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draft blowers and fuel pumps are also provided in case of fire. There are three cargo refrigerator boxes, having a total of about 32,000 cubic feet capacity for carrying meat or for fruit and vegetables, and ships’ store boxes having a total of about 5518 cubic feet. The refrigerating machinery consists of three Bruns- wick Kroeschell Co. CO, compressors, each driven by an 8-inch by 8-inch vertical steam engine, 3-inch diam- eter by 534-inch stroke, operating be- tween speeds of 175 to 215 revolutions per minute. There are two conden- sers, two evaporators, two brine cir- culating pumps and one condensing water pump. The passenger accommodations, pub- lic rooms and crew’s spaces amidships have a combined system of heating and ventilation using the ventilation supply duct as a means of heating by introducing steam Aerofin heater units near the supply fans. An ex- haust system is also installed through- at 94 revolutions of the propeller shaft and 8000 shaft horsepower at 97 revolutions per minute of the propel- ler shaft. The high pressure astern turbine is in the same casing with the intermediate pressure turbine and the low pressure astern turbine is in the casing with the low pressure ahead turbine. The astern turbines are rated to de liver 4320 shaft horsepower. A bleed- er connectoin is taken from the high pressure exhaust belt for second-stage feedwater heating and from the third stage or intermediate pressure tur- bine for first stage, feedwater heating. Steam is supplied at 350 pounds per square inch working pressure and 200 degrees Fahr. superheat by four Bab- cock & Wilcox watertube boilers ar- ranged in one fireroom. Two boilers on the port side and two on the star- board side are arranged fore and aft facing inboard with the firing space between them. Each boiler has 4200 square feet of heating surface and 400 Veranda Cafe, Forward End of Enclosed Promenade Deck on 8. S. Excalibur out the quarters where required. The entire system operates smoothly and quietly. The officers’ and crew’s quarters are steam heated. Fresh hot and cold water is piped to wash basins and baths in all state- rooms. Hot and cold salt water is piped to the baths and showers. All plumbing fixtures were supplied by the J. L. Mott Co. The Radio Corp. Victor Co. supplied a combination radio broadcast receiv- er and phonograph for use in the en- tertainment features of the ship. With this system loud speakers are located in the foyer well with an auxiliary at- tachment in the library and deck veranda. The main propulsion machinery, built by the New York Shipbuilding Co., consists of Parsons type, triple expansion turbines with Falk single reduction gearing arranged for driv- ing a single screw. There is one high pressure, one intermediate pressure and one low pressure turbine, rated to deliver 7200 normal shaft horsepower 26 square feet of superheating surface or a total of 16,800 square feet of heat- ing surface and 1600 square feet of superheating surface. Babcock & Wilcox desuperheaters of the internal drum type are fitted prin- cipally for port use reducing the super- heat to 20 degrees Fahr. at 350 pounds gage pressure. The boilers are fitted for burning fuel oil under induced draft. Each boiler is fitted with four oil burners of the Cuyama type. Four induced draft blowers, one for each boiler, are located at the third deck level. A damper is installed in the uptake so that the blower may be shut off and the boiler run on natural draft. The main condenser is designed to maintain a vacuum of 28% inches with sea water of 75 degrees Fahr. at normal power. Two two-stage con- densate pumps are installed, each of which is of sufficient capacity to han- dle the condensate from condenser, the other serving as a standby unit. Two sets of Westinghouse twin two-stage MARINE REVIEw—February, 1931 air ejectors with inter and after cop. densers are installed in connection with the main condenser. The auxiliary condenser furnisheg by the Worthington Pump & Machin. ery Corp. is a two-pass condenser with — 1500 square feet of cooling surface, A Hickman air separator is installeq in the main feed line. One Sharples No. 6 super-centrifuge, having a capacity of 350 gallons per hour of lubricating oil, is installed, Generating pumps and other auxiliary equipment is listed for convenience in the table on page 23, with sizes and manufacturers noted. I. M. M. Co. Has Record Year in Tourist Trade For the sixth successive year the associated lines of the International Mercantile Marine Co., carried more tourist third cabin passengers across the Atlantic than any other line or group of lines. Figures for 1930 made public on Jan. 13 by J. S. Mahool, pas- senger traffic manager of the com. pany, show that 60,522 passengers traveled in this class on ships of the White Star, Red Star and Atlantic Transport lines, owned or operated by the International Mercantile Marine Co. This represents an in- crease of more than 5,000 over the rec- ord number carried by the company in 1929. Has Good Year in 1930 . The annual report of the United Fruit Co. and its subsidiaries for the calendar year 1930 shows net income of $12,411,507, or the equivalent of $4.24 a share after providing for in- terest, insurance, taxes and deprecia- tion. Of this amount $11,699,496 was declared in dividends and the balance, $711,561, was added to surplus ac- count. The balance of cash on hand, including government securities, as of Dec. 31, 1930, was $22,801,387, as com- pared with $24,322,729 on hand at the close of the previous year. Grace Declares Dividend At a meeting of the directors of W. R. Grace & Co., it was voted that in addition to the regular semiannual dividend of $3 per share on the first preferred stock, payable December 31 to stockholders of record on Dee. 30, and then regular semiannual dividend of $4 on the Class A and B preferred stock, payable Dec. 29 to stockholders of record on Dee. 27, the regular quarterly dividend of $1 be declared and an additional extra dividend of $1 on the common stock, payable Dec. 29 to stockholders of record on Dec. 27. A similar extra dividend on the company’s common stock was voted by W. R. Grace & Co. a year ago.