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a aS lig Published every Thursday at 418-19 Perry- Payne Bldg., by the Marine Review Pub. Oo. VoL. XX. IN THE SHIP YARDS OF THE GREAT LAKES. The distribution of. the six new Carnegie ore carriers--five steamers and a tow barge--among different works of the American Ship Building Co. is as follows: Detroit, one steamer; South Chicago, two steamers and one tow barge; Lorain, two steamers. Work on the steamer at De- troit is already under way, on the berth vacated a short time ago by the McMillan-McVittie steamer Admiral, and it is understood that the tow barge at Chicago, going down on a new berth, is also under way. It is expected that the two steamers to be built at Chicago will be put down Jan. 1 and 15, taking the places of two tow barges now building for the Minnesota Steamship Co. Jan. 15 and Feb. 1 are the dates fixed for put- ting down keels of the two steamers to be built at Lorain. These vessels are to be of the largest type of lake ore carriers, and the steamers are to have quadruple expansion engines and Babcock & Wilcox water tube. boilers. The construction of two of the steamers at Lorain has neces- sitated the transfer of two of the four large Wolvin freighters to West Bay City, and it is understood that work is progressing quite satisfactorily on these vessels at the old Wheeler yard. With the consolidated ship yards so tied up on orders for more than twenty large freighters that they can not undertake anything more for delivery in 1900, it is more than probable that the next order will go 'to either the Craig Ship Building Co. of Toledo, or the Union Dry Dock Co. of Buffalo. It is understood that either of these concerns will under- take to deliver a steamer of Welland canal size towards the latter part of 1900, and that they are now engaged in negotiations on that score. The Craig company has just closed a contract for a small steel passenger steamer to take the place of the Minnie M. on the Detour-Sault route. The new boat will be very fast. She will have engines of 1,200 horse power. She will be 185 feet long, 34 feet beam and 13 feet deep. Cylin- ders of her triple expansion engines will be of 20, 33 and 54 inches diam- eter with a common stroke of 386 inches. A wooden steamer to be built at Marine City, Mich., by Alex. An- derson for John Corrigan of Cleveland, will be designed for the sand trade and will be similar to the Neff, which was also owned by Mr. Cor- rigan. Dimensions of this new vessel are 150 feet length, 38 feet beam and 9 feet depth of hold. Mitchell & Co., vessel owners of Cleveland, have 6,000-ton steel steamers (ore carriers) named for Senator M. A. Hanna and for Mr. H. C. Frick. Now they have given the name W. E. Reis to another steamer of the same type in honor of the president of the National Steel Co. The Reis was launched at the Globe works of the American Ship Building Co. in Cleveland, on Saturday. She will be fully prepared for service on the opening of navigation in the spring. LAKE CARRIERS' ASSOCIATION, It has been decided that the annual meeting of the Lake Carrier's Association will be held at the Cadillac hotel, Detrot, beginning at 10 a.m., Jan. 17. At the last annual meeting of this organization it was agreed that the so-called individual vessel owner was fast dropping out, of the lake trade; that the business was gradually drifting into the hands of a few very large corporations, and that if the Lake Carriers' Associa- tion was to continue it would be an organization different to that of the past--a very strong body made up of a few representatives of large in- terests. Probably this view may still be applied to the future of the organization, but not for the present, as more interest will undoubtedly attend the coming meeting than has been shown in two or three years. past. The prosperity of the season just closing has made the individual vessel owner an important factor in the situation, but whether for only a year or two more remains to be seen. | a The improvement of the St. Mary's river will very probably demand most attention from the lake carriers at this meeting. Senator MeMillan of Michigan has taken the first step in this direction, in securing the passage of a resolution by the senate requesting the secretary of war to furnish information as to how many days the St. Mary's channels were blocked during the season of navigation just closed, and what is his opinion as to the desirability of opening additional channels. In answer to this inquiry the war department engineers will give full details of the recent blockades in the river and will show also that they have already recommended the enlargement of channels in all narrow parts of the river and the construction of new channels in some places. This will be the basis 'of recommendations that will be made at the Detroit meeting. Major W. L. Marshall, United States engineer at Chicago recently opened bids for the construction and erection of four single and one double track steel highway bridges over the Illinois and Mississippi canal near Tiskilwa, Lll., and Wyanet, Ill. The lowest bid was that of the Toledo Bridge Co. of Toledo, O., $13,400. Other bidders were Massillon Bude Co., Toledo, $15,000; Wisconsin Bridge & Iron Co., Milwaukee, $17,120; J. G. Wagner & Co. Milwaukee, $14,200; Chicago Bridge & Iron Works, Chicago; $18,690: King Bridge Co., Cleveland, $14,050; and Union Binge Co., New York city, $20,500. The appropriation for the work was $20,000. -- A new river steamer, the Rees Lee, recently completed at the yard of Capt. E. J. Howard, Jeffersonville, Ind., is making a most creditable Tecord. She is 200 feet long and 38 feet beam, and on her first trip to St. Louis carried a miscellaneous cargo which