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ye P an MARINE REVIEW. The World's Record for Speed. There was no sleight of hand performance in the speed record made by the Ellide. Her designer said last winter that she would develop sur- prising speed because she would have the steam to give her the neces- sary number of revolutions. During the trial the Mosher boilers had 250 pounds of steam and her propeller made 650 revolutions. The Ellide, a steam launch owned by H. Burgess Warren, of Philadelphia, and designed by Charles D. Mosher, now lays claiin to the world's record by covering a measured mile on the Hudson, under forced draught, in 1 minute and 388 seconds. This is at the rate of over 364 miles an hour, and eclipses the speed record of the Turbinia, recently made in Europe. The trial was made down stream in about slack water, with a light breeze blowing from northwest by north. This run was a preliminary one, and the boat carried 22 passengers. The contract called for a maximum speed of 30 miles an hour, but if, on her official trial trip, which is scheduled for about a week hence, she is as fast as she has proved already, the Philadelphia yachtsman will pay quite a snug bonus on the contract price, it being in the agree- ment that he was to pay $1,000 per mile for every mile in excess of thirty which the Ellide could make in an hour. The Ellide is 80 feer, long, 8 feet 4 inches beam, and has a draught of 3 feet 6 inches. The = DRAIWAGE HOLE i! y Ly 5 NCHED 1M _BAR, Steel Ceiling. Wood is being displaced everywhere possible in the construction of steel vessels on the lakes, and it will be only a question of time until steel hatch covers are used, leaving only wooden timber heads and windlass beds. D. E. Ford believes that fluted or curved iron can be used for ceilings, having mineral wool fitted in to keep out the heat. In a number of cases wood has been torn out of vessels constructed several years ago and steel replaced. This is particularly true of the Minnesota fleet, Mr. H. G. Dalton advocating the use of steel wherever possible. Improvements in channel floors and frames, thicker tank tops without ceiling, and bilge ceiling of steel in place of wood, steel wreck- ing wells, etc., are all advances in steel ship construction made in the last few years, on the lakes. The illustration on this page shows a steel ceiling fitted in the barge Constitution, built by the American Steel Barge Co., W. Supe- rior. It was designed by R. Logan at the suggestion of Capt. Mallory, but the barge company made a slight change in the design. There is just enough of the ceiling to cover the top-side frame brackets and keep the water-course at the tank side free from grain and ore. 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She is fitted with a patent quadruple expansion engine having cylinders 9 inches, 13 inches, 18 inches, and 24 inches by a 10-inch stroke. Aside from the main pro- pelling engines there is an inboard surface condenser, also six special designed engines for running the feed pumps, air pumps, circulating pump, ete. The boiler is of the water tube type, its casing being of polished brass. It consists of two steam drums placed over two water drums and connected together by a great number of solid drawn steel tubes, so arranged that the gases pass twice the length of the boiler among the tubes before entering the stack, thus practically absorbing all the heat from the gases of combustion. The boiler is subdivided into two independent sections, so in case a tube'should give out in either section the boat can still be run by the remaining section, or half boiler power. There is also provided two powerful ejectors for pumping out the bilge. One fare excursions via the Nickel Plate road July 8rd, 4th and Sth. Ask agents. 138--4 STEEL WRECKING WELL. The illustration at the right of the steel ceiling shows a steel wrecking well built in the barge Constitution in place of wood. Wrecking wells are fitted in all the modern lake vessels. If a vessel is wrecked with a cargo, the cargo has to be cleared to the one side or enough taken out of the hold to enable the pump to work effectively where no wells are fittted. The top of the well is covered with wood, so that it is easily removed with a hatchet and in a short time gotten ready for pumping. "T was being shown over the royal yacht at Portsmouth by an Admiral, and he explained the various points of interest. At last we came to the Queen's cabin. 'Here,' said he, 'is where the Queen found a middy trying on her bonnet at the looking-glass, and she gave bim a box on the ears, which resounded right away to the quarter deck.' 'Well,' I said, 'that was better than ruining his career for a boyish prank.' 'Oh!' he replied, 'he didn't get off with a smack, He was sent home next day, and his people were given a hint to take his name off the books at once. It was a pity, for he was a jolly little fellow and didn't mean any harm."--Figaro. s 4th of July excursions, July 3rd, 4th and 5th, at one fare via the Nickel Plate road. 139--4