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1 MARINE REVIEW. -- At a regular meeting of the Cleveland branch, Shipmasters' Excelsior Marine Benevolent Association, last week, President Lowe appointed the following officers: Marshal, Capt. William W. Brown; sentinel, Capt. William Cowan; warden, Capt. @; Ohlsen. Delegates to the convention of the general association at Port Huron will be appointed on Friday, Jan. 6. The McGraw "ransportation Company of Bay City has been re-incorporated, and its capital increased to $300,000. hie company is now composed of J. W. McGraw, Thomas Cranage, S. P. Cranage, J. S. McNeil of Bay City, and F. 5S. McGraw and Edward Smith of Buffalo. The company now owns the City of Paris and the City of Venice, and recently contracted for a steamer on the stocks at Davidson's yard, which is to be named J. W. McGraw. A Steamboatmen's Protective Association, composed of wheelmen, lookoutmen, watchmen and stewards, has been or- ganized at Chicago with 150 members. 'This is the initial body of a series of such organizations, one of which will be in each port of the chain of lakes and at each Pacific coast port. The officers elected are: William Gordon, president; Charles Tracy, secretary; James Woods, treasurer; Hugh O' Connor, organizer; William Wesch, Frank Seabright and Otto Van Dall, trustees. Col. Jared A. Smith, United States engineer at Cleveland, a few days ago opened bids for dredging the straight channel at Sandusky. Five bids were received. The bid of E. B. Seward of Albany, N. Y., was the lowest. The bids were as follows: John Stang, Lorain, 1734 cents: L. P. & J. A. Smith, Cleveland, 18 cents; James Rooney, Toledo, 19 cents; Luther EK. Allen, De- troit, 19 cents; E. B. Seward, Albany, 1134 cents. Seward has never done any work on the lakes, but has done considerable work on the Hudson river. Col. Smith will recommend that the contract be awarded to him. Capt. William S. Mack and others of Cleveland have bought one of Capt James Davidson's new schooners. The vessel is a duplicate of the schooner Aberdeen, and was launched late in No- vember. She is 225 feet long, 35 feet beam and 18 feet deep. She has double steel keelsons, and is double corded and strap- ped. In Inland Lloyds' she is rated ar* She can carry 80,000 bushels of wheat from Chicago or 2,200 tons of ore from Escana- ba. Her cabins are furnished in hard wood. 'The new boat will tow behind the steamer V. H. Ketchum, owned by the same par- ties. At the annual meeting of the Cleveland branch, Marine En- gineers' Beneficial Association, the following offlcers were elect- ed: Past president, C. M. Stoddard; president, J. B. Wood; vice president, Martin J. Burns; recording secretary, William H. Aikens; corresponding secretary, John N. Kirley; financial sec- retary, James P. Carr; treasurer, M. B. Sturtevant; conductor, Henry TIT. McAuley; chaplain, Henry Schauff; door keepers, Charles Steadman and George Masters; trustees, O. N. Steele, J. B. Wood, William Lowe. At the convention of the national association in Chicago, Jan. 23, the Cleveland engineers will be represented by C. M. Stoddard and J. B. Wood. Trade Notes. _ 'The Foster Engineering Company of Newark, N. J., is get- ting up a full equipment of its pressure regulators, consisting of twenty-one valves, for the United States armored cruiser Colum- bia, building by the Cramps. This company has also an order for valves for gunboats Nos. 5 and 6, under construction at the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. In a circular letter that is a work of art from a typographi- cal view, the Lunkenheimer Brass Manufacturing Company of Cincinnati, announced with the close of the year that an increased demand for its brass and iron specialties necessitated an increase in capital to $500,000, which will be followed as soon as possible by additional manufacturing facilities. The company is now known as the Lunkenheimer Company, and its officers are Presi- dent Edmund H. Lunken, Vice President and Treasurer C. T. Tunkenheimer and Secretary D. IT. Williams. New Fall River Passenger Steamer. The new passenger and freight steamer to run in the Old Colony Steamboat Company's Fall River Line between New York and Boston will be built in general after the style of the famous Puritan of that line. The only marked changes in con- struction will be an increase in length, a different style of engines and boilers, and the removal of the dining-room from the hold to 'hema deck "(he hullawill- pe built bythe Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works, Chester, Pa. The dimen- sions are: Length 423.5 feet, length over all 440.5 feet, beam 52.5 feet, beam over guards 92.5 feet, depth moulded lowest part 20.5 feet, draught light will be 12 feet, loaded 13 feet, displace- ment light 4,550 tons, loaded 5,200 tons. 'The dimensions of the Puritan after which this boat is to be modeled are: Length 403.3 feet, length over all 419.3 feet, beam over guards gi feet, and depth moulded lowest part 20.5 feet. This boat, which will prob- ably be named the Mayflower, will be built of steel, like the latest additions to the line, and it is intended to make this excel the others in point of power, speed, capacity and elegance. She is to be built on the double-hull, longitudinal, cellular system, with a length of double bottom of 340 feet, having fifty-two compart- ments, besides which, the hull is subdivided above the double hull and at ends of vessel by means of bulkheads and flats into nine additional water-tight spaces, making in all sixty-one com- partments. 'The aim is to make her non-destructible, the free- board being sufficient to float her with any ten of the compart- ments within the double bottom full of water, or with any two of the compartments above the double bottom filled. The engines for the Mayflower will be built by the W. & A. Fletcher Company, Hoboken, N. J. 'The change in the style of engine from the compound-beam to compound double-inclined engine is made to increase the stability of the vessel, for while the Puritan cannot be excelled as a comfortable sea boat, it was found that to give the new boat the increased power desired would make the weight of beam and upper part of engine greater than the increase in stability of new hull would safely permit. The double-inclined engine has other advantages for a vessel of this size. It has practically no centers, and the use of an enor- ~ mous low-pressure cylinder is avoided. The number of cylinders are four, two high-pressure cylinders of 51 inches diameter, and two low-pressure cylinders of 95 inches, both having 132 inches stroke. The indicated horse power is 8,000. The equipment consists of connected air pumps, independent circulating pumps and surface condensers, with cooling surface of 16,000 square Teet. The Mayflower will have ten Scotch single-ended boilers with mean diameter of 14 feet, and length of 14 feet 6 inches. The number of furnaces will be 30, of the corrugated type, with inside diameter, 44 inches; total grate surface, 850 square feet ; total heating surface, 24,000 square feet. The. boilers will be allowed a working pressure of steam of 150 pounds per square inch, and arranged for natural or forced draft, as may be desired. Obituary. Capt. Richard Powers of Racine, Wis., died recently in Kansas. He was in charge of lake vessels for a number of years. From Grand Rapids, Mich., the death of Captain William P. Bryan, an old lake navigator, is announced. He was sixty-two years of age. Captain Lazarus Kenworthy, who had served sixty-three years on water salt-and fresh, and who was well known of late years as the keeper of range lights at the head of Russell island died at Algonac, Mich., last week. : Capt. Joseph Taylor, who was government inspector of steamboats for about twenty years, died of old age, on Friday last, at Kingston, Ont., of which place he had been a resident for forty years. He was engineer for many years in the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company before being appointed inspector,