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VOL XIX. NO. 8. CLEVELAND, OHIO, FEBRUARY 20, 1896, $2 PER YEAR. 10c. SINGLE COPY. SHIP BUILDING AND REPAIRS. LAUNCH OF THE NEW MUTUAL STEAMER. The launch of the new Mutual steamship will occur at the Globe shipyard next Saturday afternoon. No name for her has yet been decided upon and she may go into the water without christening, as President L, C. Hanna,'of the Mutual Transportation Co., isin Europe, and his wishes will likely be consulted. This ship, which when afloat, will bear the oft relinquished honor of ‘“‘the largest on the lakes,”’ and the longitudi- nal elevation, presented this week, will show to advan- tage some of the especial features of her construction. The builders designed her with an especial view to great strength, and nothing was sacrificed in the inter- est of great cargo records. She is 432 feet long over all, 412 feet between perpendiculars, by 48 feet beam and 28 feet depth. Her water bottom is of the cellular type, and is 60 in. deep. The frames are of Z bars 6% x 3% in. spaced two feet apart, with web frames as shown in the drawing. The stanchions are I beams, the main deck beams, channels and the upper deck beams bulb Tees, the latter being only 4 feet apart, instead of 8 feet She will have triple-expansion surface-condensing engines, with cylinders 21%, 34 and 57 inches by 39 inches stroke of piston. Hér two boilers will be 13% feet in diameter by 934 feet long, allowed 180 pounds steam pressure, and the steamer is expected to make 14 miles an hour loaded. Her capacity will be 2,000 tons on 14 feet draft. She will have three spars and a par- tial outfit of canvas. The officers’ quarters will be finished in mahogany and walnut. and furnished with hot and cold water. A CHANGE OF BASE. The well-known. dry-dock and shipbuilding firm of Rieboldt, Wolter & Co., of Sheboygan, Wis., has de- cided to change.its location to Sturgeon Bay. The citi- zens of the latter port will give a bonus of $6,000 and furnish a site with 800 feet frontage on Sturgeon Bay. This company guarantees to remain there at least ten years, otherwise site and bonus revert to the donors. Messrs. August Reiboldt and Joseph Wolter have been associated as shi builders at Skeboygan for ten years, during which ‘period they have built 33 vessels of all sizes, the largest being the steamer Helena, measuring 2,083 tons gross, They now owna floating dry-dock, aT — p44 ee ee es apart, as in most vessels ‘now built. ‘Phe material is of the best open-hearth steel. The engines are of the Globeinverted cylinder, triple- expansion type, with cylinders 23, 39, and 63. by 42 “inches. The four Scotch-type boilers, 11% feet in diame- ‘ter by 10 feet in length, are placed in two pairs, athwart- ship, as shown in the drawing. The main deck is laid as far forward as the after spar, and on this are the coal bunkers. The two after hatchways are for fuel as well as cargo, the fuel being supplied after the cargo - is loaded and the main deck hatches put down. The fuel over and around the main deck hatches is burned first, allowing access to the hold, and the fuel on the sides is left for the return trip. The ship has thirteen hatchwaysinall. The new boat will be commanded by Capt. William Cummings, with Mr. Andrew Haig as chief engineer. . WILL BE BUILT ON. THE TYNE. Captain Gaskin and two directors of the Montreal Transportation Co., have returned to Kingston, Ont., afver awarding the contract for a new steamer for their line. She is to be built on the Tyne, just above New- castle, and will be named the Rosemont. She will be 253 feet long over all and 245 feet between perpendicu> lars, with 41 feet beam and 24% feet moulded depth, LONGITUDINAL SECTION OF THE NEW MUTUAL LINER. and will remove it to Sturgeon Bay early next May, enlarging it so as to accommodate vessels 250 feet long. Work is to be begun as soon as practical at excavating a dock in the solid rock, and this will be pushed to com- pletion with a haste which will depend somewhat upon the demands of business. THE STEEL CANAL BARGES. General Manager Charles K. Wheeler of the Cleveland Steel Canalboat Co., returned from the East Monday. Four of the ten tow barges which are building for this company at the Crescent shipyard, at Elizabeth, N. J., areso far along that they will be put into the water be- fore the end of the month. The ten barges will be rushed to the launching stage before the construction of the three steamers begins. These steamers will be fur- nished with Roberts Safety Water-Tube Boilers, which will furnish steam sufficient to exert 250 bic siete THE NEW / HURON TUG. The Ship Owners’ Dry-dock Co., have made all the molds and are almost ready to lay the keel of the new tug which they will build for Joseph Dewhurst, of Ver- million. ‘This tug is to be 82 feet long over all and 75 feet on the keel, with 19 feet beam, and 10 feet depth. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 7.) WANT BETTER PRICES FOR COAL. General Manager Hays, of the Grand Trunk Rail- way, of Canada, has thrown out all the bids for furnish- ing 430,000 tons of coal for the use of this company. This was because of a uniform advance in. the prices named in the bids as compared with last year. This was due to a general feeling among the producers that better prices must be obtained for bituminous coal than have been ruling. There was no indication of a com- bine on this particular contract save that the bids hov- ered very close to $1.75 per ton.. This is not an exces- sive figure, considering the advanced wages paid to miners and that the freight rate on coal from the mines to the bridge over Niagara River is fixed for this year at $1.15. The indications are that coal men will unite in de- manding better prices for their coal, asthe lake freights are sure to be higher next season than the contract rates for last year. Indeed, it seems that the vessel men will probably be shy of: contracting at all, owing to the large losses some of them sustained last year by contracting at low figures. The winter has been com- paratively mild in the Northwest, but coal is leaving the docks steadily and at a rate which will insure clean docks by the time coal can arrive by lake. At Duluth and Superior the total movement from the docks was 9,047 cars, or about 225,000 tons for January, a consider- able falling off as compared with December and No- vember. Sales of coalin the Northwest will begin very. soon, and, itis rumored that an important meeting of pro- ducers will be held before the month is over with a view to reaching some definite understanding. ‘The general results of last year’s business were anything but satis- factory, and self protection now demands that the ex- tent to which competition has been carried in the past should by some means be curtailed. An advance just now, if not too great as compared with last year, would, it is believed, have a tendency to hasten sales. RETIREMENT OF CAPTAIN SWAIN. Capt.. Martin Swain has retired from the command of the wrecking tug Favorite. His health has not been as good as he could wish, and his retirement at the age of 57 years is chiefly to take treatment for an internal ail- ment. Heretains his interest in the Swain Wrecking Co. He is succeeded in command of the Favorite by Capt. P. L. Millen. Capt. Swain has been in the tug- ging and wrecking business for many years and has been on the Favorite for six seasons.