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'amount of repairs to wooden vessels. - 20 | MARINE REVIEW. ANCHOR LINE BOATS---SHIP YARD NOTES. As announced a few weeks ago, the Erie & Western Transit (Anchor line) of Buffalo is to have two new steel steamers completed for the opening of navigation in 1903. A meeting of officials of the com- pany was held in Detroit during the Lake Carriers' convention to. B° over plans of the ships, which have been prepared by Mr. Frank E. Kirby of Detroit. Messrs. Frank J. Firth, E. T. and J. C. Evans were eave and Mr. John Marron of Cleveland and C. W.: Payne of Erie were a i. called into the conference. The ships will very probably be built by the American Ship Building Co. The Review will very probably print plans of these vessels later on. One will be a passenger and freight steamer for Lake Superior service, and the other a freight steamer of 5,000 to 5,500 tons capacity for Lake Michigan trade. The more expensive vessel for Lake Superior trade will have about 100 staterooms for passengers with about 3,500 tons freight capacity. It is also the intention of the company to erect a freight house on valuable Detroit river front property pur- chased about a year ago. It was decided at the annual meeting of the Dry Dock Association of the Great Lakes, held in Cleveland a few days ago, to continue in force the dock charges of the past year and the same rules and regulations. The following officers were elected: J. C. Wallace, Cleveland, president; Ed- ward Smith, Buffalo, first vice-president; W. W. Watterson, Chicago, sec- ond vice-president; James E, Davidson, Bay City, secretary and treasurer. A steel lighter, to be stationed at Detroit, will be built by the Great Lakes Towing 'Co., and it is the plan of the company to enlarge and im- prove its wrecking facilities. The lighter will be equipped with a 6-ton McMyler derrick and other appliances for wrecking work. The company will also fit up two lighters now in use with derricks and clamshell buckets. They will be stationed at the Soo. . The oil tank steamer to be built by the Craig Ship Building Co. of Toledo is for the Sun Co. of Pittsburg. which company recently purchased the steamer Paraguay for Texas oil trade. The new vessel is to be a duplicate of the Paraguay and will be built for the highest class of Bureau Veritas for the world's trade. Edward Gaskin of Buffalo, who represented - the Pittsburg interests in the purchase and rebuilding of the Paraguay, is also to 'represent them in the construction of this. wessel oNie Gaskin was recently appointed Buffalo representative of 'the British Corporation for the Survey and Register of Ships. E. C. Recor, Marine City ship builder, has contracted to build a wooden hull for the engine and boiler of the steamer T. S. Faxton, which was destroyed by fire at that place last fall. Dimensions of the craft are not given, but she will no doubt be somewhat larger than the Faxton. The cost is put at $25,000. Capt. Samuel Neff of Milwaukee has let a contract to Johnson Bros. of Ferrysburg, Mich., for the construction of a Scotch type boiler to be placed in the steamer W. P. Ketcham. The boiler will be a duplicate of the one in the steamer Pentland, about 13 ft. in length and diameter. The steamer Western States, second of the new side-wheelers being built for the Detroit & Buffalo line, will be launched at the Wyandotte works of the Detroit Ship Building Co. Saturday. Abram Smith & Son of Algonac, Mich., have under way a large The list of vessels includes the steamers Robert Mills, Italia, Monohansett, St. Paul and Ida E., and the schooners Lizzie A. Law, W. K. Moore, Sophia Minch and Interlaken. SOME BEAUTIFUL CALENDARS. The discovery of half-tone printing with its! attendant processes in color has added greatly to the output of beautiful calendars. It is possible nowadays to produce for a few dollars a profusion of effects, which, not a long while since, money could not even purchase. Hence the sights which gratify the eye in the office and in the home, and indeed everywhere one may turn, are multiplying a thousand fold. It is obviously impossible to even approximate the amount of money spent annually in pictorial effects upon the calendars of business houses, but it undoubtedly proceeds to a considerable altitude in the scale of millions. This year, more