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Busy in Repair Work The Manitowoc Ship Building and Dry Dock Co. Has Put ina Busy Winter HE Manitowoc Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., Manitowoc, Wis., has put in an uncom- monly busy winter in repair work. The equipment of the Manitowoc yards is diversified to undertake a wide range of work. It has a com- pletely equipped machine shop, a boil- er shop, carpenter shop, building for laying out plans for complete vessels and for making templates by which. steel plates: are cut and punched, an electric shop, and, in fact, practically the entire range of equipment which might be called for in building or repairing anything from a pleasure boat to a lake freighter. Four new steel craft. are on the ways, to: be launched early in. the spring. A new steel tug, 8/7 ft. long, is being constructed for the Erie Land & Improvement' Co., Chicago, a sub- sidiary. Of the Erie railroad; to be used in the Chicago river for towing car floats: Another new steel tug is the M. G. Hausler, 80 ft. long, for the Lincoln Park Commissioners, Chicago, which is to replace the wooden tug of the same name. The machinery of the old eraft is being. installed in the. new and a new firebox boiler will furnish steam. Two steel dredges are being con- structed on a sub-contract from the Bucyrus Co., South Milwaukee, Wis., one a 20-inch hydraulic dredge and the other a dipper dredge, the hulls being of steel. The Bucyrus Co. will furnish the machinery. | Four vessels of the Interlake Steam- ship.Co. are in' the yards for more or less extensive repair work. The Indus, nee Lake Shore, is being mod- ernized by arch reconstruction. At the same time the hatches are being wid- ened from 8 to 12 ft., new steel hatch covers will be placed and: modern steam handling equipment will be in- stalled to operate the hatch covers. Alterations to the Arcturus On the Arcturus, nee J. B. Wood, hatches are being widened from 9 to 12 ft., steel hatch covers and mod- ern steam handling equipment being installed. The Venus and Neptune, of the same fleet, are docked at these yards for minor repairs. The steamer Liv- ingston (small) owned by the Michi- Jackson gan Navigation Co., is being given a steel deck to replace the wooden deck and general repairs are being made to the hull and equipment. The Topeka, of the Lake Shore Stone Co., Milwaukee, is in the small dry dock for general hull repairs, much of the planking being removed and replaced and a great deal of work being done on the decks and upper works, while general overhauling of the equipment is also being done. The Pontiac, owned by the Cleve- land-Cliffs Iron Co., is having her boilers placed on the tank top and so located as to give room for an extra hatch in place of the scuttle hatch formerly. located aft of the boilers. The Pontiac was re-arched last year, General Overhauling: The Chickamauga, owned by the Transit. Co.,° Cleveland, and John Owens, owned by J. Emery Owen Transportation Co., Detroit, are being given a general overhauling. The -S.P; Kirby, owned by. the Northwestern Transportation Co., De- troit, is being given general repairs and. the America.and. Brazil of. the North American Steamship Co., Cleve- land, are at the yards for minor re- pairs. The fleet already mentioned is add- ed to by the near presence of the Goodrich Transportation Co.'s yards, which are just across the river from the ship building yards. There are moored in winter quarters, the whale- back Christopher Columbus, the Vir- ginia, Iowa and Sheboygan, of the Goodrich line, and a short distance away the Minnesota, of the Crosby line. The latter steamship was prac- tically reconstructed a few years ago at the Manitowoc yards at a cost of about $150,000. Believing that pleasant office sur- roundings are a factor in efficiency, the company recently has built a new office building in. its. yards; © The Manitowoc Boiler Works Co. is a subsidiary of the ship building com- pany and formerly two offices were maintained about half a mile apart. Efficiency dictated consolidation of the offices and the old boiler shop office, a two-story brick building, was raised, placed on a section of the floating drydock and moved half a mile half way towards the rear. to the center of the ship yards. <A photograph showing the building in transit was presented in THe Marine Review, "October, 1913. "This. strue- ture formed a nucleus of the present office building. The ground about the structure is an alluvial muck, but the building stands on a foundation which would bear it should the soil surround- ing it be entirely washed away. Piles were driven 30 ft. deep to a solid strat- um and concrete laid on them, givinga foundation independent of the sur- rounding soil. | 'The structure: is. 50.0% 70: tt) two stories, of brick veneer and handsome- ly trimmed in oak,' the walls being tinted neutral colors which are easy on the eye. A basement, 11x18 ft., is the only portion of the building below the first floor and is used for housing the boiler which supplies heat to the offices. The vault is directly over this basement, two stories high, outside the rectangle of the building proper. It is used for storage of books, rec- ords, drawings and other valuable papers and is fireproof. New Office Building Entering the lower floor, the visitor is in the entrance hall, which leads On the left is the office of Elias Gunnell, president of the company, and on the right is the stair to the second floor. Just past the stair is the entrance to the office of L. E. Geer, secretary. At the rear of the hall on the left is the information room _ containing the telephone switchboard, which is separated by glass partitions from the stenographers' room. Wash rooms are provided off the stenographers' room. The directors' rooms are on the right and the office of the purchas- ing agent just behind these. The rear half of this floor. is. one large room for the accounting department and in one corner a small room 1s partitioned off having two doors lead- ing from the outside and windows op- ening from the accounting room. This room is used by men from the ship yards coming to the office to see the timekeepers and also is used on pay day, the men filing in one door, past the window and out the other, thus obviating their presence in the ac- counting room proper. On the second floor are the offices