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1904] MARINE REVIEW ee 33 ' BATTLESHIP MISSOURI ON HER TRIAL TRIP. Built by Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va.] seriously formulate such measures for the levying of prohibitive tonnage taxes on all foreign ships and thus strike directly at friendly foreign competitors is inconceivable to free trade Eng- land. Should American legislators commit such an atrocity as to pass into law Messrs. Greene and Sulzer's bills, we in this country could not but look upon the act as a most unfriendly one, and the strongest evidence possible of the empty, bragging nature of the business men of the United States who appear to dread anything in the form of outright and straightforward competi- tion." I give these observations as showing the feeling of some shipping men here upon America's proposed shipping nursery, and while the strong language will not find general endorsement, there is a concensus of opinion that legislation on the lines. indi-; cated is altogether unworthy of such an enlightened and great commercial country as the United States of America. Capt. Alexander McKay, commodore of the Cunard fleet, having retired after thirty-three years service with the Cunard company, and having commanded no fewer than fourteen Cun- arders, he has been succeeded in the command of the Lucania by Capt. Walt of the Campania. The appointment as commodore captain is, however, understood to be only temporary while the Campania is receiving her annual overhaul, the final selection hav- ing yet to be made by the directors. On Thursday of last week Lord Strathcona opened the hand- -some new offices at Charing Cross, London, of the Canadian Pa- cific Railway Co. These new premises have a most imposing ap- pearance, and are in every respect worthy to be the European traffic headquarters of the great railway undertaking which joins the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards of North America. In the building of this handsome structure which overlooks Trafalgar square, the world seems to have been ransacked for the materials which are used in the work. The ground floor is laid in mosaic and shows the arms of the dominion and provinces of Canada. There are alabaster mouldings from Derbyshire, the walls are lined with Grecian marble, with a dado of teak framing Cuban mahogany panels, the arch of the inglenook is from the Pyreneese, the columns from Greece, with basis of onyx from Brazil, the mouldings around the fireplace from Languedoc, and the chimney piece is from Sienna. Above the ground floor, the front of which is of polished Swedish granite, there are five 'stories which are reached by an electric lift, or by a staircase lined with marble from Devon, the dado coming from the Alps, and the wall lining from Italy. The doors throughout are of polished Canadian birch. Lord Strathcona reviewed the rapid development of the Canadian Pacific Railway during its short history, which he said was an assured success amongst the railways of the American continent. Not only did the line run from St. John's to the Pa- cific, but in connection with the route a line of boats--the Em- press steamers--ran to China and Japan. More recently the com- pany had taken up a line of steamers from Great Britain to Can- ada, so that they were not only a railway company, but a steam- ship company as well, and they were doing, he believed, a very great service to the commerce between the mother country, Can- ada, the far east and Australasia. Even now the communication "between Great Britain and Canada was not what it ought to be. 'They required a much faster service of steamers as a complement to the railway across the cofitinent, and the subsequent journey s 'of culinary employment. [Photo copyrighted, 1903, by N. L. Stebbins, Boston. east and south, and no doubt that would come in good time. Lord Strathcona eulogized the great work accomplished by Mr. Archer Baker, the European traffic manager, since he arrived in 1885 to consolidate the company's business and develop it upon larger lines. SIDE-WHEEL STEAMER JAMES T. MORSE, The Eastern Steamship Co.,, Boston, Mass., will very shortly have on its Rockland-Bar Harbor run the splendid side-wheel steamer James T, Morse, now building at the works of William _ McKie, East Boston, Mass., and designed by Calvin Austin, vice- president and general manager of the company. Her dimensions are: Length 214 ft.; beam, 30 ft.; depth, 12 ft. She is equipped with a beam engine, cylinder 51 in. diameter by stroke of 9 ft., built by the W. & A. Fletcher Co., Hoboken, N.'J. It is estimated that her speed will be 18 miles an hour at 35 revolutions per minute. The steamer is constructed of wood, having oak frames and hard pine planking. Her engine room, on the main deck, is All the space on this deck forward of the aft From the companionway encased in iron. companionway is designed for freight. aft is a dining room 43 ft. long and extending the entire width of the vessel. The remainder of the space aft is occupied by a ladies' saloon and toilet rooms. A glass-enclosed saloon extends about two-thirds of the length of the steamer. The smoking room is located in the forward part of the saloon. The purser's office is situated in the saloon di- rectly forward of the steam dome. A walk outside extends com- pletely around the saloon, inside the wheels, and is about 4 ft. in width. The wheel batteries are paneled and have the appearance of forming the inside of a stateroom. 'There are five large state- rooms and one toilet on each side, which are a continuation for- ward and aft of the wheel batteries, the outside of the rooms being flush with the waterways. The ship's officers are housed on the hurricane deck. Abaft of the pilot house and extending the entire width of the house is the captain's room. Aft of the captain's room are the quarters for the mates, pilots, engineer and electrician. The kitchen is located directly. under the dining room, but by means of pipes and ven- tilators the air is led from the kitchen through the after part of the engine room enclosure, thus removing completely every evidence The steamer will be lighted throughout with electricity and will possess every modern convenience, The fittings and furnishings will be first class in every particular. Sahara is the name selected for the large steel freighter, about 8,500 gross tons capacity, which the American Ship Build- ing Co. is building for G. A. Tomlinson of Duluth. The steamer building at the Great Lakes Engineering Works, Detroit, for Frank Seither and others is to be named for Capt. R. W. Eng- land, who is interested in the Seither vessels. The company or- ganized for the operation of this vessel will be known as the 'England Transit Co. The Hanley Construction Co., Quincy, Mass., is building a tug for service in Cuban rivers of the following dimensions: Length, 57 ft.; beam, 14 tS depth, 4 fi, aoe |