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1900.] MARINE REVIEW. 25 PHILADELPHIA COMPANY'S PNEUMATIC TOOLS. It is announced from Philadelphia thai owing to its inability to fill orders promptly, the Philadelphia Pneumatic Tool Co., Stephen Girard building, is making arrangements to further increase its capacity. -- The company reports a large increase in business for November over previous months. Their pnetimatic hammers are in special favor, as evidenced by duplicate orders received from some of the largest manufacturing concerns in the country. Recent improvements in. their long-stroke riveting hammer have given very satistactory results and they report a large number of orders booked ahead. In one day in November they shipped eleven of these long-stroke hammers besides the shipment of other orders. The use of compressed air for foundry work has been largely increased by the adoption of sand rammers, and this company recently put upon the market a rammer that is not only a labor saving device, but is doing better and more uniform work than by old methods. A large number of these tools have been sold and are proving very successful. Mr. Robert T. Mickle, M. E., formerly with the Kensington Engine Works, Ltd., Philadelphia, has been elected vice-president of this company, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. George W. Borton. Separate circulars, neatly printed and well illustrated, are gotten out for this company's hammers, reamers, rotary drills, rammers, etc., and will be forwarded upon application. LARGE FORGINGS. Among orders now en hand at the works of the Bethlehem Steel Co., South Bethlehem, Pa., may be noted the shafts and engine forgings for one of the new ferry boats which are under construction at the yards of Harlan & Hollingsworth Co., Wilmington, Del., for the New York ferry of the Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey. The Bethlehem company has closed a contract with the General Electric Co. for six more weldless field rings of Bethlehem nickel steel for the extension to the big power plant at Niagara Falls. These rings measure 14214 in. outside diameter and 13034 in. inside, leaving the walls 5% in. thick. The width of face is 50% in. and the estimated weight of each ring is about 35,000 lbs. They will be worked up on a mandrel, under the hydraulic press, and are said to be among the largest forgings of this sort which have yet been produced. REPORT FROM A LARGE MANUFACTURING CONCERN. In order to provide facilities for conducting its rapidly increasing local business, the B. F. Sturtevant Co. has just removed its Chicago office to much larger quarters at 281-289 South Clinton St. It is reported from the Boston headquarters of the company that business of the past year has been the largest in its history. In the line of standard types of blowers, exhausters and hot blast heating apparatus, its products have kept pace with the recent industrial movement. But in the installation of fans for the production of mechanical draft for steam boilers the desirability of this method in preference to the chimney has been shown by a great increase. The volume of domestic and foreign orders for forges has been noticeable, while the output of the rapidly-growing electrical department has been far in excess of the previous year. This electrical output has been prin- cipally in the specialties of the company, namely, electric fans of all types and small high-grade generating sets. New applications of fans are con- ' stantly presenting themselves, and the careful study which this company gives to the solution of such problems is one of the main factors in its growth. All departments have been taxed to the utmost and the outlook is favorable for the continuation of this condition. NANTUCKET LIGHTSHIP WAS ADRIFT. Little lightship No. 58, stationed off Nantucket shoals, built by the Craigs of Toledo, was swept from her moorings last week and was adrift for seven days. There was little coal and food aboard and the captain and crew of five men suffered considerably from coid and lack of nourishment. The boiler of the vessel gave out during the buffeting and the crew tried to navigate her with a sail. The vessel was in distress when she was picked up by the British tanker Lucille and towed to the Delaware break- water. Nantucket shoal is the most dangerous place along the Massa- chusetts coast. The liners, noting the absence of the ship, were compelled to make the turn by soundings. It is to be noted that the crew of the lightship were more worried over the fact that the shoal was left unpro- tected than they were over their own personal safety. VALUE OF STOCKS--LEADING IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRIALS. Quotations furnished by HERBERT WRIGHT & Co., Cleveland, date of December 19, 1900. NAME OF STOOK. OPEN HIGH LOW CLOSE American Steel & Wite...:...... .... 4434 443% 1334 43% American Steel & Wire, Pfd.......... 88 883% ° 87% 88% Fedéral Steel 2.220400, coe. 5456 5434 533% 53% Federal Steel, Pid-. 3. 79 79 78% 784 National Steels :2.:5.5.50:. 42 42 3934 404 National Steel; Fid::.:....:........ Moses 93 934% 93 93% American Vin Platé 10010... 54% 5594 51% 544% American Tin Plate, Pidii.icis,..cc.- 91 91 90 90 American Steel Hoop. ....--5..5..15...- 323% 82% * 30% 31% American Steel Hoop, Pfd............ 17% 17% 76 Uh Republic Iron & Steel 3 54.5<..0.:-.. 163 17 16 16% Republic Iron & Steel, Pfd........... 64% 64% 64 644 sv American Bridge Co. General Offices, 100 Broadway, NEW YORK, N. Y. We have deeided to carry at all our plants a large stock of Raw Material, from which we ean furnish with great promptness any ordinary order for Steel Bridges, Roofs, Buildings, Columns, Girders, Beams, Channels, Angles, Plates, ete., ete. DESIGNERS ann BUILDERS OF ALL CLASSES OF =S=S=METALLIC STRUCTURES. ALBANY, N. Y. DULUTH, MINN. PHILADELPHIA, PA, ATHENS, PA. EAST BERLIN, CONN. BA, BRANCH OFFICES BALTIMORE, MD. ELMIRA, N. Y. ROCHESTER, N Y. BOSTON, MASS. GROTON, N.Y. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. and WORKS: HORSEHEADS, N. Y. LAFAYETTE, IND. LONDON, ENG. MILWAUKEE, WIS. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. NEW ORLEANS, LA. PENCOYD, PA. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. SEATTLE, WASH. SIDNEY, N.S. W. TRENTON, N. J. WILMINGTON, DEL. YOUNGSTOWN, O. BUFFALO, N. Y. BUTTE, MONT. CANTON, OHIO. CHICAGO, ILL. CLEVELAND, O. COLUMBUS, OHIO. DENVER, COLO.