The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

1903-] MARINE REVIEW AND MARINE RECORD. 2§ SUMMARY OF NAVAL CONSTRUCTION. The monthly summary issued by the bureau of construction and repairs of vessels under construction for the United States navy shows fair progress on all vessels of the larger class. 'The New York navy yard is making headway with the Connecticut having gained 3 per cent. during the month. 'The Newport News company with the Louisiana did no better than this, though it is further advanced, having had an earlier start. The armored cruiser West Virginia is 48 per cent. completed and is to be launched during the present week by the Newport News company The torpedo boats are practically in the same condition that they have been for months. Following is the summary: : Degree of completion. Per Cent, Name. Building at Mar. Apr. Battleships. . : PrsOUrl, ....... Newport News Co. 87 00 OWI... s ee ss Union Iron Works qo 9 Wiroinia......... Newport News Co. 21 26 Mepraska.:...... Moran Bros. Co. 16 17 eorgia..;..-.+% Bath Iron Works 21 22 New Jersey..... Fore River Ship & Engine Co. a9 33 Rhode Island.... Fore River Ship & Engine Co. 28 31 Connecticut aks Navy Yard, New York I 4 LOutsiatia.... <.- Newport News Co. 3 6 Armored Cruisers. Pennsylvania.... Cramp & Sons 45 + 47 West -Virginia... Newport News Co. M5 48 Peuformia....... Union Iron Works 22 24 Colprado.. 2... Cramp & Sons 48° 50 Maryland: ... <.. Newport News Co. aA. | 45 South Dakota... Union Iron Works BA 5 3 Seonrssee.-..... Cramp & Son ° o Washington..... New York Ship Building Co. Oo oO Protected Cruisers. ee. Neafie & Levy 86 88 Des Moines..... Fore River Ship & Engine Co, 80 82 Chattanooga..... Lewis Nixon 68 71 Galveston....... Wim. R. Trigg Co. 66: -66 acon 2, ces Union Iron Works 6G. 9 Clevyeland.,..... Bath Iron Works 92 94 wt, Louis........ Neafie & Levy 14 16° Milwaukee...... Union Iron Works 12 14 Charleston, ...; . Newport News Co. 31 33 : Monitors. : maorigas. oy. Lewis Nixon 98 99 : Torpedo Boat Destroyers. FIOpKINS,....... Harlan & Hollingsworth Co. 06°. 506 McDonough..... Fore River Ship & Engine Co. 98 08 : Torpedo Boats. Sirinehae.... 2s. Harlan & Hollingsworth Co. 98 98 Goldsborough... Wolff & Zwicker 99 99 - Pokey... .:.:. Geo. Lawley & Son 5 OO Nicholson....... Lewis Nixon 98 = 98 OBrien: o. :. Lewis Nixon 98 = 98 Peeey. ok. Columbian Iron Works 94 95 Submarine Torpedo Boats. Paaneer ss vc Lewis Nixon 99 99 TPIDUS, 5s as Union Iron Works 92 (94 De) ian Union Iron Works mo 93 FOrpoise, ... +. ss Lewis Nixon Eo 99 2 90 rere shes sss Lewis Nixon 99 99 : Steel Tugs. Pentucket. ...... Navy Yard, Boston 33. 60 Steel Tug... .... Navy Yard, Mare Island Oo A PRODUCTION OF OPEN-HEARTH STEEL. The American Iron & Steel Association has secured from the manufacturers complete statistics of the production of open- hearth steel in the United States in 1902. 'The total production of open-hearth steel ingots and castings in the United States in 1902 was 5,687,729 gross tons, against 4,656,309 tons in IQOI, an increase of 1,031,420 tons, or over 22 per cent. As compared with 1808 five years ago, when the production of open-hearth steel amounted to 2,230,292 tons, there was an increase in 1902 of 3,457,437 tons, or over 155 per cent. The following table gives the production of open-hearth steel ingots and castings, by states since 1899: 1899. 1900. 1901. 1902. States. Gr.tons. Gr.tons. Gr.tons. Gr. tons. Dew Fooland .. .. .- 57,124 74,522 170,876 179,923 mh york & N. Jersey .«. 61,461 67,301 . 82,085 92,763 Pennsylvania .... ...- 2,393,811 2,699,502 3,594,763 4,375,304 Me vitae 117,458 130,191 184,043 278,854 Ct 246,183. 285,551 . 390%,522 . 435,40! (ther states ..... oe 71,279 141,008 224,220 325,364 ee a ce: 2,047,316 3,398,135 4,656,309 5,687,729 The open-hearth steel made in 1902 was produced by ninety- eight works in sixteen states--Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Dela- ware, Maryland, Tennessee, Alabama, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Missouri. Ninety works in fourteen states made open-hearth steel in 1901. The states which have open-hearth furnaces, but which did not produce steel by this process in 1902, were Kentucky and Minnesota. 