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Show t rf th pm1i i tjiii, Tliere la no dnnbt that If rvery Urge paen per t tea titer wa provided with freteral search lights many dnniron would be avohle 1 ornl the yearly loi of life nt sort would bo greatly leeaotted. Tlila rrfAtetueitt nppllo npocUll) to end grtuit leitner, In whleh tu manylhr are In Jeopardy tn thur of elatigor. It baa been reconimondtd (hat tho oqutp-ment oqutp-ment of tuch vesstii with rarv'i light tliottld Ifo iiuide coinpiilory by the gov ennuente of I lie roiititrles under wtinsa IlagH thoy mil iifxl at whoso lrt they touelu A an InttAiiee of tlie simplicity of a reareh light outltt,nud the advnntageou tie to which It can bo ut, It 1 only iteootanry to look to the navlgntlofi of the Hue canal. Vcaael iiiiprovldwl with the tleetrlo light ran hire a complete com-plete plant when entering tit canal -ItlieratSiKiorl'ort Said 'Jhewholo urrangeuieiit eau lo set up In an hour or two, nnd (he tteumer ran then go through the rana I nt night. I'ormotly cy try htp tu tlie eaual lutd to tie up to the hanka At nlnlit. and tlw passage often oeoupled fifty or sixty hour, .ow It I generally made In elghieou e r twenty hours, ami on tome oonuloii even pihker tlmo has been iimdu Kloctricity. |