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-- MARINE REVIEW. | ) 17 NEWS FROM BOTH COASTS. AOTIVITY OONTINUES IN ALL OF THE SHIP YARDS AND A NUMBER OF THEM ARE MAKING IMPORTANT ADDITIONS TO THEIR WORKS, George Gale is building at the Dutch Point shipyard, Hartford, Conn., coal barge No. 16 for the Hartiord & New York Transportation Co. This barge is 186 feet 10 inches over all, 36 feet molded beam and 13 feet depth, and will draw 11% feet loaded and 2% feet light. Mer capacity will be 1550 tons of hard coal. The material will be chietly of southern pine. The bow and stern will be planked with native white oak. 'here will be five transverse bulkheads and a combing 3 feet high, covered with light hatch doors. The timbers will be very heavy, the foor timbers being 8 by 14, running to 8 inches at top height. 'Lhe keel will be 6 by 12 and there will be fourteen keelsons, 12 by 12, the ones in the bilge 14 . by 16 and side ceiling 6 inches thick. The planking will be bolted and tre- nailed. A shelf, 8 by 14, will extend around under the deck to strengthen the vessel. Her beams will be 14 by 14. Over the keelsons a plank floor 3 inches thick will be laid so as to permit o1 steam grapplers being used for unloading, no shoveling being required. The cabin will be 7 feet above the deck and will be built of white pine finished with yellow pine. The vessel will be fitted with two anchors, one weighing 1,000 pounds and the other 1,200 pounds. Each will be fitted with 45 tathoms of 1% and 1% stud link chain. The four-masted schooner Calumet, built by Kelley, Spear & Co. of Bath, Me., for John S. Emery & Co. of Boston, was launched last Sat- urday. The Calumet is 180 feet keel, 40 feet breadth of beam, 18.6 inches depth of hold, with a poop 4 feet deep to extend 5 or 6 feet forward of the mainmast. The following firms will furnish some of the equipment: Sails, H. S. Lord & Co., Bath, Me.; chains, Lebanon Chain Works, Lebanon, Pa.; windlass, capstans and wrecking pumps, Hyde Windlass Co., Bath, 'Me.; anchors, W. G. Alden & Co., Camden, Me.; wire rigging, Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Co., Worcester, Mass.; blocks, Boston & Lockport Block Co.; boats, C. E. Leighton, Harrington, Me. The ship building firm of Theodore E. Crane's Sons, Erie basin, Brooklyn, has under construction the following crait: Derrick barge for Lehigh Valley railway; finishing up the eighth barge for the New York Central & Hudson River railway; one barge for the Manhattan Lighterage Co.; barge for F. W. Jarvis & Co.; pontoon for the New York & South Brooklyn Ferry Co. 'hey are also doing a large amount of repair work and overhauling, among which is a barge of Wright & Cobb's, four tugs for the New York Central, barge of the New Jersey Lighterage Co., barge of the New England Transportation line, and the ferryboat West Brooklyn. It is announced that the Eastern Dock & Construction Co. of Boston has purchased about fifty acres of land at Quincy Neck, Mass., with something over a mile of water front, including a long stretch on the channel, with ample depth to launch the largest steamship afloat. As soon as the company receives assurances that the draw in the Quincy Point bridge will be widened to at least 80 feet and that certain facilities in the way of freight transportation will be granted by the city council it will begin the construction of wharves and workshops to accommodate 1,000 workmen. Mr. Frank E. Crane of Quincy negotiated the sales. The United States army transport Crook, which was rebuilt at the Erie basin, Brooklyn, at a cost of $250,000, is ready to resume her runs to Cuba and Porto Rico. Her teak deck houses have been replaced with steel ones. Her upper deck is flush from the turtle-back bow to the taff rail. Her engineers' quarters are situated on the upper deck aft and the rooms of her deck officers are on the bridge deck. She has been well fitted up for a number of passengers, and her engines, boilers and engine rooms have all the modern improvements. The German steamer Wilhelmina, which cleared at Philadelphia on April 9 for Yokohama and Vladivostock, carries one of the largest ship- ments of American machinery ever forwarded to the far east, being 6,600 tons in weight. The principal part of the cargo consists of