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a ha 16 MARINE REVIEW. [April 4, IIIT — FROM THE HARLAN & HOLLINGSWORTH WORKS. Wilmington, Del., April 4—The Old Dominion Steamship Co. has just placed an order with the Harlan & Hollingsworth Co. of this city for a 200-ft. freight and passenger steamer. Preparations are being made at the works of this company for the launch at noon today of the steel freight and passenger steamer Denver, building for the New York & Texas Steamship Co., known as the Mallory Line. The vessel is in tended to ply between New York and Galveston and other southern ports. She will have a carrying capacity of 3,000 gross tons on 19 ft. draught. Her dimensions are: Length from after side of stem to forward side of rudder post, 368 ft.; beam, molded, 48 ft.; depth to lower deck, molded, 16 ft.; depth to main deck, molded, 26 ft.; depth to awning deck, molded, 35 ft. She is built to class 100A at Lloyds. There are three decks continuous from stem to stern, and all completely plated fore-and- aft.; six watertight bulkheads; four hatches; seven double drum winches, five for cargo and two for coaling; windlass forward on awning deck; two capstans; two steel pole masts; steel deck house; accommodations for fifty-eight first-class passengers and seventy-eight steerage passengers; an electric light plant of 3,000 candle power capacity; an evaporator and dis- tiller of 30 tons capacity. The vessel’s speed will be 16% knots. The motive power consists of direct acting, triple expansion engines, with three inverted cylinders of 3314, 54 and 87 in. diameter and 54 in. stroke, to be supplied with steam from four Scotch boilers of 16 ft. 3 in. diameter and 11 ft. 6 in. length; working pressure, 180 lbs. Dining hall, main saloon, smoking rooms, and in fact all the interior arrangements are very attractive, and the furnishing is elaborate and up-to-date in all respects. The Harlan & Hollingsworth Co. is now engaged in carrying out the preliminary trials of the 212-ft. twin-screw steam pleasure yacht Alvina, built for Charles Fletcher of Providence, R. I., under the supervision of Mr. A. S. Chesebrough. She is one of the handsomest yachts on the coast and will be a welcome addition to the fleet of the New York Yacht Club, of which Mr. Fletcher is a member. Trials of the torpedo boat Stringham, which has been, undergoing certain repairs to her machinery, -will also occur shortly. Work on the torpedo boat destroyers Hopkins and Hull is progressing, and the launch of these vessels will doubtless take place in the early summer. ee ani The ferry boat Cape May, building for the Philadelphia ‘& Reading ' Railway, is in frame, and the two ferry boats for the Central Railroad of New Jersey are also in frame and partly plated up. . A dredge for ie. Dunbar is well advanced; and the tramp steamer for Henry T. Knowlton is in frame and about one-half plated up, and will be launched very shortly. The steamer Rio Grande of the Mallory Line is in the dry dock under- going extensive repairs, which will take about a month, when another steamer of the Mallory Line, the San Marcos, will undergo a general overhauling, including new boilers, machinery, etc. PROUD OF THE FIRE FIGHTER ILLINOIS. Chicago, Ill., April 83—The fire boat Illinois turned itself into a foun- tain spouting fourteen streams of water at once on the occasion of the visit from Milwaukee of city officials here a few days ago. It is expected that the city council of Milwaukee will provide $100,000 for a similar vessel. In advance of the arrival of the Wisconsin delegation all arrange- ments had been made here by Chief Swenie, Marshal Musham, Mr. W. J. Wood and others for an exhibition of the water throwing power of the Illinois and for the entertainment of the visitors. As the designer of the steel boat that has been so efficient in protecting property along the river front, Mr. Wood took as much interest in the exhibition as the Chicago city officials. The test was had at the north slip. Twelve leads of hose were used, each casting a powerful stream of water far up and down the river and upon the adjacent shores. In addition, standpipes were erected, one at the bow and the other at the stern of the boat, and strong pressure was put on. Fire Miarshal