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26 MARINE REVIEW. TRADE NOTES. Forgings for the new steamer which is to be built at Roach’s ship yard, Chester, Pa., for the Savannah line, will be made by the Cleveland City Forge & Iron Co. Fred H. Pell, 1206 Bowling Green building, New York, has just taken the agency in New York and New England states for the Baldt anchor, manufactured by the Baldt Anchor Co. of Chester, Pa. Manning, Maxwell & Moore, New York, have been awarded the con- tract for the entire machinery equipment to be installed in the new shop to be erected at Seattle by Moran Bros. Co. The order amounts to more than $50,000. Pumps for the two steamers of 7,000 tons capacity building by the American Ship Building Co. in Cleveland for Charles E. & W. F. Peck of New York, and which are to engage in transatlantic service, will be furnished by the Geo. F. Blake Mnfg. Co. of New York. The Interlocking Steel Sheeting Co. Chicago, has been formed to put into commercial use certain patents secured by Mr. George W. Jack- son, an engineer, for the use of steel in cofferdam work and sheathing in marine foundation construction. Hempstead Washburne, former mayor of Chicago, is the president of the company. The American Wood Fireproofing Co., Ltd., No. 11 Broadway, New York, with works at Newark, N. J., reports that it has received contracts for supplying the United States cruiser Baltimore with fireproofed wood and has also received orders from the Fore River Ship & Engine Co., Quincy, Mass., and the Harlan & Hollingsworth Co., Wilmington, Del. Jenkins Bros. of New York, in the preface to their book on valves, say: “If you will put a Jenkins Bros, valve on the worst place you can find, where you cannot keep other valves tight, and if it ts not per- fectly tight, or does not hold steam, oils, acids, water or other fluids longer than any other valve you may return it and your money will be refunded.” Messrs. Cole & Kuhls of Brooklyn, N. Y., have moved all machinery to their new place of business, corner of Third avenue and Twenty-third street, which they have purchased. This company’s business in the sale of elastic seam composition increased to such an extent that they were forced to look for larger quarters so as to be able to promptly fill the large orders which they are receiving. The American Bridge Co. will make quite an elaborate building ex- hibit at the Pan-American exposition, furnishing two buildings, each about 60 ft. in width and about 150 ft. in length. One of the buildings will be of extremely plain construction, being designed for use as a manufac- turing plant. The second, however, will be of ornamental design, such as would naturally be used for freight depots, street car barns and that class of structures. The American Bridge Co. will also make an extensive ex- hibit of parts of large bridges. This company will furnish to J. G. White & Co., Inc., New York, the structural steel work for power plant for the Kalgoorlie Electric Power Co., Kalgoorlie, Australia. The plant consists BSED ALOE DID GAMOW LAO ELE IS ATEN / Gillender Building, Nassau and Wall Streets, STRUCTURAL STKEL SUPPLIED BY THE AMERICAN BRIDGE Bridges, Buildings, Roofs, Trusses. Steel Frame Work for Mills, Factories, Race Stands, Public Markets, Power Houses, Car Sheds. 4 American Bridge Company LILLIBRIDGE, N.Y. 21-164. [April 25, of an engine house 43 by 159 ft., with a lean-to 17 by 40 ft., and a boiler house 41 by 182 ft. The Seaboard Steel Casting Co. of Chester, Pa., is making a great many of the new ‘“‘admiral’’ stockless anchors for the coast. ship builders. The “admiral” anchor is made of the best open hearth steel and has many advantages which ship owners appreciate. Among recent purchasers of this style of anchor, ranging from 500 to 10,000 Ibs. in weight, have been the Cramps, Harlan & Hollingsworth, Roach’s, New York Ship Build- ing Co., Neafie & Levy and Dialogue’s ship yards, Hughes Bros. & Bangs, vessel owners, and others. An Olsen testing machine, capable oi a dead weight pull of 400,000 lbs. and approved by Lloyds agency and the various American underwriters, has been added to the equipment at the Seaboard plant for the purpose of testing these anchors. Mr. E. H. Hovey, vice president of the Steam Boiler Equipment Co. of New York, secured while in Cleveland recently an order from the Great Lakes Towing ‘Co. to apply the Equipment company’s apparatus to one of their harbor tugs. Success with the trial means the adoption of the system on all the towing company’s vessels. This system of fuel- economizing, smokeless furnaces was fully described in a recent issue of the Review. It has been adopted by owners of some of the finest steam yachts of New York, as well as the management of the White Star line, Mallory & Co., Neafie & Levy, the Delaware River Navigation Co. of Philadelphia, and others. Mr. Hovev organized at Indianapolis the Steam Boiler Equipment Co. of Indiana, with Mr. John T. Brush as manager. Mr. Brush is the noted base ball magnate. Other local capi- talists are also interested. In a week after this company was organized its orders for equipment embraced the entire street railway system of Le ae and also the Columbian Club, the finest club building in ndiana. LARGE ORDER FOR PUMPS. The Geo. F, Blake Mnfg. Co. have just closed a contract for what is said to be the largest order for ships’ pumps ever placed in America. The pumps have been ordered by the Eastern Ship Building Co., New Lon- don, Conn., and will be installed in the two steamships now building by that company for the Great Northern Steamship Co. The order consists of thirty large steam pumps, all compound and of most economical pro- portions. Each vessel will be fitted with two simplex, vertical, cross-com- pound featherweight air pumps of the suction, valveless type, with 20-in. air cylinders. The feed pumps are especially designed to pump against a pressure of 400 lbs. The auxiliary feed pumps, ash ejector pumps, general donkey, ballast and fire pumps, are all duplex pumps, and almost all are vertical. The pumping capacitv is stated at 7,000 tons per hour. The Wheeler Condenser Co. of New York has contracted with the Eastern Ship Building Co. for four sets of auxiliary condensers and feed heaters to be fitted on the above mentioned ships. Each auxiliary con- denser will have about 1,000 sq. ft. of cooling surface. New York City. COMPANY, POST AND MCCORD PLANT. Branch offices throughout the country European Office: LONDON General Offices, 100 Broadway, N.Y. | : |