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oe de Se eee One a eo ee Pe EA Ne oy ee MARINE REVIEW. PROFESSOR W: F. DURAND. A year ago there was established as a part of Cornell Uni- versity, Ithaca, N. Y., a graduate school of marine engineering and naval architecture. W. F. Durand, an American engineer whose portrait is presented herewith, was made principal of the school upon its organization, and has since been untiring in his efforts to secure its success. During last spring and summer Prof. Durand visited Europe for the purpose of examining the government schools of naval architecture at Paris, Genoa, Ber- lin, Kiel and Greenwich, as well as the course in this subject given at Glasgow University. Visits were also made to the leading shipyards in Hngland and Scotland and on the conti- nent, and next summer the shipyards of the lakes will be visited. The success and value of the school depend much upon recogni- : tion from ship builders, and it is to be hoped that Prof. Durand will be given a cordial reception on the lakes. "The immediate purpose of the school,' says the American Shipbuilder, from which the engraving is taken, "is to promote, in every way possible, the science and art of marine construction inthe United States, and more particularly to furnish a place where young men may obtain a thorough education in naval ar- chitecture and marine engineering, at least so far as such may be given in an institution of learning rather than in the ship yard and shop. With our splendid educational system in general and our unexcelled technical schools for general mechanical engi- 'neering, it is certainly a serious lack that previous to this time there have been no such schools in this country. In conse- quence our ship yards have not been accustomed to look to the technical schools for their new scientific personnel to the same extent as prevails with general mechanical and electrical engi- neering." '3 ; Prof. Durand graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1880 and remained in the naval service as an assist- ant engineer until 1887, when he accepted the chair of mechan- ical engineering in the State Agricultural and Mechanical Col- lege of Michigan. Four years later, in 1891, he was elected pro- fessor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. 'This position was resigned the same year to accept the principalship of the school at Cornell University. George Re. McDermott, late with J. & G. Thompson of Clydebank, Scot- land, is the assistant professor. ANY ONE SENDING TWO ADDRESSES AND $4 TO THE MARINE REVIEW, 5160 PERRY-PAYNE BUILDING, CLEVELAND, WUE fo DN ADDITION TO HAVING THE BEST MARINE PAPER SENT TO THEM FOR A YEAR, RECEIVE A COPY OF WASHINGTON IRVING'S LIFE AND VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. Friends of Capt. Leeds H. Weeks are invited to attend a memorial service to be held at his late residence at Vermillion, O., Sunday afternoon. 'A contract was afew days ago awarded the King Bridge Company of Cleveland by Detroit park commissioners fora bridge in Belle Isle, to cost $3,975. _ Capt. Frank A. Dority, master of the steamer Colorado dur- ing the past two seasons will sail the new Ann Arbor No. 2. She will leave Toledo next week for Frankfort, Mich. Capt. Frank Hackett's tug International, which was almost entirely destroyed by fire at Amherstburg Thursday night, was not fully insured. The boat was valued at $6,000. Chicago received during the season of navigation just closed 1,419,078,000 feet of lumber and 270,121,000 shingles, as against 1,359,315,000 feet of lumber and 226,469,000 shingles in 18Ql. gerne The handsome steam yacht Comanche, built by the Globe - Iron Works Company, Cleveland, is in Manning's basin, New York, and will leave for the West Indies between Christmas and New Year's. The two revolving steam traveling derricks mentioned in the description of the Conneaut docks, some time since, were manufactured complete and erected by the Excelsior Iron Works Company, Cleveland. A Trout wheel applied to the steamer Marquette increased _ her speed a mile an hour running alone, loaded, and three-quar- ters of a mile on two less revolutions when running with a tow. This is equal to a round trip to Duluth for the season. It is expected that the general government will be in full control of the Sturgeon bay canal with the opening of naviga- tion next spring. All papers bearing upon the purchase are now being examined by the attorney general. Charles F. Elmes' engineering works will be moved from the present location in Chicago during the month of January to cor- ner of Morgan and Fulton streets. The new shop will be equipped with a 20-ton traveling crane and a 10-foot boring and turning mill. Ma. dy. Smith of the firm of Le: ca) As onith of Cleye- land, owners of the sunken tug James Amadeus, spent a few days of last week at Amherstburg, Ont., trying to locate the boat, which went down below Point Pelee. The effort was abandoned, but Capt. Frank Hackett of Amherstburg is of the opinion that the boat will be found by the ice piling up around her in the spring. Mr. TT'. F. Newman, who leaves the Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Company on Jan. 1, to become general man- ager of the Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Company, was accorded a great honor at a dinner given to the active managers of the affairs of the Detroit & Cleveland company at the home of General Manager Carter in Detroit a few days ago. In addition to a general expression of good feeling from his associates, Mr. Newman was presented with 375 silver dollars, carried to the dinner table on a large tray. Henry W. Wheeler of Duluth, a St. Paul banker and a Great Barrington (Mass:) capitalist, and James Clark, formerly chief draughtsman for the American Steel Barge Company, expect to build a modified form of whaleback craft at Duluth during the coming winter. The first one will be built at the dock of the Iron Bay company, where machinery for bending and punching can easily be put in operation. The plates will be bought from the West Superior steel plant and the stee] car works will fur- nish the angles. Nothing is stated as to the amount of capital enlisted, but Mr. Wheeler claims that their style of craft will be stronger than the whaleback, and that they have avoided all the McDougall patents.