People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — For an Official Trial. [ARTICLE]

For an Official Trial.

Washington, Sept. 24.—Naval officials are looking forward to the speed trial of the ram Katahdin, which is to take place on Oct. 3. The Dolphin has gone north to be presen* at the trial. The contract under which the boat was built calls for seventeen knots per hour. The vessel was built at Bath, Me., the contract price being $930,000. The keel was laid in 1891.