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Telescope 223 by ERIK HEYL The interesting old photograph of the WILLIAM NEWMAN (see cover) moored at Central Wharf on her first arrival at Buffalo is reminiscent of the tense activities prevailing at the water-front ninety years ago. The Central Wharf went up in fire and smoke in the early 1880's, the Canal is filled in, and where tugs and tows came and went in an endless procession there, are now elevated expressways roaring with the exhausts of streams of trucks, busses, and automobiles. The National Archives at Washington have very kindly furnished the following details concerning the WILLIAM NEWMAN: First Enrollment: No. 81j.. Buffalo, N.Y. September 11, 1873 Last Enrollment: No. 7* Eden ton, N.C. October 16, 1879 Tonnage: 138.9]+. Length: 92.0': Breadth: 17.01: Depth: 11,1|*. 2 decks. 0 Masts. Plain Head. Round Stern Official Number: 80lj.99* Built at Watkins, N.Y. Date of Build: 1872. Rig: Steam Canal Boat. Builder: Noah Squires, Watkins, N.Y. First Owner: Frank Snell, Corning, N.Y. Last document surrendered at Edenton,N.C., February 10, 1883, because the vessel was converted into a barge and became exempt from licensing. The following information is copied from the back of a framed photograph given by the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce to the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society: "WILLIAM NEWMAN of Buffalo as she appeared November 5, 1873, on her arrival at Buffalo from Troy after running a distance of 3miles through 72 locks in the extraordinary total time of four days and twenty-two hours, or three days and ten hours running time,with a cargo of 121 tons of moulding sand. The WILLIAM NEWMAN was designed and built by a practical canal men in the winter and spring of 1872; of the best white oak, second growth chestnut and pine, well fastened with iron and preserved with salt.and modeled after the best Erie Canal boats now in use. Is 9o feet long over all, 92 foot keel and 17^ foot beam, weighs light, including machinery and water in the boiler, about 75 tons. Her carrying capacity in six feet of water fore and aft is 220 tons. The machinery consists ef a simple single upright non-condensing engine, with cylinder 12 inches in diameter and 12 inches stroke of piston with a small "Donkey" engine and pump for feeding the boiler and for fire protection. The engine has a variable cutoff and is well arranged to cut off short and work steam expansively. The boiler is horizontal, return tubular, 8 ft. long and Ij. ft. diameter; the boiler and engine occupying no more space than is allotted on the horse boats to a stable, the fire grate