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The Pacific Mail steamship Korea, the largest ship ever built on this continent, now presents the appearance of a finished vessel, from the out- side, and it is announced that she will be ready to leave here on her long voyage to the Pacific shortly. Material is now arriving at the ship yard in large quantities. Owing-to the congestion of freight on the railroads and delays in the mills, material was hard to get here and it became nec- essary to lay off some men, although there was work for all of them. Now that the material is arriving as needed the men have been replaced and the ship yard is as busy as it ever was. Within the past week nearly forty car loads of steel billets arrived here from Antwerp, coming in under the head of "consumption"' entries. = Hite St ooo It is impossible to tell in this way to whom the steel is consigned, as it - will be taken out as it is needed, but it is believed that it will eventually find its way to the Pennsylvania mills. One firm it is known has placed orders abroad aggregating 3,000 tons of steel and the steamship St. Leon- ards, which brought the steel here, reports that a chartered ship is now loading at Antwerp 5,000 tons of steel for New Orleans. This is a sign of good times, for it means that the American mills have all of the orders that they can fill. The battleship Illinois is at anchor off the ship yard, having arrived several days ago from New Orleans via Havana. She recently tested the new floating dry dock at New Orleans and came here to prepare for her sea trial prior to final acceptance by the government from the builders. While here the Illinois will fit out for her duty as flagship of the special squadron under Rear Admiral Evans which will welcome Prince Henry next month. Admiral Evans will raise his flag over the Illinois here shortly. Hoan Roads instead of Tompkinsville, N. Y., as the Illinois is here, the San Francisco is over at Norfolk navy yard and the Olympia, Cin- cinnati and Hartford will have to come down the coast anyway, it having been decided that the squadron will meet the Emperor's private yacht in this vicinity on its way up from the West Indies. Indeed, it is probable that he will organize his squadron at | _ BUILT ON THE LAKES FOR OCEAN SERVICE. STEAMERS MINNETONKA AND MINNEWASKA, CF 7,000 TONS CAPACITY EACH, WILL SOON BE READY TO BE TAKEN IN SECTIONS TO THE ATLANTIC SEABOARD--DESCRIPTION AND PLANS. A statement recently compiled from the great volume of information regarding ship building, that is collected each year by the British Lloyds, gave to the American Ship Building Co. of the great lakes the third place among ship builders of the world. Only two of the large ship building establishments of Europe, Harland & Wolff of Belfast and Wm. Gray & Co., Ltd., of West Hartlepool, had launched in 1901 a greater tonnage in merchant ships than was launched from the several works of the American Ship Building Co. on the lakes, and the output of Wm. Gray & Co. was only slightly in excess of that of the American company. This distinction is undoubtedly a matter of pride to Gen. Mngr. James C. Wallace and his associates in the management of the lake yards, but probably no more gratifying to them than their success in having practically completed two large freight steamers that are to be taken to Quebec (each in two parts) next spring, there to be put together for transatlantic service. These steamers are the Minnetonka and Minnewaska, now about finished at the Globe works of the American company, and which were constructed to the order of the American Navigation Co., represented by Chas. E. & W. F. Peck of New York. One of these vessels has been placed in dry dock in Cleveland preparatory to being cut in two for the trip through the Welland and St. Lawrence river canals to Montreal. All plans of these vessels were submitted to Mr. Geo. Stanbury of New York, principal representative of Lloyds' Register in this country. Mr. Stanbury visited the different plants of the American Ship Building Co. before the vessels were put down and expressed great satisfaction with the quality of work then under way. That his view of the situation from the standpoint of the ability of the lake builders to undertake such work was correct, is borne out by the fact that Mr. A. C. Heron, representative of Lloyds, who came from England to the lakes to inspect the vessels while under con-