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THE MARINE FRECORD. S _ SHIP BUILDING AND REPAIRS. ANOTHER NEW CONTRACT. While the contract has not been made public, THE RECORD is informed that the contract has been awarded toa Cleveland shipyard for a new steel steamer to be completed by next spring. ‘The new steamer will be about 375.feet in length by 45 beam, the prospective owners considering that the 400-foot boats are as yet a little too large for convenient handling. The contract will not be officially announced for some little time. Riebolt & Wolter are progressing steadily with the construction of their shipyard at Sturgeon Bay. From thirty to forty piles are being driven each day, and soon enough work will have been done to allow of oper- ating the floating dry-dock. Then the dredge will begin work to construct the new stationary dock. A small tug was launched last week at Fish Creek, Wis., for Hill Bros. The Effie B, the new steamer lately launched at Ash- tabula, is getting her machinery. Her boiler was built by the Bay State Iron Works, Erie, Pa. _ The first of the car ferries, built at Toledo, was slightly stove in at her launching and had to be docked. The launch of her sister barge is expected daily. _ At the South Chicago Shipyard one of the four vessels under construction is well plated up. Another is well in frame, but the other two show little progress beyond the work on their bottoms. One of the ships will have to be lengthened before the next launch occurs. The George Orr left the shipyard during the week. LAUNCHES OF THE WEEK. _ SIDEWHEEL STEAMER CORONA. The Bertram Engine Works Co., Limited, of Toronto, launched at 11:20 o’clock on Saturday, May 23, the steel sidewheel passenger steamer, Corona, which they, are building to the order of the Niagara Navigation Co., Limited. The Corona was christened, as she slid down the ways, by four little girls—Misses Clara Foy, daugh- ter of Gen. Mangr. John Foy, of the Niagara Naviga- tion Co.; PhyHis Hendrie, daughter of William Hendrie, of Hamilton; Mary Osler, daughter of EF. B. Osler, and Minnie Cumberland, daughter of Barlow Cumberland. The Corona was built to take the place of the Cibola, which burned at her dock, Lewiston, N. Y., last season. She is much after the style of the Chippewa, of the same line, but is not quite so long. Her dimensions are as follows, Length over all, 277 feet; keel, 270 feet; beam, motlded, 32 feet; over guards, 59 feet; depth, moulded, 13% feet. Her engine is of the compound inclined type, with cylinders 45 and 85 by 66 inches. Her boilers are six in number, of the gunboat type, 8 feet in diameter and 16 feet long, each boiler having two 36-inch fur- naces. Forced draft is provided ‘by means of two 90- inch steel fans with direct connected engines. - Her wheels are of the feathering type, 20 feet 6 inches in di- ameter, with 9 feet 8 inches face. The general designs were made by Mr. A. Angstrom, engineer and manager, who was formerly with the Cleveland Ship Building Co. The Bertram Engine Works Co. built the hull and installed the machinéry, but the finishing work of the cabins will be done by the Niagara Navigation Co. The Corona was built under the inspection of Mr. A. P. Ran- kin, of Toronto. STEEL LUMBER STEAMER ARAGON. The Detroit Dry-dock Co., launched at Wyandotte last Saturday afternoon, the steel lumber steamer building for C. R. Jones and others of Cleveland. She will be the largest lumber carrier on the Great Lakes having a capacity of nearly 1,800,000 feet. Her owners have great faith in the future of the Lake Ontario trade, and sheis built with an especial view to good cargo capacity of at least 14 feet draft. She was christened the Aragon, and is 256 feet long over all, 240 feet on keel, 42 feet beam, and 17 feet moulded depth. Her engine is triplex, 17.27% and 46 by 36 inches, and she has one boiler, 12% by 12 feet, tested to 170 pounds work- ing pressure. The Aragon is built without a water bottom, but her steel bottom is sheathed with wood, and the absence of water bottom will thus not increase the rate of her in- svrance. Her engines have already been partially erected at the Dry-Dock Engine Works, and will be put in without taking down. This will save much time, and the boat will be in commission by June 25. GENERAL REPAIR WORK. CLEVELAND.