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12 MARINE REVIEW. Hike Canes Assocation. M. A. BRADLEY. President. James W. Millen, Detroit, Mich. John G. Keith, Chicago, Ili. Frank J. Firth, Erie, Pa. W.S. Brainard, Toledo, O. --__ Thomas Wilson, Cleveland, O. R.P.Fitzgerald,Milwaukee, Wis. Peter F. Miller, Buffalo, N.Y. Alex. McDougall, Duluth,Minn. Charles H. Keep, Secretary, Buffalo,N.Y. | Geo. P. McKay, Treasurer, Cleveland, O. Harvey D. Goulder, Counsel, Cleveland, O. VICE-PRESIDENTS: At a meeting of the finance committee in Cleveland on Mon- day, Secretary Keep was present and it was decided to hold the annual meeting of the general association in Detroit on Thurs- day, Jan. 12. Finances of the association are in good shape, and it is expected that expenses for next year will be reduced, on account of relief received from the government taking charge of some of the private lights. Expenses connected with ship- ping offices will continue, however, and the maintenance of this service at Chicago and South Chicago next season will require quite an expenditure of money. It is also expected that an ef- fort will be made to take into the association the Lake Michigan lumber fleet, which is a most important part of shipping at Chi- cago. At the annual meeting, attention will be given to abuses arising in the coal trade from some shippers insisting on furnish- ing fuel to all steamers for which cargoes are provided. 'This condition acts against cargoes being secured for consorts and schooners, and is in many other ways detrimental to the vessel interests. The committee refused to consider a proposition from the general agents of the lake underwriters, that vessel owners bear a portion of the expense of publishing the proposed new Inland Lloyds Register. The Lake Carriers' take the ground that as an association they can not take up a matter of expense of this kind. It has been suggested that at the annual meeting of the as- sociation a change should be made in the name of the finance. committee. The name seems to cover money matters exclusive- ly, when, in fact, this committee is in charge of all affairs of the association outside of legislation and aids to navigation. Re- ports of a finance committee dealing with shipping offices and such matters as were taken up at the last meeting, for instance, do not sound just right. Engines Amidships. Of the four steel steamers now under way at the yard of F. W. Wheeler & Co., West Bay City, three will have their engines amidships and will also have large water ballast capacity and in- creased facilities for handling the same. Three of these boats now on the stocks are for D. C. Whitney ot Detroit, the Haw- good & Avery Transit Company of Cleveland, and Capt. John Mitchell and others of Cleveland. 'The fourth boat, the keel for which will take the place of the Mitchell steamer, is projected on owners' account, but will undoubtedly be sold before work is very far advanced. Of the changes to be inaugurated in all of the boats excepting the Mitchell steamer, Mr. H. A. Hawgood makes the following explanation: "Our engines will be placed amidships, with 136 feet of shaft, and will be so located that we will have six hatches for- ward and four aft, with one trimming hatch between engine and boiler houses. The hatches are laid off with reference to 24 feet centers, the engines and boilers taking up space of two hatches. In this way we will have three-fifths of our cargo forward and two-fifths aft. Water ballast arrangements as now agreed upon will give us, when running without cargo, 6 feet forward and 14 feet aft, and if desirable we have made provision for even increas- ing this draftin water ballast. Water can be handled at the rate of 1,400 tons an hour. In loading at coal and ore docks, it is ex- pected that these extra facilities for putting the vessel deep into the water and pumping her out as the cargo is being taken aboard will prove of special advantage, although the great aim is, of course, to insure safety when running light." British Turret-Deck Steamers. Several months ago there was printed in the REVIEW an en- graving showing a type of freight carrier proposed in England,as atesult of the visit of the whaleback steamer Charles W. Wet- more to Liverpool. A vessel of this type was launched a short time ago at the yard of Messrs. Doxford & Sons, Sunderland. The boat is called a turret-deck steamer and, as the name sug- gests, the chief departure from the existing model lies in her turret deck running the whole length of the vessel, and rising out of a beveled lower deck, whose plates are curved inward and upward immediately above the water-line. The deck is thus practically an integral part of the hull, made of plates of the same thickness, and having above it, or on the turret, the work- ing deck, which is high above the water-line, and only one-third the width of the vessel. It is divided into three exceptionally large hatches, and the turret itself acts as an automatic feeder for grain, coal, or other bulk cargoes. It is claimed for the new type, which is really designed to combine the advantages of the whaleback with those of the ordinary steamer, that it ensures a larger carrying capacity on a lighter draught, is cheaper to work, and costs less. The "turret"? will carry 3,200 tons on a net reg- ister of 1,250 tons, and draws only 18 feet. Her engines are aft, leaving the entire hold space free. If these advantages are dem- onstrated by actual experience, there is a future before the new type. In General. The Welland canal closed for the season on the 12th inst. at midnight. D. J. Galanaugh of Philadelphia is constructing of aluminum an eight-oared racing shell for the crew of Cornell university. Engineers desiring to read a 100-page book, 7x5 inches, giving full information of all kinds of Worthington pumps will receive the same by writing to H. R. Worthington, New York, Nee The Roberts boiler works has nearly completed a large boiler for a new tug lately launched by James Molyneux & Co. of Bordentown, N. J. The tug is intended for use on the Dela- ware river and will have a 16x16 engine. The King Bridge Company, Cleveland, has a contract for au additional hoisting and carrying plant for handling coal and iron ore on the new docks of the Pittsburg, Chenango & Lake Erie Railway at Conneaut, O. A first class dredge of large size with two dump scows will be constructed this winter by Rieboldt, Wolter & Co. of She- boygan, Wis., for the Sheboygan Dredge and Dock Company. The machinery will be constructed in Milwaukee. : Keel blocks have been laid for two of the five new vessels of American registry, which the Inman company have engaged to build, for the pur pose of carrying trans-Atlantic mails under the postal subsidy act, passed at the last session of congress. Underwood & Cowan, lumber shippers of Menominee, now own the steamer John C. Pringle and consorts Ben Harrison and Sweetheart, and also the schooner Arctic. 'The Pringle tow will be kept together and run in the owners' lumber trade between Menominee and Buffalo and 'Tonawanda. An outside tow will be selected for the Arctic. When Capt. McKinnon of the Northerner took out his clearance at Buf- falo for Duluth he remarked with a wink that he had goods on board for Port Arthur but intended to give them the slip and stay in Duluth. Fifteen days later his vessel is a second time a total loss from fire. When she burned at Kelley's island several years ago she was fora time reckoned not worth a rebuild. NITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE, Hickox Building, 185 Euclid Avenue, Cleve- land, Ohio, December 12, 1892. Sealed proposals for dredging in straight channel at Sandusky Harbor, Ohio, wiil be received at this office until 20'clock Pp. M., standard time, of Friday, De- cember 30, 1892, and then publicly opened. Spec- ifications, blank forms and all available infor- mation will be furnished on application to this office. JARED A. SMITH, Corps of Engineers, WSS Are 15-22-29