The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-02-25
GREAT SHIPS OF 7HE LAKES.
steamers Worth So 900 900 Now Under Con-
struction at Lake Yards.

DrLrTu. Mimi. Feb 24-There are ,o-day
being built on the Great Lakes ships Of a value of
50, 900, 900. A year ago the value Of oil vessels
under construction at lake wards WAS less thar
So 200. 600. The new ships devoted 10 freight
alone will have a carrying capacity Of 2lO, 900 net
tons. and their horse puver will aggregate 46 OO0.
\ wear ago the capacity Of the fee, in the builders
hands was only $1,000 tons. and only ton shins
had a carrying capacity Of more than 1000 tons
each Now there are fourteen that can ,,ke : 600
tons at a ,rip. Then the largest Of all was planned
to hold 5000 tons. Now the largest four can
carry 5000 tons each.
That illustrates the advance the inland marine
Of the United States has made in twelve months
There are eighteen steel merchant ships building
for the lake trade Of more than Il, 500 tons capacity.
and there are only four above that size a, all the
-, al ,ho o u
Nearly all the cargo ships OF the lakes are being
bull, for the account # some one NJ the three or
tou, grco, s,ce, making concerns ,b,, cor,,o,
NINA. IN ,na aba S,ns,ia, ,or;nn aaI =.
signed primarily fer the TRANSFORMATION Of iron
o,o d,wr IN, L,Lss ,borrb ,ho, ,,;u ho ,,oonon,u
~ INV" '' ""''' IVY VIM 'i'quenus
used Tor the movement OF gram or coal. Any
one of a dozen Of the new lake ships can stow away
mo r,,d,c, ~ "a 200 oc,ss ~ ,bo., 90 ~. t,aS
'he pr"u''' VI -H''V acres Oh wheat OF the load
OF a freight Train NE miles long. Load three Of
them gu, of the stores Of grain in a 1000 600
...h oo.., 80, -, ia -. -
o"'"', oN"'" ""' '"' "'"' 'ooN' Nd'oeis
enough tn give Ruth n respectable garnering.
OF these bigges, Ships six are for the C,rnevis
CT ra,,,.,r7. i,,a.ai,. t., II. 49,.
C'eel N"".ln"H - " i"' nv 'N"rr''Su
Steel and Wire Company, two are for John II.
Rockeieller's line, two are for the lake fleet under
$3.50 =, ,,o r.,o.l c,aaI ra..sa. :. -
'''"" " Wv 'V'''" ''' '"'f"nF' anu 'hreo
or four are Tor private interests. Al are Of about
the same type, and their average cost is ahout
COOS 900
o"-o
one stlklng feature oil THIS new construction
is that nine modern and steel ships Of high mower
o,d ara dnyi,r a.. g., ,,oG, t,,, a., iniana..
o"u w ann '''u' NV '"'a'u iahes
To salt water al Montreal, making necessary but
one rrhandling II eNpor, Cargues bounG from the
, ., ,bo u,o, .,,,,o . -.
wv D." ' '"''"' v '"'oIeo"
ports, These Shlps are OF about 5000 tons ca
pacity, and are built ON lines that permit them 10
pass down the new Canadian canals u the Vel
land and the St Lawrence. These ships are ,hs
first response Of the like shipping interests Ia the
new route. They are about $50 fee, long. 40 feet
beam, and can load 10 II feet for the canals.
So great has been the advance IT lake shin
builders in the details Of ship. engine and h1ler
construction that vessels in the past wear havs
shown an ability 10 carry one ton Of cargo one
mile on the expenditure 81 .03 II q pound Of coal
ly using steamships to tow one or two barres II
In, largest type this coal CONSUMPTION is reduced
about ON half Thus the spectacle was witnessed
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