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Soo tk poh PIT een Ce ee - boiler deck, and boiler deck frames. 16 turns per minute when when light. RO = if A VOL. XIX. NO. 33, ELA CLEV ND—AUGUST 13, 1896—CHICAGO. $2 PER YEAR. 10c. SINGLE COPY AN OHIO RIVER TOW BOAT. The news in the daily press regarding the high water on the Obio River and the consequent danger to river craft, may have awakened in the minds of some of our readers some curiosity as to the type of boats in use on the Ohio. The coal trade is the principal freight com- merce of this river, and through the courtesy of her master, Capt. EK. A. Burnside, THE RECORD is enabled to show to its readers a picture of the most modern and and valuable tow-boat on the Ohio River, the steamer RR. R. Andrews. The Andrews was built in 1894 at Howard’s shipyard, Jeffersonville, Ind. Her over-all length is 192 feet, and the hull, excusive of the wheel, is 165 feet long, by 32% feet beam, her width, over guards, being 34% feet. Her depth amidships is 5 feet, and herdraft 4% feet when light, and 5% when fueled and stored. The hull, excepting the bottom, which is composite, is built entirely of steel, including deck, cylinder frames, The hog chains, which hold the hull together, performing the same ser- vice as the great arches on the older types of wooden lake steamers, are of the best charcoal iron, and the hog-chain btaces are of Jarge XX pipe. Her net ton- nage is 351.07. Power is obtained from two non-condensing engires of the Frisbie type, each 20 inches in diameter by 8 feet stroke. Her boilers are six in number, each being 3 feet in diameter by 28 feet in length, containing two 13- inch flues, all made of steel of 70,000 tensile strength, and allowed a steam pressure of 202 pounds. Her wheel is 23% feet in diameter, the blades being 30 inches wide by 22% feet long. She makes about bound down stream with her barges in tow, making 3% miles per hour. Her speed up stream with empties in tow is 6 miles per hour, mak- ing 18 or 19 turns. Her aver- age tow is 25 barges each way, the cargo of these aggregating about 550 tons. The speed of the boat in dead water is about 14 miles, Her coal consumption is 45 tons of slack in 48 hours. Her chief engineer is Mr. Wm. Johnson. The Andrews is licensed as a passenger boat and carries full passenger equipment. The cabins are hand- somely furnished, and in addition the owners have a private cabin for their own use, which is elegantly fur- nished, and to which is attached a private lavatory, with bath and patent closets. The crew consists of 31 men—the captain, who is also pilot, second pilot, two mates, two engineers and a striker, six firemen, twelve deck hands, striker pilot, and four in cabin crew. The boat is lighted throughout with electricity, and has a Rushmore searchlight. She is equipped witha Cincinnati steam steerer, which is connected direct from the piston of the steerer to tiller beams connecting the three rudders. She hasalso a Link-Belt coal con- veyor for use in taking her fuel aboard, The rest of her equipment is equally modern, no expense being spared to make her first-class in every respect. The specifications for her main and auxiliary engines, hull, in part, and the designs and specifications for her cabins, upper works, deck-plans, piping, boilers and outfit in general were furnished by her present com- mander, Capt. Burnside, who also superintended. her construction after the hull was launched. He States that he received many original ideas and valuable sug- gestions from Messrs. 