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18 MARINE REVIEW. ~ [May 4, See WORK THAT OCCUPIES THE SHIP YARDS. The recently organized William Skinner & Sons Ship Building & Dry 'Dock Co. of Baltimore has purchased, at a cost of $63,000, a large tract of property adjoining its plant. The Baltimore correspondent of the Review reports that all the yards in that city are well occupied with work. New tonnage now under construction is as follows: At the Columbian Iron Works.--A twin-screw passenger and freight steamer for the New York & Hartford Transportation Co.; steel tug for the Consolidated Coal Co.; United States revenue cutter Seminole; United States submarine torpedo boat Plunger; United States torpedo boat Tergley. At Sparrow's Point.-- Twin-screw steel steamer for the New York & New Haven Steamboat Co.; two 5,000-ton steam colliers for the Boston Towboat Co.; three 30-knot torpedo boat destroyers for United States navy; steel tug for Baker-Whit- ley Coal Co. At the R. M. Spedden Co.'s works.--Steel despatch steamer for United States government. Thomas McCosker & Co.--Ninety-foot tug for P. Dougherty Co. David Thursby.--Two large wooden barges. Specifications have been prepared for a new steamer to be built, prob- ably at some Pacific coast yard, for the Alaska Packers' Association. The vessel will be of the following dimensions: Length, 217 feet over all; beam, 35 feet; depth of hold, 18 feet. She will be built of steel with cellular double bottom and six water-tight compartments, and will be constructed in excess of Lloyds requirements. She will have two triple expansion en- gines, with twin screws. Diameters of cylinders are to be 9, 15%4 and 27 inches, with 24 inches stroke of piston. Steam will be supplied from water tube boilers, allowed a working pressure of 225 pounds to the square inch, and her speed will be 10 knots. The steamer will be fitted with steam steer- ing gear, capstan, windlass and towing machinery, and she will also have an electric plant. Her lower hold is to be 108 feet clear length and her hatches of large size, so as to facilitate the handling of long timber. The Neafie & Levy Ship & Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, a few days ago launched two steel towboats. The Cheltenham, building for the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co., is 92 feet over all, 19 feet beam and 10 feet depth of hold. She will be fitted with compound engines with cylinders of 15 and 26 inches diameter by 22-inch stroke, to which steam will be supplied by boilers of 110 pounds pressure. The Syosset, building for the Long Island Railroad Co., is 112 feet over all, 23 feet beam and 12 feet 2 inches depth of hold. She will be fitted with compound engines, with cylinders of 20 and 40 inches diameter by 28 inches stroke, to which 'steam will be supplied by boilers of 125 pounds working pressure. The Union Iron Works, San Francisco, has secured from the San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railroad Co. an order for a ferryboat to run between San Francisco and Point Richmond, the proposed western terminus of the line. The vessel will be of side-wheel type, 238 feet in length, 64 feet beam and 17% feet molded depth, and will draw 10% feet of water. The hull will be of steel, and the boat will be fitted with com- pound engines capable of driving her at a speed of 16 miles. The capacity of the cabins will be 700 passengers. The vessel is to be completed inside ten months. The ship yard of the Pusey & Jones Co., Wilmington, Del., is exceed- ingly busy at present. The ferryboat B. M. Shanley, building for the Point Richmond & Bergen Point Ferry Co., is well along towards completion, almost all the machinery being in position. All the frames of the yacht Willada are in position and the work of putting up plates has begun. Plat- ing work is also under way on the yacht Kismet, building for J. Rogers Maxwell of Brooklyn and excellent progress is being made on extensive repairs to the light-house tender Zizania. The Ocean Navigation & Construction Co. of Plainfield, N. J., has been incorporated with a capital of $125,000. The object of the company is to construct and operate steamers, and the incorporators include James R. O'Bierne of 32 Broadway, New York; Charles