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November, 1914 Chamber of Commerce has fully represented a large majority of the progressive merchants and manu- Pecturers of the city). As an "out growth of the effort to get the stop- on through _ tickets, hundreds of thou- sands of people are brought annually to Philadelphia. by more than 50 ex- cursions which the railroads now run success- over privilege mentioned above, every season to the New Jersey coast resorts. It was one of 'the first or- ganizations in the country to estab- lish a freight bureau, which has 'brought to Philadelphia additional fpeilities,.. protected... the. city's.com- merce in the adjustment of rates "and classifications, and has given the mem- bers of the organization direct and by quoting rates, advice as to routing, collecting claims and adjusting over- valuable «service freight giving charges. The action it has taken on funda- mental questions has always been received with respect by national and state legislative bodies, and through the work of its various committees on insurance, municipal affairs, telephone and electrical affairs, harbor and navi-- gation, banking and currency and others, it has well served the people of Philadelphia. But' it -is felt that should the support which now is given to the various associations existing in Philadelphia be concentrated in 'car- rying forward the work of one asso- ciation, its usefulness could be vastly increased, the money which is now spent by business men upon divergent affairs could be expended without waste and a stronger feeling of co- operation would be created among manufacturers and merchants. I cannot close without taking the opportunity of expressing to you, and with. much feeling, the felt by citizens of Philadelphia in having as our director of the ~de- partment of wharves, docks and fer- ries a man of the stamp of Hon. Geo. W. Norris; without wanting to reflect in any way upon the occupancy of any other department (which are all heing administrated to an unusually high degree) it should be noted that in Mr. Norris we have a man who represents every quality necessary to the efficient handling of so important a branch of the city's affairs, and as a member of the mayor's cabinet his wide knowledge and experience in both law and banking has made him an important factor in the municipal administration. When he leaves his place will be difficult to fill, and so it is our earnest hope that higher honors of a national character will not allure him from our municipality. satisfaction $7,116,000. THE MARINE REViE®w@ New Oil Tanker The new. oil tanker Cuyahoga built by the Greenock & Grange- mouth Dockyard Co., Ltd., Greenock, has been: added to the fleet of the Anglo-American Oil Co. Ltd., Lon- don. Zhe Cuyahoga is 376 feet by 53 feet 3 inches, by 23-feet draught, and carries 6,550 tons of oil in' 23 tanks. "Her engines are triple expan- sion with cylinders 27, 44 and 73- inch diameters by 48-inch stroke, sup- plied with steam from three large boilers. There is installed in her complete pumping machinery for the rapid handling of oil cargo, and heat- ing coils have been fitted throughout the cargo tanks to facilitate the rapid discharge of the very heaviest grades of oil. The vessel is fitted with wire- less telegraphy and has a complete outfit of deck machinery and electric lights throughout. On her speed trial she easily maintained a mean speed of 1334 knots for six hours. The Cuya- hoga has been built to the highest class of Lloyds under special survey and in accordance with the latest prac- tice for this class of work. French Ladder Dredge Badger The old French ladder dredge Bad- er, built in Belgium in 1886 and oper- ated in the Pacific entrance channel at Panama by the second French canal company and later beached, has been condemned on account of a defective hull. She is being stripped at the Cris- tobal dry dock and will probably be used as a boat landing at Balboa. The Badger was recovered by the Ameri- cans and rebuilt in 1908 at the Balboa shipways at a cost of $58,624.50. With the exception of about four months of work in the Culebra cut, she was oper- jated in the Pacific entrance almost con- tinuously since that time. The hull of the Badger is of iron, and is 112 feet 2 inches long, 29 feet 6 inches beam, and 11 feet 6 inches deep. The ladder was equipped with -- 32 buckets of 15 cubic feet capacity, and below the surface of the water.., In its rebuilt form, the dredge burned fuel oil, under three Scotch marine boilers, 96 inches in diameter by 103 inches. long. The main engines were two in number, | of French make, vertical tandem 'comes pound, with. 12%, ---- and 14'%-inch stroke. Three New Battleships The navy department has awarded contract to the Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va. for the construction ofa 32,000-ton battleship, on its bid of Contract was also award- _ gation, 409 ed the New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, N. J., on its bid of $7,175,000 for the construction of a similar bat- tleship. The other bidders were the Cramp Shipbuilding Co., Philadelphia, at $7,625,000, and the Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation, Quincy, Mass., at $7,440,000. A third battle- ship of equal size will be built in a government yard. These vessels are of the group comprising numbers 40, 41 and 42, already named by Secre- tary Daniels as the California, Missis- sippi and Idaho. These vessels will be the largest yet designed for the United' States navy, each having a displacement of 32,000 tons, while the Nevada and Oklahoma have a dis- placement of 27,500 tons. The prin- cipal dimensions are as _ follows: Length over all, 624 feet; breadth be- tween perpendiculars, 600 feet; breadth extreme, 97 feet 4% inches; draft, 30 feet; speed, 21 knots. The main bat- teries will consist of twelve 14-inch guns and four submerged submarine tubes, and the torpedo defense bat- tery will consist of twenty-two 5-inch rapid fire guns. The vessels will be turbine-driven, fitted with oil-burning boilers of the water-tube type, and will be heavily armored. The salvers at work on the sunken steamer Empress of Ireland have re- covered the purser's safe containing a lareec amount of silver bullion and valuables belonging to passengers. Seven bars of silver bullion out of a total of $250,C00 have been recovered, as well as a number of mail bags. The work of bringing bodies to the surface continues in a_ satisfactory manner, considering the fact that the vessel lics in over 130 feet of water. The levels of the Atlantic and Pa- cific oceans at Panama at certain stages. of the. tide differ materially. a Panama, the difference between high and low water is usually 13 feet and at. 'times 19 feet, while at Colon cat is not much over 23. inches. capable of digging to a depth of 45 feet. current that would be "produced by _this circumstance i a. Sede level. anal 'The would. s¢riously., interfere with" navi- but under the. adopted lock canal : this does not obtain. The Suez »canal_-presented no such 'difficulty, here Being practically no difference ide ievel at Port Said and Suez. It is reported that the United States Steel Products Co. is the low bidder on about 6,000 tons of fabricated ma- terial for a coaling dock at Cristobal, Panama, 'and the Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. has been awarded 650 tons of caisson plates for Panama canal work.