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THE MARINE RECORD. JUNE 29, 1899. IRA B. BASSETT BURDEN GENERAL OFFICES: 23 Merwin Street. : Almy’s Patent Sectional WATER TUBE BOILERS. BASSETT, CLEVELAND - GEORGE PRESLEY, JR. Car Iron; Hoops, Bands and Sheet Iron. IRON COMPANY BOILER RIVETS. THE STANDARD AND ONLY RIVET USED BY ALL FIRST-CLASS BOILER MAKERS IN THE UNITED STATES. - Acme Shafting—We own and control the sale of this celebrated brand and carry a full stock of all sizes and lengths. Boiler, Bridge and Tank Plates, Nails, Boat and Railroad Spikes, Smoke Stack Rivets, Boiler Patch Bolts, Open Hearth Steel. ARCHES AND STRAPS FOR VESSELS A SPECIALTY. Main 417. Telephones Main 423. NOW USED IN 21 Passenger Boats from 70 to 160 ft. long. 61 Steam Yachts from 50 to 180 ft. long. U. S. TORPEDO BOAT «STILETTO.”’ Numerous freight and fishing steamers, launches and es . stationary boilers are giving most excellent results. _ALMY WATER TUBE BOILER Cco., 178-184 Allens Ave., near Rhodes St., PROVIDENCE, R. I. - MAJOR SEARS, CORPS OF ENGINEERS, U.S. A., TO LEAVE DULUTH. Major Sears of the Corps of Engineers, U.S. A., stationed for the past seven years at Duluth, Minn., has been detailed to establish harbor lines in the harbors of Puerto Rico. - Major Sears is considered to be one of the ablest men in the United States engineering service. Previously to going to Duluth he was stationed at Willett’s Point, N. Y. When the great projects for Lake Superior seemed certain to be made, Major Sears was detailed to Duluth. The splendid works that have been constructed at Duluth, at Marquette, Portage Lake'and other points on Lake Superior, and the manner in which the details have been planned for many even more important projects, have won the major additional + honors and distinction. Major Sears has been something more than a government engineer. He has introduced advanced ideas in his works and has made valuable suggestions that have been approved by the government and by the engineering world. The splendid breakwater at Marquette is an example of this kind. Major Sears was an early and strong advocate of the adoption of the continuous contract system for work on Lake Superior, and with what success he has conducted the system has been frequently commented upon. He has also done much toward bringing harmony between Duluth and “Superior regarding harbor improvement. It is understood that the duties of the Major will be that of chief engineer of the department of Puerto Rico, and that he will also have control of waterworks and roads. His headquarters will be at San Juan, and he will have charge of about 10,000 men that are engaged on the improvements described. It appears that there is a great deal of work to be accomplished on limited resources, and the commanding military officer there wrote the department that he wanted a first-class man to assign to the civil public works. It is therefore quite an honor to Major Sears to have been selected for such an important post. Major Sears will go to Puerto Rico for an indefinite period and he will be succeeded at Duluth by Major Fiske, at pres- ent in charge of the harbor improvements at Portland, Ore. _ Major Fiske (at that time Capt. Fiske), was in charge of the river and harbor improvements on Lake Superior for about two years, between the time that Major Quinn was assigned Welty to another post and the time that he was relieved by Major Sears. At that time Major Fiske did not have charge of the improvements in the Portage Lake canals. These were then in the Milwaukee district and have since been placed in charge of Major Sears. Major Fiske is well known on Lake Superior and is highly esteemed. ee PINTSCH SYSTEM OF USING GAS. There are but few persons, besides those directly inter- ested, that can form any adequate idea of the unive:sal use to which the Pintsch system of using gas has been made ap- plicable. According to a careful statement computed to the first of this year, it is found that the countries herein speci- fied are using the