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oF Stocks of Grain at Lake Ports. The following table, prepared from reports of the Chicago board of trade, shows the stocks of wheat and corn in store at the principal points of accumulation on the lakes on Aug. 26, 1893: Wheat, bu. Corn, bu. CHICS OG = tert irqercesPmpeeee 18,402,000 1,227,000 DMG inne Soccs os etereematc cee 2 55S, 0GOn i He arseeees Mal Watkcee ¢ i.024.resse tue seme O55 0OOt - aehd tera cee TCE ORG caconscad cee ee 892,000 9,000 LOlGGO s\ivered «os codes he earn 1,376,000 47,000 IS Guia Opscr ace steer ee eet 1,219,000 294,000 Otel pte x say sree tee 25,302,000 1,577,000 At the points named there is a net decrease for the week of 964,000 bushels of wheat and a net increase of 36,000 bushels of corn. Launch of the Centurion. In THE MARINE REVIEW, issue of March 2, 1893, there is a very full description, with engravings, of the steel steamer Cen- turion, launched Wednesday from the yard of F. W. Wheeler & Co., West Bay City, Mich. March 2 was the date on which the keel of the steamer was laid, and considerable ceremony accom- panied the work, as the builder, Mr. F. W. Wheeler, was on that day forty years of age and the boat was No. rooin the yard. The Centurion has since been purchased by the Hopkins Trans- portation Company, of which Capt. John Mitchell of Cleveland is general manager, and the only alteration of importance made since the plans were published is a change in the location of the engines from amidships to the after part of the boat, as is the case with nearly all modern lake steamers. The principal di- mensions of this boat are: Length over all, 378 feet 6 inches; length of keel, 360 feet ; breadth, extreme, 45 feet 236 inches; breadth, moulded, 45 feet; depth, moulded, 26 feet; depth of hold 13 feet 214 inches; height between decks, 9 feet 2 inches ; height of forecastle, 7 feet 6 inches. The engines, also built by F. W. Wheeler & Co., are triple expansion, with cylinders 23, 37% and 63 inches by 44 inches stroke, driving a Trout wheel of 13 feet 6 inches diameter. 'There are three cylindrical boilers of the return tubular type, 12 feet 6 inches diameter and 12 feet 8 inches long, working at a pressure of 170 pounds. With Roberts Boilers. The steel steam yacht Marietta designed by Mr. Henry J. Gielow and owned by Mr. Harrison B. Moore of New York, had her trial trip yesterday. She left Erie Basin at 3 o'clock and went as far as Yonkers and returned. 'The yacht is very steady and a good sea boat. 'The run from Yonkers to the Battery, against head wind and tide, with natural draft and damper partly closed, the boat averaged 1614 miles an hour. _ The foregoing paragraph is from the New York Herald of August 25, and the item is interesting in view of the fact that the Marietta contains two of the four Roberts boilers which were formerly in the steam yacht Radha. These boilers were condenined as a failure and taken out of the Radha, notwith- standing the fact that they never gave any trouble.when Mr. Roberts or his represgntative was aboard. 'The Radha at one time ran from Poughkeepsie bridge to the Battery against the tide in 4 hours and 50 minutes with these boilers and natural draft, but her engineer did not seem able to appreciate them. Aiter standing two years on Tebo's dock, exposed to.the weather, they were sold at auction and bought by John W. Sullivan, who then sold two of them to Com. Moore. They were put in the Marietta without any alteration or repairs, after being tested at 400 pounds hydrostatic pressure and licensed for 250 pounds of steam pressure. 'The result shows that Com. Moore's confidence in the boilers was not misplaced. He had used two Roberts boilers previously, and is an enthusiastic admirer of them. The captain of the English ship Glenesslin, lately arrived at Philadelphia, brought an order from her English owners to pur- chase two Providence power capstans from the American Ship Windlass Company for use on that ship. The owners. stated that the Providence capstans were better and cheaper than En- glish capstans. . MARINE REVIEW. it IIL EM SE FS PU ON. SOI reece -- From the Fair City. WESTERN OFFICE, MARINE REVIEW, { No, 701 Phoenix Building, CH1caGo, Ill., Aug, 31. The Christopher Columbus carries out an unusually large load of people to Milwaukee every Sunday, to the surprise of all passenger steamboat men- Last Sunday she had about 3,200, and more would have gone had they not got down too late to get on board, The line needs all this help, evidently, for it is said that the