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14 : MARINE REVIEW. [October 12, DOINGS IN MANY SHIP YARDS. Ship building on the Pacific coast continues exceedingly active. The steamer Dispatch has been launched at Bendixsen's yard on Humboldt bay. The vessel is being built for Gray & Mitchell of San Francisco. Another recent launch was that of the four-masted schooner Admiral, building at Simpson's ship yard at North Bend, Coos bay, for C. A. Hopper & Co. Wilson Bros. & Co. have just launched a fine four- master at their Gray's Harbor yards and have christened the boat the Henry Wilson. Other launches within a few days are the four-masted barkentine Benicia at Matthew Turner's yard at Benicia and the four- masted schooner Philippine at the yard of Hay & Wright at Alameda Point. The William R. Trigg Co., Richmond, Va., has practically closed a contract for a stern-whee! steamer for the foreign mission committee of the Southern Presbyterian church. The boat will ply between the mission station on the Congo river in Africa. It is a significant fact that the contract was awarded to the Richmond firm after bids for the construction of the vessel had been received from several prominent British firms. The boat will be 70 feet in length and 13 feet beam and will be fitted with a 70-horse-power engine, which will give her a speed of from 10 to 12 knots couver. .They offer to put in service a fast modern steamer, to cost not less than $400,000, if the city will in return grant an annual bonus of $25,000 for ten years, which, it is stated, will be about sufficient to defray the cost of the marine insurance. The Maryland Steel Co., Sparrow's Point, Md., has about completed the steamer Chester W. Chapin, building for the iWew York and New Haven service, and has work well under way on the two steel colliers building for the Boston Towboat Co. The Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co. has launched the steamer El Cid, the third of the Morgan liners now building. This vessel, like her sister ships, El Sud and El Norte, is equipped with a complete outfit of Blake pumps. The old ship yard of Gessner & Mar at West Haven, Conn., is to be reopened. It is claimed that a contract has been secured for a $100,000 steamer for a Brooklyn firm. John E. Mar will act as superintendent of the yard. The steamer City of Dayton, building for the Dayton Packet Co., has been launched at the Lockland Dry Docks at Lockland, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati. ENTRANCE TO FIRST-OLASS SMOKING ROOM. CORNER OF FIRST-CLASS LIBRARY, per hour. The vessel will be 'shipped it' sectidns and 're-erected on the Congo. The cost of the steamer will be in the neighborhood: of $10,000. j i ue =) OF S¥in bivoie eesrariod tard ste «> The steamer-General, Hunt, building: for the quartermaster's depart- ment of the United Stat¢s armyiby the R..MiSpedden Co..of Baltimore, Md., is nearing completion: The:General 'Hunt :is very~ similar tothe steamer Sentinel; built last year foristhe: government» by the same) com- pany. She is 91 feet in length overall, 18 feét. beam and i10. feet' depth of hold. Engines are. of the fore-and-aft. compound. type with cylinders 1134 and 23% inches diameter and 20 inches stroke of piston. Steam is supplied from boilers that are capable of a working pressure of 150 pounds. The boat is expected to make 13 knots. The Neafie & Levy Ship & Engine Building Co. of Philadelphia has launched the steamer Augusta building for the York river line. The new vessel is 20 feet longer than the Uharlotte, which she replaces, and has accommodations for 250 passengers. She is engined for a speed of 17% knots and her pump equipment is entirely of Blake type, including main feed pumps of the Blake cross-compound simplex system. Arthur Sewall & Co.:of Bath, Me., are to build a fleet of seven steel barges for Dimond & Sewall of San Francisco. These vessels will be two-deckers, with poop and forecastle, and their cost will be about $100,000 each.. They will be 225 feet long, 42 feet beam and 22 feet deep. e The Canadian Pacific Navigation Co. has made a proposal to the ictoria city council for an improved service between Victoria and Van- PORTION OF FIRST-CLASS SALOON. SECOND-OCLASS LIBRARY. Interior Views of the World's Greatest Steamer, the Oceanic. ) Thei barge Tennessee, building for the Huntington 'Towboat:& Trans- SS aie Coy chas*been launched at Howard's 'ship yard at Jeffersonville, j \ i 4 i y rt or ya Tsk Is 4 Sirs < eB ger A 5 Jif i " ).CARGO RECORDS ON THE GREAT LAKES, oie ('Iron 'ore-Tow barge John 'Sméaton, 'owrled iby: Bessemer Steamship 'Co. 'of (Cleveland, 7,446: gross* 6r '8/339 -net 'tons, Duluth toiCleveland, draught of 18 feet 1 inch? tow! 'barge (Manila; Minnesota Steamship' Co. of (Cleveland, 7,399 gross 'or 8,237 net tons, Two Harbors to South Chicago, draught of 18 feet; steamer Malietoa, Minnesota Steamship Co. of Cleveland, 7,385 gross or 8,215 net tons, Two Harbors to South Chicago, draught of 18 feet 14 inch; steamer Hemry W. Oliver, Wilson Vransit Co. of Cleveland, 7,014 gross or 7,856 net tons, Ashland to Cleve- land, draught of 17 feet 10 inches. __ 'Grain--Steamer Superior 'City, owned by A. B. Wolvin of Duluth, 266,550 bushels of corn, equal to 7,463 net tons, South (Chicago to Owen Sound, draught of 18 feet 2 inches; steamer Superior \City, owned by A. B. Wolvin of 'Duluth, 200,000 bushels of wheat and 41,800 bushels of flax, equal to 7,175 net tons, Duluth to Buffalo, mean draught of 17 feet 3 inches; steamer Andrew 'Carnegie, 'Wilson Transit Co. of Cleveland, 332,- 100 'bushels of oats, equal to 5,313 net tons, Manitowoc to Buffalo. Coal--Steamer Hendrick S. Holden, 'Capt. John Mitchell and others, Cleveland, 6,432 net tons of anthracite, Buffalo to Duluth, on a draught of 17 feet 8 inches forward and 17 feet 1 inch aft.