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SHIP: BUILDING AND REPAIRS. er = ANOTHER NEW PACKAGE FREIGHTER. Itis now generally admitted that the new steamer hich the Union Dry Dock Co.. are building is for the Union Steamboat Co., owners of the large fleet of which he Owego and Chemung are now thecrack boats. As oon as this steamer is in the water a duplicate will be- in immediately in the same berth, and for the same company, which will be ready for use before the fall rush begins in the grain and flour trade. Work on the material has already begun. _ Thesteamyacht which the Union Dry-Dock Co., are _ building for W. J. Connors is far enough advanced for daunching at any time the builders’ consider convenient. PROGRESS AT TOLEDO, John Craig & Sons of Toledo, have completed their designs for the new tug to be built for the Lake Michi- gan Transportation Co. The tug will be one of the largest, if not the largest on the lakes, with correspond- ing power. Her dimensions, which were obtained too late for insertion in the accompanying table this week, are: length over all, 145 feet, and on keel 135 feet, with 30 feet beam and 16 feet 3 inches deplh of hold. She will have a hurricane deck 8 feet above the main deck and extending three-quarters of the length of the tug, leav- ing a clear space aft on the main deck for free play of the tow line. On top of the hurricane deck will be the _ pilot house and texas. The engine will be a triple ex- pansion, with a high pressure cylinder of 19 inches diameter. Steam will be generated by two Scotch-type boilers 11% feet in diameter, tested to 175 pounds pres- sure. The builders state that she will be equipped with steam windlass, steam steering gear anda steam tow- ing machine, She will have a large fuel capacity and is-built with a water bottom. She is building under the personal inspection of Mr. Robert Logan, and will receive the highest class in the American Shipmasters’ Association’s Record of American and Foreign Ship- _ ping. . It has been announced that the Craig Co, will also build two wooden car: ferry barges for the same com- pany, similar to those built last year by James David- son, of West Bay City. This so far lacks official con- _ firmation, and may. possibly not prove correct, as it has been stated that the tug may engage in other work in addition to her regular duties. At any rate, however, contracts for two wooden vessels, either steam or sail, are brewing in this yard, and will probably be an- nounced soon. : ANOTHER REBUILD. : The Graham & Morton Transportation’Co., who gave a contract last summer to the Montague Iron works Co., of Montague, Mich., for a new compound engine for the ‘steamer City, of Louisville (formerly R. C. Reid) have decided that it will be necessary to increase her beam four feet to afford proper accommodations for this en- gine, and for a new boiler which she is also to have. The City of Louisville was lengthened thirty feet when she was rechristened, about a year ago. The Milwau- kee Dry Dock Co. have been awarded the present con- tract, at a price of about $12,000. The beam will be in- creased by lengthening the floor tlmbers two feet on each side. This will necessitate that taking up of both _ decks, and putting in new deck beams. The cabin will also be widened four feet, this being done by splicing the roof carlins. A NEW BRITISH SCHOONER. The Montreal Transportation Co., has given a con tract to build a wooden three-masted schooner to carry 60,000,000 bushels of grain, and to cost 50,000. LIGHT DRAFT EXCURSION BOATS. Light draft excursion steamboats in small and me- dium sizes for use on rivers and inland waters are being built by Marine Iron Works Clybourn and Southport avenues, Chicago, and among other contracts of this character recently placed with that company is one for Pennsylvania, the limit of draft being 14 inches when the boat is fully loaded. She will be of the stern pad- dle wheel design, operated by two direct-acting engines and unlike the old ‘“‘scow’’ type of boat, will be regu- larly modeled hull, attractive and capable of making excellent speed, while her carrying capacity is large. THE MARINE RECORD. This firm make a speciality of furnishing complete out- fits of machinery and equipment to boat builders and where desired, supplying small models and other details which from their experience they have found to prove the best. CROWDED FOR SPACE. . The Bertram Engine Works, Toronto, have completed one of their side-wheel tugs they have been building for the Upper Ottawa Improvemevt Co., and have shipped it to Pembroke, Ont., to be put together. She is to be operated by the engine of one of this company’s tugs, which burned some months ago, ‘The work of building the passenger steamer which will-take the place of the burned libola, is well under way. ‘The steamer will be built on a coal dock adjoining the Bertram Engine Works, the latter company’s yard being so full of work that they had no room for her. THM HAIGHT’S SUCCESSOR: At Port Huron, Runnells & Maines will lay the keel sometime this week for a new tug for the engine of the old tug Haight. She will be about ten feet longer than the Haight, and will be given anew boiler built for 140 pounds of steam. She will be one of the most powerful tugs on the river, and will be modeled after the Haight as much as possible. The barge EK. C. Roberts, which was wrecked on Starve Island Reef, Lake Erie last fall has been rebuilt by the Wolverine Dry Dock Co. and is ow in first c7ass shape. KENDALL. THE CLEVELAND YARDS. Cold weather has seriously interfered with riveting during the elapsed week, but most of the yards have been able to do a great deal of repair and preparatory work. Rieter The Cleveland Ship Building Co. find it ‘necessary to set the outer track of their traveling crane several feet nearer the river in order to accommodate the increased beam of the new Wolvin and Rockefeller boats. While doing this, they are giving their cranes a general over-. hauling. The tug for the Duluth & Iron Range Rail- road is partly in frame, and the keel of the Queen ~ City is partly completed. The Globe shipyard has a new superintendent in the person of Mr, Robert Curr, who is no stranger in Cleve- land, having been with the