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VOL. XXIV, No. 48. ESTABLISHED 1878. CLEVELAND -- NOVEMBER 28, 1901 == CHICAGO. y g $a.00 Per Year. toc. Single Copy LAKE CARRIERS’ ASSOGIATION. To consider and take action upon all general questions relating to the navigation and carrying business of ‘the Great Lakes, maintain necessary shipping offices: and: in ‘general, to protect the common interests of Lake Car- riers, and toimprove the character of the service rendered to the public. _ PRESIDENT. 3)! ios Duluth. A. B. WOLVIN, Seed 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT: : Capt. J. G. KEITH, Chicago, SECRETARY. ae CHARLES H. KEEP, _, Buffalo, TREASURER. eR GEoRGE P. McKay, Cleveland. ' COUNSEL. STACI Harvey D. Gou-peEr, "O. Cleveland. EXECUTIVE AND FINANCE COMMITTEE. JAMES CORRIGAN, Chairman, Cleveland. COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION. Gipson I,. Doucvas, Chairman, Buffalo. COMMITTEE ON AIDS TO NAVIGATION. GerorGE P. McKay, Chairman, © ‘Cleveland, RESOLUTIONS OF CONDOLENCE. A special meeting of the Lake Carriers’ Association was held at the office of J. C. Gilchrist, Cleveland, on Friday, to take appropriate action on the death of David Carter, of Detroit. James Corrigan acted as chairman of the meet- ing, and George P. McKay as secretary. A committee consisting of I. F. Newman, John Mitchell, Harvey D. Goulder, and H. Coulby. were appointed to report suitable resolutions and to attend the funeral as representing the association to be held at Detroit.. A general invitation was extended by the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation com- pany, of which Mr. Carter was manager, to all members of the Association to attend the services at Detroit Saturday; going and returning on the company’s steamer. The committee appointed reported the following resolu- tions: “The members of the Lake Carriers’ Association, many of whom were life-long, personal friends of David, Carter, of Detroit, learn with deep regret of his death, and in.con- sonance with the esteem and personal regard in which he was held by all, record is here made. His long. connection with the marine interests of the lakes made him known to all, and brought him into close, personal association. with many of us, No one was held in more kindly regard ; the judgment of none carried greater weight in the councils called from time to time in the common interest of all, By his death we lose a clear-minded, reliable, consistent asso- ciate; a kindly, considerate, trustful friend. At all times, in all places, and to all men, he was a whole-souled, con- scientious, tolerant, Christian gentleman. Therefore, be it “Resolved, That we, as friends and associates of 'the de-' ceased, hereby make due acknowledgment of our loss and extend to the widow and family of the deceased our sym- pathy in their greatest loss. That a committee of this as- sociation attend the burial services and that as many of the members attend as may be able, and that all vessels belong- ing to the association fly their colors at half ‘mast on Sat- urday, November 23, 1901. That a record of this niemorial be made upon the books of the association and copies trans- mitted to the family of the deceased and to the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company, to which and its predeces- sor he gave long, continuous, progressive endeavor.” ———————————— ———— HAMBURG SHIPPING. The number of ships which entered the port of Hamburg in the first nine months of this year was 9,937, of an aggre- gate burden of 6,418,593 tons, as compared with 10,121 ships of an aggregate burden of 6,099,687 tons, in the cor- responding period of 1900. Steamers figured in these totals for 5,722,246 tons, and 5,460,647 tons respectively. The number of ships cleared from Hamburg in the first nine months of this year’ was 9,842, of an aggregate burden of 6,355,813 tons, as compared with 10,106 ships, of aggre- gate burden of 6,140,234 tons in the corresponding period of 1900. Steamers figured in these totals for 5,670,599 tons and 5,483,174 tons respectively. GERMAN SHIPBUILDING. __ - In the department of shipbuilding Germany still shows an unimpaired and extraordinary activity. There ate in the industrial history of the world few chapters’ compar- able to that