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{809.| STEAMER CHESTER M. CHAPIN. A MAGNIFICENT PASSENGER VESSEL JUST COMPLETED BY THE MARINE DEPARTMENT OF THE MARYLAND STEEL 6O., SPARROW'S POINT, MD. There is presented herewith a very excellent picture of the steamer Chester M. Chapin, recently completed by the Maryland Steel Co. of Sparrow's Point, Md., for the New Haven Steamboat Co. This hand- some twin-screw passenger steamer, which has just reached New York city, is designed for service between New York and New Haven, Conn. She is a very trim looking craft and presents even more attractive lines than the steamer Richard Peck, after which she has been modeled by her designers, Cary, Smith & Barbey, naval architects of New York city. The Chapin is 324 feet on deck, 310 feet water line, 48 feet molded beam, 64 feet breadth over guards and 17 feet 21% inches depth. She is calculated to maintain a speed of 21% statute miles per hour, is 10 feet longer than the Peck and has cabins on the galley deck continued aft as they are forward on the Peck. She was built in accordance with rules of the United States Standard Register of Shipping. The lower deck has ten staterooms with accommodations for twenty officers; also some passenger. accommodations and quarters in forcastle for a large part of the crew. sa : The main deck contains the ladies' cabin and in this portion of the vessel a marked improvement over the Peck has been made -by the re- moval of the bar to the back of the dining room on the-saloon deck. The promenade or saloon deck has a double row of staterooms on either side, MARINE REVIEW. -- NAVAL ENGINEERS--PARIS CONGRESS. At a recent meeting of the American Society of Naval Engineers, Washington, the following officers were placed in nomination for 1900. For president, Commander Harrie Webster and Lieut. Commander F. H. Bailey; for secretary-treasurer, Lieut, Commander A. B. Willits and Lieutenant W. W. White; for council (three to be elected) Lieut. Com- mander ie Jel, Bailey, Lieut. Commander W. H. Worthington, Lieut. TR S. Griffin, Lieut. B. C. Bryan, Lieut. C. A. E. King and Lieut. W. W. White. | Separate voting slips will be mailed to each member of the or- ganization and teturn envelopes will be enclosed. A second voting slip, which will be mailed at the same time, will be distributed for the purpose of gaining the opinion of members as to prize articles printed in the vol- ume of the journal of the society just closed. In this connection the managers call attention to the fact that the offer of prizes does not seem to draw out the efforts intended or hoped for, and at the meeting to be held in January a proposition will be made to again change the article governing this feature so as to do away with the prize essays altogether and simply permit the purchase of such manuscripts as the council may find available and desirable at a fair current rate. 5 The society has been asked to lend its aid toward making successful | the international congress of naval architects, which, will beheld under the | trona; 1 government, in, the Pz les Congress, of the -- exposition of 1900, and opening 'on July 19) for' three days' continuance. patronage of the French government, in, the Palace This congtess is:of interest?to engineers and constructors of ships, and 17 of, motor and mechanical apparatus of every kind employed in Ships, to STEAMER CHESTER M. CHAPIN, RECENTLY COMPLETED BY THE MARYLAND STEEL ©O., SPARROW'S POINT, MD. and the gallery deck has the dining room, cafe, bar, kitchen, pantry, of- ficers' rooms and mess. The hurricane deck is occupied by the pilot house and captain's room. Mahogany staircases are provided from the main to the lower deck and to the grand saloon. The steamer is provided with steam heat throughout, is fitted with two iron water tanks, each of a ca- pacity of 2,000 gallons. Two Ideal inclined engines furnish power for the electric plant, which provides current to 650 sixteen-candle-power incan- descent lamps and an 8,000 candle-power search light. As es bo Power for driving the ship is furnished by two inverted, direct acting, surface condensing, triple expansion engines, with cylinders of 24, 38 and 60 inches diameter by 30 inches stroke. The -high pressure cylinder 1s equipped with piston; valves and the low pressure cylinders with slide, valves. To these engines, which are expected to, develop 4,200 indicated horse power, steam is supplied from six Scotch boilers, 13 feet in. diameter by 11% feet in length, at a working pressure of 160 pounds. The poulers ave three steel corrugated furnaces, 400 square feet of grate surface an 12,000 square feet of heating furnace. The crank shaft is of the built-up type. The interior furnishings of the vessel are in almost every instance far more elaborate than those of the Richard Peck, and the equipment is of the very best, including a Williamson steam steerer with cylinder 6 by 6 inches, a windlass of the American Ship W indlass Co. type, Katzenstein packing and a full outfit of Blake duplex pumps. The Maryland company made every effort to carry out the idea of the designers to have the new steamer especially safe. __A..L. Jaynes of Buffalo, inventor of an ice crushing device, gravely announces eet: will contest the contract made by the city of Buffalo for a new fire boat to be built by the Union Dry Dock Co. of Buffalo, at a cost of $91,000 and which was fully described and illustrated in the last issue.of the Review.. He claims that he did not receive fair treatment from the city officials when he offered to build a machine to break ice in the harbor at a cost of $65,000. used either in naval construction or in yards and workshops, to sailors, ship owners and yachtsmen, and to anyone who is in any way concerned in the progress of maritime locomotion. All such persons are earnestly invited to help the congress with the fruit of their experience, investiga- tions and studies. They can do this by presenting communications to be read and discussed during the sessions, by taking part in the, discussions, or,as listeners. The printed report of the communications 'and discus-. the manufacturers of material and objects of whatever kind that maybe sions will be presented to each of the active members of the congress! Correspondence is solicited from those who contemplate aiding with _ papers on any~branch of the subjects to be discussed, which are:, Naval. |: arehitecture, geometry, and status of ship stability and general theories; : hull construction; machinery 'construction; special"types of vessels for _ particular. service; heavy, outfitting of deck yards, etc.; history and devel-) - opment of merchant; pleasure and war,vessels, and, including any, relevant matter to marine progress or education in. marine engineering. The secretary-general is"Mr. Hauser, Ingenieur de la Mariné en retraite, 4 Rue Meissonnier, Paris, to whom further inquiries may be addressed. There are now bound for Philadelphia, or under charter to sail for that place from various parts of the world, a total of thirty-four vessels. laden with iron or manganese ores. This number is outside of those vessels which are bringing ore to Philadelphia regularly from Cuba and Newfoundland. It is estimated that the cargoes of the thirty-four vessels will aggregate fully 120,000 tons. Eighteen of the vessels are bringing nanganese ore, about 65,000 tons, and the remainder carry 55,000 tons ot iron ore. Twelve of the cargoes of iron ore are coming from Spain, three from the island of Elba and one from Russia. Capt. Chester Harding, United States engineer at Grand. Rapids, Mich., gives notice in an advertisement on page 25 of this issue that he will open proposals Jan. 13, 1900, for the construction of breakwaters at Michigan City, Ind.