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i, MARINE REVIEW. The carriage on which this gun is mounted is of iron and of sufficient weight to do away with the danger from recoil in firing the gun on a ves- sel’s deck, which danger is very great if the gun is mounted on a light The patent reel case ensures the safe uncoiling of the 1901.] wooden carriage. line without danger of kinking and becoming entagled, or of parting at the time of the discharge; without this there is risk of the line becoming jammed and parting, thus causing the gun to be totally ineffective at the time of danger when it is needed. The manufacturers furnish a rewinding LINE-THROWING, LIFE-SAVING GUN. apparatus with which a common sailor can rewind the line and use it The Lyle line-throwing life-saving gun is not a new device, as it has been on the market for a long time past, but it is interesting just the same and unlike many other so-called life-saving devices it has the approval of It is intended for again and again. AMERICAN BRIDGE CO. APPOINTMENTS. The American Bridge Co. announces the following appointments: E. W. Stearns has been appointed manager of the East Berlin (Ct.), plant; Frank S. Moore has been appointed manager of the Lafayette (Ind.), plant; all the Pittsburg plants have been consolidated into one, and J. W. Walker appointed as manager; Mr. C. A. Billings having been appointed assistant treasurer for the New York district, H. W. Post has been appointed as manager of the Post ‘&:McCord plant. the board of supervising inspectors of steam vessels. use on steamships, barges and tow boats for throwing a line from one vessel to another, or for communicating with the shore in case of ship- wreck. These guns are on vessels of the Cunard line, Boston and New York fleet, Warren line, Leyland line, Boston Fruiters, Yarmouth of Nova The company has grouped all the eastern plants in one section, and J. Major, formerly manager of the bridge and con- has appointed ‘Mr. Moor, the Elmira, the Groton, the Hilton, the Horseheads, the Trenton, The New York con- A struction department of the A. & P. Roberts Co., as manager of all of the the Post & McCord, the Rochester and the Union. tracting office will hereafter. be in charge of S. Fischer Miller, formerly plants, including the Pencoyd, the East Berlin, the Buffalo, the Edge ee ase < with Messrs. ‘Milliken Bros. The American company will furnish the steel work for the ten-story office building to be built by the Mutual Savings Bank at the corner of | Market and Geary streets, San Francisco, Cal. ATLANTIC TRANSPORT CO.’S PLANS. President Bernard N. Baker of the Atlantic Transport line announces that the rumor that the line was to. be absorbed by the International Navi- gation Co. doubtless was caused by the line’s effort at reorganization. Nearly all of the line’s capital is invested in big modern ships, including the colossal Minnehaha and ‘Minneapolis, twin screws, on the London route, worth $2,000,000 each. More than 80 per cent. of the line’s stock- holders are Americans, and +hey want to have these ships running under ff the ship subsidy bill was passed, ‘Mr. Baker said, OL ae et Ap ZA port line, Clyde, New Orleans & the stars and stripes. the line would duplicate every British built vessel in its big fleet by an- other ship built in America. This will be necessary to get American regis- The line is building two 10,000-ton Scotia, Pacific Mail, Atlantic Trans Balize, Baltimore Storage & Lighterage, Savannah, Philadelphia & Read- ing Terminal, International Steamship Co., Union Pacific railroad, Pacific Coast line of San Francisco and others; also on the yacht Comanche. built on the great-lakes, on yachts of the Atlantic seaboard, on pilot doats, etc. This gun is up to government requirements in all respects. It is made by Wm. Read & Sons, 107 Washington street, Boston. The law try for the line’s British bottoms. now in force compels all ocean steam vessels carrying passengers “to be steamships in a Baltimore ship yard. Mr. Baker says that these ships provided with a line carrying projectile and means of propelling” such as will be put in foreign service if the ship subsidy bill passes, and if it does may have received the formal approval of board of supervising inspectors. not they will ply in the coastwise trade. DESIGNERS ann BUILDERS OF ALL CLASSES OF STRUCTURES. Amcrican Bridge Co. General Offices, 100 Broadway, NEW YORK, N. Y. We have decided to carry at all our plants a large stock of Raw Material, from which we ean furnish with great promptness any ordinary order for Steel Bridges, Roofs, Buildings, Columns, Girders, PITTSBURG, PA. Beams, Channels, Angies, Plates, ete., ete. ALBANY, N. Y. DULUTH, MINN. ATHENS, PA. EAST BERLIN, CONN. BALTIMORE, MD. ELMIRA, N. Y. ROCHESTER, N. Y. 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