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20 MARINE REVIEW. SUMMARY OF SHIP YARD OPERATIONS. The handsome five-masted schooner Jennie French Potter, recently launched from the yard of H. M. Bean, Camden, Me., will engage in the coal trade and will be commanded by Capt. J. R. Potter of Orient, Long Island, N. Y. Frames of this vessel are of solid oak. Her five masts are of Oregon pine, each 110 feet in length. She has three houses on deck, the forward one 24 by 20 feet, the amidships 18 by 15 feet and the after house 29 by 32 feet. Her anchors, weighing 5,000 pounds, were made at the works of William G. Alden, Camden, N. J. This schooner is 279 feet over all, 240 feet keel, 44 feet beam and 27 feet depth. H. M. Bean has now on the stocks a four-masted schooner for Capt. Bailey of New Jersey that will be launched in March, and he will at an early date lay the keel of the six-masted schooner for Capt. J. G. Crowley. It is expected that this vessel, about which so much has been written, will be launched in July, 1900. George E. Currier & Son of Newburyport, Mass., have launched the steam lighter Jonas H. French, building for the Cape Ann Granite Co. to replace the steamer George A. Chafee, which was wrecked last November. The vessel is 100 feet in length, 30 feet beam and 7 feet depth. She is fitted with a 200-horse-power engine with 24 inches diameter of cylinder and 2 feet stroke, steam to which is supplied from an Almy water tube boiler. The engine was built by Charles R. Sargent of Newburyport, Mass., and the forging for the shaft was made at the Cape Ann Anchor Works at Gloucester, Mass. Another large steel sailing ship will very probably be constructed dur- ing the coming year at the yard of Arthur Sewall & Co., Bath, Me. Mr. William D. Sewall said, a few days ago, that the chances are that a steel ship larger than any yet constructed for the Sewall fleet will be com- menced at the yard in the spring. The torpedo boat Stockton was successfully launched at the yard of the William R. Trigg Co., Richmond, Va., a few days ago. She is a sister vessel of the Shubrick, which was launched in the presence of President McKinley at the Trigg works late in October last. At a meeting of directors of the Portsmouth, Kittery & York Street Railway Co., held recently at the office of Treasurer Frank E. Rowell at Kittery, Me. it. was decided to contract for the construction of a new ferryboat to replace the burned Newmarch. The Pusey & Jones Co. of Wilmington, Del., has recently been fa- vored with an unusual share of repair work. At present the steamer Chester of the Chester & Philadelphia Steamboat Co., is being rebuilt. A compressed air plant, furnished by the Chester Pneumatic Tool Co., is being installed at the Roach ship yard, Chester, Pa. The air com- pressor will be located in a portion of the old mold loft building. The Belmont Towing Co. of Bellaire, O., was recently incorporated with a capital of $20,000. The incorporators are S. Steward, W. C. Mc- Farland, W. W. Lawrence, L. M. Joy and R. T. McGowan. Ship yards at Scranton, La., are unusually crowded with work. One yard now has on the stocks three tugs of 70, 90 and 105 feet length for Mobile parties. DOWN DRAFT FORGES. A very neat brochure from the Buffalo Forge Co., Buffalo, N. Y., illustrates and describes a number of new types of down draft forges re- cently brought out by that company to meet special requirements. The demand for these forges is so great that this department of the Buffalo company’s works is taxed to its utmost to keep pace with orders. A type of forge known as No, 02D is adapted especially to moderate work in carriage, wagon and training school ’smith shops. It was originally de- signed for training school purposes. For moderate work this forge is perhaps better adapted than any other type. For heavier work there is another type, 09D, which is suited for all classes of ’smith shops. The largest and heaviest forge built by the company, O D, is also clearly illus- trated in the pamphlet. It is constructed entirely of cast iron and de- signed for the heaviest work ever performed in a blacksmith shop. Two other forges of steel plate construction, known as No. 07 and 07 T, find wide sale in places where cast iron forms do not apply. Still another form is a down draft stationary blast heating forge. The highly injurious fumes from hot coal, coke and furnace fires, which imperil the health of operators, are readily eliminated with this system. The Buffalo down draft system was not applied to the heating furnace at as early a date as to the forges, but it is so highly efficient that the company is now having a demand unprecedented for these applications. These down draft forges and furnaces are a new departure in smoke removing. Smoke and gases are drawn