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VOU xx XK. CLEVELAND. ©... DECEMBER 8 12904. Nop 2s. CANADIAN FISHERIES CRUISER VIGILANT The revenue cutter Vigilant, built for the Dominion govern- ment by the Polson Iron Works, Toronto, for the protection tions for officers and crew are all arranged below the main deck and are well provided with light and air. The vessel has a singular handsome appearance and is entirely the product CANADIAN FISHERIES CRUISER VIGILANT. of the Canadian fisheries on Lake Erie, recently visited a number of cities and has gone into ordinary for the winter at Detroit. The Vigilant is a flush deck vessel, having a ram bow and elliptic stern of a somewhat similar type to the sma!l cruisers in the British naval service. Under forced draft she can make nearly 18 miles an hour, so that she is consid- erably faster than any fishing craft on the lakes. The Vigi- lant is schooner rigged with jib headed foresail and mainsail. She is constructed of steel throughout and is of the following dimensions: Length on load water line, 176 ft.; beam, molded, 22 ft.; depth from top of keel to top of main deck, 14 ft. aan; draught, loaded with 50 tons of coal, 8 ft. She is fitted with two sets of triple-expansion engines, having cylinders 13%, 22 and 36 in. diameters by 2i-in. stroke, supplied with steam from two Scotch boilers 1114 ft. in diameter and 13 ft. long, built for working pressure of 200 lbs. The accommoda- of the Polson Iron Works staff, the government accepting her without the slightest modification. The steamer Victorian building at Belfast for the Allan Line will sail on her maiden voyage to Montreal on Feb. 23rd next. She will be the first passenger steamer to be equipped with turbines to cross the Atlantic ocean. Healy, Tibbitts & Co., contractors, have offered to construct the new wharves at San Francisco for the Pacific Mail Steam- ship Co. for $309,673, if a single-decked wharf is built, and for $320,673 if the wharf is double-decked. The cement will cost $42,000 additional. The harbor commissioners will lease the wharves to the highest bidder, the lessee to pay the cost of construction and be repaid in the form of rent.