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178 AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. The steamer building for the Anchor Line by the American Ship Building Co. will be named Conemaugh. The Central Dredging Co. of Cleveland has sold the tug Arthur Jones to the United States government. The new steamer building for M. A. Han- na & Co by the American Ship Building Co. will be named in honor of I. M,. Scott. She will be launched Saturday, June 12. The new steamer City of 'Cleveland went into commission between Cleveland and Detroit on June 2, Capt. Alexander McKay, commanding. The Detroit & Cleveland Line has issued a bulletin announcing that Saginaw is now reached by the Detroit & Cleveland steamers. F. H. Osborn & Co., (Chicago, Ill., an- nounce the removal of their offices to suite 403, Fort Dearborn building, 134 Monroe street. 5 Capt. Alton Cornwall, local manager for the Great Lakes Towing Co. at Ashland for five years has been appointed local manager at Toledo. 'The W. S. Rockwell Co., Hudson Terminal bldg.,.50 Church street, New York, has just issued a little circular on the Rockwell Crucible Melting Furnaces. John L. Fisher has resigned as_ business agent of the Firemen, Oilers and Water- tenders' Association at 'Cleveland. Archie Dunn has been appointed in his place. The battleship Riiesiasipel successfully com- pleted the journey of 275 miles from New Orleans to Natchez and return on the Mis- sissippi during the last week in May. The wooden steamer E. A. Shores Jr. has been purchased by the Detroit River Transit Co. from Joseph Miller of Marine City. She will be used to carry sand and gravel from Port Huron to Detroit. 'The passenger and freight steamer Lake- side has been chartered by Mr. A. E. Thomp- son of Cleveland for operation between Cedar Point and Toledo for the season. She went into dry dock at Toledo for a new wheel. Adeline Hawkins, a colored woman, was literally frightened to death by the powerful search light of the battleship Mississippi on its way up the river to Natchez. "It is the judgment light," she exclaimed, and fell dead. 'The steamer J. H. Shrigley has been sold by the' Huron & Erie Transportation Co. to the American 'Cedar & Lumber Co. and_ will be operated in the cedar and lumber trade- between Alpena and Lake 'Erie ports. The work of rebuilding the steamer Lewis- ton, Gapt. John Green, Buffalo, has been com- pleted, and she is now practically a steel ship. The Lewiston was formerly a composite of wood and steel. John Bateman, marine con- tractor of Buffalo, did the work. . Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wall- send-on-Tyne, laid the keels on Feb. 11 and 18 respectively, for two steamers of a special type designed for Canadian service on the great lakes. The ships, named Keywest and Keyport, completed their trials at sea May 10 and May 18, respectively. The steamers, are 250 ft: long, 42%4 ft. beam and 25 ft. deep. BP despatch in construction is quite respect- able. . : 'The Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co. an- nounce the opening on June 12 of its new service between Cleveland, Erie and Buffalo. The steamer State of Ohio will take care of the business on this route, leaving Cleveland on even dates at 1:30 P. M., arriving at Erie at 9 P. M., leaving Erie at 11 P. M., and arriving at Buffalo at 5 A. M. The steamer will leave Buffalo on odd dates at 3:30 P. M.,;! arriving at Erie at 9 P. M., leaving Erie at 11' P. M., and arriving at Cleveland at 6:40 A. M. 'Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Ltd., Wallsend-on-Tyne, England, launched the sin- gle deck steel steamer Kaministiqua, built to the order of the Western Steamship Co., Ltd., Fort William, Ont., on March 9. The new steamer is to enter service on the great lakes. She is of the following dimensions. Length over all, 256 ft.; beam, 43 ft.; depth, molded, 25 ft. She will be fitted with a set of triple- expansion engines with cylinders 20%, 33 and 54 in; by 36. in. . stroke, taking steam from two single-ended boilers working at a pressure of 180 pounds. The machinery was built by the Northeastern Engineering Co., Ltd., 'of Wallsend. 