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14 MARINE REVIEW. : WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. More of the leading foreign and home exhibits at the fair --The American line ships, Bethlehem Company's big hammer and other special features--- Relics and curiosities. In an enlarged edition of the REvIEw, date of June 29, a general description was given of the grand marine display in the transportation building, World's Columbian Exposition. Brief reference was made to nearly all of the exhibits in both eomican LINE ER SHIPS, SECTION OF AMERICAN foreign and American sections, and many of.the most important features of the big collection were illustrated and described in detail. The list of exhibits deserving of special mention is very large, and more of them are now taken up in these pages devoted to the fair. Among the most striking objects, and those which at once arrest the attention of every spectator, are the section of the International Navigation Company's new ships and the great model of the Bethlehem Iron Company's steam hammer, of which illustrations have, fortunately, been secured for this issue. Both of these have been described at some length in previous numbers of the ReviEw, but the illustrations will serve to show their immense proportions, and now that all of the important features in the American line ships have been agreed upon, visitors to the fair from this time on may expect to learn even more about them than could be obtained from a walk through the section of cabins, state rooms, steerage quarters, etc. Representatives of the International company in charge announce that within a few days they will have on exhibition half models of hull and engravings of the ships com- plete from paintings prepared under the direction of the builders. According to the final plans the two new ships building by the Cramps of Philadelphia, and which are to be forerunners of LINE STEAMSHIPS., Atlantic liners of immense proportions, are to be somewhat smaller than the Paris and New York, but are expected to develop 21,000 horse power. 'The force of workmen at the Philadelphia ship yard will be increased shortly and the two new ships will be ready for service next summer. The Bethlehem Company's big hammer, which forms another subject for illustration, and which was described in the REVIEW of June 29 last, occupies an appropriate position, as it rises amid the models of many merchant vessels and vessels of war, so numerous in the British section just to the north of the building. In this section, which includes the many magnificent