The Kwan Cheong Iron Works Company have built and engined six steam yachts and launches sines the Works came into el they have com-loted is the Huai Ch'ing or the "Happiness (of the river) Huai." This isa pleasure yacht for General Liu, whose home is at Yango! how on the Grand Canal. General Liu at present out of offi 'a manda lightened 1d of pr It was he who memorialised the emperor to allow the introduction of railways into China, and he gave his reasons for his ideas. The Central Government however, declined to accept his views and committed his memorial to oblivion. The Huai Ch'ing was first built and engined at the Iron Works opposite the Old Dock. It was thou taken to pieces and carried to Fan Cheoug's yard further down the road, and put up again, The vessel went on a pleasure trip on Saturday, and although it was snowing most of the time, the guests managed to keep themselves warm by judiciously shutting the doors and windows of the saloon where a substantial tiffin was served, Mr. Li one of the Directors of the Iron Works doing the honours. Among the guests were Messrs. Tong Mow-cheo, Ching To-chai, and T. Weir, besides representatives of the Press. The handsome little yacht flying the English e the bow and the Chinese stern, steamed from Hankow Road jetty at quarter past twelve o'clock to some distance above the Seven Mile Reach. She was then turned round, which sie did with remarkable rapidity, and the Hankow Road jetty was reached at 3 pan.
The Huai Ch'ing has an iron bull and is 80 feet long over all, 12 feet beam and 7 feet depth of hold. She draws 3 feet 6 inches forward and 5 feot G inches aft; and herdisplacementis115tons. 'The saloons of which there are two built of teal, are fore and aft of the engines, and are capable of holding about twenty' persons, by after saloon is by far the largest. General Liu's sleeping apartment is abaft the forward saloon and extends right across the vessel. Over this on the port side is a small room for the servants and on the opposite side is the galley with a foreign cucking range. The after saloon has goats all round it with green cushions, and the roof is picked out in white and gold. In the forward saloon is some ornamental curved work representing squirrels and bunches grapes, 1g tow similar fable to thet current amorly foreigners of the 'Tux and the Grapes.' The whee! house is forward of Pho Huai Ch'ing oxrcios side vessels of greater tonnage, but their position would nut be passod by' the Government Surveyor of any western nation, as they are inboard, some two fast from the taffrail, The Huai Oh'ing is fitted with a pair of high pressure compound inverted and direct acting engines of 28-boree power nominal. She has a single boiler 8 foot 4 by 7ft. 2 diameter with 113 tubes giving a total heating surface of 625 square fovt, During the trip, the afoam pressure on the boiler was 120Ibs. to the square inch ai this gave from 200 to 210 revolutions per tninute. Pho Ewes O'ény MINS 8 BLUKI propeller, the diameter of which is Aft. 6 inches with a pitch of 6ft, 6 inches.
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