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( MARINE REVIEW. 4 diminish the great strain on the cables. The hull, entirely of iron, will have four main bulkheads extending up to the main deck. The vessels will have a bar-keel and a sternpost forged solid with the rudderpost, and arranged for the propeller shaft in the usual wav. All plates in the shell of the vessels, the bulkheads, bulwarks, etc., are to be machine planed, and no other method of fairing the strakes or preparing edges for calking will be allowed. ‘The plating will be run in inside and outside strakes, perfectly fair, and smoothly fitted up and riveted. The vessels will be provided with one outside bilge-keel on each side,extending for about 55 feet, and the run of these keels must conform with the natural run of the water when the vessel is in motion. Under the main deck, commencing aft, will be located store- room, cabin, with four staterooms, coal bunkers, engine and boiler-room, crew space with 10 berths, lockers, wardrobes, tables, etc., pantry, oil-room, sail-room, and the forepeak will be fitted up as a storeroom with necessary lockers and shelves. Under the lower deck, forward, will be located water-tanks,chain lockers, forehold, and a storeroom for paint, oil, etc. On the main deck aft will be placed steering gear, skylight and com- panion way for cabin, and the main-deck house will extend from about frame No. 17 to about frame No. 35, consisting of lantern- room, pump, and fog-whistle machinery room, and galley. For- ward of this house, and under the forecastle deck, will be located a steam windlass with elastic chain stoppers, lockers, and water- closets tor officers and crew. On the forecastle deck will be located a lantern-house, hoisting engine, bell, etc., and on top of the main-deck house will be placed a steam fog-whistle and a hoisting engine; both the top of the deck house and the forecastle deck will be surrounded by a strong and neatly built iron railing. On the main deck will also be located two boats, necessary ringbolts, bitts, chocks, fair- leads, scuppers, two hard wood stairs leading to the forecastle deck, and all other fittings for all purposes required by the ser- vice. The vessel will be rigged with two masts and trysail masts. ‘The cabin and crew space will be heated throughout by steam, well ventilated and fitted with all necessary conveniences and arrangements for comfort. The masts are to be 67 feet in length. The rigging will be of wire rope, and the sails ar- ranged as shown in the general view of the boat. ~ There will be one right-handed, two-bladed, cast-iron screw propeller of about 6 feet diameter and. suitable pitch, driven by an inverted non-condensing single-cylinder engine, the cylinder to be 17 inches in diameter and a stroke of 17 inches. The propeller shaft will be 5 inches in diameter. There will be two cylindrical single-ended steel boilers of the Scotch type, 8 feet in diameter and 9g feet long, provided with corrugated furnace, 36 inches in diameter, in each boiler. There isto be furnished and fitted in place one horizontal, non-condensing engine, about 5 inches diameter of cylinder and 6 inches stroke, with properly attached machinery for operating the steam whistle, also one Baird’s No. 3 distilling apparatus, with necessary evaporator, filter, pumps, etc. The steam whistle will be 12 inches diame- ter of bell. Launch of the Steel Steam Yacht Wadena. If there had been any imperfections in the hull of Mr. J. H. Wade’s elegant steam yacht the glistening white paint that covered her plates would have shown them up to those who attended the launch, at the yards of the Cleveland Ship Building Company, Tuesday. ‘The manganese wheel with blades sloping aft attracted considerable attention. It is of the modern French pattern, 74 feet diameter, and similar to those in use on Frenchmen-of-war. Theslope reduces the vibration to a minimum. ‘The excellent righting movement was shown to ad- vantage when she went off the stocks onto her beam ends. She returned to an upright position almost immediately and remained there. Her bilge keels, the first ever used in yacht construction in this country, and excepting one case unknown until recently to the builders, the first in any country, were partly responsible for this performance: These keels extend half the length of the boat just above the turn of the bilge. The hull without main engines drew 3 feet forward and 7 feet aft when she settled in the water. The dimensions of hull are 160 feet keel, 21 feet beam and 12 feet deep, being divided into six water-tight com- partments, according to suggestions from a committee appointed by the English board of trade. Another feature is the forced draft produced by hot blast. Her engines are 15%, 26 and 42 inches with 22 inches stroke. The boiler is 12% by 13 feet and will be allowed 170 pounds pressure. White canvas spread from two spars and her white hull will make a pretty effect, and if her engines develop the power that is reasonably expected, this yacht might keep com- pany with the white squadron if she should come up with them in her two vear’s cruise around the world. The 135-light plant and the 2,000 candle power search light is being furnished by the Thomson-Houston Company. Capt. Dayton will be in com- mand above deck and F. B. Smith will be chief engineer. Memorandrum of a Whale-Back’s Ocean Voyage. The memorandrum of the trip of the whale shaped steam- barge Wetmore across the Atlantic has been received at the office of the American Steel Barge Company, West Superior: ‘In steaming 384 hours from Montreal to Liverpool used 266 tons of coal; distance run 3,032 miles (knots). Had head sea 100 hours; beam sea, very high, 50 hours; aft 50 hours; various the rest. Had very thick weather in channel. Carried 26 tons of coal on deck from Sydney to clear off banks; rough sea; lost no coal. Are having a large number of visitors at 1s. per head; goes to orphan asylum here. All Liverpool merchants coming on board. Cargo turning out splendid.’’ The mercantile agents of the American Steel Barge Company at Liverpool, are Messrs. G. T. Soley & Son. : Cleveland Matters. Joseph D. Lillibridge, adopted son of Mr. H. P. Lillibridge, and a member of the vessel brokerage firm of Lillibridge & Newell, died at his home in Cleveland, Monday. He was in his thirty-second year. Suit for $5,000, the alleged value of 500,000 feet of logs, was commenced in Cleveland against S. B. Grummond by C. A. Krauss & Son. The claim is made that the tug Champion towing 850,000 feet of logs from Black River to Cleveland put out of Thunder bay before a storm subsided which caused the raft to break. Only 350,000 feet of logs were recovered. Capt. W. H. Pringle, who was well known around the lakes in connection with the building of the steamers W. D. Rust and Onoko, was a few days ago elected chief of police of San Diego, Cal. Capt. Pringle was tairly wealthy when he left here a few years ago for California. One of the San Diego papers now says in connection with his appointment that he has a large ranch and other properties and is quoted as being worth $200,000. In General. Authorities on the grain crop agree that corn is hardly main- taining its condition, and to considerable extent needs warmth and moisture shortly to avert serious injury. An appropriation of $10,000 is available for improvement work on the Portage lake canals now owned by the government, so that the shallow portion of the upper canal can be dredged without delay. The White Star Line steamer Majestic is the latest to lower the ocean record from Queenstown to New York. She completed the voyage on the 5th instant in 5 days, 18 hours and 7 minutes, beating the best record of the City of Paris by 65 minutes. he decision of Judge Jenkins of Milwaukee in the Armour- Marion case is not satisfactory to either side. The court was crowded with other matters when the case was tried and it would probably have been better if the judge had allowed his decision to await his return from Europe in the fall. The unsinkable steamer Howard Cassard, built at Baltimore after the arrow system of construction, and commented on very extensively in all parts of the world, will shortly be given a trial trip. ‘The directors of the company, which has put a very large amount of money into the odd shaped boat, are well pleased with the trials of the machinery already made.