included 15,000 feet of lumber, 6,500 bundles of: staves, 160 bales of cotton and several hundred ead of cattle. MARINE REV! CLEVELAND, O., DEC. 14, 1899. EW Subscription $2.00 a year, Foreign $3.50 a year. No. 94 LATEST REPORTS FROM THE SHIP YARDS. VARIOUS ITEMS PERTAINING TO THE WORK OF SHIP BUILDERS, LARGE AND SMALL, IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNITED STATRS. The steel Ocean-going tug which the Columbian Iron Works, Balti- more, will build for the New York & Hartford Transportation Co., will be 125 feet in length, 26 feet beam and 13 feet depth of hold. She will be fitted with engines of the inverted surface condenser and receiver type with cranks at right angles, the cylinders measuring 20 and 40 inches diameter and 28 inches stroke of piston. The deck house will contain two staterooms, two rooms for engineers and a room for the cook. The vessel, which will cost complete about $60,000, will' be equipped with all modern auxiliary appliances, including hand and steam steering gear, incandescent and search lights and fire and wrecking pumps. The con- tract for this tug was given to the Columbian Iron Works as a result of the splendid service which they rendered the New York & Hartford company in the construction of the steamer Hartford, which was only recently completed at the Baltimore yard. The Columbian works has the hull of the torpedo boat Tingey completed and the laying of the deck has commenced. Finishing touches are being put on the revenue cutter Seminole and the tug Savage. _ The Pacific Coast Steamship Co. of Seattle, Wash., announces that it will in the near future place contracts for three new vessels--a freight and passenger steamer and two steel schooners. President J. D. Farrell states that plans for these vessels have already been prepared and that bids will be called for within a few days. The steamer will have a freight carrying capacity of 1,500 tons, in addition to fuel,-and accommodations for 150 first-class and 100 second-class passengers. She will have a speed of 16 knots. The schooners will each have a carrying capacity of 2,500 tons. The construction of these vessels is probably due in some: measure to the decision of the Pacific Coast company to place steamers in service on the route between Seattle and Cape Nome, Alaska. The steamers Senator, City of Puebla and Williamette will be employed in this service, and preliminary to going on the route will be thoroughly overhauled and repaired by the Moran Bros. Co. of Seattle. Improvements of various kinds continue to be the order of the day at the Roach Ship Yard, Chester, Pa. One of the latest.is a new punch shed, 30 by 60 feet, the construction of which was begun a few days ago. The work of building the Hawaiian-American liners, now under way at the Roach yard, necessitates heavier machinery, and there will be set up in the new shed a number of heavy punches which have been: stored away since the days when John Roach constructed monitors for the United States government. The steamer Pennsylvania, building for the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad. Co. to replace the burned steamer Cape Charles, will be launched within ja,few days. - A dry dock to be built at Hunter's Point, San Francisco, by the California Dry Dock Co. will be constructed from plans prepared by Engineer Holmes of the board of harbor-commissioners of the city of San, Francisco. The dock will be 750 feet'in length, 80 feet wide at the bottom and 120 feet wide at the top. It will have 28 feet of water over the sills at low tide and will be capable, it is thought, of accommodating any vessel that enters the port of San Francisco. The cost will be con- siderably over $500,000. : ids; In a letter to the Review, Messrs. Shea & McCarthy, proprietors of a boiler, tank and plate iron works at 128 Front Street, Memphis, Tenn., state that they are building the hull and boilers of a steel tug under con- struction for Mr. L. E. Patton, and the first steel or iron boat ever con- structed in Memphis. The vessel, which is constructed throughout of quarter inch steel, is 75 feet in length over all, 15 feet 'beam and 6 feet draught. F. M. Crawford of Tacoma, Wash., has begun work on the freight and passenger steamer which is to be built for Cook & Co. for service on the Tacoma-Seattle-Vancouver route. The vessel will be 162 feet in length, 28 feet beam and 12 feet depth, and will have an average speed of 15 knots with accommodations for one hundred passengers. She will cost $75,000. The contract calls for completion June 1. The steamer Proteus, building for the Cromwell line, will be: launched at the yard of Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co. next Saturday morning. The Proteus is a sister ship of the Comus and the last of the steamers building for the Morgan and Cromwell lines at the Newport News yard this year. Arthur Sewall & Co. of Bath, Me., some days ago launched the steel ship Kaiulani, designed for service between San Francisco and the Hawaiian islands. She is 250 feet in length over all, 225 feet between perpendiculars, 42 feet beam and 21 feet depth. She will have a carrying capacity of 2,500 tons. The ship building plant of Charles Ward at Kennebunkport, Me., was badly damaged a few days ago resulting from the explosion of a boiler. The engine house was almost completely demolished. The towboats Tide and Cyclone, building at Elizabeth Marine Ways, Pittsburg, for the American Coke Co., will be launched within a short time. f Andrew M. Moreland, the new member of the board of managers of the Carnegie Steel Co., Ltd., is the youngest man ever elected as a member of the board. He is only thirty-five years of age, He has been ~ auditor of the company during the past four years.