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is MARINE REVIEW. [June 7, FINE BIT OF DRY DOCK ENGINEERING. A neat and rapid bit of engineering in connection with a dry dock job was that accomplished at the works of the Harlan & Hollings- worth Co., Wilmington, Del., a few days ago, when the steamer Indian was cut in two and the sections of hull pulled apart 40 feet for the purpose of lengthening the vessel. First the steamer was docked perfectly plumb with ground ways set in exact line with the keel, allowing sufficient height for settling when the additional weight would be put on, and packing was fitted to the hull in a manner as nearly perfect as human ingenuity could make it, The packing was then removed, tallow placed between the bilge and the ground ways, and the packing replaced. Before the actual work of pulling apart was begun, straight edges were placed on the main deck, with lines on the hurricane deck fore-and-aft, and a plumb bob suspended from the upper deck to the center keelson, a distance of 30 feet. Two nests of piles, four in each, were driven at the head of the dock for pur- chase. Chains were led out of the hawse pipes, with chain toggles in each of the forward lower ports, using two six-fold purchases on each ENORMOUS DOCK PROJECT. Among important improvements undertaken of late by the Pennsyl- vania Railroad is the establishment of an enormous new freight terminal and docks on New York bay. This was provided for some years ago, when the company acquired over half a mile of water front at Greenville, New Jersey, to the southward of Jersey City. A branch line or cut-off is to be built from a point west of Newark, crossing Newark bay, and bringing the heavy freight traffic of the company, more particularly coal, to the new terminus. The bulkhead line is now 3,500 feet from the shore, but an application made to the authorities at Washington to establish a new bulkhead line about a mile from the present banks has this. week been granted, thus affording opportunity by filling in for the creation of a railroad yard of the largest proportions. From the bulkhead ten piers, each nearly a mile long, are to extend into the harbor. The plan con--- templates the creaticn of some 15,000,000 square feet of land where there is now only shoal water, and the whole project is on so large a scale that a number of years may elapse before substantial progress is made, Enor- Preparations for Lengthening Steamer Indian at Works of Harlan & Hollingsworth Co., Wilmington, Del. BOW SECTION OF THE SHIP AFTER*SEPARATION BOW SECTION AS PREPARED FOR THE PULL. side, each one leading to a crab. For additional purchase two luff tackles were applied, leading to the hoisting engine, but these were not, how- ever, used. The strain was put on the ship at 9:35 a. m. She immediately began to move and at 10.50 (just 1 hour and 15 minutes) the portion of the ship weighing 350 tons and having a height of 40 feet from the keel to the top was moved 40 feet, without a fraction of an inch deviation. SHIPPING BILL GOES OVER. Senator Frye, who has had charge of the shipping bill, now admits that there is no chance of securing its passage at this session. Discuss- ing the subject recently, he said: "I am very sorry that this is the case, but I look for the early passage of the bill at the next session. The anxiety shown by foreign ship owners to defeat the bill is of itself proof of the wisdom of the measure. They dread the competition of a large fleet of new American ships. It is ab- surd for this great nation to be dependent for ships on European countries that may at any time become involved in war. The shipping bill in pro- viding for a large increase in tonnage, thus automatically provides for a 'reduction in ocean freights. In that way the American people will in time receive in reduced freights several times as much as they pay out in aiding in the establishment of our shipping in the foreign trade. The measure is greatly needed and ought to be passed at once." STERN SECTION OF THE SHIP AFTER SEPARATION. SIDE VIEW OF THE SEPARATED VESSEL. mous warehouses and large plants for the transshipment of coal from cars to vessels are also contemplated, the idea being to provide for both the freight traffic which now goes to the Jersey City terminals of the Pennsylvania and for the further steady and constant growth which this business exhibits. The work that will be undertaken in this connection is the largest of its kind ever planned in New York harbor, and illustrates the far-reaching projects which the Pennsylvania Company has now on hand for the improvement of its property. AMERICA HAS NOTHING TO FEAR. Mr. H. G. Morse, president of the New York Ship Building Co. of Camden, N. J., recently returned from a trip to the United Kingdom. Americans have nothing to fear from other nations in the ship building line," said he. "Due credit must be given such great yards as these on the Clyde and at Belfast, Barrow-in-Furness and New Castle, where many improvements have been made, but the United States can more than hold its own, even in the infancy of its work." The battleship Texas has been ordered transferred to the New York navy yard for repairs. Norfolk has made an indignant protest against the transfer,