1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887

1889 1890 1891 1892 1893

1898 1899 1900 1901 1902

Male. F'm'le. Total. Male. F'm'le. Total. Male. F'm'le. Total. Total, F'm'le. Total.

FREIGHT ON THE GREAT LAKES.

(Compiled by the Bureau of Statistics.)

The calendar year 1901 is the first complete year in the history of commerce on the Great Lakes for which statistics of receipts and shipments of traffic between practically all domestic ports in these waters have been systematically collected. The following is a recapitulation, by months, of the principal commodities entering into lake traffic:

*Figures for 1900 represent about 95 per cent of the total coastwise commerce; those for 1901 represent all points reporting. Lumber only.

Figures for 1900 are from opening of navigation to Dec. 21.

2,475,430 | 3,538,509 |

*Figures for 1900 represent about 95 per cent of the total coastwise commerce; those for 1901 represent all points reporting.

Lumber only.

Figures for 1900 are from opening of navigation to May 31.

Atlantic Ocean Records.

The record for fast trips across the Atlantic has been steadily lowered from year to year. It is only a comparatively short time since six days was considered remarkably fast time, while now there are about a dozen steamers which have made the trip in less time than that. The fastest time from Queenstown to New York was made by the steamship Lucania, of the Cunard Line, which sailed it in 5 days, 7 hours and 23 minutes in 1894. This distance is about 2,800 miles, which shows that the steamer made nearly 23 miles an hour for the whole distance. The time of the Kaiser Wilhelm, Cherbourg to New York, 3,184 miles. in 5 days and 16 hours, was even faster than this, being a little over 23 miles an hour, and was made in 1901. Steamer. D. I H. | M.

Line.

Hamburg-American.
N. German Lloyd.
N. German Lloyd.
French.

French...

Route.

Queenstown to N. Y
New York to Queenstown.
Cherbourg to New York.
Southampton to N. Y.
N. Y. to Southampton..
Havre to N. Y

N. Y. to Havre.

Hamburg-American. Plymouth to N. Y
Hamburg-American. N. Y. to Plymouth.

Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse N. German Lloyd... N. Y. to Cherboug.

Date,
Oct. 21-26, 1894.
Sept, 8-14, 1894.
Aug. 23-29, 1901.
[Oct. 22-29, 1899.
Nov. 23-29, 1897.
March 22-28, 1902.
Oct. 16-23, 1902.
Jan. 4-10, 1900.
[Sept. 5-10, 1900.
Aug. 26-Sept. 1, 1901.

5

Fastest day's run made by Deutschland, July-August, 1901, 601 knots, or 24.19 knots per hour.

5

14

24

Oct. 14-19, 1892.

6

31

Aug. 8-14, 1896.

14

Sept. 1-8, 1897.

•10

15

Oct. 20-27, 1898.

N. Y. to Queenstown.

18

37

Sept. 12-19, 1882.

21

40

Sept. 16-22, 1883.

18

30

Aug. 27, Sept. 2, 1902

Aug. 13-19, 1891.

The following is a list of steamships which have broken the records between New York and Queenstown since 1852. Before that time the Acadia, of the Cunard line, held the blue ribbon, the Acadia being the first ship to make the trip in less than ten days.

United States Steamboat Tnspection.

The annual report of Supervising Inspector-General James A. Dumont gives the following interesting data concerning the work of the steamboat inspection service for the fiscal year 1902:

Number of annual certificates of inspection issued to domestic steam, sail and motor vessels..
Number of certificates to foreign passenger steamers....

Total number of annual certificates of inspection issued-domestic and foreign.

Increase in number of certificates to domestic vessels from previous year.

Increase in number of certificates to foreign vessels from previous year..

Total increase in number of certificates to domestic and foreign vessels from previous year.

As against a decrease of 76 domestic and 4 foreign the previous year, or total of.

Gross tonnage of domestic vessels inspected

Gross tonnage of foreign steam vessels inspected

A grand total of

An increase over 1901 of..

Number of officers' licenses issued.

Number of officers' licenses issued for year ending June 30, 1901

5,096

Increase from previous year

15,012

(Above increase occurs through renewal of five-year licenses issued during last half of fiscal year ending June 30, 1897.)

