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y MARINE REVIEW. if Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. W. L.. Capps of Washington, D. C., secretary of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, announces that the third general meeting of the society will take place in New York 'city, at 10 a. m., Thursday, Nov. 7. Through the courtesy of the president and managers of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the meeting will be held in the auditorium of No.12 West Thirty-first street, the session continuing through Thursday and Friday, Nov. 7 and 8. There will be a banquet at the Hotel Brunswick at 7 p. m. on Friday, Nov. 8, to which members and their guests are invited. In order that suitable arrange- ments may be made, the executive committee requests that members will notify the secretary, as early as practicable, of their intentions as to the banquet, and also as to the probability of their attending the meetings of the society. Members intending to propose candidates for membership are requested to notify the secretary in order that the necessary blank forms of application may be forwarded and properly filled out. A list of the papers and writers is herewith submitted: THURSDAY, NOV. 7: 1. American Maritime Development, by Capt. Henry C. Taylor, U. S.N., president Naval War College. 2. Performance of the Twin-Screw Steamer City of Lowell, by Pro- fessor Jas. KE. Denton, Stevens Institute of Technology. 3. Rudder Experiments---U. S.S. Monterey, by Elliot Snow, assistant naval constructor, U. S. Navy. 4, Aluminum,--its alloys and their use in ship construction, by J. C. McGuire, Esq., C. E. 5. Methods and Forms for Certain Ship Calculations, by D. W. Taylor, naval constructor, U. S. Navy. 6. The Number of Longitudinal Intervals in Ship Computation, as effecting the Accuracy of Integration for displacement, and Note on the Relation between Reduced and True Wetted Surface, by Professor W. F. Durand, Cornell University. ERIDAY, NOV. 8: 7. Recent Designs of Vessels for the U. S. Navy, by Philip Hichborn, chief constructor, U. S. Navy. 8. 'Tactical Consideration Involved in War Ship Design, by Albert P. Niblack, lieutenant, U. S. Navy. 9, The Centerboard,--its influence on design, its value and |its proper use, by Wm. P. Stephens, Esq. 10. Engineering Research in the Navy, by Professor Wm. S. Aldrich, Uiversity of West Virginia. 1l, The Ventilation of Ships, by F. B. Dowst, Esq., M. E. 12. An Experimental Test of the Armored Side of U.S.S. _Towa, by Albert W. Stahl, naval constructor, U. S. Navy. Commander Ludlow's Difficulties. Now it is Commander Ludlow, naval officer and brother of Col. Ludlow of the army engineer corps, who is in trouble with powers at Washington. Commander Nicoll Ludlow will be remembered as the light-house inspector who was for some time in charge of the ninth dis- trict, with headquarters at Chicago. President Cleveland has disapproved the findings of the examining board which recommended the commander for promotion. This action was based upon the action of the officer in question in making contradictory reports upon the fitness of Commander Charles S. Sperry for promotion. The president in his endorsement made some very severe comments, stating that the secretary and himself depended wholly upon the statements made by officers concerning officers junior to them and who had seen service under ftheir command, aud unless they made just statements neither he nor Mr. Herbert would know just what action was proper in examination cases. It appears that some ten years ago Commander Ludlow made avery flattering report upon Commander (then Lieutenant) Sperry's professional qualifications, and that officer was promoted to the grade of lieutenant commander and continued to serve with Commander Ludlow as executive of the old Quinnebaug. When Commander Sperry came up for promotion to his present grade Commander Ludlow, in reply to the usual interrogatory concerning Commander Sperry's fitness for promotion, stated that he did not consider him qualified. The discrepancy in his statements was brought to the attention of the president by Commander Sperry's friends and the president gave that officer his promotion. Commander Ludlow, it is expected, will either ask for a hearing by the secretary or for a court of inquiry, and if he fails to obtain satisfaction in this way he will prob- ably appeal tocongress. In case he should not be considered eligible for promotion Commander Francis A. Cook will be nominated for the vacancy now existing in the grade of captain. Should the senate decline to nominate any officer other than Commander Ludlow a block will occur which will prevent promotion until the cause is removed. Low rates are offered to points in Michigan and Wisconsin account hunters' excursions. Ask agents of the Nickel Plate road for detailed information. 