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MARINE REVIEW Entered at Cleveland Post Office as Second-class Mail Matter. Published every Thursday at 418-19 Perry- Payne Bldg, by the Marine Review Pub; Gol VoL. XXIII. CLEVELAND, .O., FEB. 14,1901. Foreign 64.50 a year, No. 7 VALUABLE SERIES OF SPECIAL ARTICLES. With this issue the Review begins the publication of a series of special ‘articles that should prove very interesting to naval architects, draftsmen and foremen in ship yards. The articles will probably number twenty- five in all, appearing in alternate issues and running for about a year. They are being prepared by Geo. H. Wilson, chief draftsman in the office ‘of the superintending naval constructor at the Harlan & Hollingsworth ‘Co.’s Works, Wilmington, Del. Some idea of the intention of the work, which will probably be finally issued in book form, may be gained from the following summary: The work will be devoted to torpedo boats and destroyers, and will also apply to yachts and like craft. Two or three styles of the most advanced ideas in construction and details will furnish matter for comparison and suggestion. The regard for the cost of the work in question will be a main feature. The best and most practical methods for getting out the work will be dwelt upon. Some new features in structural work and in details will appear. The various machines and their usefulness in a new class of ship work will receive considerable attention. The arrangements and general designs of different boats will be compared, In dealing with the fittings, the desirability of the latest will be shown, and reasons given for a discontinuance of the one to the ad- vancement of the other. Hull construction will also deal with the elimination of some of the past methods. ; ; A synopsis of the structural items, and one of the fittings may assist in formulating a better idea of'the field to be covered. These headings will, as noted below, be subdivided into their several parts, thus insuring an insight into the principal features of a boat. : Structural headings—Stem, keel, longitudinals, transverse framing, decks, flats and platforms, shell, bulkheads, girders, stanchions, bridge and platforms. ate i Fittings—Rudder bearer and stuffing box, ventilation, steering gear, pumping and drainage, guard and awning rails and stanchions, hatches and skylights, doors and manholes, coaling scuttles, deck lights, air ports, ammunition rooms and store rooms, mast and rigging, boat davits and stowage, deck coverings and linoleum, etc., ladders and hatch cranes, quarters and living spaces, galley and miscellaneous fittings. NAMES OF NEW LAKE VESSELS. Names have been assigned to about half the list of sixty-one vessels building in ship yards of the great lakes. The two steel freighters build- ing at Chicago for C. W. Elphicke and others are to be named W. L. Brown and Mary C. Elphicke. Mr. Brown is president of the American Ship Building ‘Co. and one of the thirty or forty big men of industrial affairs in America. The four steamers building at Chicago for Charles Counselman and others, and which are to engage in through trafhe between Chicago and Liverpool, will bear the names Northwestern, Northman, North Eastern and North Town, Four steel freighters of about 4,000 tons capacity, each building at West Bay City and West Superior for. D. R. t two tow barges), will be named G. A. Flagg, R. T. Warner, S. D. War- tiner and A. W. Thompson. Two steamers for John Mitchell and others, which are nearing completion at the Globe works of the American com- “pany in Cleveland, have been named J. J. Albright and Walter Scranton. At this same yard on Saturday last a 5,000-ton steamer for interests represented in the office of Hutchinson & Co., was launched and named J. T. Hutchinson in honor of a successful vessel owner of Cleveland who has been connected with the shipping for probably more than a quarter ol a century, but in such a quiet business way that. his cheerful personality is known only to those closely associated with him. The memory of the late David Marshall Whitney. of Detroit is to be commemorated in the large steel freight steamer building at Detroit for the Whitney estate, and as already announced, names of the planets—-Neptune, Saturn, Venus, ‘Jupiter, Mars, Uranus—are to be given to six of the eight steel steamers “building for J. C. Gilchrist of Cleveland. Names for the other two steamers building for Mr. Gilchrist have not been selected as. yet. A freight steamer of Canadian canal dimensions, building at the Craig works, Toledo, for. Messrs. Hawgood of Cleveland, and which is intended for Atlantic seaboard trade, will be named Meteor. A wooden freight -steamer recently completed at Green Bay, Wis., for P. F. Thrawl and others, was named Orion. It is not probable that anything will be done in:lake freight con- tracts for the transportation of iron ore for weeks to come, Important negotiations in New York between leaders in the iron and steel industry will tend to delay preparations for another season of navigation, rather than hurry them... It is the general belief that a successful termination of these negotiations would tend towards improvement along the whole line of interests associated with these big industrial organizations. With- in the past. week or ten days some improvement has been noted in pig iron and in some of the steel products, so that the lake ship owner has lost nothing thus far by delay in matters pertaining to another year’s business. But it is unfortunate, just the same, that he is confronted with an enor- i ll force low margins of -mous increase in new vessel capacity