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--_-- _. 1900] MARINE REVIEW. 19 NEWS FROM BOTH COASTS. BRIEF ITEMS FROM SHIP YARDS OF BOTH THE ATLANTIO AND PAOIFIC--A FEW NEW ORDERS ARE STILL NOTED. _ What will probably be the most complete steam engineering build- ing owned by the government is now in process of erection at the Brook- lyn navy yard. It will be large enough to permit the building of the engines for at least three new vessels without interfering with the regular repair work. The building is to be in four parts with a machine shop fronting on Morris avenue, and three wings built at right angles to the former, which will be used as an erecting shop, a boiler shop and a power house. The machine shop will be 350 feet long by 130 feet wide. The erecting shop will be 500 by 180, the boiler shop 3800 by 96 and the power house 100 by 85. The machine shap will have three cranes. The work on the new building is being done under the personal supervision of Civil Engineer Asserson. New four-masted schooner Georgia for the Coastwise Steamship Co. of New York was launched last week from the New England Co.'s yard at Bath, Me. Her dimensions are: 235.5 feet length; 43.3 feet breadth; 20.5 feet depth; gross tonnage, 1,609.56; net tonnage, 1,488.86. She will have a carrying capacity of 3,000 tons. She was built for the coal trade and is staunchly constructed. She will spread 3,000 yards of canvas and has a Hyde engine, windlass and wrecking pump. The Georgia is the fifteenth barge in the Coastwise company's fleet. Twin-screw steam yacht Hirondelle has tbheen sold by the Gas Engine & Power Co. and Seabury & Co., Consolidated, to J. Fred Zimmerman of Philadelphia. The Hirondelle is now at Morris Heights, N. Y., re- . ceiving a new mahogany deck house, a dining saloon and a bridge aft for steering purposes. The Morris Heights company has also sold the steam yacht Charlietta. Fred Fraser of Syracuse, N. Y., is the pur- chaser. The new steamer City of Clifton, built for the St. Louis & Tennes- see River Packet Co. by E. J. Howard of Jeffersonville, Ind., has just been launched. She is one of the prettiest craft on the Mississippi and is of the fullowing dimensions: 190 feet long, 38 feet beam and 5% feet depth of hold. A report in Richmond, Va., is to the effect that another ship yard may tbe established at that point. The success of the Trigg works and Newport News yard has attracted capitalists to the possibilities of ship building in the south. Keel for the second vessel at the McKay & Dix yard, Bucksport, Me., was laid last Saturday. This vessel is intended for the Greenland trade and will be of about 700 tons. Next launching at Kelley, Spear & Co.'s ship yard, at Bath, Me., will take place May 20, when a barge will enter the Kennebec for the Commercial Towboat Co. West Shore ferryboat Newburgh is being extensively overhauled at the New York Central's shops at Weehawken, N. J. ALONG THE PACIFIC COAST. The Tacoma Ledger has a iittle item which must have been gall and wormwood for Seattle. It relates to the fact that eight of the big mortars intended for the government fortifications had to be shipped from Seattle to Tacoma because there were not marine shears big enough at Seattle to handle them. John B. Hardy of Tacoma, who lately pur- chased the plant of the Western Machine & Engine Co., swung them from the cars to the ships. Keel of a large sailing vessel is about to be laid at the ship building yards of W. A. Boole & Son, Oakland Creek, San Francisco. The ves- sel is to be a four-masted bark of 1,100 tons register and will be used in the Honolulu trade. Work will begin within thirty days on the new marine railway and dry dock, which the Booles will build at Oakland. About $80,000 will be spent upon the improvement. The steamer California, one of the largest, if not the largest, vessel ever built on the Pacific coast, will be launched at the Union Iron Works this week. She is 488 feet long with a total displacement of 16,200 tons and a dead weight carrying capacity of 10,600 tons. The Vulcan Iron Works, San Francisco, has a contract for supply- ing the required iron and'steel shapes for the United States government works under way at Pargo-Pargo, island of Tutuila, Samoa. The work ~ in San Francisco is. under the immediate supervision of Commander F. J rake; It is reported that the Willey Navigation Co. is in the market for a new steamer for the Olympia-Seattle route. The new boat is to have a speed of 18 knots an hour. "Plans of the boat are said to have been made. It is understood that the Fairhaven Land Co. of Fair Haven, Wash., is endeavoring to promote the location of a shipyard at that point. The chances of success are fair. Launch built for C. F. Meyers of Seattle by, Crawford & Reid was ~Jaunched last week from the Puget Sound Iron Works, where the ma- chinery was installed. AMONG LAKE SHIP BUILDERS. Buffalo newspapers insist that the American Ship Building Co., now in control of what was known as the Mills yard at Buffalo, propose to have one very large dock at that yard, although officers of the company said when the Mills yard was purchased that no changes would be made for the present. Dimensions of the proposed enlarged dock are 600 feet length, 102 feet wide at top, 62 feet wide at bottom, 20 feet deep and 15 feet on water blocks; the gate to be 66 feet wide at top and 62 feet wide at bottom. It is said that if space available will admit of the construction and operation of the proposed dry dock, the work will be commenced at once. Mr. Robert Wallace of the American Ship Building Co. and his son James C. Wallace, general manager of the company, will be leaving next week for an extended European trip. It is the intention to devote a large part of their time in England and Scotland to visiting the principal ship yards. As the Messrs. Wallace will be out of the country for about three months, it is not probable that any important changes or new undertak- ings at the different works of the consolidation