The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-18

thoroughly furnished; for beauty OF
architectural design, strength of motive
power, carrying capacity and thorough
workmanship, she is model steamer.
Her dimensions are: Length on deck,
$50 feet; width of beam, 81 feet; depth
of hold, 10 feet; 6 feet shear forward,
and ST shear aft; extreme width over
all, IS feet. Her timbers are AZ by IL
inches, twelve and thirteen inches
apart; plank, fiveinches thick. Heighth
between main and boiler decks, seven
teen feet; main keelson, IL by "a inches;
bulge keelson, 8 by 16 inches; floor
keelsons, 6 by IL inches, five in number
on each side; centre bulkhead. 81 inches
thick; beams 9 by Al inches; deck 3inch-
es thick.
Her motive power is to practical
minds the most astonishing feature OF
the boat. She is provided with two OF
A. Hartupee's patent duplex condensing
engines. The two small cylinders are
twenty-eight inches in diameter and ten
feet stroke. The two large cylinders
are fifty-six inches in diameter and ten
feet stroke. The small cylinders are
supplied directly from the boilers-the
large. cylinders by the exhaust steam
from the small cylinders; consequently,
all the power derived from the large
cylindersis gained without any expense
of fuel, which poaN is almost twice
that of the small cylinders, and there
fore gives o saving of about sixty per
cent. of fuel, which is one of the heav-
lest expenses of running steamboat.
She is provided with seven boilers,
forty-four inches in diameter, and TWEEN
ty-eight feet long, with four fues in
each, of the very best material and
workmanship. Her wheels are forty
feet in diameter, eighteen feet buckets
with thirty inches facS and are model
of strength. She has a doctor" to
supply the boilers; one engine in the
bow to work the capstan; one in the
stern to work the stern capstan, and
one engine amidship to work Robert
Lea's patent freight elevator. She has
q steam fire engine with twelve hose
connections, with one hundred feet of
hose always attached to each connec-
ton, capable of throwing four hundred
gallons of water per minute on any
part of the boat.
The extreme length of the cabin,
which is elegantly furnished and adorn-
ed, is two hundred and seventy feet,
and is twenty-eight feet two inches
wide. 1t contains fifty-four state rooms,
each eight feet square, and fitted up in
an elegant and comfortable manner,
having wardrobe, wash stand and toilet
stand, and bed hung with brocatelie
curtains. The promenades on each side
of the cabin are five feet six inches
wide, and between the promenades the
cabin is seventeen feet in width. The
are separated from the cabin
by arrow of columns on each side, seven
ty two in number. These are united by
beautiful arches, perforated and carved.
The finish over the doors is n canopy,
perforated and carved, and supported
by columns. The looking glass in the
ladies' cabin is six feet three inches in
length, by ten feet wide, and is elegant
ly finished, in keeping with the interior
of the cabin. The office,
which is handsome specimen of archi-
lecture, is located in the centre of the
cabin forward, and is circle of fifteen
feet diameter; elegantly ornamented
with perforated and carved facings.
All the ornamental work is of wood,
whose beauty is heightened with
skillful application of azure, white and
gold coloring. The design of the cabin
is strictly Gothic; and although the
work is elaborate it is not overdone.
The nursery, which is Immediately
beneath the ladies' cabin, has fifteen
rooms, neatly fitted up, and on the same
deck are the wash rooms, ironing rooms,
bath rooms, &c.
The texas is one hundred and sseven-
ty-six feetlong BY twenty-six wide, and
has guard six feet wide all around.
1t contains ten rooms for passengers, be-
sides accommodations for the entire
crew.
The boat draws but four and half
feet water light, and has capacity for
two thousand five hundred tons of
freight.
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