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_ MARINE REVIEW. VISIT OF THE PSYCHE. Ships were nodding, curt'sying, bowing, Ships in those regions are so polite.--Calverley. - The third-class British cruiser Psyche never nodded a nod. She created something of a sensation (Monday by dashing into the port ot! New York regardless of fog, quarantine regulations and international courtesies, and dashing down the bay again as if she were pursued by a squadron of hostile warships. Never a cruiser, or any other war craft of any nationality, dispensed with conventionalities so nonchalantly as the Psyche. Her mission in New York from Halifax was merely to grab Assistant Paymaster Roe of her Britannic Majesty's navy from the custody of Uncle Sam and convey him back to Bermuda to be tried for embezzlement. The Psyche was __ sighted by the marine observer off the Hook just after dawn. He could not make out her name, The reporters at quarantine saw her coming up through the narrows two hours later. She scooted past quarantine through a mist and the reporters were unable to distinguish her name. Under the regu- lations of the port all vessels, whether warships or merchantmen from foreign places, are expected to undergo inspection by the health officer. In the case of naval ships the examination is perfunctory, the health officer accepting the declaration of the ship's surgeon. 'Maj. Albert L. Myer, commandant at Governor's island, heard of the coming of the British cruiser just after she passed in at the Hook, and he turned out twenty artillerymen and prepared to answer the salute of the cruiser as she passed the island. The air was thick with vapor at times and the major feared that the warship might miss the island and _fire a salute else- where. He naturally supposed that her commander, Capt. Pelly, knew where the saluting station was, and would finally come along and pay the usual tribute. of twenty-one guns to the stars and-stripes.. The major, with his twenty men ready at their four old Rodman smooth bores, looked out vainly for the little cruiser through the fog that came and went. ; At 4 o'clock in the, afternoon he got tired and came over to the ship news' office to find out whether the Psyche had come in without his knowledgey The ultramarine reporters had heard about her going up the river, :but they were not sure that she had gone. They went out and found that.she. had passed the battery in the morning, just visible in the mist. The major, went back to the island and called off the expectant batterymen. He said, that the failure of the Psyche to salute the fort while passing. the island was a breach of international etiquette, and that he would be compelled -- to call it to the attention of the British consul-general at this port, Sir Percy Sanderson. Uncle Sam saved $22.68. That is the value of the brown powder that would have been rammed into the old guns and.made the walls of the big buildings down town reverberate for a few minutes. The cruiser went up the North river and anchored off Thirty-fifth . street, got the assistant paymaster aboard, lifted anchor and headed down I the river. She was seen by several harbor pilots, including Capt. John. Bradley of the revenue service, passing the statue of liberty about 5 P. M. Capt. Bradley supposed that she was returning to quarantine to be in- spected, but she was not. Quarantine said that a few hours after she had run past on het way up North river, Health Officer Doty's assistant, Dr. L'Hommedieu, was_sent after her in a tug. He formally cleared her with- out any 'bu the pleasantest communication with her commander. + She had come in without a pilot, which is a common thing for British war vessels to do, and started up the crowded North river as if she were in command of a ferryboat skipper, who had been all his life dodging river ~ craft. She kept right on, and through the gallantry of the Yankee pilots escaped being run down or disabled. At last she ran afoul of Capt. Dave Roach of the tug Barrett. Dave knows a dollar when he sees it. An officer of the cruiser hailed him and asked him the way to Thirty-fourth street. Capt. Dave said: "I'm going that way myself. Stick by me and. T'll pull you through." The cruiser was within a few blocks of her an- chorage, according to one of the admirers of Capt. Dave's nerve. After a little while Capt. Dave shouted, "There's Thirty-fourth street." A moment later Capt. Dave went alongside the cruiser with a bill for $75. | Capt. Pelly looked at the bill seriousiy and decided that the British navy would not