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112 Municipal Piers at Minneapolis The Minneapolis City council has just taken final action in the matter of providing a modern municipally- owned river terminal at the foot of Washington avenue in Minneapolis. The plans of the city engineer call for the immediate construction of a quay wall, 1,334 ft. in length, and the filling and grading of three blocks of land adjacent thereto. It was de- cided to go ahead with the work at once for the reason that within a few months the water at that point will be raised by the completion of the high dam 5 miles below. It is the intention to equip the terminal with the latest freight handling devices and to build a municipal spur track about THE MARINE REVIEW Warren, Our brief is against the whole proposition. Nothing could be more comic than the government trying to make its own armor plate for the purpose of saving money. Oil Burning for Panama Dredges A somewhat novel installation, par- ticularly for the eastern coast, is the boiler installation in the two Isthmian Canal Commission dredges, Gamboa and Paraiso, built by P. Delany & Co., of Newburgh, N. Y. Each dredge is equipped with two Scotch marine boilers, 10 ft. 6 in. diameter, with two furnaces and designed for 150 Ibs. working pressure. The furnaces are equipped for burning both coal and March, 1914 For Vice Admirals The bill introduced by Senator Bry- an, of Florida, authorizing the pregj- dent to appoint six vice admirals from the nine ranking rear admirals pro- vides that vice admirals on sea or on shore duty in a foreign country shall receive $11,000 a year. On shore duty at home they are to have the pay of rear admirals of the ranking nine, which is fixed by length of service, The pay of a newly appointed rear admiral is $8,000 a year. By special act of congress Admiral Dewey re- ceives $13,000 as the hero of Manila, Our rear admirals are well paid if comparisons be made with other na- tions. The base of pay proper of the admiral of the fleet in England is $10,- DRAWING OF THE PROPOSED MUNICIPAL PIERS AT- MINNEAPOLIS 1 mile long which will connect the terminal with all the railroads enter- ing the city of Minneapolis. This is the direct result of a very persistent campaign on the part of the Minneap- olis Civic and Commerce Association, which has urged the making of Min- neapolis the real head of navigation on the Mississippi river and the crea- tion of an important shipping and transfer point at the upper end of the 6-ft. Minnesota channel which the government is fast bringing to com- pletion on the upper Mississippi. A navigation company has been or- ganized which proposes to construct and operate a fleet of shallow draught barges capable of carrying 1,000 tons on 6-ft. draught. Warren, O., is the latest aspirant for the honor of having the government armor plate plant. Well, we hold no brief in favor of any town as against oil as fuel, the burning of oil to be under the "Dahl" system. Tanks for the storage of oil are placed in the outboard side of the ves- sel, each tank being fitted with a steam coil to keep the liquid at a certain tem- perature. The oil is pumped from the tanks to the heaters when it is again heated and brought to the proper tem- perature for atomizing and_ passed through the burners under pressure. Each furnace is provided with a special oil burning front protected with asbestos and fire brick and at the rear of each furnace is installed a special arrangement of fire brick for the deflecting of the flame. The in- stallations have proved most satisfac- tory under severe tests. Wooden ship building is steadily de- clining in marine. From an output of 41,000 tons in 1900 it has declined to 10,000 tons in 1913. 658, of an admiral $8,881, of a vice admiral $7,105, and of a rear admiral $5,329. It must be remembered that our rear admirals often do the work of officers of the highest rank in the British service. Germany gives an admiral $7,611, a vice admiral $4,297, and a rear admiral $3,342. Russia is more liberal and France less; while the Japanese scale seems absurdly low to Americans, an admiral getting $2,988, a vice admiral $1,992, and a rear ad- miral $1,643 a year. The business of the marine post office at Detroit during 1913 was the heaviest on record. The post office handled altogether 807,908 pieces of mail, including 1,413 telegrams, 832 istered letters. The office sold $9,176 special delivery letters and 109 reg- worth of stamps and $5,000 worth of money orders and served 20,307 ves- sels, 11,282 of which passed in the day time and 9,025 at night.