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MARINE REVIEW. 23 SOME INTERESTING CRAFT. DESCRIPTIONS OF ILLUSTRATIONS SHOWN ON THE OPPOSiTE PAGE AND BELOW. The Harlan & Hollingsworth Co., Wilmington, Del., will build for the P. & R. R. R. Co., one of the largest sea-going tugs in the United States. She will be 170 feet long on deck, 29 feet moulded beam, 18 feet depth. Her engines will be the triple expansion 'type and will develop not less than 1,000 horse power. She will have an electric light plant, will be equipped with one 950 pound and one 500 pound anchor, and have two life boats. She will be in all respects well fitted for ocean towing service. There is considerable curiosity as to the dimensions of steamers building for the Yukon river service, by experienced parties who know what is required. One builder in Chicago has been ordered to give out no information as to dimensions of steamers building for this service. The illustration shows a steamer building by Sidney H. McLane, Ballard Wash., for the Chicago-Yukon Commercial Co. Mild ship steel is the material used. She is 70 feet long, 17 feet 9 inches beam, and 4° feet 714 inches moulded depth. She has capacity for sixty passengers and 40 tons of freight on the Yukon river. The motive power consists of two 7% by 28 inch engines and a 41%4 by 6% foot Roberts boiler. En- gines and boiler are furnished by the Marine Iron Works, Chicago. The approximate cost is $15,000. . A small ferry steamer of the approved style for western rivers is shown. It has capacity for ten wagons and was built by the Quincy Marine Ways, Quincy, IIl., at a cost of $6,500. Oak was used for framing and planking and white pine for decks. The Central Iron Works, Quincy, Ill., furnished the engines. The photographic illustration shows the steam yacht Ellide making 4()) miles an hour on the Hudson river. She is probably the fastest water ILLINOIS RIVER STEAMER BOREALIS REX. craft in America. She was designed by Charles D. Mosher, 1 Broadway, New York. . ' The steamer Park City is shown on the ways ready for launching from the yard of Mather & Wood, Port Jefferson, N. Y. Her dimen- sions are 150 feet over all, 28 feet beam and 10% feet deep. She was built for the Bridgeport and Port Jefferson Steamboat Co., and will make 17 miles an hour in all kinds of weather, her route being one of the roughest on Long Island sound. The machinery was built by the Pa- cific Iron Works, Bridgeport, Conn. The paddle-wheel steamer is the Borealis Rex, plying on the Illinois river between Peoria and La Salle. This steamer makes the round trip between these places, 142 miles, consuming five tons of soft coal screen- ings, costing only 65 cents per ton, making a total of $3.25 or less than 214 cents per mile for fuel. She was built and is owned by D. M. Swain, Stillwater, Minn. The secret of her low fuel consumption is that she has compound engines designed by her builder. Her speed is about 12 miles an hour. Taylor Water Tube Boiler. The steel tug to be built by the Craig Ship Building Co., Toledo, O., for the United States Engineer, Buffalo, N. Y., will be fitted with a Taylor water tube boiler, 150 pounds pressure. This boiler won con- siderable fame in the Enquirer-Say When race off Cleveland, June 1896. The Enquirer, the winning yacht, had a Taylor boiler, and furnished such on abundance of steam that the safety-valve was popping when she crossed the line. During the summer of 1897, Chicago's new fast yacht Pathfinder challenged the Enquirer to race from Chicago to Milwaukee, 82 miles, for a $500 cup and the championship. The owner promptly accepted the challenge. The boats had a fair start and the Enquirer began at once to gain on the Pathfinder, and constantly pulled away from her for a dis- tance of about ten miles, At that time the Pathfinder ruptured a tube in her Thornycroft boiler and was towed home. The Enquirer finished the course and holds the championship for another year. Her Taylor boiler was uninjured, and the Detroit Screw Works, manufacturers, claim that after an experience of four seasons with these boilers, there has never been a cent expended to replace or repair any pipe or fittings in any Taylor boiler ever yet built. They also claim to have the fullest endorse- ments of the owners of every Taylor boiler ever made save one, one of the earliest of the first season's output. A Modern Ship-Machinery Plant. A supplemental illustration shows the new plant of the Hyde Wind- lass