July, 1918 THE MARINE REVIEW A Monthly Publication Devoted to Shipbuilding, Marine Engineering and the Business of Transportation by Water. Published by The Penton Publishing Co., Cleveland, Ohio, U. S. A. IN THIS ISSUE PAGE Learning the Game from the Inside....271 Moisture Effects on Fir and Pine Is Uncle Sam a Good Ship Operator?..272 Photographs from Far and Near Ten Years of Boiler Standardization..274 Tests of Cast Anchor Chain Schooner of New Type Makes First Trip 275 Trial Trip of the FarrH...... Handling Material at Hog Island......277 © Marine News in a Personal Way How Machine. Shops Are Keeping up Hurley Reveals Shipbuilding Plans...... SUE with Launchings »seeeeeee-400 American Shipyard -Activities More Steel, More Ships Are Assured..282 ‘Huge Ship for Lake Construction One “Method: * of <° Increasine-. “Yard Rare Woods Used in Shipbuilding—IV. .30¢ Efficiency gate _ teate. Decisions: in Maritime Law.....,.d)¢ In the Traffic Manager’s Office On the Coasts, Lakes and Rivers German Nation Will Finance Trade War 285 Equipment Used Afloat and Ashore....31 BRANCH OFFICES CHICAGO - 1147 Peoples Gas Bldg. PITTSBURGH 2148-49 Oliver Bldg. CINCINNATI 205 Lincoln Inn Court PHILADELPHIA 1316 Land Title Bldg. NEW YORK - : 90 West Street WASHINGTON - 40 Metzerott Bldg. BIRMINGHAM, ENG. - Prince’s Chambers Subscription $2.00 per year postpaid, all over the world. Single copies 20 cents. Back numbers over three months, 50 cents. The Cleveland News Co. will supply the trade with THe Marine Review through the regular channels of the American News Co. European Agents, The International News Co., Breams building, Chancery Lane, London, E. C., England. Entered at the Post Office at Cleveland, Ohio, as Second Class Matter. (Copyright 1918 by Penton Publishing Company) Please mention THE MARINE ReEvIEW when writing to Advertisers