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"TAE MarRINE. REVIEW : 33. MR. FRANK A. JONES RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT. At the annual convention of the Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association in Washington this week president Frank A. Jones was re-elected and Mr. Joseph Blanchett, business agent for the great lakes, was elected second vice president. A considerable movement developed for the election of Mr. Evan I. Jenkins of Cleveland as pres- ident, but Mr. Jenkins who has been in. charge of the great lakes division of the association for several years, did not desire to longer continue in an official capacity in the association. He therefore declined to permit his name to be presented. He will serve as engineer on one of the new Cleveland Cliffs steamers during the coming season. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. A snag boat 125 ft. long, 28 ft. wide, will be built for the use of the government engineer at Dallas, Texas. A silver service consisting of twenty-five pieces has just been presented to the battleship Ohio. The work was done by Shreve & Co., San Francisco, Cal. The Robins Conveying Belt Co. has recently opened an office in the Frick Building, Pittsburg, Pa. Their resi- ident engineer, Mr. G. I. Delamater, is prepared to receive inquiries from the vicinity of Pittsburg relating to con- veying and hoisting machinery. The Baltimore Ship Building & Dry Dock Co. and the Wm. Skinner & Sons Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., two of the enormous enterprises of Baltimore, are to be merged into one company. The capital stock of the joint corporation will be $800,000 and bonds of an equal amount are to be issued. _ The Harlan & Hollingsworth Co., Wilmington, Del., recently received contracts from the Long Island Railroad Co. for the construction of two steel ferry boats. They are to be 204 ft. long, 46 ft. beam and 17 ft. 6 in. deep. They will have Almy water-tube boilers and double com- pound fore and. aft engines and are intended to make a speed of 15 miles an hour. At a meeting of the executive committee of the National Board of Steam Navigation held in New York last week, the - following legislative committee was appointed; H. O. Nick- erson, James A. Henderson, Frederick Russell, Charles E. Davis Jr, J. M: Cherry. and' Fi °P. Foster: will shortly go to Washington to appear before the board of supervising inspectors of steam vessel. TRADE NOTES. R. A. Humphrey's Son, 1021-23 Callowhill street, Phider phia, Pa., has just put out a catalog devoted to tool bags, mail bags and bags of every description, including price list. It can be had for the asking. ~The American Steel & Wire Co. has just put out a little catalog devoted to the Crown United States Soldered Twin Terminal rail bonds. The company is now equipped for rapidly making them of any size, capacity or design The increasing business of the Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. in the territory covered by their Columbus, Ohio, office has necessitated their moving into larger quarters; they are now located in room 923 Columbus Savings & Trust building. The Standard Roller Bearing Co, has just started the erection of a brass and iron foundry, 60 x 125 feet, two. stories in height. Their crucible steel casting plant start- ed in operation this week, the size of this building being 60 x 95 feet. A conspicuous departure in'the lighting of canals is that of the Welland canal near St. Catharines, Ont. Over 600 A. C. series arc lamps have been provided by the Canadian Westing- house Co. and these have been in operation for the past few months and have given splendid service. This installation as a whole redounds great credit to the Ontario government, as _-cialties, This committee well to the consulting engineer, Mr. R. J. Parke, under whose direction the complete plant was installed. The Robins Conveying Belt Co. has recently opened an office at Railway Exchange building, Chicago, Ill. Mr. _C. Kemble Baldwin, the chief engineer of the company, is in charge of this office and is prepared to handle all in- quiries from parties located in the middle west. The Smooth-On Manufacturing Co., Jersey City, N. J., has put out a little pocket compass in which is con- veniently advised the use of the different Smooth-On spe- This pocket compass will be sent to any user of Smooth-On by the company upon the receipt of four cents in stamps. An important .order recently secured by the Canadian Westinghouse Co. was obtained from the Vancotiver Power Co., of Vancouver, B. C. This order. included a 1,500-H. P., 2,200 volt revolving field engine type generator, which will be direct connected to a Pelton water wheel. This is a duplicate of the generators now in operation in the power plant of this company and will operate in multiple therewith. The order includes switchboards, air blast transformers of 550-K. W: capacity. There is also included in the order a 1,000-K. W. 80-cycle rotary converter to operate 550 volts. This converter will furnish power for railway work and will be controlled direct from the switchboard. The Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., Pittsburg, Pa., has just put out a bulletin devoted to their type C trans- formers which have been placed on the market as an ad- dition to the several forms with which users of alternat- ing current apparatus are already familiar. The type C transformers possess operating characteristics approxi- mately similar to Westinghouse O D_ transformers which are extensively used in all parts of the country. They are made single Skee in capacities from 0.6 to 50 kw. inclusive. Considerable comment is heard in Liverpool shipping and general business circles with reference to the establishment of an American consulate-general in Manchester, which is regarded. as another blow to the prestige of Liverpool, fol- lowing upon the extension of the Manchester consular area at the expense of Liverpool. Hitherto the Liverpool United States Consulate has ranked in importance next to the con- - sulate-general in London, which, until Manchester was un- duly glorified or exalted into a consulate-general, was the only one in the United Kingdom. It is felt by traders, ship- pers and others that if any cause existed why Lancashire should be honored with a consulate-general, the site of it ought:to have been in Liverpool and not in Manchester. Liv- -- erpool is in closer contact with America, directly and indirect- ly, than Manchester can ever hope to be. Neither by land nor water is Manchester much personally patronized by Ameri- cans, while hardly a day passes at the Mersey port without the presence as departing or arriving guests of business men belonging to the United States. The adding of a portion of the Liverpool consular area some twelve months ago to the Manchester district is felt to be not only a great injustice to the business community of Liverpool, but is opposed to. all those considerations, commercialand geographical, which are supposed to govern the state department at Washing- ton in making consular boundaries and to put Liverpool. within the jurisdiction of Manchester as a consulate-gen- eral, is simply incomprehensible from business and official consideration. The Grand Harbor of the Masters & Pilots' Association is now in session in Washington. Resolutions were adopt- ed by the harbor protesting against the passage by con- gress of the Littlefield anti-pilotage bill which if enacted into. law, pilots declared will be a blow to pilotage below Cape Henry, Virginia. :