which records the dévelopment’ of steel ship construction in that country since 1890. From the most trustworthy statistics that can be obtained it.appears that there. were in construction during, 1900 in private German , yards on home or, foreign account, and’ in foreign yards. on - German account, 693 vessels of 763,284 gross tons. register. , Of these, 493 were steamers, with an aggregate registry of 700,848 gross tons. The 200 \sailers built last;-year. regis- tered 62,436 tons, an average of 312, which shows that: they were mainly sniall vessels for fishery and the coasting “trade. Of the total: number’ on the stocks, 447 vessels’ of. 382,072 tons’ gross were completed: during the year, leav- ing 297. in» construction at ‘the end of December; most’ of -which have since been finished and put into commission. Altogether, there were launched in 1890 from German ‘yards ‘385 vessels, and in foreign yards for German: own- ‘ers 62, an aggregate output of 447 ships of 382,070 gross tons register. Deducting from this the 194 vessels of 112- 868. tons built in German, shipyards for foreign owners, it is found that 253 vessels of 269,202'tons were added to the merchant marine under the. German flag during the year. The following interesting cu qparison of the tonnage of the leading steamship lines o1;the several maritime’ na- tions at. the close of 1900 will show how, valiantly the two principal German companies maintain their position in the front rank: ‘Line. Flag. Tonnage. Hamburg-American Line........ German....| 615,000 North German Lloyd........... se 540,000 British India Steamship Naviga- tion; Company accor. cai Poe aslo Gomer 380, 0c 0 Elder Dempster, Limited....... 5 375,000 Leyland (Morgan).............. American..| 325,000 Peninsular and Oriental........ British..... 315,000 Union) Cape Tine co cite ae eo . 245,000 Messageries Maritimes..... See BORG. os 7 245,000 Nippon Upsau Kaischa.......... Japanese...}| 195,0co Navigazione Generale........... Italian... 180,c00 Russian Shipping and Commer-| . cial: Companys ios. 8.6 one ‘Russian....|' 165,000 Austrian dloyd jis.ci ie eis... Austrian...| ' 155,coo Forenede Dampskips........... Danish .,...|, 130j;000 The contest for speed'supremacy in the trans-Atlantic pas- senger and’ mail traffic'seems to have been definitely aban- doned' by other: maritime nations to Germany, and it’ is now a duel'between the two: leading German lines, whose experience -has demonstrated what) had been previously doubted, viz., that the largest and fastest ships, however great the cost of adding a knot or two per hour to their speed,, are the most profitable, and are preferred by the class, of trans-Atlantic travelers who are ready and eager to pay extravagant rates for passage on lines which can cut down,the transit from continent to continent by a few hours only. Of the 21 steamships of 10,000 tons or over which were floated in 1898, England owned 6, Germany 10, the Uuited States 4, and Holland 1: In t1go1, are 61 of these leviathans in commission, of which 26 fly the Brit- ish flag, 24 belong to Germany, 6 to the United States, 3 to Holland, and 2 to France. Not only were the shipbuilding industries ‘in Germany ac- tive’during the past year, but from all that can be ascer- tained they were exceptionally profitable. It is stated in a leading financial journal that ‘the aggregate dividends paid by thirteen of the largest German shipyards in ‘1900 amount- ed to 107.5 per cent. of their. actual capital, as against 68 per cent. in 1896. One company, the Flensburg, paid 18 per cent. on its entire stock; and the. Vulcan company, of Stettin and Bremen, which builds the greyhounds for the North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American companies, paid 12 per cent. on its shares. Notwithstanding the troubles in Asia, which reacted more or less upon all eastern trade, the freight carried om the subsidized lines of the North German Lloyd Company to China and Aus- tralasia. amounted to 190,584 tons, valtied at 180,421,000 marks, against 179,719 tons, valued at 165,268,000 marks, in 1808. These totals do not include the precious metals, which form a large percentage of the valuable freight carried by these lines. _MEETING OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS. At the meeting of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, in New York, last week, the following officers’ were elected for the year: Clement'A. Griscom, president; Francis M: Bowles, Chas. H. Cramp, Frank L. Fernald, Philin Hichborn, Chas. H. Loring, Geo. W: Mel- ville,’ Geo.” W. Quintard, Wm. T. Sampson, Irving. M. Scott, and Edward A. Stevens, vice-presidents; Washing- ton L. Capps, secretary and treasurer. Members of ‘the council elécted—W. Irving Babcock, Washington L.