Musham was in command of the vessel, and explained, together with Capt. Burroughs, the workings of the machinery and the means which are taken to place the boat in a position to do effective work on buildings near the river. The Illinois can throw a solid stream of water to the top of a building seven stories high, and an exhi- bition of this power was furnished. Chief James Foley of the Milwaukee department headed the delegation, which was composed of aldermen and city officials. They were surprised at the amount of energy the boat is capable of putting into a fire fight, and were strengthened in their purpose _ to get a like vessel for Milwaukee. It is more than probable that the Milwaukee boat will be modeled on the lines of the Illinois, but larger, the Chicago craft having cost $80,000. The Illinois is the pride of Chief Swenie, and he takes a delight in sending it on such errands as crushing a way through the ice for some ship which has been blocked, or quench- ing a dangerous fire which the city firemen are unable to reach. After the boat had shown how much water it can cast to the top of a high building, it was directed to the Carter H. Harrison crib, and the visitors inspected the water-bound structure, with its pumping and tunnel apparatus. They were later entertained at dinner at the Pullman club. Those in the party were: James Swenie of the Chicago fire department; James Foley, chief of the Milwaukee fire department; John J. Gregory, secretary of the Milwaukee commissioners; Carl Runge, city attorney; © Edward W. Schneuzel, city clerk of Milwaukee; C. J. Poetsch, chairman of the board of public works of Milwaukee; Vin J. Schoenecker, Jr., D. B. Busch and Frank Niezerowsky of the board of public works; Milwaukee aldermen F. H. Connelly, Cornelius Corcoran, Charles Cook, George B. McKinley, Louis Jenz, William Murphy, James R. Ricketson, William Zimmerman; Joshua Hodgins of Marinette, Wisconsin; W. J. Wood, naval architect and consulting engineer, of Chicago; M. H. McColin, western representative for the Eureka Fire Hose Co.; Richard Salter, representative of the Chicago Fire Hose Co., and O. T..Musham of ‘Chicago; G. W. Porth of Milwaukee. J. F. Burnham, chairman of the © Milwaukee board of fire commissions and City Comptroller J. R. Wolf Bee unavoidably absent but were represented by other members of the party. The Graham & Morton Transportation Co. of Chicago has decided _ to name the new steamer recently purchased from the Holland-Chicago | line the Puritan instead of the Ottawa, NEXT ARCTIC EXPEDITION. The next arctic expedition of importance will be led by Capt. Joseph Elzear Bernier of Quebec. He comes of a family which has followed the sea from father to son for 325 years. Capt. Bernier is forty-eight years of age and is of powerful physique. “He has been a captain of ves- sels since he was seventeen years of age. . Nearly all arctic explorers agree on two points—that the pole can be reached and that it is habitable. The registered temperatures taken nearest the pole are considerably higher than the Yukon where thousands live today. Interest centers in his ves- sel which embodies the best features of previously built ships. The vessel will be 100 ft. long on the keel, 110 ft. over all, 36 ft. beam and 18 ft. depth of hold. She will be of 100 tons net and will run under both sail and steam. Her engines will be 300 H.P., triple expansion, with boilers of 10 by 12 ft., built for 180 lbs. pressure. This will furnish 100 H.P. more than the engines of the Fram. The hull will be different in design from that of the Fram, whose stern overhung the stern-post by 18 it. Capt. Bernier’s ship will have a perpendicular double stern-post with rudder outside, so that either the rudder or propeller can be unshipped at any time. This will be a great advantage as much difficulty was encoun- tered by the rudder and screw of the Fram getting frozen up while jammed in ice. Capt. Bernier’s vessel will also have a flush deck, Her engines will also be staunchly protected. She will have three tiers of beams about her engine and boiler room. There will be three beams over the boiler, three placed side by side to carry the step of the mizzen mast, and at the same time to strengthen the ship between the boiler