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for the summer passenger trade on Lake Michigan and is admirably adapted to that purpose. At present she is operat- ing on the night run between Chicago and Muskegon, Michigan. Her hull is 271 ft. 6 in. in length over all, 44 ft. molded beam and 27 ft. in depth to the spar deck. The total depth from top deck to keel is 54 ft. Her loaded draught is 9 ft. 9 in. for- ward and 12 it. 9:in.. aft. The Alabama is of the spar deck class with four decks as follows: A boat deck, promenade deck, cabin or spar deck and main deck, the two former of wood and the two latter of steel. Provision is made for 272 passengers in 136 two-berth rooms. The excursion capacity is 1,500 passengers. Forward on the boat deck and just abaft the bridge are a number of parlors fitted with large brass beds, couches and fur- niture similar to that in the rooms of a first class hotel. A roomy bath room is attached to each parlor. The smoking room and bar, on the boat deck aft, are finished in weathered oak with brown leather upholstery. Aft on the spar deck is the social hall or main cabin, exquisitely finished in mahogany and furnished with roomy leather-bottom chairs and settees. The cafe is forward on this same deck. A grand stairway, wide and easy, connects the gangway opening on to the main deck ait, with the social hall. . The floors are covered with cork matting throughout. The steamer is fitted with a triple- expansion engine with cylinders 23, 38 and 62 in. in diameter by 36-in. stroke, which at 120 r. p. m. develops 2,200 i. h. p. with 180 lbs- boiler pressure. It was built by the Toledo Shipbuilding Co., Toledo, O. The engine drives a four-bladed sectional propeller, 12 ft. diameter. Steam is supplied by three Scotch boilers, each 11 ft. long and 12 ft. 6 in. in diameter with 2,020 sq. ft. of heating surface. The Alabama was. built by the Mani- towoc Dry Dock Co., Manitowoc, Wis., and everywhere throughout the vessel is evidence of careful design, thoughtful execution and tasteful finish. The fin- ish and furnishings are rich, but do not descend to the gaudy barbarous gilt and ginger-bread work found on so many passenger vessels) Her normal speed is 17 statute miles per hour. She is in command of Capt. Edward Taylor. The new 5,000-ton steamer Ruth, owned by A. H. Bull & Co. of New York, was launched on June 11 from the Newport News ship yard. She will be used in trade between both Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico ports. THE Marine REVIEW LLOYDS REGISTER OF AMER- ICAN YACHTS FOR 1910. The American Yacht Register, which makes its appearance for the eighth successive year, is unchanged in exterior from last year, but an inspection of its various departments discloses good grounds for the claim of the publishers that it is necessary to make the book entirely anew every year. The changes in the 3,500 entries of the Yacht List proper show a complete reorganization of the American pleasure fleet on a new basis; the gasoline engine displacing rope and canvas more rapidly than in any previous year. With but three new additions to the sailing fleet, A. S. Cochran's big schoon- er Westward, Harold S. Vanderbilt's small schooner Vagrants and Morton BE. 'Plant s* 53-1¢.. cutter Shimna, there are to be noted such omissions as the famous cup-defenders Volunteer and Vigilant, sold for commercial service, the well-known schooner Thistle, sold to a foreign owner, a number of the less noted schooners and cutters, sold out of yachting or broken up. Of those of the older and larger still left, the. great majority are now auxiliaries. The additions to the sailing fleet are so few in number as to call for no special men- tion, mostly racing boats of not over 35-ft. load waterline. The new auxiliary barque Aloha, 218 ft. over all, with a gross tonnage of 659, stands alone among the new yachts of the year; next in importance to her in the way of additions to the list are the cruising power yachts of 80 to 100 ft. some of steel and some of wood, and all of a type which combines good - cruising speed with sea-going qualities. Several of these vessels are of the fam- iliar American type of coasting steam yacht, with flush deck and stack and spars, but they are driven by gas en- gines instead of steam. In this connec- tion, another interesting change is to be noted: The removal of steam engines, boilers. and bunkers from some of the older steam yachts and the substitution of gas engines. An entirely new type that is found in the Register this year for the first time is the ocean cruiser of about 60 ft. length, the product of the long distance races of recent years to Bermuda and Havana. This type is represented by the Caliph, Berneyo; Loantaka ; all new this year and specially designed for this service, The most numerous additions to the Yacht List are found in the new type of raised-deck power cruisers of from 30 to 60 ft. over all ; geographically, these additions are gcattered over the whole country, on the Canadian and American sides of the St Lawrence river and the Great Lakes, and on both July, 1910 borders of Puget Sound; further down on the Pacific coast; on the Gulf of Mexico, Houston, for' instance, boasting a very fine fleet of new cruisers, and, of course, in the older yachting waters of the east. The smaller craft of this type are also found in great numbers on the inland waters of the middle west. Of purely racing types the majority are found in such small sailing yachts as the Sonder-class and the Seawanhaka cup class, and in the 40-ft. class of full- powered launches. The well known yachts that will be missed from the Register this year are W. K- Vander- bilt's Valiant and A. J. Drexel's Marga- rita, both sold to foreign ownership. One notable feature is the increase in the number of clubs, the total being 458, as compared with the 159 clubs in the 1905 Register. This increase is made up in part of the conventional yacht clubs, but largely of clubs specially de- voted to power yachting, the member- ship being composed of new recruits to the great American pleasure navy. The increase is confined to no one locality, it is marked in the inland and lake waters of Canada, as well as on both fresh and salt water in the States. The commercial value of this side of yacht- ing, as represented in engine building and allied industries, cannot be. esti- mated. The incidental feature of the book includes the usual List of Yacht Own- ers, the flags in colors of all of the clubs and of 2,047 individual yachtsmen, signal letters carried by yachts, etc. The book, which includes 456 printed pages and 48 colored plates, each 7 x 9 inches, is made up as last year in two styles, bound in blue cloth with gilt edges and back and owner's name in gold on the cover; and in plain canvas; the former is used on the larger yachts and the clubs, while the cheaper and plainer edition is preferred for the rougher use on small cruising yachts. It is published by Lloyds Register of American Yachts, 17 Battery place, New York. Bids have been received by the Chesa- peake Steamship Co. for the construc- tion of two steamers to be known as the City of Baltimore and the City of Norfolk, to be 310 ft. long over all, 46 ft. beam. The Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va., was the lowest bidder for constructing the steamer North Land for the Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Co. The White Star Line's profit last year was $3,070,270. A dividend of 10 per cent was declared and a bonus of a similar amount paid to the share- holders. i a a a sa