-Capps, French. Chadwick, Jas. E. Denton, Geo.’ W., Dickie, Wm. F.. Durand, Edward Farmer, Nathaniel G. -Her- reshoff, \Wm. H. Jacques, John C.. Kafer, Frank B. King, Frank E.; Kirby, Walter M. McFarland, Jacob W: Miller, Lewis Nixon, Cecil H.. Peabody, Walter A. Post, Harring- ton Putnam, Horace See, E., Platt Stratton,, Stevenson Taylor, Geo. E. Weed, Prof. J. N. Holtes and Naval: Con- structor D. W. Taylor. The members of the: Executive Committee elected are as follows: Francis T. Bowles, chairman; H. T. Gause, Harrington Putman, Lewis’ Nixon, ‘Edwin A. Stevens, Clement A. Griscom, ex-officio.’ ’’There was a large attendance at the morning session when Steven- son Taylor, vice-president of the W. & L. Fletcher ‘Co.;act- ing chairman in the absence of President Griscom, called the meeting to order. Among those present were: P. W. Kemble, Naval Constructor’ W. L. Capps, Prof. Alex. J. McLean, Chas. H. Cramp, C. P. Smith, R. C. Veit, Naval Constructor John F:-Hanscom, Thos. F. Rowland; Frank B. King, Chief Engineer Franz Kevitch, Lieut. Madedon- sky. of the Imperial. Russian Navy. and Col. Petroff, now visiting Cramp’s shipyards. |The following papers were read at the session of the Nov. 14: ‘Trials of Speed Be- tween the Steamers City of Erie and. Tashmoo,” by Frank E. Kirby, member of Council; ‘Effect of Variation: of Dimension on the Stresses.in a Ship’s Constructure,”. by Prof. H. C. Sadler, member; “#ower Consumed. in Pro- pelling the Whitehead Torpedo at Various Speeds,”. by Frank M. Leavitt, member; “Balancing Marine En- gines”’ (prize competition paper), Rear-Admiral Geo. W. Melville U. S. Navy; “Balancing Marine Engines” (prize competition paper), by Naval:Constructor D. W. Taylor, U. S. Navy. rr oo oo SHIPBUILDING CENSUS FIGURES. A. F. Tennille, writing to the American Machinist, says : A preliminary report of the census covering a part of the manufacturing industries of the United States shows that, during the ten years from 1890 to 1900 there ‘has been an increase in the number of shipbuilding establishments in the United States from 1,006 to 1,083, or 7.7 per cent. . These, and all the subsequent figures, relate to those, out- side of government control. : The capital invested increased during the ten years from $27,262,892 to $76,690,651, or 181.3 per cent.,. while , the number of wage earners increased from 22,143 to 46,121, or 108.3 per cent. Of the expenditures, the following is reported: The ex- penditure for wages has increased from $13,083,949 to $24,- 388,109, or 86.4 per cent.; under the head of miscellaneous expense there has been an increase from $1,392,551 to $3,- 582,257, or 157.2 per cent. The cost of material used in 1890: was reported as being $16,521,146, whereas in 1900 it was $33,031,280. The total value of production in all these various: estab- lishments has, including custom work and repairing; in- creased from $38,065,410 to $73,444,753, or 92.9 per cent. oe NO BENEFIT TO THE SERVICE. In a letter addressed to the inspectors of the different life-saving districts of the United States, General Superin- tendent S .I..Kimball states that a concern styled the United States Lifesavers’ National Benefit Association has been incorporated, under the laws of the State of Maine for. :the alleged purpose of publishing and selling a history of the United States, life-saving, service, and that agents sent out by the concern soliciting subscriptions in various parts, of the country on the strength of a statement that the money obtained is to be used for the benefit of ex-life savers of the United States life-saving s-rvice and their families General Superintendent Kimball desires it to be, understood that neither the life-saving service nor any of its officers have anything to do with the project or any connection with it whatever.