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16 MARINE REVIEW. [April 5, AT TILE HARLAN & HOLLINGSWORTH WORKS. The Harlan & Hollingsworth Co., Wilmington, Del., launched the steamer Mannahata last Saturday morning. She is one of the two vessels which this company is building for the New York & Baltimore Trans- portation line of Philadelphia, ot which Mr. F. S. Groves is general man- ager. The first, the Chesapeake, will be delivered in a week or two. These vessels are intended to run outside between New York and Balti- more on what is familiarly known as the Shriver line. The Mannahata was christened by Miss Amy Clare Hutton, granddaughter of Mr. Walter Shriver, of New York. Dimensions of the Mannahata are as follows: Length over all, 219 feet; length between perpendiculars, 205 feet; beam, molded, 32 feet; depth to upper deck at center, 23 feet 3 inches. The mo- tive power consists of one triple expansion three-crank, surface-con- densing engine of the open front type, with cylinders of 18, 28 and 45 inches diameter, supplied with steam by two Scotch boilers 11 feet diame- ter, 10 feet long. She is built of steel throughout and has three decks and three side ports on each side; is designed to carry about 900 net tons ol cargo and will develop a speed when fully loaded of about 12 knots. There are no passenger accommodations on the vessel excepting those for the officers and crew, as she is built for freight carrying purposes only. 2A addition to the freighters above described the Harlan & Hollings- worth Co. has under construction a 280-foot steamer for the Metropolitan Steamship Co. of New York; the steamship Grecian for the Boston & Philadelphia Steamship Co., which wii! leave in about two weeks; three tugs for the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., and two torpedo boat destroyers. Uopkins and Hull, for the government. The torpedo boat destroyer Stringham, which is now almost completed, will be taken out for her final trial on the Chesapeake in about a week. The Wilmington company has also just signed the contract for six 200-foot barges tor the Rockland- Rockport 'Lime Co. of Boston; a 400-foot ship for the New York & Texas Steamship Co., known as the Mallory Line; and a large twin-screw steam yacht for Charles Fletcher, a prominent manufacturer of Provi- dence, R. I. In addition to this new work, the Harlan & Hollingsworth 'Co. is giving the steamer Foxhall of the United Fruit Co. a thorough overhauling and has also just signed a contract for lengthening the steamer Indian of the Boston & Philadelphia Co. Forty feet will be added to the length of the Indian. NOT TRYING TO INJURE THE BATH WORKS. In speaking of the many resignations and the changes necessitated thereby at the Bath Iron Works, 'William A. Fairburn, naval architect and engineer of the Eastern Ship Building 'Co., New London, Conn., said a few days ago: "Both Mr. Hanscom and myself resigned our positions with the Bath Iron Works and left Bath with the very best of feeling. The princi- pals of the company were of course very sorry to have us go and they expressed themselves quite strongly accordingly. 'We are not endeavor- ing to take the best men from the Bath works. All whom we have as yet engaged have applied to us for positions. The Bath Iron Works will not be very seriously affected by our withdrawal. They will be em- barrassed for a time, but they have a fine compact plant of medium size, and the works are in flourishing condition. They have all the work that they can attend to at present, and they will before long fill our places and obtain a good technical and practical personnel. Only about 10 per cent. of the men we shall employ will be men who have worked for the Bath Iron Works. We are about to build ships that the Bath works could not handle, and it is doubtful whether we shall ever be brought into direct competition with them. The Bath Iron Works has our very best wishes. We heartily wish the company success and prosperity and we 0M that the head officials of the concern have the same kind feelings toward us.' THE NEW SHIP YARD AT NEW LONDON. It is now announced that the new Eastern Ship Building Co, of New London, Conn. (Charles R. Hanscom president and general manager, and John Sherman Hoyt, treasurer), is backed by Charles W. Morse of New York, the "Ice King" millionaire, and James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railway. The company has contracted for three large shops about 250 feet long and 80 feet wide, and almost all the ship yard tools have been ordered. They will own or lease a stretch of land on the Groton shore opposite New London--now the property of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.--of about thirty acres area with about 1,500 feet of water front. The company intends to sublet the con- tract for the machinery of the first two vessels 'but will build large ma- chine and boiler shops when the rest of the plant is in good running order, Plans of the company provide for the building of the largest war vessels, as well as merchant vessels, and it is expected that their plant-- new in all its parts--will be one of the finest in the country. What was known as the advertising department of the Bullock Electric Mnfg. Co., Cincinnati, will hereafter be known as the advance department. The change has been made to more clearly define the work of the department, which now comprises not alone advertising, in the sense usually implied, but also the advance work necessary in the intro- duction of the 'company's product into territory as yet undeveloped. The work will continue as heretofore under the management of Mr. Frank G. Bolles, Mr. Fred H. Pell, now located at 1206 Bowling Green building, New York, announces in a circular to the marine trade that he has resigned the position of general agent with the Marine Manufacturing & Supply Co. and has begun business on his own account, dealing in pumps, cap- san, gipsy windlasses, winches and everything that enters into marine supplies. Willard A. Smith, United States director of transportation and engi- necring at the Paris exposition, has bought the old canal boat which was built for Lafayette upon the occasion of his second visit to the United States. Lafayette and his party were taken from Albany to Buffalo on it. The relic will be taken to Paris, » ERS OF IRON AND STEEL ARE WAITING. buyers in ae and -- is oo ; anxiety among the manufacturers, notwithstanding the ge en wee ieee which the latter will be engaged for a long time to come. 