16 OCTOBER 1909, page 16

The Invention Of The Steamboat.

[To THE EDITOR OF THR " 8PECTATOR:9 SIR,—A propos of the celebration of the Hudson-Fulton centennial, I venture to send you a few paragraphsupon the claims of another citizen of......

The Merchant Service.

[To TRY EDITOR 01 THE "SrEcraToa."] SIR,—I cannot say why, but somehow or other the last thing I should have expected was to see an attack upon shipowners in the Spectator. I......