The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-16

eICleQ DS nOIlZOnIaI D6lI, WHICH serves both to fend her hull off from wharves and ships, and also, like biIge keel, to diminish her oscilla- tions in heavy sea. She is built of steel an eighth of an inch thick, the belt being of wood.
 Her extreme length is IS feet and her vertical diameter amidshiDs feet but she has double bottom, the inner one serving as level floor and reduc- ing the interior diameter to. feet. So that a tall man is just able to stand upright. The space below the floor is divided into four compartments filled with fresh water and kerosene oil, which help io ballast her. An extra aid to stability is a centerboard keel, when lowered increases her mean draught of 21-2 feet to S. 1-2 feet and greatly aids her sailing powers.
 She is propelled by large lateen sail. attached to a mast 20 feet high fixed iu tube in the forward part of the upper half Of the shell. The sum- init of the conica' raft is fitted with a voyage long sweeps were rigged by means of which the crew could row her in calm weather. Aft rises con- ming tower of hood with four .portholes. The only entrance to the boat is be- Eird the hood, hole two feet in dia- meter and closed with a hatch with a watertight cover.
 Her interior is a large apartment embracing the entire hull, and capable Of accommodating 20 persons com fortably. and 4G ie crowded. On both sides, from end to end, run benches or seats that also form lockers for the stowage of food. clothes and supplies. She can carry sIoles ana water for 20 persons for months and can supple n!ent her watec supply by huge can Vas receiver like an inverted urnbrel- la, which is set up on deck in rainy weather and from which a hose leads to her tanks. Fishing lines and nets are carried. Kerosene is used for cooking and heating. t-E.. She is the conception of Capt Brude He is only P. Between the age of z | and 10 he lived with his parents in New York. Then he retured to Nor way for five years, and since that has b0Cll Nlil5 III otilpS pL L9ILlAoA VI American register, having been a quar- termasten on the United States trans port McPherson during the Cuban War. He has been two years working out his idea.
 He sailed from Aalesund on August '. At the start he expected to cross in six weeks and went North to catch the northeast hreezes. but this season was marked Dy an absence of such winds, and the delay proved fatal to his plans, though he believes it has proved the utility of his craft more completely than he expected.
 What he claims for this boat is that she is absolutely unsuitable, that she can sail as well as the ordinary life boat that her occupants are sheltered and comfortable in all weathers, that her voyage can be indefinitely pro- longed without risk to those on board. She can hang from a steamers dayits like, an ordinary lifeboat. If drawn down into the vortex of sinking ship i she must come to the surface again because of her buoyancy, Then she costs less than two life-boats and can carry four times as many people. +,..,
 Leaving Aalesund on August with 1 three seamen-Thorsen, Johansen and Madsen-Capt Brude headed for the shetlands. Four days later she was 1 chased by whaler, which took her for a sleeping whale. She worked north 1 to within 90 miles of Iceland, and along the 64th parallel to within 150 miles of Greenland from that point turning south to fetch St. Johns. Her voyage
 was attended by furious gales. Rarely couldt the crew show themselves above deck. Gale after gale ragged, and for days the sail would be furled and the little craft allowed to drift.
 Ventilation was secured by opening
 one of the ports on the lee side of the lookout. Even when at the worst pe- ricds of the hurricanes compelled, them to close the ports her crew secured ven- tilation and fresh air through the hol-
 low mast. ,
 As a matter of fact, no apprehen-
 sion was felt by the four men on board.
 She was as light as a cork, as dry as a
 bottle and safe as a liner.
 The only serious mishap was the breaking of the mast in a gale, which forced them to unstep the butt and re-
 place 1t with the top, spar only about 12 feet high and forbidding any canvas but try-sail. When in good trim at first she could make 61s knots and sail
 within four or five points of the wind, but after this mishap she could do lit- tie better than drift and make little westing.
 About 1000 miles off Belle Isle Strait she sighted a Montreal liner, whose captain gave her correct reckonings' Three hundred miles nearer land she was passed by a cattle boat and again l corrected her position. These were the l only two ships of any kind save fish ing boats at the outset that she saw for ] the whole voyage, owing to her extreme l northerly course, and the fact indicates that even under such adverse condi+ lions had she been full of people they would have been rescued within five or six weeks. In Norwegian tongue the word
 "uradd'' means mot afraid" Capt 1 Brude is delighted with her achieve
 ments. She is said by him to be quite fit to sail around the world. .,,
 The trip she is now to make from St Johns to New York is not expected to present any serious difficulties, for it
 will be in well frequented waters, with