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1903. ] MARINE REVIEW AND MARINE RECORD. 5 Hay & Wright, San Francisco, Cal.: Hydraulic and clamshell dredge, 150 ft. long; also have con- tracts for several dump scows for the state of California. Green Bros., Bridgeport, Conn.: Oyster steamer Arthur J. for W. H. Cornwell, Baldwin's, Long Island; 43 ft. long; cost $3,500; Globe gas engine; 10 ate. Oyster steamer Sir Thomas for C. E. Bourner & Sons, cote ie R. I.; 41 ft. long; cost $4,000; Globe gas engine; 16 HY: Oyster steamer Martha J. Sutter for J. A. Sutter, Brooklyn, N. Y.; 50 ft. long; cost $5,000; fore-an-aft compound engine and upright boiler. Yacht for John R. Sewell, 322 Broadway, N. Y.; length, 66 ft.; cost $7,000; Globe gas engine; 35 H. P. Oyster steamer for W. I. Stevens, Rowayton, Conn.; 66 ft. long; fore-and-aft compound engine and upright boiler. Oyster steamer for F. I. Hitchcock, Bridgeport, Conn.; 48 ft. long; cost $4,100; gas engine. This firm has also several large repair jobs on hand and is figuring on a number of new contracts. Joseph Supple, Portland, Ore.: Wocden tug Major Guy Howard for quartermaster's depart- ment of the Columbia river; 90 ft. long; cost $23,000; fore and- aft compound engine.and one Taylor water-tube boiler. Wooden stern-wheel steamer for Lewiston Sound Naviga- tion Co.; 125 ft. long; cost $20,000; single engine; two Scotch marine boilers. Mr. Supple has compieted his marine railway and added considerably to his plant. Thames Towboat Co., New London, Conn.: Towboat Paul Jones for the Thames Towboat Co., New London, Conn.; 187 ft. long; triple-expansion engine; two Scotch boilers; machinery building by Neafie & Levy, Phila- delphia; 1,500 H. P. Barge John Fors'th for the Thames Towboat Co., New Lon- don, Conn.; 297 ft. long; 46 ft. beam and 20 ft. deep. W. Irving Adams, East Boothbay, [le.: Wooden schooner Etta M. Burner for F. S. Willard noe others; 67 ft. long; cost $6,000; gasoline engine. Schooner for Ralph E. Dodge, Block Island, R. I.; 64 ft. long; cost $4,200. Four-masted schooner for Capt. Andrew Adams and others of Portland, Me.; 210 ft. long; cost $55,000. Washburn Bros., Thomaston, Me., write: Building a five-masted wooden schooner of the following di- mensions: Keel, 265 ft.; beam, 48 ft.; depth, 27 ft.; gross ton- nage 2,300; cost $128,000. Having frames cut for two four- masted schooners of 200 ft. keel; ao ft. beam and 1g ft. depth. These latter to be built next season. All to be managed by the builders. Samuel Ayers & Son, Upper Nyack, N. Y., write: "We have in course of construction nineteen yachts of the so-called 15-ft. one-design class for the Seawanhaka Corinthean Club, Oyster Bay, L. I., and also orders for a 38-ft., twin-screw. gasoline launch with torpedo stern for Mr. Charles Vermoral of Lodi; N. J." F. S. Bowker & Son, Phippsburg, Me., write: - We have three three-masted schooners to build in 1903. One ig: for Capt. J..D. Eastman, 300. tons... She is for Pensacola parties. Another is for Capt. George Genkins of Jonesport, Me., 470 tons; and the third is for Capt. H. F. Sproul of Mobile, Ala., 390 tons. The Pusey & Jones Co., Wilmington, Del.: Two standard steel screw steamers for harbor service, quar- ter master's department, United States army; 110 ft. long; ver- tical, inverted, direct-acting, compound surface-condensing en- gine; Scotch boiler; 400 H. P.; approximate cost $56,000 each. Jacobson & Peterson, Foot 24th st., Brooklyn, N. Y.. Tug boat for Valvoline Oil Co.; go ft.-long; cost $15,000; naphtha engine. Two scows for Phenix Towing & Transportation Co.; 105 ft. long; cost $6,000 each. Eastern Ship Building Co.. New London, Conn.: Two steel cargo and passenger steamers for the Great Northern Steamship Co.; length, 630 ft.; cost $2,500,000; triple- expansion engines; sixteen Niclausse boilers; 10,000 I. H. P. P. L. Colon, Steam Marine Railway, Jersey City, N. Y.: Steam lighter for the Staten Island Sand Transportation Co.; length, 95 ft.; cost.