that wi ; rofit in the carrying trade, no matter what the volume of business may e Hanna and others of Cleveland, (two freighters and © DEATH OF REAR ADMIRAL PETER A. REARICK. Rear Admiral Peter A. Rearick of the United States navy was found dead in bed at his home in Washington one day last week. There had been no intimation that the end was so near. He retired in excellent spirits and had been in good health for a long time. He was sixty-three years of age. _ Admiral Rearick was born in Maryland. He entered the naval ser- vice in 1860, being appointed from the District of Columbia. He was made third assistant engineer, and assigned to duty on the Crusader of the North Atlantic squadron. He served on the Housatonic in the Guli squadron in 1862, and in 1863 served on the South Atlantic station. In that year he was promoted to the grade of second assistant engineer. The following year, while serving on the Britannia, on the north Atlantic station, he was promoted to first assistant engineer. He saw duty on the ironclad Dictator near the close of the war, and in 1866 was assigned to special duty at Washington. From 1867 to 1869 he was on the Powhatan, flagship of the Pacific squadron. He served on the Saco of the European fleet from 1870 to 1872, returning in the following year to Washington, for duty at the navy yard. In the latter part of 1873 he was assigned to the Colorado, on the North Atlantic station, and served on that vessel one year. The same year he was made chief engineer. From 1875 to 1876 he served on the North Atlantic station, on the Ossipee.. He was on the Essex in 1877, and the next year was assigned to the South Atlantic station, serving here until 1881. The latter year he was placed on duty with the receiving ship Franklin. Thé next year he was ordered to the Asiatic station and as- signed to the Juniata. In 1886 he returned to the United States and was placed in charge of the stores at the Norfolk navy yard, on which duty he remained until 1889. He was assigned to the Pacific station in the latter year, and served in vatious capacities at different stations until his retire- ment, Feb. 17, 1900, with the rank of rear admiral. CONFERENCE WITH CANADIAN OFFICIALS. Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 13.—Capt. Geo. P. MicKay of the Lake Carriers’ Association has been here for two or three days in consultation with officials of the marine department. He is supporting the efforts of Can- adian vessel owners to secure aids to navigation that are very much needed on the lakes and is working in harmony with T. Donnelly, chief inspector for the Canadian Lake Underwriters’ Association, Mr. John Gaskin of the Canadian -Vessel: Owners’ Association, and Mr. W. J. White, solicitor of Toronto, who is thoroughly acquainted with the needs of shipping in Canada. These gentlemen have been very cordially received by officers of the government. It has been decided to establish, just as speedily as possible, a first- class life: saving station on Point au Pelee, Lake Erie, with up-to-date -appliances..and a paid crew. The efficient lighting of South-east shoal and Pelee middle ground, Lake Erie, is of course one of the objects of Capt. McKay’s..visit. The attention of the department has also been directed to the fact that the existing light on Middle island, Lake Erie, has been obscured and its usefulness destroyed by trees that have grown up between the channel and the light. Ys ; On the subject of difference between rules of the road for vessels of the United States and those of (Canada navigating the lakes, a lengthy document was submitted to the department. It was explained that the conflict in signals, etc., is very liable to cause confusion and accidents. Modifications suggested in the Canadian rules so as to have them con- form with the White law, under which vessels of the United States are operated, are fully set forth in the document. The department of public works is asked to establish some means of communication—telephone or telegraph—between Long point light- house and Port Rowan, Lake Erie. Vessels in shelter at Long point can not now communicate with the mainland, and it often happens, too, that vessels in distress in this vicinity could more readily secure assistance if they had means of ready communication. DULUTH GRAIN SITUATION. The Duluth correspondent of one of the Cleveland vessel owners says: “The Canada-Atlantic Transit Co. is said to have contracted to move half a million bushels of wheat at the opening of navigation from Duluth to Montreal at 5% cents. One small Canadian steamer has been chartered at 2 cents for wheat, Duluth to Georgian bay, opening shipment, These are the only engagements, there being as yet no sincere inquiry for Buf- falo tonnage. There is plenty of ice outside the harbor, but the steamer Bon Ami passed through the field Saturday. The weather is seasonable. Following is a comparative exhibit of the grain in store: 1900. 1901. Witeat avait aoe etnias ween ee eae 8,089,482 7,216,001 IBanley: saci | eee ie oe eee 157,184 74,617 1B Fy cree iy eae eR i Ge ec 315,408 365,334 Oats eae Sa ey ee ae ere 182,372 957,003 RVG es Cie forge le ap ee ee 380,764 294,219 CORN 2 re ee eee ee ees 567,069 2,693,345 Ota eee ee ee a eee 9,692,299 11,600,519 It was formally announced Wednesday that the navy department had - decided to award to the Bath Iron Works and to the Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co. the contract for building each a pro- tected cruiser, providing they will do so upon the same terms and con- ditions as were included in the award already made to Neafie & Levy of Philadelphia for a similar ship,