—The L,. C. Waldo is at the Cleveland shipyard for repairs. Capt. C. M. Davis, of Milwaukee, for the underwriters, and Robert Logan, for the owners, held a survey ‘Tuesday. She will require sixteen new plates and considerable new stem. It will re- quire at least two weeks to make repairs, as the Waldo is steel riveted, and the cutting out process goes on very slowly. At the Cleveland dry-dock the repairs to the schooner F. C. Leighton were completed. ‘The tug H. L.. Cham- berlin went in for a new wheel, and while in dock re- ceived some new bulwarks and sheer strake. At the Ship Owners’ dry-dockthe steamer Swain was put into have a leak stopped; a°ter which she was again floated. Her rebuild is already well under way. The Qnito wasin and had her butts overhauled arid some calking done. ‘The Three Brothers had a leak stopped, and the little tug yacht E. M. B. A., which was squeezed by the City of Buffalo Tuesday evening, had some re- fastening done and carlins renewed. Thc Rhoda Emily, Siberia and Tasmania are booked for the dock. Cuicaco.—At Miller Bros.’ shipyard the steamers Ivanhoe, Albert Soper and Macatwa are in drydock for overhauling and repairs. At the Chicago Shipbuilding Co.’s shipyard the whale back barge 133 received four new plates on her bow, repairs to damages done by collision with the schooner Sunrise. ‘The Onoko’s repairs amounted to $3,000. DeErrRoit.—Commodore Mills has taken the Taylor water tube boiler out of his yacht Cynthia, and has in- stalled a-‘Deering boiler in its stead. Mark Hopkins, who has had a Deering boiler in the Bonita for some years is taking it out and puttingin a lighter boiler of the same make, to reduce the draft of his yacht. The owners of the City of Toledo expect to raise her shaft next winter so that her paddle wheels will not so deeply in the water. ‘The change will cost about $5,000, and is expected to increase her speed considerably. The Argonaut is having her engines renewed, as far as may be necessary, by the Dry Dock Engine Works. West SupERIOR.—The North Star was in dock this week for permanent repairs to the damages incurred y striking the dock at Detroit. She will require three or four plates, three frames on each bow, and gusset frames. ‘The Weed finished her repairs last week, and is again in commission. The Moran will receive more extensive repairs-thau have been put on any boat up to date. Her inside will all be torn out, and her between- decks thoroughly overhauled, in addition to her insur- ance repairs. Repairs will consume about a month, and her bill will foot up about $20,000. Barges 100 and 129 also received minor repairs at the dock. eee IMPROVED DIVING APPARATUS. Andrew J. Morse & Son, No. 140 Congress street, Boston, have just issued a new catalogue calling atten: tion to the firm’s new submarine armor. The main im- provement consists of the helmet, which is made of tin- ned copper, with all mouldings in gun metal, and made up on an iron form. This holds the helmet in shape, prevents cutting the shoulders, and allows the diver to work in any practical position. With each diving hel- met is furnished the Morse safety valve, by the use of which the air, having entered the helmet, cannot escape back through the air hose, and should the latter meet with accident, the air is retained in the helmet. The helmet is also provided with a new regulating escape valve, by which the diver controls the escape of air, and which works automatically at the desired pressure; also also a recessed gasket seat, to prevent the gasket from spreading; and safety-lock, to prevent the helmet from accidentally becoming unscrewed. ————___—_—ml> <> re STILL AFTER DAM LGEISLATION. Congressman Griswold, of Erie, has not abandoned his scheme of raising lake levels by means of dam. He has introduced in the House a joint resolution appro- priating $150,000 to enable the Secretary of War to have surveys made of the outlets of lakes Erie, St. Clair, Huron, and Superior, one-third of thesum being made immediately available. ————— EE EEE A 50-inch fan has been placed in the lake tug J. C, Perrett to increase her steaming