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40° NOVEL 'WELDING OF RUDDER POST. fb Supt. Louis Williams, of the Su- perior Ship Building Co., devised. a rather novel means for welding the "rudder post of the steamer Winne- bago in dry dock at Superior» last week. Capt. Ewart, of the Winne- bago, was so taken up with the work THe Marine REVIEW plate was not. burned. or injured in any way and the weld was perfect. SELLING THE MARION. The president has recently approved the plan of the navy department for selling to the highest bidder the United States steamer Marion, now lying at Mare Island, Cal., navy yard. A boatd _the NAMING THE DREADNOUGHTS. It is likely that the naming of the two new battleships of the Dread- nought class for which contracts are soon to be awarded will be, accord- ing to custom, after states. Most of states have been honored but there remain Delaware, Utah, North Dakota and New York which have that he secured several photographs of the operation. welding frequently, but. nearly always .in shops where a furnace is built for it. In this case Supt. Williams simply built a temporary brick. structure around the splice to be welded and the oil was then applied by a burner made for that purpose; using the air 'pressure from the dry dock's com- pressors to spray the oil. In _ this particular case the back post could not have been welded in any way. ex- + cept with oil, especially at the top; of the post, as the splice was only two inches from the shell plate. The Fuel oil is used for . WELDING RUDDER POST OF STEAMER WINNEBAGO. of naval officers has valued the Marion at $13.500. When offered for sale one bid only, for $2,500, was received, which could.not be accepted as itiwas below' the value fixed. The vessel will be readvertised fon sale and the new conditions will permit of the ship be- ing sold to the highest bidder, regard- less of the amount. At the same time bids: were received for the Keystone land the Lawton, the former being sold 'to Joseph G. Hintner, of Philadelphia, for $4,200 and the latter to C. Ww. Jun- gan for $57,000. no battleships named after them. New York state is eliminated as there is already an armored cruiser named aiter the city of New York. - It -is thought" likely. that Delaware and Utah will be the ones after which the new battleships will be named al- though after the admission of Oklahoma into the Union there will be another name to draw upon. It is not prob- able that the effort to induce Presi- dent Roosevelt to consent to the re- naming of the cruiser New York in order to enable one of the new bat- tleships to be named after that state will succeed,