'The Niagara Frontier Pure Water Confer- ence has been organized for the purpose of putting a stop to the pollution of the great lakes" and' tributary waters. The conference ist composed of a committee of three each from the cities of Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Lock- port, Tonawanda and North Tonawanda, as these cities owing to geographical location are subject more than other cities to the conse- quences of water pollution from currents, pre- vailing winds and congestion of ice. The high 'Cor to "be 85 .it.. long, 20 tt. THe Marine REVIEW i to death rate from typhoid fever would seem -- prove this contention. The conference has a listed the support of the state health boards of Ohio, Michigan and New York. Capers man James S. Simmons from Niagara J alls has introduced a bill to protect the public health of which the pollution of the waters of the great lakes is made a feature. \ SHIP YARD NOTES. The repairs to the transport Buford will be made by the Moore & Scott {ron Works, San Francisco, on its bid of $12,683. The schooner Esther Ann was launched from the New England _ ship yard, Bath, Me., re- cently, for the Gilbert Transportation 'Co., of Mystic, Conn. Cobb, Butler & Co., poe pee are building a four-masted schooner 17 t. long, 39; it rueat and 14 ft. deep for Capt. J. W of Bridgeport, Conn. | Transit Co. has given contract Sparrow's Point, 85. ft. Haskell, The Coast to the Maryland Steel Co., Md., for a tank barge 234 ft. long, beam and 16 ft. 7 in. depth of hold. The American-Hawaiian Steamship 'Co. has closed contract with the Maryland Steel Co., Sparrow's Point, Md., for three steamers of 9,000 tons each for its service between the United States and Hawaii. : The San Francisco & Portland Steamship Co. has given contract to the Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock 'Co., Newport News, Va., for the construction of two large freight . and passenger steamers. John N. Robins, president of the John N_ Robins Erie Basin dry docks, has retired from active management. . H.. Todd, formerly manager of the been elected president. ; : The non-magnetic yacht Carnegte, built for the 'Carnegie Institute of Washington, De. will be launched from Tebo's ship yard, foot of Twenty-third street, Brooklyn, Ne ¥o;) 00. Saturday, June 12. ; Cobb, Butler & Co., Rockland, Me., has been awarded contract by the Benedict-Man- son Marine Co., of New Haven, for a four- plant, has masted schooner to be 175 ft. long, 35 ft. beam and 14 ft. deep. The New York Ship Building Co., Cam- den, N. J., has just delivered to the marine department of the New York Central railroad at New York a steel car float 332 ft. long, 40 ft. beam and 10% ft. deep, capable of carrying 16 cars. Dearborn & Lapham, agents for the Ameri- can-Hawaiian Steamship Co., announce that the company will build three new steamers for its service between New York, Hawaii and the orient. The plans for the steamers have not as yet been settled. Robert Palmer & Son, Noank, Conn., are to build a steamer 165 ft. long, 36 ft.. beam and 14 ft. deep for Howard Carroll, of New York, to be used in transferring the mails from trans-Atlantic liners off quarantine. The steamer will be fitted with two Almy wa- ter-tube boilers, The Maryland Steel Co., Sparrows Point, have been awarded the contract for a large tar barge by the Barrett Mfg. Co., of New York, to take the place of varge No. 101, which was lost last December. The new barge will have a carrying capacity of 300,- 000 gallons of tar. The Fore River Ship Building Co., Quincy, Mass., is to build a new steel auxiliary yacht 231 #t. long, 35 ft, beam and 16 ft. draught for Commodore James of the New York Yacht Club. Designs of the new craft will be pre- pared by Tams, Lemoine & Crane, of New York. The John W. Sullivan Co., Ninth street and East River, New York, is to build a wooden tow boat 168 ft. long, 32 ft. beam and 12 ft: 6 in. deep for T. H. Franklin, of. New York. The hull will be built by the Southern Ship Building Co., Tottenville, Staten Island. The Almy Water Tube Boiler Co. will supply the boilers. Crawford & Reid, Tacoma, Wash., are to build a scow for the Tacoma Tug & Barge beam and 8 ft. deep. Work will also soon be started on the cannery tender which is to be built at this yard for the Alaska Packing Co. This latter vessel will be 65 ft. long, 13 ft. beam and 6 ft. deep and is to be powered with 75 H. P. gasoline engines. The two steamers that the Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co. are building for the San Francisco & Portland Steamship Co. will have a length over all of about 380 ft., beam 47 ft. and depth molded to hurricane deck of 34 ft. The vessels will be schooner rigged with two steel pole masts and will have a tiers of deck houses above the hurricane eck, Junk, 1900 The navy department has distributed con- tracts among coast ship builders for five tor- pedo boats, as follows: Bath Iron Works Bath, Me., $659,000; New York Ship Building Co., Camden, N. \J., $648,000; William 'Cramp & Son Ship Building Co., Philadelphia, $637,. 000; Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va., $629,000; Fore River Ship Building Co., Quincy, Mass., $644,000. The Ocean. Steamship (Co., better known as the Savannah Line, has given contract to the Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co. for two freight and_ passenger steamers to operate between New York and Savannah. This makes five vessels that the Newport News Co has recently closed contracts for. Two of these are for the San Francisco & Portland Co, and one for the Associated Oil Co., of San Francisco. The latter is an oil burning tank steamer 390 ft. long, 49 ft. beam and 30 ft. deep. Bids opened by the lighthouse board at Washington, D. C., on April 7, 1909, for the construction of light vessel No. 94 were as follows: Racine Boat Mfg. Co., Muskegon, - Mich., $96,500; New York Ship Building Co., Camden, N. J., $113,500; Harlan & Hollings-- worth Corp., Wilmington, Del., $99,950; Maryland Steel Co., Sparrows Point, Md., $114,325; Staten Island Ship Building Co., Port Richmond, S. I., N. Y., $100,000; Wil- liam Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Fore River Co., Philadelphia, Pa., $99,400; Ship Building Co., Quincy, Mass., $102,400; Pusey & Jones Co., Wilmington, Del., $120,- 000. The keel of the replica of Robert Fulton's steamboat, the Clermont, was laid recently in the Staten Island Ship Building Co.'s yard at Mariner's Harbor. It will be launched about July 1 and will be fitted with a dupli- cate of the old engine. It will be ready to steam up the river by August 1. The. Clermont will play a prominent part in the Hudson-Fulton Celebration this fall and_ will be seen in the naval parade from New York to Newburg, traveling under its own power with wood for fuel. After the parade the Clermont will continue its trip up the Hudson and will stop for one day at each of the six county seats that touch the river. Thos. H. Franklin, of New York, has closed a contract with John W. Sullivan & Co., for a wooden steamer of 1,000 tons capacity, to engage in carrying 'cal between New York and Newburyport, towing one or more barges. The hull, which is to be built at ottenville,, S. I., "by. the Southern Shipbuilding Co., will be 168 ft lone, 32-80 beam and 12% ft. depth of hold. The en- gines will be built by John W. Sullivan & Co. They. are two compound engines, with cylinders 12 and 24 in. in diameter and 18 in. stroke. Steam will be supplied by two Almy water tube __ boilers, each allowed a pressure of 200 Ibs. It is expected the vessel will be ready for launching Aug. 1. LUBRICATION AND LUBRI- CANTS. Much has been written and spoken con- cerning the value of lubrication and how vital it is for effcient operation of any form of mechanism. Elaborate formulae have -- been given for testing different forms of lubricants, and literature of all kinds has _ been prepared with a view of exploiting all kinds of prod- ucts* of this. nature. It is not, however, essential that one should acquire an education of oils and greases, but it is imperative that a first-class article be used, for should this not be done the engineer is gaining very expensive experience. Then the primary ob- ject should be to select a well-known product, something that has a reputation, and which has been gained because of satisfaction. This gives one a perfect lubricant, something that is known to have merit. The next thing to learn is where and how to apply it. Too much oil or grease is waste and has many other equally unsatisfactory qualities. A practical and universally used lubricating agent is Albany Grease, manufactured by Adam Cook's Sons, 313 West street, New York, stated to be the first lubricant in the field being in practical use on all kinds of machinery for over forty years, and has been accepted as a perfect lubricant because of the good results under the most adverse con- ditions. Its use has been extended to every portion of the power plant where a_ solid lubricant may be employed. Engineers depend upon Albany Grease. for the lubrication of their most difficult bearings, as it is always uniform in quality, is cleaner than oil, does not drip, splash or waste ~ away. Stays where it belongs and does the