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| | | 28 MARINE REVIEW. [April 18, LIFE SAVING DEVICES. The invention of some means of ensuring the safety of life at sea, in the event of disaster, has engaged attention for many years, and numer- ous, indeed, have been the suggestions offered. There still remain, how- ever, but three really practicable devices for the object in question--the lifeboat, the lifecar, and the English buoy. The lifeboat is the main reliance of a distressed crew at sea; the lifecar and English buoy are employed by the United States life saving service and the efficacy of the former may be judged from the fact that, on its first trial, just fifty years ago last January, at Squan Coast, N. J., it was instrumental in saving 201 lives. This identical car is doubtless familiar to persons who have visited at the national museum. The little gun used on that occasion in carrying the life-line to the distressed vessel and the shot fired to the latter have been sent to the Buffalo exposition. A singular circumstance in this connection is that the wreck lay buried in the sand for over twenty years when, after a peculiarly heavy storm, it was found fully disclosed to view and the shot and portions of the hawser and life-line were obtained. The self-bailing lifeboat is said to have been invented by an English coachmaker about 115 years ago. It is a simple device. Its deck is placed above the water line and is pierced with openings which connect by tubes directly with the surface water beneath. When the boat becomes swamped the tubes drain off the superincumbent liquid, which, of course, immediately seeks its level. In addition, the boat is provided with air- tight compartments, which keep it afloat and protect it from the danger of being crushed by the force of the waves. The lifebvat is efficient in seas where it can be launched. The English buoy is worked upon the same principle as the life-car, being drawn on an overhead hawser through the surf. It may be described as a large bag, the upper portion of the occupant's body being exposed. In establishing a connection be- tween the shore and a vessel in distress, the life-line, a thin but strong rope is first attached to a shot, which is then fired from a mortar. The line, being thus received on board the vessel, is passed through a pulley and its extremity returned to shore in the same manner in which it was received. A cable, or hawser, is then fastened to the life-line and drawi by means of the latter, both ends of which may be worked from the sta- tion on shore, to the ship, where it is securely fastened. The life-car or buoy is then run along the hawser, the land end of which is alternately raised or lowered to allow for the passage of the apparatus to or from the ship. The great importance of an official recognition and endorsement of life-saving devices led to the establishment, by this government, of a board of experts for the examination of inventions designed for use at United States life-saving stations. The necessity for such a board was admirably illustrated in the instance of the Norton lifeboat, to which a tragic history is attached, more appalling than that of the inventor and builder of the first Eddystone light-house, who, confident of the efficacy of his structure, perished therein upon the night of a terrible storm. The U. S. Engineer Office, Duluth, Minn., April 5, 1901. Sealed proposals will be received here until noon, April 20, 1901, and then pub- licly opened, for furnishing and placing rip- rap at Duluth ship canal. Information on application. D. D. Gaillard, Capt., Engrs. April 18. U. S. Engineer Office, 57 Park St., Grand Rapids, Mich., April 10, 1901. Sealed pro- posals for Dredging at Harbors on East Shore of Lake Michigan will be received here until 3 P. M., April 25, 1901, and'*then pub- licly opened. Information furnished on ap- plication. Chester Harding, Capt., Engrs. April 18. U. S. Engineer Office, Customhouse, Cin- cinnati, O., March 22, 1901. Sealed proposals for hire of Towboat having cylinders about 14 inches diameter, with 5 feet stroke, to serve as tender for Ohio River Dredges dur- ing present season, will be received here.un- til 2 p. m., April 26, 1901, and then publicly opened. Information furnished on applica- tion. Wm. H. Bixby, Maj., Engrs. Apr 18. '* Seaboard Steel Castings." MANUFACTURERS OF A GUARANTEE OF QUALITY. "THE ADMIRAL" ANCHOR. OPEN-HEARTH STEEL CASTINGS a OF THE HIGHEST GRADE. THE LATEST AND BEST FACILITIES FOR CASTINGS UP TO STOCKLESS ANCHOR. 80,000 POUNDS WEIGHT. BEEBOYED By LLoyo's. MACHINE WORK AND PATTERNS FURNISHED WHEN REQUIRED. RAIL OR WATER DELIVERIES. CAPACITY, 1500 TONS PER MONTH Seaboard Steel Casting Co., CHESTER, PA. ANCHORS CAST AND TESTED ON ORDER, OR STOCK ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. Norton boat, after a thorough and careful investigation by the board of the life-saving service, was rejected as unworthy. Hereupon Capt. Nor- ton, to demonstrate the efficacy of his invention and the fallibility of the government experts, embarked, with his wife and niece, Miss Annie Richerby, and seven other persons upon his frail-looking craft for a voyage across the Atlantic ocean. They left New York Nov. 24, 1890, and were nevermore heard of. Capt. Norton was president of the Norton Naval & Ship Building Co. of New York. _A great many devices have been invented by persons who, however praiseworthy their motives, would seem lamentably deficient in a practical knowledge of the ocean and its terrors. Many such appliances would answer admirably upon the placid bosom of a river or small lake, and then only for a brief period. Thus there have been patented inflated suits, life rafts, and the like, without number, but their originators seem tc have little idea of the power of a heavy sea or the difficulty of sus- taining life for any length of time in a cold element. There have been saiety sofas, chairs, and the like, upon which a shipwrecked person could recline at ease in the water. One thoughtful genius provided, in a safety suit, for the stowage in a convenient pocket of a bottle of alcoholic stimu- Jants, use of which in such a situation could scarcely be objected to by Mrs. Nation herself. Many of the inventors of such devices reside in inland districts, and, in all probability, never saw the ocean in their lives. A QUESTION OF BOILER COVERING. General publicity was given recently to a circular sent out by the Keasbey & Mattison Co. directing attention to suit brought against the Philip Carey Mnfg. 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