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274 DEVOTED TO EVERYTHING AND EVERY INTEREST CONNECTED OR_ ASSO- CIATED WITH MARINE MATTERS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. Published monthly by The Penton Publishing Co. CLEVELAND. BUPRALO, (ous oo cee: 932 Ellicott Square. CUICGAGO 28. cick ees 1328 Monadnock Bik. CINCINNATI. 2. First National Bank Bldg. NEW YORK, woo. - ess 1005 West Street Bldg. PITTSBURG, . 155666 seo ees 510 Park Bldg. BRAT DICES oc coe perce ce cess 302 Pioneer Bldg. Correspondence on Marine Engineering, Ship Building and Shipping Subjects Solicited. Subscription, U. S. and Mexico, $1.00 per annum. Canada, $1.50. Foreign, $2.00. Single copies, U. S. and Mexico, 10 cents. Elsewhere, 15 cents. Back numbers over three months, 25 cents. Change of advertising copy must reach this office on or before the first of each month. The Cleveland News Co. will supply the trade with the Marine Review through the regular channels of the American News Co. European Agents, The International News Company, Breams Building, Chancery Lane, London, E. C., England. Entered at the Post Office at Cleveland, Ohio, as Second Class Matter. August, 1909. SIMPLE SIMON'S PROGRESS. We have things at the hands of our navy de- partment, but levity is the latest. There bouffe about steam trials of warships, yet be- side the conduct of those of the Birm- ingham, Chester and Salem, the satires grown to expect many is little suggestive of opera of "Pinafore" become as serious as Punch. The reports given out by the navy department and published in the June Marine Review of the results of the first steam trials of these ships showed the Birmingham apparently lowest. in daily coal consumption at all speeds; the consumption at 15 knots being stated as 71.23, 85.62 and 107.23 tons, respectively. The Salem was subse- quently overhauled and the port tur- bine was found to be damaged by en- trance of some foreign body, and her higher coal consumption was attributed to that. Now all these ships have un- THe Marine REVIEW dergone a second series of trials at 13.4 knots, with the result that the Salem is now lowest with 95 tons per day, the Birmingham next with 110 tons, and the Chester has moved up to 130 tons. It is reported that the de- partment is in a quandary as to how to account for it. THe Marine REVIEW respectively sug- gests that the learned gentlemen forget it. Nobody wants them to account for it. Nobody believes either set of fig- When the distinct ures is worthy of credence. relative economy of three types of motor depend for decision on the methods followed in these sham tests, the value of the decision will be nil. That the Salem would improve her performance might reasonably be expected, but that any such change in performance occurred as is shown for all three is utterly preposterous. The plan of determining coal consumption by bunker measurement contains too many elements of error to give it any standing whatever, even as a rough comparison. It is not necessary to speak of the various factors, every one of which is variable in itself, entering into the equation, but they are such that we wonder at their employment even by the navy department. As to determining anything, the fig- ures merely give added force to our remarks in the June number on "The Facts About the Turbine." The navy department has none too high a stand- ing as it is without inviting ridicule by assuming responsibility for such re- sults. Se ca & FOREIGN-BUILT YACHTS OWNED BY AMERICANS. The new tariff bill, as reported on July 30 by the conference committee, contains the following provisions for the now or hereafter owned or chartered taxation of foreign-built yachts by American citizens: Sec. 37. There shall be levied and collected annually on the first day of Sertember by the collector of customs of the district nearest the residence of the managing owner, upon the uSe of every foreign-built yacht, p'easure boat, or vessel, not used or intended to be used for trade, now or hereafter owned or chartered for more than six months by any citizen or citizens of the United States, a sum equiva- lent to a tonnage tax of seven dollars per gross ton. In lieu of the annual tax above prescribed the owner of any foreign built yacht, pleasure boat, or vessel above described may pay a duty of 35 per cent ad valorem thereon. and such yacht, pleasure boat, or vessel shall thereupon August, 1909 be entitled to all the privileges and shall be subject to all the requirements prescribed by Sections 4214, 4215, 4217 and 4218 of the Revised Statutes and acts amendatory thereto in the same manner as if said yacht had been built in the United States, and shall be sub- ject to tonnage duty and light money only in the same manner as if said yacht had bes built in the United States. So much of Section 5 of Chapter 212 of the Laws of 1908, approved May 28, 1908, as relates to yachts built outside the United States and owned by citizens of the United States is hereby repealed. - This section shall not apply to a foreign. built vessel admitted to American registry. Under section 37 the following well- known yachts on Sept. 1 will be sub- ject to the following annual tax: James Gordon Bennett's Lysistrata, $13,504; W. K. Vanderbilt's Valiant, $12,761; A. J. Drexel's Margarita, $12,- 460; Mrs. Robert Goelet's Nahma, $12,173; Morton F. Plant's Iolanda, $11,529; Joseph Pulitzer's -- Liberty, $11,249; Eugene Higgins' Varuna, $11,011; George J. Gould's Atalanta, $9,121; Roy A. Rainey's Cassandra, $8,589; Fred Wl! Vanderbilt's War- rior, $7,679; C. K. G. Billings' Van- adis. $7,03/;.G. W. C. Drexels Ae cedo, $6,881; L. V. Harkness' Wakiva, $5,971; Cornelius Vanderbilt's North Star: $5,726: ~C.. Ledyard's = Diana $5,495: F. G. Bourne's Delaware, $5405 Cc. W. Harkness' $4,214; John L. Livermore's Venetia, $4,116; Fred Gallatin's R'viera, $2,849; Mrs. ©. By - Jennings' $3,780; H'. C. Pierce's Yacona, $3,689; Henry Walters' Narada, $3,430; F. L. Leland's Safa-El Bahr, $3,409; Ed- mund + Randolph's Apache, $3,157; Ralph E. Towle's Athena, $3,129; A. E. 'Towers Erl King; $3,101; Wes. Kilmer's Remlik, $3,024. Americans own Agawa, Tuscarora, Besides the above, about 50 smaller foreign-built yachts on which the annual tax will range from $75 to $2,800, amounting to about $50,000 more, on in all about $235,000 annual this source. revenue from Among the principal yachts built by American labor which do not have to pay the tax are: Gross tons. Hroward: Gould's: Niagara .... 01-000. 1,433 O: H. Payne's Anhtodite oc... ....-0 1,147 We Morean's: Corsair: ..0.0. oy... ee 1,136 P. A; B. Widener's Josephine........ 974 dames I. Fills VWacouta ......c-. es: 863 Archibald Watts' American .......... 851 i Pi ligames? Aztec ce es ccs coe ee 8 848 Wim. 3, Deeds "Noma vs... ce es 763 Vern. badew's Columbia... 5 c.cen so. 682 John Hays Hammond's Atrous........ 552 Wie Fl. Rogers Kanawha 2.0% cise css 475 AON. "Armours Utowanga «.......-+. 414 iva Sibley S "Dhelis: os 66 ei ow oss 407 (Ee, H. Harriman's Sultana ....:0-ees 390