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'a MECHANICAL CHINAMAN, A simple device, which would be a welcome addition to many engine rooms, is shown in the sketch. Many station- ary, and all marine engineers and firemen have some washing to do. Second engi- neer Laux, of the steamer S. N. Parent, : mounted an oil barrel upon an inch shaft running in bearings screwed to the en4 TAE Marine REVIEW a twin-screw gasoline tug boat under con- struction for the Southern Pacific Rail- way Co., which is to be fitted with two engines of 75 H. P. each. The vessel will cost about $15,000. The Moran Co., Seattle, Wash., has had the steamship Cottage City, owned by the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., San Francisco, on the ways for a survey, she EE 4 \ . ' \ 4 Ln Wot H to SSS a eitte Bee oe shal sate J te} J fe ¥ oe MAIN SHAFT, U" COUNTER Swart, © ~ 1" ROPE DRIVE, | ae O1. BARREL, A Mecnanicat Crinaman. gine room floor. A handhole is cut in the side of the barrel, and a cover, made with a clamp on _ the inside, is drawn up with a bolt and thumb screw. A pulley was keyed _ into the barrel shaft, and the bare main shaft of the steamer was the power. A leather or rubber belt would have been useless, as the main shaft is always wet, and more or less water is flying about the 'hold. The only effect of this upon the inch rope used, is to tighten it. Indeed, if it does run loose, a drenching with the hose is all that is necessary. The efficiency of the "Chinaman" may be increased by fitting the inside of the barrel with wings. SHIP YARD NOTES Charles H. Curtis & Co., Ellsworth, Me., will soon resume work on a 60-ton schooner, the keel of which was laid early in the fall. The Neafie & Levy Ship & Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, Pa., launched the steel tug Adriatic last week. The tug is 84 ft. long, 20 ft. beam and 10% ft. deep. She is owned by P. F. Martin. Theodore Knudsen, a former great lakes ship builder, has embarked in the ship building business at South Portland, Ore.,, having already erected ways, and intends to install a dock and marine rail- way. William Cryer, East Oakland, Cal., has having lost her tailshaft recently in Alaskan waters. Bids will be called for for effecting repairs to the vessel. The James Clark Co., Baltimoze, Md., has been awarded contract for remodeling the B. C. & A. Railway Co.'s steamer Old Point Comfort. Twenty-six state rooms will be added, William E. Woodall & Co. having contracted for the joiner work. The Erie Basin Dry Dock Co., Brook- lyn, N. Y., will effect the rebuilding of the Merchants & Miners Transportation Co.'s steamer Allegheny, which was al- most destroyed by fire several months ago. She will be converted into a freighter and is to be completed in 100 days. The Maryland Steel Co., Sparrows Point, Md., has been awarded contract for the boiler, engine, iron work and all necessary sea equipment for the tug now building by Thomas McCosker & Sons, at Baltimore for the P. Dougherty Tow- ing Co. This vessel is 136 ft. long, 27 ft. beam and 14 ft. depth of hold. Cobb, Butler & Co., Rockland, Me, have closed contract with Crowell & Thurlow, of Boston, for the construc- tion of a four: masted schooner, to be 179 ft. keel, 39 ft. beam and 14 ft. depth of hold. She is to be named Lewiston. Work will be begun on the frame about the last of January. The Electric Boat Co. has been 51 awarded a contract by the secretary of the navy for the construction of seven submarine boats to cost $2,270,- 000. The craft will be built at the plant of the Fore River Ship Build- ing Co., Quincy, Mass., and work wilt be started on them at once. The Greenport Basin & Construction Co., Greenport, N. Y., successfully launched the oyster steamer M. P. Mc- Donagh, Nov. 21. The vessel is owned ' by Lowndes & Mills and is 75 ft. long, 20 ft. beam and 6 ft. deep and will carry 3,900 bu. of oysters. The McDonagh is fitted with a 100-H. P. gasoline engine. Crawiord & Reid, Tacoma, Wash., have begun work on the construction of a staunch little craft for use as a cannery tender for the Russia Cement Co. She will be 71 ft. long, 13% it. beam and 6 ft. deep, and will be fit- ted with a 65 H. P. gasoline engine. She will be launched about the first of the year. 'The Halitaxs Dry Dock Co, Halitax, N. S.,. have recently acquired the steamer Universe from the under- writers and have started repairs, which will involve the replacing of 120 plates and. the erection -of a -new. stern frame. it is estimated that the ré- pairs will cost her new owners about $50,000. The Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me., is to build the machinery for the new steamer Islander, building for the Augusta, Gard- iner & Boothbay Steamboat Co., W. I. Adams, of Boothbay, Me. having the contract for building the hull. She will be 88% ft. long by 1914 ft. beam and 7 ft. deep and will accommodate 300 pas- sengers. The Fore River Ship Building Co., Quincy, Mass., launched the steamer Al- tamaha, building for the Brunswick Steamship Co., on Nov. 26. This is the fifth vessel built at that yard for the Brunswick Steamship Co., which oper- ates a line of steamers from New York to Brunswick, Ga., and Jacksonville, Fla. The Altamaha, like the four vessels which have preceded her, is 312.9 ft. in length, 40 ft. beam and 27.7 ft. deep. The steamship Tampico, owned by the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., San Fran- cisco, Cal., which was damaged by strik- ing the rocks recently, has been out on the ways at Hall Bros.' plant at Port Blakely, Wash., for the purpose of hav- ing a survey made. Bids will be called for for effecting the repairs which will include the renewal of 24 plates, the fair- ing of five others, and the repairing of 65 frames, two bulkheads and the water bottom. Capt G. L. Cuddeback, of the steamer R. E. Schuck, is seriously ill at his home in Lorain,