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22 MARINE WONDERFUL REGULARITY OF SERVICE. La Savoie, one of the finest of the new Atlantic liners, is illustrated herewith. She has made six trips to this country, leaving Havre Satur- day and arriving in New York the following Friday, never varying five hours. This magnificent steamer, with a sister ship La Lorraine and the modern twin-screw steamers La Touraine and L'Aquitaine, will compose for the coming season the New York-Havre service of the Compagnie Generale Trans- atlantique (French line of mail steamers) between New York, Havre-Paris, making an exceptionally fast trans- atlantic line, inasmuch as it is entirely composed of new and modern twin-screw steamers. La Savoie and La Lorraine, which are sister ships, were built at the company's ship yards at Penhoet, St. Nazaire sur Loire. A description of one of the ships will serve for both. The displacement is 15,300 tons; speed, 22 knots; horse \ power, 25,000; length, 580 ft.; breadth, 60 ft.; depth, 39.6 ft. } {here are two 22-ton propellers of 21 ft. 5 in. diameter, with three blades each. The propeller blades are of Stone's bronzc and the hubs cast steel. Passenger accommodations are as follows: First-class 446: second-class, 116; third-class, 400. .The ships are fully equipped with the latest modern conveniences--telephone i each cabin, electric lights throughout, etc. Dining room for first and second cabins are on the main deck. Luxurious suites of rooms with private baths, etc., are provided on the promenade deck. This company has been in existence for forty years and statistics show that it ranks foremost for satiety. Its steamers sail from New York every Thursday at 10 a. m. The company has its own vestibuled train from Havre to Paris; time, four hours. Discipline in the operation of the steamers is the same as on a man-of-war. Maurice W. Kozminski, 71 Dearborn street, Chicago, is the general western agent. Eugene De Bocande, 32 Broadway, New York, is the general agent for the United States and Canada. PRODUCTION OF BESSEMER INGOTS AND RAILS. The American Iron & Steel Association has compiled the statistics, received direct from the manufacturers, of the production of Bessemer steel ingots and castings in the United States in 1901; also of the produc- tion of Bessemer steel rails by the producers of Bessemer steel ingots. The ingot statittics include a few thousand tons of Bessemer steel cast- ings. Ingots.--The total production of Bessemer steel ingots in 1901 was 8,713,302 gross tons, against 6,684,770 tons in 1900, showing an increase in 1901 of 2,028,532 tons, over 30 per cent. The production of 1901 was by far the largest in our history. The following table gives our production of Bessemer steel ingots and steel castings in the last six years, including the production of the Robert-Bessemer and Tropenas works. Of the pro- duction last year 6,764 tons were steel castings, against a similar produc- tion in 1900 of 6,467 tons. Year. Bessemer Ingots, Gross tons. HO ee a ss cbr ORG a 3,919,906 SO es es 5,475,315 a oss eke ce hts Os Seek ah he 6,609,017 NCO ee a a a 7,586,354 Oe es a I a i Ga i 6,684,770 MO ae eee 8,718,302 Below is given by states the production of Bessemer steel ingots in the last four years. 1898. 1899. 1900, 1901. States--Ingots. Gross tons. Gross tons. Grogs tons. Gross tons. Pennsylvania ..... 3,402,254 3,968,779 8,488,731 4,293,489 ODIO. 6 isated cae 1,489,115 1,679,237 1,388,124 2,154,846 TGs: es 1,105,040 1,211,246 1,115,571 1,324,217 © Qther states .....;. 612,608 727,092 692,344 940,800 Total sickens: 6,609,017 7,086,304 6,684,770 8,713,302 There were no Clapp-Griffiths works in operation in 1901 and only two Robert-Bessemer plants were active. Seven Tropenas plants were at work, the same number as in 1900. All the Robert-Bessemer and Tro- penas plants were employed in the production of steel castings. Rails.--The production of all kinds of Bessemer steel rails by the producers of Bessemer steel ingots in 1901 was 2,836,273 gross tons, against a similar production in 1900 of 2,361,921 tons and of 2,240,767 tons in 1899. The maximum production of Bessemer steel rails by the producers of Bessemer steel ingots was reached in 1901. The year of next largest pro- duction was 1900, which was closely followed by its predecessor, 1899. In 1887, fourteen years ago, 2,044,819 tons were made. This was the fourth year of largest production. The following table shows the production by states of Bessemer steel rails by the producers of Bessemer steel ingots in the last four years. The figures given do not include a small quantity of rails made each year from purchased blooms or from re-rolled steel rails, statistics for both of which products for 1901 are not yet available. 1898. 1899. 1900. 1901. States--Rails. Gross tons. ~- Gross tons. Gross tons. Gross tons. 'Pennsylvania ..... 1,052,771 1,224,807 1,195,255 1,406,008 Other states 2...' 