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DEVOTED TO EVERYTHING AND EVERY _ INTEREST CONNECTED OR ASSOCIATED WITH MARINE MATTERS ON THE FACK OF THE EARTH. Published every Thursday by The Penton Publishing Co. CLEVELAND. 'NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA PITTSBURG ~ _ CINCINNATI aa: -- _ BOSTON _ DULUTH » CHICAGO © 'Correspondence on Marine Engineering, Ship Building and Shipping Subjects Solictted. Subscription, $3.00 per annum. To Foreign | Countries, $4.50. "Subscribers can have addresses changed at will. Change of astesdtie copy must reach this office on Thursday preceding date of publication. The Devoid News Co. will supply, the trade with the MARINE REVIEW through the regu- lar channels of the American 'News Co. European Agents, The International News Com- pany, Breams Building, Chancery Lane, _ London, E. C. England, Entered at the Post Office at Cleveland, Ohio, as Second Class Matter. OCTOBER II, 1906. _' CANADIAN SHIPPING SUBSIDY. Under the general title of mail sub- the the following appropriations for the ensu- sidy and steamship subventions Dominion of Canada has voted ing year: MAIL SUBSIDIES AND STEAMSHIP SUBVENTIONS. Canadian-Great Britain mail service re 275,000 Seven other services to Great Britain. 108, "000 peonada: and Australian cui ccs cee oes 152,357 Canada and New-Zealand i... 6.005. 37,500 Canada, and South Africa'. 220 6% 109,500 Caneda.and= MEXICO, 3.55. . bes es kos: 77,500 St. John and Halifax to West Indies Amid Souther Aimenica 46k... fi oka. Four services on the Pacific coast.... 17-325 Service to Pelee Island, Ont........ 1,500 Twenty-nine services between Quebec and Maritime Province ports, New- : OUM aA CLC ise as 5S noth sok 180,981 OPA ek es oe eee oak $1,020,188 That Britain subsidizes her shipping is, according to British papers, "an his- What is the difference be- tween this appropriation and subsidy? Does anyone pretend that the small space occupied by the mails aboard a toric lie." steamer is worth any such sum of money? Yet the sum of $1,020,188 is "THE MARINE REVIEW the. Dominion alone. Add to this the appropriations of Bri- appropriated by tain herself and her other colonies and we get a respectable sum indeed. AN OPEN LETTER TO SECRETARY OF STATE ROOT --We are very much interested-in the building up of American shipping in the foreign trade. In view of the fact that you were compelled to use an American warship to suitably convey you directly to Brazil, on your recent tour of the South American countries, or that otherwise you would have been compelled as American passengers and American goods are, to be first. conveyed to Europe, and thence to Brazil, we feel sure that you, too, must be deeply impressed with the the upbuilding of our foreign-going mer- Besides, leading business need of adequate legislation for chant marine. the Brazilian officials and men must have told you, as American am- bassadors and consuls to that country have long -been telling our people, that existing steamship communication between the United States and Brazil is antiquated, irregular, excessively costly, and quite unsatisfactory. They must have told you, as they have tried to make clear, over-and over. again, to the American people, their désire for closer commercial relations, and they must have pointed out that until regular sailings of commodious, large be- inaugu- and swift American steamships tween the two countries are rated, such closer relations are impos- sible. You must have learned that, despairing of persuading the United States to do the right thing in the 'es- tablishment of an American line of steamships, the Brazilians themselves, although not a maritime people, have become so deeply impressed with the need of better service, that they, have but recently placed a fleet of steam- ship on the line. If you were correct- ly informed, you must know that these are indifferent steamships, as to size and speed, and not likely to build up the larger trade awaiting the inaugu- ration of a first class American line. Doubtless our goods, learned that most of destined for Brazil, there via Europe. you reach Equally impressive must have been your observations and information in the Argentine Republic and in Uru- guay, when you reached the Rio de la Plata, as to the pressing need of at least one direct line of American steamships between the United States' You must have been deeply impressed with and: that section: of the world. the vast commerce conducted with the rest of the world' by the Argentinians, and the fact must have been clear to you that an equally important and profitable trade awaits the establish- ment of an American line. Perhaps you were not informed, but the files of the department of state will prove to you, that for a matter of ten or fif- teen years the Argentine Republic re- peatedly offered a subsidy of $100,000 a year, provided the American govern- ment would pay an equal subsidy, to a direct line of American steamships of adequate size and speed between the two countries. Of course, you know, our government did not accept the generous offer thus made. : When you reached Chili, doubtless one of the first things that you were told by the Chilian officials was that they had deputized one of. their most prominent citizens to come to the United "States 'to induce our govern- ment, if possible, to agree to join with Chili tt American line of large, establishing a subsidized swift ships to run between Chilian ports and Pan- ama, in order to increase the trade between the two countries. That offi- cial, understand, is still United States, temporarily filling the office of consul general, "we in the and located at Pittsburg, but only awaiting a fav- orable opportunity to open negotia- tions respecting the establishment of such a line. Doubtless you saw the vast trade carried on by the Chilians - with other parts of the world, and were informed. of the desire of the people of that country for steamship communication, direct in regular