Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-19
FASTEST YACHT AFLOAT
Elide Makes a Mile in One Minute and,
Thirty-Eight Seconds.
Test Made on the Hudson Near TarryD
town, n. I.-Descriptton of This
Remarkable Craft.

The fastest time on record as having ever
been made by a steam yacht was made
yesterday by the Ellide built by Samuel
Ayres of Nyack for f. Burgess Warren of
| this city. In her trial trip over a measured
course of mile on the HUDSON. the Ellide
made the distance in 1 minute and 81 sec
onds, according to the timing of Harrison
| b. Moore, and l minute 81 seconds accord
| ing to Francis F. Magoun
little while after o'clock the Ellide
| left Upper Nyack and started for larry
| town. where the mile to be run was meas
ured Off She ran over the course the first
time at the comparatively slow gait OF
twenty-five miles hour, carrying fifty
pounds of steam.
| AstoPtshed the Spectators.
The second time she started at a pace
that astonished the spectators and those
on board There was scarcely any percep-
| tible vibration. All the power of her en-
| gines seemed to be exerted in pushing her
ahead until the momentum seemed so great
that 1t seemed impossible for her TO swerve
out or straight line. Her speed can only
| De compared with that of an express train.
The water flew by the Ellide at a speed so
| great that eddies or currents were not
| formed as is usual with high-speed vessels
| the water simply passing astern I'm un-
| broken stream. She left no wake whatever
| in other flyers. Whenever the boat entered
| little wave showers of spray dashed over
| those In the forward cockpit, but no solid
| water came aboard
| Before those on board had time to realize
| II, the range poles at the end of the mile
| We're approached. The engineer mistook a
| signal given by the pilot toward the end of
| the run, and shut off the power but sec
| ond or two afterward the yacht flew past
| the range. and time was called. The course
over which the craft made this phenomenal
| record has been surveyed and sworn TO by
j. 5. Demorest of Nyack, and attested by
| w. j. Carpenter, an expert. in the employ
of Mr.. Barber, formerly owner of the noted
| yacht Sapphire.
| Designed by c. ID. Mosher.
4 The Ellide, well all her machinery
| was designed and constructed by Charles
I d. Mosher, who personally superinterded
| every detail of the boats construction. At
the time of her greatest speed i'm the trial
| Ter boilers under a pressure Of 80
| pounds of steam. and her propeller made
| 600 revolutions a minute. while the auXil-
| larry engines were travelling much faster
| The yacht is eighty feet lorg. eight feet
| four inches beam, and has a draught of
| three feet six inches She is of composite
construction, the planking being of double
skin mahogany All her fastenings are
| frames and scantlirgs are entirely OF steel,
| there being no aluminium used about the
| entire boat. She is subdIvided by five steel
| bulkheads into water tight compartments,
| and is also supplied with number of cop
per air tanks, that, In ease she should
| become filled with water. she would still
| float. The forward deck is thirteen feet
| lcng, abaft of which is the forward cock
| pit, thirteen feet long, and fitted with
steering wheel, compass pinnacle. voice
| tubes and annunCiators. 1t is also fitted
| with seats on either side with drawers and
| lockers underneath. Next abaft, on the port
| side. is large ice chest and china closet.
| fitted with plate glass windows while on
| the starboard side is a toilet room.
Machinery I'm Use.
| Next abaft comes the machinery space
This is fitted with a Mosher patent quad
| ripple expansion engine. having cylinders
nine inches, thirteen inches. eighteen inch
| es and twenty-four inches by ten-inch
stroke. All workmanship and material
used in its construction are of the highest
! class.
All the reciprocating parts of the engine
are bored out hollow. and all the steel
| used In its construction is oil tempered.
The engines are supplied with all the
| usual fittings in accordance with the most
modern engineering practice. Aside from
| the main propeling engines, there is an
| inboard surfauo condenser: also six spe-
claliy designed engines for running the,
| feed pumps. air pumps circulating pump
| &c. The boiler is Of the Mosher water-tuoe
| type. it's casing being of polished brass
| 1t consists of two steam drums placed
| over two water drums and connected to-
| gether by a great number of solid-drawn
| steel tubes, so arranged that the gases pass
| twice the length of the boiler among tho
! tubes before entering the stack, thus prac-
| tically absorbing all the heat from the
gases of combustion. The boiler is SUBJ
| divided into two independent sections SO
| that in case a tube should give out In
| either section the boat can still he run
! by the remaining section. or half-boiler
| power There also provided two DOW
| erful electors for pumping out TIE bilge,
| and the pumping machinery is arranged
| to pump from the various compartments,
! hot WELL tanks, &C.
Dining Room Abaft.
| Next abaft the machinery space comes a
| large dining room eighteen feet long, pro-
| vided with seats all around, with drawers
! underneath, and large extension ia Die
| at the forward end, also a pantry and suit
| able Bullets, lockers. &c. Next abaft comes
| the afterdeck. 12E feet long, with a bronze
| railing extending around it, and all he
| usual deck fittings. The Ellide also carries
| 13-foot boat on davits. All the deck fit
| tings, including the stack. ratings, &c.
| are of polished bronze The boat has a
| permanent wooden awning, with glass win
| dows, running the full length of the boat
| and inclosing the forward and after COM
partments and the machinery space. The
| windows at the forward end are fitted with
| bent giass :, and are arranged to slide.
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