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1900) MARINE REVIEW. | 7 FIELDS COMPASS CORRECTOR. Capt. John M. Fields of San Francisco, who came to the lakes to in- troduce his reversible dial compass and course corrector, has just finished a trip to the head of Lake Superior and return with Capt. Wm. Cumming of the Mutual Transportation Co.'s steamer Coralia. Capt. Cumming is highly pleased with the device. He recommends to Capt. Geo. P. McKay, manager, its adoption on all the vessels operated by M. A. Hanna & Co. and says. it will very probably soon be in use on all the large vessels of the lakes. Capt. Fields is now to make a trip with Capt. Chas. B. Galton of the Mitchell steamer W. E. Reis, on which the compass corrector will also be used. It would seem that with all the trouble and expense that attends the repeated employment of compass adjusters, especially on the great lakes, some device should be found that would at least do away with a large share of this special work. Capt. Fields comes highly recommended by hundreds of the best known ship owners and ship masters of the Pacific coast, including the competent men in charge of government transports. He is so confident of having the instrument that is wanted that he pro- poses to stay on the lakes all summer in order to properly introduce it. As has already been noted, Capt. Fields says the strongest recommenda- tion for his instrument--designed to ascertain the deviation of compass or to find a true or magnetic course--is its simplicity. It can be operated, he says, without any knowledge whatever of the science of navigation. AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. Martin Mullen of Cleveland, who recently sold his lake coal interests to the Pittsburg Coal Co. ($64,000,000 consolidation), sailed for Europe Wednesday and will probably be away for about three months. Capt. Geo. Tebo, well known to vessel men trading to Chicago, is operating in the south branch of the river at Sixteenth street a steamboat fuel dock from which Indiana block coal is sold. The dock is one which was formerly operated by the O. S. Richardson Fueling Co., and has a frontage of 600 feet. Two of the 'Wolvin steamers of Canadian canal dimensions, which are to be built so that they may engage in Atlantic service as well as on the lakes, will be put down at the berth made vacant by the launching of the large Carnegie steamer 'Lafayette today (Thursday) at the Lorain yard of the American Ship Building Co. One of the vessels recently purchased in England by Francis J. Clerque, who is conducting a large water power development at Sault Ste. Marie, has arrived on the lakes. Her name is Theano. She brought part cargo of cement across the Atlantic and is now loading at Lorain, ©., some steel rails which will also be taken to the Sault. The Marine Review has made an addition of four pages, giving it forty pages regularly every week. Its growth is a most healthful sign, as it is now double what it was eighteen months ago, and gives a large variety of reading matter and the best and most up-to-date illustrations. The price has been increased to $3.00 a year, but this is none too much, in view of the importance of the paper to marine interests.--Sault Ste. Marie News. MAKERS OF STEEL FOR SHIPS. The Review has several times been asked for a list of concerns in the United States that.roll shapes and plates for the construction of ships. There are not very many mills suited to this kind of work. The list follows: Manufacturers of shapes--Cambria Steel Co., Johnstown, Pa.; Car- negie (Steel Co., Ltd., Pittsburg, Pa.; Jones & Laughlins, Ltd., Pittsburg, Pa.; Maryland Steel Co., Sparrow's Point, Md.; New Jersey Steel & Iron Co., Trenton, N. J.; Passaic Rolling Mill, Paterson, N. J.; Pennsylvania Steel Co., Steelton, Pa.; Phoenix Iron Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; Roberts Co., A. & P. (Pencoyd Iron Works) Philadelphia, Pa. : Manufacturers of plates--Carbon Steel Co., Pittsburg, Pa.; Carnegie Steel Co., Ltd., Pittsburg, Pa.; Central Iron & Steel Co., Harrisburg, Pa.; Glasgow Iron Co., Pottstown, Pa.; Illinois Steel Co. (controlled by Fed- eral Steel Co.) Chicago, Ill.; Jones & Laughlins, Ltd., Pittsburg, Pa.; Lukens Iron & Steel Co., Coatsville, Pa.; Otis Steel Co., Cleveland, O.; Park Steel Co., Pittsburg, Pa.; Shoenberger Steel Co. (controlled by American Steel & Wire Co.) Pittsburg, Pa.; Worth Bros, Co., Coats- ville, Pa. NAVAL MATTERS, Orders have been serit to the Portsmouth, N. H., navy yard from the navy department directing