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MARINE The Cruiser Chicago. ' As flag ship of the White Squadron, the cruiser Chicago, named for the leading city of the lakes, has been generally ad- mired, and she has proven herself an excellent and serviceable vessel. She recently returned to the New York navy yard from a cruise along the coast of South America. 'The illustration on this page was prepared by the Railroad and Engineering Jour- nal of New York, from a photograph taken a short time ago. The Chicago was built at the Roach yards in Chester, ae She is an unarmored steel cruiser with protective deck, and is 315 feet long, 48 feet 2 inches beam, 19 feet mean draft, and 4,500 tons displacement. She has three masts, and is bark-rigged, carrying more sail than most of the newcruisers. She has twin screws driven by compound engines, and her recorded speed is 15 knots an hour. Her coal capacity is 940 tons, and on that supply the cruising range is 6,000 knots at a 10-knot speed. The main battery consists of four 8-inch, eight 6-inch and two 5-inch breech-loading rifles, and the secondary battery in- cludes 12 small rapid-fire and machine guns. REVIEW. 9 Grain at Chicago and Duluth. Stocks of grain at Chicago and Duluth on Monday, July r1, were as follows: Chicago. Duluth. Wheat, bu. Corn, bu. All wheat, bu. TT ATONE. ct enet haronborae eee Pern 4,678,000 4,118,000 3,541,000 Decrease last week....6.5.5....0.-45. 2S D500 etree reek eee 367 ,000 Increase last week.........-....0s00+0 canner DO OOO> (58 ectuee Torrens In addition to the above there is 1,470,000 bushels of oats, 100,000 bushels of rye and 22,000 bushels of barley in store in Chicago. The American Water Transportation Company. A dispatch from Chicago a few days ago announced that the American Water Transportation Company, capital $1,000, - ooo, had been incorporated under the laws of Illinois, although the promoters of the company were from Cleveland. Martin A. Mayo, Lon M. Snyder and Frank Briggs were named as incor- porators. Frank Briggs has been engaged in the coal business in Cleveland and has had some experience in lake shipping mat- ters. He recently constructed a model of a steambarge divided UNITED STATES CRUISER CHICAGO. Conneaut Preparing for Lake Business. Another Lake Erie port, Conneaut, O., will undoubtedly get a share of the coal and iron ore business of the lakes, begin- ning with the close of the present season. Plot om biel and Mayor A. C. Huydekoper of Meadville, Pa., "together with other capitalists of Youngstown, O., and Meadville owning coal and iron properties, have already constructed a railroad from Conneaut to Pittsburgh, having entrance into the latter city from Butler, Pa., over the Pittsburgh & Western Railway. The new road is now doing some business between Erie and Pittsburgh, by using the Nickel Plate between Conneaut and Erie. Capt. Day, who was in charge of poeeNi. Wo ce Ore docks in Cleveland for a number of years, has gone to Conneaut to look after the construction of docks for the new company. "he track is all laid to the dock site. Conneaut harbor is one the finest on Lake Erie. There is 16 feet of water for a great length of the river within the harbor and the bottom is very soft. 'The river and harbor bill gives the harbor an appropria- tion of $50,000. 'This will serve to give a good entrance to the river, into eight or ten compartments entirely separate of each other, each resting on scales in the lower part of the hold and fitted to discharge from the bottom into a continuous belt system after the methods in use in grain elevators. Big elevator tubes for- ward are connected with the continuous belt system in the hold and are intended to discharge cargo. Without much study of the invention it will readily be seen that Mr. Briggs' boat would, if built, carry a very small load. He has spent a great deal of time and some money on the model. The object of incorporat- ing under Illinois laws is probably to evade expense of incor- poration dues in Ohio. It is not probable that the million dol- lar company will revolutionize the water carrying trade at once. A Washington dispatch, published at the time of our going to press, says that the state department is informed that the Canadian government has put an end to the canal tolls contro- versy by granting all that the United States government asks for in the matter of tolls. The story is very probably of the sensational order.