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MARINE REVIEW. 7 Present Condition of F. W. Wheeler & Co's Ship Yard. An engraving on this page shows the present condition of the ship yard of F. W, Wheeler & Co. at West Bay City, Mich., where extensive improvements and alterations have been made recently, so as to permit of rapid work on eight big steel vessels which that firm now has under contract. These eight vessels--five freight steamers, two freight barges and a car ferry--are of an aggregate value of $1,675,000, and some import- ant changes in theplant have been required on acconnt of this large amount of new work. The additions are substantially as follows: Two 10-ton locomotive cranes, 70 feet radius; one 4-ton Brown hoist; new machine shop with complete outfit of tools, such as punches, bending rolls, planers, frame bending machines, shears, counter sinks, etc.; two slips with stocks for two 450-foot vessels and one 400-foot vessel, with a 15-ton 130-foot cantilever Brown hoist, and one 10-ton traveling locomo- tive crane for handling material. All new tools are operated by inde- pendent motors and generators of Westinghouse make. In General. _ H.M. Curry of Pittsburgh, well known to ore dealers who have had business with the Carnegie Steel Co., has gone to California for a long rest. _ Capt. Nicoll Ludlow, U. S.N., who is now on waiting orders in Washington, will be assigned to duty on the steel board and will probably be made president of the board a little later on. who figured out re proportions must have remained 'awake nights over his job. The United States supervising inspectors of steam vessels, who are now in session at Washington, have been requested by steel manufac- turerers to make the Jimit of tensile strength for plate to go into marine boilers 60,000 pounds per square inch instead of 70,000 or 80,000 pounds. The steel makers also ask that the board establish a chemical test to prevent the introduction of too much phosphorus and sulphur into the steel, which results, it is claimed, in attaining a higher tensile strength, but involves a _loss of other material requirements at the expense of safety. Secretary Herbert has sent a reply to the resolution of the senate asking whether it would be advantageous to contract for six battleships instead of for the two at present authorized. He says: "The depart- ment does not deem it advisable to recommend that any bids already re- ceived and not accepted shonld be further considered, for it sees no reason why, if other ships are now authorized, the building of them should not be also open to competition. Since the department's plan for battleships have been completed, and as all of the contractors in the United States have had opportunity to inspect these plans, and as they have been examined by all those able to build the ships, there seems to be no reason why any delay should occur in letting out contracts for new ships to be authorized by this congress." The secretary requests that authority be given to build twelve torpedo boats of different sizes and wg EAE On - Ek. vs WT! > In three months of last year, Harland & Wolff, Belfast ship builders, launched six steamers, the collective tonnage of -which was 45,630-- nearly 600 tons a day. Making a locomotive a day is a small item com- pared with this record. - Nine vessels, including two battle-ships and three gunboats, are now under way at the ship yard of the Newport News Ship Building and Dry Dock Co 'The company's latest contract provides for a second boat for the Plant line, to cost about $50,000. The board of naval bureau chiefs has decided to furnish gunboat No 10, to be built by Lewis Nixon, at Elizabeth, N. J., with water tube boilers. This will be the first vessel of the navy to be completely supplied with such boilers, although the Monterey has one-half her boilers of this type. The Chicago will also be supplied with them for one-half of her battery. Officers of the Carnegie Steel Co., elected at the annual meeting,- which was held a few days ago, are: H.C. Frick, chairman; John G. A Leishman, president; L. C. Phipps, vice president and treasurer; F. T. F. Lovejoy, secretary. Two new members were added to the board of direct- ors, these being Alexander R. Peacock, general sales agent, and C. M. Schwab, superintendent of the Homestead Steel Works. A recent number of Engineering of London describes the twin- screw triple-expansion engines of the Spanish armored cruiser Empera- dor Carlos V., which are of the inverted type with four cylinders--one. high pressure, 52 inches in diameter, one intermediate, 77,4; inches, and two lower pressure, 82.8, inches in diameter, each adapted for a 45,5; inch stroke; at 100 pe anone they develop 18,500 horse power. The man c cms LO) gee ze AAD YS STH --Leunex See --F.W.WHEELER & Co-- ---- SHIPBUILDING PLANT ---- WEST Bry c!TY, MicH.---- cate _sneaw LOO the limitation of cost be upon the aggregate and not upon the price of each boat. A number of boats should be given to one contractor to lessen the cost. Stocks of Grain at Lake Ports. The following table, prepared from reports of the Chicago board of trade, shows the stocks of wheat and corn in store at the principal points of accumulation on the lakes on Jan. 18, 1896: Wheat, bushels. Corn, bushels, CHICA SOs. ssresosetvcsecr is osscnscoccesssssset0, 001 5000 2,328,000 TOU ecesrssssavecss ertereece pron er eters 9,021,000 se 000 . MMiifatieest: Seceruawcesaces Siac ecceasereccets 437,000 ~ Seasecsseors Detroit........ qadesctnenscchecartegersi meron 342,000 ! ~ 20,000 POLCd Os sccriesscssss Mlounerscetaderciecetanees 845,000 wee 253,000 BWiAl Os seesscerc tess cottacdes Weucesestercazye 2,834,000 ~ 108, 000 ILOEAL estes. wdsdsucks sugaceuneh a ckesemae 34,446,000 2,749, 000. As compared with a week ago, the above figures Euan at the several points named a decrease of 126,000 bushels of wheat and an increase of 868,000 bushels of corn. On Jan. 18, there was afloat at Chicago, 1 216,000 bushels of corn and 227,000 face of oats; at Buffalo, 259,000 bushels ae wheat, 223,000 bushels -- of oats, and 304,000 bushels of barley; at Duluth, 512,000 bushels of wheat; and at Milwaukee 176,000 bushels of wheat and 120,000 bushels of oats. _ "ROPER'S LAND AND MARINE ENGINES,' BOUND IM MOROCCO WITH FLAP AND POCKET, WILL BE MAILED TO ANY ADDRESS FOR $3.50 sENT TO THE MARINE REVIEW, CLEVELAND, O