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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
The tiller ropes are conducted forward tlirougli tubes and carriers, depending 
from the main-deck beams, which protect them from injury in the coal bunkers, do 
away with the annoyance and unsightly appearance of exposed tiller ropes in officers’ 
quarters, and cause them to work silently. 
The tiller ropes are elastic steel wire, served with marline, which is thoroughly 
tarred. They are connected to the yoke, or quadrant, by chains spliced to the ropes 
and secured to the yoke by adjustable screw bolts, by means of which their tension 
can be regulated at will. From the yoke they are carried to the ship’s side, thence 
directly forward, lander the main-deck beams, and spliced to the ends of a chain, 
which, being brought amidship through appropriate sheaves, is carried up and over 
the “wild-cat” of the steam steerer designed to take the links and i)reveut slipping. 
