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1903.] MARINE REVIEW AND MARINE RECORD. | 31 VIGILANT REGULATORS ON LAKE VESSELS. The Vigilant feed water regulator has been adopted by sev- eral steamship companies on the great lakes. It is represented for this regulator that' it makes perfect: water level a continual certainty, that it will work under all pressures and that tempera- ture or location has no effect on its operation. . The following is a partial list of companies and steamers using the Vigilant feed water regulator on the great lakes: Pittsburg Steamship Co-- Steamers Gen. Orlando M. Poe, Samuel B. F. Morse, John W. Gates, James J. Hill, Isaac L. Elwood, William Edenborn and Alexander McDougall; Provident Steamship Co.--Steamers James H. Hoyt, D. G. Kerr, James B. Reed and D. M. Clemson; Peavey Steamship Co.--Steamers Frank H. Peavey, Frederick B. Wells, Frank I. Heffelfinger and George W. Peavey; Great Lakes Towing Co.--Tug Charles F. Dunbar; Graham & Morton Transit Co.--Steamer Puritan; Dunkley-Williams Co.--Steamer City of South Haven; Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Nav. Co.--Steamer George C. Howe; West Superior Ship Building Co.--Tug Islay. Other vessels are now being fitted with the Vigilant regulator. Mr. F. P. Hamilton, the contracting sales agent with offices in Atwater building, Cleveland, has just closed contract with the Buffalo fire department to equip three fire boats with the Vigilant at once. The battleship Maine will leave the Cramp yard on Friday of this week-.on a very important trip. With her boilers over- hauled and her, gun mounts strengthened she will proceed to sea for a firing test of her repaired battery. She will then go to Newport News.,where she will be docked and her bottom cleaned. With her bunkers full her propellers will be standardized over the Barren island course, and not later than Oct. 10 she will leave for an endurance run at full' speed to Culebra island near Porto Rico, and return. This test will be watched with the greatest inter- est by the navy department, as the bureau of construction has determined to await its outcome before assuming any formal at- titude on the Niclausse boilers which are now being installed in the Missouri and Ohio and other warships. An interlocutory decree has been handed down in the United States circuit court at Portland, Me., in the case of Roland B. Conklin and others against the United States Ship Building Co. It affirms the appointment of James Smith, Jr., as receiver for the Hyde Windlass Co.; but until completion of existing con- tracts with the government the Bath Iron Works will not come into full possession of the receiver. Denver-Colorado Springs-Pueblo, Col.--Low excursion rates via Nickel Plate Road, Oct..3 and:4. Tickets good to return to Oct. 30, 03. Get particulars from nearest agent or address E. A. Akers, GC. P. & T. Aj Cleveland, OD. 165 The annual report of the Colorado. Fuel & Iron Co. for the year ended June 30 last has just been given out. The net earn- ings from operating departments carried to the credit of income account were $1,990,982, an increase of $344,921.. The total net earnings from all sources amounted to $2,057,342, which. pro- vided for all fixed charges, sinking funds, preferred stock divi- dends paid Feb. 20, 1903, etc. leaving a balance of $203,611, which was carried to the credit of profit and loss. The balance to the credit of profit and loss account is $586,112, representing accrued and undivided profits at the close of the current business year. After mentioning the additions made to the plant during the year, the outgoing president, J. A. Keller, says: "The same difficulties were encountered in operating the Minnequa plant this year as last, and all of the costs were largely increased by reason of the additional expense caused by operating the steel works, while so much construction was going on." The auditor's re- port shows that during the year $5,000,000 of new 5 per cent. ten- year gold debenture bonds was issued, and the amount outstand- ing at the end of the year was $14,068,000. Considerable surprise was expressed when the newspapers announced that Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the President, was to take a trip in the submarine torpedo boat Moccasin. Not that the Moccasin has not made trips and made them safely, but that it seemed an unnecessary instance of jeopardy; for drowning is but a matter of a few moments. What if some derarigement should occur to the machinery and the vessel should refuse to rise. Accidents will happen in the best regulated ships. In the case of a submarine the predicament would be mighty uncom- fortable. However, Miss Roosevelt has had her submarine ex- - perience. The Moccasin was tied to the dock, then submerged, and, after a few minutes, brought to the surface again. Al) of which, so long as she wanted the experience, was a very sensible arrangement. San Francisco and Los Angeles.--Via Nickel Plate Road. ° Greatly reduced fare Oct. 7 to 16 inclusive. Tickets good to re- turn till Nov. 30, '03. Get special features including stop-over privileges, etc., from nearest Agent or address E. A. Akers, C. my & To A, Cleveland, OF 166 Chicago Excursion Rates----One fare for round trip via Nickel Plate Road, September 26 and 28, 1903, for Chicago Cen- tennial Jubilee. Get full information from nearest agent or ad- dress E. A. Akers, C. P. & T. A., Cleveland, O. 167 It is quite likely now that Secretary Moody will decide in favor of 18-knot battleships instead of 17 knots for the new 13,000-ton type. Considerable opposition has been manifested to the slower speed. English Royal Navy - - : Russian Imperial Navy Argentine Navy - - - The "Messageries Maritimes" Company BELLEVILLE WATER-TUBE BOILERS NOW IN USE (FEBRUARY, 1903) On Board Sea-going Vessels, NOT INCLUDING New In- stallations Building or Erecting. | French Navy eee - - " Japanese Imperial Navy - - : Austrian Imperial Navy - 5 : Italian Royal Navy - - - Chilian Navy - - . . Chemins de fer de 'Ouest: (The French Western Railway Co.) Steamships plying between Dieppe and Newhaven oe ; ' Total Horse Power of Boilers in Use CLG 276,460 H. P. $49,300. 2 ' - ~ 1909 2 : ' - 122,700... 7 S470 13,500 1% 26,500 7. 13,000: -* - 87,600 = 16,500 - 4,634,360 Societe Ausnyme de Etablissements Delaunay Belleville CAPITAL: 6,000,000 FRANCS Works and Dock Yards of the Ermitage at Saint-Denis (Seine), France. Telegraphic Address: Belleville, Saint-Denis Sur-Seine