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12 THE MARINE RECORD. NOVEMBER 30, 1899, , #2, Chicago Pautical School 1513 Masonic Temple, CHICAGO. W. J. WILSON, (Late Lieutenant U. S. Navy), Principal. A full and complete course of instruction in lake and ocean navigation. Also special branches taught those desiring to qualify themselves for better positions in the marine service. $200 in prizes (Great Lakes Regis- ter) awarded annually to students. Students taught by correspondence. Students may begin at any time. ‘Send for circular. 5S OF em: MARINE REPAIRING AT MANITOWOC, WIS. The Goodrich Transportation Co. are prepared to do all kinds of Repair Work to Machinery. Also Joiner Work: Goodrich Transportation Company’s Repair Shops include complete Carpenter and Joiner Shop. New Modern Machine Shop. Blacksmith Shop, including Steam Hammer, Punch and Shears, etc., Brass Foundry. Repair Shops are adjacent to Dry Dock and are equipped with best Modern Machinery. Porta- ble Electric Drills, etc., complete Electric Power Plant for supplying motors on board ships, and lighting. Night work a specialty. All workin charge of experienced and skilled mechanics. Charges moderate. Twenty-one feet of water alongside of shops. Know Your Own ter, Naval Architect, and, in fact, all inter- Ship is a book valuable to the Vessel Owner, Mas- — ested in vessel handling and construction, — A simple explanation of the stability, con- struction, tonnage and freeboard of ships. Specially arranged for the use of ships’ offi- cers, superintendents, draughtsmen and others. By Thomas Walton, naval architect; lecturer to ships’ officers, government navi- gation school. larged. Illustrated; cloth, $2.50, by express prepaid. : THE TIARINE RECORD, Third Floor, Western Reserve Building, Cleveland. TREASURY DECISIONS. Information for candidates for appointment as hospital stewards in the United States Marine Hospital Service. [Circular No. 136. ] TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE SUPERVISING SURGEON-GENERAL M. H. s. } WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 15, 1899. The following extract from the revised regulations of the Marine Hospital Service is hereby published for the infor- mation of applicants for appointment as hospital stewards of that service : 57. Hospital stewards will be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury upon the recommendation of the Supervis- ing Surgeon-General after passing a successful examination under the rules prescribed by the United States Civil Service Commission. 58. Applicants for this position must be graduates of phar- macy, furnish certificates of good nioral character, and pass a satisfactory physical examination. No applicant will be examined or appointed whois under 21 or over 30 years of age. ae Hospital stewards shall be divided into two grades, senior and junior, and original appointments shall be to the grade of junior hospital steward. 60. Promotions according to seniority or merit will be made after three years’ service, from the junior to the senior grade, after due examination on subjects connected with their official duties. Said examination shall be in writing and the questions shall be prepared under the direction of the Supervising Surgeon-General. Previous to said exami- ‘nation the Supervising Surgeon-General shall cause to be sent to each officers under whom the said steward has served a list of interrogatories which shall be answered by said offi- cers and returned tothe Bureau. If their record of suffici- ency, honesty, and sobriety.is not good, they will not be promoted. 73. The compensation of hospital stewards shall be at the following annual rates, viz: Senior hospital stewards shall receive $720 per annum; junior hospital stewards shall receive $600 per annum. At the expiration of five years’ service they shall receive $792 per annum, and at the expira- tion of ten years’ service $864 per annum. 74. Hospital stewards, when on duty at United States marine hospitals or quarantine stations, shall be entitled to quarters, subsistence, fuel, lights, and necessary laundry work, and when on duty at stations where there are no quar- ters belonging to the service, they shall be entitled to com- mutation therefor at the rate of $25 a month. 76. Hospital stewards will be allowed medicines and sur- gical appliances in stock at the stations for themselves and families when sick. 134. The general duties of a hospital steward shall be to oversee the duties of the attendants, to report dereliction of duty among the attendants to the commanding officer, to issue supplies to the attendants, to supervise the cleaning of the various buildings of the station, and to assist in preserv- ing order in and about the buildings and grounds. 