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g MARINE REVIEW. giving hera large hall on that deck. The dining room is also on the main deck, which makes it light and airy, and altogether an improvement over the dark, cramped dining rooms usually found in the hold. A large stairway, 12 feet wide, connects the social hall with the saloon on the promenade deck, which is 75 feet long and 30 feet wide, with one tier of staterooms on each side. 'This room is finished in natural quarter-sawed oak, and with a maroon colored velvet carpet and light ceiling makes the whole effect very pleasant to the lover of harmony in colors. The furniture is of oak, trimmed with plush. One noticeable feature is the roomy promenade deck, having a passage completely around the outside of the cabin. This is permitted by the feath- ing wheels being below the deck. On the hurricane deck, the pilot house is large and roomy and abaft of it is an observation room, 25 by 30 feet, finished in natural wood. From this a view. of the whole horizon can be had. ° 'The incandescent lighting plant on the steamer, furnished by the Fisher Electric Company of Detroit, is peculiar in this respect--the boat is divided into eighteen circuits, the circuits terminating in engine room back of the working platform. The system of wiring is so arranged that the use of cut-outs are en- tirely omitted except on the switch-board. It is, therefore, under the immediate eye of the engineer. Each chandelier in ( Sducke Sdaxge. Bho Qudtovs Morus? Co., SS ASOZ i 'the main cabin is placed on an independent circuit and lighted or extinguished from the engine room. The lighting of the boat is more perfect than any other steamer on the inland lakes, as she has 210 16 c. p. lamps so arranged and distributed that the illumination is complete. The generating plant consists of the Fisher Electric Company's marine engine and automatic dynamo of 250 light capacity. The illumination of the engine room has been carried to a high degree of perfection, all the rapid moving parts ofthe tripleexpension inclined engine being made thoroughly visible to the eye of the engineer. 'The fixtures were furnished by the Fisher Electric Company and are finished in old brass. The pumping machinery for the City of Toledo was fur- nished by the Chase Machine Company and consists of one 14 by 20 by 20 inches duplex independent condenser, two 8 by 4 by 10 inches boiler feed pumps and one special double duplex bilge and cold water pump 6 by 5 and 3 by 7 inches. Bucket Barge for Fueling Business. An engraving on this page shows the plans of the Ludlow Manufacturing Company of Cleveland for a bucket barge to be operated in connection with the business of furnishing soft coal for fuel to steamers on the St. Clair and Detroit rivers. 'This company is now manufacturing in large numbers soft coal buck- ets of the Ludlow pattern, which open at the bottom and are being adopted by the trade mainly on account of a great saving. from breakage in the coal. Buckets of this pattern made lately are of five tons capacity, and as they are working very satisfac- torily it is proposed to bring them into service on the Detroit 'river for the same reason that has made them a success 1n the cargo business, viz: a saving from breakage in the coal. Al- though definite arrangements have not as yet been made for entering into the river trade, it is proposed to construct a steam- boat about 180 feet long, 35 feet beam and 8 feet deep. The buckets of large capacity could be loaded at Ohio ports, placed entirely on deck of the light draft boat and delivered to dealers along the rivers. A derrick for handling the buckets will be placed on deck, as shown in the drawing, with drums in the en- gine room. he derrick will have an arm capable of putting the buckets 25 feet back from the edge of the dock, and it is planned, of course, to have the supply sufficient so that the steamer making regular trips would replace empty buckets by loaded ones as demanded. A boat of this kind capable of mak- ing 9 or ro miles an hour could, it is thought, run alongside steamers in the rivers and put fuel aboard them without the slightest delay. : With the large buckets referred to here a single derrick now being operated by the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal = -- = = -- -- = -- <> STEAMBOAT FOR RIVER FUELING BUSINESS. Company on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railway docks, Cleveland, is capable of loading a vessel of 2,000 tons capacity ina single day. 'The derrick is of the revolving and self-pro- pelling pattern, large size, and can be worked regularly at 200 tons an hour. g Grain at Chicago and Duluth. stocks of grain at Chicago and Duluth on Monday, June 20, were as follows: Chicago. Duluth. © Wheat, bu. Corn, bu. All wheat, bu. UME RCORGK Secct, aacetre ee meee 6,001,631 2,336,668 4,338,000 Decreasenlastuaveek-. eee 003,926 22 Rieke nee oe Increasedast week... ene ee 959,357 68,000 Excess over same time last year.. 4,240,272 1,312,810 1,800,000 In addition to the above there is 1,061,857 bushels of oats, 173,931 bushels of rye and 18,256 bushels of barley in store in Chicago. Phototypes of Lake Steamers. The Marine Review has selected from the numerous sup- "3 plemental illustrations it has issued, ten of the handsomest, in- cluding two photo-gravures, and has had them neatly bound. The City of Detroit, City of Toledo, Tuscarora, Chemung, North Wind, Pontiac, Maryland, E. C. Pope, Virginia and St. Ignace make up the list. These are the fastest passenger steamers on the lakes and the carriers of the largest cargoes. If you wish a copy sent postpaid to your address send 50 cents in stamps to the REVIEW.