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SOME PROFESSIONAL COMMENT ... about that great LAKE ERIE RACE One of the most unusual trials of speed ever run on the Great Lakes was between the City of Erie and the Tashmoo, on June 4, 1901. The race has been re-run in conversations around the waterfront, docks and bars ever since, and nobody will ever be Slate siemeds witthwoitihewea heme nt Sy plOwoh .con, present edi by thie oLhen side. Prank hk. Kinby was; the designer of both wessels, and on the occasion of the ninth general meeting of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers he presented a paper which was read for him to the assembly. Following the reading, the meeting was thrown open to discussion among the learned men of the profession. Mr. William Keller, Institute Member and student of naval architecture at the University of Michigan has made this copy of the paper, and the discussion, available to TELEScoPE. It is reprinted here in near-entirty, having only been edited to the extent of eliminating technical graphs and data beyond the comprehension of the non-technical reader. 94.31 miles. The nearest land to the course was at Fairport, 2% miles distant. The average depth of water along the course was 61.31 feet; minimum depth. 35 feet; maximum depth 77 feet. Weather fine; seas smooth. The Kirby Paper... On gune 4.) 1901) var trialote speed took place on Lake Erie between the paddle steamers City of Erie and Tashmoo. The course was straight along the south shore of the lake, starting from a line off the water- works crib, six miles outside the breakwater at Cleveland, Ohio, to a The City of Erie is a passenger and deck-freight steamer, owned and line ten miles off Presq'ile Light- house, at Erie, Pa. The distance measured on the United States Coast Survey chart, is 94 statute miles. Computed from the latitude and long- itude of the lighthouses at Cleveland and Erie, and corrected for location of starting line, the distance is operated by the Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Company; in daily service with the City of Buffalo, between the ports of Cleveland and Buffalo. Distance between the harbor entrances 173 miles; running time, ten hours. Best service run, eight hours, thir- ty-two minutes.