The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

1904] being disturbed. A portion of this section, measuring 11 ft. 6 in. fore and aft, is cut off with an inside bulkhead to give quarters for the officers. The boiler is one of the Seabury water-tube pattern, and the engines are compound, measuring 6 and 12 in and having piston stroke of 9 in., capable of givine her a speed of to miles per hour. 'The fifth section composes the oval coun- ter, which may or may not be used. As this section comes above the waterline its omission gives the vessel a square stern effect. When putting the vessel in commission the boiler section will MARINE REVIEW ee ge ANNUAL MEETINGS OF MASTERS AND ENGINEERS. During the present week the Marine Engineers' Beneficial association and the American Association of Masters & Pilots have been in session in Washington. Officers of the Masters and Pilots' association say that a most satisfactory condition exists and that whatever trouble may have been between masters and owners on the great lakes has now totally disappeared. President Silva said that affairs were more encouraging than + SHOWING THE PONTONIER IN THE WATER BEFORE THE SECTIONS ARE JOINED TOGETHER. [ Butlt by the Gas Engine G& Power Co. and Charles L. Seabury & Co., Consolidated, Morris Heights, N. Y. first be Hoated, having the greatest weight, establishing the water- line, and the others may follow in order, working either fore or aft. They are fitted with sea valves and sea water is admitted into their bottom until they reach the common water line. Two sections coming together have their ends fitted with four cones of about 14 in. diameter, one set pointing inward, the opposite pointing outward. On the deck of each section is fitted a small windlass with a steel cable which works on a differential system. The cable connects the cones of one section to the other, and the windlass being operated brings the four cones together, one from each section engaging that of the one adjoining. When all have been secured, the water ballast is removed by steam syphon eon- nection, and they are reinforced by connecting bolts, one section to the other. The boat is then ready for use as soon as the steam comnection between the engine and boiler sections can be coupled and the piping for the water feed to boiler connected to the pumps. When required to be taken apart for reloading on trans- port the operation is simple, involving only the breaking of the steam pipe connection, removal of bulkhead stay bolts and relax- ing of the cables holding the cones to disengage them. The contract provides that a demonstration shall be made prior to acceptance to prove the practicability of the scheme, and after this has been given official attention the vessel will be sent to Washington where she will be used temporarily for 'drilling until assigned to one of the transports. On the opening of lake navigation in 1904, a fixed red light of the fourth order, -- illuminating the entire. horizon, will be established in the white, conical, brick. tower, surmounted by a black lantern, recently erected at Crisps point, on the southerly shore of the southeasterly end of Lake Superior, about 141% miles to the westward of Whitefish point. The focal plane of the light will be 62 ft. above lake level, and 52 ft. above the base of the structure, and the light will be visible 1514 miles in clear weather, the eye of the observer 15 a above the lake. On the same date there will be established at the station a 10-in. steam whistle, to sound, during thick or foggy weather, blasts of 4 seconds' and 3 seconds' duration, separated by silent intervals of 10 seconds and 30 seconds, thus: Blast 4 seconds, silent interval, 10 seconds; blast 3 seconds, silent inter- val, to seconds; blast 3 seconds; silent interval, 30 seconds. they ever had been in the eighteen years' history of the associa- tion. From the great lakes particularly and also in almost equal measure from the other departments had-come reports of entire accordance between owner and master, which, he said, had re- sulted in the large development of industry for which the asso- ciation stands. The marine engineers elected the following officers: Presi- MR. EVAN |. JENKINS. dent, Frank A. Jones, San Francisco; first vice-president, Will- iam Bray, Norfolk; second vice-president, Evans I. Jenkins, Cleveland; treasurer, Albert L. Jones, Detroit; advisory board, W. J. Dubois, New York; William Shaffer, Baltimore; Joseph Brook, Philadelphia.