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ARINE =~ REVIEW. Von. 2V. CLEVELAND, OHIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1802. No. 12. _, Supervising Inspectors of Steam Vessels. An engraving on this page is a reproduction of a photograph of the board of supervising inspectors of steam vessels, taken at the recent meeting in Washington. The power and duties of the board are understood by the readers of the REVIEW. Its regular meetings are held in Washington once a year beginning with the third Wednesday in January. The board is charged with the enforcement of laws relating to steam vessels, and its members, who have charge of a large force of local inspectors, have headquarters in leading shipping districts throughout the country. They are appointed by the president of the United eer J. Ingle, Evansville, Ind. C.H.Westcott, Detroit. J.W. Oast, Norfolk, Va. John Fehrenbatch, Cincinnati. Geo. H: Starbuck, N.Y. City. sound steamer, who has performed the duties of chief engineer on compound engines for a period of one year, shall be entitled to an examination for position of first assistant of ocean steamers, and if such examination is satisfactory to the examining officer the applicant shall receive a license as first assistant engineer of ocean steamers." Another amendment provides that 'before making general repairs to a boiler of a steam vessel, the engineer in charge of such steamer shall report, in writing, the nature of such repairs to the local inspector of the district wherein such repairs are to be made." Boiler makers will be interested in an addition to section 34, rule 2, which says: "When holes exceeding 6 inches in diame- pee Matt O'Brien, New Orleans. J. 1.Sloan, St. Paul. H.S. Lubbock, San Francisco, Jas. A. Dumont, Washington. A. McMaster, Buffalo. Frank Burnett, St. Louis. BOARD OF SUPERVISING INSPECTORS, UNITED STATES STEAMBOAT INSPECTION SERVICE. ('The illustration above is from the Illustrated Buffalo Iixpress, copyrighted by Geo. EH. Matthews & Co., 1892.] States and it is intended to have them selected in all cases ac- cording to fitness, either as masters or engineers, for the calling. The supervising inspectors are paid a salary of $3 000 and ex: penses, while that of the inspector general, James A. Dumont, is Mr. Dumont has held the position of inspector general The faces of two members of the board, ffalo and C. H. Westcott of Detroit, They are the supervisors Of the -dis- $3,500. for fourteen years. Alexander McMaster of Bu are familiar to lake men. tricts comprising the lakes. _A report of the proceedings of the last annual meeting of the board has just been printed. Some of the amendments in the rules apply to the lakes, and chief among them is the pro- vision that "any chief engineer of condensing lake, bay or ter are cut in boilers for pipe connections, man and hand hole plates, such holes.shall be re-enforced with wrought iron or steel rings of equal area to the material cut from such boilers." = Un- der the old rule cast iron might have been used for re-enforce- ment rings of this kind but the amendment calls for wrought iron or steel rings. Other amendments to this section are as follows: 'All copper steain pipes of a diameter of 5 inches and under shall have bronze or brass composition flanges securely brazed to the pipe; when over 5 inches in diameter the flanges shall be of bronze, or brass composition, securely brazed or soldered and fastened in addition with rivets to the pipe; on lap- welded iron or steel pipes the flanges may be made of boiler plate of either iron or steel, when securely attached to steam pipe by rivets, and in no case will the use of cast iron or cast steel flanges be allowed on such pipes.'