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FIG, work can-be got out completed from the lines, which finds more accurate steel work and makes better work of same. The shoring of a lake vessel is not elaborate compared to the vessel built for end-on launch. Fig. 179 shows all the shoring there is to a vessel built on the lakes; the shores have the same spacing as the keel blocks and remain un- til the vessel is about to be launched. "TAE MarINe. REVIEW 174. Cribs, about four on each side, are built under the bilges and this is all that supports the vessel until she is launched. The vessel being launched sideways sits plumb on the keel blocks so that the bracing and shoring is not required like the vessel built to a de- clivity.. The vessel built plumb from the keel blocks has a great many advantages over the vessel built with a declivity. Fig. 'a' steel tape} would put the tested every rivet in the building and a7 180 shows two vessels, A built for side latinching' and B for end- -on launching. The vessel B for end-on launching is 25 feet higher at the bow than: the ves- sel A. It is a well-known fact that men will 'do more work nearer the ground than too high above it, The use of declivity battens and plumbs for the end-on launching are more troublesome than the plumb and level when the vessel is built on the old style, but with the mold system it would. make little difference, seeing that after the first few frames were: erected to po- sition the material would work into its own, place. The laying out of ship work in Ae ship yard is somewhat behind the struc- tural iron work on a large bu: Iding. I superintended the 16-story Rockefeller building in Cleveland, O., for the owner, which was designed by Knox & Elliot, of Cleveland, O., and I was surprised to see 2,000 tons of material 'laid out with and the class of Work ship builders*to shame. I only found half a dozen slightly jarred rivets in the whole lot. Fig. 181 shows the steel work above the sidewalk on Juiie 16, 1904. Fig. 182 shows the work done on August-13, 1904, nearly a month later. Fig. 183 shows the steel work practically completed on Sept. 24, 1904.. For erecting the steel of a building of this: size three' 'months is consid- ered the time. Fig. 184 shows the build- ing nearly completed April 17, 1905. _ REPAIRING VESSELS. ~ Some. very large repairs. have been done on the lakes. with economy _ and despatch. Fig. 185 shows the starboard bow repairs to the steamer R. L: Ireland in dock at Superior, " Wis. Fig: 186 shows the port side of bow of same ves- - sel. Fig. 187 shows: port side stern. view of R: L. Ireland in the dock. These figures show a usual, damage: to SreacHrfoce ji SHORE