135. The senior or junior hospital steward will make daily inspection of the wards, kitchen, and quarters of attendants, giving particular attention to cleanliness and proper prepar- ation of food. 138. It shall be the duty of the hospital steward to in- spect the meals of attendants and patients daily and see that they are properly cooked and served, and that order is maintained. 140. It shall be the duty of hospital stewards to procure the subsistence and other supplies as directed by the com- manding officers, to keep a record, by weight and measure, of all the stores received, and also of the stores issued each day to the cook or patients or to stewards, and to compound and dispense such medicines as may be preseribed. Hospital stewards are not appointed to any particular sta- tion, but to the general service, and are subject to change of station. When traveling under orders they are allowed actual expenses. WALTER WYMAN. Supervising Surgeon-General U. S. M. H. S. Approved: I. J. GAGH, Secretary. MEETING OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS. The annual meeting of the American Society of Mechani- cal Engineers will be held at New York December 5 to 8. The program arranged includes the following papers : President, Admiral Geo. W. Melville, ‘Annual Address.’’ R. H. Thurston, “‘The Steam Engine at the End of the XIX Century.”’ C. V. Kerr, ‘‘Berthier Method of Coal Calorimetry.”’ J. A. Laird, ‘Test of Two Pumping Engines at St. Louis Water Works.’’ H. T. Eddy, ‘“‘“New Graphic Method of Constructing the Entropy-Temperature Diagram of a Gas or Oil Engine.’’ George M. Peek, ‘‘Pressure in Pipe due to Stoppage of Flowing Liquid.” A. L. Rice, ‘‘Liquefaction of Gases.” P. M. Chamberlain, ‘‘Curved Glass Blue Print Machine.”’ P. M. Chamberlain, ‘‘A Metal Dynagraph. M. P. Higgins, ‘‘Education of Machinists, Foremen and Mechanical Engineers.’’ Herman Poole, ‘‘Experiment on Using Gasoline Gas for Boiler Heating.’’ C. H. Benjamin, ‘‘Friction of Steam Packings.”’ F. C Wagner, ‘‘Friction Tests of a Locomotive Slide Valve.’’ A. J. Frith, ‘‘Note on Fly-wheel Design.’’ James McBride, ‘‘A Broken Fly-wheel, and How it was Repaired.”’ C. H. Robertson, ‘‘Efficiency Test of a 125 horse-power Gas Engine. J. F. Harris, ‘‘Strength of Steel Balls.’’ M. White and F. W. Taylor, ‘‘Colors of Heated Steel at Different Temperatures.”’ W. J. Keep, ‘‘Impact.”’ H. J. Conant,.‘‘The Southern Terminal of Boston.” F. H. Stillman, ‘“‘“High Hydrostatic Pressures, and their Application to Compressing Liquids. A New Form of Press- ure Gauge.’’ G. I. Rockwood, ‘‘The Value of a Horse-Power.”’ ee or CHICAGO—-GULF OF MEXICO. At the waterways convention held in Memphis, Tenn., last week it was ‘‘resolved, that we recognize the utility of the deep waterways between the Great Lakes and Gulf of Mexico and recommend to the serious consideration of Congress the entire subject matter, to the intent that such a project shall be matured, and such work un lertaken as will provide a waterway of the greatest utility between Lake Michigan at Chicago and the Mississippi river.”’ The action by the waterways convention at its concluding session represents the achievement by the Illinois delegation in attendance upon the meeting. In bringing this about L. E. Cooley, engineer in charge of the Chicago drainage canal, was the moving spirit. Mr. Cooley’s address was devoted to the subject of connecting the Great Lakes with the gulf through completion of that canal. “T think it will not be long,’’ said Mr. Cooley, before a congress of experts in transportation and trade will be called to Chicago for the purpose of considering a better system of waterways.”’ The speaker concluded by predicting that from a bread- stuff and manufacturing standpoint the sections in the Mis- issippi watershed would rule the world if the proper trans- portation facilities and expenses would be arranged. _—— ee or CANADA DOING US A GREAT GOOD. (From the Lockport Journal). “Tt looks as if the Canadians were determined to force New York to deepen the Erie canal and enlarge the locks.— Buffalo News.”’ “If the commercial supremacy of the Empire State and its two chief cities is to be retained it is evident that {here must be an improved water route from the lakes to tidewater and anything that will hasten such deep waterway should be welcomed, Canada may be doing us a great good in calling attention to the imperative need for better shipping facili- ties through this State as an outlet for the business of the Great West.” TRADE NOTES. From Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel and Leipzig, Germany, comes ‘“‘The Naval Wordbook,”’ by N. W. Thomas, M. A., in which in parallel columns appear words, phrases and sen-| tences used in naval speech in English and German. ONE of the most important outcomes to labor of the strike at the Cramp shipbuilding yards in Philadelphia is that the company has decided upon the wholesale adoption of pneu- matic tools throughout its yards and shops. Contracts ag- gretating $50,000 have already been awarded tothe Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., for riveters, hammers, drills and other tools driven by compressed air. It is stated that orders are being given out at the rate of $10,000 per week. Fully $100,- 000 will be expended in these equipments. NEw Doty Mfc. Co., of Janesville, Wis., the well-known builders of all kinds of power and hand punching and shear- ing machinery, have been increasing the capacity of their already large plant considerably to meet the demand for their improved machinery. They have put ina new flume, ‘water wheel, shafting, pulleys, etc., and have built a large addition to their plant to be used for storing patterns. In addition to their regular line of punching and shearing machinery and boiler maker’s bending rolls, they are bring- ing out an additional line of the same machinery of greatly increased capacity for doing larger and heavier work. The demand for their tools is steadily increasing, their business - having almost doubled itself in the past year. THE Southern Trade Record, published in Cincinnati, O., says in its issue of November 6, as follows: ‘‘Appreciating the importance of the subject we have, through the mediums — of our editorial and reportorial staffs, made a thorough, painstaking and comprehensive investigation of the various concerns in all sections of the country that manufacture this line of machinery, with a view to discovering just where the. best was really to be had. After a critical test and exami- nation of the different windlasses and capstans, and con- scientiously considering the claims made by each manufac- turer as to the merits and superiority of his machinery, we have become convinced that the American Ship Windlass Co., of Providence, R. I., is pre-eminently the largest and most reliable manufacturer of this line of machinery in the United States.”’ WorK began on the additions to the Carnegie Steel Co.’s plant at Duquesne on Monday of this week, with a large force of workmen, to be increased to 1,000 as soon as suffi- cient men can be had. The full program for improvements © in the company’s facilities contemplates an expenditure of ‘$5,000,000, or $6,000,000. Electric lights have been strung all about the grounds, and theintention is to keep the work going night and day, The open hearth furnaces, 14 in number, will be built first. When these are well under way the work on the new blooming mill will commence. A ‘handsome new office building is to be constructed on — South Duquesneavenue. The foundation of the new elec- Fourth edition greatly en- — tric plant has been completed and the structural work was _ | begun this week, The work on the new soaking pit is also well under way. At Rankin, where the company proposes to erect two new blast furnaces of a daily capacity of 700 tons each and which will cost about $2,500,000, everything is being made ready for active operations. qv 22 On the eve of its twentieth volume, The Mariner, Effing- ham House, Arundel-street, Strand, London, has passed into new hands, and, judging from the current number, says The ~ Westminister Gazette, this useful and in some aspects really interesting record of and commentary upon matters of con- cern to ship captains, ship owners, ship builders, and marine engineers, promises not only an accession of liveliness in the _ criticism, but an increase in the value of the information voted to the turbo-motor, from which clearly very substan- tial gains in speed and certain gains in economy may bean- — ticipated. The MARINE RECORD is pleased to endorse The Mariner and Engineering Record, as one of the most valua- ble, instructive, and entertaining journals that comes to ont exchange table, furthermore, all interested in marine affairs would profit by reading each issue. offered. The chief contribution in the new number isde- ey