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TAE Marine. REVIEW STEAMSHIP HERMAN WINTER ON SEPT. 24 SHOWING THE RAPID PROGRESS OF HER REPAIR WORK IN FOUR WORKING DAYS. in the successful operation of the ship as the captain, manager or owner and the Atlantic Coast movement will be settled to the ultimate satisfaction of all concerned. ' A LAKE ENGINEER. COPPER PIPES MADE AT FORE RIVER. As an example of heavy copper pipe work the accompanying illustra- tion is particularly interesting as the pipes shown. are of very unusual weight and sizes. The two copper pipes seen in the photograph are the main exhaust pipes of the Curtis Tur- "bine steamship Creole and were made at the copper shop of the Fore River Shipbuilding Co. at Quincy, Mass., the builders of the vessel. Each of these pipes weighs 2,500 Ibs. Each pipe is 42 in. in diameter, inside meas- urement, and 5/6 of an inch in thick- ness. Each pipe was made from sheet copper in four pieces and the' skill used in brazing these pieces together is clearly shown in the smoothness and shapeliness of the pipes, the workmanship on which will quickly appeal to all coppersmiths, who will appreciate that the pipe is nearly, if not quite, the largest size copper pipe made in this country for marine pur- poses. The Fore River company makes all kinds of copper work and steel piping of any shape or size up to 300 lbs. pressure for power plants, distilleries, breweries, and the like, and with contracts. ahead including the building of one of the two great 20,000-ton. battleships for. the United States navy, to keep the works busy ee for three years, will extend. this branch of their business and give em- ploymenet to an additional number of coppersmiths. The new Fabre line steamship Ven- ezia arrived in New York recently on her maiden trip from Marseilles, Na- ples and Almeria. On this voyage the Venezia maintained a speed of 151%4 knots. The vessel was built at the Neptune works of Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle, for Cyprian Fabre & Co., Marseilles. She ig 4/0: tt, long; 31 ff beam and: 33: ft deep, with accommodations for 71 cabin, and 1,852 steerage passengers. 17 ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. Record time was made in unloading the steamer Francis L. Robbins at Fairport recently. Her cargo of 6,403 tons of iron ore was unloaded into cars by electric grab buckets in four hours and twenty minutes. A report from Amherstburg states that the sunken schooner Houghton is still on the bottom, no efforts having been made to float the vessel. The wreckers are waiting for an in- surance settlement on the cargo of coal. The schooner was not insured. An announcement from Cardiff, Wales, is to the effect that the navy department has contracted with Welsh firms for 100,000 tons of the best steam coal, the delivery to extend over 1908. The price agreed upon has not been made public. ~ The new steamer Kotcher, building at the Detroit yard of the American Ship Building Co. for the Detroit Steamship Co. and which will be launched late during the present month, will be brought out by Capt. W. H. Hoffman, at present master of the steamer Choctaw. The commissioners of accounts of the city of New York, acting under Mayor McLellan, have begun an inves- tigation into the awarding of the Ash- okan dam contract No. 3 to McArthur Bros. and the Winston Co., although the bid submitted by the John Pierce Co. was about $2,000,000 lower than that of the successful bidders. The contract involves about $12,000,000 and it is asserted that the figures obtained by the engineer of the board show that it would be impossible for the Pierce Co. to carry out the terms of its bid and do good work. ' MAIN EXHAUST PIPES OF THE CURTIS TURBINE STEAMSHIP CREOLE, So ial