thirty-one Baldwin locomotives for the Chinese Eastern railway, 2,000 tons of steel rails for the Formosa railway and 400 tons of bridge material for Japan. The cargo is valued at more than $1,000,000. Lieut. C. P. Hughes, U. S. N., who has been in charge of the branch hydrographic office at Philadelphia, and who has had as additional duties the inspection of equipment at the ship yards of the 'Cramps and Neafie & Levy at Philadelphia, and the Harlan & Hollingsworth Co. at Wilming- ton, Del., thas been relieved of the latter duty and now by order of Washington devotes his entire time to the duties of the branch hydro- graphic office. The Hamburg-American Packet Co.'s steamer Brisgavia, which was badly damaged by striking a sunken obstruction in the Pel dane Feb. 27, was floated from the dry dock at the League Island navy yard a week ago, after having repairs made to her by the Cramps aggregating $25,000. She had no sooner got down into the river than she ran aground again and it took a number of tugs to pull her off. John McInnis, who recently resigned his position with the Columbian Iron Works, is now with the Bath Iron Works as assistant superintendent in charge of hulls, excluding torpedo-boats. Charles P. Wetherbee is assistant superintendent in charge of torpedo-boats. Hugh Madden, the Bath Iron Works boiler maker, is in general charge of the ship yard, with Thomas Fairburn and Edward Tuck as assistants. Arthur Sewall & Co., Bath, Me., are about to begin the construction of two large 3,000-ton steel shipentines somewhat similar to the Arthur Sewall and Edward Sewall. Plans for these ships, which are to be 335 feet long, 45 feet wide and 27 feet deep, have already been prepared by William A. Fairburn. Steel has been ordered and it is probable that the keels will be laid early in July. Hirzel, Teztman & Co., agents at New York for the Navigazione Generale Italiana, announce that the line is building for service between Mediterranean and American ports five steel steamships of 6,000 tons. They will carry only seventy-five cabin passengers and 1,200 steerage pas- sengers. The first ship will be put on the New York route next year. The New York & Cuba Mail Co.'s steamship Morro Castle was launched from the Cramp ship yard on Saturday. She was christened by Miss Florence Cramp. The ship is 400 feet long, between perpendiculars, 50 feet beam, molded; 22 feet draught, loaded. Her displacement is 8,750 tons and she is designed for a speed of 18 knots per hour. _ the Hartford & New York Transportation Co. has placed a contract with the Columbian Iron Works of Baltimore for a large seagoing tug to be used in its towing service. The tug will be 115 feet long by 24 feet beam and will draw 9 feet of water. She will be built of iron, will cost about $65,000 and will be ready for delivery by Sept. 1. _ The Hilles « Jones Co. of Wilmington, Del., has received an order irom the Eastern Shipbuilding Co., New London, Conn., for a large part of their equipment, consisting of mast bending rolls, heavy plate bending and flanging roll, 28-foot planer, plate straightening rolls, and heavy vertical and horizontal punches and shears. _. Percy & Small, wood ship builders of Bath, Me., are seriously con- sidering the advisability of establishing a ship building plant for the con- struction of steel coasting schooners. This firm has built some of the finest four and five-masted wooden schooners in the country, and they have a most enviable reputation. The official trial trip of the torpedo boat Stringham has been post- poned. Rear Admiral Rodgers and other members of the inspection party failed to appear. On the builders' trial trip this boat made 30 knots an hour. She was built by the Harlan & Hollingsworth Co. of Wil- mington, Del. William C. Besselievre, assistant superintendent of the hull depart- ment of the Bath Iron Works, has accepted a government position as assistant inspector at the Cramp ship yard, Philadelphia. Mason 'S. Chase holds a similar position at the Newport News works, Newport News, Va. F. H. Chappell of New London, Conn., is to establish a wood ship yard with marine railways at New London on property owned by.the Thames Improvement Co., just above the railroad bridge. The land has already been bought and work will begin