will occur in their ab- sence. The contract for a large fleet of Canadian canal-size steamers similar to those already begun for A. B. Wolvin and others is still talked of, and there is considerable figuring going on regarding other new ves- sels, 'but the lower prices expected in material will probably delay for some time a conclusion of negotiations for any of these vessels. An effort is being made in Cleveland to form another syndicate for the construction of eight or ten steamers of canal size. Mr. W. D. Kearfott of the Geo. F. Blake Mnfg. Co., who is well known to everybody using pumps on the lakes, dropped into Cleveland a few days ago and secured the order for pumps for two canal-size steamers that are to be built by the American Ship Building Co. for Mr. A. B. Wolvin and others, and which are only now being put down. The pumping equipment throughout both steamers will be of Blake manufac- ture and of the most improved type, equal to the equipment of any vessels as yet built either in this country or abroad. The air pumps will be in ac- cordance with the latest marine practice, namely, vertical simplex feather- weight. The ballast pumps will be horizontal cross-compound simplex, and the bilge and cooler pumps also of the simplex type, with feed pumps of the outside packed pluneer compound duplex type. All of the pumps will be built with a view of passing the highest classification for ocean service. : The new Bessemer steamer Robert W. E. Bunsen was launched from the yards of the Chicago Shipbuilding Co. on Tuesday of this week. Miss Catherine Wheeler, niece of President W. L. Brown of the American Ship Building Co., christened the 'boat. The Bunsen is a typical ore carrier. Dimensions of the vessel are: 461 feet in length; 50 feet beam; 29 feet depth of hold; registered tonnage 5,029. She will carry 7,500 net tons of ore on 18 feet draught. A duplicate steamer, also for the Bessemer Steamship Co. (Rockefeller), building at the West Superior ya of the American Ship Building Co., will fbe launched in about ten ays. _ The steamer building at the Globe yard of the American Ship Build- ing Co. for the Pittsburgh Steamship Co. (Carnegie) will be named Rensselaer in honor of the Polytechnical school at Troy. It was said that this vessel would be named Columbia, but it is fortunate that such is not the case, as confusion would result from the fact that there are already in the lake list six Columbias, large and small, and also a Co- lumbian, According to present plans, the Carnegie steamer Harvard, building at the Wyandotte ship yard of the Detroit Dry Lock Co., will be launched Sattirday of this week. The steamer Simon J. Murphy, 442 feet long, building at the same yard for Eddy Bros. o: Bay City, will be launched in about three weeks. The second Eddy 'boat will be launched about a month later. John J. Hill, who has built a large number of very good wooden 'boats, as superintendent of the Morley ship yard. Marine City, Mich., is about to leave for the Pacific coast, where he will continue building ships. Mr. Hill's work.at Marine City is an assurance of success in the ne field. He was one of the best builders of wooden vessels on the akee. NAVAL MATTERS. The battleship Kearsarge has sailed for the Virginia capes, where she will spend some time in swinging compasses and gun practice. Rear Admiral M. T. Endicott, chief of the bureau of yards and docks, went to New Orleans last week to select the site for the floating dock which is now under construction at the yards of the Maryland Steel Co., Sparrow's Point, Md. It is expected that the dock will be ready for delivery by November. There is now a great array of warships at the League Island navy yard, which will no doubt attract thousands of persons in the summer time. Besides the Indiana and the Massachusetts there are the cruisers Columbia, Minneapolis, Yankee and Fanther, the Miantonamah and Kathadin, the Arethusa and the colliers Pompey and Leonidas. Rear Admiral Philip Hichborn, chief constructor of the navy, and Mrs. Hichborn left Washington this week for the Pacific coast. They will visit San Francisco, Seatile and Portland and will return east by the Canadian Pacific route. Tt is possible that the chief constructor will also visit San Diego. If he does.a pubiic reception will be tendered him by the city. Dewey's flagship, the Olympia, is now in dry dock at the Boston navy yard. The docking of this vessel was a feat of which Naval Con- structor William J. Baxter, who superintended it, may well be proud. The ship had about 6 inches to spare on each side as she passed through the mouth of the dock. The hull, not having been docked for over eighteen months, is in foul condition. Rear Admiral Bradford, chief of the bureau of equipment, has effected a purchase of sixty acres of land on the Maine coast of Mount Desert channel, opposite that island. There are seven fathoms of water in the approach, which affords ample facilities for caring for the largest ships of war. Plans have been completed for a large naval coaling sta- tion equipped with automatic machinery and the latest devices for hand- ling fuel. Capt. S. C. Lemley began his third term as judge advocate general of.the navy last week, hav:ng been promptly confirmed by the senate. He was first appointed to that office in June, 1892, and has served con- tinuously through two terms of four years each. His reappointment for a third term is a high compliment to his worth and efficiency in the performance of exceedingly difficult and intricate duties, including all sorts of legal functions. Suck long service in a bufeau office is very rare in the history of the navy. The Nickel Plate road will sell excursion tickets to Philadelphia, Pa., June 14 to 18 inclusive, at one fare for the round trip, account Re- publican national convention. Tickets 2re good returning to and includ- oe 26. 4900. Write, wire, 'phone or call on E. A. Akers, C. Pp; & T Aj Cleveland, O.,-or C. A. Asterlin, T: P. A. Fe Warne, Ind. 82 June 14