$17,000; 230 H. P. Barge for New York- parties, 102 ft. long. Perth Amboy Dry Dock Co., Perth Amboy,N. J.: Two car floats with three tracks for the Bush company; 250 ft. in length; cost $25,000. MARINE RURAL FREE DELIVERY. The only marine rural free delivery service in the world is operated on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire. It is con- ducted under the supervision of Postmaster Charles E. Buzzell and is intended to supply the summer residents with mail facil- ities. The Dolphin, the mail delivery boat, was designed and built at Lakeport, N. H., by George H. Saltmarsh at an expense of $3,200. She is 43 ft. long over all, 38 ft. on the water line, 9 ft. 6 in. beam and draws 3 ft. 4 in. running. She is cabined over with glass windows aft of the engine recom and is licensed to carry fifty persons. The machinery was supplied by E. L. Fitzhenry & Co. and James H. Paine & Son of Boston, Mass., and consists of a Fitzhenry fore-and-aft compound engine with cylinders 5 and 10 in. in diameter and 6 in. stroke, and an up- right tubular boiler 4o in. drain by 4 ft. 9 in. high, containing 225 Only Marine Rural Free Delivery Boat in the World. 1%-in. tubes of 20 in. length, carrying a working pressure of 250 Ibs. The first delivery was made on June 2, 1902, with George - H. Saltmarsh as carrier and Archie L. Lewis as sub-carrier. During July and August two trips per day were run and in the other months one trip per day. From June to November she ran 6,247 miles and delivered and collected 50,000 pieces of mail. Moreover she carried several thousand passengers and did a very large express and passenger parcels business and was altogether very successful. ; ROBERT PALMER & SON, NOANK, CONN. There is in process of construction at the yard of Robert Palmer & Son, Noank, Conn., five steamers, seven car floats and two lighter barges. If placed end to end these vessels would measure over half a mile in length, or to be exact 2,710 ft. The largest jobs on hand are the car floats. Three of them for the Central Railroad of New Jersev are each 265 ft. long, two for the Stavin Transportation Co. are 250 ft. long, two for the New York Central, one being 320 ft. long and the other 250 ft. long. Two lighter barges to be known as Madison and Monroe, are being built for the Manhattan Lighterace & Transportation Co. _ There is also being built for this same company a steam lighter of the following dimensions: Length, 128 ft.; beam, 34 ft.; depth, 11%4 ft. The engine will be 21 by 26 in. and the boiler 814 ft. in diameter by 6 ft. long. A steam houseboat, to be known as Rosalie, is being built for FE. M. Hooker of Hartford. Conn. She will be 130 ft. long, 30 ft. beam and 6% ft. deep. She will be equipped with triple-expansion engines 9, 15 and 23% in. diameter of cylinders with stroke of 12 in. Steam will be supplied by an Almy water-tube boiler. A fishing steamer to be known as Leander Wilcox, is being built for the Mystic Fertilizer Co. of Mystic, Conn. She will be 137 ft. long, 22 ft. beam and 9 ft. deep. Her engine will be 15 and 30 bv 22 in. and her boiler 814 ft. in diameter by 14 ft. long. A tug, to be christened David B. Dearborn, is being built for J. H. Van Wie of New York. She will be equipped with a Sullivan engine, 20 by 26, and a boiler 814 ft. in diameter by 16 ft. long. The tug Robert Palmer is be- ing built for the White Star Towboat Co. of New York. She will have a Sullivan engine, 18 by 24, and a boiler 8 ft. in diam- eter by 14 ft. long. Both of these tugs will be modern in every respect. Y Alinco hee Robert Palmer & Son completed and delivered twenty-one vessels in 1902. Thomas C. Munn of Wilmington, Del., writes that he is building fifty galvanized steel life boats, 22 ft. each in length, for the great lakes; seven copper-fastened cedar boats, 20 ft. in length, for the government; two galvanized steel life boats, 18 ft. in length each, for the Pusey & Jones Co., Wilmington, Del.; two galvanized steel life boats, 16 ft. in length, for the W. & A. Fletcher Co., and two galvanized steel life rafts, 14 ft. in length each, for the W. & A. Fletcher Co.