abilities. ' serials. JUNE MAGAZINES. There are two papers in the June number of the Century that are of particular interest in conjunction with the approaching convention at St. Louis, one being by Dr. Albert Shaw, entitled ‘Notes on City Govern- ment in St. Louis,’ the other by Joseph B. Bishop on “Humor and Pathos of Presidential Conventions ”’ The second of Mr. James Bryce’s ‘‘Impressions of. South Africa’’ takes up the race question. Mr. Bryce de- scribes the differences that arose between the Boer farmers and the govenor of the Cape Colony, the great #ek into the Transvaal, and the first interference of Great Britain in the affairs of the Boer Republic. In- terest attaches to the paper on ‘‘ Lights and Shadows of © the Alhambra,” by Mrs. Elizabeth Robins Pennell, wife of Joseph Pennell, the artist, by whom it is fully illus- trated. Mrs. Pennell givesa vivid impression of the Alhambra in midsummer, including the life of the peo- ple and the delights and hardships of the tourist. Prof. Sloane’s ‘‘Llfe of Napoleon” takes up the Austrain marriage, the birth of the King of Rome, and the dis- astrous Russian campaign. There is an article on “Sargent and His Paintings,” with particular reference to his Boston Public Library decorations. The text is by William A. Coffin, and many of Sargent’s pictures are reproduced, including two woodcuts by Cole. In the way of fiction there are two short stories besides the ““Mr. Keegan’s Elopement,’? by Winston Churchill, deals with the adventures of an American naval officer at Funchal, and ‘Sayings and Doings of the Todds,’”’ by Viola Roseboro’, with a phase of the woman question. The special features of Harper’s Magazine for June are ‘‘ A Visit to Athens,”’ by Bishop Doane, with thir- teen illustrations; a paper by Charles Waldstein on Adolph Menzel, ‘‘The Greatest Painter of Modern Ger- many,’’ with examples of his work. Howard Pyle con- tinues his series of. descriptions of a trip ‘*Through Inland Waters,’ picturing Lake Champlain and the canal. ‘The Battle of the Cells,’”’ by Dr. Andrew Wil- son, is a popular discussion of the germ theory of disease. The single article, ‘‘On the Balkans.’”’ by Henry Nor- man, is well worth the price of the June number of Scribner’s Magazine, being a most practical discussion of the Eastern question. Other features of the number. are Isobel Strong’s story of the life in Samoa of Robert Louis Stevenson. The series of articles on ‘‘’The Evolution of the Trotting Horse,’’ by Hamilton Busby continue with unabated interest. The serial story by J. M. Barrie, ‘Sentimental Tommy,” grows in fasina- tion for the readers, and the entire issue is most attractive. ; The Arena celebrates the opening of its sixteenth volume by appearing in a new dress of type. It isan unusually strong number, opening with a brilliant paper by Rev. Samuel Barrows,.D. D. on’ ’*The First Pagan Critic of Christian Faith and His Anticipation of Modern Thought.’’ Justice Clark continues his papers on Mexico, and the silver question is given its usual promi- nence in ‘‘A Proposed Platform for American Indepen- dents for 1896,’’ by the president of the .Mercantile Na- tional Bank, of New York, and *‘Bimetallism,’’ by Mr. A. J. Utley. Prof. Parsons, of Boston University Law School, continues his masterly papers on the ‘‘Govern- ment Control of Telegraph.’’ Editor Flower writes ina captivating manner of Whittier as the ‘‘Poet of Free- dom’’ and a fine portrait of the Quaker poet forms the frontispiece to the number. ri 8 ce ei NOTICE TO MARINERS. PILOT ISLAND RANGE LIGHTS. Notice is given by order of the Lighthouse Board that, on or about June 4, 1896, the color of each of the lights of this range, located on the S. side of Mud Lake, St. Marys River, will be changed from red to white. No other change will be made. Do ear MARINE RECORD DIRECTORY. THE MARINE RECORD DriRECTORY of MAstTERS and ENGINEERS is now on sale. It is an attractive book of about fifty pages, of convenient size for the pocket. The names of ships are alphabetically arranged, with their masters and engineers, and the names of the latter are also arranged alphabetically, with the boats on which they are engaged. Sent to any address on re- . ceipt of 25c.