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MARINE REVIEW. [December 20, ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC COASTS. PROGRESS OF CONSTRUCTION NOTED IN THE VARIOUS SHIP YARDS--SOME LAUNCHES AND SOME NEW CONTRACTS. The National Dredging Co. of Wilmington, Del., has contracted with the Neafie & Levy Ship & Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, for a new wooden hull tug boat, which will be practically a duplicate of the Gerry, new last spring. It is likely that the hull will be built by the Jackson & Sharp Co. at Wilmington, the Neafie & Levy Co. installing the machinery. The vessel will be 110 ft. Jong between perpendiculars, 24 ft. beam and 10% ft. deep. She will have a compound surface condensing high pressure engine with cylinders of 18 and 36 in. by 26 in. stroke, and a Scotch boiler 12 ft. in length and 13 ft. 6 in. in diameter, with a working pressure of 125 lbs. to the square inch. She will be fitted with steam steer- ing gear and all modern appliances, including an electric lighting plant. The vessel will be completed about April and will go at once to Mobile, Ala., to engage in towing barges now used in dredging the harbor at that place. George E. Hitchings, proprietor of the Hoquiam, Wash., ship yard, is carrying on quite an extensive business in the building of wooden vessels. He will put down two keels of wooden vessels during the first of the year. He is now building a four-masted schooner for the lumber trade. This vessel is 18514 ft. long, 38% ft. beam, 14% ft. depth of hold and will carry 1,000,000 ft. of fir lumber. The vessel will be named Mahukona. She will be completed about Feb. 1. Mr. Hitchings com- pleted two other vessels from the same moulds this year. A new freight steamer, the Sagamore, for the Dyer Transportation Co., was launched from the ship yard of the Read Marine Railway Co., Fall River, Mass., recently. She will be operated as a freight boat between Fall River and Providence. The Sagamore is 110 ft. in length, 25 ft. 10 in. beam, 8 ft. depth of hold, and is designed to carry 300 tons. She will have a fore and aft compound engine with 12 and 26 in. cylinders by 12 in. stroke, to which steam will be supplied by two upright boilers. Washburn Bros., Thomaston, Me., launched the schooner Joseph P. Thomas, a wooden vessel of 1,564 gross tons, a few days ago. Dimen- sions of the vessel are: Length, 220 ft.; breadth, 42 ft. 8 in.; depth, 23 ft. 4 in. The frame is of Maine material, planking and ceiling of Georgia pine, and the four masts, each 106 ft., of Oregon pine. The equipment of machinery for handling sails, steering purposes, etc., is modern in all respects, including stockless anchors. The Bell-Nelson Mill Co. of Everett, Wash., has just secured an order from San Francisco for the construction of a wooden barkentine of 204 ft. length. The Bell-Nelson company has a passenger steamer well under way, and at the ship yard owned by C. G. White in the same town a four- masted wooden schooner is in frame. Mr. White is improving additional water front for ship building and will soon put down the keel for another schooner. Sea-going barge No. 5 of the Rockland-Rockport Lime & Cement Co.'s fleet, constructed at the works of the Pusey & Jones Co., Wilming- ton, Del., for the Harlan & Hollingsworth Co., is ready to leave the wharves of the builders. The gun barge constructed by the Pusey & Jones Co. for use at Indian Head, is completed and the builders are now awaiting the orders of the proper authorities for its shipment. Neither the William R. Trigg Co. of Richmond, Va., nor the Mary- land Steel Co., Sparrow's Point, Md., made any effort to obtain contracts for the heavily armored warships for which bids were recently opened. It is understood, however, that they will enter the competition for the protected cruisers without opposition on the part of some of the lead- ing ship yards. A new four-masted schooner, the Forester, built by Hay & Wright, at Alameda, Cal., for Martin Saunders and others, is a sister ship to the Commerce. She is 184 ft. long, 38 it. 6 in. beam and 18 ft. 6 in. deep. She will carry 900,000 ft. of lumber. From San Francisco the Forester will go to Puget sound in ballast and there load lumber for. Australia. During the past week the Fore River Engine Co., Weymouth, Mass., moved its big four-story office building down the river to Quincy Point, where its new plant will be located. The building was floated on lighters and attracted great attention as it moved down the stream. The company, when reorganized, will be known as the Eastern Construction Co. The Walter Corey Co., Portland, Me., has been given the contract for the furniture and fittings of the new steamship which is being built at the Roach Ship Yard, Chester, Pa., for the Maine Steamship Co. This vessel will be 7 ft. longer than the Horatio Hall, but in construction will be similar to that beautiful craft. If you contemplate a trip either west or east you can secure advan- tages not found elsewhere if you will write, wire, 'phone or call at the city office of the Nickel Plate road, 189 Superior street, *phone main 218, or ticket agents Euclid avenue station, phone Doan 817. Rates and tickets, first or second-class, to any point authorized east or west at any station on the Nickel Plate road. 245, Dec. 31 Paris Exposition, 1900, confers Highest Award and 2 Gold Medals HAMMERS for Chipping ** Calking "© Riveting '¢ Beading ** Stone Cutting, etc. RIVETERS for Shipyard use ** Boiler work '* Bridge work PNEUMATIC HOISTS oo CRANES for Railroads ee Mi Cc d s¢ Gun ice JACKS eon) *¢ Foundries PAINTING MACHINES MOTORS for every use CASTING CLEANERS, etc. Pneumatic Appliances Sent on Trial Subject to Approval. *¢ Machine Shops *¢ Wood boring . Welders Expanders Reducers Rollers Cutters FLUE "CHICAGO PNEUMATIC -- T () O L C O ' as Teen Only Gold Medals in this Class.) By actual statistics 95% of all Pneumatic Tools sold all over the world are our tools. UNITED STATES COMMISSION TO; FHE PARIS EXPOSITION OF 1900 NEW YORK EQUITAB.E BUILDING August 21, 1900. Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company, Chicago. Gentlomen: Officially I desire to inform you that your pneumatic tools received at the hands of the International Jury of Award, a Gold medal. Also that Mr. Boyer was awarded a Gold Medal as collaborator and inventor of the tools. Yours very trul y Vo Director of Machinery & Blectr*-ity. ay, York Gite CHICAGO PNEUMATIC TOOL CO. Monadnock Block, Chicago, BRANCH OFFICHS: 418 Exchange Building, Boston, Mass. 1016 Carnegie Building, Pittsburg, Pa. 241 The Arcade, Cleveland, Ohio. 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