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VOL XIX. NO. 13. CLEVELAND, OHIO, MARCH 26, 1896, $2 PER YEAR. 10c. SINGLE COPY THE NEW STEAM YACH® KANAWHA. - The works of Charles L. Seabury & Co,paartod Y., are building a large steam ya¢ to be batted the Kanawha, for John P. Duncan, of New York, and a mem- ber of the New York Yacht Club. The Kanawha is of composite construction, 140 feet over all, 114 feet on 1. w. 1., 17 feet beam, 9 feet 8 inches deep and 7 feet daught. The frames, keelsons, breast-hooks, deck beams, diagonal straps and fore-and-aft plates are of steel, as are the four watertight bulkheads, while the steel coal bunkers are stiffened and braced with angle iron. The Kanawha will be flush decked and schooner rigged. She will have a deck house of mahogany, handsomely paneled. This house will be used asa dining hall, and the after portion arranged as a buffet. Aft of the deckhouse and connecting with it will be a large pantry, fitted with sink, shelves and all conveniences, and this will also be finished in mahogany. The top of the deckhouse will be covered with canvas and a grat- ing will be fitted on top to extend back to the settees at the after end. There will be a double brass rail fitted ~ around the top of the house and the bridge. All the windows will be of plate glass. Chain lockers are fitted in the fore hold. Aft of these will be the crew’s toilet, and then the crew’s berths and lockers. A stateroom for Capt. William A. Miller, who will command the lighted throughout by electric lights, and there will be a powerful searchlight in its proper place. Steam heaters will be furnished for the saloon, staterooms, etc., and in the matter of upholstery everything in the saloon and rooms will be handsome and complete. The decks of the yacht will be of clear white pine and the bulwarks of teak. Three boats and a launch will be carried on the davits. The machinery will consist of a triple-expansion en- gine and water-tube boiler, designed by the builders. The speed guaranteed is 16 miles per hour for three consectitive hours, over a measured course, but all in- terested in her construction have good reasons for be- lieving that she will be considerably faster than this. The Kanawha will be delivered to Mr. Duncan on or before June 1. Hersteel frames and steel deck beams are in place, the planking is put on and the machinery and boiler are well under way. <a ¢ Aap « WILL RECOMMEND A SLIGHT CHANGE. To the Editor of The Marine Record: In connection with your editorial printed in last week’s issue I thank you for the suggestion therein contained, and will gladly suggest to the sub-committee in charge of Senate bill No. 2,162 an amendment which will cover NEED MORE OF THE SAME MIND. . At a speech recently delivered at a Cincinnati ban- quet, Senator-elect Foraker expressed his views as follows: “T want to see our merchant marine restored. There was a time when our merchant tharine was the pride of every American. It is to-day but a mortification to us all. We once carried 90 per cent of our foreign trade in American bottoms under the American flag. We now carry less than 13 per cent. We are paying out annu- ally more than $150,000,000 in ‘gold to foreign ships for transportation of freights and passengers. The time has come to remedy that. The way to remedy it is not with subsidies and bounties, but by going back to the first thing practiced by George Washington and the founders of this republic when they applied the prin- ciples of protection to the water | as well as to the land. (Applause.) “I want to see the Congress of the United States pro- vide that the 50 per cent or more of imports that come into our country, free of duty, shall come in free, pro- vided that they come in American bottoms and under the American flag. (Applause.) I want to see it pro- vided that the dutiable goods brought in American ships shall be allowed a rebate on that account. ‘‘And when we make these new reciprocity treaties, AV =| [amen ek THE NEW STEAM YACHT KANAWHA.—Building by Charles L. Seabury & Co., Nyack-on-the-Hudson, for John P. Duncan, New York. iF Kanawha, follows aft, and also a room for the chief en- gineer. Further aft the galley will be found, and this will extend the full width of the vessel. Mr. Duncan’s quarters are to be arranged aft, as shown in the plan accompanying this description, which is reproduced from plates made by the NewYork Herald. They will consist of two staterooms, 8 feet 6 inches long, and the full width of the yacht. These rooms will be finished in maple, with bird’s-eye maple panels. Sliding doors will be between the rooms, and on either side of the doorsa full length mirror will be placed. A sliding door will connect the starboard room with the toilet room directly aft. A single berth stateroom, a bath room and two clothes closets are aft of the toilet room: On the oppo- site side of the yacht will be two guests’ staterooms, separated from the rooms on the starboard side by a passage way of 30 inches. Directly aft of the state- rooms will be the main saloon, which will be finished in ivory and gold. The staterooms, saloon, etc.. will be lighted and ventilated by skylights and port lights. In the saloon will be racks for bric-a-brac and spaces for small piano and desk. The entrance is from the main deck by a wide companionway. The yacht will be ‘will read, ‘carrying fifty or more passengers.” the difficulty to which you refer, so that line 2, page 35 This will avoid conflict with a court decision which might occur if the words ‘‘for revenue’’ were used. This de- cision was handed down by Mr. Justice Grier, in the case of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co. ws. Derby (14 Howard, 486) in which he said, ‘‘When car- riers undertake to convey persons by the powerful, but dangerous enemy steam, public policy and safety re- quire that they be held to the greatest care and dili- gence. And whether the consideration for such trans- portation be pecuniary or otherwise (the defendant in error was a stockholder) the personal safety of the pas- sengers should not be left to the sport of chance or neg- ligence of careless agents.” In constructing Senate bill 2162, the only object in view has been to bring the steamboat laws up to date and modern practice, as I do not think such laws should contain untried theories, Respectfully, JAMES A. DUMONT, Supervising Inspector General. U. S. Steamboat Inspection Service. Washington, March 23, 1896. which we hope to make soon in the future, I want to see incorporated in every one of them a provision that the goods mentioned in the reciprocity treaty shall have the benefits of that, provided they are carried in the ‘sHips of the reciprocity country. (Great applause. ) When that shall be done, as done it can and should be, there will be no longer an elbowing by Great Britain of the American marine off soi waters of the globe. (Ap- plause.) s ‘‘Shipbuilding will revive, and once again the flag of the United States will be seen floating in all the chan- nels of trade and commerce. (Cheers.): And then after that will follow easily and naturally what ‘we should have had ere this, an American navy able to protéct us, let come what may. (Applause.) When’ Mr. ‘Cléveland sent to Congress his Venezuelan message it iad more good results than one. “One of its good resilts*was to impress the American people with our defenceléss situa- tion. We should: realize that the great wars of the future, if there be any at ‘all with’ which’ we are'to be concerned, are far more ‘likély to be of the water than on the land. We should order accordingly.” Itvis a patriotic duty to do it. i