in the early summer. At the Hyde Windlass Co.'s works, Bath, Me., a large force of men are engaged on the construction of two battleship windlasses for the Union Iron Works and on four of the largest windlasses the works have ever made for the William Cramp & Sons Co. . _ ._The American line, plying between Philadelphia and Liverpool, car- ried in March over twice the number of-passengers during March that were carried in the same month last year, an increase almost unprece- dented. Neafie & Levy, Philadelphia, will build the machinery and Thomas McCosker & Co., Baltimore, the hull of a wooden tug 95 feet long, 21% feet beam and 10% feet deep for Philip Weaver & Son. Messrs. D. D. Kelly & Son and Ambrose A, Martin of Boston are repairing the nautical training ship Enterprise. The work will take about two months. T. M. Isham, Mystic, Conn., has contracted to build two three-masted schooners of 1,800 tons each and is negotiating for others. » Within a month the Russian battleship Variag, building at the Cramp works, Philadelphia, will be ready for her trial trip. It is computed that the ship yards along the Delaware river have work on hand to the amount of $25,000,000. The light-house steamer John Rodgers has received a new boiler from Brown & Miller of Jersey City. ; ALONG THE PAOIFIC OOAST. A fine four-masted schooner for the Philippine trade was launched from Hay & Wright's ship yard at Alameda, Cal., last week. This makes the third vessel, and the keel of the fourth will soon be laid. This third schooner has been christened Luzon and the fourth will in all probability be called the Mindora. Hay & Wright are also building very substantial deck houses on the Alaska Packers' Association steamer Wigwam; also putting deck houses on the Francis Cutting for Hume Bros., and pang another deck on the Dora for the Alaska Commercial Co., while they have the steamer Celia on the marine ways giving her a thorough overhauling. Crawford & Reid of Tacoma, Wash., launched a few days ago the new steamer they are building for Hunt Bros. This steamer is being built to take the place 'of the Victor, which was sold by them and will be converted into a tug by her new owners. The new steamer, which has not yet been christened, will run between Seattle and Tacoma. Her ma- chinery will be installed in Tacoma. W. A. Boole & Co. of San Francisco have leased waterways at Oak- land, where they will set up three marine railways of large capacity, a ship yard and a large dry dock. The latter will be 100 feet in width by 800 feet in length. ABOUT THAT STOVE? In the general fitting out this spring many vessels will require new cooking apparatus, and all such cannot do better than send for illustrated circulars and prices of the Born steel ranges, especially built for ship use. Many of the finest vessels afloat are equipped with these ranges. They are substantial, convenient and easy to operate, and can be depended on for good work under all conditions. All the parts are extra heavy to stand rough usage. There are four sizes, with fire box between ovens, ranging in length from 4 feet to 6 feet, and having ovens from 16 inches wide to 26 inches. They are also made in sections with fire for each oven, and any combination will be furnished. Born's single oven ranges with rails and stanchions for boat use are also prime favorites. Top dimen- sions of these ranges are 43x33 inches, and the oven is 24 inches wide, 24 inches deep and 15 inches high. The tank holds about 18 gallons and is made of polished copper with rim extending above the lids so that cups, dishes, etc., may be placed on top for warming. Smaller or larger sizes with ovens varying in width from 17 to 36 inches and reservoir of any desired size may be had fitted up in the same way. They are also fur- nished without the tank'and with high shelf, hot closet or water back. The new factory of the Born Steel Range & Manufacturing Co. occupies four acres of ground, completely equipped with modern machin- ery and appliances. The general offices and storerooms occupy five stories and basement, 150 feet deep, at 122-126 Superior street, Cleveland, where a full line of family, hotel and ship ranges, steam tables, bake ovens, urns, etc., is displayed and where selections may be readily made at any time. :