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Walter Mahon, J.:> Burton' Ayers, George anderson, Roy' Williams, George H. Warner, Capt. Thomas Beggs, Al Hathaway, Capt. and Mrs. Ww Eneland, Capt. C. M. Ennes, "TAE\MarRINE REVIEW the locks, which belongs 'to Uncle Samuel, and watch the endless procession of boats which pass up and down on their way éast and west carrying his commerce which follows the lake route is to gain an ob- LAUNCHING THE STEAMER JOHN A. DONALDSON, O. N. Steele, P. H. Lonergin, Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Wardwell, and Wm. Hill. The Donaldson is 400 ft. over all, 380 ft. keel, 50 ft. beam and 28 ft. deep. She has 20 hatches spaced 12- ft. centers. Her engines are triple- expansion with cylinders 20, 33 and 55 in. diameters by 40-in. stroke, sup- plied with steam from Scotch boilers, 13 ft. 9 in. by 12 ft. fitted with nat- ural draft and allowed a working Pressure of 180 lbs. She will carry 7,000 gross tons of ore. THE STORY OF THE ANCHOR LINE. The Northwestern Miller publishes the following story of the Anchor line, by William Van Wilten: Few people realize the immensity of the traffic on the great lakes of America. It is the habit of the country to take such things as a matter of course and not to dwell very much on the beginning or the development of. trade arteries. Every- thing grows so rapidly, when it grows at all, in this country, that the strides made by lake commerce have been scarce- ly noticed by the general public. More talk is made concerning the Suez canal and its comparatively insignificant ton- nage than of the Sault Ste. Marie, where the traffic which passes through the locks Ia single season amounts to nearly 55,- 000 tons with a value of more than $500,000,000, ; To stand in the pretty little park beside ject lesson of what this traffic means; mere figures do not sufficiently. impress. Each year the fleet grows larger and still the demand continues. All this has de- veloped from a 10-ton schooner with a crew of six men, and 90 years marks the progress from the first steam craft to 29 the commerce Of the great lakes has been making magnificent progress. Forty-one years ago, the Erie & West- ern Transportation Co. was organized as a lake feeder to the Pennsylvania Rail- toad Co., operating its boats via Erie, Pia: and >< Buftalo, : Nic ve It adopted the Anchor Ine as its trading title and the familiar Anchor line flag now floats from the mast-head of each of the steamers which comprise the splendid fleet of this company, : ~The development. of this line, from its inauguration in 1867 to the present time, both in terminal and floating facilities, has been a wonderful story of achieve. ment and may properly be taken as in example of the growth of the lake traffic. The following is a list. of the steel steamers now owned and operated by the Anchor line: : ese Alaska, Clarion, Codorus, Delaware, Schuylkill, Susquehanna, Wissahickon, Lehigh, Mahoning, Muncy, Japan, Tion- esta, Juniata. oe The last three steamers named -in the foregoing, the Juniata, Tionesta and Japan, are. combined passenger and freight steamers. They are not built to carry grain, but are specially designed in freight service for flour and mill prod- ucts east bound, and are, aside from their passenger trade, devoted to this business, to which the western, north- western and southwestern representatives of the Anchor line give especial and primary attention. The passenger equipments of these "THE SPEAKERS' TABLE IN THE M OLD LOFT AT THE LORAIN YARD IN HONOR OF THE LAUNCHING OF THE JOHN A. DONALDSON, traverse the lakes to a 10,000-ton a carrying a crew of 50. It is a singu : fact that while the Mississipp! river tra - fic has been rapidly dwindling to mp three ships are attractive in every way, and on two of them, the Juniata and Tionesta, they are not~surpassed by any- thing on the great lakes.