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34 of 60: to 75 pounds. This is due en- 'tirely to cutting out the leaks in. the valves and couplings. The increased air pressure also allows the operators ' to work better and faster. The use of these couplings has also permitted a reduction in the size of the hose used from 34-inch to %-inch, due to the full area of the hose being avail- able in the coupling. F. C. Pahlow, the inventor, is located at 278 Clark -avenue, Detroit. . PACIFIC COAST NOTES. Office of the Marine REVIEW, 302 Pioneer Bldg., Seattle, Wash., Feb. 27. By means of an amendment to the sundry civil bill, the $140,000 which _ Pacific coast shipping interests have asked for additional aids to naviga- tion on the Alaska coast has been appropriated by congzess. While the coast interests feel that the sum now available is insufficient to provide all the protection to shipping that would be desirable, the appropriation is a big step in the right direction. money will be utilized to build addi- tional: lighthouses, to set oul gas buoys, and common buoys, to study tidal currents and otherwise increase the' safety of navigation along the Alaska coast. - The cable ship Burnside which re- cently returned to Seattle after re- pairing the break in the Alaska cable will prepare at once for a trip to San Francisco, where she will be engaged for some time in laying the cables from the Presidio to A'catraz, Angel island and other army posts. The steamer Daring, launched re- cently from the yards of Crawford & Reid, Tacoma, is now at Caledonia bay, where her cabin fittings are be- ing put in. The Daring will be ready for service on her run between Seattle and Tacoma about March 25. The work of enlarging and refitting the old stcamer Vashon is progressing rapidly at the yards of Philip D. Sloan. It is expected to have the steamer ready for the water by April 1. A new Almy water-tube boiler has been purchased to take the place of the old fire tube boiler. The new stern wheel will be 14 ft. wide by 21 ft. 6:in. in diameter: The old wheel was 18 ft. in diameter. With her new outfit the Vashon is expected to make 17 miles per hour. The Great Northern Steamship Co.'s liner Minnesota, which is now in port in Seattle undergoing routine repairs will leave outward bound che. The MARINE REVIEW March 20. The rumor, emanating from Port Townsend, that the Minne- sota would clear before March 20 with a heavy cargo of government freight and that she would call only at Manila and Hongkong is officially Aewied . The' reason for. setting the Minnesota's departure so far in _ad- vance is that business is light at the present time and March 20 is consid- ered an opportune date for tourists to leave for Japan in order to see that country at its best. The reason of extending the route to Manila is that there is prospect of securing more cargo and especially, of booking more passengers. The itinerary calls for stops in Japan and at Shanghai, China, from which port the liner proceeds to Manila and then to Hongkong, which remains the oriental terminus. The army transport Logan has been givena trial trip in San Francisco bay preparatory to her departure for the Philippines, March 8. The trial was in every way satisfactory. The Logan has been practically rebuilt at the Risdon Iron Works. The steamer Excelsior which has been: laid up for the past year has been placed in commission and will take a cargo of lumber from Portland to. San Francisco, The port of Portland have invited proposals for the construction of two steel sea-going bar tugs to be built on plans previously described in the Ma- RINE Review. The bids will be opened March 1l-at 4p. m. Proposals.for a steel hull, stern wheel river tug will be received in a short time. The Weir trans-Pacific line will shortly add the new British steame- Yoseric now on her way around from Philadelphia to Santa Roslia and thence to Puget Sound and the steam- er' Jeseric, now trading across the Atlantic. The company will operate the four steamers Suveric, Kumieric. Jeserie and. Yoseric in a monthly service between Puget Sound ports and Manila. Construction has been commenced by the British Columbia Marine Rail- ways Co. on a new passenger steamer for the excursion trade on Victoria rine _ It is stated in San Francisco ship- pine circles that as a result of 'the announcement by the new owners of the Union Iron Works that the use of the Hunter's Point dry dock would _ be denied to independent concerns, Moore, Scott & Co. are planning to purchase the shipyards of W. A. Boole & Sons, on Oakland creek. Several. large firms are contemplating | the building of wharves of their Own, and the Risdon Iron Works proposes to coffer-dam the steamer Admiral] Sampson while that vessel is being repaired. The new tracks of the Northern Pacific Ry. between Kalama and Van- couver are in such soft shape, due to heavy rainfall, that it is considered -- unsafe to operate heavy trains over this line and therefore the old ferry 'across the Columbia between Kalama and Goble may be again pressed into service after it was thought she had been permanently put out of commis- sion. , It is expected that when the weath- er becomes settled work on the: north jetty will be resumed and a full crew will be put at work.' A foreévor 1) men will be needed to carry on the improvements, and six large vessels owned by the Coastwise Steamship & Bargo Co. will be in constant use: $400,CO0 remains in the fund for the carrying on of this improvement. and Three hundred sixty-five thousand dollars will be = speu by the Northern Pacific rail- way in improvements to. «4s wharves in Seattle on work now under way or just. completed: , Per mits were taken out recently for im- provements to piers 1 and 2 aggre- gating $300,000. The improvements will consist of the extension of the two piers from 450 to 750 ft. carry- ing them to the outer harbor line, as has been done with the Pacific (Coast. Co, and Colman piers. . The «= tension will rest on creosoted piling and will be substantial than work done in the past. more B. N. Baker, formerly president of the Atlantic Transport Co., is in San Francisco working with local shippers for the establishment of an independ- ent line of steamships between that port and La Boca. Baker was intet- ested in the proposition by HS: Bates, who was sent east to procure aid for an independent line. - The Stetson Post & Mill Co, of Seattle, Wash., has begun the construc- tion of a 75-ft. oil-burning tug to be used in connection with the company's milling plant.