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16 MARINE REVIEW. Philadelphia, whose engines are also on the war ship Illinois, is in the same section as all of that class of machinery. i J. H. Rushton, Canton, N. Y., illustrates the lightness of his canoes by showing one on the head of a figure of a boy, who does not look a bit tired. The Boston & Lockport Block Company have an extensive display of blocks, wood and iron, from the smallest to the largest manufactured. De Grauw, Aymar & Co., South-st , New York,show a rack full of oars which they manufacture at Toledo, O., and Mont- pelier, O. The Americam Publishing Company, Hartford, Conn., show a number of large water colors of our new navy by Cozzens. Some very neat bales of oakum make up the exhibit of the Geo. Stratford Oakum Company, Jersey City, N. J. Laughlin & Co., Portland, Me., present light anchors, steer- ing wheels and other steering apparatus. Stewart & Binney, leading yacht designers of Boston, have wall space well filled with models. J. Beavor Webb, the New York naval architect, exhibits a model of the steam yacht Corsair. U. S: NAVAL EXHIBIT, BATTLE-SHIP ILLINOIS. which are covered with pictures ot old naval heroes. Com. Perry of Lake Erie fame is included, but the portrait of Capt. EXHIBIT OF THE HARLAN & HOLLINGSWORTH CO., WILMINGTON, DEL, C. K. Williams, Easton, Pa., presents a new style of anchor, called the alligator anchor. A good collection of boats and oars is marked B. N. Morris Veazie, Me. THE UNITED STATES WAR SHIP. The most distinctive and exclusively marine exhibit is shown in the United States war ship Illinois, which is a duplicate in every particular, with the exception of having no machinery and being built of brick, upon a syb-structure of piling, of the Indiana and Massachusetts, 348 feet long, 69 feet 3 inches beam, with 12 feet of free board, recently built by the Wm. Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company for the United States government at a cost of about $3,000,000. None of the United States war ships could get through the St. Lawrence canals, and it was thought that the navy should have some kind of representation at the great exposition, so this was the means taken to obtain it. To every one except a marine engineer the imitation is very satisfactory, On going aboard, one of the first things noticed is the immense anchor chains with the imprint B. N. Y. on them, which signifies that the United States makes its own chain at the Brooklyn navy yard. After looking through the United States Naval Academy exhibit, show- ing the different text-books which the middies have to master, there is a good deal of sympathy expressed for them, and naval officers rise correspondingly in the estimation of the visitor. There is in this exhibit knots of every description used in the navy. On the lower deck aft there is a room, the walls of Reid, who designed the present U.S. flag and who with the Long Tom, that is mounted near the war ship on the lake front, defended his ship Gen. Armstrong in the harbor of Fayal in the Azores against a British fleet mounting 163 guns, on Sept. 26, 1814, will be admired as much or more than any of the others. A very good idea of how Uncle Sam's sailors sleep and eat can be had by going through the ward and mess room where several hammocks are strung, some tied up and some ready for action. Several of the mess tables are swung from the ceiling, and a locker containing dishes for one mess is noticeable. Up on deck two big flat-headed Providence naval capstans, one for- ward and one aft, are kept shining by the crew of the U. S. S. Michigan, which is detailed to the Illinois every day. In the same room where the portraits are hung is shown a piece of 4-inch armor plate which has been shot through a number of times, and on top of the plate stands a projectile that has been fired through the plate twice without even denting the pointed head. The ammunition hoists which lead from the turrets down to the shell room and powder magazine are curious arrangements, and the powder horn and bullet pouch that is carried by a mod- ern war vessel is quite astonishing. 'There are three different styles of self-propelling torpedoes exhibited, and after looking at them it is easily understood why such protection as the torpedo netting, seen on H. M. S. Victoria, is put out whenever a wat ship comes to anchor in the enemy's water. 'The armament is the same exactly as that on the vessels of this class in actual comniission,and although the Illinois is stationary she could keep a belligerant fleet at a respectable distance from the world's fair grounds.