8S. F. and J. RK. Dana, of the Ka- nawha & Ohio Transportation Co., which is the owner of the boat. The hull construction was supervised by Capt. James Elliott, though due credit is given to the skill of the builders, and to Capt. Thomas, Dunbar, their superintendent. The steamer was named in honor of Mr. BE. R. An- drews, of Rochester, N. Y., president of the Campbell’s Creek Coal Co., of Malden, W. Va., and Cincinnati, of which company President S.'F. Dana, of the “Kanawha & Ohio Co., is vice president and manager. Her cost was about $70,000. =, or TO OVERCOME HEELING ERROR. Mr. Frank Morrison, the well-known compass manu- facturer and adjuster, has completed a device for adjust- ing heeling error of compasses to a minimum. tem of fastening magnets to upright posts inthe star.d OHIO RIVER TOW BOAT E. R. ANDREWS. of the binnacle is well-known, and the new device isa modification of this. The posts, four in number, and arranged with reference to each other, as are the four cardinal points of the compass, are suspended rigidly from the compass bowl, and extend downwards some little distance into the binnacle, which is large enough to give them ample swing. The magnets are adjusted on these posts, and of course the distance between them and the needle alwaysremains the same. This leaves nothing but the chain lockers to change relative posi- tions, and Mr. Morrison is working on a scheme to over- come this. (05 -- ee 0 <0 ee NEW HYDROGRAPHIC CHART-—CLEVELAND. The Hydrographic Office has just issued a large, accurate and handsome chart of Cleveland’s inner and outer* harbor, and the adjacent portion of Lake Erie, containing the results of the very thorough survey made last season by the U. S. S. Michigan. The sound- ings are given up the Cuyahoga River asfar as Jeffer- son street bridge, and up the old river bed to its head. The chart measures about 30 x 40 inches. Price $1.25, at MARINE RECORD offices, Fourth Floor, Western Re- serve Bldg. % His sys-. NOTES. The ram Katahdin, at the New York Navy Yard, will, it is thought, be detained there until October next, to undergo necessary alterations. The paint shop at the yards of Messrs. Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pa., was destroyed by fire on August 2, entailing a loss estimated at $40,000. The structure was 200 by 90 feet. The steam launch of the Iowa narrowly escaped destruction. John J. Hogan, of Middletown, N. Y., died Friday, aged 45 years. He was the inventor of the water tube boiler which bears his name. Mr. Hogan was just commencing to reap the reward of his ingenuity and enterprise, and the Hogan boiler was being extensively adopted for stationary purposes. Mr. Hogan was also a voluminous writer upon the subject of steam genera- tors. Mr. M..N. Forney, who is well knows as a member of the editorial staff of the American Engineer, Car Buil- der and Railroad Journal, has recently opened an en- gineering office at No. 41 Cortlandt street, New York, and is prepared to furnish designs and specifications of all kinds of engineering devices and equipment. Mr. Forney is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and an associate member of the American Railway Master Mechanics, and the Master Car Builders’ Associations. The notice in the Official Gazette that the Ottawa Val- ley Canal Co. would apply for an extention of time to com- mence operations has drawn the public attention once more towards this great en- terprise. Marcus Smith, C. E., is about to make a new survey, and will, it is said, run the line of the canal through the southern chan- nel at Allumette Island, pass- ing the town of Pembroke. Mr. Smith estimates the cost of the canal at fifteen mil- lions. It is thought that the motor power developed by the construction of the canal would be sufficient to operate all the industries in Eastern Ontario, the Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway, and the C. P. R. from Quebec to Winnipeg. —Cananian Engineer. The lumber shipments from Saginaw River ports in July were as follows: Bay City to Tonawada. 4,200,000; Cleveland, 2,200,000; Toledo, 256,000; Buffalo, 580,000; Erie 825,000; Sandusky, 195,000; total 8,176,000. From Saginaw to Cleveland, 1,240,000; Sandusky, 400,000; Tonawanda, 1,255,000; total, 2,985,000. ee NEWLY ENROLLED TONNAGE. Following is a list of lake vessels to which official numbers and signal letters have been assigned by the Commissioner of Navigation, for the week ending August 1: Official TONNAGE. No. Rig. Net. Name. Where Built} Home Port Gross, 107,236 |St.s, |Appomattox |2,643 67 |2,082.17 |W. Bay: City|Port Huron 155,288 |St.s.|OCSteadman| 68,09 37.25 |Cleveland Cleveland 161,773 |Slp. y)Vencedor 18.08 15.13 | Racine Chicago 161,774 |Slp. y}Vananna 19.48] 17.45 |Racine __| Chicago