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ses MARINE REVIEW. rmiy43 ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. The annual meeting of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. will be held on May 28. es 29 is the date of the annual meeting of the William Cramp & Sons' Ship & Engine Building Co. of Philadelphia. The Boston Marine Society has petitioned congress to pension mem- bers of life-saving crews on the same basis as United States soldiers. Rear-Admiral 'Charles O'Neil, chief of the bureau of ordnance, has gone to Dusseldorf, Germany, to attend an international congress of naval architects. The Vulcan Ship Building Co., Stettin; builders of the steamers Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Deutschland and Kronprinz Wilhelm, intends to establish a new ship building plant on the Elbe, below Hamburg, for the construction of large commercial and naval vessels. The latest record of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, made last week, is as follows: Time of passage, 5 days, 18 hours and 6 minutes; days' runs, 424, 561, 566, 568, 572 and 455; total distance, 3,146 knots; average speed, 22.78 knots. This is the steamer's best westward average. 'A new Anchor line steamer, the Columbia, had her trial trip on the Clyde last week and it proved quite successful. She logged 18 knots. She will start on her maiden trip for New York on June 17. The Columbia is the largest vessel in the Glasgow-New York service. She is 500 ft. long and of 15,000 tons burden. A dispatch from Cherbourg announces that several improvements have been made in submarine boats by the French government recently. A new periscope enables them to survey the surface from a depth of fifteen meters, while formerly it was limited to a depth of six meters. The new periscope is telescopic. Formerly it was necessary for the submarine boats to keep in constant motion. Now a buoy floating beneath the sur- face enables them to moor. An instrument of the megaphone type, by a Belgian inventor, has re- cently been fitted up experimentally on two of the British mail boats using the harbor of Calais, for the more perfect recording of the distance and direction of sounds of fog horns and other signals, while the French boats are provided with powerful electric projectors, sending forth a long and wide band of light in any desired direction, with a system of luminous signals for optic telegraphy. The Dutch merchant navy consisted on Dec. 31 last of 652 vessels, measuring altogether 382,102 registered tons, against 638 vessels and 346,783 tons at the end of the year 1900. There is, therefore, an increase of fourteen ships and 35,319 register tons. Of the whole number of ves- sels, 235 are steamers measuring in the aggregate 306,694 registered tons; besides which there are seven full-rigged sailing ships (11,926 tons), thirty reraies (28,281 tons), two brigs (507 tons), and a number of smaller sail- ing craft. The Toyo Kisen Karsha (Japanese line), at present operating the fine twin-screw steamers America Maru, Nippon Maru and Hongkong Maru between San Francisco and the Orient, is receiving bids for the construc- tion of two or three large modern passenger steamships to be placed on the same route. Bids have been solicited from American and British builders. The new steamers are to be 560 ft. in length, with a breadth of 63 ft. and depth of 38 ft., and will have a capacity of 11,500 or 12,000 tons. Their speed must be over 19 knots. In size and equipment the new steamships will about equal the Korea and Siberia of the Pacific Mail line, but are expected to be more attractive vessels. The output of the Cape Breton coal mines for the fiscal year ending Sept. 3, 1901, amounted to 2,618,934 tons. Of this amount 2,352,567 tons was produced by the Dominion Coal Co. from its group of mines located about Sydney, North Sydney, Glace bay, and other places, being an in- crease of about 700,000 tons over its output of the previous year. Arrange- ments have recently been made by the Cape Breton Coal, Iron & Railway Co. for developing a group of mines lying south of Sydney on the line of the Cape Breton railway, which promise to be equally productive with those north of Sydney and to add materially to the coal activities of Cape Breton and bring a large tonnage to the Cape Breton railway. The twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Michigan Pioneer and His- torical Society will be held in Representative hall, Lansing, Mich., on June 3. 