Total number of persons now holding licenses (about)..

40,000

Steamboat Accidents in the United States During the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1902.

Of the number reported accidentally drowned, 25 are thought to be suicides.

Of the total lives lost, 193 were passengers and 252 belonged to crews of the vessels. Of the 35 lives lost by explosion of boilers, 26 were lost on the new steamer City of Trenton, August 28, 1901.

Disasters to American Shipping, 1885-1902.

ATLANTIC, GULF AND PACIFIC COASTS.

(Corrected to date by Sumner J. Kimball, General Superintendent of the United States Life Saving Service.)

By the will of Alfred B. Nobel, the inventor of dynamite left his entire estate of about $9,000,000 for the encouragement of men who work for the interests of humanity. The interest on this money was to be divided into five equal parts, to be distributed every year as rewards to the persons who had deserved best of mankind in five departments of human activity. The clauses in his will which govern the distribution of these prizes are as follows:

The entire sum will be divided into five equal parts, one to go to the man who shall have made the most important discovery or invention in the domain of physical science; another to the man who shall have made the most important discovery or introduced the greatest improvement in chemistry; the third to the author of the most important discovery in the domain of physiology or medicine; the fourth to the man who shall have produced the most remarkable work of an idealistic nature; and, finally, the fifth to the man who shall have done the most nations, the suppression or reducformation and propagation of peace

"The prizes shall be awarded and chemistry, by the Swedish logical or medical work, by the for literature, by the Stockholm a committee of five members ing.

"It is my express desire that, count shall be taken of nationality. to the lot of the most deserving, not."

The award of the Nobel prizes on December 10. The committee ment of peace and arbitration equally divided between Dr. Henry name had been presented by the sy. founder of the Universal announcement of the awards, Dr. 212. was ill and destitute ip a years old.

The medical prize went to Dr. burg, Germany. Prof. Behring is diphtheria. Dr. J. H. Van't Hoff, native of Holland, received the istry. He contributed largely to lar physics and is regarded as the chemistry.

or best work for the fraternity of tion of standing armies, and the congresses.

as follows: For physical science Academy of Sciences; for physioCaroline Institute at Stockholm; Academy, and for peace work, by elected by the Norwegian Storth

in awarding the prizes, no acin order that the prize may fall whether he be Scandinavian or for 1901 was officially announced on the prize for the encouragereported that the prize had been Dunant, a Swiss physician, whose Swiss Rigsdag, and Frederick PasPeace Union. At the time of the Dunant, who was to receive $20,Swiss hospital. Dr. Passy was 79

Emil Behring, professor at Marfor the discoverer of antitoxin of the University of Berlin, and a prize in the department of chemthe world's knowledge of molecufounder of a new system of stereoDr. William Roentgen was selected to be the recipient of the prize in physics. He has been a professor at Marburg, Germany, for more than twenty-five years and is famous the world over as the discoverer of the Roentgen or "X" rays. The prize in literature was conferred upon the French poet. Armand Sully-Prudhomme. twenty years M. Sully-Prudhomme has had a seat in the French Academy and his published verses have been considered the best of modern French literature.

Alfred B. Nobel.

For the past

The awards for 1902 were distributed as follows: Literature. Professor Theodor Mommsen, of Berlin; Peace, Professor Friedrich von Martens, Professor of International Law at St. Petersburg: Medicine, Major Donald Ross, of the School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool; Chemistry, Professor Emil Fischer, of Berlin; Physics, divided between Professors Lorenz and Zeeman, of Holland.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel was the son of Emmanuel Nobel, a manufacturer of torpedoes and a manager of shipbuilding and engineering works.

In 1867 Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, a compound of nitro-glycerine with a finely powdered silicious substance composed of the shells of fossilized infusoria. In 1878 he patented gelatinous nitro-glycerine and thirteen years later he invented ballisite, the first of the high explosives which inaugurated the era of smoke. less powder.

Statistics of Insurance.

INSURANCE OFFICIALS OF THE VARIOUS STATES.

The following officials have authority over insurance matters in the various States and Territories:

AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES, BUŠINESS IN 1901.*