Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-10-14

two miles an hour would be developed
and was even willing to allow himself
to hope that rate of forty three miles,
equal to that of the Viper, would be
achieved. When the test was finished,
1t was freely admitted by owner and
designer alike that nothing like the
forty five mile rate had been antici
phed.
There could be no more thrilling
half during which the keen proved
yacht drove through the waters of the
Hudson from the starting line just
above the Ardsley club, to point near
ly opposite the summer home Of Miss
Helen Gould, At railroad speed she
cut the seas 50 c,' y that her deck
was not even Il spray when
the test wal n ut her, enOr-
nous speed $50 served her natural
lines as il she were running only at
what for her Is an ordinary gait of
twenty of thirty miles an hoIr
She did not squat" as Mr.. Flint OK
pressed it. Neither was there any APP
parent increase in vibration, and with
their eyes shut those on board could
have noted the increase in speed only
by the louder hum Of the machinery.
Leaving pier A at the Battery at
half past II O'clock in the afternoon,
the Arrow made the run to Ardsley in
one hour and thirteen minutes. There
Mr.. Flint's guests Alfred II. Hoadley
Joseph II. Hoadley, w. A. Sands and
a dozen newspaper men-were trans
ferred to Mr.. Joseph Hoadley's yacht,
the Nushka. which was anchored at
the finish line. All except four tons Of
coal was left Oh the dock at Ardsley,
and after only eight minutes Of warm,
ing up the race against time was on.
Captain d. c. Packard ran the boat
three miles down stream and then
turned her direct for the course to be
run. This course has been surveyed
by the government and is at the most
only few inches out of the way.
When within three minutes of the
starting line, the captain gave the chief
engineer, ]. S. Briggs, a warning bell.
Two minutes later there was q second
warning, and six seconds before the
line was crossed the signal for fun
speed ahead was sounded.
Only an instant later there was a
burst of steam that almost enveloped
the flying craft. Every ounce Of her
400 pounds capacity was on. and the
safety valves had to give her the nee
essary relief.
On she came toward the stakeboat
at terrific speed. Through the cloud of
smoke Captain Packard could be seen
at the wheel, with Wallace B. Flint,
the owners brother, standing with his
watch In his hand on the bow.
Although a photographer can change
plate and take second picture In
ten seconds after the first exposure,
there were no second pictures taken
from the Nushka. Before second
plate could be exposed the Arrow was
SO far astern that photograph would
have shown her merely as a retreating
point of light
During the test the Arrow carried
400 pounds Of steam in her boilers and
375 in the engines. Besides the cap,
tain and chief engineer she carried a
crew of two assistant engineers, two
dremen, one water tender, two oilers
and three deck hands. Her extreme
length is 100 feet and inches; length
on the water line, 1870 feet; extreme
beam, ~ feet and 6 inches, and draft
under screws, feet and II inches. |
She has two quadruple expansion EN-
glnes, capable OF developing 1000
horsepower