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28 . TRAE Marine REVIEW BATTLESHIP RHODE ISLAND ON BUILDERS' TRIAL, MAKING .19.33 KNOTS. FORE RIVER SHIP BUILDING COMPANY'S YARD. A Peacripon of a Modern Yard With Special Reference to its Electrical Equipment as Supplied by the Allis- Chalmers Co. Four Wire Multiple Voltage System. The ship yard of the Fore River Ship Building Co., Quincy near Boston, Mass., although opened only a few years ago has already become one of the most important plants on the Atlantic coast for the construction of large ships, and it would be difficult to find one equipped more completely and embodying more of everything that is latest and best in engineering practice. Less than seven years old it has already contributed notable additions to the navy of the United States. The battleship - Rhode Island, was turned over to the government on Feb. another 15,000-ton battleship, the New Jersey, is receiving the finishing touches before being placed in commission; and the Vermont is lying along the fitting-out pier receiving its armor and equipment. Two torpedo boat destroyers, the Macdonough and the Lawrence were completed some 'time ago and two scout ships, the Birmingham, to have plicated mass of machinery, is constructed within the 78- acre enclosure. The Fore River ship yard is not the re- sult of slow development. It has arisen almost full- fledged without the usual early stages of experiment and trial, the management apparently thinking that whatever can be done elsewhere in a mechanical way can be done as well if not better in New England. Only the steel and the gray iron castings are brought into the yard in a semi-finished state. Even the electric equipment of the warships is now being manufactured upon the ground and the engines, both reciprocating and turbine, are built and finished in the shops. The plant is situated upon ground lying along the Wey- mouth Fore river really an arm of Boston harbor and only ten miles from the city. The area has a frontage of one and three-quarter miles. There are fifteen large build- ings and a number of smaller ones furnishing a floor area VIEW FROM WATER FRONT SHOWING BATTLESHIPS RHODE ISLAND, VERMONT AND NEW JERSEY reciprocating engines and the Salem, which will be driven by turbines, are on the ways. A low, mysterious building near the water front is reported to conceal the beginnings of four submarines. Of merchant ships several have been built and are now building. Practically every part of a battleship, that most com- of nearly twelve acres. It would be impossible to com- press into a single article descriptions of all the machines and tools employed. Some idea of the magnitude of the works may be gained fromthe statement that every conceivable labor-saving device is employed and that the number of men at work is something over 4,000. There