424-14 - allthe items which goto makeup the hull structure and outfit. New Duties for Ship Brokers. Vessel agents in Buffalo have repeatedly been heard to complain of the extra amount of detail to which they are forced to give attention in chartering vessels at that port, as against other shipping and receiving points on the lakes. It would seem, however, that new duties are being found for them, as indicated by the following letter from a New York firm, for whom a vessel was secured by one of the Buffalo brokers to carry a cargo of salt to Chicago: "We have just been advised by the Chicago customer to whom we shipped a cargo of salt in the schooner which you chartered for us, that the salt arrived in bad condition. Ten tonsfof the cargo was so badly damaged that it was of no use whatever. The Chicago people claim that the boat was previously loaded with iron ore and had not been properly cleaned out. Itseems to me that we are entitled to payment for the damaged salt, as the damage was due to carelessness on the part of the captain of the vessel. For your information I will quote the closing sentence of a letter from the Chicago customer: 'I would also add that the vessel agents be more careful in getting responsible captains and crews when they are chartering boats for us, This crew was drunk from the time they landed until we got through with them, and the boat was dirty when loaded.'" The Buffalo agent suggests that he was of the opinion that firms in his line having all the business of a vessel to look after had quite enough responsibility, as compared with that of their brethren in other quarters. He adds, however, that if in addition they are expected to attend to the sweeping of the holds of vessels before they take in cargoes, and finally to keep crews sober in Chicago, it will be necessary in future to increase the fees they have been accustomed to charging. Wonderful Model of a Big Ship. Kelso & Co. of Glasgow, Scotland, is a firm well known as makers of steamship models. This company's productions in highly finished ship models have been admired for years past at all expositions where shipping was represented. They have made some models of ships built in this country, notably one of the Lehigh Valley liner Tuscarora, built by the Globe Iron Works Co., Cleveland. Recently they completed a sectional model of a ship built for the New Zeland Shipping Co. by Wm. Denny & Bros., Clyde builders. The model is to a scale of three-eights of an inch per foot, or one thirty-secondth of the actual size of the original. Instead of the plain exterior of the hull, usually shown by ship models, this one consists of half the ship, represented as cut through the centre line from stem to stern, and from keel to mast-head, exhibiting in section It is constructed entirely of brass, and has been built up, piece by piece, exactly as in the case of the full-sized ship, the work having occupied twelve months. The number of separate pieces going towards the com- pleted structure aggregates many thousands, and while--as was only possible on such a small scale--the binding medium employed has been solder, and not rivets as in the real vessel, each and every rivet is clearly and faithfully represented. Not only is the interior of the vessel rend- ered with painstaking exactitude, but the machinery, boilers, and deck appliances are all represented in place. Doors inthe water-tight bulkheads are made to open and close from deck by means of gear, as actually fitted, and pumps and piping for draining the several hold and ballast compart- -- ments are clearly reproduced. That side of the model which represents the hull exterior shows faithfully the strakes and butts of shell plating, and the hull itselfis shown resting onthe cradle and ways ready for launching. The model is intended for educational purposes on board a training ship, whichis operated by the Thames Nautical Training College. Since the steamer Iroquois grounded near Ashtabula, a short time ago, on account of mistaking a lighted gas well for the harbor light, half a dozen vessel captains have made the same mistake, and did not discover their errors until they had wasted a great deal of time and steam blowing fortugs. But this mistake is only a mild one compared with that of a steamboat captain who went up on the beach at the rolling mills, just east of the Cleveland piers one morning last week, and who filed a pro- test on coming into port, admitting that he had been three times aground in five days while coming from the Detroit river to Cleveland. He had been lightering and throwing overboard his iron orecargo until it would seem that he had little of it left upon reaching the ship's destination. Wm. H. Webb, veteran ship builder and philanthropist of New York, has planned histomb. It isina stately sepulchral monument which contains ten separate tombs. The entrance is through massive bronze doors. Aseries of beautiful bronzes show the different stages of the shipbuilder's art, and bronze models of the warships launched at the famous Webb ship yards on the East river, New York, are also contained in the structure,