To Vessel Owners and Operators: THE MARINE REVIEW NAVAL ARCHITECTS > ENGINEERS : You’ll find here the announcements of several August, 1917 Naval Architects and Engineers who are reliable, waiting to be of service to you. W. I. BABCOCK BABCOCK & PENTON ENGINEERS AND NAVAL ARCHITECTS CLEVELAND Penton Bldg., 1136 Chestnut Av. H. PENTON NEW YORK 120 Broadway WILLIAM T. DONNELLY Designer of Floating Dry Docks, Steel and Wood. PLANS ON HAND FOR DOCKS FROM 2,000 TO 20,000 TONS Electricity applied to Marine Transportation Harbor Improvements Consulting Engineer and Naval Architect 17 Battery Place NEW YORK Robert H. Kidd, Manager Joseph Kidd & Son MARINE ARCHITECTS AND SURVEYORS Ship and Engine Damage and Other Surveys Carefully Attended To 406 Palladio Building Telephone No. 1 DULUTH, MINN. John Wanamaker Says: Advertising doesn’t jerk; it pulls: It begins very gently at first, but the pull is steady. It increases day by day and year by year, until it exerts an irresistible power. 601 Each of the ads on this pageis a seed planted in a large circle of ves- selowners. It grows by repetition until it bears the fruit of business. j 616 Lake Shipyard Methods of Steel Ship Construction By ROBERT CURR. It shows, step by step how to build a vessel from the mold loft floor, the cheapest method of construction. Every piece of plate and shape is taken up and the method of laying off clearly explained. The book is copiously illustrated with hundreds of line drawings and numerous photographs and affords in itself, a liberal education in the art of shipbuilding as practiced on the Great Lakes. $2.00 postpaid to any address. Cleveland, Ohio 628 Penton’s Book News, - A. H. LAMM Consulting and Constructing Engineer Reports, Design and Equipment of Docks for bulk and general Cargo; Shipyards and industrial developments. Henry Building Portland, Oregon JOHN REID & COMPANY NAVAL ARCHITECTS 17 BATTERY PLACE NEW YORK Offices: London Glasgow Montreal HARRY G. SMITH EUGENE L. SMITH SMITH BROS. Naval Architects and Marine Surveyors 535 Marine Bank Bldg. BUFFALO, N. Y. This page of Professional Cards is a directory for the vessel owner or opera- tor. You can have your card in this directory at a surprisingly low cost. One of these cards concerning your business is like a snowball rolling down hill, . The longer it ‘‘rolls’? the more powerful it becomes. The Great Lakes Red Book, 1917 Edition A list of more than 1,000 vessels on the Great Lakes, together with the names of the owners, captains and engineers. Bound with flexible paper cover, pocket size, postpaid any- where $1.00. A most useful directory. Compiled and published by Penton’s Book News, Cleveland, Ohio 602 I RE PAPE SR HAR RSL EES EIR LOOSEN ESI RE ATER BOER SFR IMBCS SEA 1A SG hae EER ANN Beate Please mention THE MaRINE REvIEW when writing to Advertisers