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24 MACHINERY UNDER CONSTRUC- TION. Collingwood Ship Building Co., Ltd., Collingwood, Ont.: One Scotch marine boiler 'for the Northern Navigation Co., Collingwood, Ont.; 14 ft. diameter by 12 ft. long, 180 lbs. working pressure. One Scotch marine boiler for the Doty Engine Works, Goderich, Ont.; 6 ft. 6 in. diameter by 8 ft. long, 150 lbs. working presssure. One square fire box marine boiler for tthe C. S. Boone Dredging Co., Toronto, Ont.; 7 ft. 6 in. diameter by 12 ft. long, 140 Ibs. working pressure One square fire box marine boiler for Graves & Bigwood, Byng Inlet, Ont.; 7 ft. 6 in. diameter by 12 ft. long, 140 lbs. working pressure. MacKinnon Boiler & Machine Co., Bay City, Mich.: One fire box marine boiler 5 ft. by 9 ft., 150 lbs. steam pressure for tug Cisco. Johnston Bros., Ferrysburg, Mich.: Four 12 ft. 6 in. diameter by 11 ft. 6 in. long Scotch marine boilers for the two new fire tugs 'building by the Manitowoc Dry. Dock Co. for the city of Chicago. Oner Wert, oFum. by 13 ft 6- in. Scotch marine boiler for M. Hausler, South Chicago, Ill. Two 9 ft. 6 in. by 14 ft. firebox marine boilers for the steamer Parks Foster, Chicago, Ill. One so wie wo in by 13 tr fire box marine boiler for the steamer Effie L., Superior, Wiis. Globe Boiler Works, Toledo, O.: Marine upright water tube boiler for the steamer Wayward, Sandusky. Roberts Safety Water Tube Boiler Co, 39 Cortlandt street, New York. Roberts safety water tube boilers are being built as follows: One for the steamer Why Not, 4 by 5 ft., building for the Morse Iron Works, New York; two for the steam- er Czarina, 8 by 9 ft. building for A. J. McIntosh, Brooklyn, N. Y.; one for lem steamer yeblclena, / ft, by 7 ft. 6 in. building for George Law- levee = Som. Corp, Hast ~ Boston, Mass.; one for 'the steamer Carola, Ate lOran by 7 ft. 6 in. build- ' ing for Leonard Richards, New York; one for the steamer Theresa, 7 ft. 5 in. by 7 ft. 3 in., building for G. Siden- berg, New York; one for the steamer Starling, 9 by 9 ft, building for the Electric Boat Co., Quincy, Mass.; one for the steamer Haddassah, 3 ft. 6 in. by 4 ft., building for H. C. Perrine & Son, South Amboy, N. J.; one for, the steamer Sabrina Aurora, 7 ft. 9 in. by 6 TRAE Marine REVIEW ft. 3 in., building for the Submarine Signal Co., Boston, Mass.; one for the steamer Ventura, 5 ft. 3 in. by 4 ft. 6 in., building for C. Simmons, New York; one 4 ft. 6 in. by 6 ft. for the Adam Hock Leather Co., Eatontown, Nee tom oO sbyno fh for the Fuget 'Sound Day Line, Seattle, Wash.; one 6 by 8 ft. for Stanford University, Stanford University, Cal., one 5 by 7 ito Ben, WV oli, Rondont. N>Y;; one 8 by 9 ft. for Hungerford Bros. & Co., New York; one 8 by 9 ft. for Robert Jacobs, City Island, N. Y.; two 7 by 10 ft. fon H. Fisk & Sons, New Wonk) One: o Dy aa tt. tor S. VW. Colton Jn, Philadelphia, Pa.; one 5 by 7 ft. tor the S. M. Price Machine Co., Norfolk, Va.; one 8 by 9 fit. for the Winter Harbor Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; one 2 by 3 ft. for Major Charles Keller, U. S. engineer at Detroit, Mich.; one 4 by 5 ft. for the Otsego Lake Transit Co., Cooperstown, N. Y.; One Ze aOwil by 3 te (oem for Hox Bros ccm @oneueNiew sork>s ore 3 fta6 im. by 5 ft for A' N. Rotholz, New Monk, onlere ite Oil. (bya.o ft, 0) 1 Ot Pusey & Jones, Wilmington, Del.; one 8 by 9 ft. for National Lead Co., New Work; one ot. 6 in. by 4° ft for 'the Home Industry Iron Works, Mobile, Ala.; two 6 by 8 ft. for H. R. Stickney, Portland, Me.; one 