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Show j On an Ocean Racer. ! i An Ohio' clergyman thus writes of his ! i experience on one of the ocean racers: ! ! "I have made my ' last trip on a racing steamer. We left thirty minutes ahead j of the Teutonic, and the npeed maintained main-tained was terrific. On Saturday night . the heat was so oppressive in the cabins ' that everybody had to go on deck, and it was found that the great speed had . ' overheated the machinery, but there ' was no check until Sunday, when the ( passengers became alarmed, and the en- 1 gines were slowed down to allow the machinery to cool. If the speed had been kept np for a few hours the vessel, ' with all on board, would have gone to the bottom." . i |