Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-06-23
GUNBoAT IN 1880 PIECES.
That l. the Way a Warskip Is to Ee
Shipped from England to
Lake Nyassa.


just been completed forrscrvice On Lake
Nyassa, in Central Africa, and = i to
be shipped to that point in pieces like
Chinese puzzle. This boat, the Cuen-
1olen, is now split up into 1,5CO pack
ages for transportation. A reporter Of
the London Echo describes the boat in
his account of his interview with J. 4.
l;ennie, of the engineering firm which.
built the Guendolen:
$50 there is going to be fighting On
Lake Nyassa?" remarked, tentatively
II never said So" he replied, with fit-
ting diplomacy.
"Ehen that's my mistake; nIerclr
judged so from the fact of your takir"
out what on q lake would be consideret.
first-cl3ss battleship, for the Gucn-
Golen is heavily armed, is she not 2"
"fes, if you call six A.axirns and tonr
ltotchHiss guns big armament. Sh~
is intended to replace the three small
gunboats now on the lake which arr
practically obsolet,, and is a vast i'm
provement on them in every way. He!
length is 1856 feet, beam % and tonnage
$50, and with draught Of four feet six
inches is intended t. steam 12 knots"
II suppose the depth of the lake did
not necessitate a shallow draft vessel?"
by no means, as there is plenty OF
water even close inshore; that enabled
us to have twin screws, for en- shallow
water such as the Niger or the Khoia
(by means Os which the Russians in
1894 penetrated far up toward Chitral)
sternwhcel is absolutely necessary
She is quite n normal type, except for
the fact that she is fitted with Frasc"'s
underlined boilers, and will burn wood
fuel, of which there is an abundance in
and around the lake; coal is only
brought up from the coast for the use
of two or three FORCES, ut cost Of some
SO per ton, such is the difficulty of
t-ansD2-t."
"And that difficulty will be increased
III the casa Of gunboat, I should i'm
agine?'
"Not SO much as you think" said Mr..
FEMME. "Ycu see, we can only bolt.
Lot rivc: her together in the yard here
so as to insure the perfect fitting to-
gether Of every part. In this condition
tlc GuerGolen was inspected by Sir Ed
ward Reed, who expressed himself as
thoroughly satisfied with her. Then
she was taken TO pieces, every piece be-
ing previously numbered, and on a
snail model these numbers are marked
Off, the internal fittings-of course the
model is only of the outside of the hull
having their proper numbers marked!
on scale drawings. Drawings and
noGol accompany the ship. which is
split up into $500 packages, that con-
tanning the boiler of 2h tons being the
heaviest, so that on her arrival there
reed be TO difficulty whatever in put
ting her together again."
Mr.. Rennie added that IL one Of the
packages should be lost, 1t would be
difficult 20 replace it. The packages
ere to be transported for miles over q
rough country by bullock wagons, and
MS ex,ra weight is nm important consid,
Grafton no spare parts are carried. Com.
mander Cullen, II. N. r., the commander
in chief on the lake, has charge of the
transportation, and he will superintend
the assembling of the parts.-N. Y. Sun
------L---
a Philadelphia housekeeper tells this
story in the Record Of that city: 'We
had at one time in our employ a very
green young woman. This young WON
an also came to us through an intelli
gence (?) office. She showed her in.
te!ligence on the first day Of her serv
ice in our family. She was told to PC
out in the yard and take down the
clothesiine, which was stret ched among
a half-dozen posts set up for that pur
pose. She was at the job for so long 6
time that we began to wonder what or
earth was the matter with her. w,
went out to see what she was doing
and there we found her working ava,
vigorously with spade. She had al
ready dug up. three of the posts, ant
had almost completed the work on
fourth when we found her. She iidn'
stay with us long"