Show She Will be 0 Fleet Boat WASHINGTON March Encouraging courgng reports are had from the committee to the navy department respecting tho torpedo boat now building at tho Herreshoff Works in Rhode Island Inspectors say the material used is of high quality and the work of good character Contractors expect to complete the boat by June 1 which is the date fixed in the contract The boat is required to make twentytwo knots an hour and any deficiency of this score will subject contractors con-tractors to penalties while for any excess above twentythree knots ih C will receive a bonus I the new craft which is the first of its kind in American ship building fills tho requirements re-quirements of which there is little doubt it will be the fleeted boat in the United States and fully equal to any possessed by European navies |