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1901.] MARINE REVIEW. ; 25 a sisssss RIVER AND HARBOR APPROPRIATIONS, 1878 TO 1900. __ Appropriations made by the United. States government for river and harbor improvements from 1878 to 1900, inclusive, aggregate $321,845,- 595.88. This includes the items known as continuous contract items which, after their adoption, are provided for by appropriations in the bill known as the sundry civil appropriation bill. The following table shows py stone carried by the different bills that have been passed since FUNDS PROVIDED FOR RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS BY THE UNITE STATES GOVERNMENT. Years. Appropriations. 1878 BGR ane Sel ci s A Vis ots eee? LIS RE ERUPT ARON cipal eg $ 8,201,700.00 Be ee SSO ee ee, She See 7,864,600.00 Beer a eke aes el ee A ceil A 8,951,500.00 Oe er ee 11,441,300.00 BO satis oss ance St Paths idee 12 hice e Peas SS 18,738,875.00 a ees het ale baal Salen Sse uimene ts oaks 13,949,200.00 De Gali (ert ERG) Ge ake Ska oe . 14,473,900.00 ee a see ren blind Daten ack 22,397,616.90 1890—Direct appropriations ......... $25, 136,295.00 ‘Contracts authorized .......... 13,282,979.00—88,419,274.00 1892—Direct appropriations ......... $21,154,218.00 ‘Contracts atitnorized ......,... 31,760,521.00—52,914,739.00 Be ees he Coma ences a Lee es Ga Die oan 11,473,180.00 1896—Direct appropriations .........$12,852,235.00 @ontracts authorized 2.4.3... 59,649,3809.91—72,501,544.91 1899—Direct appropriations ........ $16,091,841.94 Contracts authorized .......... 23,866,324.13—39,958 166.07 O00 (Emergency act, June 6). csc6 se ..k. 560,000.00 I ESP AR RCTS GCE Ns $321,845,595.88 DIVING SUITS. The Alfred Hale Rubber Co., South Boston, ‘Mass., is the oldest house in the United States in the manufacture of diving suits. This house was established in 1837. They make dresses in four sizes so that they carry in stock suits that will conform to almost any diver, but if the diver is of unusual proportions they make a special dress to order. Hundreds of divers in all parts of the country are using dresses made by the Alfred Hale company and the report invariably heard regarding them is that they are the very best to be had, both in quality and shape. On this score ———S | itt ay \ > ea 7 oh eS — + RUSSELL SE one of the officers of the company says: “We do not undertake to make cheap work. We strive to manufacture nothing but that which is the very best, so as to maintain for our goods the standard they have always borne. Our prices are as low as durable and safe work can be furnished at. We know that the best goods are the cheapest and where human life is at risk the quality can be none too good. In our whole course of busi- ness, extending over half a century, we have never been called upon to replace a dress as defective or imperfect.” ; Dresses made by this company are used by leading contractors, wrecking companies, divers, railroads, water works, steamship companies, pier builders, etc., etc., and many of them are in use at the present time in the United States navy. They also manufacture everything connected with diving, such as divers’ mittens, gloves, cuffs, pumps, face and neck gaskets, repair cloth, snap tubing, submarine hose, helmets, shoes, weights, etc. In the manufacture of these articles their first aim is to maintain the same high standard that they do in suits. A dispatch from San Francisco announces that the Oceanic Steamship Co. has levied an assessment of $10 a share on its capital stock, payable at once and delinquent in sixty days. A.B. Spreckels, who is in charge of the Oceanic company in the absence of his brother, said that there were several causes for the assessment. One was the delay of the Cramps in delivering their new steamers, thus preventing earnings anticipated from them. The expense of fitting and bringing steamers from the east was much heavier than was expected. The $100,000 of bonds of the com- pany were taken up in advance of the arrival of steamers and $235,000 has been expended in repairs on the Alameda and Mariposa. The assessment will produce $250,000 as there are 25,000 shares. TRADE NOTES. _ Mr. J. C. Halladay, for many years western sales agent of the Pick- ering Spring Co. of Philadelphia, with headquarters at the Great Northern building, Chicago, has resigned that position to accept a position with the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co. as manager of a new department to be es- tablished by the Chicago company March 1. In the year 1900 the J. A. Fay & Egan Co. of Cincinnati, manufac- turers of wood working machinery, took out about 100 patents. They say their machines are being copied and have retained a celebrated firm of lawyers to go into the subject of infringement of their patent rights. Neither J. A. Fay & Co, nor the Egan Co. have had patent suits of any kind since consolidation in 1893, but they say that as a joint company they now propose to test their rights in the courts. J.C. Paul & Co., corner of Randolph and Dearborn streets, Chicago, manufacturers of “Burnishine” in liquid and solid form, have a very large trade among vessel owners for this metal polish. Many of the large pas- senger and freight lines on the Atlantic and Pacific use it exclusively. On the lakes its use extends to all the leading lines. Now that fitting out time is approaching, engineers and captains are again reminded to include this labor and metal saving