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1899. ] MARINE REVIEW. NEWS OF THE SHIP YARDS. The Western Steam Navigation Co., known as the Vancouver line, has placed a contract with F. M. Crawford, ship builder of Tacoma, Wash., for a new steamer for service between Tacoma and Vancouver. The vessel will be modeled on the lines of the steamer Kingston, and will be 162 feet in length, 28 feet beam and 12 feet depth of hold. She will have two Scotch boilers, triple expansion engines, an electric light plant and modern auxiliary machinery. A speed of 15 miles an hour is guar- anteed for all kinds of weather. Accommodations will be provided for seventy-five first-class passengers. The vessel will cost when completed $60,000. Numerous, and in some instances conflicting, reports have been cir- culated during the past few weeks relative to a projected consolidation of five or six of the principal ship yards on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. That such a move is on foot is admitted. The firm of J. & W. Seligman & Co. of 21 Broad street, New York City, which holds considerable stock in the Wm. Cramp & Sons Co., is engineering the deal. Charles J. Canada of New York, who is looking after the option part of the promo- tion, says that it will be some time before anything definite relative to options can be given out. The four-masted schooner Mary W. Bowen, building for Capt. Whit- man 'Chase, Jr., of Taunton, Mass., is rapidly approaching completion at the New England Co.'s yard, Bath, Me. She will ibe launched in two weeks. The New England Co. has just closed the contract for the con- struction' of a four-masted schooner of the following dimensions: Length, 165 feet; beam, 37 feet; depth, 17 feet; tonnage, 1,000. A 6000-ton steel freight steamer, 'building at the Wyandotte yard of the Detroit Ship Building Co., for Senator James McMillan, Mr. A. Mc- Vittie and others of Detroit, was launched on Saturday last. This steamer has not been named as yet. She will, of course, be ready to begin service on the opening of navigation next spring. She is chartered to carry ore during the entire season at $1.25 a ton from Duluth. The Gas Engine & Power Co. and 'Charles L. Seabury & Co., Con- solidated, of Morris Heights, New York City, has issued invitations to the launching 'of the United States torpedo boat Bailey, which will take place Tuesday noon, Dec. 5. Guests will be conveyed to the yard by a special train on the New York Central Railroad. The Craig Ship Building Co. of Toledo will rebuild the steel steamer Harlem, a vessel of about 3,000 tons capacity, which spent all of last win- ter and the greater part of the present navigation season ashore on Isle Royale, Lake Superior. Repairs to this vessel will probably approximate $100,000. The Barnett-Record Co. has completed the excavation for the new dry dock to be constructed at the plant of the Superior Ship Building Co., West Superior, Wis. Excavation work on the large new dock building by Capt. James Davidson at West Bay City, Mich., is also nearing com- pletion. é : Mozena Bros. of Clarington, O., are building a river steamer to take the place of the steamer LeRoy. The new boat will be 168 feet length and 34 feet beam and will be equipped with two engines of 16 inches diameter and 6 féet stroke. _ O'Brien & Oulihan iof Syracuse, N. Y., have secured the contract for the erection of the steam engineering shops at the Brooklyn navy yard. Their bid was $331,000. They are required to complete the work within ten months. Bidders for the construction of the government steel steam light-vessel, No. 73, were the Pusey & Jones Co., Wilmington, Del., $119,221; the Spedden Ship Building Co., Baltimore, Md., $89,437; the latter being accepted. ; J. P. Devney of Ashtabula Harbor, O., lis building for Richardson Bros. of the same place, a wooden fishing tug lof 76 feet over-all length, 16% feet beam and 6 feet moulded depth. She will have a 14x16-inch VALUE OF STOCKS--LEADING IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRIALS. . Quotations furnished by HERBERT WRIGHT & Co., Cleveland, date of Nov. 22. 1899. NAME OF STOCK. OPEN HIGH LOW CLOSE American Steel & Wire........... s+ 48% 49 _ 484 485% mmerican Stee] & Wire, Pfd..........| «so-co | sneer, | serene a Bederal Steeler oe ees 58% 5834 58 58% Hederal steel, Pld'..::5..cs3i0iscfece-o0s 8034 8034 803% 80% Natiotial Steelins. 55. ee SEARO os eseer -- eee National-Steel, Pfd.....3...n5014 ....- OB ae rare ee ay rete 95 es American Tin Plate ..........5: GL kes 344% 34% 344 34% American Tit) Plate, Pfd......./...1..| (84 84 83%. | 83% American Steel Hoop...:s....5i.0..