3 fit. 6 in. by 4 ft. for H. C. Perrine & Son, South Am- boy, N. J.; one 4 ft. 6 in. by 6 ft. for the Johnson Iron Works, New Or- leans, Lia.; one 4 by 5 ft. for the Onset Water Co., Onset, Mass.; one 3 by 4 ft. for C. C. Mengel & Bro. Co., Louis- ville, Ky.; one 5 ft. 6 in. by 7 ft. 6 in. for the U. S. Revenue Cutter Tybee, building for the U. S. Revenue Cutter Semviceemm one Sebye 7. tt» tor the Pusey & Jones Co., Wilmington, Del.; One Zeteso ins Dy 3 tt. tor Capt. Pow- Cl elavtonessnS. Cavalry, Wavana, Cibayonem-ttiaO in. by 3 ft for Hiram Hammond, Lake George, N. Y.; one 4 by 5 ft. for Eggers & Hein- lein, New York; one 8 by 9 ft. for the Lake Ladore Improvement Co.; one 4 ft. 6 in. by 6 ft. for Thomas D..Jordan, Englewood, N. J. Charles L. Rohde & Sons, Baltimore, Md.: Two covered lighters for Tillyard & Watkins, Baltimore, Md.; length over all, 80 ft.; approximate value, $3,000 each; estimated gross 'tonnage, 200 each. One covered lighter for Maryland Trans. Co., Baltimore, Md.; length over all, 80 ft.; approximate value, $3,000; estimated gross tonnage, 200. Two open lighters for M. W. Ad- ams, Baltimore, Md.; length over, all, 85 ft.; approximate value, $2,900 each; estimated gross tonnage, 250. One covered lighter for Atlantic Transport Co., Baltimore, Md.; length over all, 92 ft.; 'approximate value, $4,000; estimated gross tonnage, 350. One open lighter for M. W. Adams, Baltimore, Md.; length over all, 85 ft.; approximate value, $3,000; estimated gross tonnage, 250. J. H. Paine & Son, Inc., Noank, Conn,: Two compound engines, 12 in. and 25 in. by 16 in. for a tug now build- ing. ITEMS OF INTEREST. A measure was recently proposed in the German reichstag which proposes that the life of a German battleship be shortened, 'the present limit of ser- vice, 25 years, being reduced to 2v. The Clifton Motor Works, Cincinnati, O., report that they are building a great many engines, varying from 3 to 45 H. P., to be delivered during the coming year. Quite a number of these engines are contracted for. ihe eet or the foy Steamship Co., including the steamers Tennessee, Kentucky, Fairfield, Edgemont, City of Key West, Seaboard and Kennebec, has been formally turned over to the United States Transportation Co. a part of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railway system. On May 1, 1908, the Hamburg- Anter- ican Steamship Co. will remove its offices from their present location at 35-37 Broadway, New York, to the building which has been acquired by that company at 41-43-45 Broadway, formerly known as Aldrich Court, and in which extensive alterations are now in progress prepara- tory to occupation.by the steamship com- pany, which will have there the finest of- fices of any steamship line in the city. -- The Bishop of London's visit to Cana- da reminds the Toronto Saturday Night of a former Canadian bishop who, pos- sessed of a broad Scotch dialect, had a belief that it was not perceptible. A brother Scot called to see him one day, and the bishop asked him: "Hoo lang hae ye been in Canada?" "Aboot sax years," was the reply. "Hoot, mon exclaimed the bishop, "why hae ye na lost your accent like mysel' ?" MiceeivcdseStan= liner "<roonland, which left Antwerp early in Decem- ber for New York, arrived there only last week, without either passengers or cargo. This odd circumstance was the result of her having sustained a broken shaft while passing the en- trance to the English channel, Dec. 8. She put in ferred hae at Southampton, trans- her passengers to the White