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1901.] MARINE REVIEW. 27 eee Mee ees pe ee ee ee eee STEEL SHIP BUILDING IN CANADA. Among the avenues for énterprise which have been suggested by the recent awakening in iron and steel making in the maritime provinces of the dominion, the building of steel ships is not least in importance. For several years a few Canadians of foresight have steadily kept in view the advantages possessed by Nova Scotia for this industry. And while the occasional newspaper references of late to projected organizations for steel ship building at Sydney had no definite steps to announce, it is at last known that Mr. B. F. Pearson and some of his coadjutors are engaged in estimates and correspondence having for their object the founding of a steel ship yard at Halifax. There are reasons of weight for the probable selection of Halifax instead of Sydney as a site for such works; but the projectors have not yet thought it wise to make these fully known. Suffice it to say that steel ship building is one of the things likely to follow, in good season, as a consequence of the founding of the great iron and steel industry in Cape Breton and the extension of the foundry and engine works at New Glasgow. Nova Scotia has still the men, designers, ship- wrights, sail makers, fitters, riggers, who have in years gone by made the maritime provinces of Canada known the world over in wooden ship building. She has abundance of the timber which goes into the construction of steel ships as well as those of wood. And she has the skilled mariners and commanders to navigate, as well as the shippers to load, the argosies which may again make the havens of our Atlantic coast familiarly known over seas. So all in good time we may expect to see the British flag with the Canadian shield flying at the main of many a good Canadian steel ship.—Monetary Times, Toronto. OCEAN LINERS ARE BEING OVERHAULED. A number of the New York fast passenger liners are scheduled to be carefully inspected and treated in one way or another within the next two months. The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, flagship of the North German Lloyd line, which had her pinions clipped this season by the Deutschland, will lay up for an overhaul in the Weser this month. She will remain at Bremerhaven until Feb. 19, when her trips to this country will be re- sumed. No changes will be made in the Kaiser’s machinery while her hull is being groomed and prepared for a fresh burst of speed. The German Lloyd officials say that they are quite content to let the rival Deutsch- land hold the palm until the new Kronprinz, with her 33,000 H.P., comes out in 1902 to attack the records of the Hamburg-American liner. Gustav H. Schwab, the North German Lloyd American agent, says that the keel of the Kaiser Wilhelm II., which is to be over 700 ft. long, and faster than even the Kronprinz Wilhelm, is about to be laid at Stettin, in Ger- many. The general impression was that nothing would be done to con- struct the Kaiser Wilhelm II. until the Kronprinz Wilhelm was launched. An official of the Hamburg line says that as the German Lloyd were determined to seek an average of 24 knots per hour for the trip between the channel and the Hook, arrangements are now being made in Ham- burg to build a Hamburg liner that will eclipse anything that the German Lloyd turns out. The Deutschland will enjoy a four months’ rest in Ger- many, and her builders will go over her during that time and make changes that will increase her speed, it is said. This ship was the. first of the big ones to lay up for the winter, going out of commission in the Elbe during Christmas week. She will not start for this country again until April 4. NO MORE SUBMARINES AT PRESENT. In forwarding to Chairman Foss of the house committee on naval affairs the report of the board of construction advising against the con- struction at this time of any more submarine torpedo boats, Secretary Long says: “The question with the department is not so much the desirability of submarine boats. This may be regarded as largely settled by the fact that one is now in commission and has given promise of great possible effi- ciency, and that seven more have been authorized by act of congress and are now in process of construction, although like many other new inven- tions, they cannot be said to have entirely passed the experimental stage in respect to actual service. The question with the department is rather whether the construction of an additional number should be authorized until those now under construction are finished and their usefulness further assured. On this ground, there being no pressing exigency for more, and especially in view of the large naval expenditures in hand and estimated for, the department does not regard further expenditure in this ‘direction essential at this time.”’ In a recent letter to the New York Herald Mr. Charles H. Cramp, the well known ship builder, commenting on the necessity of forced draft in marine practice, points out that “the maximum steam generating capacity of the Scotch boiler cannot be attained without forced draft equal to 2 in. of water in the tube with closed fire room or ashpit, or in- duced draft equivalent to it. The difference between natural draft and forced draft in a Scotch boiler is usually equal to 25 or 30 per cent. of the normal, Therefore if it is contemplated to attain with natural draft a performance equal.to that of forced draft with Scotch boilers, the weights must be increased in ratio of the difference. This would be out of the question in any type of warship now worth consideration. In- deed, the time is near at hand when the same rule will be recognized as applying with equal force to the higher classes of passenger vessels.” Paris Exposition, 1900, confers Highest Award and 2 Gold Medals HAMMERS for Chipping ** Calking Riveting se " CHICAG Stone Cutting, etc. RIVETERS for Shipyard use ** Boiler work ‘* Bridge work ~~ ew a ana <_ PNEUMATIC HOISTS DRILLS CRANES for Railroads A eee JACKS (C2carotive) ** Foundries PAINTING ** Machine Shops ** Wood boring MACHINES MOTORS for every use CASTING CLEANERS, etc. Pneumatic Appliances Sent on Trial Subject to Approval. , Welders Expanders Reducers Rollers Cutters FLUE PNEUMATIC (Only Gold Medals in this Class.) By actual statistics 95% of all Pneumatic Tools sold all over the world are our tools. UNITED STATES .COMMISSION TiO ate PARIS EXPOSITION OF 1900 CHICAGO AUDITORIUM BUILDING PARIS 20 AVENUE RAPP NEW YORK EQUITABLE BUILDING PARIS OFFICES, August 21, 1900. Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company, Chicago. Gentlemen: Officially I desire to inform you that your pneumatic tools received at the hands of the International Jury of Award, a Gold medal. Also that Mr. Boyer was awarded a Gold Medal as collaborator and inventor of the tools. Yours very truly, fe Director of Mac AG, Electricity. New York Office: CHICAGO P NEUMATIC TOOL CO. Monadnock Biock, Chicas s. 418 Exchange Building, Boston, Mass. pee OFFS: 1016 Carnegie Building, Pittsburg. Pa. 241 The Arcade, Cleveland, Ohio. 421 Market street, San Francisco, Cal. Binz Building, Houston, Texas. 316 Lincoln Trust Building, St. Louis, Mo. 605 Fidelity Building, Philadelphia, Pa. TRS. - rp Pneumatic Toot Co., Lrp., General European Agents, 63 Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C. 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