that the Monongahela be ready for sea by June 1. These orders do not permit carrying out all the plans for the _ changes contemplated in the vessel. Damage done to valuable models of naval ships sent to the Paris ex- position has been repaired. Through the courtesy of the French govern- ment the work was done under Naval Constructor Gilmore at a French navy yard. The cost of the repairs amounted to about $2,500. The monitors Puritan and the Gloucester, which have been at An- napolis, will be sent to the Norfolk navy yard for general overhauling, docking and painting, and next autumn they will be sent back to the naval academy where the Puritan will be used in turret drill and the Gloucester in secondary target practice for the cadets. The monitor Monterey is to go out of commission. After a thorough survey at Hong Kong it was decided that the expense of putting the vessel in shape would be too great. 'The voyage of the Monterey from Manila to Hong Kong was a surprise to the officials of the navy depart- ment. It was supposed that it would be necessary to tow her, and the Scindia was sent along for that purpose. The Monterey, however, made the voyage under her own steam. 'She left Manila April 6 and arrived in Hong Kong April 9. The voyage was not pleasant, for while there was no sea yet the slightest swell submerged the deck and made necessary the closing of the armor hatches. 'This, of course, made it extremely hot below. Upon her arrival the ship was put in ordinary, ninety of her crew being turned over to two of the refitted Spanish gunboats, the Austria and Luzon. LARGE SAILING VESSELS. The six-masted schooner which is being built in the yard of Percy & Small at Bath, Me., is an object of great interest to people on the -east coast. 'She is 301 feet 6 inches long on the keel, 50 feet beam and 28 feet deep, and the builders figure that she will measure about 3,000 tons gross and 2,750 tons net. This is larger than some of the big ships launched at Bath in recent years. Bath's latest ships have a tonnage as follows: Roanoke, 3,347 tons; Arthur Sewall, 2,919; Edward Sewall, 2,917; Shenan- doah, 3,154; 'Dirigo, 2,845; 'Erskine M. Phelps, 2,715; Susquehanna, 2,950. The schooner at the Percy & Small yard has the longest keel ever laid for a wooden vessel on the Kennebec, being 6 inches longer than the keel of the ship Roanoke, the largest wooden sailing vessel ever built for salt water service. The new vessel is not much longer than the Camden-built five-masted schooner John B.-Prescott, but she is 6 feet wider and 5 feet deeper, and is expected to carry 5,200 tons of coal to the Prescott's 4,400 tons. The heaviest kind of material is being used all through the ship. The keel is 15x26. A long plate of steel 28 inches wide and 1 inch thick is to be placed in the keels on the whole length between the third and fourth streaks and fastened through and through with 1%-inch iron every 18 inches apart. The length of the plate is 290 feet. The hull will also be strapped diagonally and have a belt strap of 6.8 steel, 12 inches wide. The keelson is 14x14, nine streaks. The frame is hard wood, oak to second ' buttocks, hack top and hard wood floor. The ceiling is 14 inches to hang- ing knees. The planking will be 6 inches. The stem is 52% feet long. AUXILIARY ENGINES. It is well known that auxiliary engines so lavishly provided on war vessels consume such enormous quantities of coal that they only require a few weeks to empty the bunkers of a battleship when in harbor. Sir John Durston endeavored to measure' this consumption accurately during 'the trials of the Argonaut, excluding the steam used by the evaporators, regarding which exact data already existed. The results were as follows: At 23,000 1) eRe ee se 22 per cent. of the consumption of main engines. Atl3 5000 er ie 10.4 per cent. of the consumption of main engines. At 18,000 LHe Ree: cee 11.9 per cent. of the consumption of main engines. It must be noted that on the full-power trial, made under forced draft, eight fan engines were running at full speed, besides double the number of furnace air-blowing engines in use on the 13,500 I. H. P. trial. Stern View of a Modern Steamer. The Nickel Plate road offers low rates to Des Moines, Ia., ac- count annual convention Music Teachers' Association. Tickets good going June 17 to 21 inclusive, and good returning not later than ace 98, 1900, at one fare for the round trip. Write, wire, phone or call on E. A. Akers, C. P. & T. A., Cleveland, O., or C. A. Asterlin, T. P. A.. Ft. Wayne, Ind. 83 June 14. &