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single deck for a limited number of passengers. She was completed this spring 'at. the Roach ship yard, Chester, 'Pa:, and is a single screy steamer of 5,252 gross tons; length, 396 ft.; width, 4o ft. beam. It is in- teresting to ob- serve in the illus- tration that not only is there no sheer visible, but the decks appear to hog. Asa mat- ter of fact, there is a sheer, of a trifle over 30 in., but the eye is so accustomed to see- ing more that an illusion is pro- duced. The Comus designed by Horace See, and built at the New Port News works, exaggerates the sheer as much as the REVIEW AND MARINE MARINE RECORD. 23 Kershaw, 1899. Merchants and Miners Transportation Co. 2,600 Tons. perhaps safe to say that she and her sister ship, the Horatio, Hall, maintain the fastest working speed of any-deep water boats on the American Coast; approxi- mately 16 knots. The North Star was built last year, at the Roach Ship Yard. : _ By way of com- parison with the fluctuations of the coasting steamer traffic, the follow- ing table is ap- pended, showing the arrivals at the port of New York of all classes of sailing vessels dur- ing a single week of March in each of the decadeyears chosen. No divis- ion between trans- atlantic and coast- wise vessels has been attempted as Morro Castle, 1900. Off-Shore Service. 6,004 Tons. = * the figures were sh * sufficiently elo- Memphis belittles it. She represents the type of moderately fast quent without manipulation, and show' the remarkable passenger and' freight service under railroad management, exem- plified also in the Savannah line and in the splendid ships (freight only) of the Mor- gan line, between New York and New Orleans. The new Morgan boats also designed. by Mr: See, and the Comus and Pro- teus, of the Crom- well line, are much alike, except that the Cromwell boats have an ex- tra deck for pas- sengers. Their working speed is about 15 knots. The North Star is primarily a pas- senger carrier. in the warmer months, although there is plenty of room for all the freight that can be obtained. It is way in. which, in' "recent... years; "the © Steamers: at 2,707 Tons. James S. Whitney, 1900.. Metropolitan Line.