G. West, Greenwich, Conn.; George E. Waldo, 34 Nassau street, New York; Robert E. Waldo, Plain- field, N. J.; and Joseph G. Robin, 32 Broadway, New York. Robert B. Waldo has been named as resident agent. His Plainfield address is 32 East Sixth street. George E. Currier & Son of Newburyport, Mass., have secured from Boston parties an order for the construction of a 1,600-ton four-masted schooner, to be ready for launching early in 1900. This contract revives an industry at Newburyport which has been stagnant since 1892. The firm et utes & Son are also negotiating for the building of a 250-ton steam ighter. The Merrill-Stephens Engineering Co. of Jacksonville, Fla., has se- cured from the Plant line the contract for a new side-wheel steamer for service in Florida waters. She will be 120 feet in length, 21 feet beam and 3% feet draught, with inclined engines and when delivered in October will cost in the neighborhood of $25,000 or $30,000. Lawrence Jensen of East Gloucester, Mass., has begun work on a yacht for Fred L. Pigeon, Commodore Hastings and Vice-Commodore Felton Bent of the Annisquam, Mass., Yacht Club. The yacht, designed by A. Crowningshield of Boston, will be 3814 feet over all, 21 feet water line, 9 feet 3 inches beam and 9 inches draught. The Tietjen & Lang Dry Dock Co. of New York is having a large floating dock built at Perth Amboy, N. J. The new dock will be about 400 feet in length by 100 feet in width, and will accommodate vessels of 5000 tons. When completed it will be located at Hoboken, N. J., alongside the other large docks of the company. The Union Iron Works, San Francisco, has just received an order for another vessel for the Hawaiian trade. The vessel is for the Wilder Steam- ship Co. of Honolulu and will be utilized in the inter-island trade. to be of wood and of about 450 tons; speed 12 knots. -George C. Morris of Wilmington, Del., will establish a small ship yard at the corner of Front and Reaney streets, Chester, Pa. A specialty will be made of life boats and life rafts. Contracts for the erection of the necessary buildings have already been let. The Big Kanawha Towboat Co. of Winifrede, W. Va., has b i : porated by Thomas E. Baird and D. W. Chandler of Bhitadelphia: 7. W. Johnson, J. A. Parker and C, A. Johnson of Proctorvill vassady of Charlestown, W. Va, BRO: 8 Bo: She is e__---- Capt. James Davidson of West Bay City, Mich., has Jaid the keel for a tug of 115 feet length, 24 feet beam and 11 feet depth, which he is to build for Port Huron parties. Between 500 and 600 men are now employed at the Davidson ship yard. Miller F. Moore & Co. will remove their ship building plant from Elizabethport to Harrison, N. J. It is stated that the plant to be erected at the latter place will cost $100,000 and will give employment to more than 300 men. As announced some time ago the Lozier Manufacturing Co. of Toledo, O., has gone into the business of building steam launches and has secured a contract for a handsome 35-foot launch for use at the Casino at Toledo, The torpedo boat Dahlgreen, building at the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me., will be launched about the middle of May, and her sister vessel, the - T. A. M. Craven, will be put into the water a few weeks later. The Bethlehem Construction Co. of Bethlehem, Pa., has been incor- porated at Dover, Del., with a capital stock of $15,000, the avowed purpose of the company being the building of steamships. Capt. B. H. Spurling has contracted with W. Irving Adams of East Boothbay, Mass., for the construction of a schooner for use in Florida waters. : The New England Co. of Bath, Me., has just launched for the Con- solidated Coal Co. of Baltimore a coal barge of 1,650 tons capacity. SAVED A PART OF THE SHIP. Swan & Hunter, well-known English ship builders, have launched the newly constructed fore end for the steamer Milwaukee. It will be re- membered that the Milwaukee, a vessel of 483 feet length and 56 feet beam, went ashore near Aberdeen last September, a huge rock penetrat- ing the hold for a length of 30 feet and to a height of 8 feet above the tank top. When the salvage operators saw that it would be impossible to save the entire vessel, it was decided to blow her in two with dynamite, This was done successfully and 180 feet of the fore end was