Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1859 — American Steamboat Models. [ARTICLE]

American Steamboat Models.

At a recent meeting held at Glasgow, Scotland, a paper was read on constructing steamboats for the Clyde.provided with the spacious and comfortable accommodations of the American river boats. Some of the members objected to the top cabins of American boats, and asserted that they would not answer for the high winds and freq .ent storms on the Scotish coast, and all admitted that a reform was necessary in their boats, and that they must combine the American system, if they wished to increase the comfort of the passengers. Improved ventilation, a promenade deck, and more space were required, and the American steamers, in regard to those improvements, were models to copy after. At the same time, most of the members thought that the hulls of such boats should be made of thin steel pla'es. So we go. The “universal Yankee Nation” furnishes models as well as structures that are recognised as superior to any known to older nations.