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Show boat move If permitted to go at ix full speed during a strong: wind, that its -t-upants wuuld find It Impossible to retain their seats. Hence Its speed haa to N checked and regulated hy tho m.inli.uln-tion m.inli.uln-tion of brakes and sails. From fifty to ninety miles nn hour, huwivi r. has often been attained with safety when the precaution pre-caution waa taken ef seeing that tr.e )asneiip;eni were well fecund in tin ir Heats. Technical World Magazine. SAILING 00 M1LE3 AN HOUR. Suiting on laud is a new diversion, experimented ex-perimented with at different times In the past, that has suddenly burst into prominence. promi-nence. No other summer amusement conveyance of man's Invention can make anything like the speed of the land sailing sail-ing vessel. II skims over the ground with the actual speed of the wind, its only rival in amusement conveyances f winter or summer Is the Ire boat: hut th" land sailing vessel furnishes much greater great-er enjoyment than the Ire boat, for its path is not limited by the narrow confines con-fines of an Ice pond, and moreover, it la a summer vehicle, made to sail In the season sea-son when rapid open-air traveling is really enjoyable. So fast will the land i |