THE WOODEN WALLS OF ENGLAND
1 AJI that is left of the English man-of-jwar Daedalus is now being sawn up and planed and carved to decorate .the nsiy balace of an American millionaire. Sonic .time ago the British Government sold her dismantled hulk*, to Mr Stephen C. Clark, of New York, a stepson of Bishop Potter. The vessel was then broken, up and her- stout timbers transported across the ocean by the Atlantic Transport I liner Mesaba. Mr Clark intends to use the sturdy English oak to floor the hall of his new home m East Seventy-Eighth Street, and to panel the walls of his library, .One great room will also be entirely fitted with Wood' from the^shtp"'' timbers. This will be known as' the "gunboat room." The timbers are said to be so hard that it took three men a month to take out the huge handforged headless nails.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12772, 25 May 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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150THE WOODEN WALLS OF ENGLAND Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12772, 25 May 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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