Show lira ire under water motia ohl yell i guess dot not at I 1 lait at I 1 don out t fifth it to so I 1 vot been there fourteen vearn tear off and on and have bays always managed to god find enough to occupy my time and attention ibe the speaker was art engineer on one of the treat great ocein steamers te imm and as hn be mado made thai that remark to a now reporter while standing on 13 t lb pier before bu hii vissel ha he read austed uste bis 0 loe o isso blouse with au awkward awk ward et k and gave bis his bead head a confident twitch A fellow needa t let time lag on bun blin anywhere if be only bu haj b beyea bi bit added sow to some it won would 1 d seem almost unbearable atle to watch the continuous throb of the machinery of a large tenner steamer and heir hear but tha the ever bastin lasting it click of tha the pi piston ston rods and bever but to ma me they bound sound like musio I 1 ve become partly dulled n abot I 1 insensible to there but tn even I 1 naw dow I 1 olten ut still and watch had liften to their never varline maryin heats baits with sort or of satisfaction which a musician feek when he ruai runs bu his finger I 1 cally yet skillfully over the kes of his instrument ilia flit satisfaction aribas from the fact that he has his bi instrument entirely bu his control and mim comes from a similar cane with a touch toach of my finger I 1 coull propel of ton tons at any speed through the water or send a hundred lives into eternity indeed I 1 aftel h ea that I 1 am the sole ble party on board for the lives of revin I 1 the 1 I 1 passengers as it re m main a 1 n s with me t to keep my ma machinery ebiner I 1 in n 1 perfect condition ai as to with wilb lund stand int tuy ordinary sea leaor or rough stai in I 1 and again I 1 take pi and ids in keep everything around me shining like burn shed cold szold if a kimt of grosse pi ase or dirt reta gets on the rods or bandies handles of any part of I 1 he machinery it cannot escape nit my nittie bonit I 1 no over every part of the en engine rine twice a d daiy diy ty and rub tb hi brasi brass and ani steel rodi rods with ai touch plea gure sure ai as though I 1 owned the be steamer I 1 sometimes some timea smash myself in keeping keepin jr a record of the number of tr irs les we run ran an hour and comparing it with the records of provi ui us tripi I 1 have on a book in the engine room a curious table ot of entea and annne figures aures which show to me the exact time lor for aary a ary ery mite mile made b different steamers I 1 have en across the ocein for tha the last fourteen earn is ifs if anything more than usual occurs I 1 j t it nd down own or the date and eo so in s ka ke a sort of diary of it it peaks volumes to me I 1 and recalls in anny a a y interesting memories for instance I 1 was through it the other h day and end I 1 found opposite NOT nov ID 10 1875 a referee e to a visit biorn Litin ameti the incident was recalled leial led to ili my mind in a moment on in I 1 11 I 1 la iam heartily bear lily over it myself ibis this is what it meant one day while lying in to port we were united by several lb lh nn nit ten i en who were anxious to inspect the fehik I 1 bey wr were an ignorant sit it and had never fern seen any machinery worked by steam tha the cat tian was a good nildred fallow follow and arid allowed them to con a 9 bu be 10 ov V alil digh they experienced seme doubts as to the advisability of EO 30 do 40 ing in ahey were very timid and it some time for me we to convince then them that tt 0 machinery wn harmless fi ft n ilar I 1 got t vo of them to come close to N the D eav y derivi cic rod red which ou know on a law ar re abi sel e I 1 is 11 an in enoi eno moui inious piece of orn suddenly bud denly without warning it gave a tart for forward and arid ac accompanied compan t ed by a loud puff of tem stem leaved I 1 filla i ill ten tep feet above our bead beade aurty at my axi stant for letting lei tini on a earn with out my know knowledge lede I 1 turned to speak to him when my attention was attract ed ad toward the stairway the lait last two of the party were making frantic endeavors ende aror ro to jump up half a dozen itans at it a tim I 1 ibe be rest had bad d ds sapp appeared eared and batore I 1 could get ret en on deck the whole crowd had bad cot got into their boat and started for tha the shore no amount of persua ion could ever get I 1 hem to return to that ship which they cl was aliva it was a mean trick bat but it bis his afforded ma many a 4 good laugh since |