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cated at the after end of the engine room par¬ 
titioned off, and set in copper drip-pans care¬ 
fully draining overboard. The fresh water tank 
is aft under the deck and is piped to supply the 
various fixtures throughout the boat. 
The upholstering all to be Holland blue 
throughout, with velour curtains, Royal Wilton 
carpets and hangings to be in harmony with 
these. No attempt is to be made to finish the 
boat in an extravagant manner, practicability 
only being considered as most essential. 
An observation seat on the main house, to¬ 
gether with the bridge and quarter deck, which 
is enclosed by rail, will afford space for a 
considerable party for day sailing. A 16- 
foot power tender will be carried on davits. 
Tungsten lamps, with a dynamo and storage 
batteries as sources of current will illuminate 
the boat. This boat, which is to be delivered 
May 15, will be attached to the fleet of the New 
Rochelle Y. C., of which the owner is a member. 
The New Points of the Compass. 
Since steam superseded sail aud a handful of 
waste and bucketful of Soodje Moodje came in 
place of marlin and marlinspike, all the ad¬ 
vantage the seaman had over the landlubber 
was that he knew how to box the compass, 
writes James Mackenzie to the Master, Mate 
and Pilot. But now we are told there will be 
no more boxing of compasses required. All 
that there is required to learn is the numerals 
from 0 to 9; and so the people that know more 
about streets than straits, shops than ships— 
with due respect to all—will be able to read 
the direction of the ship’s head as well as the 
experienced seaman. 
Most seamen fail to see where they benefit 
by naming the compass points from o degrees 
to 360 degrees, over the old way. We might 
as well do away with the days of the week 
and the months of the year, and name from 
New Year’s Day on to 365 days, but as im¬ 
provements never cease, divide the extra five 
days into 360 equal parts and have 24 hours 
and 20 minutes in each day and 360 days will 
constitute a year as well as 360 degrees to a 
circle. But by doing away with the points of 
the compass is doing away with the strongest 
impression in the mariner’s mind of how his 
ship was heading. 
The Equinox. 
The calm conditions of weather that prevailed 
this year at the time the sun crossed the equator 
on Sept. 23 at 5 p. m. Washington mean time, 
once more demonstrated the fact that this event 
is not always accompanied by severe storms, in 
spite of the popular belief that unusual atmos¬ 
pheric disturbances always occur at the vernal 
and autumnal equinoxes, says The Marine 
Journal. Just why this should be has never 
been made clear, as there never was a storm 
which covered the whole face of the earth, why 
should there be an unusual disturbance at some 
points and fair weather at others on that day? 
Economy of Oil Fuel. 
The economy of oil fuel is shown by some 
comparative figures giving the cost of fuel dur¬ 
ing one month on board seven steamers plying 
on the bay and rivers near San Francisco. Ac¬ 
cording to International Marine Engineering, 
figures are given for the operation of these 
vessels using first coal then oil, and the aver¬ 
age saving in cost of fuel per month gained by 
the use of oil fuel is 47 per cent. This excep¬ 
tional gain is due partly, of course, to the high 
price of coal on the Pacific Coast. 
Motor Boat Show. 
The annual Motor Boat Show will be held 
at Madison Square Garden Feb. 21 to March 4. 
As usual, it will be under the auspices of the 
National Association of Engine and Boat Manu¬ 
facturers. The show will be open daily from 
9 a. M. to ii p. m., excepting Sunday. 
Canoeing. 
Through the Rideau Lakes. 
Two members of the Cathedral Club, of 
Buffalo, made a canoe trip last summer which 
took them through the Rideau Lakes to the 
Ottawa River. They had a most enjoyable time. 
Charles E. Ryan and J. P. Cotter were the two, 
and Charles E. Ryan has told the story most 
entertainingly in the Buffalo Express. It will 
be read by all canoeists with much interest. 
It was past the middle of July and the city 
had grown hotter each day, when Dick and I 
heard simultaneously the voice of the woods 
calling to us from- afar. The desire to paddle 
on and on awoke in us. The Romany blood 
that lurks in the veins of our race ran fast 
and refused to be still. The next day we dis¬ 
carded our white collars and fled the city, seek¬ 
ing rest and freedom and the cool of the wilder¬ 
ness. 
It was towards the Rideau Lakes and still 
beyond, to the Ottawa River, that we looked 
with eager eyes. In khaki trousers, shirt 
sleeves and moccasins we went. Our good 
canvas-covered Indian Girl and camp equip¬ 
ment we loaded on the baggage car on the 
Grand Trunk, and with a sigh of delight we saw 
Buffalo fade from our sight, and wondered 
what troubles we would have ere our trip was 
over. 
Our first stop on the way to Kingston, Out., 
where we were going to put in, was Toronto. 
Here we changed cars and had a wait of three 
hours. Leaving Toronto, soon we discovered 
that our train was the last one to run as a 
strike kas called. On our arrival at Kingston 
Junction we located our luggage, but could 
find no sign of our canoe. Then the strike as¬ 
sumed great importance to us, as no one could 
say when another train would arrive from the 
West. 
Of our drive in a one-horse , shay without 
windows or curtains at 4 o’clock in the morn¬ 
ing, with the temperature far below the summer 
mark, to the City of Kingston four miles away 
in hopes of finding the canoe there, and of our 
disappointment on our arrival. I will say noth¬ 
ing. Thirty-two hours’ wait and a wire to the 
superintendent of the Grand Trunk were neces¬ 
sary before our canoe arrived. 
After passing same through the customs 
where I was treated with great courtesy, we 
put in the Cataraqui River at Kingston Junc¬ 
tion after a carry of a quarter of a mile from 
the station. Here we found the going good, 
the river about 1 V 2 miles wide. Going with the 
wind we made good progress, reaching the 
locks at Kingston Mills for dinner. 
Here were four locks, lifting the water forty- 
seven feet. The men, wishing to see some 
sport, let the water into the second lock as fast 
as they could, and we were busy preventing our 
canoe from being capsized. However, they 
were satisfied then, and we had no difficulty in 
passing through the remaining locks. Then we 
visited the dam holding the water back. This 
is over 6,000 feet long and 14 feet high, and we 
were told that the locks were 142 feet long by 
33 feet in width and from 12 to 25 feet deep, 
built of limestone blocks 6 feet long and 4 feet 
wide. The work was done by British soldiers, 
under the direction of the royal engineers, at 
the close of the War of 1812. Above the locks 
still stand the square, heavily-built blockhouses 
they occupied, with slits in the walls through 
which they could direct their rifles in the event 
of Indians or unfriendly strangers threatening 
to impede navigation. But since the opening 
of navigation in 1829 no misadventure has oc¬ 
curred. Soldiers and Indians have alike disap¬ 
peared and the only strangers who linger 
around the locks are admiring tourists. 
So>close together are the ten lakes between 
Kingston and the Rideau River that only six 
miles of artificial construction was necessary 
to complete the water way between that city 
and Ottawa. 
After obtaining a canoe pass at Kingston 
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