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28 MARINE REVIEW. [March 29, -- SHIP BUILDING AT GLOUCESTER AND ESSEX. Ship building yards at Gloucester and Essex, Mass., are very actively engaged in the construction of wooden vessels. For over a century these good old towns have been synonymous with wooden ship building. Three yards are still in operation in Essex. The oldest yard in Essex 1s that of Arthur D. Story. He employs about 50 men and has on stocks at present the following vessels: The schooner Gertrude, 100 ft. over all, 23 ft. beam and 10 ft. deep, for Capt. Nelson Perry of Cape Cod; a schooner of about the same dimensions for Capt. John Pew & Son; the schooner Rival, 115 ft. long, 24 ft. wide and 10 ft. deep, for Hugh Park- hurst & Co. The ship yard of Tarr & James adjoins the Story yard. This firm is building a fishing schooner for Davis & McFarland of Gloucester. (She is 105. ft. long, 2h ft. beam and 10 ft. deep; also a schooner 95 ft. long for Orlando Merchant of Gloucester. Oxner & Story are the latest additions to the ship building firms of Essex. The firm consists of Edward Oxner and L. J. Story, for two years with his brother, A. D. Story. This firm is building a schooner from plans by McManus for Hines & Emerson of Boston. She is 85 ft. long, 21 ft. 6 in. beam, 9 ft. 4 in. deep and registers 68 tons. Two others of similar design are also being built, one for Rich & 'Cooney of Boston. A new departure is the schooner designed by Crowninshield and built for William Emerson and others of Boston. She is 112 ft. long, 23 ft. 6 in. beam, 10 ft. 9 in. deep and registers 110 tons. The peculiar feature of this boat is the unusual overhang aft, which is the longest ever put in a fisher- man, measuring some 27 ft. At Hugh G. Bishop's yard, Gloucester, and at the yards of Leonard B. McKenzie and Thomas A. Irving several small wooden vessels are under way. The Marine Iron Works, station A, Chicago, are now running full in their new shops with entirely new and remodeled equipment and plant. The wisdom of greatly increasing their capacity is already being demon- strated, as every department of the work is overcrowded with orders. They have just closed a contract for a large amount of machinery for the Tabasco-Chiapas Trading & Transportation Co., one of the great com- mercial companies doing business in the tropics. Among other notable pieces of work is the complete equipment of a fine river steamer for the Zaragoza Mining Co., operating on the Magdalena river, in the United States of Colombia. They have also several steel boats under contract to be erected according to the ingenious plan of "knock-down" construction, which the Marine Iron Works have developed. The advance pages of their 1902 catalogue have been received. Besides very interesting data and illustrations of the engines that they build, this catalogue contains several pages descriptive of the "knock-down" method of building boats. How far afield the business of this company reaches is illustrated by the fact that they are at present doing work for Constantinople, for the Sas- katchewan, Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil, as well as all over the United States. Naphtha Launch Wanted. Wanted--Open light-draught naphtha launch suited to about four. teen people. Canadian vessel preferred. Address Box 25, Marine Review Pub. Co., Perry-Payne building, Cleveland. d ----s Lumber Steamer For Sale. Capacity about 700 M ft.; also two barges, capacities, respectively, one million and 550 M ft. If interested communicate with L. S. Sullivan, Toledo, O. Apr 5. Engine, Boilers, etc., For Sale Cheap. Two Scotch boilers 11x12, 160 lbs. steam. Triple-expansion engine 20, 30 and 54 in. with 40 in. stroke. Shaft, wheel, anchors, chain, etc., from wrecked steamer Fedora. Thoroughly overhauled. Write for particulars, F. L. Gilbert, 301 Torrey Bldg., Duluth, Minn. March 27. Steamer I. M. Weston For Sale. Length, 96.5 ft.; breadth, 18 ft.; depth, 7.6 ft.; 95 tons. In first-class condition, E. J. Glackin, 363 So. Morgan street, Chicago. tf Steel Propeller For Sale. One steel propeller. Length, 155 ft.; beam, 30 ft.; depth, 9.7 ft. Hull and machinery in good condition. Has upper cabin and thirty state rooms; complete outfit. Is allowed to carry 500 excursion passengers. Speed, 15 miles per hour. Apply to the H. W. Williams Transportation Line, South Haven, Mich. tf U. S. Engineer office, 428 Custom House, St. Louis, Mo., March 15, 1902. Sealed proposals, in duplicate, for building and installing two refrigerating plants will be received here until 12 noon, April 14, 1902, and then pub- licly opened. Information furnished on ap- plication. Thos. L. Casey, Major, Engrs. April 10. BELLEVILLE GENERATORS Grand Prix 1889 Originated 1849 Fors Concours 1900 Latest Patents 1902 Number of Nautical Miles made each year by Steamships of the Messageries Maritimes Co., Provided with Belleville Generators--Since their Adoption in the Service. Year. Australien | Polynésien scr es : fi at Chili Cordillére Laos Indus Tonkin Annam Atlantique 1890.........2... 67,728 2,460 189125 68,247 68,331 204 1892.5. 4..0.-. 68,247 68,403 69,822 23,259 18935000. 68,379 68,343 68,286 68,247 [894.020 is. 68,439 68,367 68,574 68,439 37,701 (8953.02: 68,673 68,766 68,739 68,808 40,887 28,713 (S96......0.. 69,534 92,718 69,696 69,549 62,205 63,153 40,716 (897. cc 68,250 69,606 92,736 69,555 62,235 76,110 63,357 43,146 [89853 3... 70,938 69,534 69,552 69,597 62,526 | 63,240 63,240 62,553 63,954 22,707 (899)... .2.35.... 69,534 69,615 67,431 90,405 60,246 62,778 62,868 52,344 54,855 44,007 22,884 (S00... .:. 69,534 67,494 | 69,744 69,564 61,719 62,382 62,502 51,471 53,373 62.0 16 63,066 52,140 [SOL oa, 44 220 69,627 69,594 66,948 51,057 62,460 62,490 61,743 62,688 43,866 62,466 63,126 oe Be hoiecase 801,723 | 783,264 | 714,378 | 664,371 | 438,576 418,836 | 355,173 | 271,257 | 234,870 | 172,596] 148,416 115,266 ATELIERS ET CHANTIERS DE L'ERMITAGE, A ST. DENIS (SEINE), FRANCE. WORKS AND YARDS OF L'ERMITAGE AT ST. DENIS (SEINE), FRANCE. TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: BELLEVILLE, SAINT-DENIS-SUR-SEINE.