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going to talk like that he would not have appointed him toastmaster. In his remarks he gave one to wunder- stand that building ships for Mr. Coulby was not a matter of unmixed joy as his specifications were usually pretty rigid. Mr, We. G, introduced, Pollock, made a upon being most excellent He said that in naming ships the companies named them first of all after those that had the money to pay' for them, such as Amasa Stone and Samuel Mather; then they speech. named them after the pirates, such as James H. Hoyt: and: Harve, 1, Goulder; then after the dock men, such as Mr, Andrews, John A. Don- aldson and W. G. Pollock; then after any old banker who would take the bonds, and finally after the men of great prominence inthe trade, such as. Alva C, Dinkey, and he hoped to live long enough to see an 800-ft. ship named after John R. Scott. Brief speeches were made by Mr. Hermon A, Kelley and by Mr. W. P. Palmer, president of the American Steel & Wire Co. Mr. Palmer's re- marks were of extreme felicity, but the one thing that hurt his feelings, he said, was the fact that the rigging of 'the "Dinkey "as "made" of /Bnelish rope. He assured the American Ship Building Co. that Steel Corporation rope was quite as good as English rope. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Alva C. Dinkey, Miss Leonora Dinkey, Mr. and Mrs. Kentch, Mrs. Taylor and I. M. Jenks, of Pittsburg; Mr. Harry Coulbys Mrvand Mra) C Wallace, Mr. R. C. Wetmore, Mr. J. Ly Wallace,: Mr: Hy Wallace, <Mr. Robert Logan,: Mr, O. N. Steele, Mr. E. -C, Collings Mr. Robert Wallace, Capt. and Mrs. Charles L. Hutchinson, Mr. John M. Mulrooney; Mr. Walton H, MecGeans; Mr. WB. Fiteh.., Mr. F. Bu: Smithy Mr. W. We Watterson, Capt. and. Mrs... W--J.. Hunt, Capt. W. W. Smith, Mr, Hermon A. Kelley, Mr. Frank:..La..Marche,, Mr... Archie Paton, Capt. Ralph > Lyons Mr. -W. H. Bosworth, Miss Mary Bosworth, Miss. Ethel Forbes, Mr, and Mrs. E. M. Sprague, Mr. and Mrs. George Smart,... Me. <F dee bandon, ir: Charles Gibson, Mr. Roy Williams, Capt. Ralph .Byrns, -Gapt. H.. F. .Kel- ley, Capt. Feed: A. Daley, Cant. S.C. Allen. and Mr, -Charles..B.. : Calder, Toledo. The Dinkey is 600 ft. over all, 580 ft. keel,.58 ft. beam and 32 ft. deep, having 34 hatches spaced 12-ft. cen- ters, She will have triple expansion TAE Marine Review 33 THIS PHOTOGRAPH DOES NOT SHOW THE DINKEY LEAVING THE STOCKS BUT WAS TAKEN AS SHE WAS MAKING HER SECOND ROLL TO STARBOARD. engines with cylinders 24, 39 and 65 in. diameters by 42-in. stroke, supplied with steam from two*Scotch boilers, 16 it. by 1} ft. 6-im) fitted ath. Bilis & Eaves: draft and allowed: 170 Ibs. pressure. She will be sailed by. Capt. WJ etluat ete co NORMAND & CO. : Mr. Joseph Normand, who for 10 years thas 'been superintendent for Hunkin Bros. Construction Co. of Cleveland, has formed a company to be known as Normand & Co., and has purchased the steamer Mentor, which is equipped with a steel derrick with lifting 'capacity of 20 'tons, centri- fugal pump capacity 45,000 gallons per minute, and will carry on business ot diving, wrecking, submarine pipe lay- ing and sand and gravel dredging, The steamer Mentor. can be. reached at. any time at the Cuyahoga Boiler Works, or 6610 Wakefield avenue. The Cleveland lodge of the Licensed Tugmen's. Protective Association has elected the following officers: E. E, Kemmett, president; Fred Carroll, vice president; Willis Brown, corres- ponding secretary; Joseph Normand, treasurer and financial sectetary; Fred Carrol, A. G. Reagan, .Wm.- Dar trustees; W. J. Ryan, chaplain. George W. Smith, superintendent of the. Seneca Transportation. Co, af Buffalo, which is the Lackawanna Steel Co.'s lake fleet, has been elected president of the Central Railway club. Mr. Smith is also traffic manager of the Lackawanna Steel Co. William Ingersoll Bowditch, a_ fa- mous navigator and author of several books on: nautical subjects, died. at his home in Brookline, Mass., Jan. 24, at the advanced age of 89. Mr. Bowditch was a son of Capt. Na- thaniel Bowditch, a famous navigator, was born at Salem, Mass., and was a classmate at Harvard of James Rus- sell Lowell, the eminent American poet.