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sist of the usual hot, temperate and cool- ing rooms, with shampooing rooms, a plunge bath, and massage couches. It is likewise worthy of remark that three electric baths have been provided. The photographer's dark room, which will always be available during the voyage, is another feature sure to be highly appre- ciated by tourists. : NEW STEAMER COLUMBIA. The handsome new _ steel steamer Columbia, built by the New York Ship Building. Co., Camden, N.-J., tor the Baltimore and Norfolk service of the Chesapeake Steamship Co., was placed in commission. at the opening of the Jamestown Exposition. The sions of the Columbia are as follows: Length over all, 285 ft.; length between perpendiculars, 250 ft.; beam 46 ft.; 'depth of hold, 17 ft., 4 in.; gross ton- nage, 2,582; net tonnage, 1,673. The hull is built entirely of steel, and the vessel has been built in strict accord- ance with the rules of the American Bureau of -Shipping for class Al, 20 years, in the "Record of American & Foreign Shipping." The scantlings and details of construction have been designed with the idea of making her the strongest vessel of her class and -also to eliminate all vibration, and she has proved that this idea can be worked out successfully. The Columbia is propelled by a sin- _ gle screw, driven by a four-cylinder triple-expansion engine, the cylinders being 26, 41, 50 and 50 in. in diameter, . by 42-in. stroke. Steam is supplied by four boilers, each 13.7 by 12 ft., built for a working pressure of 180 pounds. GREAT LAKES RED BOOK. The Great Lakes Red Book is now out for 1907. The edition is the most 'complete that the Marine REVIEW has ever published, containing a list of all vessels, active on the lakes, with the names of their masters and engineers, and the names and addresses of their owners, together with the carrying ca- pacity of the vessels in gross tons. No more serviceable compendium of in- - formation concerning an industry -was.. ever published. Orders for this book can now be filled by the Penton Pub- lishing Co. NEW STEAMER FOR R. O. & A. B. MACKAY. The vessel under construction at the Bridgeburg yard of the Canadian Ship Building Co. for the St. Lawrence & Chicago Steam Navigation Co., To- ronto, is reported 85 per cent com- pleted. Material is now arriving for the new vessel which the Canadian Ship Building Co. will construct for \ dimen- -- "TAE. MARINE. REVIEW R, ©. & A. B) Mackay, of Haniulton, Ont. This vessel is of the arch 'type with an improved method of construc- tion of the tank top. The dimensions are: Length over all, 460 ft.; length over stem and stern post, 440 ft.; beam, molded, 53 ft.; depth, molded, 29 ft.; engines, quadruple-expansion. Robert Curr, naval architect, will supervise her construction for the owners. SAILING DIRECTIONS. The attention of owners and masters is directed to the fact that the hydro- graphic office has issued new sailing di- rections for Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. These directions have been thoroughly revised and are complete to date, containing in addition special ref- erence to compass work and the com- pass ranges latterly established on the lakes. Every shipmaster on the lakes should have a copy of each of these pub-- lications for the safe navigation of his vessel. In addition every passenger steamer should have one available as a guide book and book of reference for the passengers aboard, for in addition to the sailing directions they contain complete descriptions of the towns situated on the lakes with their populations and indus- tries. These books are for sale by the MariNnE ReEvitw. NEWFOUNDLAND TRANS-AT- LANTIC SERVICE. It is expected that the contract with the Newfoundland government for the new fast Atlantic service from Great Britain. fo. (anada and the, United States, via Newfoundland, will pass the colonial legislature during the present session. The terminal port will be at London, Southampton, Liverpool or Glasgow and not any port in Ineland as has been frequently said. If it is so desired, however, it can be arranged that the mails be landed at Killery bay or some other port on the west coast of Ireland. The contract provides for the em- ployment of three Atlantic steamers of 5,000 tons gross and a speed of 17 knots but it is intended to use vessels both larger and faster. From Killery bay, where the steamers would stop only long enough to pick up or dis- charge mails, the vessels would pro- 'ceed to Green bay, which is called Notre Dame bay on the maps, on the northeast coast of Newfoundland, 200 miles north of St. Johns, which is a distance of 1,700 miles from Killery bay. The 17-knot steamer would reach Green bay in just over four days and would again remain only long enough to land passengers and mails, after which she would proceed to St. Johns controlled by the 19 and thence to some other port, either in Canada or the United States. It is estimated that by the inauguration of this service, even with 17-knot boats, Quebec would be reached from Lon- don in less than-six days, a saving of nearly a day on the present average time. New York would be reached from London in six days and twelve hours, the record from land to land now being six days. Chicago would be reached in seven days, a clear sav- ing of a day. In the case of New- foundland it would be a saving of four to five days over the present service. With the employment of boats simi- lar to those now running on the fast- est New York service, the times, after- allowing for trans-shipment, would be as follows: Quebec, four: days. 13 hours; Chicago, five days, 14 hours; New York, five days, four hours. The strategic value of the line lies in the -fact that when the fastest steamers are put on the new service the all-British route through Canada to the far east 'would be shortened by some forty- eight hours, as compared to the exist- ing routes. -- NEW ENGLAND NAVIGATION ' co. ' The New England Navigation Co., New Haven road, and incorporated under the laws of Connecticut, has filed with the Massa- chusetts secretary of state a statement of financial condition, dated Dec. 31, 1906: 'ASSETS, Real estate and méachinery......... $ 9,297,936 Material 05.97, ye 188,969 Cash and debts receivable.......... 5;759,502 Total sede eect eect e eset ete ee eres 1 $15,242,408 LIABILITIES, Capital stock nc oes ee $ 5,000,000 Accounts: payable 42.0 350 ce. 1.377,524 Debenture indebtedness ..........-. 6,775,000 - Surplus, Pe Ese. eee oe ee 2,089,883 Total 27) $15,242,408 Another of Great Britain's formid- able fighters was floated recently when the armored cruiser Invincible was launched from the Elswick shipyard. She is one of the trio of largest cruis- ers in the world of which the first, the Indomitable, was launched March 16. The greatest secrecy was observed re- garding the details of the new war- ship. Her dimensions are the same as the Indomitable, namely: 17,250 tons displacement, 530 ft. in length, exceed- ing the older armored cruisers by 50 ft. She has turbine engines and is ex- pected to attain the high speed of 25 knots an hour. The armament:of the cruisers includes eight 12-in. guns, al- most equaling the main battery of the Dreadnought. -