Show floating breakwater costly stonework to make a break water behind which boats may seek shelter Is obviated by the use of a string of metal pontoons pon which have the effect ot quieting a boisterous sea as effectually as a bulkhead of stone or piles the units consist ot metal structural shapes of an openwork character which are supported by air tilled tanks and are chained together in strings of six or eight each end of the string being secured to a substantial pier the action of the waves dashing Is effectually checked by the open character of the metal work and their force broken that the water behind the barrier la quite still for the purpose of a sate harbor long ago when ones horses ran away he had longer to think abbot it before he was smashed up than in automobile accidents |