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312 ~ 545 ft. over all, 525 ft. keel, 58 ft. beam: and 31 ft. deep, and will carry 10,000 gross tons. She will be built at the Lorain yard of the American Ship Building Co. and will be delivered next spring. She will be constructed on the Isherwood system and_ will have straight side tanks. Followirg the practice to avoid liti- gation, if possible, the Pittsburgh Steamship Co. which owns the Rens- selaer and the Cleveland Steamship Co. which owned the Gayley, have settled their differences upon an equal divis- jon of the damage. The Gayley was valued at $250,000. The steamer George T. Warren, building for the Boston & Virginia Transportation Co. Boston, was launched at the yard.of the Toledo Ship Building Co, on 'Aug. 21. The steamer is of Canadian canal dimen- sions and is intended for service on the coast. The Great Lakes Engineering Works e launched the steamer Ruby for the "American Transportation Co. of New Work on Aue. Zl this steamer is also. of ~ Canadian Canal dimensions and is intended for coastwise service. She is the last of the three steamers building "ior this. company to be launched. The 600-ft. steamers building by the American Ship Building Co. for the Pittsburgh Steamship Co. will be named James A. Farrell, Percival Roberts, and Richard Trimble. The: Farrell will go overboard at Lorain on Sept. 28. The steamers EH. -A> 5S. Clarke and Wiliam EB. Reis; managed ; by - Capt. THE MARINE REVIEW John Mitchell of Cleveland, are being remodeled at the yard of the Toledo Ship Building Co. They will be given side tanks and. 12 ft. center hatches after modern practice. First Automatic Unloading The loss of the steamer James Gay- ley on Lake Superior last month re- calls the fact that it was the maiden trip of the Gayley that marked the coming together, so to speak, of the modern ore unloader with the mod- ern type of vessel constructed es- pecially for automatic unloading. James Gayley, at that time vice presi- dent of the United States Steel Cor- poration, in whose honor the steamer was named, had manifested a keen interest in ore transportation facili- ties and in loading and unloading docks and -it was his suggestion that 'tween deck beams and_ stanchions were eliminated or their use greatly minimized in the construction of the Gayley: The 'merit'sof the new 'con- struction was. demonstrated when the Gayley unloaded her maiden cargo, 95 per cent of it being automatically un- loaded: The Gayley on that occas- ion carried 6,088-.gross tons and un- loaded on May 27, 1902, at the Hulett 10-ton unloading plant at Conneaut. There was considerable opposition to the design at the time. Within two years thereafter practically all bulk freighters on the' lakes were being built with 'tween deck beams and hold stanchions entirely eliminated, and with the further advantage of having their hatches space 12 ft. cen- September, 1912 ters instead of 24 ft. centers. This rapid change was brought about by the practical demonstration by the Gayley that her ore cargo could be automatically discharged without a man in the hold of the ship. Lalte Trade The lake situation is better than it has been at any time during the past three years. The trade is apparently booked, for one of its old time fin- ishes with everyone eager for tonnage and paying good prices to get it. The movement of ore, as will be noted in the ore shipments elsewhere, is the heaviest on record and while it has been almost exclusively carried in con- tract ships, ore shippers could never- theless employ additional tonnage if they .cotld get at... The rate, however, is working out at quite an attractive figure so that vessel owners are quite reluctant to take any addi- tional ore at the established contract rate of 40 certs. Of course, it is probably true that large ore shippers could get ton- nage at the contract rate if they wanted to, but the smaller ore shipper cannot. In. fact) a Buffalo concern "<has~ been trying to get tonnage for some. little time at an advance of 10 cents with- out any takers. The reason is that the grain rate is extremely attractive, working out during the first half of September at 93 cents on ore and cal- culated to go considerably higher. In fact, at is predicted that.i:by October: 1 the grain rate will be equivalent to $1.20 'on ore." Practically - all + vessels are employed and there appears to be grain i STEAMER JAMES GAYLEY DISCHARGING MaAtpen Carco (6,088 Gross Tons) oF IRoN Ore May 27, 1902, Av AUTOMATIC UNLOADERS, CONNEAUT, O.; 95 Per CENT AUTOMATICALLY UNLOADED