- wed 5 4B" 46 45 45% American Steel Hoop, Pfd.i.....i... | 82% oa Otte a aeteee 82% Republic Iron' & Steel...........0065 iol DESL QA 2458 247% Menwaiie Iromege Steel ePlds.cson cs [ti eter le caieewsec | © eneen, | ta neenes "KEYSTONE" OPEN LINK. IT 1S THE ONLY OPEN LINK ON THE MARKET THAT'S DROP FORGED rrom BAR STEEL. For STRENGTH, DURABILITY and SIMPLICITY IT STANDS WITHOUT A RIQAL Sizes from 4 in. to % in. EKEPT IN STOCK. ) Bolts, Shafting Collars, Machine Handles, SEN RERe ean riniserimmn Herewie Rope tockets and Swivels, Fen 58. SEND FOR CATALOGUE AND DISCOUNTS SPECIAL FORCINCS 10 ORDER. KEYSTONE DROP FORGE C0., 19th & Cleartield Sts. PHILADELRHIA. PA, CLOSED. engine, built at the machine shop of the Harbor Ship Chandlery. Mr. Deyney will also build for Huron, Ohio, parties a wooden tug of 80 feet over-all length, 17 feet beam and 6% feet moulded depth. The size of engine for this latter boat has not been decided upon as yet. Percy & Small, wood ship builders of Bath, Me., have leased the John McDonald ship yard, recently purchased iby G. G. Deering, and will build a six-masted schooner with a carrying capacity of 5,000 tons, which is equal to that of the large steel shipentine Edward Sewall. George L. Welt of Waldoboro, Mass., will build a five-masted schooner for William F. Palmer of Dorchester, Mass. The new vessel will be 280 feet over all, 240 feet keel, 46 feet beam and 25 feet deep. She will have three full decks. An auxiliary schooner yacht, 57 feet in length and fitted with a 16 horse power gasoline engine, is being constructed for Homer Skinner by Read Bros. of Fall River, Mass. The engine will be furnished by Murray & Tregurtha of South Boston, Mass. ; It is reported that Capt. James Hawley has rented the Houghton Bros. ship yard at Bath, Me., and will build a four-masted schooner of 1,600 tons. - ; A report from Pittsburg is to the effect that the recently organized putsbure, Cincinnati & Louisville Transportation Co. will. build two new steamers, Gye : * sgereraectiie ee LIVERPOOL'S GREAT DOCKS. =. Liverpool provides for its shipping by the most ample, elaborate and perfect. system of harbor accommodation the world has ever seen; indeed, there is nothing that faintly resembles it anywhere else. And, wonderful as these docks are, there is nothing final about them, as they are con- stantly being reconstructed to meet all the requirements of present-day ships. But the real problem before Liverpool is not how rivals-are to be kept off and "bested," but how the new questions raised by the progress of the science of ship building are to be met and solved successfully. Im- ° mense vessels of the 600 to 700 foot kind now building predicate a dry dock a thousand feet long. Liverpool has already one, the biggest in the world, 950 feet long, and another is being built at the present moment that will be fully 1,000 feet in length. When we remember that the first dock of Liverpool was built nearly two hundred years ago, and what the size of the biggest ship was at that time, it will very easily be understood that the older portions of the Liverpool system consist of small, narrow docks, while those more recently constructed are large and commodious. There are rather more than a hundred wet and dry docks, tidal basins and con- necting locks, all strung along the seven or eight miles of the Liverpool shore of the Mersey. The smallest dock is not much more than an acre in water area, but the largest, the Alexandra dock, with its three branches, covers upwards of thirty-three acres. The total water area of the Liver- pool system is more than 385 acres, affording a quay space of over twenty- five miles. LAWRENCE IS 64 PER CENT. FINISHED. Editor Marine Review:--On page 15 of your issue of Noy. 16, in giv- ing Rear Admiral Hichborn's statement as to the progress of work upon the various vessels now under construction for the navy, you say that the torpedo boat destroyer Lawrence, Fore River Engine Co., is 27 per cent finished. This should be 64 per cent. It is so large an error and places us so near the foot when we are really at the head that we ask you to kindly make the correction in your next issue. ee Wevmouth, Mass., Nov. 20, 1899. FORE RIVER ENGINE CO. The Phenix Metallic Packing Co. of 177 La Salle street, Chicago, manufacturers of metallic packing and an automatic lubricating pump, report orders within the past few days for metallic packing from the Plano Mnfg. Co., Union Elevated Loop Railroad, Western Electric Co., Evanston Electric Light Co., Otis Elevator Co., and for all the engines in the new building of the telephone company, Chicago. Orders for lubricator pumps include five for the Madison (IlJ.) Coal Co. and one for W. D. Allen i& Co. Air pump packing orders are recorded from the Central Railroad of New Jersey, Chicago & Rock Island, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, Delaware & Hudson and Baltimore & Ohio. The Standard Oil Co. has also placed a large order for Phenix metallic packing. Wreckers Air Bags, 1,000 tons lift, on rental or shares. Full line rubber manufactured by Mineralized Rubber Co., 18 Cliff St., New York. fee Mae NGS CAPT. GEO. A. SIMPSON, Expert Compass Adjuster, Yearly Contracts Solicited. Nautical Instruments Repaired. OLD 'PHONE No. 319. _ SAULT STE. MARIE, MICH. FOR SALE. Steamers Superior and Duluth. Suited to ice crushing pur- poses. Good excursion boats--1,000 to 1,500 capacity each. Euclid Beach Park Co., Cleveland, O. WANTED. One second-hand Compound Condensing Fore-and-Aft Steam- boat Engine, cylinders 14x 28x14; or one second-hand Double Steeple Compound Condensing Engine, cylinders 9x 18x14; or approximating those sizes; also one Double Simple Engine, cylin- ders about 7x9. Address A. C. Wade, Jamestown, N. Y. Z OV. WH.