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Photographs from Far and Near “Old Iron Sides.” The famous U. S. frigate Con- stitution again fires a broadside after a generation of silence. Now being refitted at the Boston navy yard as a permanent memorial. The school chil- dren of the country are contributing to a fund for this purpose. . S. S. Lenape on fire at sea, floating with the tide on the morning of Noy. 18 in Delaware bay where | she had been towed by the coast guard cutter Kickapoo. The 252 passengers and crew of 115 were saved. The fire was discovered off Atlantic City on Nov. 17 shortly af- ter leaving New York for Jackson- ville, Fla. To the left, the beautifully modeled yacht Aloha, owned by Commodore Ar- thur Curtiss James, New York Yacht club, being converted to diesel-electric drive with Winton engines and Westing- house electrical equipment at the Staten Island Shipbuilding Co. Logs hauled _ to sawmills on barg- es, Kalamazoo river S. S. Bennington of the Rutland- Lake Michigan Co. loading freight at the municipal pier, Chi., for Florida. Benjamin F. Packard, famous American clipper ship, built in Bath, Maine, 1883, with a record of 52 trips around Cape Horn has been bought by Theodore Roosevelt Pell, New York yachtsman. . Above— Electric drum type of steerer by American Engi- neering Co. Cut steel gears between motor and Swedish Nobel diesel engine developing 1600 horsepower drum at 105 revolutions per minute. Length, including the run flywheel is 25 feet; width, 12 feet; height from center in oil. of shaft to top of fuel valve, 19 feet. Weight 160 tons. 23