Cleveland Ship Building Co. until less than two years ago, after which he had charge of the construction at the Globe Shipyard, of the steel tugs L. P. Smith, Sprankle and Marguerite for the Cleveland Tug Co. He then went to Toronto, Ont., and was with the Betram Engine Works, where he remained for fifteen months. He has been with the Union Dry Dock Co., Buffalo, for three months past. He is a young man of recognized high capabilities, and is already well conversant with the work of the yard. .He took charge with the opening year. . The shell plating of the new Mutual ship is almost completed, but there is considerable interior work to be done yet before she is ready for launching. The keel for one of the Rockefeller ships is already down. ‘The keel for the other will be laid in the berth of the Mutual boat after she is launched. The keel of the revenue steamer John G. Carlisle is down, and the work of framing well begun. : ; GENERAL REPAIR WORK. At the Ship Owners’ dry-dock, Cleveland, the exten- sive repairs on the Wallula are about half finished. ‘These repairs consist of almost an entire new bottom, recalking all over, and an additional keelson, 14x16 inches, extending the full length inside. In addition to the insurance job, Capt. Wilson is having new decks and new upper deck. The Cleveland Tug Co.’s dredges Nos. 8and 9 and Mud Scow No. 6. are infor an over- hauling preparatory to setting about spring work. The Curry and Pioneer will follow. in dock. The rebuild of the tug Tom Maytham, at this yard, is progressing rapidly and the hull will be launched next week. The hull is almost entirely new. The Cleveland Ship Building Co.,.arenow engaged in rebuilding her engine. At the Cleveland drydock the steamer Globe was in for a few days, after whichthe Saxon went in Tuesday even- ing for an examination and repairs to her bottom. Cuicaco.—At Miller Bros.’ shipyard the work on the steamer John Emory Owen and consort Michigan, in dock, is progressing as fast as the inclement weather will permit. The repairs on the Owen are nearly com- pleted and she will probably go out of dock this week. The steamers Ed Smith Nos. 1 and 2 and John Harper are receiving general repairs. The barge Wm. D. Decker will receive a new rudder, anchor stock and general repairs. WILLIAMS. , MILWAUKEE.—The Ann Arbor No. 2 was in dock at the Milwaukee Dry-Dock Co.’s south yard Saturday, when it was found that the loss of her wheel had been caused by the breaking of her shaft. At the company’s west yard the steamer Frank Woods and tug M. F. Merrick were in for repairs, and were followed by the S.J. Macy, which is getting a new piece of keel, new garboard strakes, and a new shoe. ‘The City of Venice is at the south yard for recalking, new rudder, and minor repairs. REPAIR NOTES. The Hart steamer Welcome will have some radical changes in her upper works made at Sturgeon Bay this winter. The rebuild of the Menominee at Burger & Burger’s shipyard, Manitowoc, will cost, it is said, $60,000. She is to be named the State of Nebraska when she comes out. The Union Dry-Dock Co., Buffalo, has been awarded _ a claim of $3,000 for extensive repairs on the city’s fire tug George R. Potter. The boiler of the lost steamer Newburgh, which went ashore on the north side of Lake Erie, beyond Long Point, several years ago, is to go into the steamer Rube Richards. Capt. Vosburg, of the E. C. Hutchinson, will superintend the work and command the steamer next season. Capt. Place goes to Chicago to take charge of the Germanic and Hutchinson. The steamer will receive steel arches, and the Hutchinson new decks and spars. Capt. Place will command the Germanic next season, TT ED -<—>+ aaae——— ‘HE’S STRUCK IT AT LAST. airplay says that the following letter was received by a well-known London shipping Company:— : 66, Elizabeth street, Salford, Manchester, 27th November, 1895." DEAR Sirs:—Lhave much pleasure in submitting to your notice my new invention for the propulsion of sail-. ing ships. This system can be fitted to your wood sail- ing ship now at———docks and will guarantee to drivé her at 12 knots per hour at the cost of ninepence per ~ hour. This process produces condensed water for the ship’s domestic use; you will observe the few particulars over. Ihave a set of engines and boiler ready: suitable for the and could fix them on while she is near the dry dock at ————. Would only require a funnel 10 or 12 inches in diameter what could be suitable for a donkey boiler. You should have this fixed while she is here all fixed fer the sum of £1,000 and would be worth your while if it Cost £3,000. ‘The engineer to attend to these engines would be a donkey—engine man. Yours very truly, Wo. HutcHInson. IMPORTANT NOTICE TO SAILING SHIP OWNERS. REVOLUTION IN THE SHIPPING TRADE. A new invention for the propulsion of sailing or steam ships without sails, paddles, or screws, all goes aft un- der the cabin. Takes little or no cargo space. The propulsion of a thousand-ton ship will cost 6d. per hour at a speed of 12 knots and any increase of speed at _ a frivilous cost. All perfectly noiseless. At eightpence per hour will pass any ship on the ocean. Will go astern, steer without rudder instantaneously without interfering with the going ahead or going astern r the man on the lookout. Nothing outside the ship to catch lumber or wreckage. Will turn completely round in her own length in dock or at sea. No surface condensers, circulating pump, thrust block or link motion required, or air pump. The above will be put in under guarantee to the fore- going effect. The invention can easily and cheaply be applied to iron or steel sailing vessels or steamers. The electric light is produced from the exhaust steam after it has propelled the ship before it is condensed, and then the boiler is fed with the water, in fact this will be a marvelous property and life saver, as she can tack about like a fish to meet the mighty waves in the mighty ocean, Wm. HuTcHInson. ———— 2 -i>0-Qie TUGS BY THE DOZEN. Receiver J. L. Higgie, jr., of the late Vessel Owners’ Towing Co., Chicago, has been authorized by the court to sell the 12 tugs owned by this company. The tugs range in length from 66 to 90 feet. He advertises them on Page 15, where a full description will be found.