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MARINE REVIEW. NW@la eV EL: CLEVELAND, OHIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1802. No. 26. Boilers and Stacks for the Columbus. So far as known the illustration herewith shows the largest single consignment of marine boilers and stacks ever shipped from a lake boiler building establishment. It consists of eight cars, loaded with six Scotch boilers and ten lengths of stack. The six Scotch boilers are each 11 feet in diameter and 12 feet long, and allowed 160 pounds pressure, and each has two corru- gated furnaces, 44 inches outside diameter. Hach boiler has a steam drum 3 feet diameter and 5 feet long with bumped heads. The stack is oval, 714 by 9% feet and is 48 feet above breeching. The casing or jacket for stack is 9% by 11% feet, breeching stack and casing all being steel. The boilers are for the world's fair steamer Christopher Columbus, recently launched at West Superior, Wis,, and are to be placed three on each side of the boat, making the fire room fore and aft. The weight of boilers, stacks and casing combined was over 196 tons. The contract for this work was taken by the Cleveland Ship Building Com-. _ LARGEST SINGLE CONSIGNMEN'S SHIPPED FROM A LAKE BOILER SHOP. pany July 20, and it called for delivery to the American Steel Barge Company Dec. 15, but the eight cars arrived there Dec. 3. Not a Great Combination. The Chicago Insurance Company, organized a short time ago to engage in grain cargo business, has a capital of only $100,- 000 and is not a very powerful concern, but its stockholders are grain shippers and vessel owners, and on this account thete has been some talk of the new corporation monopolizing the cargo business of the lakes. 'The daily newspaper articles about this company have brought out the following from a writer in Fair- play of London, who discusses very intelligently in that publi- cation affairs at Lloyds, the great center of insurance business for the world: ~~ 'At Chicago a 'combination' has been got up for underwri- ting cargo risks on the lakes. It has been authorized by the state auditor to begin business, and according to an American paper 'it may completely upset the present method of insuring cargoes.' The object is to save agents' commissions, so that, 'it there are any profits in the business they will eventually go back to the shippers.' 'This is all very well, but perhaps the members of this mutual company, or 'combination,' will discover that the old-fashioned system of adjusting rates to selected risks is mate- rially better in the end than the mutual system of taking any- thing and everything, and working out the result into an even percentage of contribution by the members. No doubt the grain shippers on the lakes are much too conscientious to take up any old rattle-trap simply because the cargo carried by her can be in- sured on the mutual system at the rate payable for the very best steamer on the lakes; nevertheless, there will be some amount of temptation to ship by the poorest and cheapest class of tonnage." England has the Ships, but no Salvors. _ Prominent as England is in maritime affairs, it is odd that in one of the most useful and necessary branches it should lag far behind other powers. Considering the vast amount of capital - invested in shipping, the number of vessels owned in our coun- try, and the recognized fact that the English mercantile marine are the carriers of the world, it is ridiculous that when any im- portant salvage operation has to be undertaken, Englishmen ap- pear to be unable to meet the emergency. Lloyds and the vari- ous London insurance companies annually pay thousands of pounds for assistance rendered to sfranded vessels in which they are interested, and it might have been supposed that sufficient occupation could have been' found for at least one English sal- vage steamer well built up to modern requirements. Foreign salvors are now working not only in their own but in English waters. It was not English enterprise that raised the Sultan. The Eider was floated by Swedish and German salvors,and some of the same vessels which so successfully took this ship off the dangerous rocks at the back of the Isle of Wight are now engag- ed to render a similar service to the Howe. The Hermes and the Belos, which went to Ferol to raise the English war ship stranded there, carry appliances for salvage operations which no English vessel possesses, and the Neptune Salvage Company, to whom they belong, yearly earns many thousands of pounds from English insurers in the Baltic and elsewhere.--English Ex- change.