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14 MARINE REVIEW. TEXAS OIL FOR FUEL IN NEW YORK. The Morse Iron Works & Dry Dock Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., is now using petroleum as fuel under its boilers. Mr. Morse, president S ' e company, says that the company's experience with petroleum as fuel has fulfilled all expectations. : "We Have OnE boiler in our works using oil for fuel," Mr. Morse said, "and we shall proceed to install oil as fuel for all the other boilers in the works gradually. The second boiler to use oil will be in operation next week, The necessary changes in the furnace can be made in twenty-four hours." : ae "Ts there offensive smell or smoke in the use of oil under the boiler: was asked. a "There is no smell and no smoke," Mr. Morse replied. "In fact, we could do without a chimney for the boilers when oil is used as fuel. We used oil as fuel in one case for heating plates in a shop where there was no chimney to carry off smoke, and there was no smoke to carry off. There is complete consumption of the fuel in this case." "Does oil make as effective a fuel as coal?" } "It is a better fuel than coal for steam making. With oil we can maintain a steady and uniform heat under the boiler for any required time, while the heat of a furnace fed with coal is changing constantly. [July 10 PIRRIE DOES NOT FAVOR SUBSIDIES. ndon dispatch announces that the committee of the house of saan Se to inquire into the question of subsidies heard William Pirrie, chairman of the Harland & Wolff Co., last week. He expressed the opinion that subsidies were merely given as a bounty and served to encourage inefficiency, and that even where there could be legiti- mately bestowed the tendency of subsidies would be to foster individual as against general interests. Mr. 'Pirrie regarded foreign subsidies as a blessing in disguise, as they stimulated British ship builders to be more imes. ae APE ing te a question of the chairman, Mr. Pirrie said that the Morgan combination, which he preferred to call a "community of inter- ests," was established purely for commercial purposes, and on entirely business principles. He was convinced that at the time the deal was effected a dangerous international situation was rapidly approaching, but by the creation of this community of interests the future of British ship building was assured. In short, he considered the deal to be in every way satisfactory to the British. Giving subsidies would only invite retaliation in the most important markets of the world. The extent_of state assist- ance to German shipping was greatly exaggerated. Mr. Pirrie also said that the feeling against the combination was due to misapprehension. All STEAMSHIP VICTORIA OF NORTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY'S FLEET--PACIFIC SERVICE. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., General Agents, Tacoma, Wash. It is necessary to bank coal fires when steam is not needed from a boiler, while an oil fire can be turned off and started at a minute's notice. The labor required in running oil fires is less than that required for coal fires. There is no constant shovelling. The oil is sprayed into the furnace by the action of a pump, which is regulated according to the supply needed. We have our supply tank under ground, and at a distance of about 150 ft. from the building, to comply with the city regulation, but a tank might be used in a building with safety." "Ts oil as cheap a fuel as coal?' "Tt is a cheaper fuel. At present we are getting our supply of crude petroleum from the Standard Oil Co. and paying about $1.05 a barrel for it. Even at that cost we find an advantage in the use of oil as fuel. We expect that there will be adequate supply of Texas oil here soon and that the price will be about 50 cents or 60 cents a barrel. Then the cost of oe steam with oil will be about half the cost of making steam with coal. "How is the supply of Texas oil for New York to be secured?" "There will soon be a line of eight tank steamships running between Port Arthur, Tex., and New York city. We are at work now converting the boilers of seven of the steamships into oil burners. Two of the steam. ers are owned by the J. M. Guffey Co. of Pittsburgh; one belongs to L. Luckenbach of New York and four are owned by Mr. Chas. Counselman of Chicago. The steamship J. M. Guffey is already burning oil under her boilers. The eight steamers will make regular trips to carry oil to New York. It takes a tank steamer about twenty-one days to make the round trip. The line is expected to carry all the oil needed for fuel in this city; but additional steamers can be used as the demand increases."' Mr. Morse said that his company was converting the boilers of a tug- boat to burn oil. The tugboat will have an oil tank instead of coal bunkers, and will be used in the harbor, aoe they had been doing was to act on the advice of the prince of Wales when he said "England must wake up." Mr. Pirrie thought that the best way for the government to help British shipping was to deepen the approaches to the chief ports, and otherwise improve them. JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP CO. BUILDING NEW VESSELS. Five new steel steamers with a combined tonnage of 17,800 are to be constructed by the Japan Mail Steamship Co. (Nippon Yusen Kaisha) for the service of the company with the United States, Japan, China and Australia. The contract has already been awarded to the Mitsu Bishi yard, Nagasaki. At the last semi-annual meeting of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha directors, the statement of the earnings for that period was given and it was also noted that the business had increased to the point where there was an actual shortage of tonnage on several of the lines. To remedy this it was decided to award the contract for constructing five additional steel liners immediately. It is possible that two of the vessels will be added to the present Seattle fleet if the business warrants. Relative to the corporation's earnings the following is culled from the last report: __ "As the result of the inauguration of the regular tri-weekly service with six vessels, consisting of three ordinary and three auxiliary steamers, this line became very popular and the volume of cargo carried to America from the east during the period under review nearly doubled as compared with the previous period, while that carried on the homeward voyages during the same period was also doubled as compared with the corte- sponding period of the last business year. According to the report and the statement of accounts, the gross profits for the first half year were 11,241,000 yen, including 6,744,000 yen of freight, 1,274,000 yen of passen- ger fares and also government subsidies and bounties, and the expenditure represented 9,002,000 yen, leaving a balance of 2,238,000 yen net profit."