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TAE MARINE. REVIEW 7 31 DEVOTED TO EVERYTHING AND EVERY INTEREST CONNECTED OR ASSOCIATED WITH MARINE MATTERS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. ~ Published every Thursday by The Penton Publishing Company CLEVELAND. CHICAGO: MONADNOCK BUILDING. PITTSBURG: PARK BUILDING. 2 NEW YORK: 150 NASSAU STREET. Correspondence on Marine Engineering, Shipbuilding and - Shipping Subjects Solicited. Subscription, $3.00 perannum. To Foreign Countries, $4.50. Subscribers can have addresses changed at will. Change of advertisting copy must reach this office on Thursday preced- ing date of publication. The Cleveland News Co. will supply the trade with the INE. REVIEW through the regular channels of the American News Co. European Agents, The International News Company, Breams Building, Chancery Lane, London, E. C. England. Entered at the Post Office at Cleveland, Ohio, as Second Class. Matter. NOVEMBER 2, 1905. The publication of the Marine Review at present is attended with some difficulty, and the present Enginees' Number is by no means complete. On Monday morning last the printers engaged in getting out the Marine Review and other publications of the Penton Publishing Co. _ struck for an eight-hour day, higher wages and the closed shop. As this company has advocated the open shop for a. great many years it cannot now accede to the demand of the union for a closed one. We believe 'that employers generally should have the right to conduct their own busi- ness, The sudden withdrawal of the operating force has crippled us somewhat, but we do not believe it necessary: to even ask the indulgence of our patrons. We promise to do the best we can under the circumstances, confident of ultimate success. There is to be noted throughout the country a general revival in the question of shipping. News- papers, regardless of party, are discussing the ques- tion. The mere fact that they are disctssing it is helpful, regardless of the fact that some of them are © opposed to governmental support to shipping in the foreign field. They serve by their arguments to bring the question before the people and to get the people thinking. Honest differences of opinion are always to be welcomed. For ourselves we believe > that there never can be an adequate fleet flying the American flag and engaged in foreign trade until the handicaps which have been imposed upon ship- ping by congress are removed. All that the "Ameri: can ship asks and all that it should have, is a fair chance. It has not got that chance now. So long as the United States remains a protective country it should protect all of its industries. It should not exempt a single one of them because it stands to rea- son that so long as protection advances the general cost of things, higher wages and higher price of material, it must cost more to build a ship in the United States than it does abroad, and by the same token, more to operate it after it is built. -_ The season on the great lakes, which is just now drawing to a close, has been the most phenomenal in the history of the lakes. It is unfortunate that there is no measure of the port to port commerce of the great lakes that is even approximate in its estimate. The one assurance we have of the the enormous vol- ume of freight transported along the chain of great lakes is the absolute record kept by the superintend- ent of the Sault Ste Marie Canal. By the time the year is closed nearly forty million tons of freight will have been transported through these canals, most of it, of course, beng east bound traffic. The ease with which this enormous traffic has been han- dled is astonishing. The season was projected early by the vessel owners but nature put a stop to it by locking the fleet in ice above St. Mary's river. Not- withstanding delays, however, the traffic has been readily handled not only by. the: ships but by the shipping and receiving docks as well. Dispatch, in fact, continued excellent until September, when the railways which had always kept a good supply of cars onhand began to divert them into other channels. The general transfer of freight took a big jump throughout the entire country during the latter part of September and the railways found themselves with hopelessly inadequate car supply, notwithstand- ing the fact that during the past two years they have been generously adding to their equipment. The country in general is now transacting a tremendous volume of business. - While the wastage of the Shen during the year has been considerable in the mere number. of craft destroyed, it has been really inconsiderable in -actual tonnage eliminated. The ship yards of the great lakes have orders for twenty-five ships for next year's delivery, any six of which is ample to replace the tonnage destroyed by the elements during the present season. The steamship Siberia which recently brought Mr. E. H. Harriman, president of the: Southern Pacific Railway, and Miss Alice Roosevelt from Japan made a record- breaking trip between Yokahama and San Francisco. Her exact time was ten days, ten hours and twenty-eight minutes