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22 MARINE REVIEW. [November 30, THE BUSY SHIP YARDS. Work at the new plant of the New York Ship Building Co., Camden, N. J., is progressing in a highly satisfactory manner. Armstrong & Printzenhoff are the principal contractors. Four pile driving machines and a force of 150 men are putting down into the bed of the river about 140 piles per day. Pier No. 1 at the extreme northern end of the yard has already been completed and is being used for the unloading of material sent by water to the yard. The large ships' ways are well along. Each is 450 feet in length by 100 feet wide. Over 2,800 piles and a considerable quantity of sawed timber is used in the building of each of these ways. A deep water basin fully 1,000 feet in length will adjoin the launching ways and both the launching ways and deep water basin will be partially covered. In the work done by Armstrong & Printzenhoff, 20,000 yellow pine and white oak piles and several million feet of lumber will be used. The Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. of Bristol, R. I., is at work ona number of steam tenders, all of which are being built from one design. Le tenders are building for Edwin D. Morgan, August Belmont and William K. Vanderbilt, all of New York city. The boats are of a new type, in design not unlike the torpedo boat Stilletto, and each is 81 feet in length, 72 feet water line, 11%4 feet beam and of composite construction-- double planking and steel frames. The freeboard will be 6 feet. These boats will be of whaleback design forward and under this will be the quarters for, the, crew, ;The-saloon will be below deck and there will be nothing. standing over 8 feet-above the: deck.) The owners wished twin screws, but upon the advice of the Herreshoffs single..screw. boats were... agreed upon. They are to have a guaranteed speed of 20 miles on their trial trips and an average cruising capacity of 17 miles. 7" f ' The Roach Ship Yard; Chester, Pa., and the Union Iron Works Sai ; Francisco, have received requests from Flint, Dearborn & Co. that work: be hurried on the vessels now building for that firm. It is hoped that the . vessels may be delivered in February or March, instead of in June as stip- ulated by the contracts. Three of the 8,000 tons capacity steamers, the American, Hawaiian and Oregonian, are building at the Roach yard and the fourth, the Californian, at San Francisco. Peter Colon of Claremont, Jersey City, N. J., is building a 111-foot tug for Brown & Fleming of 129 Broad street, New York City. She will be fitted with a Sullivan compound engine with cylinders of 20 and 40 inches diameter and 28 inches stroke. Steam will be supplied from a Watkin & Dickson boiler, 10 feet in diameter and 14% feet in length, built by Heipershausen Bros. A large addition will be made to the plant of the William R. Trigg Co. at Richmond, Va., as a result of the contract just secured from the United States government for one of the cruisers of the Denver class. The force of workmen will be increased from 600 to 1,600 and a corre- sponding enlargement of the plant will take place. The New England Ship Building Co. of Bath, Me., is building three "Newport News, Va. VALUE OF STOCKS--LEADING IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRIALS, Quotations furnished by HERBERT WRIGHT & Co., Cleveland, : date of Nov. 28. 1899. NAME OF STOCK. _ OPEN |. HIGH Low .| CLOSE | American Steel & Wire........... .... 49% 50 [725 49 American Steel & Wire, Pfd.......... 95% 95% 95 95 ederaleSteeliti tc scc.cssesserseesescerns 6134 623% 61% 61% Federal Steel, Pfd.......5.........0:0000 8134 823% 815% 815% Nationalesteele i. ssc: --csssseure ss 48 . 494% 48 48 56 Nationalesteels Bidies.cc...c0- sess 953% 953% 94% 94% American: Tin Plate ....:...............- 34% 34% 344 844% American mlinghlates Piers... 9c eels ae iat | sewcse |b eeeanck American Steel Hoop................0+ 475% 483 47% 47 34 American Steel Hoop, Pfd............ 85% 85% 8buU |. 85K Republic Iron & Steel.................. 25% 263% 25% 26 Republic Iron & Steel, Pfd........... 71 7134 71 ale DROP FORGINGS «nS nr ORDER STANDARD 1886. SPECIAL Wrenches, Hoist Hooks, Sockets, Eye Bolts, Shafting Collars, Machine 'Handles, Thumb Screws and i Nuts, Swivels, &c., &c. = KEYSTONE OPEN-LINKS.. Send for Catalogue and Discounts, -FORGINGS OF ALL KINDS. Send Model or Drawing and ~, Get our Prices, sy: ., May Reduce Present Cost. THE KENNEY FLUSHOMETER . FOR FLUSHING WATER-CLOSETS. ~! THE BEST SYSTEM EVER INVENTED FOR USE ON STEAM VESSELS. NO CUP LEATHERS OR SPRINGS. Owners and Constructors of Steamships. © --==-- Yachts and Steamboats have found -- Showing application it indispensable. ' Used by the U.S. War and Navy Departments--Transports Grant, Sheridan, Burnside, Terry, Hooker, Thomas, Sedgewick, Meade, Crook. McClellan, Sherman. Also Albany Day Line S.ieamers, and others. ; THE KENNEY COMPANY, [Patented.] Catalogue? _ 72 to 74 Trinity Place, NEW YORK. _ders about 7x9. Address A. C. Wade, Jamestown, N. Y. barges of 3,000 tons dead weight