The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-22

mirality list of England. The German emperor, the Prince of Wales and President Diaz of Mexico, each have one of these boats, and the company has furnished boats to large number of persons, a few of whom are the fol- lowing:
 His Grace the Duke of St. Albans, His Grace the Duke of Sutherland, Rt. Hon. Lord Dunleath, Count de Gontant Brion, Baron de Barretto, Baron de Knopp, General Ducherne, commits sioner in chief of Madagascar; F. M. Singer, Esq. F. B.. Jameson, Albert Merrier A. J. Drexel, Thomas M. Lord, w. J. Donaldson, c. A. Fletcher, Colo nel Ironside Bax, Monsieur Marcel Holtzer F. w. l.. Popham, G. H. Wat son and J. H. D. Bryant, the Lismon Fisheries commission, the Western R. R. and Steamboat Go. of Mexico and others.
 The system of utilizing the oil for fuel purposes is very simple and very ingenious and consists in converting the ordinary kerosene oil remaining from refining petroleum into satura- ted gas, which is burned under new system of water tube boiler to produce steam. The converter through which the oil passes is placed in the fire box, and as the gas is non explosive and the oil is a fire test oil, all of the dangers heretofore experienced in burning nap-
 tha, benzine and other products of pe- troleum are avoided as we'll as the dan
 ger and inconvenience of burning pe-
 troleum sprayed with air or steam.
 The fire once lighted in the boiler un-
 der the generator, the retort goes on
 producing gas in just the quantity needed for fuel as long as it is fed with oil. The burner is so scientifically con-
 structed that the combustion of the oil is as perfect at one horse power as at one hundred, without any change in the adjustment of the burner. Steam at one hundred pounds pressure can be raised in twelve to fifteen minutes from a cold boiler. When the boat is not running there is no consumption of fuel
 and there is no waste of fuel from
 banking or drawing the fire, Owing to
 the peculiar construction of the boiler it takes up but little room in the boat and therefore a large horsepower can
 be put into a small boat and high rate of speed obtained. In an ordinary thirty-five foot boat the steam power is
 usually from eight to ten horse power if any greater power is placed in a boat it is at the expense of room and to the inconvenience of passengers By this system forty horse power is placed in thirty-five foot boat and the boiler and engine occupies less than
 one-half the weight of the ordinary steam engine and boiler, and the space occupied by the fuel is less than one half of that required for coal, while the
 weight is correspondingly reduced, and all of the nuisance from dirt and ashes
 removed.
 The above statements are demonstra- ted when it is shown that the total | weight of this boat, with boiler and en- zines of forty horse power, fully | equipped with fuel and water for a run of one hundred and fifty miles is about l two and one-half tons. The boat is thirty-five feet in length six feet and | two inches beam; carries a forty horse power boiler, and has a record of six | teen miles per hour. The system has been so favorably received abroad af- 1 ter long and severe tests that the par ties controlling the invention are about to commence the building of boats in this country prObablyin New York