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BO : MARINE REVIEW. [January 9, galley below. The after deck house is designed for social entertainment, and has a piano of special manufacture to harmonize with the yacht finish.. Below deck aft the owner's quarters are located and consist of a large saloon and four staterooms. The owner has two staterooms connecting with each other and occupying the full width of vessel, and adjoining them a bath room, which also extends to the full beam, fitted with tub and shower bath, lavatory and other toilet conveniences. She has excep- tionally large port and starboard staterooms for guests, with toilet and bath adjoining each. The saloon is finished in white enamel and gold, and the other compartments in white mahogany. She is propelled by twin screws, driven by two Seabury triple-expansion engines, and has a Seabury water-tube boiler. The yacht is equipped, with auxiliary blower, circulating and electric light engines, electric lighting equipment, storage battery and searchlight, steam steering gear and windlass, and steam heaters. Her coal bunker capacity is 22 tons and she carries tankage for 4,500 gallons of fresh water. The forecastle has berthing facilities for a crew of fourteen men, separate staterooms for captain and engineer, mess room, two toilet rooms and boatswain's locker. Furnishings and fittings are elaborate, both above and below decks. Two naphtha launches and two small tenders are carried in her davits. Her speed is 18 miles an hour. Hall Bros., Port Blakeley, Wash. Hall Bros., Port Blakeley, Wash., seem to have, as one of the pho- tographs on this page would show, a ship yard in a forest. They have built up a very thriving business since they removed to the Puget sound district from Cohasset, Mass. Their work is naturally entirely in wooden vessels. "We have a small mill equipped with a Hyde jig saw," said Mr. Hall, "Daniels planer, trimmer, table saw, hand saw, treenail machine, wood- turning lathe and bolt cutter. There is a steam donkey engine for hand- ling heavy work in hauling and hoisting and a steam winch for masting and rigging. We have during the past year put in an electric light plant and an Ingersoll-Sergeant air compressor and new boilers. Other im- provements of an important nature are under consideration, but not definitely decided on yet. We have on the stocks a five-masted schooner, 240 ft. over all, 42 ft. beam and The idea then occurred to Mr. Moran of using timber for splicing the two parts instead of steel plates, and without any precedent for his guid- ance in such operations he proceeded to build a heavy timber splice on each side, securing the timbers as strongly as practicable to the steel hull structure and the timbers to each other in such a manner as to make a very solid wall of timber on each side extending about 40 to 50 ft. fore- and-aft. This work, considering the adverse circumstances under which it was done, the position of the wreck, and the fact that Mr. Moran was hampered by reason of labor troubles, his crew being reduced to a small number of men inexperienced in that line of work, proved to be of con- siderable magnitude, but with much patient labor and untiring energy on the part of the leader the task was finally completed and the splice was found to be efficient, not only enabling the two halves of the vessel to hold together afloat, but holding them as rigidly as if the original plating of the vessel had existed. The machinery being but little injured on account of the wreck, owing to the forethought of keeping the same well saturated with oil, was found to be in sufficiently good condition after pumping out the engine room to enable the vessel to rtin under her own steam. The main boilers, how- ever, could not be used on account of the break in the hull being in the fire room, and the splice not extending under the ship's bottom, the water thus had free access to the fire room, partly covering the main boilers. With the use of the donkey boiler, however, which was located above the water level in the fire room, aided by boilers erected on the deck as part of the wrecking outfit, sufficient steam was provided to run the main engine at a reduced speed, and the vessel left the scene of the wreck under her own steam and proceeded to Seattle, a distance of about 250 miles, covering the distance with an average speed of 6 knots per hour. The vessel is now at the Seattle works awaiting the completion of a special cradle and marine railway on which she is to be hauled out for repairs. The hull is to be thoroughly overhauled, parts being renewed and strengthened where necessary; it being the intention to restore the vessel to a condition equal to the originally new vessel. Her machinery is modern, consisting of triple-expansion propelling engine and Scotch marine boilers, operated under Howden hot draft. The company is also 18 ft. hold, and two four-masted schooners, 200 ft. over all, 39 ft. beam and 15.5 ft. depth of hold. "The ca- pacity of our yard is three vessels at one time." The yard covers about ten acres of land and has been established at Port Blakeley since 1881. System of Safety Doors. Two representatives of the press and a