VOL. 46 CLEVELAND FEBRUARY, 1916 NEW YORK No. 2 N leyeny i 1908. MIDE RING How Much Steam Could You Save if your engine had no valve friction? ‘The steam pressure load on slide valves is enormous and often leakage is great. VAPORIIGHI @ Baker Balanced Piston Valves eliminate both leakage and valve friction because of our patented ring combination and cage. The engine will require no change to install this valve. @ Thousands of engines of all types have been equipped with Vapor Tight Baker Valves and Piston Rings and through nine years have experienced a saving of from 10% to 80%. These are a few of our installations: U. S. Steamer ‘“‘Chickasaw’’; U. S. Tug ‘‘Horace Harding’’; U.S. Steamer “Sylvia’’; U. S. Steamer “Poe”: U. S. Dredge “Wahalak”; U. S. Dredge ‘Charleston’; Tug, “Tohn E. McAllister’, McAllister Bros., N. Y. City; Steamer ‘ ‘Luckenback”’ Luckenback, Sao. COm Nees Steamer “Constance”, Cal. Trans, Con Skis Cal.; Steamer ‘Kalkaska”’ Pilsen Lbr. Chicago; Tug, ‘J. L. Williams” j ane Towing Coz Duluth; Tug ‘ ‘Henry W.”, Lake Superior Towing Co., Bayfield, Wis.; Steamer “Mary Scott’, John E. Doherty, Ashland, Wis.Tus (CoP: Raymond’’, Fred B. Dalzell Go-: Nc Ves City; Tug ‘‘Lee Kimball, Jr.’’, Pascagoula, Miss., Pascagoula Towing Co. Write for full particulars BAKER VALVE COMPANY, minneaporis Minn. || Alphabetical List of Advertisers, page 85. - Contents, page 5 ‘‘Where-to-Buy,’’ page 102 Classified Advertisements, page 92 3