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FOREST AND STREAM. 
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The Standard Navy Boats* 
The accompanying illustrations show further details of 
the standard navy boats, the lines of which appeared last 
week. In all of these boats, as stated previously, the 
quality of speed has been given but a subordinate place, 
the consequence is that the boats in all- classes represent a 
high degree of serviceability and real efficiency. Great' 
attention has been paid to the construction, to insure 
strength and lightness and general adaptability to hard 
service. The designs cannot fail to prove useful to the 
many who require boats of various kinds for other pur- 
poses than -racing. 
The Sound Y. R. A. 
The special general meeting of the Sound Y. R. A. for 
final consideration of the proposed scantling restrictions 
and changes of rules takes place on Tuesday evening, as 
we go to press. We hope to publish next week the full- 
text of all new and amended rules. On Tuesday of last 
week, early in the evening, a most unexpected disaster 
overtook many of the New York papers. Most of these, 
including the Forest and Stream, are now set by ma- 
chinery instead of by hand, by means of a machine termed 
the Linotype (line of type), in which each line as set is 
cast solid. The machines are provided with melting pots 
for the type metal, heated by common illuminating gas. 
A very large new gasometer, just erected, was wrecked in 
some unknown manner while being tested, killing and in- 
juring a number of persons and wrecking several build- 
ings, besides doing much damage through the flooding of 
the streets for blocks around with water to the depth of 
many feet. Though remote from the scene of wreck, the 
printing offices, including those of many of the great 
dailies, were robbed of their supply of gas without a mo- 
ment's notice ; the molten metal congealing in the pots 
and the offices being left hr darkness. In the Forest and 
Stream office the last piece of work, the report of the 
Executive Committee of the Y. R. A.; was. set up, except 
the two closing paragraphs, hut was not yet revised, and 
the errors corrected in the type. Sufficient light to work by 
was obtained through a supply of candles, but it was im- 
possible to use the machines, so the last few lines were 
set by hand with the old movable type, and some cor- 
rections ' were made in the same manner. It was im- 
possible; however, to correct the entire page, and a great 
many minor errors consequently appeared. 
Coronet, schr., F. S. Pearson, arrived at Nassau, N. P., 
on Dec. 16, after a ten-day passage from New York, with 
mainmast sprung at the head and mainsail carried away. 
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