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10 THE MARINE RECORD. Engine Cylinders FOR SALE. F.W. WHEELER & COMPANY, BUILDERS OF ALL KINDS OF Pair of 18x34x34 stroke steeple com- Iron, Steel, ana pound engine cylinders, complete with steam reverse link and sword arm, 6 throttle valve, exhaust shift valve, etc. * Wooden Ships Built for compounding an engine, but never used on account of change of own- ership, lack of funds, etc. For full par-- ticulars address E, care of the MARINE RECORD. FOR LAKE OR OCEAN SERVICE. West Bay City, Mich. aoe f F. W. WHEELER, Pres. J. S. PORTER, Treas. H. T. WICKES, V. P. Cc. W. STIVER, Sec’y. PROM TIER Iron Works. MARINE ENGINES. DETROIT, MICH. “WM. WILFORD’S*>— MATCHLESS WATER-PROOF CANVAS The best in the market for hatch | covers, is stronger, lighter, and more ‘gp. durable any water-proof goods y yet Bal produced. It is made of a twist- ead of pure flax, which renders t very strong. It will not crack like cotton goods, which is a great advan- tage Bee ee ee Ue ee Ue EDWARD A. BUNKER, Room 617 27 and 29 William St., New York. exclusively by NEW YORK. 16=24: Woodward’ Ave. 202-210 S. Water St. 193=195 Bank St. Peerless — | Rubber Mfc. Co. 18 WARREN STREET, Detroit, Mich. Chicago, Ill. Cleveland, O. RAINBOW PACKING The color of Rainbow Packing is red. Three rows of diamonds in. black, ex= tending throughout the entire length of each and every roll of RAINBOW PACKING. Patented and manufactured Thousands of imitators. No equal. Will hold highest pressure. Don’t have to use wire and cloth to hold RAINBOW. Can’t blow it out. TRADE NOTES. The Davis & Egan Machine Tool Co., Cincinnati, O., have just opened a branch with the Cleveland Tool & Supply Co., 5 Long street, of this port. Page Bros. & Co., Boston, Mass., manufacturers and dealers in oil and electric fixtures for vessels, signal lamps, side lamps, etc., have just issued additional plates for their handsome illustrated catalogue and price list. This is the most complete work of the kind that has come be- fore our notice, and builders as well as owners and mana- gers should have a copy at hand when considering supplies and changes in the lighting department of passenger cargo steamers or yachts. Mr. A. Osier, the lake representative of De Grauw, Ay- mar & Co., New York, is in the city in the interest of his firm, having just returned from a western trip. He will remain here several days and then go on east to Buffalo and other points. Mr. Osier feels much encouraged re- garding the business outlook, and has reason to be, ow- ing to the receipt of several good orders, among them be- ing a.number for flags. The superiority of wool bunting flags which this firm have been turning out for several years past has resulted in’ a greatly increased trade in this branch of their business. The Gas Engine & Power Co., and Charles L. Sea- bury & Co., Consolidated, Morris Heights, New York City, have just been awarded a contract for the building of two more harbor patrol launches for the police de- partment of the city of New York. These launches are similar to the naphtha launches used during the past year in the department’s service, which were furnished by the above company. The boats are’3o feet long, 7 feet beam, 2 feet 6 inches draft. Very strongly constructed of oak keel and frames, steam bent straight grained timbers, cedar planked, copper fastened and riveted throughout. Decks of white pine. Interior of hull finished in ash and oak, natural color of the wood, varnished. Has standing wood roof over entire cockpit, with glass windows for- ward. The machinery is a 6 H-P. naphtha motor. These launches are very seaworthy fot their size, and are very serviceable and satisfactory launches for the police de- partment’s harbor use. The American Steam Packing Co., 60 Federal street, Boston, Mass., report that their foreign trade so far for 1897 is much in advance of any previous year. They have recently made two large shipments to Africa. The Eynon-Evans Mfg. Co., 1519 Clearfield street, Philadelphia, reports increased demands and orders for their extra heavy globe, angle and check valves, of which they make all sizes from % to 20 inches. The International Correspondence School of Scranton, Pa., have issued some new catalogues explaining the merits of their schools. These catalogues can be obtained free by addressing as above. They explain very fully the methods of teaching by the correspondence method, and anyone who is contemplating a course of study should not fail to send for a copy of their catalogue of the special study which they wish to take up. The Roberts boiler for the passenger steamer ‘‘Martha’”’ is rapidly approaching completion. The “Martha’’ was built in Yonkers by, and for; Mr. Charles E. Pearsall of Yonkers, and will have a compound engine of special con- struction which was designed by Thomas Fearon of Yon- kers. She is expected to make unusual speed considering her model, which latter is designed for great capacity. The Dickson Manufacturing Company, of Scranton, Pa., have commenced the construction of a new boiler shop, 130 feet wide and 22 feet long. This building will have a steel framework throughout. The sides will be covered with corrugated iron, and the roof with composi- tion roofing on plank. The main boiler shop is about 52 feet wide and 45 feet high. Thirty feet above the ground is a runway made of substantial steel girders; which catiy a 30-ton traveling crane. At one end of the main shop is a riveting tower, 25x50 feet, having a runway carrying a 20-ton crane, 50 feet above the floor level. The crane in the riveting tower runs at right angles to the one in the main shop below. Adjoining the main shop is a punch- room, which is about 50 feet wide, extending the full length of the building. Attached to the roof trusses of this portion is a traveling crane of 5 tons capacity, which covers the whole floor surface. Adjoining the punch shop is a space for the flange fires and other furnaces, 25 feet wide and 225 feet long. All the main posts of the building are arranged so that jib cranes can be attached to them, and the trusses are arranged so that shafting and other ma- chinery may be attached at convenient points. The steel work was designed and will be furnished and erected by the Berlin Iron Bridge Co., of East Berlin, Conn. The torpedo boat Star made on her trial trip 32.25 knots per hour. She is the first of a fleet of eight torpedo-boat destoyers now being built for the British navy.by Palmer’s Shipbuilding & Iron Company. Thé general dimensions are 215 feet in length and 20 feet 9 inches beam. She is a twin, screw, engines supplied with steam by four water- tube boilers, all of which was found to. work in asatis- factory manner. Se A dispatch from Goderich says:.During the past few days the citizens’ committee has been busily engaged ne- gotiating with several steamboat lines with a view to plac- ing a line of really first-class boats between Cleveland and Sault Ste. Marie, Southampton and all points on the north channel of the Georgian Bay .The route via the islands of Lake Erie, the rivers Detroit, St. Clair and St. Mary’s, Lakes Erie, St. Clair and Huron and the famous thirty thousand islands of the Georgian Bay is acknowledged the finest on the continent and should attract a largesouth- ern tourist traffic during the summer. el OS Thomas N. Booth, of Ashtabula, has purchased of C. E. Chisholm, of Lorain, the schooners Franz Sigel and Co- lumbian, of 700 and 600 tons burden, respectively. The price paid is not made public. The new owner states that the schooners will engage in the Kelley Island stone trade and that Ashtabula will be the home port.