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1902.] MARINE REVIEW AND MARINE RECORD. 31 NEW SHIP YARD FOR NEW YORK. The Marine Construction & Dry Dock Co. of New York, is a new ship and. boat building concern, which on July 1 last secured the boat and repair yard of Mr. Lewis St. John, situated at Mariner's Harbor, Staten-island, New York. Extensive alter- ations and additions are being made to suit the requirements of the new enterprise, it being the intention of the company to build and repair all manner of craft from lifeboats, tenders, launches and yachts to steel steamships. Among officers of the company are H. N. Whittelsey, president; Harold Lee, secretary, and Ralph Derr, treasurer. These three gentlemen were form- erly with the New York Ship Building Co. of Camden, N. J. James Swan is consulting naval architect of the new company, C. C. Thomas consulting marine engineer and F. S. Brinton constructor. 'This personel makes up a combination of execu- tive and mechanical ability--backed by ample capital--for which a successful career is prophesied. Among the modern conven- iences of the yard will be three marine railways, one of which is now in operation and two building. The work on the railways and buildings is being rapidly pushed to completion, as it is desired to have the whole plant in full operation by the middle of September. The work -has already progressed far enough to enable the company to give estimates with date of completion on either new or repair work. In addition to the appurtenances of a modern ship and boat yard, it is the intention of the company to construct a basin for the safe storage of yachts and ships, as the location of Mar- iner's Harbor is admirably suited for the purpose, it not only being completely sheltered from the ocean but is at the point where the tide meets, as it flows in from both directions around Staten island, which causes little or no current from that source. For propelling power for launches and small yachts the company will use the auto car motor, which, it is claimed, has some superior advantages over the ordinary motor, one being its light weight, compared with its motive power, an 8 H. P. motor with reversing gear, etc., weighng but 200 lbs., and a 30 H. P. motor of only 725 lbs., which is an important feature in motors for small craft. WANT CANADIAN TARIFF AMENDED. The Canadian Manufacturers' association in annual sessionat Halifax has declared for an immediate revision of the customs tariff of Canada, coupled with a declaration in favor of reciprocal preferential trade with Great Britain and other parts of the em- pire. It is expected that the tariff will be made an issue at the next federal election in Canada. A resolution adopted by the association is as follows: "Resolved, that in the opinion of this association the changed conditions which now obtain in Canada demand the im- mediate and thorough revision of the tariff upon lines which will more effectively transfer to the workshops of the dominion the manufacture of many of the goods which we now import from" other countries; that in any such revision the interests of all sections of the community, whether of agriculture, mining, fishing or manufacturing should be fully considered, with a view not only to the preservation, but to the further development of all those great natural industries; that while such tariff should be primarily framed for Canadian interests, it should, nevertheless, give a substantial preference to the mother country, and also to any other part of the British empire with which reciprocal prefer- ential trade can be arranged to our mutual advantage, recogniz- ing always that under any conditions the minimum tariff must afford adequate protection to all Canadian producers." LAKE SHIP YARD NOTES. The Ship Owners' Dry Dock Co. of Chicago has equipped its yard with a complete outfit of pneumatic tools. Saturday Sept. 20 is the date fixed for the launching of the first of the new Anchor Line steamers at the works of the Detroit Ship Building Co. The death of Senator McMillan may possibly delay construc- tion of the big side-wheel steamers for the Detroit & Cleveland line. If the boats are built they will cost about $800,000 each. They will have three tiers of state rooms on either side and will be 50 ft. longer and 5 ft. wider than the two big side-wheelers just built at Detroit for Buffalo-Detroit service. The Great Lakes Engineering Works, Detroit, Mich., re- cently successfully cast a fly-wheel of 24 ft. diameter, weighing 30 tons. This is the largest wheel ever cast in the state of Michigan. 'This. plant, up to the time of its purchase by the present company, was known as the Riverside Iron Works, under the proprietorship of Samuel F. Hodge & Co. The company is reported to have built the first triple-expansion engine on the great lakes. The company makes a specialty of marine and stationary engines, pumping and dredging machinery, propeller wheels and power transmission machinery. The officers of the company are: Antonio C. Pessano, president and general man- ager; George H. Russel, vice-president and John H. Russel, sec- retary and treasurer. