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-perstructure, April, 1914 length over guards, 273 ft. outside of .stern posts; 75 ft. 4 in. overguard breadth amidship; 42 ft. moulded beam; 17 ft. 3 in. from bottom~ of keel to top of main deck, amidship. The Southern: Pacific: Go; ts "build- ing at its yard in San Francisco a side- wheel, steel-hull, double-ended passen- ger ferry steamer, 292 ft. 4 in. over all, fitted with four horizontal tan- dem compound engines and four Bab- cock & Wilcox 'boilers. This. -ferry steamer will be named Alameda. The company is also building a wooden passenger and freight car transfer steamer, 433 ft. 4 in. long, fitted with four horizontal simple engines and eight Scotch dryback boilers. The company also has at the ship yard the knocked-down steel hull for a passenger ferry steamer similar to the Alameda, which will be built during the present year. This vessel will be named Santa Clara. The oil tanker Frank H. Buck was launched Feb. 11 from the' yard of the Union Iron Works. She is building for the Associated Oil Co., of San Francisco, and is the first vessel to be built on the Isherwood system on the Pacific coast.: The Frank H. Buck: is 426 ft. 9 in. long, 55 ft. 4 in. wide and 31 ft. 8 in. molded depth. The pro- pelling machinery , consists of one triple-expansion engine, with cylinder diameters 2614, 45 and 75 in., with stroke of 48 in. The Buck has four Scotch boilers 14 ft: and 11: it. 9 in. long. The hull is of steel with wood su- double-ender with rud- ders at each end. The propelling ma- chinery consists of two inclined 16 x 72-in. high pressure engines built by the Willamette Iron & Steel Works, of Portland, Ore. The paddle wheel diameter is 13 ft. 2 in. of the feather- ing type. The Leschi is equipped with Ballin water tube boilers having 4,200 sq. ft. of heating surface. The ferry was designed by Fred A. Ballin, naval architect, with L. E. Geary, naval architect, supervising the construction of the hull. The Canadian Pacific Railway Co. is completing at Okanagan Landing, B. C., for its British Columbia lake and river service, a sister ship to the steamer Nasookin. The name of this new steamer will be the Sicamous, and she will be ready for service about June 30. The company has just com- pleted a steam tug for Okanagan Lake and a steel car barge for Koote- nay Lake. It is doing no outfitting except the overhauling of the wooden stern wheel steamer Kuskanook. THE MARINE REVIEW The Alaska Steamship Co., Seattle, Wash., is altering and improving the officers' quarters and first class pas- senger accommodations of the steam- ships Mariposa and Alameda. The work is being done at the company's dock by the company's own work- men, John Wilson, Seattle, Wash., has been given contract to build a pas- senger steamer for the Kitsap County Transportation Co., to be equipped with 180 H. P. Diesel heavy oil en- gine manufactured by the New Lon- don Ship & Engine Co., Groton, Conn. The Puget Sound Boiler Works, Seattle, Wash., is rebuilding and in- stalling fuel tanks in the fishing steam- er Zapora. The boilers are to be of the Scott patent water tube type. The steel ferryboat Leschi, built for the Seattle port commission by J. F. Duthie & Co., Seattle, for service on Lake Washington, ran her steam trials lately with great success. ) The ferry has a length over all of 169 ft., breadth over guard 52 ft. 4 in., draught 4 ft. 9 in., speed 14 miles per hour, displacement 415. net tons. The ferry has accommodations for 30 vehicles and 1,000 passengers, her main cabin having a seating capacity or 275; Handling Coal at Baltimore The Rivers and Harbors Appropria- tion Bill pending in congress is of wide significance to the coal trade of Baltimore. The bill contains a pro- vision for the expending of $112,000 by the government in deepening the Baltimore harbor to 35 feet, making it possible for the largest merchant vessels and colliers of the United States navy to load coal at the Mary- land port. It is known that the Baltimore & Ohio railroad plans to enlarge its coal terminal at Curtis Bay, in the Balti- more harbor, to handle the larger vol- ume of coal traffic which will be forthcoming after the harbor has been deepened. In discussing the proposed legisla- tion with Congressmert Linthicum and Talbott, of the Maryland delegation, President Daniel Willard stated that the Baltimore & Ohio railroad will build an additional steel pier at Cur- tis Bay, which will double the ca- pacity of the present facilities there. President Willard said that the time of constructing the new pier, which will cost more than $1,000,000, will - superior 129 be dependent upon the financial condi- tion of the railroad. It is known, however, that the pier will be erected as soon as practicable after the com- pletion of the harbor improvement. Eastern coal operators, and partic- ularly those that are doing business through the port of Baltimore, pre dict a rapid growth of the trade when the proposed extension of the facili- ties shall have been put into opera- tion. Baltimore is a logical point, it is pointed out, for handling a large volume of coal. It is geographically -- located near the coal fields of West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania and Ohio; and now that the improve- ments which have been made by the Baltimore & Ohio on an extensive scale have been put into service, a low-grade route has been established which makes it possible to handle the longest trains expeditiously and eco- nomically. The need of additional facilities to handle the growing coal traffic has been recognized by the Baltimore & Ohio management for some time past, and the decision to enlarge the Cur- tis Bay terminal by the construction of an additional pier is due to the erowth of export and coastwise trade. Besides the vessels engaged in for- eign trade, and the commercial ships which handle coastwise traffic, the government has found that from the standpoint of economy, as well as the quality of the coal which can be obtained, that it is in every way logical for the naval colliers to load at Baltimore. Some idea of what it will mean to the.coal trade to have the capacity of the Curtis Bay terminal doubled may be gained by considering the present facilities. Last. year «more than 3,000,000 tons of coal were dumped over the Curtis Bay pier, and the world's record for loading a_ vessel was established on Nov. 18, 1912, when the collier Newton was loaded with 7,473 tons of coal in 3 hours and 45 minutes. The present pier is 800 ft. long, with 25 pockets on each side, and ac- commodates two vessels on each side. The yard where the shipments are assembled for loading will accommo- date 3,500 cars, which eliminates the possibility of delay to the vessels by reason of waiting for cargo. The Gulf Refining Co. of New York, has contracted with the New York Ship Building Co., Camden, N. J., for the construction of two oil tank steamers, 383 ft. long, 51 ft. beam and 30 ft. deep. These vessels will be duplicates of the Guilfoil and will be built on the Isherwood system.