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a. MARINE REVIEW. New Training Ship. 7 The last congress appropriated $125,000 for -the construction of a modern training ship for the use of cadets at the United States Naval Academy. Upon the completion of plans for the vessel, tne navy depart- ment realized, however, that this sum was not sufficient, and it will there- fore ask for bids for not only a partial construction of the ship, relying upon congress to provide later the additional sum needed for its comple- tion. The new vessel will be built of steel and' sheathed with wood and coppered. Her principal dimensions will be: Length on water line, 179 ee Ss PY RioT 1897" : SSS SSS COMMON RG SMERRETT ¢ ao Mag utes) pele coe ee a, NEW. TRAINING SHIP FOR THE NAVY. feet; maximum beam at water line, 37 feet; draught forward, 15 feet 6 inches; draught aft, 17 feet 6 inches; draught, mean, 16 feet 6 inches; dis- placement at mean draught, 1,100 tons. The ship will carry no bowsprit, in the usual sense of the word, the stem being run up and out to the point where the bowsprit cap would be the bulwark plating rounding over and forming a sleeve for the jibboom. There will be accommodations for a captain, ten wardroom officers, two warrant officers, 180 cadets and a working corps of ninety blue-jackets. 'The drawing for the accompanying engraving was made by R. G. Skerrett of the bureau of construction and repair, navy department, and the Review is indebted to the. New York Herald for permission to reproduce it. ee rise Naval Architects and [Marine Engineers. Secretary Francis T. Bowles of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers announces that the fifth general meeting of the society will take place in New York city, at 10.00 a. m. Thursday, Nov. 11. Through the courtesy of the president and managers of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the meetings will be held in the audi- torium of No. 12 West Thirty-First street, the sessions continuing through Thursday and Friday, Nov. 11 and 12. There will be a banquet at Del- monico's, at 7 p. m., Friday, Nov. 12, to which members and their guests are invited. Members intending to propose.candidates for membership are requested to notify the secretary, in order that the necessary blaiik forms of application may be forwarded and properly filled out. The list of the papers to be read is as follows: . Ae | . THURSDAY, NOV. 11,1897. eres Watertight Bulkhead Doors--The "Long-Arm": System on the U. S. S. Chicago. By Wm. Barnum Cowles; Esq., member. teal? Regulations for Loading Vessels. By Lewis Nixon, Esq:, member. Torpedo Boat Design. By Ass't Naval Constructor H. G. Gillmor, U. S. Navy, associate. : 'The Commerce of the Great Lakes. By C. E. Wheeler, Esq., member. Progressive Trials of the Guardian. By Prof. C. H. Peabody, member. . An Experimental Study of the Influence of Surface upon the Per- formance of Screw Propellers. Preliminary paper.. By Prof. W. F. Durand, member. vase : E . FRIDAY, NOV. 12, 1897. Some Notes on the Speed Trials and Experience in Commission of our New Battleships. By Chief Constructor Philip Hichborn, U. S. Navy, vice-president. . ee : Performance of Scotch Boilers and their Durability under Forced Draught. By Edwin S. Cramp, Esq., member. ee Use of Water Ballast for Colliers in the Pacific Coast Trade. By Wm. P. Frear, Esq., member. member. ee : Navy Yard Expenses. By Naval.Constructor W. J. Baxter, U. S. Navy, member. Seer oae 'Pneumatic Steering Gear as Applied to the U. S. Monitor Terror. By H. A. Spiller, Esq., member. "We have a letter from Mr. Howden," says Gilbert N. McMillan of the Detroit Dry Dock Co., "stating that the Howden hot draft is now installed in vessels throughout the world of 1,550,900 indicated horse power. The North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse is equipped with this draft, as is also the Empress Queen, which is the most powerful side-wheel steamer in the world, and which is in service between Liver- pool and the Isle of Man." i The Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co., of Yonkers, N. Y., has placed the contract for the fire-proof dye houses with the Berlin Iron Bridge Co., of East Berlin, Conn. These busilding are to be 50 feet wide and 100 feet long and to be built entirely of steel. ; _ The Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co. has opened an office in New Y at No, 122 Liberty street, Beard building, rooms Nos. 1005-6. i eslonse Field Operations on the Ship-Canal Project. Now that the board of engineers appointed by President McKinley to make surveys for the proposed Great Lakes-Atlantic ship-canal has engaged a large force of assistants for field work, it is quite probable that numerous rumors will be circulated of routes decided upon