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MARINE REVIEW. - ) to h e ? ) ( T 5 e ave twomen on watch. ' Now captain, this has gone far enough," said I. rf aes moe I can show why youshould have more help." you are ne lionct tous as ae a ste a ae Gi cu reotenle A occees J ' a steamer about a mile away, probably a ose to her, and you pull three whistles and check down. You don't want to meet her at this particular place and, as she still comes on towards you in a dangerous manner and you want to be on the safe side, you _ stop and back. Yet all you have done seems to be of no account for now it looks like a collision and in a minute you are either sunk or high and dry on the bank. You did all any man could do. Your testimony is taken"and the accident is said to have been unavoidable; you checked, stopped and backed and could dono more. But did you? As you say, I sit here tor halt an hour at a time, then I go below in the crank room to see how everything is working. I will do so now and when I get over to the air pump, you will, with this whistle- pull in your hand, imagining yourself on the pilot house, pull the check- _ whistle and notice how long it takes me to get back up here to the throttle and check her down."' This seemed to interest him, so down I went to the air pump and three whistles were pulled by him as a signal to check. _I started down two steps off the air pump to the platform, back aft by the condenser, bilge pump and univer- sal coupling, to the driving bearing, up one step more and then across the plat- form over the shaft and down two more steps, then along a wet slippery floor by the low pressure engine and reverse gear to the first stairway, es 'Ch --_ my eat dient a il, iH bg bed, fel CALL y aa £3 | HE NEW YORK ENGIN up to the middle platform, turning half way round, and then up and whispered : so hang around the throttle as much as you can and tell your as- r- THE REAL LAKE TRIPLE EXPANSION EFNGINE--1I,354 INDICATED HORSE POWER. RER'S LAKE TRIPLE EXPANSION ENGINE--13,460 INDICATED HORSE POWER. "The rivers are pretty crowded tonight, so another flight of stairs to the engine room floor. I was then ten feet away from the throttle and the captain was disappear- ing through the engine room door. He had checked, stopped, backed and pulled a half dozen more whistles and disappeared without a wordto me. Nothing was said about the matter by either of us until on the return trip at the table he leaned over sistant to do the same, for when I pull a check or stop whistle I don't want the boat to go a mile before you get to the throttle." All right, sir," said I, "and how about more help in the engine room?" '"I-must hurry up forward," said he. S. H. Hunter, Marine Engineer.