902,656 1,015,960 1,166,666 = 1,430,265 fLotali ye. 1,955,427 2,240,767 2,361,921 2,836,273 At the request of the manufacturers there is separated for 1897, for the first time, the production of Bessemer steel rails weighing 45 lbs. and less than 85 Ibs. to the yard from those weighing less than 45 lbs. and over 85 lbs. This separation is continued for 1901, as follows: 45 lbs and less 85 lbs. and States--Rails. fetes oe a Gan ie 8. fae pa Pennsylvania weeks 80,001 1,095,279 230,728 1,406,008 _ Othdtstates:....... 60,213 1,106,958 263,004 1,430,965 + © Total for 1901.. 140.214 2,202.237 493,892. 2.836.973 - Total for 1900.. 154,796 1,605,067 602,058 o soe 2a! REVIEW. [March 20, a It will be noticed that there was a considerable decline in 1901 jn the production of steel rails weighing 85 lbs. and over as compared with 1900 This will prove surprising. : | : The total production of rails in 1901 will include rails made from LA SAVOIH, ONE OF THE FRENCH LINE SHIPS. open-hearth steel and iron rails. When all the figures are collected it will probably be found that the total production of all kinds of rails in 1901 was about 2,875,000 tons. Great Britain's largest annual production of Bessemer steel rails was in 1882, when she made 1,235,785 tons. In 1901 we more than doubled her best year's work. NOT TAKING KINDLY TO THE LAKE CARRIERS. Canadian vessel owners are evidently not taking kindly to the suggestion, made at the last. annual meeting of the Lake Carriers' Asso- ciation, that they become members of the association. As is well known, the expenses of the association are borne by a tax upon the net registered tonnage. : _ "Tt is possible," says the Railway and Shipping World, "that. there will be some few Canadian vessel owners who will join the association, but we fail to see what advantage they can possibly hope to gain from such membership, as the interests of the two mercantile marines must of necessity be antagonistic. A recent instance, showing how far opposed are the interests of the ship owners of the two countries, is to be found in the application made to suspend the coasting regulations so as to allow United States bottoms to be utilized in the carrying of grain from Fort William, Ont., to other Canadian ports. With Canadian ship owners as members of the Lake Carriers' Association, there would be little use of protesting against such an application in future, as it would be represented that Canadians. had thrown in their lot with the United States ship owners and that the interests of the two countries, for all practical purposes, had been combined. This policy of United States people operating so-called international organizations and inviting Canadians to endeavor to protect their own interests by joining them, has 'been allowed to go quite too far, and it is time to call a halt. The interests of the two countries are not identical and Canadians should realize that it is only by maintaining their own independence and standing strictly on their rights that the country will be developed and built up. Canadian ship owners in their own behalf should organize a Canadian shipping association, which should have for its object the encouragement of coasting and lake and river trade. Some such an association existed a few years ago, but it was allowed to become inoperative. There is a marine section of the Toronto board of trade, but its work is purely local. A strong and active association representative of the shipping interests of the whole country ought to be brought into existence at the earliest possible moment. There is no time more fitting than the present, when Canada is on the threshold of a wonderful develop- ment, not only as a shipping but as a ship building center, for the estab- lishment of such an association, as it will not only stimulate and develop the growing industries, but will help in reaching out and securing more trade openings and a still greater carrying trade. If there had been such an association during the last few years the government would not have acted as it did in 1899, and the recent attempt to have the same act re- pealed last season would not have been made. There are many other matters connected with the regulation and development of our mercantile marine which such an association could profitably discuss from time to time. The time is ripe for action and we would suggest the calling of a meeting of ship owners at an early date, to discuss the formation of a Canadian association, so that the organization could be completed by the opening of navigation." New colored charts of Manitou passage, Lake Michigan, and of Lake St. Clair, taking in connecting channels from Windmill point up to Al- gonac, have recently been issued from the lake survey office at Detroit. New charts of various parts of the lakes are printed almost every week of late, and all of them show great improvement over the old charts. They ae very low in cost. The Marine Review has a full stock on hand at all umes. _ A-chart of Conneaut harbor is one of the latest of the colored charts sy Stet by the lake survey officials. It may be had from the Marine eview. ny