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a Bac Ao! ee ae ai 1903.] MARINE REVIEW AND MARINE RECORD. 33 TRADE NOTES, Mr. Guy W. Buxton, who has been for some time connected with the New York office of the H. W. Johns-Manville Co., has been recently appointed auditor of that company, the branches of which are located in Milwaukee, Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburg, Cleveland, New Orleans, Philadelphia and Boston. "Smokeless Combustion" is the title of a very neat, well- illustrated pamphlet, dealing with the Duluth stoker and just put out by Mr. W. O. Root, manager of the Duluth Stoker Co., Duluth, Minn. This is the stoker that has been in use for a long time past on several of the largest steam freighters of the great lakes and which is now being installed on ten new steamers in lake yards. Of course the stoker is built also for stationary steam plants. The pamphlet contains a number of testimonials and the tenor of all of them is reduced cost of fuel. The Chase Machine Co. of Cleveland, engineers and machin- ists, has just issued a catalogue devoted to its deck machinery for handling vessels, hoisting engines, decking and hauling en- gines, steam capstans, deck hoisters, automatic steam towing machines and marine and stationary gas and gasoline engines. The catalogue is well illustrated throughout with photographs and may be had for the asking. The output of this company has increased over 450 per cent. in the last four years. 'This is certainly evidence of the quality of the company's work. Big Ben, the celebrated clock of London, which regulates the time of a large portion of the British Empire, is having the dials on each of its four sides illuminated with 60-candle-power Nernst lamps. The clock was- formerly lighted by. gas jets, twenty-four being used to each dial, and on each night of the 365 days of the year a man had to climb up and light each of these ninety-six jets. Two men are still required to wind the clock, spending three afternoons of each week for the purpose. Big Ben is considered reliability itself, and the average Londoner would as soon think of the world ceasing to revolve on its axis as to imagine the hands of this clock failing to move around its dials unceasingly night and day, except for a short time once in fifteen years when the clock has a short rest in order that it may receive a thorough cleaning. "Can a Small Tool Room Compete With a Big Factory?" ic a question which is asked in a leaflet by the Pratt & Whitney Co. of Hartford, Conn. The leaflet contains a well-executed wash drawing of the new small tool department of the Pratt & Whitney Co. Concerning it the company says: "lhe plant is equipped throughout in the most perfect manner and we: wish to call attention to the fact that the individual tool room cannot compete with such facilities. You do not make your own drill presses and for the same reason should not make your own taps, dies, milling cutters and reamers. Can a tool room, with from three to twenty men, using standard tools, hope to compete with a plant equipped with the latest automatic devices, turning out daily the yearly product of the largest tool room. It is a day against a year--the old story of the stage coach against the rail- road, A figure giving us a reasonable profit will be a loss to you. Iron workers at the Bertram Engine Works Co.'s ship yard, Toronto, took occasion last week, in a suitable address, to ex- press their regret that Mr. A. Angstrom, late managing director of the Bertram company, had severed his connections with that company, which he did in order to accept the position of general manager of the recently organized Canadian Ship Building Co., which qompany, it is understood, will operate on a large scale at some point on the lakes above. the Welland canal. The iron workers also presented Mr. Angstrom with a gold headed cane, suitably inscribed, as a slight memento of pleasant relations while the Bertram yards were under his management. Some of those represented in this presentation had served under Mr. Angstrom's management for nearly ten years. 