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14 MARINE REVIEW. [May 29 THE SHIP OWNERS' DRY DOCK CO. Readers of the Marine Review will be interested in the two views shown in this issue of the new yards and dry dock of the Ship Owners' Dry Dock Co. on the north branch of the Chicago river. This company was organized a little over a year ago to take over the business of Miller Bros. on the south end of Goose island. Its officers are C. A. Macdonald, president; J. J. Rardon, vice-president; D. J. Smallwood, secretary and treasurer. Among the directors are M. A. Bradley of Cleveland, E. H. Fishburn of Ogden, Sheldon & Co., Chicago, and E. Mora Davison of August Belmont & Co., New York. It took possession of the property on April 1, 1901, and since then has completely rebuilt and refitted the yard, put up new buildings, torn down old ones, rebuilt and strengthened its entire dock line, which extends on three sides of the property, built a new dock, which is described below, added shear legs capable of lifting the largest and heaviest boilers and other large pieces and installed a very complete outfit of machinery for steel work, including the longest and heaviest rolls on the lakes. All this has been done without interfering with the business of repairing wooden vessels, which was taken over with the yards. The new dock, which is shown in views herewith, is at the junction of the canal and river, so that large vessels coming to the dock can enter it without turning. It is 486 ft. long, 84 ft. wide, and 16 ft. deep. The gate built of the usual form, it would have been twice as wide to obtain the same capacity at bottom, and its location in its present position would have been impossible. One of the views shows the dock with the steamer Mauch Chunk, which has 381 ft. length of keel and 51 ft. 6 in. beam. It will be seen that there is plenty of room below, while the tracks for the crane are quite close to the vessel. Since March 1 the company has repaired the following vessels: Aus- tralia, Chemung, Mauch Chunk, P. D. Armour, G. G. Hadley, 'Cuba, Oregon, Nirvana, Conneaut, Mautenee, Geo. J. Gould and Santa Maria. With dry docks of 150 ft., 300 ft., and 486 ft., and equipped for wood and steel repairs, this company has found so much repairing on which to run the yard that it is now definitely stated that the construction of new ships will not be undertaken, at least for a long time to come. NOTES FROM KINGSTON. Kingston, Ont., May 29--The steamer Valeria is in the Davis dry dock getting a new shaft. When near Clayton a break occurred in the deadwood at her stern and the shaft became twisted and broke. The Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co.'s new steamer Montreal, on her way from Toronto to the metropolis, was here all day Sunday and was viewed by thousands. She will be taken to Montreal on Tuesday, NEW DRY DOCK OF SHIP OWNERS' DRY DOCK CO., CHICAGO. Length, 486 ft.; width, 84 ft.; depth over sill, 16 ft. is of wood, 60 ft. at top and 58 ft. at bottom, and has five valves. Timber for the gate was specially imported. Oregon fir, long enough to be made without scarphed joints. Two 28-in. centrifugal pumps, driven by two Westinghouse compound automatic engines, empty the dock in 1Y% hours, discharging 6,000,000 gallons in that time. A standard gauge railway track surrounds the dock and two locomotive cranes operate on this track, each having its jib long enough to reach the center of the dock. Perhaps the most interesting portion of the dock to ship builders is the construction of the dock itself. As will be seen in the illustrations, the usual altars are conspicuous by their absence, the sides being constructed vertically of piles, stringers and sheathing, tied back 40 ft. through two continuous rows of piles. This method, of construction was the subject of much criticism during the building operations, the critics claiming that the vertical walls would not stand the pressure to which they would be subjected. The contractor, Mr. Edward Gillen of Racine, Wis., has, how- ever, produced as tight a dock as there is on the lakes. The advantages of being able to put so large a dock in so limited a space and at the same poe give plenty of room to work in at the bottom, and reducing the ength of the cranes that serve the dock, made the experiment well worth attempting, and its success a matter of considerable moment to all ship builders who are cramped for land in their yards. Had the dock been Capt. George Batten of Kingston piloting her. This feat will mark an epoch in St. Lawrence river navigation. The steamer is 380 ft.4n length, and will be the longest vessel ever taken down the rapids. She is worth $400,000, is sumptuously furnished, and will engage in the passenger traffic between Quebec and Montreal. Hon. Wm. Harty, M. P., Henry Mooers, George Richardson, Edward Mooers and Thomas Donnelly of Kingston have been incorporated as the Frontenac Cereal 'Co., with a capital of $600,000. They will absorb the Frontenac Milling Co. and the Kingston Elevator and Transit Co., and will make large shipments of grain, exporting cereals to all parts of the world. Eighty machinists at the Kingston Locomotive Works have been out on strike for three weeks. They object to ironworkers and appren- tices doing machine work. All attempts at a settlement have so far failed. Twenty machinists from Glasgow, Scotland, will be brought here by the company, who have orders ahead for twenty locomotives. The steamer Rosemount and consorts, the two steel barges Quebec and Hamilton, brought 218,000 bushels of wheat from Fort William to Kingston for the Montreal Transportation Co. This is. the largest cargo that ever arrived in Kingston harbor by a single tow.