| Show THE FASTEST YET with ocean steamers reeling off miles milea at the rate ot of a hundred in tour four hours we thought a point somewhere near the limit had been reached but it begins to look an aa if we might be mistaken not mistaken a little but greatly and bewilderingly so it now seems that an inventive genius named sheffield who operates lit in new york has incubated and applied an idea for a motor which is to drive those marine monsters through the foaming main at the rate of eighty miles an hour this would send a ship from fastnet to sandy hook in a day and it sounds a little too utopian to be received and entertained all at once the now new york press frew says that fast ocean travel is She fields Melds bobby it to la more it is his bis life he proposes to re place steam as a motive power to pro pel a vessel across the be atlantic with ft a few gallons of sulphuric sold acid and a f r barrels of sugar a ina and pail chlorate i ti q of ash I 1 great ra steam bowe a slid ap d lot oda coal bunkers he will alwill Ws make ke of the past by ih ini of compressed air the abah and sugar are blown blon together and I 1 mixed in a compartment which takes the place of the boiler in an engine drops of sulphuric sold add fall upon n this causing a series of rapidly recurring explosions the shock block of which takes the place of steam in forcing the piston back and forth the cylinder Js Is kept cool sod and the refuse washed away by an ingenious process of applying water which serves still another purpose in absorbing the smoke during so an interview ho avirl wait wait his face lighting up UD and his eyes twinkling wait until I 1 ga get it in some great ocean vessels then the world will not scoff wont be steamships any longer why shell skip through the water at the rate of eighty miles an hour the faster the safer right if you send it fast enough you can drive a candle through a board you know yes sir air right he has been working on his hid great invention for two years find though seventy years old is ie stil I 1 quite vigorous he keeps hammering away at his work which to ie all ali done ina in a garret from which he seldom emerges emerge and is ig supported by grownup grown up sons eona and daugh daughter tem he set eemma me to have a reputation as aa a crank but bat then we cant always judge by that robert pulton fulton was similarly gauged once upon a time |
