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18 MARINE REVIEW. [November 16, THE eyes of ship builders and ship owners are being turned upon America. This arousal of interest be- --|| MARINE R EVIE W gan months ago. Every day of 1900 will see it grow more intense. One of IN | the straws that indicate the trend of the wind is the large increase in the Boo. all quarters of the globe the foreign subscription list of the MARINE REVIEW. The study of American methods is universal, and from Italy to ing American machinery. The Ma- RINE REVIEW will give special atten- tion to every phase of this subject throughout the closing year of the cen- tury. It will not only tell just what the people in the industry beyond the seas wish to know, but it will give accurate information regarding the, use that is made of American tools in foreign yards, and will present for its readers in the United States the fullest details regarding all that is new in foreign practice. voit | The MaRINE REVIEW is the first trade or class publication in America to maintain a regularly conducted Washington bureau. The work of this important adjunct will be broadened the paper indispensible to every ship builder and naval officer. The series of articles illustrating and describing American ship yards--the most . valu- able series ever presented in a marine publication--will be continued. All that pertains to shipping in the ex- of the Paris Exposition will be fully and accurately reported. Finally, the MARINE REVIEW will more than maintain its reputation as the most elaborately illustrated techni- cal publication on this side of the Atlantic. The subscription price of the REvimw is $2.00 per annum; to foreign countries, $3.50. These prices include postage. New subscribers who request it will receive without charge a copy of the 1899 Naval Edition, a profusely illustrated 6U-page number, which has been pronounced in many quarters the most valuable publication on the subject of the United States Navy ever issued. THE MARINE REVIEW PUB. CO., 418-19 Perry-Payne Building, Cleveland, O., U.S.A. A MAGNIFICENT YACHT. England's great naval architect, G. L. Watson, has outdone himself in designing for Anthony J. Drexel a new pleasure craft, the Margerita, which will be the finest yacht afloat. Drawings of this palatial vessel, which will be launched in February, have reached this country and have been generally admired. The Margerita, with triple expansion engines and Scotch boilers, will develop 5,000 indicated horse power--equal to some of the largest of the Atlantic liners. Her coal capacity will be 550 tons. She will have eight boats, one a steam launch for the crew, and another a liquid fuel launch 35 feet long for the owner. The dimensions of the yacht, which will compare favorably in size with some ocean steamers, are: Length over all, 323 feet; length on load water line, 272 feet; beam, extreme, 36 feet 7 inches; draught of water, 16 feet 6 inches. She is to make 17 knots over an 80-knot course. The crew will number sixty-eight. Reports from New York relative to the consolidation of several of the largest ship building plants of the country would indicate that the scheme has not as yet extended beyond an effort on the part of promoters to secure options on which definite negotiations might be undertaken. The plants under consideration are those of the William Cramp & Sons Co. of Philadelphia, Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co. of Newport News, Va., Union Iron Works of San Francisco, Bath Iron Works of Bath, Me., and Columbian Iron Works of Baltimore. These are the largest works in America aside from the ship yards of the great lakes which are already consolidated. It is said that the five works represent about $20,000,000 of invested capital. The banking firm of J. & W. Selig- man & Co. of New York, is said to be connected with the negotiations. The fire board of the city of Buffalo opened bids a few days ago for the construction of a new fireboat. The bids received were as follows: American Ship Building Co., Cleveland, $115,000; Chicago Ship Building Co., Chicago, $101,000; Union Dry Dock Co., Buffalo, $91,000. The con- tract, which will of course be given to the Buffalo concern, calls for the completion of the boat within six months. Johnston Bros. 'of Ferrysburg, Mich., are said to have secured a con- tract from the Arnold Transportation Co. of Mackinaw, Mich., for the construction of a passenger steamer of 175 feet length. 'The vessel is to be gbeuied between Mackinaw and Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., and will be speedy. The captain of the steamer Denver reports to Geo. L. McCurdy, rep- resenting insurancerinterests, that when about south-east of the outer or second barrel buoy, and about 500 or 600 feet from same his steamer struck some unknown obstruction, probably rocks. This note is printed for the guidance of other masters. the Orient ship builders are purchas-. and enlarged. and will of itself make . hibits and inthe navigation congress... ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. The first-class sea-going battleship Kearsarge, officially known as No. 5, eT rdh by the Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock-Co., has been officially accepted by the United States government. i taken to Wash- The submarine topedo boat Holland will probably be tal Vas ington early in December for the purpose of demonstrating its capabilities before naval committees of the senate and house of representatives. A traveling crane with a capacit ons | Roach yard, Glisten, Pa., the especial object in view being the handling of material for two large vessels building for service on the Pacific coast. Mr. George C. Shepard, who has for the past 18 months served ag , 7 : hiladelphia d htsman at the yard of Wm. Cramp & Sons Co. at Philadelphia, Peeeentea a position with the Maryland Steel Co. of Sparrow's Point, The areat of navigation, treasury department, has been informed that the Norwegian flag law of 189s, which in effect removes the symbol of union between Sweden and Norway from the Norwegian merchant flag, will go into force Dec. 15 next. According to the regular weekly statement issued from the bureau of navigation; treasury department, the steamer Chester W. Chapin, re- cently completed at the yard of the Maryland Steel Co., Sparrow's Point, Md., is of 2,868 gross or 1,822 net tons burden. The United States torpedo boat T. A. M. Craven, built by the Bath Iron Works, has been given her first three preliminary spins in the Ken- nebec river and Boothbay Harbor, Maine, during the past week. Steam- ing easily, she has already made 26 knots per hour. R. W. Birnie & Sons, manufacturers of canvas equipment for vessels, have secured a contract for furnishing sails, awnings and covers for the steamer Maracaibo, building by the Harlan & Hollingsworth Co., Wil- mington, Del. About 3,000 yards of canvas will be required. The navy department is understood to be considering the matter of the construction of a dry dock in connection with the naval station to be established at Cavite, near Manila. Lieut. Hobson, in a recent report to the department, emphasized forcibly the inconvenience of dependence upon the docking facilities at Hong Kong. Russian naval estimates for 1900 amount to $48,650,000, as compared with $46,150,000 for 1899. The ship building vote is $16,330,000; the guns and electric fittings, $5,000,000; the wages of the effective staff are $2,- 640,000, and of the non-effective nearly $2,500,000; $1,775,000 is to be spent on Libau, $1,675,000 on Vladivostok and $1,675,000 on Port Arthur. The fourth American-built steel shipentine Edward Sewall, built by Arthur Sewall & Co. of Bath, Me., from plans prepared by William A. Fairburn, left Bath, Monday afternoon, Nov. 6, in command of Capt. Joseph Sewall, late commander of the ship Susquehanna. The Sewall is a magnificent 3,000-ton ship, designed to carry 5,000 tons on a draught of only 22 feet. The Bethlehem Steel Co. of South Bethlehem, Pa., reports many ac- ceptances of the offer which they recently made to furnish nickel steel locomotive forgings at a reduced price, the only qualification of the offer being that they should be returned with a complete record of their per- formance at the conclusion of their terms of service. The results of this novel experiment will be eagerly awaited by persons interested. P. A. B. Widener's steam yacht Josephine, which was turned over to her owner by the Neafie & Levy Co. of Philadelphia some time ago, was given an official trial run a few days ago, in order to verify her guar- anteed speed of 17 knots. Ina run of 4 hours and 26 minutes, she made under good conditions, the vessel averaged 17.57 knots. She carried 200 pounds of steam and her engines averaged 161 revolutions per minute. Judge Lacombe of the United States circuit court, New York, has decided that the government must furnish a bill of particulars in the suit brought against Thomas and Austin Walsh, John D. Crimmins and Ralph J. Packard to recover $171,360.76. The bill of particulars must specify wherein the work done for the government was faulty. The Walshes completed the construction of the timber dry dock at the Brooklyn navy yard, which was left unfinished by John Cillins, the original contractor. Crimmins & Packard were the Walshes' sureties. The government charges that the work done was not what it was represented to be. Commander A. B. H. Lillie, U. S. N,, has been assigned to duty on the United States collier Marcellus, which has been fitted by the Lidger- wood Co. of New York with apparatus for coaling vessels at sea. The collier will go to sea in a few days with a crew made up of sailors from the battleship Indiana. The coaling device consists of a single cable run- ning around two drums, one on the collier and one on the vessel that is to receive the coal. Basket cars containing coal are sent from ship to ship, the cable by automatic action remaining taut. The test will be made on the battleship Massachusetts which will accompany the Marcellus out- side Sandy Hook. The new Kaiser dry dock at Bremerhaven is the first German dry dock built entirely of stone and is not only the largest dry dock in Ger- many, but one of the largest in the world. It is 722 feet in length, 90% feet breadth and 31 feet depth. The closing of this dock is accomplished by means of a lifting pontoon, which can be removed from the outer end of the dock to a point some distance inside when it is desired to dock a small vessel. The dock can be emptied in from 2 to 2% hours. On either side of the dock are two cranes of 50 tons capacity and at the southeast corner is a crane with a lifting capacity of 150 tons. The North German Lloyd Co. has taken the dock on a lease for twenty-five years, with the understanding that the German navy is also to have the use of it. _ The Nickel Plate road offers one and one-third fare for the round trip Nov. 29 and 30, good returning until Dec. 1, inclusive, account Thanksgiving day. Tickets available within a radius of 150 miles. In- quire agents, 167, Nov. 30 y of 2% tons is being erected at the,,