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Show A British Tar ReelliiK Sulla, No illustration of tho cosmopolitan character of Salt Like city i needed. There is perlu'us no city in America of ill size wuero arc contircgau-d a greater variety of people of various nationalities, arts and piofessums ; men who have occupied honorable aud responsible positions in other countries, and whoo names have boon famous for some remarkable exploit or uselul invention. Anions her solid citizons and useful men may bo mentioned Captain John Hart, lor many years a Uritish sea captain, whose solid proportions stump bun at first siflit as ono of that sturdy race to whose enoriry and powers of endurance England largely owes hor maritime and commercial superi-vi... superi-vi... it ; ,-.t nf Cant. Hart's sailorly qualities that we propose to ! speak, though his experience as a i s-acapUiuled to his success as an i inventor. Years ago ho designed and put into practical working operation i a contrivauce for reefing fore and aft i sails upon vessels. He obtained a patont for the invention both in England Eng-land and tho United States, aud under his superintendence it wa. applied to some 2.50 English vessels. He .migrated .migra-ted to Ut-th some years since, dividing his interest in the invention with 'his partner, who took the English patent, a-hile Captiiin Hart started for America with the Yankee papers, which he still holds. Meeting with pecuniary losses, however, on arrival ar-rival here he founl himself without means to push the invention in this country, and buckled down to hard work to recruit his fortunes. Toe old British tar, who has commanded hii own ship on the ocean, and given to tho world an iuvaluible im-,-m...t in navigation and a iile- saving apparatus, and holds testi-1 munials from some of the first sea- men of England and America, may have sometimes fretted to be remanded re-manded to this kind of laud-lubberly life, but he has patiently worked his way out of bis difficulties and hopes somi to be in a position to push his reefiog apparatus into genera' us. To give an idea of the estimauon in which the improvement is held, we append the following sketch of its application ap-plication to the steamship u-Ve.i-Eaittrn Irom the leading maritime ! journal of London : Hakts Patent keei-ei os ai.Mt Great Eastesn. One of Captain ( Hart's patent sell-reefing fore and aft , sails has been fitted on the aftermost mast of the Great Eastern and on Tuesday afternoon an experimental i trial of it was made on board, in the ' presence of Captain Sir James Auder- 1 1 son and a large number of captains . and superintendents of various steam- . ship companies and owners ol sailing vessels. Notwithstanding tl e enormous enor-mous size of the mast boom, and the prevalence of a strong southeasterly I-ale caused some mistrust m tne minds of the marine spectators, the working of the experiment, under the personal superintendence ol the in ventor, was perfectly successiui. aim sad was first taut, and elicited gencr ; al admiration. The various reefs were taken in and the sail furled as , fast as the gaff could be lowered ' The opinion was entirely in favor ol the invsntion, which has already been fitted to upwards of 250 vessels, ana D will no doubt receive further pracli-n pracli-n cal proof of its value on the great o ship's voyage to New York.-From Cart's Advertiser. n |