Show FIFTY MILES AN HOUR Claims Made For a New Craft by Its i Builder I New York June 26A craft which her designer confidently believes will skim the sen at a speed of 50 miles a hour has Just been launched in this city The boat is the invention of Cap I tnn ai J H Flindt who began the actual work of construction last Christmas Christ-mas I Great secrecy was observed in build ing the boat There is not an angle in her exterior lines The steerage of the boat which looks like a figurehead deck and keel bends frraduallyto the middle of the boat then tapers to the overhang I ing stern A pilot house rises like a dorsal fin from the deck while a row I of dead lights hinting at fishes scales circles the hull Looking at the boat bow on the suggestion of a fish Is as pronounced as from a side view for there seems to be no beam A foot rail running around the deck and protected by an Iron hand rail is I the only point of structure in keeping with the Idea of a submarine creature Captain Flindt bases his great ship for phenomenal phe-nomenal speed In the propeller which he holds is the greatest novelty about the boat There have been other fish shaped boats he admits but no propeller pro-peller like this She will have her engines en-gines In three weeks then in a week will come her trial trip Captain Flindt a sailor for the past 28 years has been working on the idea for 24 years He made 50 models of propellers before he perfected the device de-vice with which this boat is fitted I consists of two steel plates each with two flanges and is expected to make 800 revolutions a minute under a 50 horse power engine engne The craft is built of oak and steel and Is 6 feet long 61 feet beam and 12 i feet from the lowest point of keel to the highest point of deck This boat I will draw six feet of water She will have two state rooms each 1 feet long and running the width of the ship a saloon 43 feet long a machine room and a kitchen that can accommodate 30 men |