MISCELLANEOUS
The contracts for pumps for the Russian battle ship, the Russian cruiser, and thee American battle ship Maine have all been awarded to the Snow Steam Pump Works—their plans having shown marked advancement in marine engineering as applied to pumps.
The article on “The Navy in the War,” by Captain F. E. Chadwick, of the flagship New York, in the November Scribner’s, is the first complete and authoritative account of the many problems that had to be met in the formation of an adequate fleet, and the conclusions to be drawn from the victory before Santiago as to questions of type, construction, etc., of the navy of the future.
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