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���How the Boilers of the "Bear" Were Salved

THE steamship Bear of the American Geodetic Survey stranded near Cape Mendocino, on the California coast. When it was found impossible to save the ship all efforts were confined to the salvage of the valuable contents, including the boilers and machinery. The machinery was taken apart and conveyed to the beach piecemeal. The large boilers, how- ever, six in number, could not be taken to pieces, and their salvage was therefore attended with great difficulty. Each one of the boilers was eleven feet six inches long, thirteen feet six inches in diame- ter and weighed fifty-one tons. Each individual water tube was first plugged at each end to make it airtight. The air enclosed in the pipes and in the boiler was suffi- cient to keep the boilers afloat after they had been lifted out of the hold by a derrick and deposited in the water. The boilers were rolled on the beach, en- cased in an armor

��The ship could not be savcci, but cargo, boilers, and machinery were taken out

of planks, then set afloat again and towed twenty-five miles to Eureka, California, whence they were shipped to Shanghai to be placed in another hull.

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��A Lilliputian Rival of the Popular Wrist Watch

IF the ponderous old grandfather's clock, with its weights and wheels, could do so, it would doubtless raise its hands in surprise at sight of the ring watch, the smallest member of the time-keeping family. This tiny record-keeper of the minutes and hours adorns, and is adorned by, a finger-ring studded with jewels. It is shown in the accompanying illustra- tion.

This watch is a composite timepiece, the works being of Swiss manufacture, and the case of New York make. The movement is smaller than a ten-cent piece and the case is studded with diamonds, even the winder being set with one of these precious stones. As a novel and attractive or- nament this little watch is pretty sure to find favor with the fair sex, and it is possible that it may to some extent re- place the wrist watch which has recently gained so greatly in popu- larity, especially among soldiers.

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