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50 SHIP YARD NOTES. The Pusey & Jones Co. Wilmington, Del., has recently repaired the lighthouse tender Zizania. _ The Burlee Dry Dock Co., Port Rich- mond, N. Y., has lately fitted the Stand- ard Oil Co. tug No. 8 with a new rudder. The Morse .Dry Dock & Repair Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., has lately repaired the United States army transport Sumner. The New London, Conn., Marine Iron Works is engaged in the rebuilding of the Connecticut river ferryboat Middle- sex. The Merrill-Stevens Co., Jacksonville, Fla. has completed repairs to the gov- ernment dredge boats Key West and St. Jouns The Tietjen & Lang Dry Dock Co., Hotoken, N. J., executed repairs on the Neptune line steamer Rhode Island re- cently. The Harlan & Hollingsworth Corp., Wilmington, Del., has recently completed the large steel car float building for the Central Railroad of New Jersey. The Morgan line steamer Creole has been at the yard of the Morse Dry Dock & Repair Ca, Brooklyn, M: Y., for re- pairs and change of propeller. : The Greenport Basin & Construction Co. Greenport, N. Y., recently repaired the schooner Edith Dennis, damaged in collision with a Joy Line steamer. The steamer Chester, owned by the Norva Land & Lumber Co., was at Roach's ship yard, Chester, Pa., recently for an extensive overhauling. The steamer Sandy Hook, owned by the Central Railroad of New Jersey, has lately been repaired in the dty dock of James Shewan & Son, New York. M. M. Davis & Sons, Solomon's, Md., launched a combination tug and water boat at their yard last month for the - American 'Towboat Co., Philadelphia, Pa. The Greenport Basin & Construction (0;, Greenport, N: Y., has a contract for the construction of a Long Island Sound oyster boat for the firm of Mills & Lowndes. The ship yard of J. H. Price at Ban- don, Ore., which was recently swept by a disastrous fire, will be rebui!t. Three vesse's were burned, all being steam schooners, The 'old Higgins repair yard at Bay- onne, N. J., has been acquired by Deibert & Patterson, both men of practical ex- perience, gained in the Staten Islind ship yards, \The ferryboat Nassau, building by the Harlan & Hollingsworth Corp. Wil- mington, Del. for the Department of . Docks and Ferries-of the city of New York, was launched last month. The Pelly Dry Dock Co., New York, recently launched a dry dock capable of TAE MarRINE REVIEW lifting a vessel of 1,000 tons, at its yard at 26th street, South Brooklyn. . This is the sixth dock of the company. The British Columbia Marine [ail- way Co., Esquimalt, B. C., has completed the repairs to the steamship Northwest ern, which was wrecked at La Touche, Alaska, some months since. The steam dredge Gen. Abbott, of the United States quartermaster's ment, has been undergoing general re- pairs to hull and machinery at the yard of James Shewan & Sons, New York. The next launching which. will occut from the yard of Crawford & Reid, Old Town, near Tacoma, Wash., will be tha: of the steam tug which is being built for Arthur Weston, of Olympia, Wash. The Lindstrom Ship Building Co., Hoquiam, Wash., has about ready for launching the three large rock. barges for wse in the government. work = at Damon's Point. One barge has already been completed. The Fore River Ship Building Co., Quincy, Mass., has been awarded con- tract for repairing the hull and machin- ery of the tug Robert S. Bradley, owned by the Bradley Fertilizer Co., and work has been started. The new steam schooner Bandon, which was built at Price's Coos Bay yard for the. A. F. Estabrook Lumber €6., 6 San Francisco, Cal., has had her machinery installed at Seattle. She was launched July 2. ; The repairs to the steamship Ohio, which was wrecked in Alaskan waters some months ago, have been completed at Quartermaster Harbor, Wash. The wotk was done by the Commercial Street Boiler Works, Tacoma. tne Vietien & Lane Dry Dock Co., Hoboken, N. J., executed repairs upon the Hudson River Day line steamer Hendrick fludson: last' month, . The steamer's rudder was damaged and it Was tmecessdry for 'her to go into dry dock. © The schooner R. C. Slade, owned by SE. Slade San Francisco, Cal., has been given a thorough overhauling and fe- pairing preparatory to her undertaking a voyage to Tasmania. The work was done by the Vulcan Iron Works Co., Aberdeen, Wash. The United States torpedo boat Perry has been at the Puget Sound navy yard, Wash., An air compressor was _ installed considerable work in the engine rooom in conection with the piping and tubing has been done. 3remerton, receiving minor re- pairs, and aie wel Dodge Co., San Hrancisco, are building a new steam vessel for the lumber trade between San Francisco and: Seattle. The vessel is designed for use depart- 'Atlantic Railway Co, also as a general cargo carrier and it is hoped to have her in commission by Oct. 1. She will cost $225,000. . The new steamer Maryland, built by the Maryland Steel Co., Sparrows Point, Md., for the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad, has been placed in ser- - vice between Cape Charles and Norfolk for the pufpose of accommodating the traffic incident to the Jamestown Ex- position. 4 After the completion of the repairs to the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.'s liner Manchuria at the yard of the Union Iron Works, San 'Francisco, Cal:, the Mongol'a, of the same line, went into dry dock to. make .permanent repairs to the damages sustained in having 'gone ashore last year. ae The Nilson Yachtbuilding Co., Ferry Bar, Baltimore, Md., have launched the power boat Petrolia No. 3 for the Stand- - ard Oil Co. This vessel is 80 ft. in length, and 16 ft: in width, She qs equipped with a 100-H. P. Standard gas- oline engine and is expected to attain a speed of 12 miles an hour. The 'steamer: William Chisholm, with the barge Mary 8. Mitchell in tow, ar- rived at the yard of the Newport News Ship & Engine Building Co., Newport. News, Va., from Cleveland, O. These former lake vessels are to ply in the coast- wise coal trade and were fitted with the necessary equipment. The. Old Bay line freight steamer Gaston has been at the works of the James Clark Co., Baltimore, Md., for. extensive repairs to her machinery. William E. Woodall & Co., Baltimore, Md., repaired the steamer Choptank, owned by the Baltimore, Chesapeake & Baltimore, Md., last month. = The Harlan & Hollingsworth Corp., Wilmington, Del., have delivered to the city of New York the municipal ferry boat Gowanus, recently completed at their yard. This vessel is a sister ship of the Bay Ridge, which was lately given her trial trip and both vessels will ply in the South Ferfy. "and Thirty-ninth street service, The new steamer Whidby, owned by the Island Transportation Co, Coupe- ville, Wash., has been completed by her builder, Capt. H. B. Lovejoy of Coupe- ville. The steamer is to run from Seat- tle and Everett to.Coupeville. She 's 130 ft. in length, 22 ft. beam and is equipped with triple expansion engines with cylinder diameters 11, 17 and 28 in. Ly 16% in. stroke. Steam is suppiied by a Taylor boiler allowed 300 lbs. pres- sure. The Whidby is an oil burner and it is expected that she will attain a speed of about 17 miles an hour.