Show w V t Mr Hudson Maxim takes exception to a n statement made mIJ o In an Associated Press PrOss dispatch dated New cw York Jan 1 6 in which he was represented ua lU u the now neW motive power inventor of a 8 known as all which Is expect expected and tor tur torpedo torp i cd ed c to r torpedoes t p ib boats boath and va In the tho future for forgoing steam steam OB a Ii I moH motive power Q ri going vessels Mr Maxim is ISI T specially Indignant that tho I represented him as OB having expressed 1 i 1 the opinion his new mulO pow power po poel er or will sooner or later como comb Into use on merchant vessels and will wiil their thell eIl In a letter Ietter to tho the News dated Brooklyn Jan Jito 23 tho Iho Inventor ox ex explains plains Pl Lins that is only n a form 3 V of smokeless gun powder Ioder and und that the cost of f It prevents Its use IIse on inter mer merchant chant vessels According to his hili calculations lations It would cost over million dollars to tko tuko tho the tho the Atlantic it IC were used Instead of at steam Ha Ito says Hays The rho for tor burns nearly neaily one thousand tolls ot of coal coni per ler lerk r i k day da at itt a U cost ot of about 30 for foz elicIt each V 4 1 As ts It II n a t 1 live five days fur tOI the thu run roll about tons tOilS 1 of coal are alo required at nt ft CI cost of ot bout about e 11 OU OV for tor or tho the run Tim coal currying A capacity of ot tile tho IH IS it il lImos tuns The rho total displacement of ot J c time the th vessel essel Is toIls tonn nod sliu shu eli do tic doo L o lul roer If It tho tito i 3 Hl lit of the thu Lu oio to be bei beSt St doubled do an its hits hat boon been predicted It ll Iti i i would q hl require than Her present horsepower or more inure than t About tuna tollS bY Of ot coal co pur por lity would bo ho needed or 16 10 I cOO OO tons ton costing costin abOut for tor thin the h two dl YH run l It H requires about bout twelve i pounds of ot air nil to supply 1 the Iho oxygen lo loburn tt to burn bunt ono One pound of coul coI i however IH is IL a compound con colt coni i r of 70 per Iel tout ctt and andi i 30 cent and ninth HB ILs 1 1 own IWO oxygen oxen for fur its Ill communion lUll Con I tell Ulm th It inquirer very lIr immure f than It II doe olues coal to evaporate f an quantity of lit It I will wll iII about one fourth an its much vater witter per Iter pound an us coal L Hut But UK lH the tho nf ot o I t io n ut or tho I lie limo mo It it V the In tO drIve an In on II II the quantity of combined und prod Iroll IrollI 1 I of cC Ilu by a n ot of U Is I a It thud n II nV ni i V great aa IB that ot of the mourn produced 11 lucu 1 i by hy tile the combustion of ot u mu round of coal coul 1 It I t would therefore thru three times V us Is much SI much to to drive tho the Lush 1 taula across the tho In lit a 11 ot at 1 days us nil It would roul Tho i x f of f coal belim ton tooL the th 1 quantity of at needed would lo Ic W tons toni costs COHU shout two I hundred rd im Its It II 1111 ton 1011 I on a doe tile the coal oual uncil ui by II th tim 1111 no so tint V tho the o cst nt of ot t Ill I n fur till the us th t vi Vl yn would lie 1 UK tie um of or k ran call an ho t we urn nira h told ho 1101 for tor the thu pr of or tor lor pp pl n light bott boa I winro 1 tn l Is III i l for tor n R 1 short ahon j i run re th u Qt it t H to Suppose y Mr lr u It weri werito to 10 cost ent t tell n thou ni to a it torpedo boit at n fit it I tin Ito r of ot HI HII In hour for r tv tWI or ml mils tho thu rout LOst Is In no o ii troi that or of the a l f l 1 Wo Vo 0 III illS I with the ihn r nii Hl f V of ot the lie to Hi II V t H II ao MOO t tn b till V V At Oil hit tine MI 11 that ii ll I hii will wilt willi i i t ii i en un run Clint li II tl tI I voted to UK tia of oC whore I by b to o tI time tho distances ll nations In the Interest of rather linn tho the Invention of o I of |