chinery Corp.; one 5 horsepower lu- briecating oil stand-by circulating pump and one 1 horsepower fuel transfer pump both supplied by Per- fection Pump Co. All of the above pumps are driven by General Elec- tric motors. Three each of one-half horsepower, electric driven centri- fuge oil pumps were supplied by the Viking Pump Co., and are driven by Westinghouse motors. Two centrifuges for fuel oil are installed, each 150 gallon per hour capacity. There is also one lubri- cating oil centrifuge of 250 gallon per hour capacity. All three centri- fuges were supplied by the Sharples Specialty Co., and are driven by Westinghouse motors. Each vessel is equipped with one 1% horsepower, electric motor- driven ice machine of automatic unit type, supplied with a separate motor-driven cooling water circulat- ing pump and connected to refrig- erator and ice making box. This ice machine was supplied by the Baker Ice Machine Co., and is driven by a General Electric motor. Among the machine tools fitted are one 3 horsepower, electric-driv- en lathe made by American Tool Works Co. with General Electric mo- tor; and one 1 horsepower, electric- driven radial drill made by the Cin- cinnati Electric Tool Co. One fire box type heating boiler, fired with Ray automatic oil burn- er, for supplying heat and hot water for the use of the vessel was sup- plied by the Kewanee Boiler Co. For hot water circulating there is one 1%-horsepower electric-driven pump supplied by the Janette Mfg. Co. The galley is equipped with one oil burning range supplied by Elisha Webb & Son Co. There is one 4- horsepower’ electric motor-driven home water plant supplied by Fair- banks Morse Co. A special designed radio transmit- ting set of one horsepower was sup- plied by the Westinghouse Plectric & Mfg. Co. Two Carlisle & Finch Co. of 36 ampere, 19-inch carbon Galley of river tow boat Tom Sawyer fitted with oil burn- ing range. Ar- rangement and equipment throughout are modern and ef- ficient Pilot house on Tom Sawyer. Controls for steering gears, and mechanical engine room signal gives the pilot complete command of the vessel are searchlights have been installed. One outboard motor and work boat were supplied by Evinrude Co. The fire extinguishing system of Lux type for flooding the engine room and oil tanks, consists of a bat- tery of seven tanks and was supplied by the Walter Kidde Co. For fuel and lubricating oil there are two 365 gallon fuel service tanks and two 400-gallon lubricating oil service and storage tanks. The sister boat, an exact dupli- cate, the Huck FINN, is under con- struction by the Midland Barge Co. and will be completed about July 15. Transatlantic Travel In earlies issues approximate fig- ures have been published on passen- gers carried transatlantic during 1932, on several lines The exact figures from conference report No. 34 are now available. Dur- in 1932 the Cunard group of steam- ships carried a total of 150,375 pas- sengers in transatlantic traffic to and from United States and Canada. The North German Lloyd carried a total during this period of 117,062 passen- gers in these combined services. The Hamburg American line carried 54,- 844 passengers in the same _ period MARINE REVIEW—July, 1933 and services. The total number of passengers car- ried to and from United States ports only during 1932 are given as 115,991 for the Cunard group; 116,416 for the North German Lloyd; and 54,764 for the Hamburg American line. Examine Mail Contracts On June 10 the United States sen- ate adopted a resolution offered by Senator Black of Alabama providing $25,000 for an investigation of air and ocean mail contracts. Investigations into the mail con- tracts, it is expected, will be held at Washington during the present recess of congress. Boston Defends Engineers Frank S. Davis, manager of the Maritime association of the Boston chamber of commerce, has brought to our attention a letter, sent to the President on May 26 by direction of the governing board of the associa- tion, protesting transfer of rivers and harbors work from the army engi- neers to the department of interior. The letter to the President points out that the Maritime association of the Boston chamber of commerce rep- resenting shipping interests of New England as well as financial, com- mercial and industrial interests of that section, is well informed about the work of the army engineers. It is the opinion of the association that the work has been honestly and ef- ficiently carried out under their jur- isdiction and that work can be most economically handled by the corps of engineers. It is, therefore, the hope of the as- sociation that this work will be so continued rather than to have it con- solidated under the jurisdiction of the department of the interior, Such a change the association figures will cause confusion, delay and unneces- sary cost, and would, therefore, be injurious to the commerce and _ in- dustry of New England. 19