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308 connection. Double doors lead from the buffet to an observation deck, where an unobstructed view of half the horizon may be enjoyed. All of the toilets, bathrooms, and crew's rooms throughout the ship are laid with asbestos composition flooring, which is seamless, sanitary and practically impervious to wear. The hallways and buffet are floored with cork tile which is noiseless. The designing of the cabins was put in the hands of Abner Crossman, of Chicago, who previous to his retire- ment, was a leading decorator of the City, Auxiliary Appliances. The Alabama is equipped through- out with all the latest improved ap- pliances for the safe-guarding of the passengers against fire and the ele- ments. The twelve large life boats are handled by Welin quadrant davits. The Alabama is the first boat on the great lakes to be entirely equipped with these davits. A sprinkler -sys- fem 'in all patts of the. ship, with thermostats in every room and else- where, augment the regular fire sys- tem, which is served by a large verti- cal fre pump of the fire boat type. Push buttons and thermostats oper- ate annunciators in the purser's room, engine room and on the bridge. Schu- ette recording compasses, made by the Schuette Recording Compass Co., Manitowoc, Wis. The steering gear is of the Wil- liamson differential type directly at- tached to the rudder stock and oper- ated by the Williamson telemotor. A hand gear is also located on the up- per deck, ait. All the state rooms and crew's rooms are provided with wash stands, - supplied with running water. The electric plant consists of three 35- kilowatt General Electric Co.'s turbo- generators operating 1,500 incandes- cent lamps and a 5,000 candle power search light. Emergency electric lights are furnished with current from a stor- age battery. These lights. provide il- lumination in the corridors and stairways in case of accident to the generating ap- paratus. The storage battery in use is composed of 56 cells type E T, chloride accumulator in glass jars, manufactured by the Electric Storage Battery Co., Allegheny avenue and Nineteenth street, Philadelphia. There are two hydraulic freight elevators with platforms 8 ft. square. The propelling machinery consists of one triple expansion engine, with cylinders 23 in., 38 ind. 62 x 36 ing driving a sectional four-bladed pro- THE Marine REVIEW peller of 12 ft. in diameter, 120: 5. pp. m. and developing 2,250 H. P. ' The condensing outfit includes a surface condenser with an area of three thousand square feet, an 8-in. double section, centrifugal circulating pump direct connected to a 6-in. x 6- in. engine, and a 16-in. x 32-in. Prat- Rotrex air pump. The auxiliaries consist of feed, gen- eral service, bilge, sanitary and fresh water pumps, an Ahren's 10-in. x 6-in. x 8-in. vertical fire pump and two 30- in. water filters. The refrigerating plant, using the carbonic anhydride process machine, is installed in the engine room and piped to the various refrigerators in all parts of the ship. The! boiler installation consists of a battery of three Scotch marine boil- ers: 12 -it. 6. in, diameter and 11°ft. long, carrying 180 lb. of steam. The boilers are placed three abreast across the ship with a common uptake and there is a 12 ft. fire hold and an ath- © wartship coal bunker. Each boiler has two 48 in. Morison furnaces and 206 3-in. tubes, 8 ft., 54 in. long. The grate surface is 48 sq. ft. and the heating surface 2,020 sq. ft. for each boiler. The draft is a modified How- den system, with a 48-in. fan direct connected to a 7-in. x 7-in. engine running 400 r. p. m. The fan is placed in the engine room on the main deck and tends to make the machinery space very comfortable. Two 36-in. ventilators also lead into the fire room and the stokehold is unusually cool. Passenger Steamer for Puget Sound The Puget Sound Navigation Co. has closed a 'contract with the Moran Co., of Seattle, for the construction of another day passenger steamer for use on its run from Seattle to Iron- dale and Port Townsend, Wash. The new vessel is to be named the Sioux, and will measure 155 ft. over all length, 23 ft. molded beam, and 8 ft. 6 in. molded depth, with a carrying capacity of 400 passengers. Although not as large as some of the Puget Sound Navigation Co.'s boats, the Sioux will be finely finished through- out in hardwood, with the interior of the cabin and dining saloon done 'in mahogany. On the boat deck will be quarters for the officers, and on the main deck forward a smoking room, Her propelling machinery will consist of a triple expansion engine built by the Moton. Co., and: water tube boil- ers fitted for oil fuel. The Sioux will cost approximately $125,000 and it is a sinall August, 1910 planned to have her completed about December, 1910. Frank E. Burns js manager of the Puget Sound Navi- gation Co. Navy Coaling Station Preliminary surveys are being made at the navy yard, Puget Sound, for a 200,000-ton coaling station, to be lo- cated at the west end of the navy yard. If congress will make the nec- essary appropriations for the pur- pose, the department contemplates making at the navy yard the coaling station for the Pacific fleet, at which - is to be kept at all times a great re- serve supply of coal, not only for present purposes, but sufficient to meet any demand which war might make upon the resources of the coun- fey, With the opening of the coal mines of Alaska, which cannot be delayed many years further, the supply of coal for naval "uses ion. the Pacific will come from those mines. The Puget Sound yard will naturally be the lo- cation of the largest and most im- portant coaling station, for the ma- jority of commercial vessels now ply- ing to Alaska arrive and depart from Puget Sound. With the exception of an occasional cargo, the steamships plying to Alaska do not bring large return cargoes. The opening of the Alaska coal mines will give return cargoes for many steamships and the government should get low freight rates on the coal which it needs for naval uses. The department has re- served a site for a naval coaling sta- tion on Resurrection Bay, near Se- ward, Alaska, which will doubtless be utilized to a considerable extent when title is released to the Matanuska coal lands and when the Alaska Northern is completed to that great coal field. The Dode, owned by the Straits Steamship Co., plying between Se- attle and Port Townsend, went ashore at Marrowstone Point near Port Townsend on July 20. The falling' tide left her stranded on the beach and a storm on the following. day pounded the vessel badly, smashing her house and upper works. After several attempts to float her at high tide, she was abandoned to the un- derwriters and has been sold to the insurance adjusters. The Dode was passenger steamer of 215 tons gross register built at Hoquiam, Wash., in 1896, and was originally the William J. Bryant. She was 98.8 ft. long, 21.6 ft. beam and 7.9 ft. draught, registered from Port Townsend.