Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-04-25
THE GREAT EXPOSITION.
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Down before me like great glass boiler. ribbet
and rfbboned, and set In the midst of beautiiu
lawn, by river side, as If designed to pump GU
the river for the purpose OF steaming the lawn,
see the great Exhibition Of 1867. am setting a
table of wine shop on the high hill of Passy
which Is n suburb oil Paris in the same relation
that Newport is a suburb OF Cincinnati, bein.
across the river, and with coffee cup, before me
q LOT OIL loose paper, q portable Yankee inkstand
and the vast panorama Of this summoned ipdustr,
lying on the dyed and spangled plain of thu
seine, ! want TO begin my recital OF that whicl
you VIII see between your homestead and the gay
metropolis.
THE STEAMER.
you are wise, take the American line. Tn,
Arago Is suburb ship; the Fulton Is as CHEEKY
sure and speedy. They have carried for many
years the cream OF the travelling public that fas-
tidiOus portion of folks who cross the ocean every
year or two, and settle down at last to the best
Loneliness for the best of what the sea can give
cleanly saloons and beds food like the most boun.
tilul OF homes, ones countrymen for officers aud
companions, II faith in the ship, and knowledge
Of her most reliable record. AS the voyage 10
Paris Is one Of the most eventful episodes Is the
lion Of II imperative In the return. let me Instance
the ship Fulton, as representative transport, IN
her first voyage to the great fair, promising that
the writer has crossed the Atlantic in steamers of
| almost every line.
THE MYSTERY OF A SHIP.
When yon are f,irly atioat, and some WEAKNESS
oil sailing has made books, cards and talking vain
TO satisfy, You fall TO walking hther and thlther
and speaking to the many remarkable people who
are your conductors Where are you and on
what! pin head on \ school map of the ATTAIN
tic ocean, divided into ten thousand parts-one
part represents your steamer. This tcn-thou-
sdndth part Of pn-head Is three hundred feet
long and forty odd broad. You, personally are
therefore threc-hundredth part of one ten thou
sandth.
Nineteen feet beneath you the incalculable lit
tleness OF the steamer reaches. One hundred
grown up men live by guiding and driving her.
Ihirty-iive OF these you may never see during
the ten days of your transit. They live among
the yapors and furnaces at the ships bottom,
twenty-iour of them shoyeling Goal into -four
great tires at the rate of fifty Iuis days. Seven
are engineers three do only oil tue Joints aud
thcws Of the lcviathan; four hours Of Crime.
scorching. and the din of machinery. alternate to
every man with eight hours Of repose; around
them all. IN vast repositories. betwixt the sea and
the flame, eight hundred and twenty tuns Of coal
are slowed away. IL costs, for the raw food of
your engines, s5,1lO n trip; yet, cease to feed
them, and the speed you are making of fifteen
knots an hour, decreases at once to two knots.
should the great shaft crack that whirls your
paddles, You may wander and tack at sea threc
months undiscovered, as did the Atlantic. The
coal she carries for these twelve days will last n
small family lifetime of fifty years. Two full
coal trains, sncl as run anthracite coal on the
Philadelphia y Reading Railroad, were required
to transport her fuel TO the dock. 1t must CON
vert into steam perpetually the water that Is con-
tanned IN two great boilers, of an aggregate
length OF hity feet and of breadth of twenty
THESE boilers cost in construction forty thousand
dollars. They work two osclllating engines Of
h'c iect diameter aud ten feet stroke, with an ng-
gregate power OF seven hundred horses pulling
al a trot. These engines are set so coinpucty in
the middle of the ship that there is not foot
OF space to spare, anywhere within them when
lhey revolye, and they drive pair of paddle
wheels Of thrty-four feet diameter fourteen times
around every minute. Before the ship shall, have
accomplished her voyage she will have made
$50 900 revolutions. The weight of her boilers
and engines, occupying space seventy by TWEEN
iy feet square, Is thai of Tour regiments of SOL
diers set twelve deep. Her shafts are Of the best
wrought iron; all the minor parts of the engines
are reproduced on board, To make accident good
and this faithful machinery for twelve years past
mas mas made eight voyages year. Of $3.50 hours each
Fifty billion revolutions is the history of the
ship.
