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Mer ape ee 16 MARINE REVIEW. [August 1, MARINE REVIEW Devoted to the Merchant Marine, the Navy, Ship Building, and Kindred Interests. Published every Thursday at No. 418-19 Perry-Payne building, Cleveland, Ohio, by THE Marine Review PusBLisHine Co. SuascripTion--$3.00 per year in advance; foreign, including postage, $4.50, or 1 Circle cae 1D conta each. Convenient binders sent, post paid, $1.00 Advertising rates on application. 9 shillings. Entered at Cleveland Post Office as Second-class Mail Matter. a ---- During the present week stories have emanated from Chicago and elsewhere that the ship builders of the great lakes are behind a movement looking to the abrogation in part of the treaty of 1817 with Great Brit- ain. This treaty prohibits the presence of more than one warship from either country on the great lakes. It therefore forbids the building of warships on the great lakes. While there was at one time need of this treaty it is no longer necessary. This somewhat ancient treaty acts merely as a blight upon a legitimate private business. It really serves today no other purpose. The newspaper dispatches say that the lake s'ip builders on the one hand and the coast ship builders on the other hand are preparing for a terrible conflict before congress this winter--the one to abrogate the treaty and the other to defend it. It is represented that the coast ship builders are painfully aware that the lake builders can underbid them in warship construction, and that, therefore, they will do everything they can to prevent them from competing. All of this is to be entered under the classified heading of "important if true." The trouble is that it isn't true. The lake ship builders are not turning a hair over the treaty of 1817, and as for the coast ship builders, they have probably never heard of it. There isn't very much money in government work, and by the time the builder gets it he has earned every cent of it. Moreover, the issue is not one for congress to settle. A treaty is a con- tract. It cannot be broken without the consent of both parties. Treaties are prepared by the executive end of the government and submitted to the senate for ratification. The treaty of 1817 is one of the measures which the high joint commission had under consideration at its last ses- sion, and which it filed away in a pigeon hole with the Canadian boundary and other questions when it adjourned. The next meeting of the high joint commission is not yet announced. Secretary Hay says that he does not know when the high joint commission will meet again, but that until it does nothing can be done with the treaty of 1817. The passage of Mr. Boutell's bill would be merely the expression of the congressional opin- ion. It would have no effect in law whatever. The Review was in hopes that it could announce this morning the set- tlement of the great steel strike, but such is not, as yet, the case. There was every reason to believe when the present week opened that the strike would be settled on Tuesday upon the terms outlined by the steel cor- poration. The corporation did not concede anything in its terms, 'be- cause there is nothing actually to concede... The hopeful feature of the situation, as it exists today, is the fact that the strike has not spread. It involves the same force that it did in the beginning. Indeed an exten- sion of the strike would be obviously detrimental to those engineering it as it would deplete the resources wherewith the present strikers are maintained. It costs a lot of money to conduct a strike of this character. No violence has been attempted anywhere and indeed there has been no occasion for any. The great corporation has treated its men admirably. It has offered to the strikers all that could with decency be asked. It has indeed adopted a magnanimous attitude toward a body of men who have, without warrant or cause, endeavored to cripple it at a crucial period in its history. The only thing it has refused to do is to violate the consti- tution of the United States which forbids coercion--and it would be coercion of the worst sort for the corporation to demand of its non-union employees that they instantly become union men. The leaders of the amalgamated association seem to be playing more for position than for anything else at present. It cannot be that the sense of the great body of workmen is behind them. In nine cases out of ten if a cause is right-- whether it be capital or labor--it will win; if it is wrong it will lose, In this case the steel corporation is clearly right in its attitude and it is to be hoped that the present week will see the recognition of this fact by the strikers. Admiral Dewey's flagship Olympia will be a much better ship when she goes into commission than she was on May 1, 1898, when the battle of Manila was fought. About $500,000 has been spent upon her. Orna- ments commemorating her great victory have also been attached to her. Naval Constructor William J. Baxter, head of the department of con- struction and repair, first conceived the idea of these ornaments, and he at once set about obtaining the consent of the navy department to put them on. Some of the bronze used in casting the two pieces, stem and stern, was taken from the Olympia, and this gives added value to them. The stem ornament is the more elaborate and really is a work of art. A winged Victory holds high above her head an eagie, which she is about to launch in the air. Victory's wings lie against the sides of the ship's prow. The stern piece consists of a shield with a mass of scroll work on either side. UNITED STATES AS AN EXPORT NATION. DECREASES IN VALUES ARE MORE APPARENT THAN REAL -- DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE EXPORTS. Exports of manufactures from the United States show an apparent de- crease of $23,342,583 in