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Methods Here And Abroad

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
June
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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A comparison of the different methods of doiug wOhat is practically the same thing in various parts of the world is both interesting and aumsing to the thoughtful observer, says Cassier's Magazine. On American ferry boats the import is well known of the "ting-tkvg" or "jingle-jingle" of the bell by whieh the man in the wheelhouse communicates with his fellow mortal in the engine room. On the Thames, however, it would be consridered practically impossible to convoy information in this manner, and the captains of the small I paddie steamers on tb at stream stand on the paddie boxes and sing out: "Ease 'er!" "Back 'er!" etc, apparently to nobody in particular, while these interesting reinarks are promptly repeated in shrill tones by a small boy into a speaking tube whieh communacates i with the lower regions. On the Seine, I in Prance, this process is simplifled and a large trumpet-shaped mouthpiece fiares out in front of the man at the wbeel, and he yells his command.s into this funnel, the other end of which is supposed to reach the engineer. The large steamers on the Khine, in Gerraany, are oontrolled, not by the usual wheel placed in the wheelhouse forward, but by a very large wheel on a vertical axis, placed right amidships upon an elevated platform or bridge, and severaJ men pass the han dies f rom right to left, or upon occasion trot round Ín a circle, and. it would doubtless be considered a serious temptation of Providence, or at least a reflection upon the fatherland, if anyone were to attempt to construct a Rhine steamer with the ordinary form of steering gear.

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Ann Arbor Courier