Around the engines and boilers in vast bunk
ers oil convenient access, the coal Is slowed away
Inc IRE rooms are separated by iron plates from
the combustible hull yet here us in every ocean
steamer, II Is thrilling TO think Of the great way
ing cisterns OF red hot Goals that throb in the
depth OF the vessel, and of the grimy monde
script beings who minister to them. Upon the
SAINT level with the boilers and engines, (Which
by the way are bolted to n bed plate. set satart
upon the Keel and ribs of the ship tile cargo is
stored. 1t consists of GnO bales OF cotton, carrie
al cent and n half pound, 100 barrels of mer-
chandise, sewing machines aud Yankee traps
without end enough, indeed, to take up the
whole available space; and above this are the pas
senger decks, two in number, emitting the open
or promenade decks 1t is bewildering to glance
al plan OF the steamer, and see how oddly her
state rooms are set hither and thither to ccono-
illlze space and secure air together. Hatcles,
heaters. flucs, steam pipes, aisles stairways and
saloons alternate with the CLOSE rows OF state
rooms, neat as miniature baby houses, In the
very bows is the iorecastc where the sailors mess
and sleep; store room divides this from the
second caiin-plain but neat and here is the
barrier. under skylight, shaving you merlily.
Near by the engineers are messing, opposite the
ice house, where Holsters and oysters lie alive.
aud wedged between the pantry and the chief
stewards room is the bar, presided over nv n
genius VINO might have kept the Congressional
Hole IN the Wall, SO Southern is he of aspect
ana so rotund wtlal Then there is the butcher
shop, The pantry the steam table, the doctors
once the captain's reception-rOom, the long sa-
looms, the smoking room, the airy companion
way, where the ladies love to sit. 1t is Il little
floating world, complete in itse.f. swinging in
certain orbit for little life and all its dcstinies
are ended ana It's powers spent in fortnghts
gigantic action Like the great reptiles OF the
siluyian time, hundred feet in spine, il eats in
Suitably fJr its weeks existence, and all the pllr-
poses OF living are fulfilled before the moon is
| rounded.
| faNsENOEks.
Among our passengers is Andrew G, Curtin. of
fennsylvana, the war Governor, tall powerful
agreeable man, originally an attorney in the small
interior town of Bcllefonte. Ills father was an
lrlshman from the county Clare who went over
70 France and fought for the Republic. His son
| Is making pllgrlinages to both places now Ire
land and France. lie is the most commandments
man on board, full Of anccdote and rcmnisencc
ana presldes III all the concerts, meetings and lee
lures, with mixture of dignity and grotcsque-
ness.
From Ohio there il George NJ. Parsons of Col
umbus, whose daughters make merrimpnl every
where and from Philadelphia the family Of JOHN
W. Forney, clerk Of the United State Senate
Alabama has commissioner on board-one OF
the new and hopeful class of Southernmen Mr.
IL Halnes, who carries To the Great Fair many
cases OF Alabama mineral and products with tie
intention OF developing capital and emigration
from Europe. His is the only Southern State,
except Louisiana, represented
But the central figure of the ship Is an old. par-
alytlc man, in whose lost and struggling inlrl-
gence you see "reminiscences of long command
It Is Commander IIaItstcin, who was an officer of
me United States Navy ihirty-three years. When
Gilman, We're all for the Government; but His
wealthy wife influenced him first to p,ssiycncss
| then To rebellion. lie gave up his commission
which was his history, and like II los. energy wan
dered to and fro in Charleston, full of dark pre-
monitions OF the success of the great Government
he had betrayed When the fire was Opened np,,n
Sumter he strolled in the same abstract way 10
Fort Moultric, and looked at tue gunners driving
iron into the faithful old castle There was no
enthusiasm in his regard Next morning. when
the flag of Fort Sumter fell n stroke Of para
iyss fell upon Commander Hartstein. God spared
him the work of traitor, If not his DETECTION
They carried his wrecked body To blockade rum
ner, and he lay stunned and remorseful in Paris
three years, filled with bitter upbr,idings against
his counsellors. They feed him with a spoon like
a baby. He has returned home to find his broad
acres laid waste, his wife's homestead is untcna-
BILE Lonely and YEARLY these two with their
daughter are returning to Europe to spend the
rest Of life in almost INDECENT exile.
| nuMoEs OF THE SHIT.
For the early days Of the voyage the robust people
nave enough 70 do to study the sea sick as thry
successfully fall away from meals and are heard
grasping in the last inversion Of an empted stomach
In the stclnsion Of their state rooms The desire a.
cal sea sickness by any other name. that il may smell
Ms sweet T. ludicrOus manfesai ion IF pour human
naln e Miss X phnla declares that she had a iii,
henunche when she came On board and knew that ihe
picked olives at dinner bad for her Temperament
IN the midst OF her exp nation up comes her dinner
and her anxious papa carries her down the compapjIn
way. hdmnn's the young attorney declares tlar ihe
sen makes him giddy, not sick and the prrscyerin,
disgust til which he tries to worry down nltte ~,
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