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MARINE REVIEW. 5 American Schooner Governor Ames. The American schooner Governor Ames, a picture of which appears on this page, has capacity for 2,000,000 feet of lumber, and is now on the passage from Seattle, Wash., to Queenstown with a $26,000 freight. The tonnage of the Ames, customs de- partment measurement, is 1,778.77 gross tons and 1,689.84 net. She is 245.6 feet long, 49.6 feet wide and 21.2 feet deep. She was built in 1888 at Waldeboro, Me., and hails from Fall River, Mass. The photograph from which the engraving was made was received in Cleveland a few days ago by Capt. J. H. Palmer from his son, J. F. Palmer, who met the master of the Ames, Capt. C. A. Davis, in San Francisco. Appeals to the Philanthropist. William H. Webb, who recently founded and endowed the Webb Academy and Home for Ship Builders at Fordham Heights, New York, which was described in the last issue of the REVIEW, is receiving many appeals for help from all parts of the country as a result of the special charity which he has undertaken. In a letter to the REvIEwW he says: "I have been over- whelmed with letters and personal application for aid in every way, growing out of the publication in the papers of my doings at Fordham Heights, this city,--my philanthropy, my wealth, electric trolley canal boat, with its three or four consorts, is as helpless when it reaches the river as the horse boat. The steam canal] boat, however, when it reaches the river does not have to wait tilla tow is made up and then pay $25 a boat to be moved to New York, but can get right out into the river and perhaps pick up an extra horse boat or so, which got in just too late to get a place in the regular tow. Moreover the steam canal boat is running today up to the limit of speed allowance on the canals. They run five or six miles an hour, while the electric boat could not run six or eight miles an hour without washing the canal banks. I have seen a steam launch run in the canal so that you could see the bottom of the canalin her wake. I can not see where the trolley system is going to work any benefit to the boats that leave the canal and travel down the river as most of them dor Combination Scotch and Water Tube Boiler. Capt. Conrad Starke of Milwaukee, who was unsuccessful with a water tube boiler of peculiar design, put into the steamer Hy. A. Shores, Jr., some time ago, proposes to provide the Scotch boiler, which he is now having built for the Shores, with a water tube annex. The shell diameter of the boiler will be 9% feet and its length 12 feet. 'The length of the boiler as compared to AMERICAN SCHOONER GOVERNOR AMES. etc., most woefully exaggerated--the result of all which is I have been made really ill reading the letters setting forth so much distress and listening to personal appeals for aid. Excessive pressure of business in getting Webb's Academy and Home for Ship Builders ready for occupancy has been too much for me. There is some let up, but still they come."' " Little Significance in the Canal-Trolley Experiment. Of course the boat owners and shippers who are actively en- gaged in business on the Erie canal are not responsible for the newspaper statements proclaiming a revolution in canal methods, on account of the recent trial of the trolley electrical system of propulsion. Only a radical enlargement of the canal will make any material difference in its commerce. Referring to the elec- tricalexperiment, State Engineer Schenk says: '"Successful? Why, of course it was successful. I never heard of anybody doubting that by attaching acurrent of elec- tricity tothe machinery that turns the wheel of a steam canal boat you could not make the wheel turnand the boat go. Noth- ing was demonstrated except the fact that the electric power would turn the propeller of a canal boat just as it would the wheel ofacar. 'The truth of the matter is that the trolley system of supplying power to canal boats can never be of any great value to canal traffic with boats in this state as they exist today. The the diameter does not correspond with the scotch type now in general use, but it is right here that Capt. Starke will obtain the necessary room for his water tubes. These will be placed in the smoke box in perpendicular position. There are to be seventy- two of the tubes in all--six rows, with twelveineach row. 'The fire will first pass between these tubes and then through the tubes of the main boiler. 'The arrangement of the tubes is such that it will be an easy matter to remove and replace any one of them. Water isto fed into the shell from above instead of be- low as in ordivary boilers, and through a coil. This idea origi- uated with the proprietor of the Manitowoc Boiler Works, and has created such a favorable impression that it is to be adopted in the new boiler for the tug Welcome and also introduced in the boilers ofthe Carl and other tugs of the Milwaukee Tug Boat Line fleet--Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. Richard P. Joy of Detroit has issued another pamphlet along the line of his voluntary labors in support of protection to American shipping. 'This latest work is entitled "How For- eign Nations Protect their Merchant Marine." FIFTEEN PHOTOTYPES OF THE LATEST LAKE STEAMERS AND A PICTURE OF THE GREAT EASTERN, NEATLY BOUND, FOR 50 CENTS. WRITE THE MARINE REVIEW, No. 516 PERRY- PAYNE BUILDING, CLEVELAND, O.