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" 26 THE Marine. REVIEW equal amount of money were spent to protect and stimul- ate our mercantile marine, now stifled by the competition _of foreign subsidized shipping. LAUNCH OF STEAMER LOFTUS CUDDY. The steamer Loftus Cuddy, building at the Lorain yard of the American Ship Building .Co. for Capt. John Mitchell, of Cleveland, was successfully launched on Sat- 'urday last. The new steamer was christened by Miss Ethel Cuddy, daughter of Mr. Loftus Cuddy, in whose honor the steamer was named. At the conclusion of the - launch the launching party repaired to the Union club as guests of the American Ship Building Co., where luncheon was served. In the launching party were Mr. and Mrs. Harvey D. Goulder, Mr. and Mrs. Herman A. Kelley, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Murfey, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hord, Mr. and Mrs. S..L.. Rolfe, Mr. and Mrs. A.'C. Dustin, Gen. and Mrs. George A. Garretson, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Whitelaw, Mr, and Mrs. H. P. McIntosh, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hall, Mr..and Mrs: George E. Collings, Mr. Milton F.. Dyer, Mr. L. Packer, Mr. J. A. Stuber, Miss Florence Osborne, Miss Helen Miller, Miss Louise Knapp, Rev. Dr. Ecorse yard of the Great Lakes Engineering Works on Satur- day next. - FREIGHT SITUATION, The lake freight trade has been unusually quiet with the exception that boats have still Ween. chartered to hold coal until the opening of navigation... Naturally. the weather has interfered even with this branch of the trade. The extremely cold weather has interfered with the move- ment of the vessels at the docks. However, a greater number of freighters will leave with coal on their. first trip than have ever leit before. A number.of the ore companies that usually do not carry coal will probably take some on the first trip, as there is likely to be quite a demand for that commodity at the head of the lakes when navigation opens. Nothing has been done in the ore trade since the last splurge in chartering, but the movement for the year is fairly well covered. It will be a natural thing to expect, however, that the wild movement this year will be some- what greater than last. The weather has interfered.-with the movement of ore from docks to furnaces, but as so great a proportion of last year's movement went directly LAUNCH OF THE STEAMER LOFTUS CUDDY. George A. and Mrs. McGrew,' Mr) iand Mrs. Alfred Mitchell, Miss Mitchell, Jack Mitchell, Edward T. Mitchell, Clarence Lanton, Miss Florence Oster, Mr. and Mrs.. Charles Morrison, Ralph Mitchell, John F. Wedow and the Misses Wedow, Capt. Charles B. Galton, Mr. Wm Fetting, Mr. and Mrs. Loftus Cuddy, Miss Ethel Cuddy, 'Brockman Cuddy, Jeffrey Cuddy, Alfred Kelly, Mr. James C. Wallace and Mr. Robert Logan. The.new steamer is 545 ft. over-all, 525 ft. keel, 55 ft. beam 'and 31 ft. deep. She has sixteen hatches spaced 24 ft. centers. Her engines are triple expansion with cylinders 22%, 36and6o0in. by 42in. stroke, supplied with steam from two Scotch boilers, 13 ft. 9 in. by 11 ft. 6 in., equipped with Ellis & Eaves draft. Her carrying capa- city will be 10,000 gross tons of ore. She will be sailed by Capt. Charles B. Galton, and her chief engineer will be Mr. Wm. Fetting. The steamer Wm, P. Snyder, building for the Shenango Steamship Co., of Cleveland, will be launched from the into cars, Lake Erie docks on May 1 will be comparatively free. of ore. The Lumber Carriers' Association has fixed the lum- ber rate at $2.50, but it is not known that any chartering has been done at that figure. UNDER GREAT LAKES REGISTER CLASSIFICA- TION. Of forty-three large steel vessels now under construction or contracted for in lake ship yards, twenty-six are to be built under supervision of the Great Lakes Register of Cleveland, and for class in the register. The eighth annual issue of the register, 1906 edition, is in the printer's hands and will be distributed to subscribers as usual about March 1. A branch office of the register under the direction of Mr. Hugh Calder- wood, formerly superintendent of the Collingwood Ship Build- , ing Co., has been opened in Toronto, and Mr. John T. Web-.- ster, late works superintendent of the Bertram Engine Works, is now connected with the engineering force at the Cleveland office.