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12 MARINE REVIEW. : {March 15, HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINER DEUTSCHLAND. It is expected that the steamer Deutschland of the Hamburg-Amer- ican line will enter service between New York and ‘Hamburg in June next. As already announced in the Review, this great ship was launched a few weeks ago from the Vulcan yards at Stettin. The vessel was de- signed to excel anything afloat in point of speed. Her general dimen- sions are: Length, 686% feet; width, 67 feet; depth 44 feet, while her net registered tonnage is 16,000 and her displacement 23,000 tons. She will be equipped with bronze twin screws, 23 feet in diameter, and two quad- ruple expansion engines of 35,000 horse power with which she is expected to make an average speed of 23 knots. Steam will be supplied to the engines by twelve double and four single-ended boilers and there will be in all 112 fires. Four huge funnels and two pole masts of steel rise from the deck. Her decks, of which there will be six, will ‘be constructed of the best steel and teak wood. The Deutschland will be provided with a longitudinal bulkhead and numerous transverse bulkheads, by which her hull will be. divided into seventeen water tight compartments. As a safeguard in case of ground- ing, there will be a double bottom subdivided into twenty-four chambers. The vessel will have accommodations for 467 first-cabin, 300 second-cabin and 300 third-class passengers. MATERIAL CAN NOT BE OBTAINED FOR WAR SIIIPS. “Briefly, our navy estimates for 1900-1901 amount to a net total of £27,522,600,” says the Shipping World of London, “‘being an increase of £928,100 beyond the amount voted for the last year’s requirements of the naval service. In so far as they relate to new construction, the estimates numbers borne in the naval reserve standing at 1,000 below the number voted, 25,712 and 26,750 respectively, we have not the requisite surpius of men to draw on in-the unhappy event of any emergency arising. In framing their annual estimates, we are afraid that the lords commissioners of the Admiralty overlook the fact that our seamen gunners take longer to train than do our battleships and cruisers to build.” ~ ADMIRAL DEWEY ON THE AMERICAN NAVY. Admiral Dewey was the guest of honor at the annual dinner of the New York commandery of the naval order of the United States at Del- monico’s on Saturday night last. Among the distinguished men present were Capt. A. T. Mahan, the Rev. George Williamson Smith, president of Trinity College, Rear Admiral George E. Belknap, Rear Admiral Joseph E. Miller, Col. W. C. Church, Capt. Taylor of the Indiana, Capt. Chadwick of the New York, and Capt. John R. Bartlett. Lt. Com. Chenery presided. Admiral Dewey in responding to the toast “The American Navy,” said: ou “The American navy has entered on an era of its history which promises to be even more glorious than its brilliant record of the past. I have noticed an increased interest in our navy all over the country, especially in congress. An instance of this was afforded the other day, When I was before the naval committee the members listened to me and my suggestions with such intense interest that I believe anything that I might have suggested would have been carried out, even to the building of a dozen battleships.” Other toasts were: “Our Old Navy,” Rear Admiral Belknap; “Our New Navy,” Capt. H. C. Taylor; “Our Navy in the Future,” Capt. A. T. HAMBURG-AMERIOCAN LINER DEUTSCHLAND,“{BUILDING AT STETTIN FOR HAMBURG-NEW YORK SERVICE. for the coming financial year are none too liberal, even if they ate ad- equate for our needs. Two battleships, six first-class armored cruisets and one second-class cruiser, together with half a dozeti small craft, will certainly not overburden our ship building resources; nor does the amount for the estimated expenditure on new construction for the coming year compare favorably with last year’s total, it being, exclusive of estab- lishment charges, less by £395,333 than the sum voted for the same pur- pose in the present year. The figures are £8,460,146, as against £8,855,- 481 for 1899-1900. Against this is the set-off that the smaller sum is larger by £1,181,179 than the anticipated actual expenditure for this year, namely, £7,328,967, and if this larger sum should be spent in 1900-1901, it will represent an expenditure larger by more than a million pounds than has ever yet been reached. Let us hope that the admiralty’s anticipations regarding more rapid work in the future will be realized, otherwise we shall have a still further accumulation of unfinished ships, and the arrears in this respect are already serious enough. With the ships now building and the new construction contemplated, we ‘shall have seventy-six vessels in hand for the navy in the course of the year. Of these twenty-five are torpedo craft and two are light-draught gunboats. Of the remainder seventeen are battleships, twenty are ar- mored cruisers, one is a first-class, and two are second-class protected cruisers, one is a third-class cruiser, and eight are sloops. Personally, we incline to the belief that this is sufficient for our present needs if the nation can have some reliable guarantee that the whole of this work will be pushed to completion with the least possible delay. - ait ee to the Personnel of the navy we should certainly have iked to have seen a greater increase than that made, namely, 4,240, in the total number voted for the year 1900-1901, which is 114,880. With the Mahan; “Our Empire State,” Lieut. Gov. Woodruff; “The Naval Re- setves,”’ Capt. Jacob W. Miller; “The Builders of the New Navy,” Capt- F. L. Humphries. Gov. Roosevelt made a brief impromptu speech. NORTH GERMAN+LLOYD CO. TO ADOPT WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. It is reported that the North German-Lloyd line will adopt the Mar- coni system of wireless telegraphy on its fast vessels as a means of com-: municating with the land when approaching ports of destination each: side of the Atlantic. The plan of Gustav H. Schwab, general managing: agent, is to urge the erection of a lofty mast on the Nantucket south shoal light-ship about 240 miles from Fire island. This will enable steam- ships to communicate with New York fifteen or sixteen hours before they reach their piers. A series of experiments conducted on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse recently was entirely successful. A sprit was run up from the mainmast until its tip was 1385 feet above the deck and satisfactory communication with Borkum island in the mouth of the Ems was held by one of Mar- coni’s electrical engineers, It is proposed to step a spar on the Sicily islands. The system is to be extended to public use. The North German Lloyd Steamship Co. has bought the steamers Ellen Rickmers, Maria Rickmers and Elizabeth Rickmers of Bremer- haven, Germany. The names of the steamers have been changed. ’The Ellen Rickmers is now the Borkum, the Maria Rickmers is the Helgo- land and the Elizabeth Rickmers the Nordensey. The Borkum sailed from Bremen last Saturday for New York.