FOREST AND STREAM. 



other places; 



Tilts invention is likely to work important ehang 

 of rigging yachts of Jill kinds, from the fact that t 

 be tec-minuted by any kind of device or fastening 



.... H-.tion with wire rope, for which pur;...-;-- •! 

 Manufacturing Gompany have brought out many 

 pattern^, among wliioii we have selected tin 1 prln'c . 

 tion. 

 Th" socket cast in one with the lit tings is mad.- -with care ui 



always cylindrical inside, as shown hv tin- sectional I' i 



ordinary eye herewith presented. The, socket was first, cast cot 

 eal. hut suoscciuent experiments showed -i cvlindrical li.de -ill til 



Splice HaH-Hfachirimi Oi.-t am much picas;. 

 ■ Splice. It is the neatest thing possible, and secure 

 li of the rope. Nothing could be ' 



• is give*! by the captains, of pilot 



of the splice throughout the vac 

 a sample, cu( across in several pl-ic 

 welding of all pans in a single mas; 



s of sockets uro kne 

 to the circiiiiifcrt 

 -s :!i.- diameter mi I 

 ill and tin. est pm 

 interval ci,,i, infer, 



• MeU>or, the sloop Cricket, i 

 or Mr. Melt, of Oswego: the it 

 rm. M. Driscoll. ami u. • I'htm 



. S. V. 

 or the 



York. 



irfc ol 

 jelni ■ POi 



e siail and another dan,, up 



MEASUHEJ 



■'bulk asm 



Ifecussion of th< 



m has decide: 



rls necessary to carry t he 



isnrer will ' be - tented 



, lignum vita\ Ttie "guy sockets" or "hearts*' are adapt. I lo setting in t 



I up "bowsprit shrouds, backstays, and smokestack guv-, fin- sister i-. 



hooks are familiar in their application to all. die. 



Other cuts illustrate the breaking of the wire before the splice I Dm 



