Show ms Vi INVENTION FOR FOE COALING WARSHIPS W AT SEA SEAM 1 m i L ii wp wpm x m c f M T it The accompanying Illustration shows show a the latest Invention of ot a practical character for tor coaling warships at lit sea sen It was vas perfected by b a ft young oung engineer of New York Spencer Miller about a 1 year ar m raid md a u half ago and since then has hIlS been put to severe tests by b our naval authorities notably In the tho coaling coating of ot the tho battleship Massachusetts tram from the time collier while the tho latter was Willi bo be boIng boInS being Ing InS tOWN towed at lit a six Ix knot speed By menus means ml of nn an overhead Y and canvas chute the battleship was coaled at the lime rate of oro JO tons nn an hour Hut But the tho lint Brit British ish lab admiralty expects to transfer 40 tons per Ilet hour nt lit n a ten knot speed dur during durIng durIng ing experiments c to bo lw conducted next month In the English channel In Inthe Inthe the limo Improved apparatus the winches operating the are placed aboard the warship and It Is said that several foreign governments Intend to equip their war vessels now in process of ot construction with these supplementary winches for tor tho the purpose of oC coaling at sea sell whet when necessary r rIt It may be he recalled In n this connection that one of at the difficulties experienced by b our commanders off oft Santiago was that t of at coaling timely their ships no station nearer than Key l e West Vest being at first available |