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14 MARINE REVIEW. 'Ship Yard Matters. Des dock work in Cleveland, especially on the steel vessels, many of which are undergoing repairs that were put off until the close of navigation, seems to be even more active than during previous winters. The Henry Cort, one of the Bessemer company's vessels, was inthe Cleveland dry dock last week and was followed by the steamer Repub- lic, which is now indock. The big dock of the Ship Owners' com- pany now contains the steel whaleback steamer Pathfinder, which will be followed by the steamers Pioneer and Queen City and the steel barge John Scott Russell. The rebuilding of the wrecked wooden steamer Wallula of the Wilson line, which will involve an expenditure of probably more than $20,000, will also prove an important job in Cleveland. At Marine City Alex. Anderson is rebuilding the barge George Nestor, which was built at Baraga, Mich, She will be given steel arches. M. P. Lester is finishing up the extensive rebuild of the Mark Hopkins, which was sunk in Hay lake by the steamer Vander- bilt in 1895. The Hopkins will come out next spring fitted with steam auxiliary machinery of all kinds, making her a modern single- decker. Tonnage of the big steel car ferry Pere Marquette, which is now about ready to leave the ship yard of F.W. Wheeler & Co., West Bay City, is 5,580.28 gross and 4,133.83 net. As with other vessels at Wheel- er's yard machinery of the car ferry has all been placed with the ves- sel on the stocks, so that it is expected she will be in regular service between Ludington and Mentioned on Lake Michigan, during the present month, The Detroit Dry Dock Co. will make extensive repairs during the winter on the wooden steamer A. Folsom and schooner Mary B. Mitchell. Arc Lamps For Marine Use. The discovery that the two carbons of an are lamp, when burned in a closed receiver and immersed in an inert gas, were consumed more slowly than similar carbons carry- ing the are in the open air, combined with the fact that they might be operated with nearly double the voltage of ordinary ares, with corresponding de- ' crease in the current, has given a great ee impetus to the arc lamp industry. These Ri" discoveries resulted in the design of an se are lamp which requires trimming every Se 50, 100 or 150 hours, according to its construction and requirements. The re- duction in the number of trimming inter- vals involves not only an economy in ss tas labor, but also does away with the an-__ os: -noyance which the daily visit of the | - trimmer usually entailed. The economy | in' carbons and current consumption is also such that the adoption of the long- burning lamp has come to mean a reduc- _tion of expenses all around. The long-burning arc lamp for ordinary incandescent circuits manufactured by the General Electric Co. is peculiarly simple in construction, the mechanism consisting of little more than an electro ' magnet and a friction clutch. The arc is entirely enclosed in an, inner globe, _ which in turn is surrounded by an outer globe. The nature of the light is,. of course, dependent upon different com- Saeie of the two globes. For marine \ work on deck or in the hold the standard long-burning are lamp has been modified to the extent of shortening it and constructing it to burn fifty hours without retrimming. The outer globe is of clear glass, cylindrical instead of spherical, and is protected by a heavy wire guard. On and after Monday, Dec. 14, accommodation trains Nos. 18, 19, 20 and 21 betweeen Cleveland and Lorain, via the Nickel Plate road, will be discontinued. 413 Dec. 17 Around the Lakes. Two new steel barges building at Cleveland and Chicago for James Corrigan will ery. probably tow with the steamers Italia and Bulgaria. The owner of the schooner D. S. Austin is unable to pay a wrecking and repair bill amounting to $1,200 and the vessel will be sold. She is at Sturgeon Bay. Francis B. Clarke has been appointed traffic manager of the Great Northern Railway. "The name of his successor in the Northern Steam- ship Co. has not as yet been announced. Employes of the Cleveland Tug Co. niariiested their egaita for the manager of the line, Chancy Morgan, by presenting him with a costly set of opera glasses at the close of the season. Major Clinton B. Sears, United States engineer at Duluth,announces in an advertisement elsewhere in this issue that proposals for building a breakwater at Presque Isle point near Marquette will be opened on Jan. 11. -M. E, B. A. No. 2 of Cleveland held the first meeting of the _ winter Thursday evening to nominate officers,to be elected the follow- ing week. A number of lectures on marine engineering will be given cee the winter. The management of the Bessemer Steamship Co. is in receipt of a Bias from representatives of English underwriters congratulat- ing them on the very small claim for damages sustained by their boats during the past season. The loss is hardly worth mentioning. Friends of Capt. George J. Bennett of Port Huron, who is a full- fledged specimen of the big-hearted vessel master, are congratulating him upon progress in Masonic hunors. He has been advanced to the thirty-second degree in a little over two years. Capt. John C. Symes, who was best known as master of the Cleveland steamer Cadillac, died at his home in Sarnia, Ont., Monday. He had been in pvor health for some time past. Capt. Symes be- longed to a family of lake navigators. He was among the most - capable young men in charge of lake steamers. Another company is being organized among Cleveland coal ship- pers for the erection of a car dumping machine. The plant, which will be the fourth of its kind in Cleveland, will cost about $25,000. and will be used for the transfer of coal that comes into Clever over the Baltimore & Ohio Railway system. When the F. & P. M. car ferry Pere Marquette begins running between Manitowoc and Ludington on Lake Michigan, the connection will make. the shortest possible line of transportation from St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth to the Atlantic seaboard. On the west side of the lake connection will be made direct with the Chicago & North- western and Wisconsin Central railways. Hughes Bros. & Bangs, who were supposed to have secured the $2,000,000 breakwater job at Buffalo, are meeting with opposition from representatives of the National Construction Co. of New York, who are charging informalities in bonds. The matter has been taken to Washington but will probably be settled by a ruling of the secretary of war before the close of the week. B. F. Perkins, grand secretary of the American Association of 'Masters and Pilots, is again on the lakes establishing branches of this organization, which bids fair, on account of its benevolent features, to eventually take in nearly all of the captains and masterson the lakes. Capt. Collier and other leading officers of the Ship Masters' Association are giving hearty support to the movement. Another congressman, Mr. W. A. Smith of Michigan, is about to investigate the memorandum treaty between this country and Great Britain, which deprives lake ship builders of the right to build vessels of war. He is proceeding in the right way, as he has just introduced _aresolution which aims at first securing from the secretary of the navy all information which led to his ruling not long ago against even the construction on the lakes of machinery for war vessels. In view of efforts made in the past to overcome this treaty stipulation, Mr. Smith's task is a difficult one, but he says he is determined to press the matter as far as.it is possible to do so. The Babcock & Wilcox Company of England is fitting in the torpedo gunboat Sheldrake four boilers having a total heating surface of 9,850 square feet. This vessel's engines are of 3,500 horse power.