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July, 1909 proved reasons for their abandonment, Mr. Ward tiring advocate of the screw in prefer- is pointed out. is an un- ence to the side or stern wheel pad- dles, faith that is in him, but we fear much and gives good reasons for the tun out of the Kanawha water will and more than one generation pass away -before the riverman's confidence in and love for the old, inefficient coal- type of river steamer is At all Mr. Ward has done a service in putting so much swallowing 'displaced. events, on record. Mr. Alex, E. Brown's paper on "Ma- terial Handling Great Lakes" was canceled on account of the of the anticipated that the society will, how- Appliances. on the illness author. it is ever, have the pleasure of its presenta- Mr. best equipped for the treatment of the sub- tion at the November meeting. Brown is probably, of all men, ject, the modern methods of unloading their the first hoists" the ore docks some twenty odd years ago. "The Strength of and Brackets on and tracing inception to "Brown installed on Tae next paper, Knees Beams watieners, by Mr. Herman R. Hunt, is a comparison of the proportions used in the U. S. Navy with Lloyds Rules, and of the loads beam and rivet sections, imposed on with recom- it will be builders and mendations based thereon. found of interest to ship designers in their treatment of these members. The paper on "Towing . Problems" by Thos. S. Kemble, of the Chase Machine Co., Cleveland, was one of the most valuable of those presented, and involved an enormous amount of original research work. On both At- lantic and Pacific coasts and on the © Great Lakes the towing of large con- sorts or fleets of barges on the towing machine has long been common and Tecently the Standard' Oil Co: .has adopted trans-Atlantic towing on a large scale. Accidents to hawsers and machines have occurred and _ contro- Versies occasioned by the excessive amount of dip allowed in reason of hawsers, because masters insisted on using lengths of haw- Ser without realizing either the actual necessity the certain therefor or amount TARE Marine REVIEW of consequent. dip or sag. No in- formation or data has been available for their guidance and in any event it is impossible to estimate from the steamer or the barge the actual amount of dip. Mr. Kemble has put this in compact that, the length of line out, which is of course form so knowing simple, and the effective thrust of his ship, which is easily calculated for any speed and trim, and kept conveniently in a notebook for reference, a glance at the curve chart will give the sag for any of the sizes of line ordinarily Or, the depth of water of course, the he 'carl -at a knowing least (which is, maximum dip allowable) used. glance find the greatest length of line which can be used. here are, other points treated, such as the stretch and strengths of wire and manila lines, the operation of the towing machine, etc., and a unique set of diagrams from 2 towing machine in heavy weather, illustrating the operation of the auto- matic device in paying out and recov- ery. As an .example of the extent to which excessive lengths of line are sothetimes carried, an instance is given of the and Navahoe fouling bottom in pass- hawser between the Iroquois ing over the Grand. Banks where the least depth is stated to be 70 fathoms. It is doubtful if the members of the Society realize as yet the enormous amount of patient labor required in the preparation of this paper and that _very few would have undertaken it at all. : , ' Altogether, to. quote the words of Mr. Stevenson Taylor, "the next vol- ume of the Transactions will be fre- quently referred to." NAVAL COAL AND PACIFIC COAST SHIPPING. The article elsewhere reprinted from Railway & Marine News is a sober and moderate statement of a disgrace- ful fact. It is an addition to the ac- cumulating load of naval maladminis- tration and reckless waste, even if no worse be said, which will inevitably end in disgrace and rcurganization, if it does not in the meantime result in Disgust is too moderate a it does not fit the case Stub- disaster. term to use; nor will it help to rectify it. : shipping. Zao born wrongheadedness occurs to us as descriptive of navy methods. Surely we are an optimistic people to believe that the nation's defenses are best en- trusted to those who care nothing for the nation's interests. Our enemies, if we have any, certainiy could not wish our navy to be in better hands. 'There is not only no reason why Pacific Coast coal should not be and is not perfectly suitable to our navy for peace purposes; but there is no justification for using any other. What under the sun would a fleet on the Pre- sumably haul coal across by rail. The worst that canbe said of Pacific coast Pacific coast do in war time? coal for naval work is that it is more smoky than that. bought on the At- lantic coast. It is slightly inferior in But when freight is added, it will do double the work for a dollar that the eastern coal will do. The navy seems to think it exists for heating value. itself alone and is so bound up in its etiquette and ceremonials, that it has become entirely oblivious to every other interest. Here is another swarm of foreign the Pacific coast without engagements, to further tramps turned loose on demoralize an already languishing If the navy cannot and will not move a finger in time of "peace to help our shipping, God help it in the lack . of eastern coal furnished by favored con- time of war. Perhaps tractors. under. a_ so-called "standard specification," will be a convenient ex- cuse. 25 _ Over a year and a half ago, before the spectacular magazine attacks were made on the navy, there was sub- mitted to THE Marine Review a series of articles bearing on the administra- tion of the naval funds and the con- duct of naval business by a gentleman well known in shipbuilding and en- gineering circles who wrote from ac- tual contact and observation. At that time we hesitated to publish them and they have never been published, but beginning with the August number we shall begin their publication. The navy has demonstrated over and over again its utter indifference to any- thing or anyone outside of itself and there is no reason why it should be