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34 TRADE NOTES. Dean Bros., Indianapolis, Ind., have just issued a post card and description of the Dean Bros. simple pump. The Joseph Dixon Crucible Co., Jer- "sey City, N. J., has just issued a little catalog descriptive of Dixon's graphite ' brushes. The Steel Mill Packing Co. De- troit, Mich., has recently put out a lit- tle circular descriptive of its vibrating stuffing box. -On Nov. 1 all the property, plant, accounts and good will of the Toledo White Lead Co. will be sold and transferred to the Hardy Paint & Var- nish Co. who will assume all liabilities and collect all accounts of the old company. The new company has in- creased its capital and the plant ahd organization will be further improved. The DB, -l. Williams © Co., : Cincin- nati, O., announce that their new Hunt street factory was destroyed on tne wieht of Aug. 22 by fire, 'The company had only moved its lubri- cating department into the building and this is therefore the only depart- ment to suffer. All patterns, how- ever, remain intact at the company's Broadway plant. The company is now installing a new lubricating depart- ment at 410-412 East Eighth street and announces deliveries on lubricat- ie devices as of Oct. 15. In all of its other departments the company is in no sense of the word disturbed. S. Fix's Sons' Steam Flue Welding Works, corner Leonard and Winter streets, Cleveland, have recently added a new warehouse owing to the in- crease in their business. The com- pany has installed a new machine for straightening tubes out of water-tube boilers and are fully equipped to weld and straighten tubes quite as readily out of this type of boiler as out of the old style boilers. The company is at present welding a large number of tubes for coal mines in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and has just completed a carload of tubes for the Modes- Turner Glass Works at Terre Haute, Ind. : A description of its plant and the process used in treating timber with creosote is published in a brief pam- phlet from the Gulfport Creosoting Co., Gulfport, Miss. tains three cylinders, each 7 ft. in diameter, two of them being 120 ft. long each and the third 96 ft. long, their total monthly capacity being 2,000,000 ft. B. M. The timber treat- ed includes piles, telephone poles, bridge timbers, railroad ties, cross arms, conduits, paving blocks and similar classes of material. The speci- The plant con-. TAE MarINe. REVIEW fications recommended by the com- pany for both the timber and the creosote oil are given in detail. Following catalog No. 70 which was devoted to hydraulic forcing presses the Watson-Stillman Co., Havemeyer building, New York, has issued éata- log No. 71 devoted to hydraulic pumps. This replaces old catalog No. 56. About one-half of the cata- log represents entirely new matter while other pages represent altera- tions in the matter or variation in the cuts. The catalog is really a compil- ation of sheets from the company's general catalog but is very complete in relation to pumps. Especial reference is called -to the four-plunger, geared belt pump, being a new-form of con- struction in that it improves on the accessibility of the small parts, while keeping at the same time the strains entirely within direct-tension parts. At- tention is also directed to the four plunger duplex geared hydraulic pump "which delivers 80 gallons at 30 revo- lutions per minute at working pres- sure of 1,000 lbs. per square inch. CRESCENT.MACHINE CO. The Crescent Machine Co., Leeto- nia, O., has recently completed a 38- in. band saw for the New York navy BAND SAW MACHINE, yard. As will be observed in the ac- companying photograph, the machine has an electric motor connected direct to the lower shaft making its opera- tion very convenient. The company has. also supplied the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., with an angle band saw equipped with an electric motor similar to the one illus- trated herewith. The company has now in course of construction a number, of motor- ANGLE BAND SAW. driven outfits for private parties. The larger shops all over the country are beginning to realize the economy and satisfaction of individual motor drives for woodworking machines. It is quite apparent that electrically-driven outfits will be more generally used in the future than they have been in the past. The United States steamship Charles- ton is at the Puget Sound navy yard, Bremerton, Wash., having undergone a preliminary survey previous to sending an estimate to Washington as to what repairs are to be made, The recom- mendations of the steam engineering de- partment will necessitate keeping the Charleston in dock for forty days. William E. Woodall & Co., Baltimore, Md., have lately commenced repairs on the steamer Louise, owned by the Vir- ginia Navigation Co., Richmond, Va., the vessel having been raised recently from the bottom of the Mattaponai river where she had lain since spring. This Steamer was built in Jacksonville, Fla., and is of the Mississippi river type. She is to be rebuilt and put in first-class condition.