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7 THE MARINE RECORD. OCTOBER 4, Ig ™ QUARTERLY SHIPBUILDING RETURNS. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF Navicaiox. | September 29, 1900. The Bureau of Navigation reports 308 sail and steam ves- sels of 88,790 gross tons, built in the United States and offici- ally numbered during the quarter ended September 39, 1900, as follows: navy. The sailor man does not take kindly to them, and the strongest argument that Admiral Melville has heard made by one of the best captains, was that he felt badly enough with his ship in hand with two screws, without hav- ing three screws in his head to take care of—which argu- ment, to the Admiral’s mind, is absolutely no objection at all, as it would only be necessary to have the center sctew continue to go ahead and manceuvre his ship with the two WOOD, STEEL. TOTAL. SAIL. STEAM. SAIL STEAM No Gross. No. Gross. No Gross No Gross No. Gr'ss. Atlantic and Gulf... eee 129 18,880 51 4,095 3 3,360 7 10,192 190 | 36,527 ACUI 5 escde et cias Sit iave: cise sihiaie Wie Io 6,748 16 BeOOL Calin Mae caer ae ciate 2 293 28 10,902 RETOAb iL ACS 655. eis oe eleke. sighs akace 5 108 18 ; 482 I 2,790 8 33,677 32 37,057 Western Rivers.............-0055 16 297 42 WOOT! heck vee teres weeee | acces oP ole areas 58 4,304 ORAM chest siete ated caik oe 160 26,033 | 127 12,445 4 6,150 17 44,162 308 88,790 The largest steel steam vessels included in these figures are: Morro Castle, 6,004 gross tons, built at Philadelphia, Pa.; N. Y. & Cuba Mail S. S. Co., owner. Lafayette, 5,113 gross tons; built at Lorain, O.; American Ship Building Co., owner. Cornell, 5,082 gross tons; built at Wyandotte, Mich.; Eddy Transit Co., owner. Princeton, 5,125 gross tons; built at Lorain, O.; American Ship Building Co., owner. Rensselaer, 5,124 gross tons; built at Cleveland, O.; Ameri- can Ship Building Co., owner. During the corresponding quarter endcd September 30, 1899, 296 sail and steam vessels of 73,230 gross tons were built in the United States and officially numbered, as follows: wing screws, or on the other hand, stop his center screw and manceuver with his twin screws, either in action or out of action. When we take into consideration the modern high- powered battleship of to-day, a mass of mechanism, of steam, pneumatic, electric, and other apparatus from bow to stern, the smallest item of all is the mapzeuvring or handling of the ship by means of one, two, or three screws. The admiral goes on to say it has occurred to him that, to meet some of the objections raised by many people as to the non- duplication of parts consequent upon using a different sized engine for the central screw in the proposed system of triple screws, there could be four identical engines, two of these for the wing screws, and two for the central screw. That is, half the whole power on the central screw, the other half on the two wing screws, one-quarter on a single wing screw. WoOoD. STEEL. TOTAL. SAIL. STEAM. SAIL, STEAM. No. Gross. No. Gross. No. Gross. No. Gross. No. Gross, Ablantic-and Gulf... ek ss 137 13,325 44 2,040 2 1,179 16 17,730 199 34,274 REBT Ch esc tice ica eatin peas ik suas are'es 13 3,932 19 TB OSOr a (ev astorenlew ies ovine lacie wo cle aieae: canoes 32 5,620 NG REAU AKG ys Pine hoor nits cca ee 6 58 17 DOB marcisiarl ola a'Stsen cen o | 29,873 30 30,894. Western Rivers.................. 5 £32 29 BQOO hl seers a saan vevors assis tease I 50 35 2,442 MEOba Ets sic eats to ocelot « 161 17,447 | I09 6,951 2 1,179 24 | 47,653 296 | 73,230 MONTHLY. SHIPBUILDING RETURNS. The Bureau of Navigation reports 102 vessels of 21,282 gross tons were built in the United States and officially num- bered during the month of September, 1900, as follows: Although this arrangement would necessitate increased space and complication, and the admiral does not favor it so much asthe system he proposed before the Institute of Naval Architects, he does not think the arrangement of four iden- WOOD. STEEL. be TOTAL, SAL STEAM. SAIL STEAM No Gross No. Gross. No. Gross No. Gross No. Gross, Atlantic ANG Gultee: cilea sue Cie ok 46 1,567 9 210 | 3,360 4 3,527 62 11,664 Pacific ..... sR Ape We ES pe eT eR 2 1,860 7 THOS || nn cyikane tina tiesto sc lusinas ase 9 3,448 reat Wakes ici sci 2ee oes Gielen sia e's I 23, 4 CO Were sel eens ce I 4,719 6 4,808 Western Rivers....... wigs Heticta tase: One II 200 14 TOD We hos crnd| soc yams saeco set ees 25 1.362 Ota ees thig Shik. slants oe es 60 6,650 34 3,026 3 3,360 5 8,246 102 91,282 The largest steel steam vessels included in these figures, are: Captain Thomas Wilson, 4,719 gross tons; built at Port ‘Huron, Mich.; Wilson Transit Co., owner. James S. Whitney, 2,707 gross tons; built at Wilmington, _ Del.; Harlan & Hollingsworth, owners. oor TRIPLE SCREWS. The writer of the interesting ‘‘Naval Notes,” in the Globe, has received a long and interesting letter from Rear-Admiral G. W. Melville, the Chief Engineer of the United States navy, giving some few of the many reasons for his faith in the triple screw system. He says that the majority of those who took part in the discussion on his paper last year, those who were best qualified for an expression of an opinion, or whose opinion might be respected, among the members of the Institute of Naval Architects, were very much in his favor. Even Sir William White, that great authority on shipbuilding and marine propulsion, with Sir John Durston at his back, did not altogether disagree with him. There have only been two triple screw ships built for the American tical engines one that gives the warship all the economical and tactical advantages that spring from the triple screw system. met NEPTUNE’S JOKE BOX. (From the Marine Journal, New York.) The Ship’s Doctor—Never go in bathing after a full meal. Patient—Why not? The Ship’s Doctor—Because you won’t find it there. “Are there many barks on the ocean now?” asked the new reporter. ‘‘Only those of the ocean greyhound,”’ re- plied the marine reporter. First Yachtsman—‘‘That must have been a tremendous wave that threw your boat so far up on the beach.”” Second Y—‘'Yes, it was a record breaker.”’ The new reporter had been assigned to a ‘‘feature story”? on the incidents of seafaring life, and discovered this inter- esting note: ‘‘Capt. Yardarm, of the steamer Blue Blazes found himself in a peculiar predicament off the coast of Florida last Saturday morning. Friday night the ship en- countered a violent gale, which blew away the wake of the vessel, and it required the hardest efforts of the night watch to arouse the sleeping crew that morning.”’ LITERARY NOTES. Mrs.Schuyler Crowninshield, wife of the Admiral who hold the helm in the Navigation Office at Washington, has cor tributed to the October New Lippincott a pathetic tale calle “For the Senora.’”? Mrs. Crowninshield obtained the “‘loce color” for her West Indian stories by official residence and many cruises with her husband among the Antilles, — 1 The September, 1900, number of the “Century Magazine” has the following special features: ‘‘Amusements of th Paris Exposition,” by Mr. Jean Schopfer; ‘““A summer holi- day in Bering Sea,’”’ by Mr. John Burroughs; ‘‘The influence of the Western World on China,’’ by D. Z. Sheffield, D. D.; ‘The revolution in China and its causes,’’ by Mr. R. Van Bergen; ‘‘Responsibility of the leaders of labor,’’ by the edi- tor. There are also the usual drawings, stories, etc. - The August issue of the “Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers’’ contains a timely and valuable paper by Lieut.-Comdr. W. F. Worthington, U. S. N., on ‘*Corro- sion of Boiler Tubes in the United States Navy.’? The ar- ticle is illustrated with numerous examples of boiler tube corrosion from which it appears that ‘‘all tubes corrode, but some more than others,” and it is the intent of this valuable paper to ascertain in some way what the determining factor isin this mysterious destruction of the tubes in our modern naval steam boilers. The boiler is the heart and soul of a ship, and a practicable method of protection against the ‘devil in the feed water’? is the end sought by thousands of engineers inall parts of the civilized world. Lieut. Comdr. Worthington comes to the conclusion that so long as boiler tubes are exposed to the water from which their steam is formed so long will corrosion go on, but several methods of protection against this insidious enemy of efficiency are pointed out, not, however, with much faith in their cure, : but in the hope that ‘‘in the multitude of counsellors there — may be wisdom”’ and safety. The situation in the Far East is still a question of para- mount importance throughout Christendom, and the Octo- ber Century throws some very helpful lights and sidelights upon it. Most novel among these is ‘‘A Plea for Fair Treat- ment’? by Wu Ting Fang, Chinese Minister to the United States. Few if any representatives of his race have Mr. Wu’s wide knowledge of the two worlds now in conflict on Asia- tic soil, and still fewer have the ability to express their views in logical and vigorous English. Mr. Wu’s terse and sug- gestive plea for fair treatment and forbearance is strongly reinforced by Bishop Potter, whose ‘‘Chinese Traits and Western Blunders’’ shows that on his visit last winter he took to China an open mind as well as open eyes. No less significant is a paper by Sheridan P. Read, formerly U.S. Consul at Tientsin, on ‘‘The Chinese as Business Men,’ in which the opinion is expressed that the present disturbing elements, both popular and official, would have yielded, even without foreign intervention, to conservative pressure — from the Chinese merchant class and its following. Side- lights on the present position of affairs abound in ‘‘China’s Holy Land,” by Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, a profusely illus- trated account of a visit to the tomb of Confucius, and in “Chinese Education” (also illustrated), by Romyn Hitch- cock; and of special timeliness in the same connection is an editorial on ‘‘International Hatred.’ er VISIBLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN. As compiled for Tok MARINE RECORD, by George F. Stone, Secretary Chicago Board of Trade. CITIES WHERE WHEAT.| CORN. Oats. RYE. BARLEY STORED. Bushels. | Bushels. | Bushels. | Bushels. | Bushels. 4,146,000 357,000 372,000 37,000 166,000 13,005,000] 2,827,000] 3,184,000 479,000 20,c00 8,000 44,000 222,000 113,000 10,000 6,386,000 20,000 30,000 80,000] 368,000 BODO fiselatern'c Se tai rca MAb [uae wg band «|e eee 779,000 ,000 A Por Artaan, Ont... trae aes a pati ae dues Reta ae a OLEG Os rire s aaiciatrones 1,251,000 82,000] 1,498,000] 23,000]. 4,000 Toronto. wees 25,000 ne s Sseatale A oon vant ans aoa on oe ahs Rta : g05,000 507,000 73,000 26 000 166,000 CR ares ,000] 2,021,000 : ibe : Od Miss River} ech hoe | ae Grand Total..... 5. ,000] 7,322,000 Corresponding Date, ae? ele phe 926.00) 1 TEOO eae pe sects sia Dae 42,143,000] 8,850 000} 7,328,000 709,000} 1,441,000 TNCHEASE Gs ooh be 16,000 170,¢ OR: Decrease sic. cs ces. - Gas iake we : ; es 234,000 atk Reg While the stock of grain at lake ports only is here given. the total shows the figures for the entire country except the Pacific Slope.