left on the rocks, while the after end was towed to dry dock to be joined to the por- tion that has just been launched. The method resorted to in severing the vessel was by the application of successive charges of dynamite, each charge being spread over a length of from 4 feet to 6 feet, the charges being varied according to the thickness of the steel plates to be severed. So excellent was the quality of the steel that no less than 140 pounds of dynamite was required to burst the plates asunder in the spaces named. Eventually, the after portion of the huge steamer was detached and safely floated into deep water, the engines and boilers being thus preserved, The salvaged part of the vessel was towed to the Tyne .and docked by the Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company, whilst Messrs. C. S. Swan & Hunter, the builders of the vessel, were entrusted with the re- building of the forward and missing portion. Announcement is made of the formal organization of the International Steam Pump Co., which it will be remembered comprises the Worthing- ton, Blake, Knowles, Snow, Laidlaw-Dunn-Gordon and Deane companies. The new corporation is officered as follows:--President, Charles C. Worth- ington; first vice president, Marcus Stine; second vice president, J. W. Dunn; treasurer, Max Nathan; secretary, James H. Snow. Nothing has been given out regarding the plan for the disposal of the company's output, but it is understood that not more than one office will be located in agy of the large cities. In short, districts will be alloted to the different com- ponent companies, the New York office being in charge of the Worthing- ton company, the Boston office controlled by the Blake-Knowles interests and the Cleveland branch by the Laidlaw-Dunn-Gordon company. Bids have been opened for supplying machine tools for the Boston navy yard. The bidders included the Garvin Machine Co., Spring and Varick streets, New York City; Niles Tool Works, Hamilton, O.; U. Baird Machinery Co., 123 Water street, Pittsburg, Pa.; N. E. Drew, Man- chester, N. H.; S. A. Woods Machine Co., 445 Dorchester avenue, South Boston, Mass.; Hill, Clarke & Co., 156 Oliver street, Boston; New Jersey Foundry & Machine Co., 26 Cortlandt street, New York City; the Fair- banks Co., Broadway, New York City; Manning, Maxwell & Moore, 11 Liberty street, New York City; Cumberland, Dugan & Co., 20 South Charles street, Baltimore; Gould & Eberhardt, Newark, N. J. In order to illustrate the wisdom of large expenditures for New York harbor improvements a statement has just been made up which affords an »xcellent idea of the growth of the business of the metropolis in the last 4% years. In 1862 the total receipts were valued at $36,399,954.25. For the fiscal year ending July 1, 1898, the total receipts were $103,703,355.40. In 1862 the total annual tonnage of vessels arriving was 2,509,749. In 1898 it was 7,761,412. In 1862 the number of employes in the custom house build- ing was about 300. It is now 510, exclusive of the naval office force, which, owing to want of space, was moved into other premises in 1874. __ The Nicopol Maripol Mining & MetaMlurgical Co. of Maripol, Russia, will erect a new slabbing mill in connection with its works, and has award- ed to the Babcock & Wilcox Co. a contract for four 650 horse power boilers for the new mill, as well as another contract for four 550 horse power boilers to be operated in connection with blast furnaces. The new mill will be erected by the Morgan Engineering Co. of Alliance, O., and Man- ning, Maxwell & Moore of New York will furnish two electric cranes of 50 and 15 tons capacity respectively. The Manistee Iron Works Co., Manistee, Mich., has completed an air pump that is said to be the largest independent air pump in the world, ex- ceeding in size even that installed on the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. The steam cylinder of the Manistee pump is 20 inches in diameter by 72 inches stroke and the two air cylinders are each 42 inches in diameter by 36 inches stroke. The total weight of the pump is 60,000 pounds. _ The Q. & C. Co. of Chicago is working its shops overtime and is ninety days behind on orders for machinery. Large shipments of pneu- matic tools are being made to London, Paris and Russia.