The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

MARINE REVIEW. 9 Proposed Atlantic Passenger Liner. The accompanying illustration is reproduced from the Scien- tific American, New York. 'The design is from James Graham who claims that the immense Atlantic liners building now have reached the limit in profitable increase in size and speed, and that something radically different from the present craft must be provided for the Atlantic passenger service of the future. The design consists of asystem of nine hulls of special model con- nected in three trains of three hulls each, the center train being the principal part of the craft, and extending 225 feet forward and 200 feet aft of the other two trains, the whole forming an outline similar to that of an ordinary ship. 'The total length would be 1,440 feet, breadth over three trains 142 feet, to outside of floats 180 feet. Other dimensions are: Midship draught of center train,18 feet; midship beam at water line, 45 feet; midship beam at main deck, 60 feet; midship draught of outer trains, 12 feet; midship beam at water line, 27 feet; midship beam at main deck, 35 feet. The displacement of the center train is 15,000 tons and of outer trains, each, 5,250 tons, or a total displacement of about 26,000 tons. The propelling power would consist of seven engines, three in center train of 10,000 horse power each; Lake Carriers' Advance Wages. _ The following schedule of wages, adopted by the Lake Car- riers' Association, takes effect Nov. 10: ON STEAMERS. OLD RATES, PER MONTH. NEW RATES, PER MONTH. EeI Pers at. i.s. $15 00 to $20 00 $20 00 to $25 00 Firemen...... Peet be 40 00 -" =45; 00 5 OO. | 52 250 Wheelsmen........ WOOO! 4 = 5 OO Ws GO... 52) 50 ookouttit AO OOF = 245" OD BSE OO seth 2 850 Deck wnandss...5:. 20,00 . 25 00 25 001 4, 30.00 Oilers, (when car- (USC) co gnntete 40 00 " 45 00 A500. 52.50) Firemen-- Fitting out and laying up, $1.50 per day and board themselves. On CONSORTS AND SAIL, LStoVlates. ce seen $50 00 to $65 oo $50 00 to $65 00 2G eae Mere aa 40 00 to 45 00 50.00 .-.. 55.00 COOKS 3. oe: 25.00%. od 5-00 35 OG" sa. 15 OO DeEAIMC Meas eee HO. OOnn 5. OO. a5 OO... 52. 50 BOWSHE =: 8 te ee 2OeOO. 2. JOmGU BO. OOse4: 35.00) Lj Ny. Myth t fel PROPOSED DESIGN FOR AN ATLANTIC LINER. two in forward sections of outer trains, 4,000 each; two in stern sections, 6,000 each, or a total of 50,000 horse power, driving seven pairs of paddle wheels of 52 and 56 feet diameter, 6 and 8 feet wide, and having a dip of 8 feet. This steamer would carry no cargo, and, owing to the sys- tem of construction, would require no ballast, so that the entire tonnage capacity would be available for boilers and engines. The speed to be developed by paddle wheels is estimated at 35 knots, and there would be accommodation for 4,000 passengers. The couplings for the different trains is shown in the engraving. The designer claims that in structural strength the boat would excell the present steamers, and the estimated cost is only $8, - 000,000. It is suggested in the article that freight should be carried separate from passengers, and that for $200,000 a whale- back package freighter could be built that would carry more freight than the Majestic, which cost $2,000,000. The particu- lars and design are reproduced more as a curlosity than as a representation of the coming Atlantic liner. The William F. Hallsted, a steam vessel owned and built at Buffalo, is the only craft receiving an official number last week from the bureau of navigation. The boat's tonnage is 37.75 tons gross and 19.09 net and the number assigned to her is 81,414. Work of the Ship Yards. As shown in the list of forty-nine new vessels printed last week, Capt. James Davidson will put down at his yard in West Bay City a wooden steamer 326 feet long, in addition to the four schooners now under way. For several years Mr. Dan P. Eells of Cleveland has been considering the building of a steam yacht, and now that he has sold the Winifred to George H. Russell and others, Detroit, Mich., for $8,000, he will probably give an order for a boat to come out next spring. The Winifred was built in Brooklyn, N. Y., but her present engines were put in by Clough & Witt, Cleveland. It is probable that the order will go to some lake builder. A contract between the Vessel Owners' 'Tug Line of Cleve- land and the Union Dry Dock Company of Buffalo for two new harbor tugs was closed afew days ago. One willbe 84 feet long, 19 feet beam and 11 feet 6 inches depth of hold, and the other 76 feet long, 17 feet beam and ro feet 6 inches depth of hold. 'T'he engines of the larger tug will be 25x28 inches and that of the smaller one 21x24 inches. Boilers in both cases will be allowed 150 pounds pressure. The Buffalocompany will also build for the Hand & Johnson line of that city a harbor tug on the model of the Townsend Davis.