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ow AR UT UN OE ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. The steamer Jubilee, running on laké Temiskaming, Ont., ran into the wharf at Haileybury, Ont. recently and sank during the night. The three-masted schooner Samuel S. Thorp, Capt. Pierce, will undergo extensive repairs at Newport News. She was damaged on a trip down the coast recently. The schooner Augustus A. Babcock will be launched from the yard of & & | K. Stetson, Brewer, "Me., Sept. to. She will go over fully rigged and nearly ready se sea. G. Knight has secured a site on the Red river at Winnepeg for a yard for the construction of motor launches. Two launches have already been built for Winnepeg owners. The five-masted schooner Jane Palmer, the largest five- masted schooner ever built, was successfully launched last week from the ship yard of Wm. McKie, East Boston, Mass. Mr. C. B. Alexander of the New York Yacht Club has pur- chased the steam yacht Surf, built at Leith, in 1902, from Mr. F. D. Lambert, which he has had under American charter for some time. A new schooner-rigged screw steamer named Everglade has just been completed at Jensen, Fla., for Robert M. Thomp- son of New York. She is 111 ft. long, 23 ft. beam and 4 ft. depth of hold. She is 257 gross tons. The new yacht Grace R., built at Ford's Ship Yard, Borden- town, N. J., was launched July 24. She was christened by Miss Grace Reeder, daughter of Horace G. Reeder the owner. The vessel is 7o ft. long and 11 ft. 3 in. beam. Frederick S. Nock, naval architect and builder, East Green- wich, R. I., reports that he is building a boat for the Buftalo Gasoline Motor Co., Buffalo, N. Y. The boat will be 4o ft. over all and will be equipped with a Buffalo motor. -- A new company, the Central Power Manufacturing Co., has been formed at Albany, N. Y., to secure the canal towing equipment contract of the Erie canal. The charter permits. it to manufacture electrical apparatus and distribute power. Renewed efforts for the establishment of a steamship line between Philadelphia and New Orleans have so far pro- gressed that an announcement that at last definite results have been achieved is expected before the end of the sum- mer. The United States steel sailing ship Cumberland, which was built by the government at the Charleston navy yard for train- ing purposes, was launched last week. The ship was named by Miss Pauline. Morton, daughter of the secretary of the navy. Phil. R. Blaisdell, designer of fast auto boats, of Bath, Me., recently launched a new boat for Mayor Hyde of that city. The boat is 30 ft. long. A 20-H. P. Mohler-Degress motor is installed in the forward compartment and the pace is 18 miles an hour. The Spedden Ship Building Co. has been awarded a con- tract to build a steel boiler for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad tug Convoy, one of the company's Philadelphia harbor tugs. It is to be 9 ft. 4 in. in diameter and 12 ft. long, with two furnaces. The torpedo boat Goldborough has been relaunched at the Bremerton navy yard. This boat has been most unfortunate. In every trial during the past four years she has never come up to the government test. Something has always hap- pened to her. Judge Lowell of the United States ata court holds the cug Nottingham and Central railroad of New Jersey barge No. 7 of New York liable for the loss of schooner Levi Hart and her cargo of coal in collision near Pollock Rip lightship on April 20 last. The Jackson & 'Sharp plant of the American Car and Foundry Co. at Wilmington, Del., has 'on the ways five vessels, three of which are wooden hull tugboats and the RV ER we other two large barges. The company is about to construct two other barges. A new three-masted schooner was launched from Wm. E. Woddall & Co.'s ship yard, Baltimore, on July 26. She is for sale by the builders and is especially designed for the demands of shallow water, having a capacity for 350 tons dead weight cargo. The directors of the Niagara, Lockport & Ontario Powei Co. have voted to authorize the issue of a mortgage of $24,- 000,coo upon the company's corporate property to secure a like issue of bonds. This is preliminary to the construction of the Lockport Power canal. Proposals for the furnishing of a steel, single-screw tug boat of'from 200 to 250 I. H. P. for the dredging plant of Havana, Cuba, will be received at the arsenal of Havana until Oct. 15, 1904, Jose Pujalo, chief engineer of works of port or Elavana, Ciba: Howard's Ship Yard, Jeffersonville, Ind., has just finished the steamer Coppee for Capt. Arthur Hider, United States engineer. The Coppee is 140 ft. long, 30 ft. beam and 6 ft. deep. She is intended to be used in the government service in the Mississippi river. The Lenape, a sea-going tug, was launched the week of Aug. 6 by John H. Dialogue & Son, Camden, for the Phila- delphia & Reading Railway Co. 'The tug is the tenth of a fleet to be built to handle coal shipments between Port Richmond and New England ports. Details are being arranged for the launching of the semi- armored cruiser Milwaukee at San Francisco in September. The mayor of Milwaukee will probably select a young woman for the christening of the ship, and the leading citizens of the city will be represented. Alice B. Wells, daughter of Edgar T. Wells of Hartford, Conn., granddaughter of Gideon Wells, secretary of the navy from 1861 to 1860, has been selected by Governor Chamberlain of Connecticut to launch the new battleship Connecticut at the New York navy yard Sept. 27. The Ollinger & Bruce Dry Dock Co. lately launched at Pinto Island, near Mobile, a schooner 170 ft. long, 36 ft. beam and 1o ft. depth of hold for the Mahogany Lumber & Transporta- tion Co. The schooner will engage in the lumber trade be- tween Mobile and Mexican plants. The three-masted schooner City of Baltimore has been sold to Port Tampa parties by Capt. L. S. Tames. She was built at Bath, Me., in 1884 for the late Emerson Rocks. The City of Baltimore is 138 ft. long, 33 ft. 4 in. beam and 9 ft. g in. deep. Her gross tonnage is 365; net, 297. Six new schooner barges, 200 ft. long, are being built at Jacksonville, Fla., for the Cook Cummer Steamship Co. to ply between Philadelphia and Jacksonville in the lumber carrying trade. Two of the barges have been launched. A tug named the Wellington is being built to tow the barges. The Standard Oil tank steamship Capt. A. F. Lucas, which was under construction by the Trigg ship yard at Richmond, Va., when it failed, will be completed by the Delaware River Iron Ship & Engine Building Co., Chester, Pa. The Lucas will be one of the largest oil ships ever built in this coun- Ly, A new plan for the reorganization of the Pacific Packing & Navigation Co. has been completed which includes the with- drawal of the stock of the old company and the formation of a new concern with a capital stock of $2,000,000, of which amount $500,000 is to be preferred and the remainder com- mon stoek,. Capt. Milton Thwing, now master of the passenger steamer Santa Clara, on the northern Pacific coast, is: to receive the position of master of the new. steamer. Harold Dollar, launched on Aug. 12 at Eureka for the Dollar Steamship Co. The new vessel is 196.8 ft. long, with a breadth of 39.2 ft. and