and en- gine room, and three other beams will run across the engine room over the cylinder to protect it. The following will be the materials in the construction of the hull: Oak for the frame and top planking; oak for the two lower beams and pitch pine for the upper beams; elm for plank- ing below the water line and inside ceiling below water line; pine for the deck and elm and pitch pine, with steel fastenings, for ceiling in hold. For space of 30 ft. around the observatory the fastenings will be of copper instead of steel for safety in magnetic observations. The knees will be of tamarac and the masts of Oregon: pine. Ihe bow will be armored with a plate of steel on either side, the stem. being covered with a plate of steel overlapping these two, There will be a spare -rudder,,a spare. screw and a,diving outfit. The vessel. wil] have.three masts, the same as.the - Fram, and her total’area of sail will be 7,000 sq. ft.,.or 1,000 ft..more than that of the Fram., Her sails will give her more. driving power, not. only by reason of her extra canvas, .but by the style.of rig, as her foremast will have three yards, enabling her to run before the wind or back out-of a field of ice better than the Fram. Her rig will resemble that of a three- masted top-sail schooner, which is considered the best all round coaster. The masts will be about 100 ft. high, but the top masts are made to take down, thus reducing their height to about 60 ft. She will be provisioned for a five years’ voyage and will have a crew of fourteen. These will consist of six scientific men, including a surveyor, astronomer, geologist, bio- graphist, artist-photographer and doctor, all these chosen as far as pos- sible with a view to their practical as well as scientific knowledge. There will be three navigators, all being qualified as captains; three sailors, one engineer and one assistant engineer, who will be a mechanic and elec- trician. It is intended also to take an outfit of wireless telegraphy. The vessel will leave Vancouver, B. C., about May 1, 1902, in time to enter the Behring straits about July 1. From Port ‘Clarence in Behring straits she will sail parallel to the Siberian coast to about 170° west longitude thence she will steer north, crossing the track of the Jeanette, until she strikes a point in the current which will take her to or near the pole. OPHIR’S TRIP AROUND THE WORLD. The Duke of Cornwall and York, the heir apparent to th f England, with the duchess, has started on a ee of the wordt ee steamship Ophir. The purpose is to visit all of the outlying British pos- sessions. The Ophir will be escorted around the world by British squad- rons, each squadron relinquishing the duty of escort when it reaches the waters of another squadron. Nothing could probably more greatly in Britain’s far flung battle line than this. The itinerary is as fol- ows: LEAVE ARRIVE Portsmouth, March 16. Gibraltar, M' Gibraltar, March 22. Malta, Mace on Malta, March 27. Port Said, March 30. Port Said, March 31. Suez, April 1 Suez, April 1. Aden, April 5. Aden, April 6. Colombo, April 12. Colombo, April 16. Singapore, April 21. Singapore, April 23. Melbourne, May 6. Melbourne, May 16. Brisbane, May 20. Brisbane, May 25. Sydney, May 27. Sydney, June 6. Auckland, June 11. Auckland, June 16. Wellington, June 18. Wellington, June 21. Lyttleton, June 22. Lyttleton, June 24. Dunedin, June 25. Dunedin, June 27. Hobart, July 2. Hobart, July 7. Adelaide, July 10. roe fe Adelaide; July 15. Fremantle, July 20. : : Fremantle, July 25. Mauritius, Aug. 5. Mauritius, Aug. 8. Durban, Aug. 13. Durban, Aug. 15: Simonstown, Aug. 17. Cape Town, Aug. 22. Ascension, Aug. 27. Ascension, Aug. 31. Off St. Vincent, Sept. 5. St. Vincent, Sept. 5. Halifax, Sept. 15. Halifax, Sept. 17. Quebec, Sept. 20. Quebec, Oct. Lis St. John’s, Oct. 22, St. John’s, Oct. 25. Portsmouth, Nov. 1. * _ Acchart of Agate and Burlington bays (Two Harbors) has just been issued and may be had from the Marine Review at 20 cents. As the district covered is small, the chart is on a large scale and shows clearly all the docks at Two Harbors. It is valuable also as a chart covering a part of the north shore of Lake Superior that is most visited by the ore — and coal carriers, Siar ieee aby Eve od ATE ee