capacity each, for the Coastwise Steam- ship Co., and three barges of 1,700 tons capacity each for the B line. They have also under order a schooner of 1,800 tons capacity and another schooner to be built for owners as yet not announced. The Kennebec Steambeat Co. is to build a large steel twin-screw coasting steamboat of 15 knots speed and with 200 to 250 staterooms, to replace the wooden steamer Lincoln, which has been sold to Florida parties. The Lincoln is a small twin-screw steamboat of good speed, and the selling price is reported to be $145,000. ! ' The project for the establishment of a new ship yard at New Orleans is not dead, as many persons suppose. Options have been secured on several sites in the vicinity of the Crescent city and the preparation of plans for the proposed yard is going steadily forward. The Lozier Bicycle Works at Toledo, O., are to be transformed into a manufactory of launches. The type of launch to be made is the inven- tion of Mr. George Burrell, and the company will build boats with every variety of motive power. Capt. L. E. Patton of Memphis, Tenn., is having a tug constructed for harbor work at that port. The boat is 75 feet in length and 16 feet beam and will be fitted with machinery manufactured by Shea & McCarthy of Memphis. McKay & Dix of New York: city, have just closed: a lease of the William Longfellow ship:yard at'. Machias, Me., for a term of five years _ and work will be commenced.at once.on a 1,200-ton.woeden vessel Keel plates for the new coast defense monitor Arkansas have been laid at thesyard of the Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., FORCING NATURE TO OUR WAY OF WORKING. A FEW INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS FROM GEO. W. DICKIE, SHIP BUILDER OF THE PACIFICO COAST, ON THE BOILER QUESTION. Mr. Geo. W. Dickie of the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, is one of the leaders among ship builders of this country who still defends the cylindrical boiler, especially when attended by Howden hot draft ap- pliances. His paper on "Increasing Complications in War Ships," read at the recent meeting of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in New York, dealt with lighting, heating and ventilating ap- paratus, electric signals and various other auxiliaries. It had nothing to do with boilers. But at the risk of departing from the subject of the paper Mr.. Dickie included a few interesting paragraphs on the boiler question. "In the present stage of water tube boiler development," he said, "it appears to be quite impossible to get the most simple and. well- known facts in regard to cylindrical boilers honestly considered in naval circles. For instance, in one of the best papers I have read, comparing two types of water tube boilers with the cylindrical boiler, by Mr. F. T. Marshall, before the last meeting of the Institution of Naval Architects, he says, in regard to forced draft: " "Tn the case of the cylindrical boilers, a four hours' run is probably as long as these boilers could be worked at the maximum forced draft power. These 'boilers have a tendency to suffer in the flame-box seams when long fire bars are used, and it is only by the use of these long bars that the high power looked:for can be obtained. The tube ends also get choked up, especially if fitted with ferrules, and without ferrules the tubes havea great tendency to leak. It is probable that at the end of four hours the boiler efficiency will be seriously affected, and the power could no longer be maintained. On the other hand, however, the high speed obtained during these four hours might mean the salvation of the ship, and it is unfair to overlook this advantage. It should be tunder- stood that the above remarks do not apply to forced draft applied to cylindrical boilers with moderate length of fire bars, say 5 feet 6 inches, and with a heating surface of 214 feet per indicated horse power. Such boilers can be worked at about 17 indicated horse power per square foot of grate continuously at sea, but their size and weight would preclude their use in the type of vessel considered, as the power obtained would only correspond approximately to the result obtained in the one-half-inch air-pressure trials of warships.' | "I have qnoted Mr. Marshall's statement as to forced draft on cylindrical boilers in full, as it seems, when reading it, to tbe perfectly fair. According to Mr, Marshall, the difficulty in the flame-boxes and tube ends of cylindrical boilers is owing to the use of long grate bars, so AE ast rt com) GPT. GED. A, SIMPSON, ExPert Comes Adjuster, KEYSTONE DROP FORGE GB, "tard ctertts st. 19 YEARS EXPERIENCE. beg Yearly Contracts Solicited. Nautical Instruments Repaired. OLD 'PHONE: No. 319 SAULT STE..MARLE, 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. Dec. 7. , WANTED. One second-hand Compound Condensing Fore-and-Aft Steam- boat Engine, cylinders 14x 28x 14; or one second-hand Double Steeple Compound Condensing Engine, cylinders 9x 18x 14; or approximating those sizes ; also one Double Simple Engine, cylin- Noy. 30.