4 and 5. Mr. C. M. Burton of Detroit is the president and Mrs. Ellen B. Judson of Lansing, the secretary. Among the speakers will be the following: Gov. A. T. Bliss, President J. L. Snyder. Mrs, T. C. Taylor, Hon. H. R. Pattengill. Mary E, Chamberlain, C. T. Thorpe, B. F. Davis, Dr. R. 'C. Kedzie, H. B. Baker, L. M. Miller, J. R. Bailey, B. M. Cutcheon, 'C, H. Chapman, J. W. Humphrey. J. E. Day, F. Hodgman, » C. F. Wheeler, Lt. Gov. O. W.. Robinson, C. H. Dewey. W. J. Beal. Many of the addresses will be of undoubted historical significance. Jones & Laughlins, Ltd., Pittsburgh, Pa., is to be changed from a limited partnership to an incorporated company. On June 2 an applica- tion is to be made at Harrisburg for the incorporation of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. of Pittsburgh to succeed the old firm which now con- _trols the vast interests that have helped to make Pittsburgh the greatest steel center in the world. Jones & Laughlins, Ltd., is capitalized at $20,- 000,000. This figure is known to be a low one for the immense interests owned by the company. Under the name of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. all of the present stockholders will retain their same provortionate interests and there will be practically no change in the officers. The anpli- cation for the new charter will be signed by Benjamin F. Tones, Tr.. Willis L. King, William Larimer Jones, James B. Laughlin and Irwin B. Laugh- lin. These are the present officers of the firm. The Nautical Preparatory School is the name of a company incor- norated to conduct a nautical school on a plan never before attempted. It is literally a sea-going academy, and a vessel to be named Young America is to be built by the school. Her dimensions will be 250 ft. on the load water line, 44 ft. beam and 19 ft. draught. The officers of the company are: Lieut. Com'dr C. H. Harlow, president: Lieut. G. H. Elswald, vice-president and general manager, and 'C. H. Howland. secre- tary and treasurer. The board of directors comprise Rear-Admiral Luce: C. L. Weir. president of the Adams Exoress Co.; S. M. Felton. president of the Chicago & Alton railroad: J. W. Miller. sunerintendent of the marine division of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railwav: W. F. Kine, ex-president of the, Merchants' Association of New York: William McAdoo, former assistant secretary of the navv: Rev. Charles A. Dickey, president of the Preshvterian hospital of Philadelphia, and Robert S. Sloan of Oswego, N. Y. : ™BENEDICT=NICKEL"' Seamless Condenser Tubes are the only ones that resist electrolysis. Far superior to brass or copper. Our treatise on "Electrolysis of Condenser Tubes" tells*why--send for tt. : BENEDICT & BURNHAM-MFG. CO. Mills and Main Office, Waterbury, Conn. Boston, 172 High St. New York, 253 Broadway. COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIOUE FRENCH LINE--UNITED STATES AND EUROPEAN MAIL ROUTE, New York to Havre-Paris in less than one week. Steamers sail from New York every Thursday, at 10 a. m. Company's own vestibuled train from Havre to Paris in four hours. FLEET 70 STEAMERS. York service the following gigantic Twin Screw Steamers: "LA LORRAINE" (new) Twin Screw 15,000 tons 22,000 H.P. "LA SAVOIB" new) oe "¢ 15,000 ig 22,000 a "LA TOURAINE"' (modern) " 10,000 . 12,000 eo "T'AQUITAINE" (modern) " s¢ 10,000 16,000 1 officers command above steamers, insuring the same strict discipline as on 2 Hai-st wae These ships all have double bottoms and water-tight compart- ments, and prescribed routes are taken to avoid fogs. The above steamers contain every modern twentieth century equipment for safety, most luxurious accommoda- tions, and the cuisine is famous. The favorite route of the elite of both continents, For rates, plans and other particulars apply to EUGENE DE BOCANDE, General Agent for United States and Canada, 32 Broadway, New York. MAURICE W. KOZMINSKI, General Western Agent, 71 Dearborn St., CHICAGO, OR TO LOCAL AGENTS. 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