. Factory and industrial management. steamers. Quite a number of vessels are equipped withgasoline engines as auxiliaries and are thus independent to a certainextent of the weather and entirely independent of tugs when entering? harbor. The various Governments which have colonies in the Pacificislands use gasoline launches and tugs for various purposes. Onthe coast of Eastern Australia they are found everywhere, and even onthe waters about Tasmania, while the New Zealanders are adoptingthem and have many in use. A few gasoline marine engines have beensold in Western Australia, where I
. Factory and industrial management. steamers. Quite a number of vessels are equipped withgasoline engines as auxiliaries and are thus independent to a certainextent of the weather and entirely independent of tugs when entering? harbor. The various Governments which have colonies in the Pacificislands use gasoline launches and tugs for various purposes. Onthe coast of Eastern Australia they are found everywhere, and even onthe waters about Tasmania, while the New Zealanders are adoptingthem and have many in use. A few gasoline marine engines have beensold in Western Australia, where I expect to see them finally introducedin great numbers. Even on the Yukon river in Alaska gasolinelaunches have been in use for at least two years, and perhaps nothingwas so thrilling to me as the story of the little launch ]\Ielrose whichso successfully shot the White Horse Rapids in the summer of season the builders of the Melrose shipped another and largerboat, the Valdez, to the same district. The Valdez was shipped by. YACHT LUCERU, CONVERTED FROM STEAM TO GASOLINE ENGINES,feet long, i6 feet beam; four-cylinder four-cycle engine of 133 brake horse power. Union Gas Engine Co. 3SO THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE. rail to Seattle and thence made the run of 1,700 miles up the Pacificcoast to the gold fields. Quite as remarkable a trip was that of thegasoline launch Zeta, owned in New Orleans. Starting from homethe journey was up the Mississippi River, thence b} Canal to Chicagoand the Great Lakes, finally arriving at New York City and returningby the inside course and around the coast of Florida to New onlv was this trip an enjoyable one because of its extent and the
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