other beats are losing money in the regular trade, and that the profits on the Sunday excursions are necessary to pay expenses. All other steamboat schemes, of which there were so many in the spring, have disap. peared with the middle of the season, and live only in the memories of the people who carry on their books bills against the boats. The Sunday races between the Chicora and City of Toledo to St. Joe are abandoned. The Chi- cora carried off the honors, but marine men all say with more boiler power the City of Toledo would be the hardest boat to pass that ever came into Chi- cago. The fast time of the big whaleback is taken now as asettled thing, but the stories of twenty-three miles an hour and over, as well as those of 6,000 and 7,000 passengers in a load to Milwaukee are not being related these days. The Columbus can make 20 to 21 miles an hour fora steady run, and by crowding can, of course, do some better. The absence of disasters in the blow of the early part of the week, is as good an index as any on the light condition of marine business. Had there been more boats ouf in a storm of that severity, it seems as though some of them would have brought up somewhere with great injury to themselves, At the rate interest is growing in yachting here, it will be but a year or so before Chicago has the finest fleet of pleasure craft on the chain of lakes, and a good harbor to put them in, too. Then, and not until then, will we be in shape to fittingly receive visitors from anywhere on the lakes or coast. The open race last Saturday was the prettiest ever witnessed here. In addition to a score of racers, there was a big turnout of other sail and steam yachts, An Opening in the St. Lawrence Grain Trade. Special Correspondence to the MARINE REVIEW. Kingston, Ont., Aug. 31.--The grain situation is further complicated by the announcement that the elevators at Ogdensburg are filled and for a week or more no further accommodation can be given there. The Montreal Herald in noting the blockade here suggests that the city of Kingston guarantee the bonds of a private concern which would put up an elevator to cost $300,000. or $400,000. That such a suggestion does not/find fayor here is manifest by by the replies of local newspapers. '"The people have a fair amount of com- mon sense,"' says the Whig, "and they are not going to bonus any further two companies that are so wealthy and independent that their stock is not purchas- able at any figure. Asa monopolistic combine they command exorbitant rates between Kingston and Montreal, as compared with rates from Chicago, and if they built half a dozen elevators in Kingston it would nof be too great an ex- piation from the injury their want of proper enterprise to ayoid delays has done to the port and to the whole St. Lawrence route. It is a wonder that some active Unlted States firm, seeing that money is being coined on the river, does not come over and take a hand in the freighting. The Montreal gentlemen who build steamers in Scotland out of thousands made in Kingston, may build elevators for their own trade." The steamer Bannockburn was successfully towed in sections from Mon- treal and is now in the government dry dock, and will he united in a few days, She will be put into the Duluth-Kingston trade. Official Numbers and Tonnage. The bureau of navigation, E, C. O'Brien commissioner, assigned, during the week ending Aug. 20, official numbers to the following lake vessels and also passed upon their tonnage: Steam--W. P. Ketcham, Chicago, IIl., 946.38 tons gross, 759.59 net, No. 81,447; Fliseen, Oswego, N. Y., 25.32 tons gross, 12.66 net; No, 120,948. Sail--Jeannettie, Chicago, IIl., 11.76 tons gross, 11.17 net, No, 77,107. Heavy East-Bounp TRAVELt.--On account of growth of east-bound busi- _ ness, the Nickel Plate road will inaugurate a new through express on Sunday, Sept. 3. Palace sleepers Chicago to Buffalo and direct connection at Buffalo for all points east. It is a pleasure to note the addition of another through train to the al- ready competent train service of the Nickel Plate road. It will leave Chicago about 8 a. m. and reach Buffalo at 3 or 4 o'clock the following morning. Through sleepers Chicago to Buffalo. Direct connection at Buffalo for all points east. PHOTOTYPES OF THE NEW NORTHERN STEAMERS, THE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, THE S. S. CURRY AND TWELVE OTHERS, INCLUDING A PICTURE OF THE GREAT EASTERN, SENT TO ANY ADDRESS ON RECEIPT OF 50 CENTS BY THE MARINE REVIEW, | NO. 516 PERRY-PAYNE BUILDING, CLEVELAND, 0. s