Co., at Bath, Maine. The buildings which are entirely of steel and brick and are of fire proof construction, cover considerable over an acre of ground. In building the plant nothing has been: left undone which would add to its efficiency, and all the various departments are thoroughly equipped with the most modern appliances for minimizing the cost of construction. ; The foundry is 190 feet in length by 100 feet wide. The center space which is 50 feet wide is covered by a 20 ton Morgan electric crane, while steel jib cranes of 8 tons capacity are placed at intervals on the steel columns, which support the runway of the traveling crane. There are two Colliau cupolas each of a capacity of 9 tons per hour; in addition to these there is a reverberatory furnace of 10 tons capacity, and crucible furnaces of 2 tons capacity. The blast is supplied by a Root blower connected direct to a 40 horse-power Westinghouse motor. A hydaulic elevator is used to elevate the iron and fuel to the charging floor. The sand mixing machine and other labor-saving appliances, are all driven by additional electric motors. The machine shop, 285 feet in length by 80 feet in width, is equipped with a Shaw electric traveling crane of 15 tons capacity. The machine tools are all of the latest design and made by the best builders. All materials used in the manufacture of the various Hyde patents are tested on a 150,000 pound Riehle Bros. testing machine, which is fitted with automatic beam and autograph attachment. _ The pattern shop is fully equipped with wood working machines driven by electric motors. The pattern storehouse is fire proof, 130 feet long by 40 feet wide, with a basement underneath for storing mould boards, small flasks, etc. The entire plant is heated by the hot blast system, a 9-foot Buffalo blower driven direct from an electric motor being eR LONG ISLAND SOUND PROPELLER. used to circulate the air. The commodious office building also contains the draughting room, in which is a fire proof vault for storing all drawings, so that there is no possibility of the records being destroyed by fire. The officers of the company are: J. S. Hyde, president; E. W. Hyde, treasurer; and J, R. Andrews, general manager. A Valuable Book on Mechanical Draft. "Mechanical Draft," published recently by the B. F. Sturtevant Co., Boston, Mass., contains more reliable data and information on this sub- ject than has ever yet been collected. Some fifty or more pages are de- voted to mechanical draft for marine steam plants. Results of forced draft trials in the U. S. navy are cited, and full explanations and illus- trations of the Howden and Ellis & Eaves' systems are given. Tests of the lake steamer L. C. Waldo are included, and the results from the use of the Howden draft on the American liners St. Paul and St. Louis are shown. Details of voyages of the ocean freight steamer Kensington, equipped with the Ellis & Eaves' system, are very interesting. No me- chanical or marine engineer or naval architect in the United States can afford to be without it. Technical books of this size and class usually cost from $5 to $10, but the publishers do not set any price on it. That its treatment of the subject has been exhaustive is evidenced by the fact that it not only represents the accumulated experience of over a quarter of a century, but its preparation has required nearly two years 'of most careful study and investigation by an expert in this work. Much of the information could not be obtained by anyone else. It is published in pursuance of the established policy of the Sturtevant company to always thoroughly inform the engineering public regarding the specific pr.n- ciples and applications of the various systems which it has presented. WANTED.--To charter four or five package freight boats; one to three years; boats adapted for both ore and package freight preferred. In making application state as to gangways and hoisting machinery in detail; also estimated capacity in full load, barrels of flour or mill stuffs, grain and ore; what kind of machinery and boilers and coal consumption of twenty-four hours' steaming; also speed per hour, and where boat laying at present. Address Marine Review, Cleveland, O. ATUG FOR WANTED T0 CHARTE season 'of 1898. Must be good for outside work and have power equal to an engine 20 inches square. Give name, where to be seen and charter price per month. Address MR. RICHARD. care Cranberry Lum- ber Co., 30 Mesaba' Block, Duluth. Minn.