Tanner Again in Commission

Fifty-Year-Old Brig Is to Load Cargo of Lumber at Mukilteo for This Port

HULL IS EVERLASTING

In Spite of Age and Shipwreck Her Ancient Timbers Still Hang Together

The brig Tanner is going to celebrate her jubilee by making another voyage from the north to this port. At least half a dozen times has this time-worn craft been wrecked, and as often has her obituary been written. She has been sailing the seas since 1855, when she was launched from a shipyard long passed away at Smithtown, N. Y. “Arrived, brig Tanner, in distress,” Is an entry which appears with surprlsing frequency on the records of the Merchants’ Exchange. She knows all about Davy Jones’ locker from personal observation, and more than once in the “disaster” column of the marine records she has been classed as “wreck, total loss.”

A “Sliding” Boat

Some experiments made on the Seine recently with a remarkable automobile boat of a new type yielded surprising results. The boat is described as a “slider,” from the fact that…

Science!

Valentine Democrat, Valentine, NE, January 19, 1905 Wireless for Trains The managements of the Lake Shore and the New York Central railroads have decided to install a wireless telegraph system…