. American engineer and railroad journal . zed as territories. It is a leviathan ofcanoes, weighing , is 30 ft. long, and in its daycarried iS men and over a ton of goods for the Indiantrade. Secretary Thwaite of the Wisconsin HistoricalMuseum, on one of his canoe trips two years ago, foundthis relic, water-logged, on the banks of the Upper , and had it conveyed to Madison. The Hoboken Land & Improvement Company will ex- Foreign Naval Notes. A FRENCH SHU. The cut given below, from Yacht, shows the armoredcoast-defense ship Terrihli of the French Navy. This
. American engineer and railroad journal . zed as territories. It is a leviathan ofcanoes, weighing , is 30 ft. long, and in its daycarried iS men and over a ton of goods for the Indiantrade. Secretary Thwaite of the Wisconsin HistoricalMuseum, on one of his canoe trips two years ago, foundthis relic, water-logged, on the banks of the Upper , and had it conveyed to Madison. The Hoboken Land & Improvement Company will ex- Foreign Naval Notes. A FRENCH SHU. The cut given below, from Yacht, shows the armoredcoast-defense ship Terrihli of the French Navy. This vesselIs a heavily armored ship 280 fi. long, 59 ft. beam and 7,713tons displacement ; she carries two very heavy guns 42 cm.( in.) caliber ; four rapid-fire guns ; two guns and 16 revolving cannon and machine guns. The illustration shows another instance of the tendency ofthe French designers to pile up structures upon the decks oftheir armored ships, which gives them a somewhat clumsyappearance. r-^ THE GOLDEN DOOR OF THE TRANSPORTATION BUILDING, COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. hibit a fac-simile of the twin-screw steamer built inHoboken by Mr. .Stevens, in 1S05. It will have the orig-inal boiler and engine, which have been preserved asrelics. In connection with this the company will show amodel of the Haiiil/iirg, the latest double-screw boat builtfor the ferry between Hoboken and New York. Lake Monitors. The first of the monitor type of cargo vessel, the Andaste,which has just taken 2,300 gross tons of iron ore from Escanabaon a draft of 14 ft. 10 in. forward and 15 ft. 2 in. aft, can bepronounced a successful carrier. On this draft—15 ft. even— The accompanying illustration shows themost striking architectural feature of theTransportation Building — the GoldenDoor. It will serve to give, even withoutthe beautiful coloring which will character-ize it in its completed state, a very goodidea of what promises to be one of the mostnotable architec
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