Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-03-09
SOME BOAT NOTES.

Inc ury dock Dewey will be detained
at Canary Islands until March IL for
repair work which must be done. The
board of survey found several loose
rivets and rivet heads broken off. and
certain iron work defective, made so by
severe wrenching received in storms.
The dock was badly strained.
For the loss of the bugeye M. Blanche
Hayward and her cargo of grain, the
tug Defiance has been libeled for 81, 1877. O3
in the United States District Court.
The bugeye and the tug collided in the
Potomac river, the bugeye being sunk.
The suit was brought by John Rice, of
Westmoreland county, owner of the
bugeye and cargo; Harry L. Prichard,
master, and Arthur Gregory, a seaman
on the bugeye. Richard C. Mayo is their
attorney.
The schooner Henry r. Travers, be-
longing to Capt. John H. Nelson, of Girls.
field, Md, went ashore on Gwynn Island,
near the mouth of the Rappahannock
during the blizzard last week. The
revenue cutter Window went to the as
sistance of the vessel. Another bay
craft was sunk off Windmill Point. The
pilot of the steamer Ole Bull reports a
bugeye or small schooner about three
quarters of mile west by. north of
Windmill Point. She is in the track of
vessels. About II feet of one mast ap-
pear above water.
The new British warship. lust
launched. makes all other warships look
diminutive. The 'Dreadnauxht' is the
envy and concern of all the other nations
Of the world, because she is the most
powerful naval engine Of destruction
ever built. and is popularity supposed to
be able to stand off, alone, whole fleet.
The Dreadnaught, to be completed next
October, will steam twenty-one knots
an hour. That in itself is enough to
throw naval sharps of other countries
into fits She will be of Is, 900 tonnage.
Her horsepower will be %, 900, with
three screws and two rudders. She will
have at least ten Pinch guns, each one
capable of sinking a foe at six miles.
Her speed will make it easy for her to
pick her ownrange and her guns will do
the rest. She win cost So, 600, 600.
STARTING A GASOLINE ENGINE.
l. See that all oil and grease cups
are filled and that all bearings are
properly fabricated.
2. See that you have gasolene in
your tank.
3. See that the batteries are properly
connected and that you have good
bright hot spark.
4. Set spark lever so that explosion
takes place when piston has reached the
top of the stroke, then your engine can
not kick back.
.. Turn on your gasoiene at the
engine and see that the oil is coming
down to your engine through vaporizer.
9. Open relief cocks on side of
cylinders. -
2. Fill printing cups on engine with
gasoline allowing it to run into cylinders.
8. Close printing cups.
y. Place your battery switch in con-
tact.
10. Turn fy-wheeluntil engine starts.
IL. Close relief cocks when engine is
started.
L. Regulate generator until proper
point for full load is obtained.
10. Do not Crank an engine. If
tne engine does not start on two or
three turns of the fiy-wheel, look at
your batteries, wiring and gasolene
regulation. You have overlooked some
thing.
Ia. See that the thrust bearing is in
proper condition to take up all thrust
on the bearing and not on crank shaft
or clutch. From catalogue of Wolverine
Motor Works.