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1901] MARINE REVIEW. : 27 INDUSTRIAL NOTES. The McMyler Manufacturing Co., Cleveland, manufacturers of hoist- ing and conveying machinery, who are erecting a large plant at Warren, O., are calling for bids for the equipment of the plant. In addition to a large list of machine tools they are in the market for two horizontal boilers of 100 H.P. each, to be equipped with mechanical stokers; feed water heaters for 300 H.P. boilers and pumps for same; a 100-kw. 250-volt gen- erator, direct connected to engine, and a number of motors. The Brown Hoisting Machinery Co., Inc., Cleveland, are pushing work on their new plant and hope to have it under way before cold weather sets in. The temporary shops are crowded with work. At present the company reports an unsual demand for their patent blast furnace hoists and distributors. The pattern shop of the Wellman-Seaver Engineering Co., Cleveland, is now in operation. The company expects to have the remainder of its plant in a completed state by the first of the year. This plant is intended to be a model of its kind. C. O. Bartlett & Co., Cleveland, have taken a contract for a coal handling outfit to be erected at Sandusky, O., for the Columbus, San- dusky & Hocking railway. It will have a capacity of 700 tons per hour. A 15 per cent. dividend has just been paid to stockholders of the Roberts Safety Water-Tube Boiler Co., New York. This company has been paying 10 per cent. annual dividends for several years past. The Calvin Co., Ltd., Garden Island, Ont., has added one of the B-11 adjustable bevel band saw machines made by the Atlantic Works, Incor- porated, of Philadelphia to the equipment of their ship yard. In fair weather the Algiers dock will draw 7 ft. of water, but in a blow will be sunk to a depth of 18 ft. It is expected that the seas will wash all the way through her length of 500 ft. 'The sides of the dock, which are 55 ft. high and 400 ft. long, will-receive in a gale a wind pressure of 350 tons, sufficient to drive a large sailing vessel at a 12-knot clip. No effort will be made to make any headway in a gale, and but 8 knots is expected in good weather. Elder, Dempster & Co. now occupy the distinction of owning the largest fleet of cargo and passenger steamers under the British flag. The company controls 141 vessels of 368,490 gross tons. There are twelve steamers building of 44,800 tons gross. In speed the figures are as fol- lows: 17 knots, one; 14 knots, eleven; 13 knots, seven; 12 knots, twelve; under 12 knots, 110. Niclausse water-tube boilers have been ordered for the new Japanese cruisers Nutaka and Tsuchima. These vessels are of purely Japanese de- sign. Excursion rates to Florida via Baltimore & Ohio R. R. and Wash- ington, D. C., passing through the beautiful cities of the south. Stop over privilege allowed on all round trip tickets. Two fast trains leave Cleve- land daily at 3:00 and 11:20 p. m. Call at city ticket office, 241 Superior street. tf. '* Seaboard Steel Castings." MANUFACTURERS OF A GUARANTEE OF QUALITY. 9° mast "THE ADMIRAL"? ANCHOR. OPEN-HEARTH STEEL CASTINGS a OF THE HIGHEST GRADE. FACILITIES FOR CASTINGS UP TO 80,000 POUNDS WEIGHT. MACHINE WORK AND PATTERNS FURNISHED WHEN REQUIRED. THE LATEST AND BEST STOCKLESS ANCHOR. APPROVED BY LLoyop's. ANCHORS CAST AND TESTED ON ORDER, OR STOCK ORDERS RAIL OR WATER DELIVERIES. PROMPTLY FILLED. CAPACITY, 1500 TONS PER MONTH Seaboard Steel Casting Co., CHESTER, PA. TRADE NOTES. The James Reilly Supply & Repair Co., No. 229-230 West street, New York, has printed a book about their marine specialties. In the book the company calls particular attention to the water front as a con- venient place for the repair of steamships, yachts, tugs and general marine work. The company is at all times in a position to undertake engine and boiler repairing, the renovating of cabins and all manner of ship carpentry, refitting of hulls, rigging and decks, and appliances for handling cargo. The company keeps constantly on hand all supplies necessary for repair work. In fact during the past twenty-five years it has practically done all the repair work for the International Navigation Co.'s lines--American and Red Star. A complete catalogue. follows of the company's marine specialties. The book can be had for the asking. The Lidgerwood Manufacturing Co., New York, has received four gold medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal for their various exhibits at the Pan-American exposition. All of the awards were the highest given in each particular class, and include a gold medal for mining engines and general hoisting engines, a gold medal for electric battleship hoist, such as the company furnished the Kearsarge and Kentucky of the United States navy, and a gold medal for-the Lidgerwood=Miller marine cableway for coaling at sea; also a silver medal for ele¢trical hoisting engines and a bronze medal for the new revérsible drum swinging gear which is a feature of the latest type of the Lidgerwood derrick engines. Bids will be opened at Washington at the bureau of supplies and accounts of the navy department on Nov. 5 for furnishing for the Mare Island navy yard, Mare Island, Cal., miscellaneous supplies including fifty dozen steel wire foundry casting brushes, about 20,000 lbs. of bar iron of various sizes, 7,000 lbs. of bar steel for gun mount bolts, 13,000 ft. of wrought iron galvanized steam pipe, 3,800 ft. of seamless brass pipe, and 700 sheets of steel, galvanized. 2 _A particularly useful pump for boiler inspectors, marine engineers and boat owners generally, is that which is made by the Marine Iron Works, station A, Chicago, as illustrated on page 41 of their 1901 catalogue, which is sent free on receipt of request. ' vi 66 . INVESTIGATION S66 olilns will prove beyond all doubt that Garlock Packings are the best investment for progressive THEIR CONSTRUCTION : AND MAINTENANCE." ENGINEERS. Our packings are A valuable work, just from the press, POPULAR by THoMAS WALTON, . : : Author of "Know Your Own Ship." sib they are the best in the : : NECESSARY Not highly technical, but well suited fiicanee ies cients tt A to Ship Superintendents, Marine factory results. Engineers, and Students of ship} EVOURING : because they are made for lon construction. ae s Send for catalogue and samples to our nearest office. Introduction deals with steel from d i ti finished : product in ship material, Then fol-| THE GARLOCK PACKING CO. lows chapters: dealing with principal structural features and alternative modes in which a vessel may be built. Largest section of the book treats in NONE detail of the construction and combi-}| genuine nation generally of the various parts which go to make up the whole ship a structure--framing, plating, stern ; <> frames and rudders, riveting, pump-| New York. Philadelphia. St. Louis. ing and ventilation, and includes also} Boston, Pittsburg. Denver. remarks upon launching. Chicago. Cleveland. San Francisco. Price $5.50. MAIN OFFICES AND FACTORIES! THE MARINE REVIEW PUB. CO, PALMYRA, N. Yi ROME, GA. CLEVELAND, O. 2 WITHOUT Iv. = ee ee HORIZONTAL PUNCH The Cleveland Punch & Shear Works Co., CLEVELAND, o. which is a very useftl tool in any shop, and is especially designed for punching angles, 'channels; beams, and flanges of boiler heads. This punch is equipped with our regular punching attachment and automatic stop, and is built in several sizes of throat from 6 in. to 40 in., with capacities from §-in. hole through 3-in. plate to 14-in. hole through 1-in. plate. We can satisfy you that we have the best horizontal punch on the market, and will be pleased to correspond with you if you are in need of such a machine. U.S.A. _ LAH Rem aee