than ever, has the output been both beautiful and costly. Since maidenly love- liness is the highest form of all beauty, publishers have not hesitated to record it with the camera and to appropriate the work of these artists who have been most successful in depicting it. _ , One of the most striking of calendars, as well as one of the most initially expensive, is that issued by the Champion Rivet Co., Cleveland, O. The figure, a young girl, nude, watching the dial, is most exquisitely modeled. It is both chaste and beautiful, the work of Alfred Lenz, and as a bit of modeling is the most perfect that we have had the pleasure of seeing. The clay design has been reproduced in half-tone from a photo- graph. This calendar, in originality of conception and beauty of work- manship, serves to head the list. _ _Rahtjen's American Composition Co.'s calendar represents a cruiser in dry dock. It is rather a clever combination of photograph and 'wash drawing and constitutes a striking advertisement for the company. The Standard Automatic Releasing Hook Co., 17 State street, New York, repeat the picture which has done service for them for so many years--the launching of the lifeboat. It is quite appropriate. There is no better device on a lifeboat today than the releasing hook. _ John S. Parsons, ship chandler and sail maker, Oswego, N. Y., has his calendar illuminated with his picture of a winking girl. While she is not quite as pretty a girl as the original Cissy (Miss Loftus), still the picture is fetching. : The calendar issued by Herbert Wright & Co., stocks and. bonds Cleveland, is one of the most striking of all. It is a hunting scene illus- trating the disturbance of a party of sportsmen at dinner iby the arrival of the dogs. The picture is in the new poster effect, which has latterly ae great vogue. Altogether this calendar is an expensive bit of work. . Abram Smith '& Co., ship builders and rebuilders i illustrate their calendar with a photograph of the ice fidckae tn Se Cit river. ' - ) Alfred B. Sands & Son, yacht and marine lumbers street, New York, have a picture of a sailing ahh OMNIS Cope ina storm. It is'a reproduction of a painting. F. H. Pell, No; 11 Broadway, N. Y., has a color print of Witkowski's [January 16, newsboy, entitled "Making Up the Deposit." It is good both in com- ition and color. ~ : 6 ae & Co., Cleveland, issue a reproduction of Muse-Arnolt's painting, "The Pointers." It is in colors and has been faithfully repro- duced. Phe Ashton Valve Co., 271 Franklin street, Boston, Mass., has a pic- ture of a very piquant miss upon their calendar, entitled "La Madamoi- selle." It is from a photograph. : The Bourne-Fuller Co., Cleveland. issued one of the neatest calendars of the season. The illustration a of a beautiful photogravure re- roduction of Keisel's painting, "The Duet. : A Lane & De Groot, boat builders of Long Island City, N. Y., have embellished their calendar with a picture of the famous old frigate Con- stitution. While the drawing is doubtless technically correct it lacks the inspiring sweep of the pictures of the Constitution with which we are familiar. MONTHLY SUMMARY OF NAVAL CONSTRUCTION. The monthly summary of naval construction shows progress as fol- lows upon the warships in the various ship yards: Degree BATTLESHIPS. of completion, Per cent. Name. Building at Dec. 1. Jan. 1, Maine 2. occcee ss ere css ss oe Win, Cramp & SOUS... is. vcs. 1 eek es oe 74 78 Missouri .........2seeeeceeeee Newport News ©o.... 00.0600... 0 coi eee ees 51 54 QBI0 wasecenaosvedee cee cs secee UnmiOn Brom, WOtES oie acces ee cae ee ete 43 43 Vitginia 5. sy. .s ee tects ees 6 INGW DOLE NGWS" CO ie cc cece cue seals cate 0 0 Nebraska ........-.2+.-se05 sVbOneN DLOS COn se. oes cece ct esb a os sees 0 0 GOOPeta ds sic cess ete oss each: Tron Worse. isc ask ieee nc Fea ae 4 6 INGW Jersey 7355.60 hc. oes BOre River Ss 6 Wi CO. ee eee 4 5 Rhode Island ..........-::.:.. Bore River 0, Hee Co. oe, eis etoen oe 4 5 ARMORED CRUISERS. BennswVivania Ao. eel Wm, ©ramp.&.S0ns:. ke Sc. ee. 8 13 Wrest: VareiMia 252. ore 6 INEWDOKt NEWS: CO... fis. 40 oe he wa 5 6 Califorbia) () ican ass Union ron Works. 25.9: 5522. 243 ee 0 0 COlOTHDO esi eee es cas Win. Cramp: & Sons e... 29556: ee fies 12 15 a Many land) 3: ec. 5 3. nccaeses cies Nem pOrb NEWSUCO).. 45-08 does ae 4 6 South: Dakota) .s.2..