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THE Marine REVIEW | 23 9.2 in. guns, thirty-seven smaller guns, and five torpedo tubes. The new battleship carries 900 tons of coal and a crew of .865 officers and men. She will have cost about $7,500,000 when completed. INTERCOASTAL CANAL. New Orleans, June 25, 1906:--The movement for an intercoastal canal to connect Donaldsonyille, on the Mississippi river, with the mouth of the Rio Grande, was launched at a big meeting of delegates from the various sections interested which was held at Lake Charles, La., several days ago. The convention endorsed the project and organized an association to take the fight before the national congress in an effort to secure an appropriation for the work. The canal in contemplation will be some- thing like 700 miles in length and about 60 feet in width. Committees were named to agitate the matter, collect the necessary data to support the claim before congress and to solicit funds to aid the movement.- It was stated that Mary; S. Locke Breaux, New Orleans; Walter J. Burke, New Iberia; E. P. Munson, Napoleonville and C. C. Duson, Crowley. Texas--C. A. Summers, Cuero; Walter Q. Gresham, Galveston; J. B. Baker, Waco; Hugh S. Jackson, Beau- mont; G. J. Palmer, Houston; Royal A. Givens, Corpus Christi. IMMIGRATION PROBLEM AT NEW ORLEANS. New Orleans, June 25, 1906:--After months of -delay the immigration station problem at New Orleans has at last'assumed definite shape and there is a probability that within a very short time the board of port commissioners will be in a position to build the station. In fact, arrange- ments have already been made whereby the commission will build the station provided it is given the authority by the general assembly of the state to devote part of the funds at its command to that purpose. 'There is little doubt that this authority will be given for the reason that THE BARGE MANILA ENROUTE. TO THE DRY DOCK AT TOLEDO AFTER HER EXPERIENCE IN THE GREAT STORM OF LAST NOVEMBER ON LAKE SUPERIOR. approximately $15,000 would be raised in the two states and that with this money bureaus would be established all along the' proposed route with a view to gathering all the necessary data which will be needed in the cam; paign it is purposed to make in favor of the canal. The estimated cost of such a canal will be in the neighbor- hood of $8,000,000. Among those who participated in the business trans- acted by the convention were Hon. Jared Y. Sanders, lieutenant governor of Louisiana; Congressman J. E. Rans- dell, A. P. Pujo and R. F. Broussard, of Louisiana; Con- gressman Walter Gresham of Texas, State Senator A. B. Davidson of Cuero, Texas, and a goodly number of other prominent men from both states. Before adjourning the convention named a committee from each state interested and organized a permanent association to carry on the work in hand. The officers of the association are: C. S. E. Holland, Victoria, Tex., president; H. L. Gueydan, Gueydan, La., first vice pres- ident; R. A. Cowert, Dallas, Tex., second vice-president. These are the men -- both states named on the com- 'mittee: Louisiana--Leon Locke, Lake Charles; E. A. 'Phare St. there is a unanimity of opinion with regard to the station and practically everybody is wholly and entirely in favor of it. The port's need for such a station has been empha- sized on many occasions and the plan of the dock board will in all probability meet with no opposition at all. A conference between Col. Schuler, the state commissioner of immigration and agriculture and the dock board was responsible for the step taken by the dock board in the matter and now all that remains to be done is for the board to secure the necessary authority from the general assembly of the state. This, it is believed, will not be hard to secure. The station will cost in the neighbor- hood of $15,000. In connection with this same matter it might be men- tioned that Wisner & Dressner of this city have offered to build the station at a cost of $15,000 provided it is given the exclusive advertising privileges inside the sta- tion. The reason for making the offer, it was stated, was because the firm was deeply interested in the reclama- tion of swamp and wet prairie land about New Orleans and very desirous of getting in touch with the agricul- tural element which would be represented in the immi- gration attracted.