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'TAE. MARINE. REVIEW 23 operated by the Southern Pacific system. He was assisted by Mr. H. Bruce, general superintendent of repairs. The Solano is 424 ft. over all, 406 ft. 7 in. keel and 64 ft. 10. in beam. She has carried approximately 115,000 freight cars per annum. MINNESOTA'S RECORD TRIP The Great Northern Steamship Co.'s steamer Minnesota reached Seattle from Yokohama on her maiden trip of 13 days, 21 hours, 5 minutes. She is the proud possessor of the trans-Pacific record, having completed without accident of any sort her maiden round trip voyage from Seattle to the orient. She had 162 passengers and 7,036 tons of freight on her return trip. Capt. John H. Rinder, master of the Min- nesota, had nothing but praise for his ship and the way in which she handled herself. The Marine Review was led to time did not. exceed 1,000 tons per boat, and I think the next largest to the Onoko carried only 2,000 tons. The Onoko proved too large for the trade at that time and lost money for the first two or three years because of not being able to carry full cargoes, owing to the shallow channels in the De- troit and St. Mary's rivers and at the Lake Erie dock, It was hard, at that time, to find any mine willing to take time to accumulate a cargo of 3,000 tons, and it was equally hard to get a Lake Erie dock at which she could conveniently unload and they could conveniently handle such cargoes. The sides of the boat were too high for the then existing unloading machin- ery and, as I remember it, it took about twice as long to load and unload this big boat as it did to do the same work on the next largest size, which was of about a third less carrying capacity; but, as the channels were deepened and dock ma- chinery improved, she became a very successful carrier--has PHOTO TAKEN AT' MIDNIGHT OF APRIL 23, SHOWING THE ICE-BOUND FLEET IN WHITEFISH BAY. THE PHOTOGRAPH WAS TAKEN BY JOHN ZUNDELL, ON BOARD THE STEAMER CADILLAC. publish a somewhat inaccurate statement concerning the re- sult of this first trip which called forth a letter of correction from Mr. L. W. Hill, vice-president of the Great Northern Railway, of which the substance is noted above. In connec- tion therewith Mr. Hill transmitted a letter which he had re- ceived from Mr. D. M. Philpin, assistant general superinten- dent of the Great Northern Railway at Superior. Mr. Phil- pin's letter which is of interest on the great lakes, was as follows: "T doubt if the figures in attached clipping from the Marine Review are correct; but even if they are, I take. it that they would not be discouraging. You may be interested in know- ing that, when the steamship Onoko, 3,000 tons eapacity, on an 8 ft. draft, was built in 1886, I was in charge of the North- western docks at Escanaba. The Onoko was the first big steel boat that was built and much larger than any others then on the lakes. The average tonnage engaged in ore trade at that paid for herself over and over again and is still in successful operation in the ore trade, having loaded at our Allouez docks several times during the last few seasons. The Onoko was simply ahead of the times, and it is possible that your boats are in the same fix just at present and quite as likely that they will work out their own salvation in the usual way." The Boston and Nova Scotia Steamship Co. has been or- ganized with a capital of $100,000. The plans of the new com- pany are to inaugurate semi-weekly service between Boston and Halifax. The men identified with the enterprise are Mr. James A. Flanders, Milton, Mass.; John A. Gale, president of the Beacon Trust Co., Brookline, Mass.; Wm. S. Bangs, Newton, Mass.; Wm. E. Biddle, president of the Amesbury National Bank, Amesbury, Mass.; Alexander S. Paton, Leominster, Mass., and Washington Hoitt, Boston, Mass.