5 Rhode: Island 554.5 ove aces Wore; River Co.4-5.65.0. 0 ) ARMORED CRUISERS. Pennsylvania csc ede ees Cramp & Sons ...... West Virginia ..............+.0.- Newport News Cee Se ee : (Ofnibhion ab Panne Grrr Ce ae ers at Union tron Works o-3). 5 3 0 5 COlOTAd Oe ers eee cam ee cee Gramp @.Sons 40.2 far ee 0 ' Mia rey Lea dior ie. es alate Sacle cc bs Newport News "2. 6 0 ' NOUtH, WakOtac vans. cc crew ee te Union Iton Works <7 2 0 0 SHEATHED PROTECTED CRUISERS. DONV ED oe oe ea eee ee Neafie & Levy .......... ; DER MOINCS: occ ceccce ca cen ed as Fore River Engine Co: pee iy 3 Chattanooga iia oa vile eareee's Lewis: Nixonis..80. se 22 2 Galveston Sis cameron wate Goad wre a pata Wim. Ry Trigg Con 5s. 65s 15 i PRACOUIR Cie, sos bls ssh opieoon wae ence Union Iron Werks 3. 2. LT 17 Cleveland ............. sees eeees Bath Iron Works <0. 48 52 StS OWS ee Ree ae a Neaflo' & Levy 3). (ON Geet © 0 WWarleston 6 oes oe Newport News Hannes Og Ole ee. 0 MONITORS. PAT SQUSAIS Ricci ce cctt Gel aacins «aston s Newport News ......... 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Lawley: & Son ..i..2i0.s. a: 98 98 Nicholson Rs wae ba da ioe a bole hecses aewis: NIXON? 6.35.56 cr skes eee 85 86 O'Brien ...... cece ee gee cesses eens Mewis NIXON gcc casas ee eee 89 90 SUD RICK. (cee ay a lee vay cies Wim: Ro Trige: Coc | oo ae 97 97 THOrNton ......... ec eee eee eee eee Wins Ry Trige Coe. iis ns 96 97 MIDS OV a ciao sais eee orca es Columbian Iron Works 10: ..<i.6.005;3 68 68 AVTTROS cance s seco cain scene een Gas Engine & Power Co............... 77 78 SUBMARINE TORPEDO BOATS. PRINg@er ys. ee ees eee: Lewis Nixon ..... 5 ee bewisNigon 2 a cca ae GTAIIDUG 2 os) cee ent vines sic ars Union Iron 2Works: 0.314500. as 10 0022 MWDOCORIN irc sete ee vcaess csc: Lewis Nixon. so... eisavee ceo es 24 28 MAG ier ccc coe vest eee seat ss Union: Tron Works. 5.00506 3 oa oe 9 18 POU DOISO Corie. ceo ik ckndes cece Lewis Nixon 3203 i cc eae 18 24 DUMPIC coi vincean cs pias cones ucesee Lewis Nixon iccc. css. sore eee ie ee 16 22 It is announced from Pittsburg tl i g that Wm. E. Corey, general superin- tendent at the Homestead works and other Carnegie properties, mill in a few days be elected president of the C: i pee faye EG Slee p of the Carnegie Co., to succeed Mr, fApril lf, =- wait