invention to the following extent : Countries. Cars. Gas Buoys and Works, Beacons, Geninanyes i cae Gee cs 34,325 71 98 IBYepabun dele one means aur urtat etek eae 45 3 21 (Gea Brita wai saan eo 17,800 87 193 BEATICO, oh ny re ania Te 8,210 22 188 de (o) UE Wo Va testes vitae: mney rae 3,012 9 58 Ttaly ee ceca et aca se 1,522 4 ae Switzerland Ato saat fae, 371 I 12 USE as a seg ne ss gece apis rae 3,111 10 I PRTG Tass ta ee ete ge esc a 1,943 13 13 Swedetle ets cone sea ne os 379 4 I PO CLVIAL un Posny on armies eee ee 154 es Bitlparia cries, ccitirs.cis eae ee ee 33 I ae PAIS pe econ savin eae Coe Sse 103 ee AA | HEA) Spakan OAS URE ARR nen oc oe 2 3 T12 Canadas 7. eater sare ees 20 2 14 Bazi cere as arte ae a 967 I 3I AP OENTINet eso cut cnea me es 984 Io Seek CHIL eer Saree tere nee. heen 46 I se eh apa ees er ele recs eae 6,458 Io ee PNUIS ELA: siren sce coe op ietayer soe's 1,000 3 29 United: Statescs.in ewes 13,405 48 121 Total 90,890 303, 892 In addition to the foregoing Germany has equipped 3,566 locomotives, Holland 5, Switzerland 2, Russia 50 and Brazil 31; making an international total of 3,654 locomotives equipped with the Pintsch system. rr THE largest steamer ever built was the Great Eastern, built in 1858, 680 feet long by 48 feet deep; tonnage 18,915. She was finally broken up at Liverpool in 1892. PRESLEY & TRAIN, IRON AND STEEL WAREHOUSE. Ship Plates; Ship Spikes, Angles, Beams; Channel and Tee Iron; Boiler Tubes; Boiler, Tank and Cooper Rivets; Steel Boiler Plates; ‘Bar, Bridge and OHIO. Pintsch Gas Lighted Buoys. Adopted by the English, German, French, Russian, Italian, and United States Light-House Departments for channel A. R. TRAIN. WAREHOUSE: : 17 to 31 Merwin Street. — and harbor lighting. Over 800 gas buoys and gas beacons in service. Burn Continuously from 80 to 365 days and nights without atten- tion, and can be seen a distance of six miles. Controlled by 2s THE SAFETY CAR HEATING AND LIGHTING Co. 160 Broadway, New York City. . NOTICE TO MARINERS. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA—NORTHERN LAKES AND RIVERS—WISCONSIN. E TREASURY DEPARTMENT, ) — OFFICE OF THE LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD, } WASHINGTON, D. C., June 23, 1899. CHAMBERS ISLAND LIGHT STATION.—Notice is hereby given that, on or about July 15, 1899, the characteristic of © the light at this station, on the westerly point of the bay — on the northerly side of Chambers Island, Green Bay, will be changed by reducing the interval between flashes from one minute to 30 seconds. The characteristic of the light will — then be: Fixed white varied by a white flash every 30 sec- — onds. % No other change will be made. By order of the Light-House Board. FRANCIS J. HIGGINSON, Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy, Chairman, rr re A NOVEL PUMP. : During a voyage from Stockholm to New York, more than — forty years ago, a ship’s master fixed a spar aloft, one end of which was ten or twelve feet above the vessel’s pumps, and — the other projecting over the stern. To each end was fixed - apulley. He then fastened the rope to the pnmp rods, and after passing it through both pulleys along the spar, drop- ped it into the sea astern. To the rope he fastened a 110 gallon cask containing about 60 gallons of water. This cask answered as a balance weight, and every motion of the — ship from the roll of the sea made the machinery work. When the stern descended, or when a sea raised the cask, the pump rods descended, and the contrary motion of the ship raised the rods, and, with them, the water to be pumped. ro oo A CURIOUS COINCIDENCE IN SHIPBUILDING CALCULATIONS. : A ship 365 feet long, corresponding with the days in the ~ year, 52 feet beam, equal to the number of weeks in the year, and 31 feet in depth, equal to the days in the month. At 26 feet draught of half of the beam the displacement would be 8,760 tons, corresponding with the number of hours in the year, and the carrying capacity equal to the (day and night) working hours per year, or 6,000 tons. 5 ee