OcTOBER 15, 1897. ] 
throughout the executive departments of the 
government and particularly upon its maps 
_and charts. 
Among the decisions rendered were a few 
of general interest. These relate to names 
brought into prominent notice through the 
Klondike gold excitement. 
As to Klondike, the decision is to spell it as 
here given, and not Clondyke, Klondyke, Chan- 
dike, Chandik or Deer, Reindeer, Trondike, 
nor Thron Diuck. 
~ One of the lakes of the upper Yukon was 
named Lebarge by the Western Union Tele- 
graph Expedition in 1868, after Mike Lebarge, 
a member of the exploring party, and a popular 
member, it may be added, who is now living 
somewhere near Ottawa, Canada. Late publi- 
eations have fallen into the error of writing 
this Labarge, but the Board adheres to the 
original form, Lebarge. There is a Lebarge 
River in Alaska. ‘ 
‘When Schwatka discovered the Yukon, in 
1883, he named one of the lakes on its head- 
waters Lindeman, after Dr. Moritz Lindeman, 
now Vice-President of the Bremen Geographical 
Society. This sometimes appears, erroneously, 
as Lindemann and Linderman. The Board 
adopts Lindeman. 
One of the principal tributaries of the upper 
Yukon is the Lewes river, named by Mr. Robert 
Campbell, of the Hudson Bay Company, about 
1848. This is often miscalled Lewis. 
The inlet, river and village ‘at the head of 
Lynn canal, which now appears in the news- 
papers, almost daily, under the form Dyea, is 
an Indian word, which has appeared in many 
forms. Admiral Meade, in 1869, wrote it 
Tyya; Krause, in 1882; wrote it Dejah; 
Schwatka, in 1883, Dayay; Dall, in 1888, 
Taiya. The Board adopts the form Tuaiya. 
For the lake and river variously called 
Hootalinqua, Hotalinga, Teslin-hina, Teslin-too 
or Teslin the Board adopts Yeslin. The ter- 
minations ‘hina’ and ‘too’ are said to mean 
river in different Indian dialects. 
An Indian village on the middle Yukon is 
called Nuklukayet. This has been written in 
several forms, including the erroneous one, 
Tuklukyet. 
W. F. Morsexu. 
SCIENCE. 
589 
THE ‘KAISER WILHELM DER GROSSE.’ 
THE North German Lloyd steamer ‘ Kaiser 
Wilhelm der Grosse’ arrived at the port of New 
York on the 26th of September, her maiden 
voyage proving extraordinarily satisfactory. 
This ship is in many respects very remarkable. 
She is the largest ship afloat and nearly as large 
as the now non-existent ‘Great Eastern ;’ the 
speed on her voyage, for a single day’s run, ex- 
ceeded that of any ship ever set afloat, not ex- 
cepting the Cunarders ‘Campagnia’ and the 
‘Lucania ;’? the record for the run between 
Southampton and New York was broken, and 
the speed of the ship was such that had the 
voyage been between Liverpool and New York 
the run would have been considerably shorter 
than that of any steamer on that route. Not 
the least remarkable fact is that this new record 
was made on her maiden voyage. 
The ship has the following dimensions ; be- 
side which are here given those of the ‘Great 
Eastern,’ the marine wonder of forty years 
ago: 
K. W. G. E. 
engthvoversallleerreteccctieerieitte 649 697 
Length between perpendiculars..... 625 680 
IBEAIN 0 p90 000 0obuanoDDORAGOnOOONND 66 83 
IDEN 5 ooo 0600 on Da CD nOORDODUDODO 26 30 
IDEN o 00d, HoQooDDDECODDDCUDD0000 43 | 58 
Gross tonnage................2000 ee 14,000 19,500 
Displacement................ ...-. 20,000 27,000 
Horse-power...................-... 80,000 12,000 
SPEUL IAD, docoocodeoocnson0d009 23 12 
The ‘City of Rome,’ of the last decade, is 
561 feet long; the ‘ Campagnia’ and the ‘ Lu- 
cania,’ now two years old, are 625 feet long; 
and the length of the ‘Oceanic,’ of the White 
Star Line, now under construction, is 704 feet. 
The ‘Kaiser’ is very steady, having been fit- 
ted with bilge-keels to prevent rolling in a sea- 
way. 
The driving engines of the ‘Kaiser’ are 
‘triple-expansion,’ one engine on each of her 
twin-screw shafts, with steam-cylinders 52, 892 
and 96% inches (two of the latter to each en- 
gine) diameter, and drive two three-bladed 
screws, 22 feet 33 inches diameter, 32 feet and 
10 inches pitch, with a maximum of 30,000 
horse-power, at the rate of twenty-three knots 
through the water (twenty-six miles an hour). 
