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"TAE Marine REVIEW 37 A NEW MAMMOTH WHARF war. It is reported that the plant will on the bulkhead for the new ferry There' t CRANE. : be on a very large scale. slips at Pier 3, East river, the founda- ee a paar completed in The department of docks and fer- tions and floor timbets having been ritain at the 'works of Messrs. Arm- 'ties of the city of New York is at work laid and dredging for slips being in progress. The steamer Charles Rietz, which ~ had the honor of opening navigation between Cleveland and Detroit, last week, will be converted by her new owner, M;* A. Callahan) "into 4 sand sucker. She was purchased from Burns Bros., Detroit. There were docked at the Morse yard, New York, recently the follow- ing vessels: Spartan Prince, Saxon Prince, Hornby Castle, Lewis Lucken- bach and Amstel for painting and re- pairs and the army transports Kil- patrick and Meade for a general over- hauling. The Manhattan Electrical Supply Co.,:17 Park, Place,: New "York, has just put out a catalog descriptive of the electrical equipment carried by it. ~The catalog covers a wide range as \ 150-TON "HYDRAULIC CRANE AT ELSWICK. is indicated by its title, "Something : Electrical for Everybody." strong, Whitworth & Co:, at Elswick, a new 150 ton hydraulic crane. This is the largest of its kind and has been constructed for the purpose of putting heavy machinery in a completed con- dition into battleships and other ves- sels lying alongside the wharf. The main lifting power is in two parts, each capable of raising' 75 tons sep- \° arately, or 150 tons when worked to- gether. The lifting range is i100 ft. and the maximum rake or radius jib is 117 ft. At this rate 25 tons can be lifted, and 150 tons can be lifted at a rake of 99 ft. When carrying the lat- ter weight, the height of the jib head sheave above the jetty is 166 ft. The crane makes a complete circle... The range in lifting is through a height of 10 ft., and the range in turning is un- limited. Carried on piles, the crane is mounted on steel pedestal, with arch- way through it, so that the traffic on the jetty is uninterrupted. The crane has taken the place of the old 120 tons sheerlegs which were erected at the Elswick ship yard in 1876. BRIEF NOTES. According to a New York morning paper recently, a fire was extinguished . on an incoming steamer. by "boring-a ~ hole in her bottom with the removal -- of a stopcock," : sf A new Staten island enterprise is about to be established by Lewis Nix- on, at Tottenville, consisting of a ship yard which will be devoted especially to the construction of motor boats similar to the one built by Mr. Nixon 'and sent to Russia during the late + I50-TON HYDRAULIC CRANE AT ELSWICK, .