away immediately on being gen- erated. There is no escape from the largest and heaviest fires, This is accomplished by down draft suction through underground tile pipes. No overhead piping systems or inefficient telescopic hoods obstruct valuable space and light. Hoods are adjustable to different positions at the fire, according to conditions. The forge shop atmosphere is thus kept pure as the best ventilated machine rooms, and the temperature materially re- duced in summer. The forges are practically indestructible and the first cost moderate. With them there is no further expense—overhead gal- vanized iron piping is subject to frequent renewal. These forges were patented Nov. 29, 1894. Ludwig Rubelli of Philadelphia was the highest bidder for the for- eign-built collier Scipio, which was purchased by the navy for use during the war with Spain and which is now to be sold. Rubelli offered for the boat $21,550. ‘Bids for the purchase of the naval steam launch Rocket were opened at the same time. Carrie F. Hall, whose address is Aqueduct avenue and 182nd street, New York city, was the highest bidder, at $1,300. The channel of the St. Lawrence river between Montreal and Quebec is being dredged to a depth of 29 feet. The commerce of the port of Montreal sustained a considerable decline during the past year. Only 801 sea-going vessels made the port as against 868 during the previous’ year. * {January 4, BOOKS OF THE HOUR. A book dealing with the subject of the merchant marine that has literally perennial popularity is “American Steam Vessels,’ by Samuel Ward Stanton. The volume is designed to bring into compact form correct illustrations and descriptions of the various types of American steam vessels from the beginning of their successful construction up to the present day, and certainly this has been most admirably accomplished. It has been the aim to use, wherever possible, the most famous and his- torical American steamers, as illustrative of the various types in all parts of the country. The pictures presented have been drawn from reliable sources—from early prints, lithographs, drawings and paintings, mostly in the possession of private parties or steamboat companies—and those of later days from photographs, plans, sketches, etc. Upward of three hun- dred vessels are illustrated and described, several different illustrations being given in the case of some of the vessels. The pages of the work are handsomely illuminated and the volume may be truthfully said to rank quite as high from an artistic standpoint as it does as an authority rela- tive to vessels. “American Steam Vessels” is published by S. W. Stanton of 129 Broad street, New York city, from whom particulars may be ob- tained. Frank T. Bullen is one of the few authors of sea stories whose tales have been accepted by sea-faring men as being at once interesting and authentic pictures. His “Cruise of the Cachalot” and “Idylls of the Sea’”’ met with favor at the hands of men of all classes in naval and mercantile marine service and it is certain that a similar reception awaits “The Log of a Sea-Waif,” which has just come from press. In this new volume, Mr. Bullen gives the recollections of the first four years of his sea life, and a very thrilling recital they form. The author was for fifteen years aboard ship, serving in almost every capacity save that of master. The book is handsomely illustrated. Published by D. Appleton & Co., New York; price $1.50. VIEWS OF LARGE FORGINGS. Bethlehem Steel ‘Co. of South Bethlehem, Pa., is distributing a hand- some calendar mounted on a card about 12 x 18 inches, with an engrav- ing at the head showing one of their heavy hydraulic forging presses werking up a hollow shaft from an ingot of fluid compressed steel. On the twelve monthly sheets appear photogravures of representative forgings produced at the Bethlehem plant, the whole being very effective. The cal- endars have been sent to the company’s correspondents eand customers, but we are informed that an application to one of their offices will secure a copy for those who have not already received one. NEW APPLICATION OF ELECTRIC POWER. It is a difficult matter to directly ‘apply an electric motor to a pro- filer without intermediate belting, owing to the fact that the distance be- tween motor and spindle varies by reason of the constant shifting of the carriage. To surmount the difficulty of a constantly changing length of shaft the Bullock Electric Mfg. Co. places the motor Woon revoliinng base and connects the motor and spindle by a-splined shaft and sleeve. The shaft sliding within the sleeve allows for the variable distance between motor and spindle. The motor is described in Bulletin No. 4735, which may be had by addressing the company at Cincinnati, TE a ES) et NET eae R OR