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44 ture and has remained with them ever since. : Mr. Paton has shown himself to be a very capable man in handling men TAe MarRINE REVIEW Mr. Brown has been brought up in the mold loft from the Cleveland Ship Building Co., Cleveland, to the Lorain yard and he certainly has made 04.05 6 029. OO Or -6 0 O O° O07 ©: 20:20 oO ° 03-750 ° ° ° Oo OOO O79 OF 79 10-070 Oo .0 0 ° ° O° 0. <0 | U o Oo °O | Oo oO oO |! o oOo °O 6 Oc: 6.70 oO ° o.U06°08 ° oO ° ° | Oo 0.20 i} oO i Oo o ° : | ofS) 72 , 66 FUTENM /ZLATE- a 0.0 OLS O- Oe O ° ° Oo 0. oO 50 6 ol --Mozn--"°| ° oO | °o.|.UO°0# o_o ° 0 0 o .(O and he has the good will of every He has risen from man under him. the old methods of ship building to the new and he deserves credit for the progress he has made in improving on the mold work and the high stand- ard of work he puts out. great progress in the mold work. The neatness and, accuracy of his work is pee et very creditable and the dispatch is wonderful. In laying off and making the molds of the J. Q. Riddle he had-as assist- ants, two men and two boys. _ steering gear on the market. He is a young man and of a very progressive nature with a _ splendid future ahead of him. During my visits to the Lorain yard a vessel was on the stocks plated and no riveting done. The fairness of the holes was easily seen which went to show the stage of perfection the mold work had reached. One thing that can be said for the foremen in the Lorain yard of the American Ship Building Co. is that they work well together and are al- ways ready to help each other in whatever turns up for welfare of the employers' interest. AUXILIARY STEERING GEAR. 'Tt would seem as though no argument were necessary to prove the necessity of an emergency steering gear aboard ship. 'The control of a ship is completely at the mercy of its steering gear. As a miatter: of = pretection +. an, . emer- gency gear should be carried. Acci- dents to steering gear may happen with- out warning and if an emergency gear is not instantly available serious damage may be done to the ship. There are dozens of places in the restricted water- ways of the lakes where _ strandings would inevitably occur should the steer- ing gear give out. The Akers Steering Gear Co., Old Colony. - building, Chicago, claim that they have the only successful emergency The com- pany certainly submits evidence in sup- port of its claims. Ever since the advent of the 5,000-ton ship it has been apparent that a second or emergency steering gear is necessary. Every other feature con- nected with the handling and navigation of the modern steamer has been im- proved upon with the exception of the most essential adjunct to uninterrupted control. Of late years both the number and size of ships on the great lakes has increased immensely, but the channels are the same as ever, limited as to room. If two of the larger ships should col- lide and sink in any one of a dozen dif- ferent places in the rivers, navigation would be completely suspended until they were removed--a matter of several days.