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August, 1914 account separately for the income, expenditures and other financial and property characteristics of any com- mon carrier by water in interstate commerce, which at present may not be separately incorporated but whose identity is merged with the general property and income account of the railroad. Various other sections relate to penalties, jurisdiction of offenses and methods of enforcing the act. The pill extends to the commission in the execution of the act the powers grant- ed to it by the present interstate commerce laws in so far as they may be applicable to the enforcement of the act, and not inconsistent with its provisions. In view of the added du- ties prescribed by the bill it is pro- vided that the Interstate Commerce Commission be enlarged to 11 mem- bers. This would mean the appoint- ment by the commission of four addi- tional members. Tin Recovery Dredger Wim. Simons. & .Co:. Ltd: of .Ren- frew, have just completed and de- Spaicned to Penang, for the Tongkah Harbor Tin Dredging fo. a, latee. and: powertul d red per for. working im alluvial tin deposits, this being the fourth dredger of this class which this com- pany have had constructed by Messrs. Simons within recent years. The buckets are of the built type of strong design, the cutting lips being formed of special hard steel. The bucket ladder is constructed in the most modern form of girder work and designed for dredging to a depth of 55 ft. under water level. The upper and lower tumblers are of cast steel with special hard steel renew- able bearing bars; the lower tumbler in two pieces designed to work in special bearings of cast steel and chilled iron. The buckets will dis- charge the material into shoots lined with steel bars, and from thence into the screen. The screen will be of the revolving type with graduated per- forations and driven by friction gear at upper end. A_ set of horizontal compound condensing engines fitted with air and feed pump, are installed to drive the dredging gear. The dredger is fitted with Bluck's patent drop chute. Steam is supplied from locomotive type steel boilers con- Structed for a working pressure of 130 Ibs. per square inch. Independent auxiliary steam feed and bilge pumps With connections to tanks, water -boat and bilges are to be provided. Feed filter, meter and special vertical Steam feed heater are also fitted. The THE MARINE REVIEW dredging gear consists of spur gear with large and powerful friction clutch, so that the buckets can be disconnected at will, while the screen gear may be kept running: the screen gear is driven direct from the engine. Water is supplied to the screen by one 16-in. centrifugal pump driven by vertical compound engines. The pipe from water pump will enter the screen at lower end and will be perforated for its full length. The Saving ta- bles are very large and are of an area suitable for the special material to be dealt -with. In addition to the tables special launders are fitted on each side of the dredger. These launders will be pro- vided with riffles for their entire length so that no paying material may be lost. The launders will also serve the double purpose of carrying off the tailings from the tables sufficiently far astern that even the soft material will not run back upon the buckets. A large and powerful mooring winch driven by an independent two-cylinder high-speed engine is fitted on deck. It has six independent wire rope bar- rels, one for head 'moorings and four for side moorings, and one _ emer- gency barrel. -All the barrels are ar- ranged to work independently or con- jointly. The ladder hoisting gear is also driven by an independent two- cylinder high-speed engine. Large tanks are fitted up on board for feed water, and storage space for a large amount of wood fuel. A special fea- ture of this vessel, as with the others, is that all. working parts were care- fully made to gage, and duplicate parts made for templates, so as to be entirely interchangeable. The hull is of steel with steel decks throughout fitted with beltings at wa- ter line, and of special strong con- struction to meet the various strains due to this class of work. All fram- ing carrying the gearing, bucket lad- der, screen and tables, is of steel built in single web section, to facilitate in- spection and painting. Steamer Camino The Camino built by The Craig Ship Building Co., Long. Beach, Cal., for Swayne: & Hoyt, San Francisco, is 300 ft. long, 44 ft. beam, 28.5 ft. deep and has a carrying capacity of 5,000 tons. There are four watertight bulkheads and two steel decks, the lower deck ex- tending to the boiler room bulkhead and the upper deck running the full length of the steamer. The double bot- toms extend from the collision bulk- head forward to the stern tube bulk- head, affording room for a_ fuel oil capacity of 4,000 barrels. water-tight tanks, "25 The tanks are operated by filling pipes on both sides of the vessel, and are connected to a series of manifolds Piped to a_ horizontal duplex ballast pump having steam cylinders of 10-in. diameter and water cylinders 12-in. diameter by 12-in. stroke, in addition to three fuel-oil pumps which can pump either direct from the double bottoms or, in case of extreme low temperatures, from the settling tanks fitted in the boiler room. The valves to the double bottoms are so arranged that the tanks may be filled through the pipes by which the ballast pump empties them. These pipes are 8 in. in diameter and, as the tanks extend across the ship, provision has been made for drawing water from either side of the tanks so that they may be pumped out completely should the vessel become listed to either side; and as the fuel oil is consumed the tanks may be filled with water. The double bottoms are divided into five with. the additional precaution of a water-tight cofferdam between tanks. The ship is equipped with a complete outfit of deck machinery of the latest type, consisting of a windlass engine, steering engine, and four horizcntal hoisters designed and built by the Craig Shipbuilding Co., in addition to two vertical geared winches, two friction winches, and a Hyde capstan engine. There are four 24-ft. lifeboats car- ried in davits on the after deck house in addition to working boats and life rafts, life preservers, life buoys, and other life-saving apparatus. The ship is equipped with three steel masts, each having cargo booms 75 ft. in length stepped in forged steel sock- ets riveted to the mast. There are also two booms fitted on the main deck at No. 3 hatch, and an extra heavy boom fitted on the forward mast in forged steel socket and reinforced steel plating, capable of lifting 20 tons. The cargo hatches are 31 ft. long and 18 ft. wide. The officers' quarters are arranged in a house on the bridge deck, and are sumptuously furnished, finished in white enamel and hardwood, having roll top desks and elaborate toilet fixtures with running water. Capt. R. H. .Ahlin: of the Camino, who is the commodore master of the fleet, has been in the company's em- ploy for many years, and_ personally looked after the fitting out of the company's latest steamers. He is a master mariner of wide experience both in the coasting and foreign trade, and has established a reputation for skill and assurance equalled by few and sur- passed by none. The captain's quarters are on the main deck amidship, where he has an outlook fore and aft and on