cleansing agent in orders for material with which to fit out their boats. It is for sale in every port. The Standard Pneumatic Tool Co. of Chicago, manufacturers of the “Little Giant” air tools and appliances, have moved their New York offi- ces from 619 Washington Life building to more commodious quarters at 611-612-613 of the same building, this being necessitated on account of the very great increase in their business in eastern and foreign territory during the past few months. All shipment for customers in the district just mentioned will be made from New York instead of Chicago, thus expediting the delivery of machines. : Capt. M. De Puy of No. 19 South street, New York, writes that Riter Bros. & Co. (Eagle Boiler Works) of Buffalo have orders for four of his Paragon boilers to go to Oregon. Capt. De Puy is in receipt of the fol- lowing from the J. H. Johnson Ship Building Co. of Portland, Ore.: “Please give us cost of Paragon boiler with 500 ft. of heating surface and suited to working pressure of 150 lbs. Boiler would require fire box of not less than 3 ft. depth on account of wood being used as fuel. Now I wish to say that the boiler we had built from your plans, with 1,500 ft. of heating surface, is giving entire satisfaction and is furnishing more steam: for weight and space occupied than any boiler we have ever seen.” A unique mechanical draft arrangement, consisting of two fans, was recently installed at the works of the Diamond Rubber Co., Akron, O., by the B. F. Sturtevant Co. of Boston, ‘Mass. Of its operation the owners write that “with the forced draft at one end and the induced draft at the other, we are enabled to produce a terrific draft and can make steam very rapidly indeed. We have been able to produce a pressure of 1.7 oz. by the forced draft fan and maintain a 2-in. water column at the extremity of our underground breeching or at the inlet of the fan. The construc- tion of the fans is neat, strong and workman-like and the engines run cool and practically noiseless. Taking all into consideration: we are ° very well pleased.” F. B. Vandergrift & Co., custom house brokers and general for- warders, of 66 Beaver street, New York (315 Dearborn street, Chicago), announce that they handle and forward export shipments to all parts of the world. They have agents in all the principal cities in the United States and throughout the world. On imports they quote through rates from all points abroad to inland points in the United States. They are the im- port freight agents of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Co. at New York. They pay duties at New York or ‘Chicago, or forward in bond where shipments are destined to an interior point where there is a custom house. They also attend to marine insurance on all shipments where requested by the owners to do so, under an open marine insurance policy covering shipments from warehouse to warehouse. Since the introduction of the Shaw & Spiegle towing machine in Europe, English shipping journals have had much to say in praise of it. Syren & Shipping of London says in a recent issue: ‘The case with the powerful British tug William Joliffe and ship Primrose Hill, which broke adrift from a 16-in. hawser, furnishes an idea of the immense strain a towline is subject to during a heavy sea. There is one way to obviate this and that is by using the steam towing machine, which is the only arrangement by which the strain on a towing hawser can be absolutely limited to prevent parting. By this machine not only small craft, but the largest dry dock, monitors, transports and battleships can be towed with perfect safety. Its distinctive feature is that by means of its driving and cushioning steam cylinders there is provided an elastic steam cushion and an automatic relief on the hawser, without which the latter would be con- tinually straining and frequently breaking. A manila hawser, although it is more elastic than one of steel, is very bulky to handle or to stow on a barge, and it also becomes very expensive on account of its ordinary wear and tear. A steel wire hawser will last apparently for an almost in- definite time without stranding, or even straining, as appears from prac- tical use. The steam towing machine is well adapted for ocean steamers, as better assistance can be rendered to disabled vessels to bring them to port than can be offered by any other means heretofore available. The salvage gained by the saving of one ship would pay many times over the price of a steam towing machine.” Mr. Geo. H. Wilson, who has been chief hull draftsman in the office of the superintending naval constructor at the Harlan & Hollingsworth Co.’s works, Wilmington, 'Del., has resigned from the navy department and accepted a position with the Harlan & Hollingsworth Co. as special superintendent in charge of the torpedo boat destroyers Stringham, Hopkins and Hull. Mr. Wilson has been connected with the navy de- partment since 1891 when he was appointed by Secretary B. F. Tracy. His duties have brought him in contact with various boats in the navy, among which are the Concord, Bennington, Bancroft, Marblehead. Cin- cinnati, Maine, Terror. Puritan, ‘\Machias, Castine, New York, Foote, Rodgers, Winslow, McKee, Stringham, Hopkins and Hull. In his new position Mr. Wilson will be enabled to continue along the line of design- ing and fitting these boats out, as he has in the past had the major portion of such work under his care,