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MARINE REVIEW. | 15 tecture for pleasure purposes that is to be seen at the'fair. C. F. Elmes, Chicago, Ill., in furnishing the engines for the steam yacht Chicago, secured a chance to exhibit his machinery, and Thos. Kane & Co., Chicago, Ill., and T. H. Truscott & Sons, St. Joseph, Mich., make very fine displays of pleasure boats, from livery boats to steam launches. COAST AND GENERAL EXHIBITS. The most striking exhibit from any coast yard is that of the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, occupying an entire section in the gallery. A model of the entire plant of this company at Protrero is well executed. 'The machine shops, ship sheds and all the buildings and offices are shown as well as the ways and other details of the plant. Several vessels are on the stocks,and off in the water lay.three models of war-ships built at this west- ern yard. The topography of the heights is shown and it is quite realistic and interesting. A similar but smaller exhibit is shown by the Newport News Ship Building and Dry Dock Com- pany. 'The buildings are well represented and one of the great. The absence of exhibits from the Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works, W. & A. Stevens, the Morgan Iron Works and the Wm. Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company is very noticeable, although the Cramps are well represented by the section of the International steamer building by them and the model of the New York and several other war vessels. Ifthe tair had gone to New York something notable © would probably have been done by these concerns. The naptha launches--"the only naptha launch"--Santa Maria, Pinta and Nina, Isabella and Ferdinand, attract atten- tion not only on account of their names, but also in view of their elegant furnishings, and the Gas Engine and Power Company makes as good a display as a whole as any pleasure boatconcerninthebuilding. Thos. Drein& Son, Wilmington, Del., have the largest display of life-saving appliances and boat equip- ments. It is well arranged. The Providence and Stonington line exhibit a model of the Maine, their latest and handsomest boat, the John Richmond, built in 1838 and famous as a racer in the early days of sound EXHIBIT OF THE UNION IRON WORKS, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Morgan line steamers is shown on the stocks. The relative size of the immense dry dock is presented to advantage, and at one end of this miniature representation of the plant, which is the best laid out and best equipped plant of its size in the world, is a 20-foot model, complete, of the El. Sud. The reason for the excellent arrangement of the yard was that it did not grow from time to time, but millionaireC. P. Huntington ordered the plantasa ship is usually ordered. It occupies 75 acres, has a water front- age of a half mile and the buildings cover six acres. There are eight ship ways from 400 to 500 feet long. 'The dry dock is one of the finest in the country. It is 600 feet long, 130 feet wide on top, 50 feet wide at bottom, having a 93-foot gate anda depth of 25 feet, yet only one and one-half hours 'are required for pump- ing it out. 'The Maryland Steel Company, Sparrow's Point, Md., is catalogued in the gallery E-41, as showing models of ships, ships' appliances, photographs and marine fireworks. Maine ship building is well represented by exhibits of models by Morse & Co., the New England Company of Bath, C. V. Minott of Phippsburg, and the Bath Iron Works, the latter company ex- hibiting nothing but their windlasses. There is, however, a model of the Katahdin in the model room of the war ships. navigation and the Fulton built in 1814. The loss of the Lex- ington on Long Island sound in 1840 is history, but David Crowley, one of two survivors, is in charge of the exhibit and - willing to tell how he floated on an ice-coated bale of cotton for forty-eight hours. The New York and Sandy Hogk Pilots Association is the only marine organization that took the trouble to enlighten people as to their work. 'The association's display is interesting. In addition to the model of a pilot boat, there are a number of paintings, among which is the Ambrose Snow ina hurricane, the Phantom taking passengers from the Oregon and the New York getting a pilot during a gale. D. Kahnweiler & Co., New York, the Chase irsatee and Maniton Windlass Company, and the Sintz Gas Engine Com- pany of Grand Rapids, Mich., have also prepared exhibits that add interest to the marine department. An immense map of the water-ways system from Duluth to New York, showing the great lakes and Erie canal, together with photographs and a model of a lock, is the New York state canal department's contribution. The exhibit of steering engines by Williamson Bros.,