stand for services at the rate of $300 an hour. He compro- ' mised by paying Capt. Dave $15 in cash, and Capt. Dave said afterward that it was satisfactory. Others said it was about $14 too satisfactory. Sir Percy Sanderson said that the Psyche had come to New York on a special mission and not on a formal visit. He had notified Admiral Barker at the navy yard in Brooklyn that she would be here only a few hours. Sir Percy said that he supposed that she had observed the proper naval conventionalities. "She came up in a dense fog," said he. "Capt. Pelly afterward told me that he had the utmost dithculty reaching his anchorage, and that if it had not been that the ferryboats and other crait in the river took care of him he might have got into trouble. The con- sulate conferred with Dr. Jenkins, one of the health commissioners, who called up Dr. Doty and obtained permission for the Psyche to pass quarantine--New York Sun,' OREGON TO GO TO PUGET SOUND. i The battleship Oregon, which was injured by striking Pinnacle Rock of the north coast of China and temporarily repaired at Kure, Japan, is to be brought home for extensive repairs as soon as the battleship Ken- tucky reaches the Asiatic station. The assignment of the Kentucky to the Far East was due to»knowledge that the Oregon's injuries would neces- sitate bringing her back' very soon.' The Kentucky will reach the Asiatic station in about-two months,-if-not- greatly delayed in New York on ac- count of difficulties with her superposed turrets, and the Oregon will then start by the Pacific ocean route for the;Bremerton naval'station on Puget sound, where her injuries will be repaired. Reports to the navy department show that the Oregon was patched up in a crude way in the Kure dry dock. Owing to the limited time given by the Japanese govern- ment for repairs to be made it was necessary to get the Oregon into con- - dition with the limited material at hand. Some of the holes in the ship were patched with wood, and then covered with cement. No attempt was made to repair anything except the outer bottom. Much injury was done to the interior of the vessel, stanchions being twisted and bulkheads strained. The work of putting the Oregon in first-class condition will take some time. It is the intention of the navy department to make the Puget sound establishment an important repairing station. The depart- ment is very much dissatisfied with the character of the repair work on United States vessels at private dock yards in the Far East, and Rear [ October 25, C-: Admiral Melville, engineer-in-chief, has asked for an appropriation of $1,000,000 to construct a machinery repairing ship to be sent over there. Most of the construction work will be done hereafter, however, at Puget sound. In preparation for making the repairs on the Oregon the navy department has ordered naval constructor Frank W. Hibbs from the Mare Island navy yard to the Puget sound naval station, where he will be in charge of the construction department. He will be succeeded at Mare Island by Naval Constructor Frank B. Zahm, principal assistant to Chief Naval Constructor Hichborn in Washington. TRADE NOTES. The Magnolia Metal Co., No. 266-267 West street, New York, have sent out to their customers as an advertisement a 15-inch ruler, one of the most convenient things to have in an office. Official notice has been issued of the annual meeting of stockholders of the Roberts Safety Water Tube Boiler Co., to be held at Red Bank, N. J., Nov. 1. A 10 per cent. annual dividend (the tenth) will be de- clared. s "In spite of the disturbing influence due to election times," says one of the officers of the Buffalo Forge Co., 'our books still give evidence of increasing activity along the several lines in which we are engaged. Owing to press of work in our engine department, for instance, we have been compelled to run night and day on that branch of our work to keep up with orders." No more carefully printed catalogue has come to our notice than that of the Hilles & Jones Co., Wilmington, Del., on the making of machine tools for working plates, bars and structural shapes. There are exquisite half tones of punching and shearing machines, coping and notching ma- chines, bending and straightening machines and machinery especially designed for working structural shapes. © vLhe Joseph Dixon Crucible Co.; Jersey City, N. J. has just issued°a little' folder: on the subject of their silica-graphite paint, which gives an illustration: of the Park street bridge, Big Four railroad, Cincinnati. The girders of this structure