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sae) MARINE REVIEW. 25 ANOTHER MAN WITH A FOUR-DAY SHIP. A report from London is to the effect that Mr. H. E. I. Camps of the London firm of Camps & Pierce, consulting engineers and naval architects, has designed an Atlantic liner, said to be capable of beating the trans- atlantic record by almost two days: Mr. Camps proposes working with turbine engines supplied with steam by water-tube boilers. By using oil as fuel he will save weight and space. Oil will be carried in the double bottom of the ship underneath the boilers. But possibly it would be best to let Mr. Camps tell his story. He seems capable of it. He says: "The speed of my vessel will not be less than 30 knots an hour, more than 6 knots faster than the swiftest liner afloat. This is got without sac- rifice of strength or stability. This speed will shorten the Atlantic passage by at least a full day, the record being about 5% days, while my steamer will do it easily in 4%. By taking the proposed route of the Cana- dian fast Atlantic service the greater part of another day can be knocked off, enabling a busy man to get from capital to capital in less than four days. My steamer is over 700 ft. long--about the same length as the Oceanic. To drive her at the stated speed the huge installation of 80,000 H.P. has been decided upon. This is more than double the horse power in any existing or proposed Atlantic greyhound. That of the Oceanic is 28,000, and that of the Deutschland, the Hamburg-American crack, 35,600. In spite of this I am able to save more than 50 per cent. in the weight of machinery and boilers over the ordinary type of liners. The boat will be not only the fastest vessel afloat but the neatest. The present would be the best opportunity for the Canadian government to step in with its fast line, so long suggested. .I am willing to place my services at the disposal of Canada and to give the dominion government the benefit of my ideas. This would enable them to checkmate the operations of any hostile trust, and to annex the passenger traffic of the North Atlantic by feeding the United States through Canadian ports, the reduction in the time occupied for the journey being sure to prove irresistible to the great majority of passengers." WORK AT THE FORE RIVER SHIP YARD. Boston, May 14.--Work on the concrete dock along the new fitting- out wharf at the works of the Fore River Ship & Engine Co., Quincy, Mass., has begun. The dock will be the foundation upon which the 75-ton gantry crane that has just arrived at the yard will travel. As soon as a suffi- cient length of concrete has been finished the crane will be set up so as to be ready for immediate use. The housings and mechanisms of the new set of large plate rolls, that are the latest addition to the equipment of the ship tool house at the Fore River works, are being put in place and the machine will be at work before long. Two of the rolls are fine pieces of Krupp steel that were once the shafts of "Jim" Fisk's famous old steamer, the Providence, and the third was forged and finished entirely at Fore River. There will be a mile of gravity railroad tracks under the new ship house. The construction of the battleships New Jersey and Rhode Island is being pushed as fast as possible and the gravity road will bring materials ete all over the yard to every part of the ship house under which they stand, The official government test of the casting of the 20-ton steel stem of the New Jersey was made Monday. The casting was raised 10 ft. from the ground by a temporary derrick and then dropped by the cutting of the suspended rope. 'The test was entirely satisfactory. _ Seventy-five more pneumatic tools have been added to the equipment at Fore River, making the number now in use in the yard several hun- dred. The "air" for them is supplied by the new 5,000-ft. compressor re- cently installed in the power house, the 1,000-ft. compressor formerly in use being held in reserve now. The staging for the battleship Rhode Sa is all up under the ship house and the raising of the frames has egun. One of the largest and quickest shipwright jobs that has been done on Boston harbor for a long time has just been finished by this company. It is a rudder forging for the British steamship Nyassa, which is under- going repairs at the Townsend & Downey works. The forging is of wrought iron and weighs 9,620 lbs. Its height is 36 ft. 2 in.; breadth, 6 ft. 8 in., and the diameter of the stock 8 in. The Fore River company com- pleted the work in three weeks. ; The Marine Iron Works, Chicago, launched on May 12 the steam yacht Oswegatche, which is intended for cruising on Lake Ontario and the ' St. Lawrence (Thousand islands) region. There are so many interesting features about the boat from a technical standpoint, aside from the fact of eastern owners coming to a western builder, that the Review will shortly publish an illustrated description of her. The 'Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co. has been awarded contracts for three of its large Franklin air compressors for the Philadelphia & Reading rail- way; two compound air compressors of 2,000 cu. ft. capacity for the new car shops of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway and one for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway. THE LAKE ERIE NAVIGATION CO., Limited. LOCAL TIME TABLES. STEAMER URANIA. BETWEEN PORT STANLEY AND CLEVELAND. Leave Port Stanley--Tuesdays and Arrive Cleveland--Wednesdays and Wednesday, at -11.00 p. m.; Saturdays, Fridays, at 6.00 a. m.; Saturdays, at at 11.00 a. m. 5.00 p. m. Leave Cleveland--Mondays, Wednes- Arrive Port Stanley -- Tuesdays. days and Fridays, at.10.00 p. m. Thursdays and: Saturdays, at mete a. m. : BETWEEN RONDEAU AND CLEVELAND. : _ ' Leave Cleveland--Mondays, Wednes- Arrive Rondeau--Mondays, ednes- days and Fridays, at 8.004, m.; Sat- days and Fridays, at 1.30 jm m.; Sat- urdays, at 5.30 p. m. urdays, at 11.00 p. m. i" Leave Rondeau--Sundays, at 11.30 p. Arrive -Cleveland--Mondays, at Me a. ™m.; Mondays, Wednesdays: and Fri- m.; Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri- days, at 4.00 p. m. days, at 7.30 p. m. NOTE.--There is no train connection with steamer to and from Rondeau on Sundays, |__|, BARTLETT & TINKER, Agents, as a ' rt Tel. Main, 522. 57 River St., CLEVELAND, O. ALGOMA CENTRAL S.S. LINE PASSENGER AND FREIGHT STEAMER OSSIFRAGE Leaves Toledo every day at 8.00. p. m. (Central time) for Sault Ste. Marie, friaee at intermediate Canadian ports, arriving at Sault Ste. Marie at 5 a. m. The Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Ry, Co, SS. KING EDWARD Will be placed upon the route between Toledo and Sault Ste. Marie on 'or about May 30,. and will call at Parry Sound on both north and south-bound trips, affording the most direct route to Muskoka District. SS. MINNIE M. Tri-weekly service, Sault Ste. Marie to Michipicoten, calling at intermediate. ports by arrangement. : ce W. B. ROSEVEAR, G. T. M., Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. ABRAM SMITH & SON, ae WOODEN SHIP BUILDING AND REBUILDING. Before placing your work we will be pleased with an opportunity to quote you our prices. GLEVELAND and BUFFALO st." Steamers City of Erie and City of Buffalo. Finest and Fastest in the United States. Special Daylight Trips Every Saturday, (6 3} DAILY INCLUDING SUNDAY, LEAVE ARRIVE July 12 to August 30, inclusive. Cleveland 8 P.M. Buffalo 6.304. M. W. F. HERMAN, Gen. Pass. Agt., Buffalo 8 « Cleveland 6.30 * CLEVELAND, O. The Standard Marine Lubricants, Vacuum 600 W. Cylinder Oil Vacuum No. 1 Marine Engine Oil Vacuum Arctic Engine Oil. Vacuum Sea Oil Vacuum Anti-Friction Grease Also, Colza Burning Oil. 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