<cccs...e WUTm1OM LON W OLKS: A vo.k ea ce 0 0 SHEATHED PROTECTED CRUISERS. WONVON 07 vc. ects 5 eee se INGalG We eV a cite oes i ea ieee ce een 64 66 Des MOIMeCs eit. cee. esd Hore River, Soa. We CO, or i ee 59 62 Chattanooga cui. ., os ties seis NO WiS NAO: 354.5 banat peli A alra ee 50 53 GalvestOne sc. ..5 ores see wee Wane Re Drie OOr Wo cre ee pete ee ee 47 49 TACOMA oe a cack hase: Ses ee Union LrOn Works ct.) eee ee 20 20 OGleveland oii ek Bath Aron Works. 02.000 ae 70 72 Pesto LIOUIR ieee tae. oon aed INGAG & Mievyd neck i i ie ee 0 2 Milwattkee. i... i task ee soe ee cee Union -lnon Works.is. 6.5 6 ce 0 0 @HBEICStTON om bares Newport News Co) .0.3 00260545. ae eo. 0 0 MONITORS. ATER OANSAS (Cos. ccs eee eas Newnott N6éws Co.cc... oo 82 85 NGOVAdE. cc: eee oe ae. Bath. Fron WOKS. oe. <p ccc cs Bec sues 91 92 Florida: caste ies oo Owls INEMON Eki iccess decks fs, soe. 77 19 WHYODMN EY Sie acess wees Union. Iron Works: 9.35.6 occ, as. 75 75 TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYERS. Bainbridge 38) soe ies INGHHCGEG, TUOVY eee 99 99 Barry csices sce. INGEST G Ee UG. occ. i ks ccce eo 95 96 Chauncey .... Neafie & Levy.......... 98 98 Dales... 5. 3.. Wm. R. Trigg Co 97 98 JIGCATUT eee Oh ere a Wim. R: Trigg Co. 98 98 Hoping: 2263 oe Harlan & Hollingsworth LE 79 FRU? Ses iek cs cok sae oe ee Harlan & Hollingsworth 15 TT Lawrence 40.66 sce ones. More River S26 Wo Co... +... 3... 99 99 MACDOROUEN. 525 oe los Pore River, S7 &.0. Co... 98 98 Paul Ouse .. Wanton on Works. 3... ise 85 85 IDOL i Goa na wed oo chs ous hens Union. Enon? WOrkssc.53 os es OS 89 89 PP ODIO! creas secre tess ceed os Union iran Works. 3.7.3. 87 87 UO WATE Covers es oo ee eee Gas Hngine & Power Co. ..::.... 2 63 64 PEPURCOM ees acy cee as Maryland Stedl- Co. 2700 80 81 WIP DIO cs sue iice os hive cea Maryland Steel Co... oc 78 80 NWWiOTGOD ee ec ects ose ec Moatvland Steel Co gi... eccu.a es 78 19 TORPEDO BOATS. Stringham 2.000). 2s. a. Harlan & Hollingsworth... :....6.5.2.06 98 98 Goldsboroueh: 23.055... WOME G: AWICkens. 26 oe 97 9T Blakely eres. ee ca Geo: Lawley @ Son) 2 6 98 98 DORON By ve. ces eras ars osc Geo: Lawlevc® Son... 2.0. a 98 98 INICHOIBOD Feet eects cic JG Wis NUKOM ioe af an ee 97 97 O'BRIEN 600 ee Wis NIXON a sore ee eis sec 98 98 Thornton Wins Ke Tries: Co oe 97 97 Tingey Columbian Iron Works. 23.2... 74 14 Wilkes Gas Engine & Power Co... 2.0.6.5... 93 94 SUBMARINE TORPEDO BOATS. PINDPOr ea Dewis INIROW Gn: keh 50 36 Adder ee ee Dewis Nixon i cc cs a 95 96 CMAMEDUR eet ee Union Iron, Works. 3... 51 51 Mopeasin. 2.0.55 4. potcsc en: uewis: NIXOne 2 90 92 BUG i) de hs Rese oa. Union Tron: Workssc 1 50 50 POrpOIse. 6.0500. Dbewis NixOn: 26h 50 RG oe, 85 88 Shak to eee ee lewis Nixon 6.00. 80 84 MR SCHWAB ON THE INDUSTRIAL FUTURE. Charles M. Schwab, president of the United States Steel Corporation, was interviewed by Le Journal in Paris last week and he spoke of com- bines in America. He was enthusiastic over business and optimistic of the future. According to the telegraphed reports Mr. Schwab said that countries where combines do not exist are destined to abandon the strug- gle for commercial supremacy. He said the combines have nothing to fear from socialism and that American workmen are better paid and hap- pier under the system. He is even credited with saying that when people earn good wages their rights do not trouble them. Mr. Schwab said that the commercial power of the United States is unlimited and unlimitable; she will inundate France with her products and force the French industrial classes to abandon the struggle. America is only beginning. The Old World has no idea what the United States will become a quarter of a cen- tury hence, Mr. Schwab approved the French plan of industrial schools in the United States, but expressed his fears that the graduates of these schools, when they return to France, will be paralyzed by the old ideas prevalent in France and will do little or nothing. SS Ge clgei- government has determined to establish an important naval sta- tion at Culebra island, near Porto Rico, which came into the possession of the United States through the Spanish-American treaty of Paris. Culebra island is advantageously situated for strategical purposes and an excellent harbor, with deep water, makes it better ad ur- poses than San Juan or Ponce, qiaped tor a