Evening star., 1901-01-19

age-for an improved service. but In doins
20 they have reduced the streets to chaos,
and the service Is still much In the future.
IL has taken all three years TO install tho
electric light In a few important West End
streets such as the Strand. Regent street
and Piccadilly. And herein London pre-
sents the curious spectacle of three sorts
or light In one street simply because that
particular streets runs through three par
ishes whose authorities have different
Ideas on the subject. We thus have in one
thoroughfars electric light, ordinary. old
! fashioned gas Jet that makes the darkness
more obvious. and then brighter inoandes~
cent gas And this reminds me of "a re-
markabie illustration that lately came un-
DER my notice. of the spread Of knowledge
Passing by one of the new electric lights
IN the Strand. then In full blaze. I heard
TWO boys, probably fourteen years old,
talking about Il.
'Wots thisp" says one. "C3ess?' "Carnr'
answered tho other with lofty superiority
L1oime loight' Uime light) Yet these,
youhgstert must have enjoyed all the benz
ents OF compulsory education-as admins-
tered at any rate. by the London board
school,
Royal Yacht n Poor Sea Boat.
There Is great disgust felt over the fail
ure OF the new loyal yacht to prove her
se!r good sea boat. and II is well known
that neither the queen nor any or the royal
FAMILY will venture to sail upon her. She
has been exarn.ned by Mr.. G.. l.. Watson.
the famous Scotch designer of most OF the
yachts that have contested for the Amer
lean cup. and he pronounces her almost
worthless. and advises her rebuilding from
the keel.
The vessels construction Is In every way
oe1ectlve Aleardy her masts have had 10
be shortened and three-quarters OF an inch
Is being chopped off her deck plankIng. in
order to decrease Its weight
me yachf was designed by men accus-
toned TO only building warshps. Conse-
m ~ har
pleasure vessel and armed cruiser The
windows of the deck saloon had heavy iron
shutters. each weighing some hundred
weights. which were totally unnecessary.
Ihese nave had TO be replaced by wooden
shutters.
The boilers are not placed in correct
alignment and the vessels freeboard ia
greater than her depth of keel will carry
with safety.
One reason for this defect is understood
TO be that sundry royal personages who
oVerhauieo the designs insisted upon them
oelnS certain height between decks But
When the Prince of Wales saw the shin he
salo her designers had attempted Yacht
ana produced cruiser. and a very poor
one; one. 100. She was Originally incumbered
with a very heavy raised forecastle This
mas now been removed. Moreover the
yacht is fitted with the heaviest boat der
TICKS TICKS IN the British navy, which add mate
tiaiy 10 top her weight. and her electrical
capstans won't stop when they are wanted
10 her store rooms are not at all I'm keen
ing with the character OF the vessel They
are built more like a warship magazine
than spirit and provision room for a pleas
ure Vessei. But In order to effect some i'm
proVement In the weight distributed here
circular holes are being cut in the steel
partitions between the rooms
In tact. there is hardly a part of the
yacht ina. one can go TO that is not I'm
some way or other defective In construr-
tloh. Even the stairs which lead TO th,
promenade deck above the saloon have
been rebuilt.
gives her up as a bad Job. The Dnke 80
ork utterly refused to go to Australia I'm
iler When tins was proposed. She looks
ike nke a collier, and cost close to a half mil
nun pouhus. l.. II. MOORE