Show w. w CORRESPONDENCE Af f UNNOTICED IN m PARADE Editor Messenger I l i 0 Unnoticed and unannounced In th U Centennial parade was perhaps th most important and noteworthy of al I pioneer r relics a blade from t thi th h feathering paddle wheel used on th steamboat on Funks Funk's Lake no nov wrongly and unwisely called Park J This wh wheel l invented and patents patentee by Amasa Edgar Merriam about 1885 is now used with slight variations IT design but but- not in principle on mos mas mos wheel paddle-wheel ships the world ov over With the same power it will driy a boat 2 to 3 times faster than vil w wa vila a non feathering wheel Howard Cox |