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= A RR l SN. OE year for this great work which has Ohily 4 in view the upbuilding. of our commerce. The "Queen City" party was composed as follows: Hon. I. E. Burton, chairman rivers and harbors committee, Cleveland. Hon. B. B. Dovener, Wheeling, W. Va. ton. R. P. Bishop, Ludington, Mich. Hon. E. F. Acheson and wife, Washington, Pa. Hon. D. S. Alexander, Buffalo, N.Y. Hon. J. H. Davidson, Oshkosh, Wis. Hion. Jas. McLachlan and wife, Pasadena, Cal. Hon. William Lorimer and daughter, Chicago. Hon. Wesley L. Jones, N. Yakima, Wash. Hon. Jos. E. Ransdell, Lake Providence, La. Hon. J. Adam Bede, Pine City, Minn. «| Hon. S. ME Sparkman and son, Tampa, Fla. J. H. Cassidy and wife, secretary rivers and na ats com- mittee, Cleveland. J. H. McGaun, assistant clerk rivers and harbors oes. : Cleveland. E. F. Hutchinson, stenographer rivers and harbors commit- tee; Cleveland. Col. John L. Vance, president Ohio Valley Improvement Association, Columbus. Capt J. EF. Ellison, secretary and treasurer Ohio Valley Improvement Association, Cincinnati. ; ae Capt. J. A. Henderson and wife, Pittsburg and Cincinnati Packet Line, Pittsburg. Capt. W., B. Rodgers, Rodgers Sand Co., Pittsburg. Capt. J.-F. Dravo, "Dean of Inland River Navigation," Pitts- burg. ne W. Treadway, Cleveland. Col; E. H. Ruffner, Cincinnati: Maj. W. L. Sibert, Pittsburg... May... Go A: Zinn, Wheeling, W. Va. Capt."H. Burgess, Louisville. ~ ion, EK "Porter, Hak: Porter Locomotive Co., Pittsburg. Coly Geo, Hi: Anderson, wife and daughter, manager Cham. © ber of Commerce, Pittsburg. J.oW. Wardrop and wife, ceereay Merchants' and Manu. facturers' Association, Pittsburg. B. B. Naylor, secretary Wheeling Board 'of Trade, Wheel- ing, |W. Va. John Waterhouse, ppcaident Whesling Board; of Trade, Wheeling, W. Va. A. J: Stone, Fairmont, WwW. Va. ede Lloyd and wife, president Merchants' and Manufac- turers'. Association, Pittsburg. ie John H.- Jones, president "Pittsburg- Buffalo Co., Pittsburg. BA. Smith, Cairo, It: John M. Williams, general agent Ohio Valley Improvement Association, Cincinnati. Capt. Warren Elsy, master transportation, Jones & Laugh- lin Steel Co., Pittsburg. Capt. T. Rees, James Rees & Sons Co., Pittsburg. D. J. Sinclair, vice president Ohio Valley . Improvement Association, Steubenville, O. MAIDEN TRIP OF THE JUNIATA The Juniata of the Anchor Line under command of Capt. Edward Martin, left Cleveland at- 7:30 o'clock Sunday morn- ing last on her maiden trip to. Chicago. She carried neither | freight nor passengers but had a few guests aboard as far as Detroit. An hour or more was spent in adjusting compasses under the direction of Mr. Frank Morrison, and then the steamer was headed for Detroit. No attempt was made to push her, the early part of the trip being made in a leisurely manner, but by the time the islands were reached the quadruple-expansion engines had worked up to 100 revolu- tions per minute and the Juniata had quite a bow wave. A finer day could not have heen selected for a trip; nor is it likely that there is a more complete or more comfortable ship on the lakes. She rides easily and notwithstanding the fact that she was light the guests while seated at dinner were una- ble to discover any perceptible motion to the steamer, so smoothly did she run. It is an unfair statement to make that the Juniata is a better ship than the Tionesta, for the expe- rience gained in constructing the Tionesta has been profitably used in building the Juniata. Therefore, while the ships are virtually duplicates the Juniata is the more complete be- cause there are embodied in her certain details that are lacking in the sister ship. The Juniata is a revelation in a way of Rb ov fF Bey little mechanical contrivances for saving labor, and Mr. Frank E. Kirby, who is an enthusiast along mechanical lines, whether of ship design or not, took great delight in pointing out various little features cf excellence to the guests. Wher- ever human labor can be saved on the Juniata it has been saved, even to the installation of dish washing machines and ege boilers. The galley of this steamer is certainly such as would delight the heart of any woman. It is nearly the whole width of the ship and is abundantly lighted, since its main light is derived from the sky and the fumes of cooking are drawn by the McCreary system of ventilation directly into the stack of the steamer. A splendid feature of this steamer and her sister, the Tionesta, is that the galley is aft of the passenger sleeping quarters, so that by no possibility can the odors of cooking penetrate there. Moreover the dining room, immediately forward of the galley, is on the promenade deck, affording an unobstructed view out doors to every passenger, both port and starboard. The dining room is decorated in mahogany and is of spacious dimensions. The completeness of mechanical devices, even to the smallest detail, is also to be noted even in the dining room. The dining room chairs, while they swing to all points of the compass, are naturally upon stationary bases and are placed at a distance from the table convenient to most persons. However, a certain num- ber of chairs, while no larger than the rest have been designed to accommodate even the extraordinarily corpulent person who sometimes resolves to travel. These chairs are placed at the outer side edge of the table where there is abundant aisle room for maneuvering and are upon a sliding base -which can be adjusted at any point desired. The dining room is strik- ingly decorated by some excellent mural paintings depicting Indian scenes. In outward appearance the Juniata differs from the Tionesta in that she has eight additional suites upon the hurricane deck and that her deadlights are round instead of square. The Juniata is designed-as a passenger and package freighter, but unlike the common package freighter, she will not carry grain. She is 361 ft. over all, 340 ft. keel, 45 ft. beam and 28 ft. deep, and is equipped with quadruple-expansion engines 22, 31%, 45 and 65 in. cylinder diameters by 42 in. stroke, sup- plied with steam from four Scotch boilers 12 ft. 6 in. by 11 ft. 6 in., equipped with Howden forced draft and allowed a pres- sure of 210 Ibs. This is also the machinery equipment of the Tionesta but the Juniata's boiler room is 2 ft. longer. Singularly enough the only craft to salute the Juniata in the trip across Lake Erie was the package freighter New York of the Erie line, but she was given a continuous reception on her way up the Detroit river, so much so that she had to acknowledge with her hoarse whistle the welcome of persons _ on the lawns of Amherstburg. When the Juniata arrived at the Anchor Line dock at Detroit she found the Tionesta there, the sistership having left Cleveland on Saturday night. Capt. Doherty of the Tionesta who, with his entire crew, had been promoted from the Japan, signalled that he would leave the dock in five minutes and the Juniata accordingly decided to Jie alongside of her instead of making the dock below. In this way it was possible to get pictures showing the sister ships lying together, a circum- stance which will probably not occur again during the entire season. The guests left the Juniata at Detroit; Mr. J. -C. Evans, the western manager, and Mr. C. J. Fox, the chief engineer of the line, continued on to Chicago. The party to Detroit included Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Kirby, Capt. and Mrs. James Stone of Cleveland, W. S. Main of Pittsburg, Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Hart of Cleveland, P. E. Bourke of Detroit, Mr. John Marron of Cleveland, Mr. M. J. Doyle of Cleveland, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Evans and Miss Kittredge of Buffalo. --_--_--. At a meeting of the directors of the Great Lakes Towing Co. this week the regular quarterly dividend of 134 per cent, payable July 1, was declared.