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424 Blue Book of American Shipping. H. B. ROELKER 41 Maiden Lane New York Consulting : : and Constructing Engineer Drawings and Specifications for Engines, Boilers, Hoisting Derricks, Auxiliaries, Etc. Etc. MANUFACTURER OF SAMUEL HOLMES, MORRIS BUILDING 66 AND 68 BROAD STREET, NEW YORK. STEAMSHIP OFFICES SCREW PROPELLERS FOR USUAL AND FOR SPECIAL WORK The Allen Dense Air Ice Machine For Steam Vessels : : : In daily use for more than fifteen years. More than a hundred now in daily service. For Selling, Chartering and Building all Classes of Steam Vessels. STEAM VESSEL CIRCULARS. WEEKLY FREIGHT CIRCULARS. RITCHIE LIQUID Compass The Ritchie Compass is well known and approved by navigators the world over. For over thirty-five years it has been the Standard Compass in the U. S. Navy, and during- that time it has held its place against competition by its unexcelled reliability and accuracy. Our latest form with six needles, made for the merchant service, makes it possible to adjust these compasses with great accuracy to meet the requirements of vessels of steel construction. Other makers have tried to copy them, but every compass of our make has '•RITCHIE, BOSTON, U. S. A.", printed upon the card below the North point. NONE OTHER ARE GENUINE. Our Bar Azimuth Circle for U. S. Navy and merchant service, used with graduated Card Compass, is a very perfect instrument at a low price and has the essential features of our Standard Circle. We are also makers of Pole, Tell Tale and Transparent Compasses, Magnetic Instruments, Pclorus, Binnacles (correspondence solicited regarding new compass binnacle), etc. Our Agents will be found at the Lake Ports and the principal cities on the Coast, or we can be written to direct. E. S. RITCHIE & SONS, Compasses and Nautical Instruments, Brookline, - - Mass. THE Martin-Barriss COMPANY IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF MAHOGANY, WHITE MAHOGANY AND ALL NATIVE CABINET WOODS High Grades of Kiln Dried Woods for Cabin Work and Inside Trim. White Oak Timbers and Plank Constantly on Hand and Sawed to Order on Short Notice. 654 Seneca St. j* Cleveland, 0.