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ro MARINE REVIEW ae When it is loaded it can be hauled to the main shore and connect with tracks there. ' It is odd that this idea has not been brought out before, as it is an easy thing to accomplish. Probably the elevator business has, till quite lately, been too "easy" for ventures to flourish that required new outlay of money. It is different now. The steel elevators have raised hob with the old wooden ones:and the wooden ones are sadly divided in interests, as the above shows. A second plan, which will bring the despised "canal" group of elevators to the fore quite as much as the car-ferry idea can, is to add to their capacity materially by setting up steel tanks in connection, much on the plan of the new Electric elevator, which is perhaps the most successful of any in the harbor. By using the existing machinery nothing but tanks and conveyors would be needed. It is shrewdly suspected, and in fact is claimed boldly by certain harbor men, that the real animus of the venture is to get "in" with the pool elevators again. If the canal houses could be accorded a moderate LIQUID FUEL ON THE TALBOT. Preparations are going forward nicely for the trials of oil fuel on the torpedo boat Talbot. The installation of the necessary machinery has been going on under the direction of representatives of the Consolidated Gas Fuel Co. of New York at the Norfolk (Va.), navy yard for some three weeks past, and ten days more will suffice to complete the work. The plant on the Talbot consists of two large tanks, from which oil is forced by compressed air through pipes to the furnaces. A special burner has been placed under each boiler, and it is claimed that by the use of one of these burners 160 pounds of steam can be generated in 9 minutes from a perfectly cold boiler. The oil used is non-explosive, made from refuse of oil refineries, and is consequently very cheap, it being' asserted that its cost is not more than 50 per cent that of coal. Another claim made for the liquid fuel is that it will enable the vessels to remain on an even keel, whereas when coal is used the small class of vessels have a tendency to list, making trimming necessary frequently. The plan of DAILY SCENES IN MANISTEE RIVER. sharing in the pool earnings, they would stay idle, as they used to. No doubt they would accept a considerably smaller proportion than in for- mer seasons rather than make a new venture involving serious cost and doubtful success. So there are quiet charges made that the new "plan" 18 now leaking quietly out so that it comes to the ears of the pool men, Just to see what they will do about it. As to motives it would be hard to state with fairness, but the facts appear to be pointing that way. __ The new idea will be watched with interest by everyone, for it means much to the future of the elevator system here. It may come to pring, but the canal elevators are out unless something is done for em The Nickel Plate road offers special excursion rates to Denver, Colo., account Masonic nationail convention. Tickets available Aug. 4th, 5th and 6th, good returning Sept. Ist, 1899. Stopover privilege and choice Of different routes west of Chicago given. Low rates. For particulars Inquire of agents, No. 107. Aug. 6. (Courtesy Manistee News. ) overcoming lists in the vessels using oil is to pump sea water into the tanks as rapidly as the oil is taken out. The Talbot will have her trial in Chesapeake bay between Old Point and Buckroe beach, and will then go to Annapolis to be inspected by the cadets and officers of the naval academy. Later she will be taken to New York. The Consolidated Gas Fuel Co. has contracted to similarly equip two other vessels--a tug at Norfolk and another torpedo boat, probably the Gwin. . Fully $40,000 will be expended on improvements just begun at the Brooklyn navy yard on the cruiser Buffalo. It is expected that when this' work is completed the Buffalo, which was formerly the El! Cid of the Morgan line, will be one of the finest vessels of her class in the United States navy. The entire interior of the vessel will be remodeled; engine refitted and condensers retubed; an ice machine and an evaporating plant installed and regular man-of-war quarters provided. After the Buffalo | has been painted white and fitted with a number of modern guns she will be placed in the transport service between New York and Manila.