number oi invited guests of the North German Lloyd Steamship Co. last week gave an exhibition of the Dorr system of safety water-tight bulkhead doors with which the new express steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm has been equipped. The doors can either be closed or opened irom the bridge, or from some other central part of the vessel, from the engine room or atthe door itself. The system worked successfully and it was announced that the entire fleet of the North German Lloyd would be equipped with this safety arrangement, which, it is claimed, will make the vessels non-sinkable, or prac- tically so, in case of collision. The watch officer on the bridge under the Dorr system is at any time able to close all open compartment doors in case of an approaching collision, and can open the doors as easily. In order to close the compartment doors under this system it is necessary to move a lever, in doing which electric bells are sounded at every door, ringing for about twenty seconds. Thereupon the doors close slowly, this method having been decided upon to avoid accidents. The closing and opening of the doors is effected 'by hydraulic pressure. : Moran Bros., Seattle, Wash. ORAN BROS. CO., Seattle, Wash., have several improvements under way at their plant which the Review will enter upon thoroughly at a later date. For the present it is content to give a summary of work under way. One complete vessel is now under contract at these works aside from the naval orders a on hand. This is the United States lighthouse tender Heather, 178% ft. long over all. The engine is compound, supplied with steam by two Scotch marine boilers. The estimated horse power is 750. The vessel is of steel, including deck houses. The company is preparing to make extensive repairs to the steamer Williamette, formerly belonging to the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. This vessel was wrecked on submerged rocks off Denman island in Union bay, British Columbia, March 16, 1901 while running from Comox, B. C., with 900 tons of coal cargo to 'Lady- smith, B. C., to finish loading. Soon after striking on the rocks the hull broke in two amidships, and it being to all appearances impracticable to salve the vessel the wreck was sold to the underwriters on April 16, 1901, Mr. Robert Moran, president of the company, conceived the idea of join-* ing the two parts and floating the vessel and he purchased the wreck at the underwriters' sale. A wrecking outfit was taken to the scene of the wreck from the company's wosks at Seattle and repairs were first made consisting of bringing the two parts of the hull together by means of heavy screw bolts working in sockets attached to the outside of the hull and then joining the two halves permanently by means of plates and bars riveted on. This splice could, of course, not be extended to the keel with- out.a great deai of trouble and expense in building a cofferdam enclosing the break and extending under the vessel. The splice, although 'amplh strong at the deck line, was not found to:be sufficiently so near the bot tom, for when it was attempted to float the vessel as a whole the splice parted from the bottom upwards, leaving the wreck seemingly hopeless in two parts as before the operations had begun. Ship yard of Hall Bros., Port Blakeley, Wash. making extensive repairs to the steamship Roanoke, the steamship Ore- gon, steamship Eureka, steamship Tampico and a number of other vessels. It is also building a number of boilers for marine use, including a boiler for the United States coast and geodetic survey steamer Gedney and a boiler for the United States lighthouse tender Columbine. i _The company has during the past year extended its plant considerably, aving built and equipped a new machine shop 100 by 350 ft., a new black- smith shop 100 by 100 ft., and extended its foundry plant and boiler shop. A ship shed 90 iby 850 ft. is in course of construction, this shed crossing the main shops at right angles and having two electric traveling cranes which are thus enabled to handle materials direct from the shops to vessels under construction. A ship fitting shop 100 by 210 ft. is also in course of erection. Plate and bar furnaces are being built. The company has just installed the best up-to-date tools and appliances for its line of work. It has also added to its plant a floating dry dock of 80 by 200 ft. and 2,500 tons capacity. This is but the first section of a 400-ft. dock of 5,000 tons capacity. This first section is now fully equipped and is in operation. Fairbanks, Morse & Co.'s Engines. Fairbanks, Morse & Co. of Chicago, who last year built a larger number of gasoline engines than any other concern in this country are issuing a very handsome catalogue devoted exclusively to their line of marine engine, to which they have added several sizes the past season They build both the two and four-cycle types, the latter ranging in size from '20 to 100 H.P. and constructéd with two, three and four cylinders depending upon the size. These larger sizes are especially adapted to freighters and.fishing boats. Those interested should write Fairbanks, ae Co. for a copy of their catalogue which will be mailed upon