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TAE MarRINeE: REVIEW 21 remarkable trip, while the Dakota was fresh from the ship builders. The trip of the Hill liner was her initial voyage, and there was at the outset considerable nurs- ing to see that she performed well. The battleship Ore- gon had 1,111 more horse-power than the engines of the Dakota indicate, and the warship sat lighter in the water. The Oregon made the trip through the Straits of Magellan, while the Dakota went clear around. the Horn. so Possibly the most remarkable showing in the com- parisons is the fact that the Dakota ran from New _ York to Coronel without stopping an hour for any pur- pose. Her propellers made 2,760,000 revolutions with- out a stop. The only stops made by the big liner were at Coronel for coal, and at San Francisco to discharge cargo. When the Oregon went to the Atlantic'to join Sampson's fleet she put in at San Francisco, Callao, Port Tamar, Rio Janiero, Bahia and Barbados. These stops, with the detours she made to avoid contact with the Spanish fleet, ae her mileage. While the on the run, the actual fuel cost was much less. The Oregon burned Comox, Cardiff and English coals, cost- ing an average of $11.96 per ton. She constmed 4,203 tons, making a total cost for the voyage of $50,267.88. The Dakota, burning Pocohontas and Coronel coal, costing an average of $3.27 per ton, used 7,602 tons, at an aggregate expense of $44,858.54. The Oregon made an average of 3.48 knots per ton of coal con- sumed; the Dakota, 1.96 knots. The Oregon started March 6, 1808, and arrived May 24. The Dakota sailed April 28, 1905, arriving June 27. The Oregon steamed 14,511 knots; the Dakota, 14,879; the former making an average of 11.16 knots per hour and the latter 12.46. The best day's run of the Oregon was 350.4 knots, while the Dakota's best record was 350.3 knots; the Oregon's average speed per hour that day being 14.6 knots, and the Dakota's 14.596 knots. A comparison of size and horse-power for the two boats gives an interesting showing. The Oregon's length of 348 ft.; the Dakota, 630 ft. The beams are respectively 69 ft. 3 in. and 73 ft.6in. The Oregon has a depth of 27 ft. 6 in.; the Dakota, 56 ft. The aver- age displacement of the Oregon is 11,137 tons; the - Dakota, 27,220. The horse-power of the battleship is 11,111, and of the Hill liner, 10,000. Respectively the average mean draught is 24 ft and 28 ft. 6 in. CHICAGO GRAIN REPORT Chicago, Sept. 19--Grain freights were rather dull at the opening of week but the apparent winding up of the Septem- ber corn deal developed a quick call for vessels and rates' advanced to 1% to 134 cents Buffalo corn. The call, while of somewhat intermittent character, has good undertone and barring any excess of vessel offerings the new basis presages an attractive fall market. Line steamers about fully occupied in package freight handling--the flour shipments of past week aggregating some 212,000 bbls. and the lake proportion establishing the season's best record. - Shipments of the past week as reported by E. J. Fleming & Co. were distributed as follows: Via all rail lines of flour, 72,715 bbls.; wheat,' 153,880 bu.; corn, 216,230 bu., and oats, 686,925 bu. "Via lake to Buffalo and other American ports, of 'flour,:'132,900 bbls:; wheat, 40,000 bu.; corn, 1,223,799 bu., and. oats, 140,000 "bu.. And' via lake to Canada points, of dai, 2540 bbls.; "corn, 182,000 bu., and oats, 418,000 bu. Laken and, Rail. 'Shipments : Seale Week : _ This week. Last week. last year. Witeat® Oo 103, 883 201,116 460, 604 COs 1425 20) ees 1,622,360 2,496,385 2,534,393 Oats sce eee 1,245,600 946,825 632,012 RYV6: 6 ea '14,064 38,712 9,559. Batley <5 ee 100,108 ° 73,9019 65,177 3,176,921 3,750,957 3,701,745 Blout.: 7 ee. 212,421 (bbls.) 164,907_ 75,448 : : | Since Jan. 1, : Sains time 1905. last year. Wheat? .4 9,660,859 10,489,879 Core init. as ee. 69,135,901 52,121,545 Oats: is ha as 38,658,141 -- 33,003,626 RYC. oa ele Oe ae 751,509 888,220 Batley te 2,826,754 2,966,291 121,033,224 99,469,561 Plour oo 4,410,291 (bbls.). 5,320,852 Stocks of Grain in Elevators: : Same week This week.. Last week. last year. Wheat <2... cece, 5,426,000 5,267,000 4,707,000 Cotte 2 ee 4,175,000 .. 3,512,000 5,416,000 -- Oats: vee es 9,263,000 8,679,000 9,915,000 River 25 Shr ee eG 163,000 147,000 703,000 Batley 3.345 89,714 Z 83,714 ' 107,000 19,116,714 17,688,714 | 20,848,000 ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST Mr. W. S. Newhall, who recently resigned as chief engi- neer of the Wabash, is now with the McMyler Mfg. Co. of Cleveland. The tug H. P. Abbott of the Union Tug Co., which 'was burned last year at Duluth, has been rebuilt and is again in commission. The tug Seaman owned by the Crawford Tug Co: burned to the water's edge at Cape Croker near Wiarton, Ont., last week... Howard's Ship Yard, Jeffersonville, Ind., will build a car transfer for the St. Louis Transfer Co. The transfer will have a capacity for twelve loaded cars. . The Indiana Transportation Co., Michigan City, Ind., will build a new passenger steamer to be operated between Michi- gan City and Chicago. The plans for the steamer, however, have not as yet been drawn. The huge wooden dry dock built for the New Orleans Dry Dock & Ship Building Co., which has been in con- struction at Orange, Texas, for the past nine months has been taken to New Orleans. The dock is 242 feet long and 96 feet wide. <4 The steel tug Monocacy which the Maryland Steel Co., is building at Sparrow's Point, for the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co., is nearing completion. The tug is 170 ft. over all; 163 ft. keel, 29 ft. beam and 18 ft. depth of hold. She is equipped with triple-expansion engines 'with cylinders 18, 28 and 45 in. diameter by 30 in. stroke, supplied with steam from two Scotch boilers, 12 ft. I in. diameter by 12 ft. 6 in. long. She will be used for deep- sea work between New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Providence, and is equipped with every modern conveni- ence: