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MARINE REVIEW. | "3 Mr. J, E. Upson. A photograph, taken recently, gives the REVIEW an opportunity to jot down afew notes regarding J. EK. Upson, president of the Upson- Walton Co., Cleveland, who has been connected with the ship chandlery business here for twenty-five years, but who is very unassuming and is rarely heard of in print. Mr. Upson was born at Tallmadge, O., about fifty years ago. His parents were natives of Connecticut, and were early settlers on the Western Reserve. His business life commenced as a very youthful clerk at Waterbury, Conn., and as bookkeeper in the em- ploy of the Scovil Manufacturing Co. in New York City. He was gradu- ated from Eastman's business college in Poughkeepsie in 1864, and soon after entered the U. S. army as an Ohio volunteer. Upon his hon- orable discharge at the close of the war, he came to Cleveland and en- tered the employ of Wm. Bingham & Co. where his partner of later years, Mr. J. W. Walton, had preceded him. Just before the death of L. L. Lyon, in 1869, Mr. Upson was called to aresponsible position in the ship chandlery store of that gentlemen, which he filled with credit until his association with Mr. Walton, in the same line of business, on Feb. 1, 1871, the Lyon establishment having passed into the hands of Messrs. J. W. Grover & Sons a year previous. Mr. Upson is also a director in the Wilson Transit Co., Cleveland, and is very much interested in various philanthropic enterprises. Though a grandfather, he is in the prime of life and gives strict atten- tion to all details of business in the house of which he is chief, the scope of which has grown far beyond the modest proportions of twenty- five years ago. The Holland Submarine Torpedo Boat. In a recent issue of the New York Sun the submarine torpedo boat that is being built for the United States government after the plans of John P. Holland is fully described. The boat is cigar shaped and 84 feet long, with a diameter of 11.5 feet amidships. When wholly submerged she displaces 168 tons; when light upon the surface, 154 tons. To drive << Se A oh »THE HOLLAND BOATS AS SEEN WITH NO ENEMY IN VIEW. Z Ss ---------- me ae RL her through the water when her upper works are above the surface she has two sets of triple expansion engines of 650 horse power each, turning twin-screws, and a third engine of 325 horse power turning a third screw. Petroleum is used as fuel. So when full power is exerted she is, like the cruiser Columbia, atriple-screw boat. With her steam power at work and the boat light on the surface, she must make 15 knots an hour by contract, while the speed when she is just awash must be 14 knots, and the speed by electric power when wholly submerged 8 knots, The con- tract provides that she maintain speed awash for 1,000 miles. She must maintain her speed of 8 knots submerged for sixty miles. It is intended that she be able to make 12 knots submerged for a mile or thereabouts. The expoged portion is protected with 8 inches of Harveyized steel--an ample thickness to turn the projectiles of the best rapid-fire guns. When desirable this vessel could lay her course either while awash or by the camera and then plunge down and continue the course for hours. Big valves, easily controlled, flood certain compartments with water until there is very little buoyancy in the craft. Meantime two a7 CO SUBMERGED BUT HOLDING THE ENEMY IN VIEW. horizontal rudders, that act much as a duck's feet do, are tipped up, throwing the stern up and the bow down, and under she goes. Ofcourse the smokestack and the furnace doors must be sealed tight sfmultane- ously, and every other opened closed. Icis planned that she shall dis- appear, when running on the surface at full speed, within twenty seconds, after the order todo sois given. Steam at high presure will be left in the boiler as she goes down, and this will be used to run the propellers until she is exhausted. Then the-steam engines are uncoupled, and the -- electric motors connected. Valves from the tanks of compressed air are opened enough to keep the crew supplied with air, and an apparatus to pump out foul air is set going when needed. Incandescent electric lights are provided. A tested: gauge shows the depth to which the boat passes. A large tank of water may be emptied instantly by connecting it with the compressed air reservoirsin case it were desirable to check quickly the downward movement. A regerve of buoyancy amounting to 375 pounds is provided for, so that in case every- thing went wrong the boat would come to the surface, but should it be desirable to lie stillin one place not anchored to the bottom (an anchor is provided) two horizontal screw propellers, worked by electricity, will keep her down. Itis arranged that every change in load or ballast is compensated for in such manner that the center of gravity remains in place. There is arubber tube device that may be sent up to the surface to renew the supply of air. Provisions for a three-days' stay under water are to be carried. Two telescoping expulsion tubes for 18-inch White- AS SEEN AWASH. head torpedoes are provided, and five torpedoes must be carried to supply them. These will be fired, of course, as from any torpedo boat, and they can be fired when she is submerged or on the surface. No attempt to run under a battleship and attach torpedoes to her bottom, as Esra Lee tried to do, nor to drag floating torpedoes against her would be made, because such efforts would not be likely to succeed. It is worth noting that in designs for this class of boats recently submitted to the Japanese government an armament of pneumatic dynamite guns was provided for as well as the ordinary Whitehead torpedoes. Any of the first-class ship yards of the United States can turn out six of these submarine boats in three months, and the cost of the six would not exceed $1,000,000. The present submarine boat is confessedly not the best that might be made, because it is too small, but as the first it is good enough, In former years Toledo shipped large quantities of wheat by lake to Buffalo and received little if any wheat by lake. Last season the receipts at Toledo were far in excess of the shipments, but this was due largely to a light grain crop in the territory tributary to that point. It would seem, however, that Chicago will again send considerable wheat to To- ledo on the opening of navigation, as vessel room was provided in Chi- cago a few days ago for a lot of 175,000 bushels of wheat to be moved to the Ohio port in the spring. SUBSCRIBERS WILL AVOID DANGER OF MISTAKES BY GIVING THE OLD AS WELL AS THE NEW ADDRESS WHEN A CHANGE IS DESIRED.