were painted with Dixon silica-graphite paint five years ago and have since successfully resisted the action of engine funes. An average of 500 engines pass under this bridge daily. That the advantages of mechanical draft are recognized by experts, and that it is rapidly assuming its place as a rival and successor of chim- ney draft is clearly evidenced by the fact that several of the technical - schools: have. recently placed orders. with the B. F. Sturtevant Co., of Boston, Mass., for the equipment.of their boiler plants with this means of draft production. In several cases the fans have been so installed as to foe opportunity for experimentally comparing the chimney' with the tan. . "Springs" is the-subject of catalogue No. 4, issued by the American Steel & Wire Co. The company makes springs from the ground up-- mining the ore, making the pig iron, making the steel, rolling the rod, drawing the wire, tempering the springs and japanning, coppering, tin- ning and nickel plating them. There are springs and springs made by this company: agricultural implement. springs, buffer springs, bicycle springs, bed springs, car springs, car truck springs, cart and wagon springs, clock and watch springs, door springs, electrical machin- ery..springs, furniture springs, gun springs, gun carriage springs, gov- ernor springs, hay tedder forks, hay loader teeth, helical springs, hinge "springs, lock springs, loom 'springs, machinery springs, motor springs, ofgan springs, pillow springs, pop valve springs, rocker springs, seat "springs, trolley springs, upholstery springs, valve springs, wringér springs, wagon springs and washing machine springs. Springs are an important factor in the correct operation of nearly all forms of machinery and many utilities. Exactness; certainty and uniformity of action, reli- ability and correct material are absolute requisites. The American Steel -& Wire Co. is equipped to meet all the requirements of'a perfect spring. The Sprague Electric Co., Nos. 527-531 West Thirty-Fourth street, New York, have just issued bulletin No. 203 on their electric: trolley hoist and traveling hoist. The electric trolley hoist is operated with two Lundell enclosed motors of 1 H. P. each. One motor is connected by gearing to the Harrington hoisting mechanism below, while the other connects in a similar way to the traversing wheels above. Both the hoisting and traveling gear are provided with electro-mechanical brakes, which are automatically released when the motors are put in operation, and applied 'when 'power is cut off. The control of the motors is obtained through the pendant chains or cords, there being one cord for each direction of motion on the two respective motors. The controls are entirely enclosed and are arranged so that they may be provided with automatic limit cut offs which shut off the power when the limits of motion have been reached. The machine may have a hoisting capacity of 500 to 800 Ibs., as desired, the speed of hoisting the smaller load being 1 ft. per second, with a corresponding reduction for the heavier load. The traversing speed is six miles an hour. Power is taken to the hoist through trolley wires in the ordinary fashion of traveling cranes. The weight of the complete apparatus is 750 lbs. For ship yards, docks, watehouses and similar. lo- cations requiring handling over considerable distances this 'hoistis particu- larly adapted. The electric traveling hoist 'consists of a small truck mounted on flanged wheels, which carries the hoisting mechanism motor and controller. The hoist, is a standard Harrington hoist which is geared to a Lundell standard 1H. P. enclosed motor. Sprague special design and will operate at, sevéral different speeds, froma' barely perceptible motion to the maximum speed. It is operated by the pendant cords and handles and will lift a load of 4,000 Ibs. ata maximum speed of 6 ft. per minute. The apparatus mak i 1 Be pianine coos pp es an ideal one for packing The annual convention of the Associati i ; ion. ¢ ation of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers was held in Pittsburg this week. The convention suggest- ed the formulation of a scale of wages to be paid to structural iron work- ers all over the country, and to do away with tl 1 cad at the Greene fe y the many different scales Contracts for furnishing 159 mushroom anchors ighi : : : : 2 , each weighing about 3,000 Ibs., at Willett's Point, N. Y., have been awarded to ae Chatta: nooga Car & Foundry Co., Chattanooga, Tenn., at 82% cents per 100 Ibs. The' controller ~is. of- i ; ? 4