'They heartily joined in expressing their respect and esteem for their late man- ager and were sanguine in their wishes for his continued success in the ship building industry. Mr. Angstrom thanked the men in an apt and suitable manner, expressing earnestly his appre- ciation of their gift. Some fifty-seven or fifty-eight steamers laid up in Milwau- kee are getting fit-out from) the Sheriffs Mfg. Co. At thd works of the Sheriffs company extensive engine repairs and im- provements are being made on the steamers Siberia, Massachu- setts and Christie. In December last ten propeller wheels were shipped from these works and in January twelve, the list including six to New Orleans, five to Chicago, one to Chatta- nooga, one to Louisville, four to Manitowoc and one each to Ludington, Mich., Grand Rapids, Mich., Jeanereth, La., Burrick, La., and Norfolk, Va. A Sheriffs steam steerer among the shipments was for a tug at New Orleans. The annual statement of the Niles-Bement-Pond Co. and constituent companies (machine tool combination) for the year ended Dec. 31, 1902, shows net earnings of $1,627,965, as against $1,468,570 for the preceding year. PITTSBURGH WHITE METAL CO. MANUFACTURERS OF THE BEST BABBITT and ANTI-FRICTION Metals Known for any Purpose. Made from the Best Materials, Price and Quality Guaranteed and Always Consistent with the Market. PITTSBURGH, - PA. ate a 0OLS For ALL PURPOSE SIMPLEST AND BEST AYAILWAY APPLIANCES COMPANY ee VAD YSCED WITH THE Q-C COMPAR RS GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK OLD COLONY BUILDING OFFICES CHICAGO. 4 LIBERTY ST. Steamer for Sale. Steamer Fanchon for sale. 47 ft. over all, 12 ft. beam, 4 ft 5 in, draughes full cabin; hull thoroughly rebuilt last fall. Engine 8x8. Boiler 6 ft. long and 54 in. diameter with new flues put in last fall; allowed 125 lbs. of steam pressure. Speed Ir miles an hour. Reason for selling, no use for the boat. H. A. Blume, Duluth, Minn. Apr. 0. U. S. Marshal's Sale. Office of the U. S. Marshal, Boston, Mass., Mar. 9, 1908. Pursuant to a warrant for the sale of the steam tug Carbonero, her engines, boilers, apparel and furni- ture, issued this day by the honorable district court of the United States for this district, I shall sell at public auction, to the highest bidder, on Saturday, Mar. 21, 1903, at 12 o'clock, noon, the said steam tug and appurtenances. The sale will take place at the Atlantic Works, East Boston, where said steam tug can be seen and examined any day prior to the sale. Sale positive. Terms cash; $500 deposit at time and place cf sale. ~-CHARLES K. DARLING,. U.S. Marshal. Mar. 19. Towing Outfit for Sale. For Sale--Complete towing outfit, includ- ing tug, scow, sand pump, etc. All in good . order; reasonable price. . Address Butler Bros , St. Paul, Minn. Apr. 2. Salesman Wanted. An article for every boat. Not new. Saves money while improving service. Large profits. Address Box 40, Marine Review Pub. Co., 39-41 Wade Bldg., Cleveland O. tf U. SS. Engineer Office, Grand Rapids, Mich., March 2, 1903. Sealed proposals for repair of south pier at Portage Lake, Mich., and extension and repair of piers at Frankfort, Mich., will be re- ceived here until 3 p. m., April 1, 1903, and then publicly opened. Information furnished on appli- cation. CHARLES KELLER, Capt., Engrs. Mar. 26. U. S. Engineer Office, Galveston, Tex., Feb. 23, 1903. Sealed bids, in triplicate, for improving Aransas Pass, Tex., by removing part of old jetty, will be received until 2 p. m., March 25, 1903, and then publicly opened. For information apply to C. S. RICHE, Capt., Engrs. Mar. 19. Treasury Department, U. S. Life-Saving Service, Washington, D. C.; Mar. 12, 1908 Sealed proposals will be received at this office until 2 0'clock p. m. of Friday, Mar, 27, 1903,and then publicly opened, for the construction of a life-saving station and wharf at Racine, Wisconsin. Specifications and drawings, forms of proposal, etc., can be obtained upon app ica- tion to the Su erintendents of Construction of Life- Saving Stations, 17 State Street. New York City; to the Assistant Inspector, 12th Life-Saving District, Room 548, Rand-McNally Building, Chicago. [linoi-; or to this office. S, I. KIMBALL, General Superin- tendent. Mar 19. U.S. Engineer Office, Grand Rapids, Mich.. Mar. 12, 1908. Sealed proposals for extension of west breakwater at Petoskey, Mich., will be received here until 8p m., April 11,1908, and then publicly opened. Information furnished on application. CHARLES KELLER, Capt. Engrs. Apr. 2. U.S. Engineer Offiee, Duluth, Minn., Mar. 12, 1903. Sealed proposals for furnishing 6,000 barrels Portland cement for concrete superstructure to breakwater at Marquette, Mich.. will be received here until noon Apr, 11. 1903, and then publicly opened. Information on application. D. D. GAILLARD, Capt, Bags, pr. 9.