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32 M A ee ee - ££ Von ew TRADE NOTES The Skinner-Chuck Co. of New Britain, Conn., announces that their catalogue of lathe, drill and planer chucks will be mailed upon receipt of request. John H. Dialogue & Son, Camden, N. J., have just finished the new ocean going tug boat Lenape for the Philadelphia & Reading railway. : The Harlan & Hollingsworth Co., Wilmington, Del., has been given a contract for the construction of a fire boat for the city of Washington at a cost of $49,500. The five-masted schooner Samuel J. Goucher was launched from the yard of H. M. & R. L. Bean, Camden, Me., for the Coastwise Transportation Co. Her dimensions are: Length, 271 ft.; beam, 48 ft:;-depth, 27 ft. The American Ship Windlass Co., Providence, R. I., has a great deal of work under way for the government and among other things are to supply windlasses for the battleships Connecticut, Tennessee and Vermont. More Penberthy automatic injectors are sold every year than any other injector known. The Penberthy injector is standard among engineers. The Penberthy force feed lubricator gives a positive feed of oil and can be regulated to a fraction of a drop. - The Buckeye heater manufactured by Walter Macleod & Co., 463 E. Front street, Cincinnati, is one of the greatest of labor savers. It takes the heat to the work as it is practi- cally a large blow pipe giving a hot, powerful flame which can be adjusted to the exact spot requiring heat. Two steel tugs, built by the Neafie & Levy Ship & Engine Building Co. for the Standard Oil Co., were recently given trials on the Delaware river and proved very satisfactory. They have been named Atlantic and S. O. No. 11. Their dimensions are go ft. long, 201% ft. beam and 10% ft. deep. The contract for rebuilding the steamer Mohawk of the Central Vermont Line has been awarded to John Robins, Erie basin, Brooklyn, N. Y. The Mohawk was recently burned at New London, and the contract states that she shall be put in the same condition as prior to the fire, which de- stroyed her cargo and much of her hull. - The yacht Edithia, owned by J. H. Hannan of the New York Yacht Club, will be lengthened 24 ft. this winter by the Gas Engine & Power Co. and Charles L. Seabury & Co., Consolidated, Morris Heights, New York, and her present kerosene engine will be replaced with a steam engine. The Edithia at present measures 114 ft. 8 in. over all, 103 ft. 5 in. on the load water line, 16 ft. beam and 5 ft. draught. The N. Richardson Sons Manufacturing Co., Gloucester, Mass., has been incorporated. They are manufacturers of var- 1ous devices used on board ship including patent steering ap- paratus. The new company has been fortunate in making a working agreement with the Marine Hardware Co. of Pea- body, Mass., which deals directly with ship chandlery firms. James S. Donovan, Peabody, Mass., treasurer and manager of the Marine Hardware Co., has been elected president of the new corporation. Kieley & Mueller, 7-17 West Thirteenth street, New York, are manufacturers of steam specialties for all services in heat- ing and power installations. Their specialties are the products of both professional and practical engineering skill. Their waste heat utilizer and double tank for utilizing waste heat have been installed in a number of places in New York, Their combined muffler tank and grease extractors are also in general use. 'Their specialties have been in service for the past seventy-five years and their merits are fully established. The Westinghouse Electric Mfg. Co. recently made public a resolution of the board of directors authorizing the sale of $15,000,000 5 per cent twenty-year debenture bonds at such times and in such amounts as the board should decide. The money is for working capital. The directors anticipate a large in- crease in the company's business resulting from the introduc- tion of a single phase system in the operation of interurban railways by the conversion of steam into electric roads in addition to the natural increase in the electrical field. Thomas Drein & Son, Wilmington, Del., report the follow- ing orders in hand: Thirty-two 22-ft. patent beaded galvanized steel metallic life boats for steamers building by the American Ship Building Co. on the great lakes; two 22-ft. patent beaded steel life boats for export to Venezuela; two 16-ft. metallic life boats for Wever & Son's tug boats, Baltimore; four 14-ft. metallic life boats for new ferry boat in New York; two 18-ft. metallic life boats and one 10-ft. metallic life boat for Erie Ferry Boat Co. of New York; eight 16-ft. metallic life boats for the new Hoboken ferry boats of New York. Although times have been somewhat. hard during the past season, the Almy Water-Tube Boiler Co. of Providence, R. I., has received a fair share of patronage. Among the later installations of their justly celebrated boiler was one for the steam yacht Katrina of Hartford, one for the tug Howell, one for the Peruvian government disinfecting boat, two for W. D. Forbes Co. to be placed in a gold dredge for South America and in the steamer Sagamore of the Newport & Providence Railway Co.'s fleet. The boiler for the steam yacht Llewellyn is ready for shipment and two boilers for the Peary's arctic exploration ship are well under way. Off- cers of the company say prospects for the coming year are very promising. CHICAGO GRAIN REPORT Chicago, Dec. 13.--The season of lake grain shipping out of Chicago terminated on Dec. 10 with the expiration of hull and cargo insurance. Final chartering closed on the basis of 2%c. Buffalo corn for cargoes of reasonably prompt handling at destination. The interest will now turn to matter of "winter storage" offerings, and from all indications early January will develop a very favorable demand. Shipping quarters announce that the movement of country corn toward Chicago during the next month will be unusually heavy--probably aggregating 700,000 to 1,000,000 bu. daily. The closing shipments, compiled by P. H. Fleming & Co., were thus distributed: via all-rail lines of wheat, 260,000 bu. ; corn, 890,000 bu.; oats, 820,000 bu.; barley, 100,000 bu.; via lake to Buffalo and other American ports: wheat, 90,000 bu. ; corn, 520,000 bu.; via lake to Canada points, 105,000 bu. corn. Lake and Rail Shipments: Same week This week. Last week. last year. NV iieat ce ee ee 340,439 526,680 237,916 Conn ey ree eae 1,510,892 2,302,253 520,095 CNSR ee oe 822,107 826,000 809,232 PPObAls ae ewe 2,082,438 3,653,942 1,507,243 Shipments since Same time Jan. 1, 1904. last year. Wheat re ees ea 17,064,356 23,871,097 OU eee ee ae 70,199,450 88,929,402 ats oe Pe ae 44,001,959 61,865,719 Otay oe ke ee ay pee 131,265,765 174,666,218 Stocks of Grain in Elevators: This week. Last week Pe ee Wineat. .. once 3,709,000 3,867,000 5,571,000 COFM sr. 1,793,000 1,328,000 4,054,000 Oats ee 8,586,000 9,104,000 3,353,000 RYE a ae 436,000 443,000 368,000 Total 3 oe. 2 e824 000 14,742,000 13,346,000