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January 16, tgo2. DORR SYSTEM OF SAFETY DOORS IN THE BULKHEADS OF VESSELS. At the invitation of Mr. Gustav H. Schwab a number of prominent nautical, naval and newspaper men met at lunch last Friday, on the North German Lloyd steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm, in order to witness the working of the closing and opening of the Dorr Safety Doors. con- Structéd in the bulkheads of the vessel. Every expert preserit voted the system a perfect success, far superior to any other device in existence. For a number of years the North German Lloyd had made experiments with the construction and arrangements and plans to prevent the sinking of vessels in collision. After having, thorough a number of these experiments introduced with great cost, perfected the present system, the North German Lloyd have decided to equip their entire fleet of vessels with this safety arrangement, by which the doors can either be closed or opened from the bridge, or from some other central part of the vessel, from the engine room or at the door itself. The safety of vessels depend to a very large extent on an absolutely reliable system of bulkhead doors, as it is impessible to construct a steamer without providing for connecting doors through bulkheads in a number of compartments. The watch officer on the bridge under the Dorr system is at any time able to close all open compartment doors in case. of an approaching collision, and can re-open these compartment doors as easily.’ In order to close the compartment doors under this system it is necessary to move a lever, in doing which electric bells are. sounded at every door, ringing for about 20 seconds. ‘There- upon the doors close slowly, this method having been de- vised to avoid accidents. The closing and opening of the doors is effected by hydraulic pressure. thus avoiding the: possibility; of injury through the breaking of steam pipes or through the interruption of any electricity—New York “Maritime Register. cP 'S Y AN article on wireless telegraphy printed in Casssier’s Magazine for. January, with an illustration of an ancient Gaul.chouting a. message from a hilltop to a brother-in- arms some. distance away, who, similarly, transmitted the THE MARINE RECORD. message to yet another farther removed station, and so on and on, across a wide stretch of country in.a short space of time, recalls the fact that this form of conimunication— a species of wireless telegraphy we may be pleased to term it—is in use to-day by the’ peasantry in one of the southern mountain sections of the United States to warn the pro- prietors of illicit stills when the revenue officers are on the’ war path. When théy come in sight of a cabin, the tenant emerges with a tin horn and souitids a blast’ which is taken up at the next cabin, and so on along the trail ‘to the heart of the mountains. ‘There is nothing to seize when the raiders arrive at the suspected place, and when they re- tire business is ressmed. —_— PP See AN INTERESTING SIGHT. A United States transport steamer manned mostly by a crew of native Filipinos could hardly fail to excite a lively general interest at the present moment in any American port. That sight is now to be seen at the Arlington dock, in Seattle, where the transport steamer Dix is lying at the end of her voyage from Manila. Her crew is interesting in the first place as affording the vast majority of our citizens their’ first opportunity to see, specimens of the people that have occupied such a prominent place ih the world’s discussions during’ the past three years, and whose As being and fate is now in the keeping of the United tates. It is interesting in a deeper and more far-reaching way as an eloquent, impressive object lesson in the manner our country pronoses to educate, develop and upbuild, this in- teresting branch of the human family and fit them for ultimate local self-government, enjoying the fullest inde- pendence and freedom under the protection of the Stars and Stripes as their general sponsor and protector. ° It is interesting also as an octilar demonstration of the tapidly increasing intimacy and business relations between the Orient and these United States, and superlative im- nortance of Seattle in the development of the new channels and highways of the world’s most important commerce. It is significant and prophetic that the first Filipino crew to. serve a steamship in crossing the Pacific makes Seattle as the end of the first American port and the end of the voyage.—Railway News, Seattle. MARINE PATENTS ISSUED. 590,402. Cradle for marine railways. James L, Cran- dall, Boston, Mass., assignor to H. I. Crandall & Son Co., Boston,:Mass., corporation of Maine. 690,685. Life-boat. Aleph Anrep. Moscow, Russia. 690,821. Marine Propulsion. John J. Astor, New York Ni oy. ; fe. 690,909. J.ife-boat. Robert D. Mayo, Frankfort, Mich? Design..35,559. Life-preserver body. Machig A. Ayvad, ‘Hoboken, N. J. Term of patent 14 years. A i 691,080. New Facing Qar. Orlando B. Shedd, St. Johnsville, N. Y. ee aut 691,123. Pumping and Dredging Apparatus. Geo. A. Farwell, Manchester, N. H. ase it LSAT 691,153. Life-saving Apparatus. Inwood, N. Y. : 5 ae 691,160. Torpedo Boat. Thomas J. Moriatty, New- - poe R. I, assignor of one-half to John T. Reagan, Same © flace, Pete sae 691,258. Screw Propelled Boat. timore, Md. 691,300. Reversing Apparatus for: Propeller Shafts. John Titus, ‘townsend W. Hurt and Daniel D- Smith, Oyster Bay, N. Y., assignors to the Oyster Bay Engine Co aha eles ii Frederick C. -Homer, Ieilius W. Maccolini, Herman I. 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