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. Mr. C. P. Nicholson of the Nicholson Ship Log Co. of Cleveland, is now in New York putting the Nicholson ship log on the new Mallory line steamer Denver, which runs between New York and Galveston. The Savannah Dry Dock'& Ship Building Co. has been in- corporated at Savannah, Ga., with a capital stock of $1,000,000, of which $600,000 has been paid in. It is reported that the company contemplates the construction of a 500-ft. dry dock at once. It is scarcely twenty-five years since the first consignment of frozen produce reached the shores of Great Britain. The trial lot consisted of a few tons of Australian mutton. The trade has grown rapidly since then, last year's importations of perishable produce reaching the respectable*total of 1,500,000 tons. Great improvements have been made meanwhile in the oversea carriage of frozen foods. Mr. Rodman E. Griscom, general manager of the Interna- tional Navigation Co., who has just returned from Europe, be- lieves that the English government will grant a subsidy to the Canadian Pacific railway, to establish a fast line between Canada and Great Britain. He says this will put the Canadian Pacific in position to compete with the Morgan shipping combination both for occidental and oriental trade. James Ross president of the Dominion Iron & Steel Co. of Cape Breton, and also the Dominion Coal Co., says that in addi- tion to pig iron, the steel company will make during August about 10,000 tons of steel, at a cost of one-half of that when the manu- facture started in February, and that the net earnings of the coal company for the first four months of the company's year, namely, March, April, May and June, show an increase of $300,000 over last year. A little group of forlorn-looking monitors are moored in the storage basin at League Island navy yard waiting to be towed away to be broken up for old iron. They lave been con- demned to be sold and advertisements for bids will shortly be published. They are the last of the race that revolutionized naval warfare. The five that are to be sold are the Nahunt, Canonicus, Jason, Lehigh and Montauk. The Jason and Lehigh were built by John Ericsson at Chester and the Montauk was ~ built by him at Brooklyn. Mr. Julian Kennedy of Pittsburgh, formerly general superin- - tendent of the Homestead works of the Carnegie Steel Co., and Mr. Alex Sahlin, now manager of the blast furnaces of the Millon & Askham Iron Co. in Cumberland, England, have ar- ranged a partnership as consulting engineers for the construc- tion of British iron and steel plants on American lines. Offices have been taken in the Westinghouse building, Strand, London. Mr. Sahlin was in the lake region last year, investigating the transportation of ore for the British Iron Trade Association. The steam yacht Helena, largest craft of her class ever built on the Penobscot river, has just been launched at South Brewer, Me. 'The yacht is owned by Fred W. Ayer and was built on the premises of the Eastern Manufacturing Co. at South- Brewer, of which Mr. Ayer is president. The hull and engines were both designed by Charles B. Clark, superintendent of the Eastern Manufacturing Co.'s mills, and every part of the vessel has been constructed on the company's premises. 'The yacht, named Helena for Mr. Ayer's little daughter, is 108 ft. over all, 01.8 ft. registered length, 17 ft. beam and 10.4 ft. depth, register- ing 94 tons gross and 64 tons net. She has triple-expansion engines, and is expected to make about 15 knots an hour without forcing. CLASSED IN THE RECORD. Following are vessels recently classed and rated by the American Bureau of Shipping in the Record of American and Foreign Shipping: American screw steamer Kroonland, Ameri- can barkentine Emita, American schooner Perry Setzer, Ameri- can screw steamer San Jose, American schooner M. C. Haskell, American three-masted schooner Charles H. Wolston, American three-masted schooner Jennie S. Hall, American three-masted schooner Herald, American three-masted schooner Ann J. Trainor, American three-masted schooner C. C. Wehrum, Amer- ican three-masted schooner Alice Lord, American three-masted schooner Alice M. Davenport, American three-masted schooner William T. Moore, British schooner Malden, British schooner Eduarde, British screw steamer Ferrona, British three-masted schooner Strathcona, British three-masted schooner Damara- land, and Swedish bark Dan. The new catalogue of electrical supplies of the H. W. Johns- Manville Co., No. 100 William street, New York, is much more comprehensive than the previous catalogue on the same subject. The new catalogue is said to be the most complete the com- pany has ever issued, including a full line of overhead line material heaters, rail bonds, 500-volt fuses, Vucabeston and special moulded insulating pieces, together with many new articles, such as double trolley suspensions. Reference is greatly facilitated by a table of contents in the front and a comprehen- sive alphabetical index in the back. It is tastefully bound in green, the stock being a dark green, and the printing upon the cover a lighter shade of green. 'The effect is excellent. :