Word: boiler
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Boiler Makers vs. Hardly Ables...
Cherubs vs. Boiler Makers...
...Baby McKees. Section II, which will play on Tuesdays and Fridays, is made up of the following new teams: Fussers, Rounders, Boers, High Balls, Wash Bottles, Barristers, Little Ministers, and Dropped Eggs. Section III will play Wednesdays and Saturdays. It is composed of the following new teams: Cherubs, Lobsters, Boiler Makers, Hardly Ables, Minced Chickens, Snully Guzzles, and Zazas. In addition to these a number of individual players have been assigned to Section III, under the name of Freezeouts...
...water line to her fender rail, which is of heavy oak. About four inches below this rail a cove is cut the whole length of the boat, gilded and finished at either end with a carved scroll. The machinery equipment consists in a Seabury patent safety water tube boiler of about 100 horse power, and a Seabury triple expansion condensing engine with an 8-inch stroke of 75 horse power, independent air and feed pump and copper outboard keel condenser. She has steel coal-bunkers on each side of the engine and a boiler running fore and aft, capped with...
...launch is white with a temporary yellow funnel which will later be replaced by a smaller one of brass. She is 51 feet long, with pointed stern, two cock pits, the forward one being slightly larger than that of the Frank Thomson. She has a Roberts boiler and a self-oiling engine, large coal lockers and a capacity for carrying 250 gallons of water. Her screw makes 50 more revolutions per minute than that of the Frank Thomson and her speed is guaranteed at 14 knots. An official trial to determine this will take place in the Easter recess...