ers of the ideas developed in ing purposes, the schooner rig being better for vessels the building of the Burgess yachts. It was especially of these ignorant 'workingmen. They looked upon the inventor as an enemy, planning to take the bread noted that the Thistle, in the famous races four years of… … LENGTHENING THE VOLUNTEER, DESIGNED BY THE LATE EDWARD BURGESS. manufacturers who stole the patents of Kay, without changed to a schooner rig ; but in her new rig she is by lish cutter, and it is now matter of comment that it is no means as fast a vessel as she formerly was. General not always easy…
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