feet moulded depth. Mean draught of water 24 feet, 13,400 tons displacement, and they are to have a trial speed of 22 knots. They are to have twin screws, with four cylinder triple expansion engines to indicate 23,000 horse power on trial.

The Milwaukee, for which construction work is just beginning, the keel of which will be laid in about one month, is a large protected cruiser, carrying armor enough to entitle her to rank as an armored cruiser. She is 426 feet in length over all, 66 feet beam, 40 feet 2 inches moulded depth. Mean draught of water 22 feet 6 inches, and of 9,700 tons displacement, having a speed of 22 knots.

She is to be fitted with twin screws, with four cylinder triple expansion engines of 21,000 indicated horse power.

This list of warships built at the San Francisco yard, covering a period of fifteen years, is a record that the builders can be justly proud of. Including the vessels now under construction there has been expended by this yard in war ships construction the sum of thirty-one million dollars, sixteen million of which have been in wages.

Of late the San Francisco daily press has been trying to convince its readers that this expenditure of public money in San Francisco is a great mistake on the part of the Government, and hat it

would be better for the Government and the country to have this money spent somewhere else, and that the citizens who have spent their lives in building up this business have all along been criminally swindling the Government. This strange position taken by the newspapers of San Francisco is no doubt que to the agitation that has sprung up to try and divert the building of naval vessels from the private shipyards to the Government Navy Yards. It seems strange that the advocates of this measure should have thought it necessary to the furtherance of their object to attack the integrity of the shipbuilding firms who have thus far served the Govern

ment so well. There are certain arguments that could justly be used in favor of building warships at the Navy Yards, such as the possibility of building them cheaper, or the training of skilled men for repair work. But without any accurate knowledge of facts for a foundation, the shipbuilders of this country have been branded as dishonest in their dealings with the Government, and as making large fortunes in the doing of work that could be better done at the Navy Yards, and save the fortunes thus given away.

Now the real facts are not difficult to find. If the cost of naval vessels built for the United States Government during

the past fifteen years be compared with the cost of similar ships in other navies, it will be found that the cost of warships built in this country has come nearer the cost of similar work built in other countries than that of any other work of a similar character built here and elsewhere, that can be compared with each other

Besides the regular contracts with the Government the Union Iron Works is now building and have near completion two submarine torpedo boats, to the order of the Holland Submarine Torpedo Boat Company, who have a contract with the Government for a number of these interesting vessels. We cannot give any description of these vessels, except that they are circular in cross sections,

and cigar-shaped in outline, propelled by gasoline engines when steaming at the surface, and by electric motors when under water. It is expected that the trials of the Grampus will begin in July, and that those of the Pike will follow shortly thereafter. We give some views show. ing the trials of the Fulton, a sister boat to the Grampus and the Pike. Pictures of these boats are like the picture ordered by an art collector of the Red Sea, which the painter did in the appropriate color. The patron came to see the picture. "That is good, but where are the Hebrews?" "Oh, they are gone over," said the painter. "Then where are the Egyptians?" "Ah, they have not come up yet," was the quick-witted artist's ready reply.

The storm, all night continuous, had ceased;

Along my ivied window-sill was strung A rosary of rain-drops; but among The leaves they shone like jewels at a feast.

A little robin, who was nature's priest,

Deliriously his jubilee sung;

The bough he lit on like a censer swung, As gradually the grey of dawn increased. Another day of traffic, toil and strife Amidst the madding crowd, whose multiform

Faces are but pale masks to fierce desire:

O world of intense, teeming, passionate life!

The only calmness that succeeds thy storm

Is when our hearts cease smouldering on their pyre.

PROMETHEUS.