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A GREAT ENGINE AND from the floor to the crane hook is 36 feet. A scale attached to the crane will weigh any amount from a few ounces to twenty-tons, so that in accepting forgings and other articles of outside manufacture the company has its own weights. Among the big tools in the main shop are the following: A planer capable of planing 72 inches square in the clear; a 48-inch double head planer; 120-inch lathe, 24 feet between centers; wall planer, capacity 14x20 feet; a 96-inch lathe; 30-inch stroke slotting machine; 18-inch stroke slotting machine; 36-inch lathe ; 48 inch lathe ; 60-inch boring mill; two radial drills and a vertical suspension drill. On the first gallery there are three small planers and seven small lathes of various sizes, two shapers, three vertical drills and a bench 75 feet long for vice work. On this floor is located also the the electric generator for the operation of cranes and the electric light plant. The upper gallery, on the third floor of the side structure, now devoted to the storage of patterns, etc., can be readily equipped with machinery when additional work requires it, and a new building can be put up on the spacious premises of the company for storage purposes. That portion of the old engine works not taken up by the new building has been utilized for the manufacture of patterns, for store rooms and for offices for the foremen of the different departments of the engine and boiler works. Without the improvements here referred to, there was built in the Dry Dock Engine Works within a period of about a year, CR BUILDING PEANT. 89 engines having a combined horse power of a little more than 10.000. These were five sets of triple expansion type, all duplicates of about 1,500 horse power each; one compound for the steamer W. B. Morley; a three cylinder non-condensing engine for the Detroit river ferry steamer Promise, and a triple expansion engine, with cylinders 16, 24 and 38 inches by 24 inch stroke for the passenger steamer Wyandotte. One of the greatest features of these works for economy and rapid handling of material of all kinds is the close connections established between the dry docks and ship yards and the engine and boiler shops. Railway tracks run into the yards and buildings, connecting the different departments with the river front and docks, from which vessels recently launched or needing repairs can be reached with the least possible trouble or expense. These spacious buildings, with their massive structural iron frames, were put up by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company of East Berlin, Conn., and nearly all of the heavy tools which they contain were furnished by Bement, Miles & Co., of Philadelphia, Pa. A MODIvL BOILER WORKS. The foregoing is a description of the modern engine works connected with the ship and engine building plant of the Detroit Dry Dock Company, Detroit, Mich., and herewith is presented