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ARI = REVIEW. ViOkeeel. CLEVELAND, OHIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1892. Now 7: Reconstructed Fleet of Columbus. The engraving accompanying this article shows the recon- structed Santa Maria, the flag ship of the fleet of Columbus. The engraving, which was made from a photograph taken im- mediately after the vessel was launched at the arsenal of Car- raca, is reproduced from one of the illustrated Spanish journals. The model of the vessel was constructed in sixty-three days un- der the direction of the Spanish Naval Architect Senor Leopold RECONSTRUCTED SANTA MARIA. Puente Y. Wilke. The caravel was constructed at the expense of the Spanish government, while the two other vessels, the Pinta and the Nina, are being built in Spain at the cost of the United States under the direction of Lieut. Little, an American naval officer. _ The Santa Maria was a prominent feature of the celebrations of Aug. 3 at the port of Palos in commemoration of the 4ooth anniversary of the departure of Columbus in search of the new world. The Santa Maria is less than 100 feet in length and her ton- nage is about 130. At the present time she has been completely finished and equipped, including a reproduction of an entirely insignificant armament of seven falconets and a few smaller pieces of ordnance. 'The launch at Carraca was made the occa- sion of a solemn ceremony and the caravel glided into the water carrying the great flag of Castille, the royal standard of Spain and the insignia of Christopher Columbus. This reconstructed vessel is to cross the Atlantic with her two consorts, with a suit- able convoy, and to take part in the great naval review to be held in New York bay. After this celebration the vessels will be taken. to Lake Michigan where they will form next summer one of the features of interest at the World's Columbian Expo- sition. Removal of Lights and Buoys. The light-house board has just issued, the annual publica- tion containing a list of lights and fog signals of the United States and Canada on the northern lakes and rivers, corrected to the opening of navigation, 1892. A copy of the book will be sent free of charge to any shipmaster on application to the light- house board, Washington, D. C., or to the offices of the light- house inspectors at Chicago, Buffalo or Detroit. As a result of a question raised last fall regarding the time _ of extinguishing lights and removing buoys, the board makes the following statement: "All lights of the United States on the northern and northwestern lakes and their adjacent naviga- ble waters will be exhibited from sunset to sunrise, at all sea- sons when vessels can enter the ports, or are navigating in their vicinity. 'The dates of discontinuing and relighting the lights will vary with the seasons, but keepers will be careful to exhi- bit lights whenever of use to navigators. All buoys in the lakes and their adjacent waters will be kept in their respective stations as long as possible in the fall without running the risk of loss by being caught in the ice; and they will be promptly replaced in the spring after the ice leaves." Lake Erie Engineering Works. The illustration below shows the interior of the new Lake Erie Engineering Works, Buffalo, N. Y., erected at a cost of $350,000 under the direction of Richard Hammond. 'The works have a frontage of 425 feet on Chicago street and 309 feet on Perry street, and include a machine shop 370 by 108 feet; a foundry 300 by 108, blacksmith shop 100 by 60, and a main building three stories high, and 250 by 45 in dimensions, which includes the offices, draughting rooms, pattern shops and store rooms. 'The buildings are of red brick, iron, slate and glass. The machine shop is equipped with some of the largest and lat- est improved machine tools in this country. There is a planer weighing over 152 tons, to plane a casting 20 feet wide, 12 feet high and 30 feet long; running four cutting tools at once, each of which which will take a cut three inches wide and one quarter of aninch deep. 'There is also a large boring and turning mill capable of boring and turning a fly-wheel or pulley 30 feet in diameter by 8 feet face. This mill has six cutting tools, two on the cross rail and four special ones on the main bed, all feeding automatically. Each of these tools is capable of taking a cut two and one-half inches wide and one- quarter of an inch deep. 'The mill weighs 135 tons and is the largest tool of the kind ever made. 'There isa ten foot boring and turning mill specially designed for the company, and also a horizontal boring, drilling and milling machine that will bore, drill or mill the face of a casting--at one setting--18 feet long, 12 feet high and 8 feet thick. The tool. weighs ninety tons, Besides these specially designed machines there is a 72-inch Say es h N. PINS eae FS LO Te NAAN att nt t} = El We ty a { sone 9)/1/ CI A be iS I INTERIOR LAKE ERIE ENGINEERING WORKS, BUFFALO, N. Y. lathe, which will turn a shaft 36 inches in diameter and 35 feet long, reducing the diameter to 30 inches at one cut; and a 54- inch lathe capable of carrying a shaft 20 feet in length and re- ducing a diameter of 42 inches to 36 inches at one cut. The heavy work is carried to these enormous tools by an overhead electric traveling crane capable of lifting thirty-five tons. The machine shop is as light as day, and at night is illuminated by 300 incandesceni and sixteen arc lights.