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MARINE REVIEW. 11 In General. "Freak" is the term now generally used on the lakes to cover the McDougall barges, monitors and other freight craft of late design. - A 97-ton cruising yawl is being built in England which will be sumptuously furnished and sent to the world's fair at Chicago as a specimen of British yacht building. Work on two vessels of 8,000 tons each, to be used by the Inman line for cargo and immigrant traffic between Liverpool and Philadelphia, will begin shortly on the Clyde. Again the City of Paris has broken all previous records in time between Queenstown and New York. Her latest time, made last week,is five days, fifteen hours and fifty-eight minutes. The executors of John Roach, the: shipbuilder, will receive from his assignees, George W. Quintard and George E. Weed, about $2,000,000, the surplus of his assigned estate. The Manchester ship canal is 351% miles long, 170 feet wide at the surface, and 26 feet minimum depth. It will cost when completed over $75,000,000, but will probably pay interest on the investment at the rate of about 4 per cent. Capt. William A. Andrews, the navigator, who recently crossed the Atlantic in a 14-foot dory from Atlantic City, N. J., to Lisbon, and who arrived at Palos on Oct. 4, announces that he will cross the Atlantic again in a small aluminum boat. During the vear 1890 alone six steamers of a total value of $3,346,000 were built by William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia. There was also $280,000 worth of repair work done last year, making a grand total of $3,626,000.--American Shipbuilder. The '"'stockless" anchors for the Cunarder Campania and her sister ship Lucania weigh nearly six and a half tons each. These are the largest stockless anchors in the world, and will be tested to the highest proof strain that can be given at Lloyd's machines. Two powerful Schuckert search lights of 3 and 4 feet diameter respectively, were installed at the Chicago exposition during the dedicatory ceremonies. A member of the Schuckert company says that his firm will have in Chicago next summer, a lamp 6 feet in diameter, which will throw a strong light sixty miles. The whaleback building by the Pacific Steel Barge Company at the Everett, Wash., shipbuilding yard will be 360 feet long, 42 feet beam and 26% feet deep, and will be driven by engines of 1,800 horse power. She will have some cabin accommoda- tions, and will be called the Everett. Maine will have an interesting marine exhibit at the world's fair. 'The Industrial Journal of Bangor says that all the old shipbuilding ports of the state will be visited and models of all kinds of marine craft that have gone out from Maine shipyards will be collected for this display. Some of the models will be set up and arranged so as to show a vessel in the various stages of construction, from the skeleton to the fully rigged ship. Old paintings of some of Maine's more famous craft, like the clippers built for the China tea trade, will be on exhibition. While Bath will naturally be the largest contributor, every place that ever did any ship building, from Kittery to Eastport, will be visited and relics pulled out from barn chambers, all in honor of Colum- bus, the greatest of navigators. The new ocean flyers of the Inman line, which will be con- structed for the International Navigation Company by the William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company, will be built under conditions which, as far as known, have never yet existed between ship builders and ship owners in this country. 'There will be no contracts signed between the Cramps and the International Navigation Company, the relations be- tween these corporations making the building of these five ves- sels possible without the signing of contracts. Charles H. Cramp, president of the ship building company, is authority for this statement: "We will build probably five steamships for the Inman line, and when they are finished we will send in our bill for the work. It is quite an unusual thing to do on this side of the water, but Harland & Wolf, the celebrated ship builders of Belfast, Ireland, do it not infrequently. They have built several steamships of the best class for the White Star line Without having any contract before hand, and turned in their bill for the work when finished,"--American Shipbuilder. Reminiscence of the Wetmore. William G. Watt, one of the crew of the Wetmore, gives reminiscences of the whaleback's voyages in a recent number of the American Shipbuilder. After the boat made her triumphal trip to England and back she carried Jay Gould and a party of capitalists down the sound, proceeding to Philadelphia, where, he says, "train load after train load of heavy machinery and iron pipes were stowedin her hold. 'Then the upper hold was filled with coal, and a deck cargo of several hundred tons more, until the main deck was barely three feet out of water. We sailed for Puget sound just one month after leaving Brooklyn, and prompt- ly encountered a furious gale, which lasted a week; our deck cargo of coal was carried away and the door of the mate's room was stove by a sea which flooded several of the rooms on the superstructure. After that balmy breezes and fair weather pre- vailed. We crossed the line Oct. 7. Neptune came on board to shave and scrub the greenhorns and make them his true sons. On the morning of Oct. 20 we entered Montevideo harbor for water and fresh provision. The revolution there of a few weeks previous hardly proved more of a sensation than what was at first mistaken for a Yankee torpedo boat. Soon we were sur- rounded by a flotilla of nondescript craft. I noticed one fat old fellow in a small boat who surveyed us with a what-the-devils'- that expression for fully five minutes, then he burst into a paroxyism of laughter, slapping his knees again and again, un- til his mirth proved contageous to all on board." Capt. McDougall's View of Protection. In an interview in Inland Ocean of Superior, Wis.,Capt.Alex. , McDougall, inventor of the whaleback type of vessel, says: "In Great Britain today most of the iron ore used in the manufacture © of steel ship plates comes from the distant mines of Bilbao, Spain, and coal at the pit's mouth costs as much as it does in our lake country, Yet they sell material for building ships for 1.25 cents per pound. We are now paying 2 cents for material, and we have the finest ore in the world at our very doors. All classes of shipbuilding labor in Great Britain is less than half the price we are paying for it in any of our yards. Ifthe duty was removed from manufactured iron and steel it would pay us to import and pay the freight all the way to West Superior for all the ship material, including machinery that we use. 'There are more ships laid up in Great Britain today than are owned in the United States, and more idle ship builders in Glasgow alone than were ever employed in all America."' Notices to Mariners. Although no official announcement has been made by the light-house board or the district officers relative to the discon- tinuance of lights and other aids to navigation, it is expected by vessel owners that, as a result of the understanding reached last fall on this subject, all lights, light-houses and fog signals wifl remain in operation well into December, until all vessels have quit running. About Dec. 6, the light at Kenosha (Southport) light-sta- tion, on Warrenton island, north side of the entrance to Keno- sha harbor, western shore of Lake Michigan, will be changed from a fixed white light varied by a white flash every 90 seconds to a fixed white light varied bya flash every 45 seconds. 'The order of the light will not be changed. On or about Dec. 4, 1892, the light at Milwaukee light-station, near the extreme north point of Milwaukee bay, western shore of Lake Michigan, will be changed from a fixed white light, varied by a white flash every forty-five seconds. 'The order of the light will not be changed. On Oct. 19, the fixed white lens-lantern light on the northern end of the outer breakwater, Chicago harbor, was removed to the emergency in take waterworks crib, an extension northwesterly of the outer breakwater. The focal plane of the light is now 45 feet above lake level. It has been determined to place the light to be established Nov, 10, 1892, on the outer end ofthe western pier at Conneaut, Lake Erie, at an elevation of 20 feet above the lake level, instead of 15 feet, as heretofore stated. ANY ONE SENDING TWO ADDRESSES AND $4 TO THE MARINE REVIEW, 516 PERRY-PAYNE BUILDING, CLEVELAND, WILL, IN ADDITION TO HAVING THE BEST MARINE PAPER SENT TO THEM FOR A YEAR, RECEIVE A COPY OF WASHINGTON IRVING'S LIFE AND VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.