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34 SHIP YARD NOTES. E. W. Heath, Tacoma, Wash., will soon launch the gasoline schooner Active, building for the Tacoma Fish Co., and which is to operate near Petersburg, Alaska. The Ker-Lloyd Iron Works, San Francisco, Cal, has a contract for the repairs to engines, boilers and hull of the army transport Sheridan, the work to be done at a cost of $1,480. ' Tra F. Bushey, foot of Twentieth street, Brooklyn, N. Y., has already delivered six of the fifteen scows he is building - for the Street Cleaning Department of the city of New York, and good prog- ress is being made on the construction of the remainder. The Moore & Scott Iron Works, San Francisco, Cal., has the contract for re- pairing and overhauling the steamer General McDowell, on their bid of $6,293, the work to be done in.18 days. The same company is to repair the steamer Riverside, for the sum of $1,404, work to be completed in seven days. Charles L. Rhode & Sons Co., Balti- more, Md., have launched a large ele- vator and dredge which is 90 ft. long, 35 ft. beam: and 9 ft..deep. Work is now being pushed on the upper works of the dredge. The harbor tug Grey- hound is being rebuilt at this yard and the iron hull barge Michael Demsey, of Philadelphia, is also being given a general overhauling. The Howard Ship Yards 'Co., Jef- fersonville, Ind. is completing a tow- boat for the Finn Steamboat Line, the dimensions of which are as follows: on it: long; 16° ft. Beam; 314 ft. deep. At the same yard a combined towboat and snagboat is being built for use of government engineers on the Kentucky tiver. This vessel is 145 ft. long, 30 ft. beam and 414 ft. deep. The Moore & Scott Iron Works, San Francisco, Cal., has obtained the con- tract for constructing a steel lighter for a South American company on their bid of $3,200. The other bids were as follows: Judson Mfg. 'Co., San Fran- cisco, $6000; United Sheet Metal Works, San Francisco, $4,590; United Engineering Works, San Francisco, $4.850; Muir & Symon, San Francisco. $4,704; Zenith Iron Works, San Fran- cisco, $4,235. The lighter is to be shipped to South America in knocked- down condition. The Bath: Marine Construction Co., Bath, Me., which has recently estab- lished its plant in the North End, has taken a contract for the construction of its first vessel. It will be a. sea- going yacht for Hartley C. Baxter, of yt THe Marine REVIEW ' Brunswick, Me., and is to be 80 ft. long and 14 ft. beam. It - will 'De equipped with two engines of 100 H. P. The Marine Boiler Works Co., Front and York streets, Toledo, O., built 15 Scotch marine boilers, 12° Ot which were installed in vessels built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works and three in a vessel built by the Toledo Ship Building OG: - The Byron Jackson Iron Works, San Francisco, Cal., are to furnish the tur- bine engines and pumps with which the two fireboats building for San Francisco are to be equipped. The hulls are being built by the Risdon Iron Works, or San Francisco. The. Luders Marine Construction Co., Port Chester, N. Y., is building a 60-ft. cruising power yacht for M. and C. Houck, of Greenwich, Conn. She was designed by A. E. Luders and is in- tended for entry in the Bermuda power boat race next season. Connell & Co.,, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, launched the sealing steamer Florizel recently. She is now being fitted up and is scheduled to leave for St. John's, Newfoundland, the last week in January. The Florizel is to have wireless apparatus installed, be- ing the first sealing vessel to be so equipped. The Heffernan Engine Works, Se- attle, Wash. has béen busily engaged on tthe work of fitting oil-burning ap- paratus in the steamships Hyades and Pleiades, the contract for the latter calling for the completion of the work by Jan. 1. The Pleiades has. been chartered by the American-Hawatian Steamship Co. for Puget Sound-Hono- lulu service. The Spedden Ship Building Co., Balti- more, Md., has recently completed two locomotive type boilers for the dredge Kennedy, owned by the Maryland Dredg- ing & Contracting Co., of Baltimore. The boilers are each 5 ft. 6 in. in diameter and 23) ft.:9: in. Jong. As: soon: as the Kennedy ceases operations on the chan- nel for the winter she will go to the yard and have the boilers installed. The W. & A. Fletcher Co., Hoboken, N. J., are pushing work on the new Hudson River Day Line steamer Tro- jan and she will be ready to .go into service early in the season. The same company has recently overhauled the en- gines and boilers of the burned steamer New York and they have been sent to Camden, N. J., to be installed in the new steamer Robert Fulton, to be built by the New York Ship Building Co. Crawford & Reid, Tacoma, Wash., lauched the steamer Daring, build'ng 'the machinery will be placed aft. for Capt. McDowell for the East Pass run between Seattle and Tacoma, o, Jan. 28. The new steamer is to pe a speedy craft and is to be equipped with the most modern passenger ac commodations. She is of wood anq is 115 ft. long, 19.6 ft. beam and 9 f depth of hold. It is expected to haye the Daring in service by April 1, Stearns & McKay, Marblehead, Mass., are building a novel cruising yacht for Henry A. Church, of Bos. ton, a well-known _yachtsman. She is to be christened Intrepid and js a 60-ft. auxiliary. schooner yacht, rigged with pole masts. The Wiiliam Cramp Ship & Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, Pa, is -- building a sea brake for the battleship ~ Indiana, consisting of a pair of wings 13 ft. long by 6 ft. wide, to be gf tached to the sides of the vessel and hinged perpendicularly, so that when it is desired to check the speed they 'may be opened. The wings are to be given a trial by the navy department with a view to equipping other ships with the device if it is successful. The New York Ship Building Co, Camden, N. J., has almost completed two of the fleet of steel barges which it is building for the Lehigh Valley Rail- road Co. for use in transporting coal from its yards at Perth Amboy to other points on the coast. This is one of the first instances of the use of steel barges for carrying coal. Each of the craft carries 1,900 tons of cargo. They are 200 ft. in length. The Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co. Newport News, Va, launched the cable-laying steamer Joseph Henry, Dec. 30. She is building for the war department and is to be completed in about two months at a cost of $200,- 000. The Henry is 200 ft. long, 32 ft. beam and 17 ft. deep and is to be fitted with twin-screw, triple expansion engines. She is designed to maintain a speed of 13 statute miles per hour. The Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va., has been awarded a contract by the Matson Navigation Co., of San Francisco, Cal. for the construction of a steamer 450 ft. long, 54 ft. beam and 24 ft. deep 'with a cargo-carrying capacity of 6,000 tons. The new vessel is to have a speed of 15 miles per hour and will cost im the neighborhood of $800,000. The New- port News company built the Lurline, 4 somewhat smaller vessel for the same owner last year. Like the Lurline the new steamer will be an oil burner and There are to be accommodations for 100 pas sengers.