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224 Telescope is inches lone by 1+0 inches wide; area 10.83 sq. ft. has 34 return tubes , 4 in. die.. 6 ft. 5 in. long. The crown sheet is filled with Moses Steam Generating Spheres which increases the heating surface to about 220 sq. ft. The boiler is covered with Carver*s ground ash coating and sheet iron. The screw is 1+ bladed, £ ft. in diameter and 6^ ft. pitch; average speed in 6| ft.of water is 3 miles per hour; in 7 ft. 1+ miles p.b. and in deeper wide water 6 miles per hr. Cost of hull and machinery all complete $7>000, coal consumption lbs. per hour or 31+ l*>s. Per mile. This style of machinery can be readily adapted to the present canal boats on the Erie Canal at a trifling expense. Average revolutions of the NEWMAN'S wheel is 8£; average steam pressure is 80 lbs. cutting off at 1/1 of the stroke of piston receives the great benefit of expansion." The WILLIAM NEWMAN came to Buffalo via the following route: from Watkins at the south end of Seneca Lake to Geneva at its north end. Then via the Seneca River and Canal, passing Waterloo and Seneca Falls to Montesuma, where the Erie Canal was entered and on to Buffalo. Presumably from then on the WILLIAM NEWMAN traveled back and forth on the Erie Canal, perhaps even going down to New York. All this is mostly conjecture as there is an absolute minimum of news about the canal craft in the daily newspapers of that period. Perhaps this is due to the fact that the individual canal boats were of small importance; perhaps lack of space in the papers prevented listing their arrivals and departures, as there were so many them. From the enrollments, it is evident that the WILLIAM NEWMAN was transferred to Edenton, N.C., some time in the fail of 1879. And right here her history comes to a stop. What she did 8own sou , where she went cannot be ascertained. AU inquiries a^ou^ ^er complete blanks. No notices or records of her could be New Hanover Historical Commission, Wilmington, N.C.; North Carolina Department of Archives & History, Raleigh, N.C.; Library of n-versity of North Carolina,Chapel Hill,N.C.; Edenton Public Li^arv, Edenton, N.C.; Wm. Bragaw & Co., Insurance Agents since lbOO, Washington, N.C.; and other private sources. She may have run out of Edenton on the Chowan River or may have run between her home port and various landing places on Albermarle Sound. She may also have run on the Dismal Swamp Canal north to Smithfield and Norfolk. As of the present time^ it's simply a case of "You pays your money and you take your pick! Perhaps some member of the G. L. M. I. who is interested in canal boats might like to pursue the search. PLEASE TAKE NOTE... Your annual statement is enclosed with this issue. It helps our volunteer staff greatly if you are prompt in forwarding your dues.