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4 MARINE REVIEW. General Plans for a Whaleback Passenger Ship. The accompanying rough illustrations, furnished to the New York Sun by the eastern office of the American Steel Barge Company, will give an idea of the plans partially prepared by Capt. Alexander McDougall for a whaleback passenger boat, after the model of the Charles W. fh Wetmore, which crossed the Atlantic, and other cargo carriers of the same type now in use on the lakes and on the Atlantic coast. The illust- rations, although not intended to present detail, show in gen- eral the style of boat, of which Capt. McDougall has had a painting made for -exhibition at the offices of the company, and which is intended, if built, to be given a trial during the World’s Columbian Exposi- tion in the passenger trade be- tween Chicago and Mackinaw islani, the greatest pleasure resort on the lakes. The main feature of the passenger boat is simply an extension from stern to bow of the system of turrets upon Sols wes a ", hee i fase nes? ai Ws ees : aes (4 i gil : ell ani ol F at a rH | ees —— o2sS STERN VIEW. are now built in the whaleback cargo vessels. By laying a steel platform over all of these turrets, that shall be supported on its outboard edges by a row of steel pillars on either side and then building a two-story house, fore and aft, on this platform the thing is done. The New York owners of the whaleback patents say that they actually propose to build a passenger boat after this style to compete with the Atlantic liners in the essential elements required of a passenger ship—safety, speed and comfort. Naturally some changes would be made in the whaleback cargo ship. For a passenger ship very much larger and heavier engines would be needed,and the stoke- hold and engine room would be placed amidships. ‘Twin screws would be needed—possibly three would : be -used. But on the whole the difference between a cargo whaleback and a passenger whaleback would not be so very great. ‘The hull would lie low in the water. The turrets and pillars would rise up at intervals leaving such wide spaces that even the heaviest sea sweeping along would, according to the claims of the builders, pass over the hull unimpeded. GENERAL VIEW. In connection with the plans for a passenger boat the owners of the whaleback patents lay great stress on the principle in construction that instead of being pushed over by a wave rising on one side and exerting its force in one direction entirely, the wave is divided and rolls over the hull. ‘The yacht Livadia, built for the Emperor Alexander of Russia, is referred to as proof of the soundness of this principle, although she lies sunk in the harbor of Sebastopol, on account of structural weakness. In a storm in the Bay of Biscay she is said to have heeled to an angle _of less than five degrees. The Livadia was 80 feet broad and 240 feet long and a solid: trunk rising from the curved sides instead of the turrets used on the whalebacks. which the officers’ quarters © Indicator Cards—Series 2. (Steamer E. C. Pope, Aug. 31.) SPRING 80” DIAMETER - 22 1N MEP 48 Srroke - 441 Revs /0/ Sream -/65 Les LHP 409,3° DIAMETER — 35'1N STEP SPRING 20" MEP 158 LIHP 867.69 ToTAL 1965.52 DiaNETER — 56” VacwuUuM 221N Need of a Pilot or Clerk. EDITOR MARINE REVIEW:—I noticed an article in the REVIEW re garding what might come under the head of “overtime between rests,” for the masters'on some of the big steamers in the ore trade. This is es- pecially true of boats going light on the up run and loading and unload- ing so rapidly, often working nights at both ends of the route. Between thick weather in passing through the rivers and their hustling around in port at the lower end of the route attending to the business of the boat in getting ready for departure, the masters of this class of hoats scarcely find time to accomplish all these duties with justice to themselves or their owners. I am of the opinion that a pilot or perhaps a clerk would bea profitable addition to the crews of steamers so engaged. PRACTICAL OBSERVER. Rochester Will Organize Naval Forces. EDITOR MARINE REVIEW:—As regards the question of treaty relations with Great Britain interfering with the formation of a naval reserve om the great lakes I am still in the dark. I have written Secretary Tracy on the subject but can hear nothing from him. In refutation of the opin- ion that the treaty of 1817 is a bar to the formation of a naval militia, how- ever, I will state that there will be two batteries mustered in on Tuesday evening at Rochester, N.Y. Poor little Rochester, so much maligned by great Buffalo, usually comes out on top every clip. Rochester gets two full batteries in four weeks, and I got seventen men in as many months in Buffalo. I am inclined to think as far as the naval reserves are con- cerned the treaty of 1817 is of no importance. W. J. PATRICK. Buffalo, N. Y , Sept. 27. | Official Numbers and Tonnage. The bureau of navigation, W. W. Bates commissioner, assigned offi- cial numbers to the | following lake vessels during the week ending Sept. 19: Steam—Wawa, Milwaukee, 16.81 tons Abad 10.41 net, No. 81, 347; Ciscoe, Cleveland, 13.70 tons gross, 6.88 net, No. 126,787. Sail—Cham- pion, Milwaukee, 14.41 tons gross, 13.69 net, No. 126 ng: Scorpion, Chi- cago, 10.38 tons gross, 9.86 net, No. 116,447, oS |