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lant and his crew of 14, rowed six miles : in their dories to Boothbays' On Tuesday the Canadian Pacific rail- way steamer Mount Royal, which left Antwerp on Dec. 7, was a week over- due. She has a large cargo and over 300 em:grants, and it is feared that she has met with some accident to her machinery. STEAMER FLORIDA. The Maryland Steel Co., Sparrow's Point, Md., recently completed the steam- 'er Florida for the Baltimore Steam Packet Co. The Florida is a steel steam- er, and is 306 ft. over all; 296 ft. 2 in. between perpendiculars, 41 ft. beam at water line, 56 ft. deep over guards, 18 ft. molded depth. Her machinery con- sists of a 4-cylinder triple-expansion en- gine with cylinders 24%, 40, 47 and 47-in. diameters by 42-in. stroke, and four Scotch boilers, 13 ft. 2 in. diameter by -11 ft. 3 in. long, allowed a working pres- sure of 175 lbs. Excellent taste is dis- played in the interior decorations of the Florida, her social hall being finished in mahogany, the ladies' saloon in quartere:l oak, and the upper saloons in soft wood painted with mahogany pilasters. Pan- TAE MarRINeE REVIEW BS ON NEW TYPE OF DO an engine, as for instance on tugs. In a great many tugs, especially small ones, - the space under the stern deck is occupied by a tank, and in other tugs, the sheer of the underside of the stern is so flat that it does not allow head room enough to place the engine between the deck and the hull. This machine, as will be ob- STEAMER FLORIDA OF THE BALTIMORE STEAM PACKET CO.'S FLEET. eling throughout is in the Queen Anne style. The speed of the Florida is 17% knots, and on her trial trip her indicated horsepower was 2,550. DOCK STEAM GYPSEY. The American Ship Windlass Co., Providence, R. I., has recently brought out a new type of dock steam gypsey to meet a certain demand for a gypsey on board vessels where it is impossible to get room enough under the deck to place served, combines the engines around the worm gear so that the whole machine is self-contained and is readily installed on top of the deck. The company has in- stalled a number of these gypseys on tugs and they have given perfect satisfaction. Aside from their utility on board tugs they are peculiarly adapted for use in hauling cars, moving buildings, setting boilers and other heavy work. A representative of the company called on a building mover lately to whom the CK STEAM GYPSEY. company had sold one these machines. The machine had only a pair of 4 by 6- in. cylinders, yet the builder stated that he had been using the machine ever since he had bought it for moving heavy build- ings and for setting some enormously heavy boilers and engines, and although the machine was small it seemed to have no limit to the load that it could lift by simply putting more parts into the pur-' chase which was used. The company re- cently sold one of these machines to the R. S. Brine Transportation Co. and it was successfully used for installing engines in the Charlestown station of the Boston Elevated railroad. PIG IRON SITUATION. The end. of the year finds the inom and steel trade in a condition of not as great an improvement as had been hoped for, but there is unquestionably a more cheerful feeling which is ex- pected to revive operations to some extent early in the new year. A grad- ual increase of business is noted in pig iron. Prices are being fairly well - maintained, though low quotations from aggressive operators are not un- commonly encountered. In the Pitts- burg district the only steel mill of the United States Steel*Corporation, which has resumed with assurance of per- manent activity, is the New Castle, Pa., plant. It is also expected that a number of tin plate mills will resume about Jan. 6. Coke transactions show a tendency toward low prices, a sale of 40,000 tons for first half having been made at the price of $2 ovens. The Pittsburg Steamship Co. has sued the steamer A. C. Brower for libel as a result of the collision be- tween the steamer I. L. Ellwood and the Brower on Aug. 27.