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g | MARINE REVIEW. Big Improvements at Conneaut, Dock improvements to be made at Conneaut, as a result of the Carnegie interest in that port, are to be of a very extensive kind. All arrangements have been made for the construction of a slip on which about 2,000 feet of dock will be built, making in all about 4,000 feet of dock at Conneaut for the handling of coal and ore. Hingston & Woods of Buffalo will build the new dock, but all contracts for the equipment have not as yet been let. The new equipment will consist of a car dumping machine for handling coal, and two modern fast ore unloading plants, each of twelve legs, suited to vessels of the 400-foot type. One of the new ore plants will be adapted to loading direct into cars, while the other will be of the hoisting and conveying kind, suited to the storage of ore. As Conneaut already has a big stretch of dock equipped with two Brown rigs of three legs each, three King rigs of two legs each and six revolving derricks, it is evident that the amount of business to be done there in the future will be very large. This is all due, ot course, to the arrangement under which the Car- "negie company now controls the Pittsburg, Shenango & Lake Erie Railroad and is engaged in extending that line by a direct route into Pittsburg. ' Test of the City of Buffalo. The Detroit Dry Dock Co., builders of the City of Bffualo, the fastest and finest side-wheel steamer on the lakes, have just had an engineering test made on the vessel, and the results are printed here- a z "a _S.5, City of Buffalo, Nov.6%1896 . ------- 7, ia rine ca etn a ee Ee ee , . o-- 7 ' t Sy @ 1 ' ' e { ae ' ' ' \ oy ' . ¢ , ' . ' ' ! v. ' nr 1 ¢ . am ' ' ae s § 1 ' = ' o ~ ' | ? ~S ' 1 fF = - > | ge : 1 z i) ' H.P ' 7? 7. < ' e we re i i ~ ¢ - M.E.P 52. ee ei ' Be pao ' re tee ; ; "4 a o Ve f ae wre ef La S Eat) 7 = \ ieee ane AM eRC re Ser Fa OA ie e F 6 we ~ ee ' Nee te Fee Eee Soe oe 4 aed caeloee, --- Fa - ™ 2 eae 1 en ag alent te ie a ae Sa ahem we) Se ite ' 1 er ~a = =~aa nae Oo -. - ce ae feast ae Vi oeore » ' ' \ 4 wr \ h i é as 1 i of x a ae aw ene ca ess ena eae BE ea eS es as a as 00 Stea m 957 A. H.P, Rev. 23.83 ; Total 2757 oe) a Cylinders { i -Y 80 » ---- x\2R-Q. " with. No attempt was made to develop a high rate of speed, as the test was purely of a commercial kind, so to speak, the work being under- taken without any special preparation, and with only four of the six boilers in operation, as has been the case during the whole season, while the steamer has been making the Cleveland-Buffalo run regu- _ larly in ten hours. On this occasion her time from breakwater to breakwater was 10 hours and 3 minutes. 'Th coal consumption which is given as 1.78 pounds per hour per I. H. P., is regarded as remarka- ble for a compound engine, and it will be noted that in this calculation is included coal used for all purposes, while the I. H. P. is for the main engines only. No allowance is made for ashes or for auxiliary machinery of any kind. Among the auxiliaries are an electric light engine, ventilating engine, sanitary pumps, etc. Coal was of the ordinary quality, such as the Cleveland &. Buffalo people have been accustomed to use. It is understood that this test shows a perform- ance that may be compared with the best results obtained from the high-class steamers of this kind operating on Long Island sound. The City of Buffalo is equipped with the Howden system of hot draft. Hull--Steel, 308 feet over all, 298 feet keel, 41 feet beam, 75 feet over guards, 17 feet 4 inches depth, all moulded. Engines+-Compound with high pressure cylinder of 52 inches by 8 feet stroke and low pressure of 80 inches by 12 feet stroke. Boilers--Six cylindrical, 