by the engi- neers. But little attention will be paid to these rumors when the extent of field operations and other duties of the new commission are under- stood. The act of congress providing for this work enacts that the board of engineers shall make surveys and examinations of deep waterways and routes thereof between the great lakes and Atlantic tide waters, as recom- mended by the report of the Deep Waterways Commission transmitted by the president to congress June 18, 1897. {his report recommends that surveys and examinations be made sufficient for devising plans and estimating cost for regulating the level of Lake Erie, for developing the Niagara ship-canal, for developing the Oswego-Oneida-Mohawk route, for developing the St. Lawrence Champlain route, and for improving the channel of the Hudson river. The law, therefore, fixes certain work which must be done, and it is the policy of the board of engineers to take up and complete this work first, and at the same time make a careful study of other routes which have been advocated as worthy of investigation. The 'fact that surveys of certain routes have been commenced is by no means to be considered an indication that they will be recommended as worthy of improvement. The main object of the investigation is to deter- mine whether the various routes can be opened at a cost which would be less than the value of the benefit to be derived by commerce, and if so, which will be the preferable and most economical route to improve. Four parties have been organized for carrying out the surveys and examinations as outlined above. The development of plans for the regu- lation of the lake level requires an accurate knowledge of the volume of flow through the lake outlets. Mr. E. E. Haskel, an engineer of national reputation, is now at Buffalo making observations for determining the discharge of the Niagara river. It is expected that this work will be con- tinued next year on all the connecting channels of the lakes by the officers of the United States engineer corps. The services of Mr. Chas. L. Har- rison, of Chicago, have been secured for making survey of the proposed route from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. Mr. Harrison has had wide ex- perience in making investigations of this nature, and for the past five years has had charge of one of the most important sections of the Chicago drain- age canal. Mr. Albert J. Himes, who has charge of the party at Oswego, is: one of the best equipped engineers in the country for the kind of work required, and for the past four years has been the resident engineer for the eastern division of the Erie canal. Mr. D. J. Howell, of Washington, D. C., is organizing a party at Troy, N. Y., to make survey of the Mo- hawk river. Mr. Howell has had large experience in making surveys of railroads and towns, and topographical survevs for the geological depart- ment, and is well qualified for making a success of the investigations which have been assigned to him. These surveys will be continued as late into the winter as the weather will admit of making satisfactory progress. An office has been opened by the. board at No. 34 Congress street, Detroit, where the members, when rot supervising field work, will make a careful study of the data as fast as collected: and devise plans on which to base estimates of cost of the different proposed routes under examination. Michigan's Saucy Ship. 'A Boston correspondent writes that the U. S. S. Yentic. when leaving the Charlestown navy yard for the lakes, was the sauciest and most beau- tiful of the smaller ships of Uncle Sam's navy. "The island blue jackets can be congratulated," he adds, "on having the finest crart of all the naval vessels yet assigned to any state's naval reserve, according to the. opinion of the officials and shipwrights at the Charlestown navy yard, for the little brig has been thoroughly repaired from keelson to truck. New spars, a complete new set of sails, new arrangements more suitable to the Estimated Weights. of Machinery. By Prof. Geo. R. 'McDermott, THE YANTIC--MICHIGAN'S NAVAL RESERVE SHIP. requirements, of.a reserve brigade, in fact, everything that would have been done to have made the craft thoroughly ship-shape and fit to go again into active nayal service has been done the past month or more. On leaving here for Montreal the Yantic was pronounced the equal, if not the superior, of any wooden ship owned by the navy department.". Mr. F. W. Wheeler, West Bay City ship builder, who #s now on his way to Montreal aboard the. tug Wilmot, built at his ship yard for R: W. Wilmot of New, Orleans, will look after the work of bringing the Yantic to the lakes through the St. Lawrence river and the Canadian. canals of that river. i ltt i i i a i Ni a i : a i i i