'The anxiety relates to prices for the latter part of the year, The manufacturers insist that there will be no need of any great change from present conditions if the coming month is aie over without a break in the market. oe is explained in the following summary ituation from the Iron Age: " Marae ion marke is disappointingly quiet. New business is not de- veloping as it should do at this season. 'We are now on the threshold of the second quarter and the stimulating influence of spring trade should begin to be felt. Here and there some transactions of fair size are re- ported, but in a general way the trade is extremely dull. The situation is commonly regarded as a deadlock between buyers and sellers, but this is more apparent than real. Most manufacturing interests are well sup- plied with work taken some time since, and are pushing production vigor- ously. Record-breaking outputs are reported. This does not indicate unsatisfactory conditions. As long as the mills and furnaces are able to keep in operation at 'high pressure, and the great producers manifest no anxiety as to the future, there is. little warrant for taking a gloomy view of the situation. Nevertheless, it would be much more encouraging to find buyers disposed to anticipate their wants a little more freely than they are now doing. As it is, those who need material are buying from hand to mouth waiting and perhaps hoping for a slump in prices." BUY A waiting disposition among AGAINST WRITTEN EXAMINATIONS. Editor Marine Review:--Ship masters of the great lakes should oppose the law compelling masters and pilots to write out an examination on re- newal of their licenses. There are many captains who have worked from the bottom to the top of the ladder, having been in charge of sailing ves- sels and steamers for years, and who never had bad luck, but who could not write out as good an examination as a,schoolboy; I mean, of course, as far as the writing and phraseology of it is concerned. I know some cap- tains who began to sail at the ages of fourteen or fifteen years, and who, although sailing every year of their lives after they were given command of a vessel, have never had a serious mishap of any kind. They write a fair hand, figure up freights and crews' time, and in fact do all that is required aboard a ship, but must they be barred out because they had the misfor- tune of spending nearly their whole lives on the lakes instead of at school? I hope something will be done so that captains who have pulled. bells for 'years without a mishap will not be forced to go back to the wheel. Marysville, Mich., April 2, 1900. T, A BLEBR COST OF THE TRANSPORT SERVICE. In response to an inquiry, the secretary of war has transmitted to the senate a statement of the expenditures of the army transports during and since the war with Spain. It shows that the total disbursements have aggregated $25,789,100. Forty-nine vessels of various classes were pur- chased at a cost of $8,074,455 and for refitting $5,189,093 was disbursed. The vessels chartered numbered 128, the amount paid vessels for services on the Atlantic being $2,882,284 and on the Pacific $7,749,235, while $1,891,342 was expended in fitting out the vessels and restoring them to former conditions at the end of their charters, making a total of $12,525,- 861 for the chartered service. The total shows that the amount paid the owners of three steamships for service on the Pacific was greater than the valuation of the vessels. They were the Zealandia, which was appraised at $250,000, and whose. owners were paid $313,666 under three separate charters; the Indiana, valued, at $450,000, and paid $469,166; the Ohio, valued at $450,000, and paid $548,785. NAVAL MATTERS. Secretary Long has ordered the establishment of a recruiting station at New York city in order to facilitate the enlistment of seamen. The station will be located in the down-town part of the city, where the sailors most do congregate. Returns from the navigation bureau this week show that the enlisted strength of the navy is 4,000 short of the strength allowed by law. A thousand of these are apprentices, for whom there are no quarters on shore, and therefore no attempt has been made to secure new boys. The Confederate Museum of Richmond, Va., has secured the main shaft of the old frigate Merrimac. The Merrimac was later renamed the Virginia and the shaft bears the inscription that it was the propeller shaft of the Virginia and that in the engagements with the Minnesota and the Monitor the victory remained with the Merrimac. oS The project of having training ships for boys who enlist in the navy : nee with most unqualified success. The Buffalo, which has been ranstormed into a well-equipped. training ship, will be in condition for service in a short while. There are now 450 recruits ready to be placed upon this vessel. F cptesen tative Hawley has introduced a bill in the house to re- classify the navy. According to the bill vessels of the United States, ex- ae torpedo boats and other special vessels, shall be divided into four c aoe and shall be commanded as nearly as may be as follows: First peone rates by captains; second and third rates by commanders; - n rates by: lieutenant commanders and lieutenants; torpedo boats and other unclassified vessels by officers below the grade of lieutenant-com- ahha Vessels of 5,000 tons displacement or more shall be classed as rst rates; those of 3,000 tons or more and below 5,000 tons as second rates; those of 1,000 tons or more and b : i ; ; i elow 3,000 tons as third rates; those of less than 1,000 tons as fourth rates. --_--_--_------ ; abe Nickel Plate road will sell excursion tickets to students account $ a vacation at one and one-third fare for the round trip. Tickets ars available the day before school closes, the closing day and the day after, the return limit to cover period of vacation. Inquire of agents. 49, April 15