Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1910 — Turbine Steamers. [ARTICLE]

Turbine Steamers.

In a turbine steamer the rhythmic thumping of the pistons disappears, and instead the engines give out a thin soprano song that rises or falls in key with thw speed, sometimes suggesting a continuous squeal from the struggling giants of steam striving to escape from their close confinement inside the big iron Jackets, which of themselves give no hint of power. Every church worker . occasionally says after teu lng how haid she works for her preacher: “My doctor says he can't , keep me well unless I give up my religion.” When a man becomes engaged, or buys a grand piano, he doesn’t want tbs papers to say anything about ft.