the fiscal year 1901 compared with 1900. The de- tailed figures having just been completed by the treasury bureau of sta- tistics, it is now practicable to analyze this decrease and see how much of it is real and how much of that which is real is due to temporary causes. As has already been explained by the bureau of statistics, the export figures of 1901 do not include, the exports to the Hawaiian islands or to Porto Rico, which are now customs districts of the United States. The shipments of domestic products to Porto Rico were during the year $6,861,917, and including the foreign with the domestic products, exceeded $7,000,000. For the shipments from the United States to the Hawaiian islands there are no official statistics, the exporters having taken advan- tage of the letter of the law and refused to give this information to the bureau of statistics; but the collector of customs at Honolulu estimates the shipments to those islands from the United States during the year at fully $20,000,000. This makes $27,000,000, therefore, which should be added to the export statement in an attempt to compare the figures of the present year with those of 1900. An analysis of the exports from the United States to Porto Rico and the Hawaiian islands last year shows that fully two-thirds were manufactures, and assuming this as a basis of the calculations for the present year, there should be added $18,000,000 to the statement of manufactures exported from the United States, bring- ing the total up to $428,000,000, or only $5,000,000 below that of last year. The exports to China from the United States fell off about $5,000,000 in 1901, compared with 1900, the fall of course being entirely due to tem- porary causes. An examination of our exports to China in 1900 shows that practically all are manufactures, so that the temporary reduction of exports to China due to the unsettled conditions in that country, coupled with the absence of export statistics for Hawaii and Porto Rico, fully equals the entire decrease in our exports of manufactures. In four important articles of our manufactured exports, however, there is a material reduction in the value of exports in 1901, compared with 1900. These articles are: (1) copper, a reduction of $14,500,000; (2) iron and steel, a decrease of $4,500,000, which is entirely accounted for by the absence of figures on the exports to Hawaii, to which the exports of iron and steel alone from the United States last year were over $5,000,000; (8) mineral oils, in which there is a reduction of $3,800,000 in value, and which is due entirely to a reduction in tle export price of oils, the number of gallons exported having actually increased from 817,599,- 499 gallons in 1900 to 870,498,964 gallons in 1901; (4) cotton manufac- tures, a reduction of $3,700,000, which is entirely due to the temporary falling off in outr exports to China, the decrease in exports of cotton goods to China in 1901, compared with 1900, being $4,183,000, or more than the entire decrease in total exports of cotton mantfactures. Taking the en- tire available list of exports of manufactures, numbering about 200 dis- tinct articles or classes of articles, it is found that 60 per cent show an increase in value, as compared with last year, while in a considerable number of those showing a decrease the loss is entirely due to the reduc- tion in price per triit, the actual quantities being in several cases greater and the values less than last year. The following table shows the exports in 1900 and 1901 of all manu- factures in which the total exports in 1901 exceeded $1,500,000: 1900. 1901. Iron and steel and manufactures. .. .$121,913,548 $117,319,270 Refined: mineral oils, .. = 3..2s 68,247,588 64,425,859 Copper; 'mantiactures Of:... 2.4.75 57,852,960 43,267,021 Leather, and manufactures of...... 27,293,010 27,923,653 Cotton manulactures: .<..45. -.4cee. 24,003,087 20,272,418 Agricultural implements .......... 16,099,149 16,313,434 Chemicals, drugs and dyes......... 13,203,610 14,384,448 Wood manufactures: ..¢220 53 -..<,: 11,232,838 11,097,042 Paper and manufactures of 222... ... 6,215,833 7,439,001 Scientific instruments 2... 6... 6,435,766 7,361,231 Parafiin 2.35 ee eee 8,602,723 6,857,288 Tobacco: mantttactureste2..-. 2) 2. 6,010,141 5,092,603 Fibers. eee oe 4,441,833 4,302,776 Carriages and horse cars. ......5... > 8,794,138 4,210,108 Railway Cans 320. 6" 2,558,823 > ~ 4,195,019 Books. maps, etc: 6222s. 2,943,435 3,471,243 Spiritss distilled = 2 3.2 7k. 2978 111 3,054,708 India rubber and gutta percha mfs... 2,367,788 8,017,253 Sugars tetined: 3.300 5) ee 1,004,135 2,969,596 Musical instruments ...25. 0G 1,958,779 2,780,796 Bicycless 6) re re 3,553,149 2,515,729 + Cloeks-and watches'... <5 3... 1,977,694 2,340,751 Glass and wlasswate. 1.2... os. 1,936,119 22196309 Paints atid: COlOLS <"0r. Sa ae: 1,902,367 2,086,343 Brassamanulactures ss; 6s. cc. See 1,866,727 2,007,450 tare reek ee oe 2,604,362 2,005,865 Walt liquors 3 ae 2;139,216 1,723,040 Gunpowder and other explosives... 1,891,604 1,712,102 Marble and stone manufactures.... 1,677,169 1,638,314 Soaps te ee ee 1,774,024 1,569,180 Wools manutactures: ...: 2. 1.225. 1,300,362 1,542,682 The ship building interests at San Francisco are feeling the blighting effects of the strike. The Union Iron Works, in particular, has been seriously crippled. The fine steamer Spokane, intended for excursions in northern waters, would have been in commission before this had the strike not intervened. The boilers of the huge steamer Alaskan will be placed in position next week and only a short time will elapse before the big twin-screw freighter will be ready for her trial trip. Four gangs of riveters have been put on the transport Sherman in an effort to hurry the work along. Until recently 500 men were at work upon this vessel but the strike has greatly interfered since.