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"TAE MarRINe. REVIEW BOW OF THE LAFAYETTE TAKEN FROM THE LAND SIDE, CANADIAN SHIPMENTS OF GRAIN. Mr. J. J. O'Connor, vessel broker at Port Arthur,. Ont., has compiled the following statement showing grain shipped by vessels and destination from the combined ports of Port Arthur and Fort William during the season of navigation, April 25 to Dec. 12, 1905 inclusive: 19 moment this does not take in the speed below fifteen knots or the tramp freight ship, but progress is so rapid in these days that the inventive and experimental mind is at work to secure \the turbine to the lower speed as an economy over the reciprocating type which has been. in use for the past seventy-five years; in which Great Britain, as the great maritime power, is equipped with some 12,000,000 tons of 'ships, while we have about 500,- 2 000. Mr. Vanderbilt has recently addressed himself to leading members of the United States senate urging them to take up this matter at a time when America is beginning to build up her merchant marine. - "It seems to me," said he, "that a new epoch for steam propulsion on the sea is at hand, and it is certainly a most potent period for a departure in this direction. We are about to celebrate here in New York city, on behalf of the whole country and for the pleasure and benefit of the whole country, a centennial of the. beginning of steam navigation in the world, the initial point of which was Ful- ton's experiment with the steamer Claremont on the Hudson river in 1807. "Ts not this the time for the country to start fresh in the race in this new order of propulsion, for our merchant marine and for our navy. England, on the other hand, will have to. remake her ocean-going outfit, as will the other great maritime nations of the world. The United States, | on the other hand, is in a position to build from the foundation up. "The situation is very much the same as the building o- rebuilding of a house. England, for instance, has her house already constructed, and to make the change will require an enormous loss of money now invested and an endless amount of trouble in remaking her merchant ma- rine fleets or navy. The United States is like the builde: who has in his possession the plans of his architects, while the money with which he is to construct his building is in the bank and the site unencumbered. Every dollar that Canadian Vessels Foreign Vessels Totals Destination i April 25, 1905 | Sept. 1, 1905 | April 24, 1905 Sept. 1, 1905 | April 25, 1905 to to to to to . Aug. 31, 1905 | Dec. 12, 1905 | Aug. 31, 1905 | Dec. 12, 1905 | Dec. 12, 1905 Owen: Som ee pee eee 539,730.50 103444440 20 2,474 175.30 MIG eo ee ee OW os eee ie a 674,127.10 3:060,582:00 | hcveaec cess 2,734,710 00 Depot: Harbor ee eee 2,632,041.40 6,245:121.50 . os. eee 8,887 ,163.30 COMMOWOOds. 2s. ai cs hes ae 252,300.00 OF DE AD 8] eae pcs 978, o4. 40 Pont Wawa 2 ae a es 1,074,883.50 1,108,962:;305 (oct. eee 2,273,846.20 Meatord <4. ..50; ey eo ee ee ae ese 5OG O13 10 | facet a cae 596,913.10 Goderighs sre ee a a a ee 1,032 ,836.20 § 8628741205 axe ee 1 895,710. 40 Port OolvbOrne:. 6 a cs ee ee ee 135,213:00 3 |s 33 oes as 135.213.€0 TN OVOIG se 50255 Fak oes RE i i BN a oles ede a ee ees : 171.072,50 |) wees eee. 171,072 50 Kingston...... Tee Ge Radio a Ue OP nay gre cg ree Ssge) le ei 251,€80.20 713,945.20 : 995,625 40 Montreal 2 oye a ee ee a. 3,056 992,30 3524 BES 20.43 oe ata 6,581,855.50 DOUrolG, a ee eee a ee 37,000.00 | <<... . 5+. oe se 37,000.00 Port Puron, 5 de 2 ee ee 176,771.00 1,051,581.40 253,409.10 181.793,10 1,663.555.00 PST RG i Oa ee eh et ees eats 490,L04.10 120,000.00. 142,672.40 10,532,822 30 11,2*5,499 20 POVIG. Pa ee a sree ones eee 212 183.00) | cs es ' 543,266.30 755,449.30 ee a ee ae ee uae 10,218,567.50 19,153,313.10 896,081.50 11,257 ,882.10 41,025,845 00 'Wheat aot ee 327 121.14 BOO 44012) [eto e ee 195,851 16 723,413.08 Oats BATIOVe 02a a ae ee 64,427.16 280,964.32 212. irises ioe ine 345,32 00 Rarley le ee ak re red Oe ees eee 187,497.48 147,469.00 18,829.52) le utes Ge. 353 796 44 Flax THE TURBINE IN NAVAL VESSELS. he puts into the building will be an investment sure to Discussing the probabilities of the adoption of the ma- return him an income, and he is also in a position to so rine turbine in United States naval vessels Mr. Aaron Vanderbilt of New York, for years a member of the United States navy and at present vice president of the Merchant Marine League said last week: "The recent development of the steam turbine marks an epoch in marine construction which we in this country have been slow to realize. The tests have shown that economy is secured in the turbine over the reciprocating engine from speed not lower than fifteen knots up. At the arrange the structure that it will exactly suit him. We are in the same position as a nation in relation to our mer- chant marine. I feel that this is a matter which the Am- erican people cannot longer ignore, and they certainly will not if they follow the advice of the best posted and most intelligent of the marine engineers." The New Orleans Progressive Union is now raising a fund to provide for a suitable testimonial for the battle- ship Louisiana from the people of that state. ,