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122 description of the most accurate meth- od of laying off the draught marks on a vessel; and of correcting it when the vessel is loaded. I am aware that there are'some tricks in both of these' businesses. T. G. Roberts (communicated) :--I am glad the author of this paper has introduced the curves showing condi- tions on the Nereus, which were pre- pared under my direction at Newport News. I may also add that_ similar curves were previously prepared by me in the case of the collier Proteus, the results of which were quite sim- ilar to those shown for the Nereus. The Proteus being the first of these two vessels to be completed, I pre- pared these curves without any knowl! edge that similar data was being, or had been, taken in the case of the Sparrows Point colliers; and the: pur- pose I had in view was to be able to account for an anticipated difference between the weights taken of the dif- ferent parts prior to incorporation into the vessel, and the displacement as determined from the draught~ marks at completion. It struck me that the condition of bending actually found would be reasonable to expect, which the subsequent observations confirmed. I forget now how much the displace- ment was affected by the observed difference between the loaded condi- tion under sag and the designed con- dition with keel flat as in dock, but I think it was-something like 180 tons. Anyhow it was an appreciable differ- ence to account for when the weights and the displacement are. being com- pared, or when the conditions at the trials are being met. Since the con- tract for the vessels required the work to be according to the best merchant practice, there was no provision for expenses to the Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock .Co. and to William Gatewood for volunteering to supply the necessary facilities to enable this work to be conducted by the force of my office. Shores Dropped Out Richard M. Watt:--Merely. as a matter of interest, I would ask atten- tion to an experience of my own many years ago, when I was assistant to Admiral Bowles, in the navy yard. He assigned me the task of hauling out seven torpedo boats. They were small in size, and the longest, as I remember, was 160 ft. The vessels were hauled out with improvised ways, and I noted with some consternation on arriving at the yard one morning that the shores we set up under the fourth one had dropped out during the night. This was almost beyond my comprehension at that time, but, THE MARINE REVIEW of course, the only thing to which it could be ascribed was to tempera- ture changes. Adjournment luncheon. was then taken for Banquet of Naval Engineers The. date of April 25, 1914, has been selected by the American Society of Naval Engineers for the annual banquet of the Society, which will be held' in Washington, D. C. The following committee has been appointed to have charge of the ar- rangements for the banquet: Rear: Admiral J. R. Edwards, U. S. N.; Capt: Gustav: Kaemmerling, U. S. Me apt, ©. A, McAllister, U.S. R. i, SS: jdicut-cComid H.C. Dinger, U5. No. Licut-Com'dr J: B., Gilmer, es. N, It is expected that an 'important feature of the banquet this year. will be a discussion of the important po- sition that producers of naval ma- terial hold in relation to the potential naval strength of the country and the desirability for best co-operation and interchange of views between the civilian engineering personnel of the country-and the naval service. The membership of this society in- cludes, besides naval. officers, the im- portant members of the engineering staff of practically all firms engaged in the development and production of naval material, and the engineering staff of engineering and technical col- leges of the country. An interchange of opinions as to the securing of the best conditions for the production and upbuilding of our tiaval. material and the development of the engineering forces of the coun- try as an adjunct.to our naval strength is believed to be an appropriate spirit to.-govern. the 'assemblage. of: the members of this society. Naval Program . The house committee on naval af- fairs has approved the administration's two battleship program. As: re- ported to the house, the bill awards $140,200,000 exclusive amounts to be spent for armor and armament and fixes the building program for the coming fiscal year as follows: Two first class battleships, $7,800,000 each. exclusive of armor and armament; one 1,100-ton, 21-knot sea-going sub- marine, $1,100,000; six torpedo boat destroyers, $925,000 each; three coast defense submarines of 500 tons each, $620,000, designed for use on the Pa- cific coast; four harbor defense sub- marines of smaller type, $375,000 each, intended for use on the Gulf coast and March, 1914 | Panama. defense submarines shall be built anq maintained on the Pacific coast pro- vided that they can be built there as cheaply as they can be built on the Atlantic coast and "laid down" an. {ne Pacific. coast. Eckliff Boiler Circulators The Eckliff Automatic Boiler Circy- lator Co. of Detroit, Has just = ceived a contract from the Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., of Chi. cago, to equip 15 vessels with the Eckliff circulator as a result of q test held on the tug McCarthy. Or- ders have also been received from the Coastwise Transportation Co., of Boston, to equip two. boilers on the steamer Suffolk with the circulator. It is also being installed on the ves- -séls of the Union Sulphur Co.'s fleet, ~. The first Eckliff. circulator that was put into service. -was installed in the boiler of the steamer Pentland in 1910. It was a crude installation com- pared with present design, but it has proved that the principle involved was correct. At the time the installa- tion was made the Pentland was owned by: the -Spring Lake Iron Co., carry- ing ore. She is now a. lumber car- rier and is owned by Fred Leckis, Rockefeller building, Cleveland. When the circulators were put into this boiler, the Adamson furnaces showed several- cracks and the lower half of the boiler was in such condition that the owners expected that a new boiler would have to replace the one in the Pentland inside of a year or two, but it is still producing steam for. this. steamer. The cireulator shows no evidence of four years' service, and Mr. Leckis says that the boiler is good for ten years' addi- tional service. The boiler is today free from scale or dirt on any of the heating surfaces, as was recently proved by an inspection by the steam- boat inspection § service. It is proposed to hold a colonial exposition at Demarang, Java, from September to November, 1914, to celebrate the centennial of the return of the Dutch East Indies to Dutch rule. The exposition is under the patronage of the governor general of the Dutch East Indies, and the American representative is T. Grei- danas, 136 Water street, New York. The McMyler Interstate Co., Bed- ford, O., is installing at the Gerard Point terminal of the Pennsylvania railroad an ore unloading plant hav- ing two grabs of three tons each. The bill provides that the