J. Hill. in a speech before the Chicago Board of Trade. said that he was build-. ing them in American yards because they could be built more cheaply there than abroad. These are the ships that the Commissioner of Navigation described as the finest ever designef for the Asiatic trade. When we find the business judgment of such institutions as the Standard Oil Company and these financiers. and the absolute word of such men as Mr. Hill. reenforced by the conclusion that must necessarily be drawn from the fact that we are successfully. competing with our rivals in every other line of industry.