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1901.) . MARINE REVIEW. 1§ SSS EE eee EXHIBITS AT THE CONVENTION OF MARINE ENGINEERS. Manufacturers of auxiliaries for marine engines and steam specialties of all kinds were represented in large numbers at the annual meeting of the National Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association, which closed at the ‘Colonial hotel in Cleveland a few days ago. Prominent among the different displays was a large parlor full of tubes and other products of the Shelby Steel Tube Co. The Shelby company was represented by Mr. J. J. Lynn of Port Huron, who is in charge of marine sales ana who is acquainted with ship builders and marine engineers in all parts of the country. ‘Mr. Lynn was assisted by his brother, George Lynn, and another of the brothers, D. E. Lynn, was also constantly in attendance at the convention, as he represents on the great lakes the National Lead Co. of 100 William street, New York. The National company’s exhibit was, of course, in this case devoted more to their line of metal used by the engineers than to the lead and colors used for paint. This company was also represented by Mr. C. Lindsley, Mr. C. C. Foerstner, Cleveland manager, and Mr. W. P. Shook, also of Cleveland. In a general collection of steam specialties the W. 'M. Pattison Supply Co. of Cleveland included displays of valves, etc., from the Lunkenheimer company of Cincinnati; asbestos material from the H. W. Johns com- pany, New York; rubber goods from the Revere Rubber Co. of Chelsea, Mass.; injectors of the kind made by the Penberthy Injector Co. of De- troit, and stocks and dies made by the Hart Mnfg. Co. The Pattison company are agents for a blow-off valve that attracted much attention at the convention. It is what is known as Cadman’s indestructible blow- the Snider-Hughes Co., manufacturers of pumps, Cleveland; Jenkins Bros. of No. 71 John street, New York, by Charles W. Martin, Jr., who is an honorary member of the association of engineers, and Charles J. Jackson, who represents the company in New York state and Ohio; the Ashton Valve Co. of Boston, by Columbus Dill, who knows almost every- body at gatherings of this kind, and the Atlas Pipe Wrench Co. of No. 121 Liberty street, New York, by John E. O’Brien. THAT RUMORED SHIP YARD CONSOLIDATION. The New York Commercial publishes the following: “There is no longer any doubt that strong efforts are making toward a consolidation of ship building companies which have reason to fear the advantages likely to accrue to the lately accomplished Cramps, Vickers & Maxim combina- tion. The inspiration of this new combine is said to have been primarily self-protection, and although the promoters thereof are not willing to discuss the project, owing to its not yet having assumed more than a tentative proposition, it is intimated that there is no design to advance ptices on government work. Charles R. Flint, who is understood to be the creative spirit of the venture, says that ‘the undertaking has not reached the talkable stage, and no announcement can be made at this time.’ Such a project has been more or less currently discussed in ship building circles for several months, and the amount of capital involved has been estimated at $60,000,000. The properties supposed to be con- cerned in the scheme are the Union Iron Works of San Francisco: the American Steamship Co., the Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock DELEGATES TO NATIONAL CONVENTION OF MARINE ENGINEERS, JUST CLOSED IN CLEVELAND. Photograph taken aboard a modern lake freight steamer, one of the Carnegie fleet, at the Lorain ship yard of the American Ship Building Co. Delegates are facing after house containing engines and boilers, Another hatch is located between position occupied by delegates and the engine compartment. off valve. Valve and seat are both reversible. It has the approval of the United States board of supervising inspectors of steam vessels and is made by the A. W. ‘Cadman Mnfg. Co. of 63 Water street, Pittsburg. The Crane Co. of Chicago, well-known manufacturers of valves and other specialties, had a very large display of their manufactures in a parlor ad- joining that of the Pattison Supply Co. One of the specialties shown in connection with the exhibit of the Strong, Carlisle & Hammond Co.’s exhibit was the Squires’ automatic feed water controller, made by ‘Charles E. Squires of No. 74 Frankfort street, Cleveland. This feed water controller is in use on a number of the modern lake freight steamers, and is said by several of the prominent engineers to be almost indispensible where water tube boilers and quad- ruple expansion engines of high power are used, as is the case with nearly all of the steamers now building for lake freight service. Mr. Silas Hun- ter, engineer of one of the ‘Pittsburg Steamship Co.’s vessels, is assisting the manufacturers in introducing this device. Messrs. M. C. Baker and Wm. Morrison were looking after the pump exhibit of Henry R. Worthington, the Geo. F. Blake Mnfg. Co., Laidlaw- Dunn-Gordon Co. and other concerns connected with the pump consoli- dation. They had a room full of models, several of them of the kind that were shown at the Paris exposition. The display was very interesting, as several of the miniature pumps, representing the highest practice in this line of engineering, were operated by air from a small hand pump. Mr. J. M. Chapman of Chicago, who represents the Garlock Packing Co. in the lake district, was assisted in directing attention to a display of the Garlock.company’s packings by Edward A. Smith and S. R. Amedon, city sales agents of Cleveland, and also by C. W. Scott, another of the Garlock company’s sales agents. Some of the steam specialties of the Fairbanks Co. that are especially adapted to marine service were also on exhibition. Among other con- cerns represented were the Peerless" Rubber Mnfg. Co. of New York; PHOTOGRAPH BY J. E. MCGUE OF CLEVELAND, Co., the Harlan & Hollingsworth Co., the Wm. R. Trigg Co. of Rich- mond, Va.; the Eastern Ship Building Co. of New London, Ct.; the Bath Iron Works of Bath, Me., and the New York Ship Building Co. of Camden, N. J. The interests of Charles R. Flint are represented in the American Steamship Co. Representatives of these various concerns have been in conference, and informally have discussed the proposed consoli- dation. While no agreement was reached, certain suggestions, upon which future negotiations will be based, are said to have found common favor.” UNITED FRUIT CO.’S STEAMERS. John ‘C. Freeman, consul to Copenhagen, writes to the state depart- ment as follows: Seven new steamers have just been ordered for the fruit trade between the West India islands and the United States. The contract for one of them—the Taunton—with the option of two others, was signed recently between the United Fruit ‘Co. and Messrs. Burmeister & Hains, extensive ship builders of Copenhagen. Three of the seven will be built in England, three in Norway, and one in Denmark, with a possibility of two more at Copenhagen. The United Fruit Co. has already over twenty steamers in the banana trade from the West Indies to American ports. These vessels are registered as Norwegian, but it is understood that the bulk of the capital invested is American. This company is also adding to its fleet two steel steamers that are being built at Toledo on the great lakes. They will be owned by an American company and chartered to the fruit company. The Taunton, which may be taken as a typical steamer of the banana fleet, will be a spar deck vessel 227 ft. long, 32 ft. beam, with a depth of 23 ft. She will have a registry of 2,000 tons net, although her usual load will be about 1,000 tons. With this load she will draw 14 ft. of water, and her engines will give her a speed of 13 knots an hour. Besides her cargo she will have accommodations for thirty passengers. Burmeister & Hains have contracted to deliver the vessel complete for 4,000 kroner ($107,200.)