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DEVOTED TO EVERYTHING AND EVERY INTEREST CONNECTED OR ASSO- CIATED WITH MARINE MATTERS © ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. Published every Thursday by The Penton Publishing Co. CLEVELAND. BUPFALO 3 isc ccee ce cecesc CHICAGO CINCINNATI ...!..,.124 Government Place. NEW YORK, ,,..:....1005 West Street Bldg. PITTSBURG = sce. can wees 521 Park Bldg. SDUBU TLE icine: +e-ee411 Providence Bldg. 932 Ellicott Sq. Correspondence on Marine Engineering, Ship Building and Shipping Subjects Solicited. Subscription, U. S. and Mexico, $3.00 per annum. Canada, $4.00. Foreign, $4.50. Subscribers can have addresses changed at will. Change of advertising copy must reach this office on Thursday preceding date of publication. ae The Cleveland News Co. will supply the trade with the Marine Review through the regular channels of the American News Co. European Agents, The International News Company, Breams Building, Chancery Lane, London, E. C. England, Entered at the Post Office at Cleveland, Ohio, as Second sted Matter. July 4, 1907. A SUGGESTED BOOK OF TECH- NICAL CLIPPINGS. In perusing a technical paper the engineer will probably take a prelim- inary glance through the pages with the object of 'selecting the articles of most interest to him. Having read these articles, those _of minor impor- tance follow in due.érder. The likeli- hood is' that the whole contents of the paper will be read, with more or less interest according to the value of the article and time at the disposal of the engineer, before being discarded. 'There may be-amongst these arti- cles some matter which the engineer wishes to preserve for future use, in which event the paper is placed on one side, pro tem, perhaps to be final- ". "arown out with numerous others le hurry of the owner's departure, veesets'eesee 1362 Monadnock Bik.' iE EE icy "TAE Marine. REVIEW or as am. inconvenient addition to @ marine engineer's baggage. Most marine engineers have in their possession a note-book in which they jot down, from time to time, any val-. infor-, uable data, formulae, or other' mation. they may find of use in their profession, the size, system, and gen- eral appearance of the book being a good indication of its value in the eyes of the owner. 1o2gtn Why book which could be preserved any matter of value published in the -technical pa- pers--a clippings or scrap book? not -have anothér in With the limited accommodation of a marine engineer's cabin it is next to impossible to preserve back num- bers of technical papers, loose or in boufd form, for the sake of such arti- cles as the engineer considers are of Of where it is not inconvenient to do: so, vital interest to him. course, the preserying of the papers, in a binder destruction of the matter of use to is advisable, but the wanton the engineer, because' the paper can- not be preserved in the whole, is cer- tainly deplorable. :~ Such a-book as is suggested, divided eut under various heads, would be in- Arti- cles on engine, boiler, or dynamo con- valuable in. an engineer's eyes. struction, -gleaned from various Sources, could be. filed for reference, as could descriptions of the latest de- signs in the build of merchant and war ships. There are several types of blank books, ledgers, or the ordinary scrap book, which could be used for. this. purpose, the time expended,)in clipping and indexing the articles be- ing but a few minutes of the engi- neer's time off. watch. CARRYING COAL IN FOREIGN co SELLE S. The ae "department has fecenily , been chartering British ships to carry 'coal from Norfolk to San Francisco and Puget Sound ports: . This is in direct violation of the coastwise laws of the United States. If any citizen attempted to do the same thing' his goods would be confiscated. The rea- son given by the navy department for this action is that sufficient Amer- ican vessels are not available to mect and shipping. - the needs of.the service,,)It..is. also there famine on the Pacific coast last win- .., was.a° Coal represented that ter, the navy department being prac- tically obliged to supply at cost gov- ernment institutions on the Pacific coast in the vicinity of Sitka, Bremer- ton and, Mare Island, and including the and public schools, light-house board, coast survey and. consequently the navy department stock was. re- duced below what would have been permitted otherwise. The navy de- partment adds that it earnestly desires to ship coal and all other naval sup- plies transported by sea in American vessels, being willing to pay fair rates for transportation. American ship owners are not at all convinced that the chartering of for- eign vessels by the navy department was necessary. Within a year they point to the fact that several Ameri- can vessels offering to convey naval coal to the Pacific coast have been re- The difference in price was not material, jected by the navy department. American' vessels having offered to carry the coal at $6.50 per ton, $6.25 The navy department had pre- as against now allowed foreign ships. viously been purchasing foreign coal for from $6.80 to $7.25 per ton, in- cluding duty, but the sharp advance in the foreign commodity had made the purchase of this coal prohibitive. Now this foreign coal was delivered n-~ bounty- fed_ ships, cutting directly into two American industries--mining In. purchasing its coal in the United States the navy depart- ment. has encouraged one department of American. industry, but if it would adopt the policy of shipping its coal by American vessels, even if it had to pay a small premium to get them, it -- would contribute a wide benefit upon the entire country. There would be sufficient American ships offering, or built to offer, if the national govern- ment could be persuaded to be fair to the American ship. ONE YEAR'S SHIPBUILDING. The total tonnage of merchant ves- sels built in the United States and of- ficially numbered by Bureau of Navigation during the fiscal year ended the