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184 THE LOCOMOTIVE. [December,
HARTFORD, DECEMBER 15, 1893.
J. M. Allen, Editor. A. D. Risteen, Associate EdUdr.
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The boiler of a steam tug on Lake Doga, Russia, exploded on October 18th. Tke
tug was blown to pieces, and every man on board of her was either killed outright, or
drowned.
The Annual Bepoi't for 1893 of the Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering in the
United States Navy is at hand, and we have found it of unusual interest. The section
treating of the personnel of the department is especially suggestive.
The present issue completes the fourteenth volume of The Locomotive, and bound
volumes for the year 1893 will be ready shortly, and may be had, upon application at
this office, at the usual price of one dollar each. Indexes and title pages will also be
furnished, free of charge, to those of our readers who have saved their copies and desire
to have them bound.
We have received, from the Scottish Boiler Insurance Company, of Glasgow and
Manchester, an interesting pamphlet entitled Some Boiler Explosions. It contains seven
excellent plates showing the destruction caused by boiler explosions, one plate showing
an inspector ready for his work, and portraits of three of the company's officers. There
is a plate in colors, too, exhibiting, graphically, the number of boiler explosions in the
United Kingdom since 1862, together with the number of the killed and injured. There is
and
also a considerable amount of information in the text that accompanies the plates ;
the pamphlet, as a whole, is neat and creditable to the company that issues it.
It was not long ago that we recorded, with considerable satisfaction, the first crossing
of the Atlantic ocean in less than six days. It was then considered a great feat, and
navigators had been looking forward to it for years. The six-day record, however, has
now itself become a back number. Last year the City of Paris crossed in the phenome-
nal time of 5 days, 14 hours, and 24 minutes; and this remained the record until Oc-
tober 6th of the present year, when the Lucania completed the westward passage in 5
days, 13 hours, and 45 minutes. Within the next few days this record was twice
broken. On her next eastward trip the Lucania crossed in 5 days, 13 hours, and 80
minutes, and one day later the Campania reached Sandy Hook after a passage of only 5
days, 13 hours, and 23 minutes. Even this remarkable record was not to stand for long.