'The erection of a large open-hearth steel plant was begun in Colorado in 1902, but open-hearth steel had not been made down to the close of the year. This state will, however, probably make open-hearth steel during the year 1903. Maryland and Michigan again made open-hearth steel in 1902. In Ig01 3,618,993 tons of open-hearth steel were made by the basic process and 1,037,316 tons were made by the acid pro- cess, while in 1902 the production by the basic process amounted to 4,496,533 tons and by the acid process to 1,191,196 tons. In the following table the production by states of both acid and basic steel in 1902 is given. ine Basic open- Acid open- Total. States--Gross tons. hearth steel. hearth steel. Gr. tons. New England ...... face 110,961 68,962 179,923 N. York RON Jersey 54,200 - 38,467 92,763 Pennsylvania See ee ae 3,459,702 915,662 4,375,304 POO eet oe tee 195,700 83,154 278,854 VIRHOIS We a ee 384,951 50,510 435,461 Other 'states. 0. 290 34,441 325,304 Totals 3 2, eo ee 4,496,533 1,191,196 5,687,729 The increase in the production of acid steel in 1902 as compared with 1901 was 153,880 tons, or almost 15 per cént., while the increase in the production of basic steel was 877,540 tons, or Over 24 per cent. a The total production of open-hearth steel castings in 1902, included above, amounted to 367,879 gross tons, of which 112,- 404 tons were made by the basic process and 255,475 tons were made by the acid process. In 1901 the production of open-hearth steel castings amounted to 301,622 tons, of which 94,941 tons were made by the basic process and 206,681 tons by the acid process. The following table gives the production of open-hearth steel castings by the acid and basic processes in 1902, by states, in gross tons: Acid Basic Total. States--Gross tons. castings. castings. Gr. tons. New Eng.,.N. Y¥. and oN. J..;2.-. 6331866 292888). 3704s Pennsylvania: 26. sen ee oes 141,385 II,OI4 152,399 Ohio, Illinois and other states .. 80,932 97,507 178,439 LOUGh cs en ee ~~ 268.478. AL2404 3 407.e7@ HAMMERING THE 1,000-BARGE PROPOSITION. The New York Sun is publishing a column a day against the 1,000-ton barge proposition which is to be submitted to the people of New York state this fall. It says pooh-pooh, and likewise fudge, to the argument that trade is being diverted to southern ports which geographically belongs to New York. It says the real reason that Baltimore is getting the grain trade is that it has elevators and New York has not. It asks the farmers of New York if they are going to spend $100,000,000 'merely to see the grain of western states pass through New York without adding a single penny to their income. Already it is clear that an effort is to be made to line up the farmers against the proposition. Certain agricultural nelwspapers are also coming into the chorus and insisting that as the canal is a national highway it should be constructed by the nation and not by one state. 'The opposition of the railways is at present veiled, though it is expected to become active. The railways really have nothing to fear from the canal. Their trade will not be dimin- ished. 'The railways have not diminished the number of vehicles on the pike road; nor will the number of vessels on the canal diminish the traffic of the railways. It will simply bring into being trade which does not now exist. Have the 2,000 or more vessels on the great lakes lessened the railway traffic of the lake region? 'They have literally expanded it by creating a trade which the railways could never handle but which has a multi- plicity of subsidiary trades which are the very life of the railways. A new avenue of transportation, if practical and adequate, cannot do anything else than expand and develop commerce, and yet to read the arguments against the canal one would think that it would annihilate commerce. The proposition which is to be submitted to the people of New York this fall is the only practical method of connecting the lakes with the ocean by an all-American waterway. Marquette, Bessemer & Dock Navigation Co. is the name of the new corporation, understood to be a part of the Pere Mar- quette railway system, that has taken over the car ferries Shenango No. 1 and Shenango No. 2, and that is to operate them in coal trade on Lake Erie, together with dock property at Con- neaut, O. The transfer is from A. C. Huidekoper and the United States & Ontario Steam Navigation Co., and it would seem from the papers involved in the transaction that the new - company will later put on a third ferry to be operated in con- nection with the Shenangos, | |