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14 The officers of the Cincinnati River Rail Transfer Co. to whom the credit of accomplishment is due are: Julian A. Pollak, vice president of the Pollak Steel Co.;. Capt. Oscar F.. Barrett, owner of the Barrett Barge line; former Mayor George Puchta, presi- dent of the Queen City Supply Co.; George D. Crabbs, president of the Philip Carey Mfg. Co.; Eshelby F. Lunken, president of the Lunkenheimer Co.; Harold W. Nichols, president of the Fox Paper Co., and George W. Breiel, manager of the industrial de- Powerful Steel Carferry I NEW steel carferry called MAn- 1rowoc has recently been placed in service, between Detroit and Wind- WMARLiNE REVIEW partment of the Cincinnati chamber of commerce. In addition to package freight, the Cincinnati terminal will be particu- larly well adapted for the handling of steel, pig iron, cement and other bulk commodities which are being trans- ported on the Ohio river in increas- ing volume at the present time. With the completion of the Ohio river im- provement in 1929, it is believed that the Ohio will become an important medium of transportation, and the con- struction of the Cincinnati River-Rail pacity of 830 tons. The vessel is equipped with four propeller wheels, two at each end, especially designed RECENTLY COMPLETED STEEL CARFERRY MANITOWOC BUILT BY THE MANITOWOC SHIPBUILDING CORP., MANITOWOC, WIS., FOR THE WABASH RAILWAY CO. sor, by the Wabash Railway Co. This vessel was built by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Corp. and at the re- quest of J. E. Taussig, president of the Wabash company, the vessel was named MANITOWoc. Its length is 370 feet, beam 65 feet and depth 21 feet 6 inches. The keel was laid on Dec. 21, 1925 and the vessel launched April 14, 1926. At the launching an elaborate cere- mony was held and it was witnessed by many prominent officials of the Wabash Railway Co. and others inter- ested in the railroad and marine fields. The MANITOWOC was pleted June 28, 1926 and left immedi- ately for Detroit. It is equipped with four fore and aft compound marine engines of 1300 horsepower each. Steam is supplied by six scotch marine boilers 13 feet 9 inches diameter, 11 feet 6 inches long, built for 160 pounds working pressure, and designed to burn coal or oil. There are two coal bunkers of 400 tons capacity and oil bunker ca- com- . for use in heavy winter weather and for breaking ice. There are four railroad tracks that September, 1926 terminal is merely a forerunner of what will eventually constitute a com- plete chain from Pittsburgh to Cairo, ll. More than 15,000,000 tons of va- rious commodities were transported on the Ohio in 1925. This amount rep- resents an increase of 5,000,000 tons or 50 per cent over the correspond- ing tonnage transported in 1924, Statistics for the first six months of 1926 show an increase of 2,000,000 tons over a corresponding period for the previous year. It is apparent that terminal facilities are needed. Ss Completed will carry thirty of the largest type of freight cars, also passenger coaches. There are no kitchen, dining room or sleeping accommodations as none are required. There are three crews, and they work on eight hour shifts. The ship, was built under the super- vision of R. H. Reynolds, marine supentendent of the Ann Arbor Rail- road Co. River Towboats Ordered The Inland Waterways Corp., has accepted the bid of the Dubuque Boat & Boiler Co., Dubuque, Iowa, for con- structing three towboats for $125,000 each, for the use of the upper Miss- issippi barge line between St. Louis and St. Paul and Minneapolis. Six bids were received for the construction of these boats. Dean Bros. Co. well known for good pumps has established its own direct factory sales and service office at Philadelphia, in the Real Estate Trust building. DECK VIEW OF THE NEW CARFERRY MANITOWOC SHOWING TRACKS FOR ACCOMMODATION OF CARS FOUR RAILROAD