12 feet 6 inches diameter by 12 feet length; 130 pounds pressure. Only four boilers were in use. Each boiler has two furnaces of 44 inches diameter and 5 feet 6 inches grate bars. Total grate surface 242 square feet; grate surface of four boilers, 161 1-3 square feet. Total heating surface 11,556 square feet; heating surface four boilers 7,704 square feet. Ratio of heating surface to grate surface 47.7. ' Fans--Two of 66 inches diameter wheel by 35 inches wide. Engines double, 5 inches by 5 inches. Heater --22 inches diameter by 11 feet 8 inches long. Heating surface 322 square feet. Wheels-- 28 feet 64 inches diameter to outside of buckets. Eleven buckets, 12 by 4 feet. Time--Left Buffaio Me AAS Wn IN OVee Ore teteatar ater cs Miles Passing Buffalo breakwater 8:17 p.m., Nov. 6...... Passing Port Colborne Orbe p= Wilke eNO yesOree ea 154 Passing Dunkirk ORM ERD: Ts, NOV NOt ce aes 183 Passing Long point, Melecoiqe eT. INO Vem Ors neee 3 284 Passing Ashtabula BRU once; INOW es 56 Passing Fairport AON ue TITS IN ONG ee tse 264 Passing Cleveland breakwater 6:20 a.m., Nov. 7........ 284 Arrived Cleveland 6 40a tm. Nowe, oe 173 Steam pressumey POUNUStet fet ee ere 95 ATER VESSULCHMINCN OS 5 ch te ae 52 eR << cet: 3 4-10 Vacuum inches. camcn.. te, feat tie enc rak eal, Pipes. 24 Me He. hig he pressune Mounds... 05 ote pg eat ee en 52 Me- Habs lOwapresstrés pOUndS st ip4 a0 oe wii heed re 17 Mi -besineterredato: kak... pounds sack: hs sis. eteeokt. ake 31.20 [Ete Pe nieepressurciws aoa at oa Ba aA Ae: 1,276. lee Ele piso pO WADRCSSUNO 2 ati cr te ee, oe a ee 1,481 Ieee atotalmot-main enoine Onlyeiin cays ain re ty ae 2;757 Revolutions of main engine adresse ee 23:83. Ratio of horse power to grate surface....................... 17 tol Ratio of heating surface to horse power..........--...+-+-- 2.8 to 1 Coal burned! for all purposes, pounds, ..-. 02)... seas 31,800 iintesot trialeemours=maltUteS 6. ee oe ee ee eee 6:29 @oaleburmedspershour spounos.:7 4. seer ser te 4,892 Coal burned per hour, per I. H. P. (coal burned for all pur- posse; I. H. P. of main engine only),.pounds........... 1.78 Coal burned per hour per square feet of grate surface, pounds. 30.3 Speed ofsboatmaiulesaper: hour-.grcy.. 2. eo ce Fc meee a 17.22 Speed of wheel at outside buckets, miles per hour........... 24.28 Sliprotewneelapen= cent. 5. ten ee ee ee 29 Memperature otehot well, deorees; sa92. 2.4.5.5 0-. 54.0... iS Temperature of feed water heater, degrees.................. 180 Orders for new vessels in Atlantic coast ship yards are also in- creasing. Among those noted recently are the following: Neafie & Levy Ship & Engine Building Co. of Philadelphia--<A steel excursion steamer for the Winthrop Steamboat Co. of Boston; 150 feet in length and to be fitted with triple expansion engines. J. H. Dialogue & Sons, Camden, N. J.--A steel steamer for the Smyrna Transportation Co., to ply between Smyrna and Philadelphia; length about 150 feet and cost about $30,000. New England Ship Building Co.--A wooden steamer for Kennebec & Boston Steamboat Co.; dimensions 210 by 40 by 18 feet; triple ¢xpansion engines to be built by the Bath Tron Works. Charles B. Harrington, Bath, Me.--Wooden excursion steamer for Mt. Kineo Hotel Association; dimensions 75 by 13 by 5 feet. J. N. Robins Co. of Erie Basin, New York--A steel steam yacht 175 feet long for Harrison B. Moore. Shearer Machine Works, Atlanta, Ga. --A tug 30 feet long, which will be taken to the coast by rail for ser- vice at Savannah. John ©. Froehlich & Co., Baltimore--A tug 65 feet long for Meredith & Winship of Georgetown, D.C. Harlan & Hollingsworth Co., Welmington, Del.--Steel passenger steamer for Merchants & Miners' Transportation Co.; dimensions 270 by 42 by 34 feet; cost, $330,000.