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1914 ETG. 3--THE- CANOE AND RSS FY . portation of machinery and boats in countries nearer home. This outfit started out from the Marine Iron Works loaded on cars and traveled to the nearest railroad station to destina- tion. It was then carried on sleds a distance of over 100 miles to where it could be transported in canoes. These canoes had to be built to trans- port this shipment. During the trans- portation by water the shipment had to be unloaded six different times and portaged around rapids and _ falls. necessitating the carrying of the goods by hand around the falls. As some of the rapids were fairly easy to navigate, the canoes were sent down them; they, how- BOILER ON THE ROCKS. THE MARINE REVIEW MOLI HED Argentina, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, U.S. of Colombia, Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, Mexico, Hawaiian Islands, Philippines, the northwest ter- ritory .and Alaska, they 'have been obliged to assist the purchaser in ev- ery way possible in this transportation problem by building machinery and boats that could be shipped in pack- age, some of which could not weigh over 60 kilograms, or where the pieces could not be over 9 meters long. That they have met these propositions for their customers is well demonstrated by the large business they are receiv- ing. An axiom of their business is to pack the articles well and according PHE? CANOE. WAS: ENTIRELY 9] = "! , to the way -and aige the customer desires and always to send an extra supply of. the small parts required, such as rivets, bolts, nuts. 44 costs but a'few cents for' these extras, but their customer may be thousands of miles from his nearest supply. To find himself short of them is likely to have him condemn a_e good outfit simply on this ac- count. lf there' are plenty, you will hear from others interested in this class of work, for a good oufit with plenty of supplies is the best of advertisers. Coal Plants The... Hunt Conetreac Dae tion Co., of New York, =" s has been awarded con- tract by the Isthmian Canal Commis- sion for the installation of coal hand- ling machinery at Cristobal and Bal- boa, canal zone. Four unloading tow- ers will be installed on the Cristobal docks on the Atlantic side and two on the Balboa docks on the Pacific side. The total cost of the installation will be '$1,833,127. The towers will travel on rails and will deliver the coal from the vessels and deposit it in the hopper built in the tower, where it may be delivered through chutes to cars or into stores. The in- stallation will also include stocking and reclaiming bridges. ever, took the precau- tion: of. having a. rope run to the shore in case of accident. That this precaution was a wise one can be seen from the picture, Fig. 3, show- ing the canoe on the rocks with the boiler. In this instance the canoe was entirely de- molished. The boiler, however, was saved, pulled ashore, a new canoe built, boiler load- ed into it and delivery finally made. The only loss occurring in the de- livery of this outfit was: a keg of rivets. In the 20 years that the Marine Iron Works have been building and _ shipping machinery and boats to foreign countries, such as Africa, Russia, China, . FIG. 4--NEW CANOE BUILT AND BOILER ON BOARD AGAIN