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im MARINE REVIEW. Yachts Built at Roach's Yard. One of the most successful pleasure craft built this year is the new yacht Parthenia, recently finished at Roach's Delaware River Tron Shipbuilding and Engine Works, Chester, Pa., for Stephen W. Roach, the youngest son of the great ship builder. The Parthenia is now attached to the Larchmont yacht club and has attracted much attention about New York. She isa schooner rigged steel vessel of 115 feet 9 inches on the water-line, with a very great over-hang, her lines being unusually graceful, and the extending bow and stern bringing her length over all up to 142 feet. Her breadth of beam is 18 feet, and the depht of hold 9 feet, with a depth in the water of about 6 feet 6 inches. The Parthenia is driven by a triple expansion engine of the most approved type, with cylinders 9, 16 and 25 inches diameter by 14 inches stroke of piston. Steam is supplied by two Almy water tube boilers, with a grate surface of 32 square feet. Her wheel, which is three-bladed, is 6 feet 6 inches in diameter, with a pitch of 7 feet. The gross tonnage of the Parthenia is 130.91, and net 89.02. Deck houses and exposed woodwork is all of polished mahogany. There are seven staterooms and a handsome saloon, finished in white and old gold. This little steamer 'maintains a speed of eighteen miles an hour with perfect ease. The Aileen for Richard Stevens, the millionaire vessel owner of Hoboken, N. J., and the Oneonta, for F. C. Dinninny of New York, are other yachts recently finished at the Chester yard. . The Oneonta, in maintainig a speed of twenty-two miles an hour, four miles in ex- the year. The Aileen was built for pleasure and comfort, but has also made a creditable showing of speed. 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 in regular eleya- tors at the principle points of accumulation on the lakes on July 25, 1896: Wheat, bushels. Corn, bushels, Chicago cea petssietiiiez ccc, GIA TO0O? 4,979,000 Duluth. s.s..ssaesecssvietse sstessetsevscesse 7,018,000 6,000 Milwaukee ...cccccesccseee aan vee 393,000 2,000 Detrolteis titi shicisvscesvnsueen 1701000 1,000 MOledG eaten ae . 563,000 37,000 Buffalo....csssscesesees s Seabees S05 1,494,000 144,000 otalnc ws bat seta 23,512.000 5,169,000 As compared with a week ago, the above figures show at the sey- eral points named an increase of 730,000 bushels of wheat, and a de- crease of 421,000 bushels of corn. Thirty-six half-tone engravings, 6 by 8 inches, well printed, and all made up from good photographs of vessels of the United States nayy, are contained in a neat pamphlet, just issued by the Inter- national Engraving and Illustrating Co. of Philadelphia. Letters bearing the following names await claimants at the marine post office, Detroit: George Burke, H. W. Candler, Capt. Wm. Christee, F. Germain, Jessie Jossepp, William Jimmerson, James Johnston, William Jobbitt, Mack MacDonald. The I. O. O. F. excursion rates to Buffalo via Nickel Plate road will be a fare and a third. Tickets are on sale, Aug. 4th, 5th and 6th. 203-July 31. One fare rates to Omaha via the Nickel Plate road Aug. 17th and 1sth, account the Y.-F. ©: U. of the U. P. church. 204-July 31. Air is Cheap--Cheaper wi Six Boilers with Howden Hot Draft appliances now in Side-Weeel Steamer City of Buffalo. Dimensions of each boiler--12 ft. 6 in. diameter by 12 ft. length. HOWDEN than Dirt! mrs Ei FUEL IS DEAR=VERY DEAR! _ "USE AIR AND SAVE FUEL! Boxee in operating expenses on Lake Ships must come from No great saving can be made in labor cost, and provisions are already low. But fuel bills can be lowered and cheap coal used to advantage by adopting Modern Methods of making reduced coal bills. steam at low cost. No manufacturer of pig iron would to-day think of running his furnace without a hot blast. This same competition demands advanced practice in the operation of ships. Competition would not permit it. The same principle is applied in the HOT DRAFT Now in use on Lake Steamers aggregating over 40,000 Horse Power. CAN BE APPLIED TO OLD SHIPS AS WELL AS NEW ONES. No complicated machinery. Cool engine rooms and cool fire holds . Estimates readily furnished for application of this draft to any steamer Dry Dock ENCINE WorKS,. DETROIT, MICH. cess of the contract stipulations, is one of the most notable triumphs of -- a