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290 ! the lines engaged in the New York- Mediterranean business were able dur- ing the year to compose their differences, and third class passenger rates in this trade have, therefore, been restored to a normal level. American freights westbound were maintained, but eastbound remained dis- appointing. The Lusitania and Mauretania contin- ued to give evidence of great popularity with the travelling public. | With the view of enabling the large numbers of eastbound passengers now travelling by the company's steamers to reach London and the continent in the shortest possible time, arrangements were made in August to call at Fish- guard. Subsequently it was found neces- sary to omit the call at Queenstown eastbound with the mail steamers leav- ing New York on Wednesdays, in order to ensure the earliest possible arrival at Fishguard. The company's steamer Slavonia un- fortunately stranded on the Island of Flores, one of the Azores, in June last, whilst on a voyage from New York to the Meditérranean,' and subsequently be- came a total loss. The vessel was in- sured for part of her value, and the balance of the loss has been written off. In consequence of a fire breaking out on the Lucania whilst in dock at Liver- pool in August, the steamer was so con- siderably damaged that it was necessary to abandon her to the underwriters as a constructive total loss. The Lucania was insured for the full value at which she stood in the company's books. The steamers Etruria, Aleppo, Cher- bourg and Saragossa, being no longer suitable for the trades in which they were employed, have been sold. To maintain the Liverpool-Mediterranean cargo service, the company have pur- chased three suitable steamers, which have been re-named Phrygia, Thracia and Lycia. -A contract has been placed with Messrs. Swan, Hunter & Wigham Rich- ardson, Ltd., for the building of a new steamer (the Franconia) of 18,000 tons gross, which is intended to be employed in the Boston trade and the trade be- tween the United States and Mediterra- nean ports. It is anticipated that she will be delivered in the beginning of the year 1911. MARINE EXHIBITS AT DETROIT INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION. Among the exhibits at the Detroit Indtstrial 'Exposition, June 20 to July 6, were several of interest to ship builders and owners. The Am- erican Blower Co. had a very com- plete exhibit, including blowers, di- rect connected to a generator. The THE MarINeE REVIEW ventilating system included an air- washing equipment, such as 1s now frequently installed in large build- ings and passenger ships. The Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co. exhibited a line of pneumatic drills, chipping and riveting hammers, clean- ers, etc. The Detroit Copper & Brass Rolling Mills displayed a large. variety of brass and copper sheets, wire and rods, the latter in various sections and_ sizes. Seamless steel tubes, now so extensively used in boiler work and for other purposes aboard ship, were exhibited by the De- troit Seamless Steel Tubes Co. The ENGINE TELEGRAPH AW ety a at) tls PROBABLY THE First ENGINE TELEGRAPH Ever INSTALLED ON A STEAMER: Detroit Ship Building Co. had an at- tractive exhibit, including a steam steerer, metallic life boats and rafts and a wide range of ship fittings and marine hardware. An_ interesting fea- ture of this exhibit was the engine room telegraph used on the famous Great Eastern in 1865, when that ship was engaged in cable laying. This telegraph was probably one of the first examples of mechanical com- munication between bridge and_ en- gine room and bears 'the name of The Atmospheric Telegraph Co., Lon- July, 1910 don, as maker. The Great Lakes En- gineering Works a model of the car ferry Ashtabula, built by that company for Lake Erie trade in 1905, and also a model of the steamer Wm. P. Palmer, one of three which the company has on contract for the Pittsburg Steamship Co., the lake end of the United States Steel Corporation. Boh models are built on a scale of %4 in. per foot, and are handsome pieces of work. The Palmer, as has been already an- nounced, is being built on what is known as the Isherwood system of longitudinal framing and is the first to be built on that system for great lakes trade. The company also ex- hibits a 50-ton ice machine, together with a model of the new cell block system for making ice from raw wa- ter without distillation. The Vinton 'Co., which, as' is well known, has done the interior work for a number of the best lake passenger steamers, also had an exhibit of woodwork and interior trim. oe ° PROCTOR'S PATENT SELF- TIPPING BUCKET. Another development in the patent silent ash hoist, associated with the name of W. E. Proctor, of the firm of Messrs. F. J. Trewent & Proctor, naval architects and consulting engineers, of Billiter street, London, is a patent self- tipping bucket, as here illustrated. This type of bucket is the outcome of a series of experiments to obtain the best and least complicated arrangement, and is not only practically noiseless, but Proctor's Patent Self-tipping Bucket had on_ exhibition - a