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What the British Are Doing Short Surveys of Important Activities in Maritime Centers of Island Empire HE coal strike is reflected in | Clyde shipbuilding during July. The number of vessels sent out from Scotch shipyards is only 18, equal to 13,329 tons, making a total for the seven months of only 132 vessels of 187,220 tons as compared with 161 vessels of 857,036 tons in the first seven months of last year. Of the total Scotch output 12 vessels launched in July were built on the Clyde, representing a total of 12,897 tons which compares with 35,897 tons in April. The coincidence that this was the month before the general strike may very fairly suggest that shipbuilding recovery was at_ that time making steady progress. * * * BD aes June, orders were placed _ for 13 new oil engine vessels and contracts signed for the conversion of four steamers to motor drive. Sev- eral other important motor ship con- tracts are pending. During the past year the tonnage of motor ships launched has represented 74 per cent of that of steamers, whereas the pro- portion three years ago was only 11 per cent. * * * F THE seven vessels provided for in the new shipbuilding program of the Canadian Pacific railway, Clyde SUUTIMILUULIUUULAU UAT A N ADDITIONAL weekly trip from Chicago to Muskegon, Mich., is being made now by both the GRAND Rapips and the ALABAMA, of the Goodrich Transit Co., Chicago, to accommodate pilgrims to Lake Harbor for evangelistic meetings at the Paul Rader camp at the latter point. * * * : ARLY public hearings on the project of straightening the south branch of the Chicago river are be- ing urged, as preparations are afoot for complete terminal facilities for water borne commerce in the event the state of Illinois gives permit for the straightening. State officials had shipyards are to build five, including two large passenger liners. The allo- cation of the fifth contract to the Clyde has just been announced. The builders of the seven vessels are as follows: John Brown & Co., Clyde- bank and William Beardmore & Co., Dalmuir, two passenger liners, each 13,000 tons gross; the ffive other steamers of the program are freight carriers each over 10,000 tons and these are divided between Barclay, Curle & Co., Whiteinch, Denny & Bros., Dumbarton, Sir W. G. Arm- strong, Whitworth & Co., Newcastle on Tyne, and the two remaining ves- sels, it is now intimated are to be divided between the firms of Barclay, Curle and Armstrong Whitworth. The complete building program of the Canadian Pacific railway involves an expenditure of about £3,000,000, of which £2,000,000 will go to the Clyde. The cargo steamers are to be deliv- ered by August next year and the liners in 1928. To a large extent this order is anticipatory of the future re- quirements of this company. ea ae ena Withy and Co. Ltd., re- port a credit balance of £523,044, slightly lower than the previous year. They paid a 5 per cent dividend, with 2% per cent bonus, to ordinary share- 2A HT LL What s Doing Around The Lakes Srl MUNA MN threatened to withhold the permit on grounds that Chicago had failed to provide for public water terminals. Mayor William E. Dever, of Chicago, however, has assured the state super- intendent of waterways that such a terminal already is under way in con- nection with the new double deck street, known as Wacker drive, along the river front from Michigan avenue to Lake street bridge, about three- quarters of a mile. Mayor Dever de- clared the proposed terminal would have a permanent wharfage along Wacker drive, and that the dock area for marine landing is to be 68,690 square feet. The total storage 34 holders, making a total return of 7% per cent free of income tax. The chairman, Sir Frederick W. Lewis, Bart., mentioned that four large twin screw vessels were contracted for and business was expanding, but the con- struction of these vessels is being hindered by the coal strike. Sir Fred- erick added, “It is a matter of the greatest regret that at a time when the shipbuilding industry is laboring in the trough of depression and mak- ing great sacrifices and most strenu- ous efforts to improve its own inter- nal conditions and to meet the compe- tition with which it is faced, it should now be further handicapped by the miners’ strike.” * * * OHN G. KINCAID & CO.,_ engi- neers, Greenock, have received an order to supply diesel machinery for three new vessels of large tonnage for British owners. Two of the motor ships are to be built on the Clyde and fitted with single-screw diesel engines. The third, a cargo vessel of 12,000 tons, is to be constructed on the northeast coast of England and fitted with twin-screw diesel engines. The firm has eight sets of diesel engines in hand for four large Furness-Withy passenger and cargo ships’ ordered from the Blythswood Shipbuilding Co. SATII UU MILLA Pe area under cover is described as 71,- 400 square feet. Total landing area and storage aggregates 135,690 square feet. Only the state permit is lack- ing for actual start of straightening operations. * * * EADING shipping men of Lake Michigan helped celebrate the seventieth anniversary of organized passenger navigation from the port of Chicago at a fete at the Illinois Athletic club on the evening of Aug. 9. H. W. Thorp, president of the Goodrich Transit Co., who has been with the company 438 years, in re- viewing progress of lake travel,