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of the Great Lakes Engineering Co. and now in service on about 100 boats on the lakes. The Ray system of telegraph from bridge to engine room will be used. The electrical fixtures, with the excep- tion of those in the parlor, dining room and state rooms will be of the ordinary J. H. SHEADLE. marine type, but in these rooms a new design of the Colonial type, specially de- signed, will be used, the woodwork har- monizing. 'Capt. J. M. Johnston will command the new steamer and Thomas Durkin will be her chief engineer. MEDITERRANEAN TRADE. . Statistics relating to the maritime movements in the port of Genoa in the ' iyear have recently. been pub- ' lished. and inward, there were 123795 move- -ments, representing altogether 12,990,- '197 registered tons; compared with the year 1904, this is an increase of 519 ships and 910,501 tons. :The total amount of, cargo discharged in the port was 4,781,739 'tons, tons were shipped, being an increase over the previous yeat of about 210,- 000 and 40,000 tons respectively. 1905 In the total traffic, outward : and 839,271 - TAE Marine REVIEW The Italian flag had. the largest share in the traffic of the port, the British came second, the Greek third and the German fourth, Accompany-. ing the statistics are some particulars respecting the shipping companies connected with Genoa. The Lloyd Italiano -- a com- pany formed in 1904 -- raised. its capital last year to twenty. million lire, and commenced. operations in Sep- tember with four steamers -- two of them running to New ~ York ain d two to Brazil and Argentina. These boats intended principally for the emigrant tra ffi ¢, but four .-others, two of them being rapid steamers of about 8,000 tered tons, are now in course of con- struction'~at. (Riva Trigoso "and Gias- gow. The assets of the Italia Steam- ship Co. a crea- tion of the Ham- bu + 2 American line -- have been as already stated. appropriated by the Navigazione Gen- erale Italiana, and this company has taken over the coasting . trades, in, the Adriatic Sea for- merly worked by the Italia company; the Italia, there- fore, now only runs boats to Argen- are tina. No dividend was paid by the Italia company for: the year: 1905 the line to Argentine ports was worked with a profit, but the loss sus- « tained by the Meditérranean line counterbalanced the gain in the other. The receipts" of the .three other large Italian shipping companies were | ona. satisfactory scale;, they all. did an active business both as regards pas- sengets and cargo. iano: has already paid a five per cent. div- idend for the year 1905, the Navigazi- one. Generale one. of 8% per cent and the Veloce 5 per cent. In _ order to increase and. modernize its fleet, the Navigazione Generale is having eight steamers built and has also purchased two. new.. boats--the . British... Prince and the British Princess--and in order to accomplish this increased -its capi- regis- - The.; Lioyd, Ttal-", a3 tal last year by 21,000,000 lire. Of the eight steamers being built, six are in- tended for the trans-Atlantic trade and two for the Levant service. For the . Veloce company three new boats, built in Italian yards, were launched during the year under review, and another of 6,500 tons is now on the stocks in a Sicilian yard: The plan. matured by the Navigazione Generale last year for ' starting a new line to the west coast of South America and Japan has not yet been carried out. As regards for- eign shipping companies trading with Genoa,' the Ocean line of Antwerp has: established a ten-day service to Genoa: and. southern. Italy. On the other hand, the Blue Cross line of Liverpool has suspended its service to Genoa and. thé south of Italy. The Austrian Shipping Co., Austro-Ameri- cana, has also ceased «calling at Genoa on its voyages from Trieste to Central America and the West Indies. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. Although no mention was made of it in the daily press, it now appears that the Conneaut Hulett machines have another good record to their eredit. The Empire City passed De- troit both ways within thirty-seven hours and a half after unloading, 6,275 tons of ore at Conneaut. It took five hours to take off the cargo, and con- sidering the boat's old style construc- tion, the record is an excellent one. Arthur. Wesley Allen, of Detroit, who is steward' on the steamer John W. Moore, has just passed his fortieth year as a sailor, having started in as pantryman on. the old _ passenger steamer St. Louis. He was. fourteen years of age at the time. He after- wards sailed in the Mayflower, Roa- foKe,, Milton). Ward. vce | 1s. Craig, Robert Holland, Dove and later on the Castalia, where he re- mained for four years with the late Cc, CoAtlen. : Sixty-four years of. age and one of the best men on the lakes, is. the opin- ion expressed about Tim McCarthy, watchman on the steamer Howard L. Shaw. He has been sailing on her since she came out and he puts in the winters on.an 8o-acre farm at Sanilac, Mich. . At this advanced age, Mr. McCarthy is credited with the ut- most daring in fulfilling the duties of his Robert Mullen, _ his brother-in-law, and Jimmie Mullen, his nephew, are both decking on the Shaw and learning how to steamboat under his direction. Sailing to these position. -three is not only a means of making money, but also an "interesting an! healthful occupation. The Shaw un- loaded at Ashtabula this week.