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28 MARINE REVIEW. DEATH OF FRANK H. PEAVEY. Frank H. Peavey of Minneapolis, the largest cash handler of grain in the world and president of the Frank H, Peavey Grain Co., died very suddenly of pneumonia at the Auditorium annex in Chicago last Sunday afternoon. Two days before he had apparently been in robust health. His wife and daughter were present at his death. Mr. Peavey was fifty- two years old, and since he entered business, at the age of fifteen, he had prospered. His estate is supposed to be worth more than $5,000,000, and he leaves life insurance policies of $1,376,000 besides. A policy for $1,- 000,000 is made payable to himself or his heirs, but its purpose was the furnishing of ready capital for the Peavey Grain Elevator (Co. in case ot his death. The Peavey company is the largest grain company in the world. It is an institution which Mr. Peavey built up and in which his sons-in-law are junior partners. The headquarters is in Minneapolis, and there are branches in New York, Chicago, Duluth, Kansas City and Portland. Mr. Peavey was also president of the following elevator com- panies: Interior, Republic and Peavey of Minneapolis; Duluth, Grove, Belt Line, Peavey and Duluth Terminal of Duluth; Midland of Kansas City; Omaha Elevator Co., and the Peavey Elevator Grain Co. of Chicago. Mr. Peavey did not speculate, but he controlled more actual holdings of grain than any living man. The elevators and the grain company made him the most impressive figure in the grain field, and his influence reached into all the markets of the world. Outside of his tremendous business affairs, which included directorships in the Great Western and the Sault Ste. Marie railways and the Northwestern National Bank in Minneapolis, Mr. Peavey found time for charity and the cultivation of the social side of life. He was a member of the Union League and.the Chicago clubs of Chicago, and was a member of two Minneapolis clubs. He gave freely to charitable enterprises and the Peavey fund in Minneapolis is well known. To encourage newsboys to save their money he offered to deposit to their credit $1 for each $1 that they put in the bank themselves. Mr. Peavey was born in Eastport, Me., Jan. 18, 1850, "and when he was fifteen began his business career in Chicago as a bookkeeper in_the Northwestern National Bank. Two years later he went to Sioux City, Iowa, and began work for H, D. Booge & Co., wholesale grocers, pork packers, and. makers of farming implements. Before he was five years older he was a member of the firm and the name had been changed to Booge, Smith & Peavey. In the farming implement line he laid the foundations for the mammoth grain business that he called into being after he had bought out the interests of his partners. One of the most marked of his business characteristics was his alertness. He was always looking for a chance to increase his business, and one indication of his progressiveness was his institution of the Peavey steamship line, which includes many lake steamers and which is a valuable auxiliary of the grain trade. For navigation charts apply to the Marine Review. - miles from Honolulu. ' [January 2, DELIGHTED WITH PEARL HARBOR. The naval authorities are elated over the acquisition of Pearl harbor naval station site, the jury in the condemnation proceedings instituted last year having fixed $75 an acre as the price the government must pay for the Bishop estate of 600 acres on the south side of the harbor, about eight Rear Admiral Evans, who has just returned from assed by any naval station in the world. Its selection and the prosecution of the work in congress and elsewhere to give the navy the advantages Pearl harbor offers were due to the enter- prise of Rear Admiral Bradford, who has been unfaltering in his efforts to utilize the splendid opportunities it offered as the most commanding and least vulnerable strategic base in the entire Pacific ocean. At his instance the army engineers are now engaged in cutting the channel through the coral reef, and in a few months the first ships will be able to enter the harbor. The purchase of the land has been accomplished only after a tedious process at law, the land having been assessed at $10 an acre a few years ago, but last year its owners demanded $300. Admiral Bradford will now prepare estimates to be sent to congress asking authority to build a drydock and a few shops, and other bureaus of the navy will ask for appropriations. It is expected that the dock will be cut-out of the coral formation at an inlet which seems to have been pro- vided by nature for this purpose. The war department, has already sub- mitted to congress a project for the erection of batteries at the harbor entrance of a character to keep a hostile force at a safe distance. the Pacific, says the site is not surp Employes of the firm of George B. Carpenter & Co., 202-208 South Water street, Chicago, saw the New Year in in royal fashion. The sail loft, the scene of so much activity, had been cleared during the day, the workmen stispending operations at noon, and the evening was given over to enjoyment for everybody connected with the establishment. All of the 350 employes with their wives, sisters and other fellows' sisters, attended. Mr. and Mrs. George B. Carpenter and Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Carpenter received. The loft was gaily decorated with flags and bunting and pre- sented a most charming appearance. Luncheon was served as the New Year came in. ~ Excursion rates to Florida via Baltimore & Ohio R. R. and Wash- ington, D. C., passing through the beautiful cities of the south. Stop over: privilege allowed on all round trip tickets. Two fast trains leave Cleve- land daily at 3:00 and 11:20 p. m. Call at city ticket office, 241 Superior street. tf The American Bridge Co. has secured the contract for the steel.super- structure of the Wabash railway's cantilever bridge over the Ohio river at Mingo junction. The amount of the contract is over $600,000. The work is to be completed before Jan. 1, 19038. BELLEVILLE GENERATORS Grand Prix 1889 Originated 1849 Hors Concours 1900 Latest Improvements 1896 Number of Nautical Miles made each year by Steamships of the Messageries Maritimes Co., Provided with Belleville Generators--Since their Adoption in the Service. Year Australien | Polynésien Phen aie eee Chili Cordillére Laos Indus Tonkin Annam Atlantique 1890..:.....<.. 67,728 2,460 FBO Ea icceeces ee 68,247 68,331 204 1892. oss: 68,247 68,403 | 69,822} 23,259 $893.2 5.0055;: 68,379 68,343 | 68,286 | 68,247 LY 68,439 68,367 | 68,574] 68,439] 37,701 pe 68,673 | 68,766| 68,739] 68,808] 40,887] 28,713 1896.....0 02 69,534 82718; 69.696 | 69,549] 62,205; 63,153 | 40,716 1607... 68,250 69,606 | 92,736 | 69,555] 62,235 | 76,110 | 63,357] 43,146 $506.3. 70,938 69,534 | 69,552] 69,597} 62,526] 63,240] 63,240] 62,553 | 63,954 22,707 C80 a cca 69,534 69,615 | 67,431 90.405 | 60,246] 62,778] 62,868] 52,344] 54,855 44,007} 22,884 $900). ss, 69,534 67,494 | 69,744] 69,564 | 61,719 | 62,382), 62,502 |) 51,471 53,373 62,016 63,066 52,140 Total.......... 757,503 | 713,637 | 644,784 | 597,423 | 387,519 | 356,376 | 292,683 | 209,514 | 172,182 | 128,730] 85,950 | 52,140 ATELIERS ET CHANTIERS DE L'ERMITAGE, A ST, DENIS (SEINE), FRANCE. WORKS AND YARDS OF L'ERMITAGE. AT ST. DENIS (SEINE), FRANCE. TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS" BELLEVILLE, SAINT-DENIS-SUR-SEINE.