New-York tribune., 1880-09-28
A MONSTER S7EAMB0AT COMPANY.
A PLAN TO BUILD IRON BOATS.

/ EXCLUSION TRAVEL IN TIE WATERS sURROUNDING
NEw-YORK CITY TO BIZ MADE sAFE-A FLEET or
THIRTY sTAUNCH. SWIFT, FIRE-PROOF VESSELS
TO BIZ BUILT To RUN TO CONEY ISLAND. LONG
BRANCH AND OTHER RESORTS.
The building of great hotels at COney
Island. the construction OF piers at Long Branch
aud two three other beaches near New-IOrk
City. ard the development Of numerous small resorts.
have caused expansion of excursion travel I'm the
waters surrounding ibe Metropolis which never
| dreamed or five years II known that between
five and million people visited Coney Island alone ths
past summer. The rush 10 Long Branch. Iockaway Glen
Island and the smaller resorts has also been unprecc-
dented. Large ,he travel this 1t Is not
doubIed that next summer Il VII be immensely larger,
perhaps double. The Eotc AT RockaWay, the largest
summer hote in the world. is expected ther be
for guests. The Oriental Coney Island. enlarged by
the addition n wing, will he open. Iftae pans
Of those interested IN the spcriy of Long Island are
carried out. there viii b. many cottages and three
or four hotels there. Al hcse facilities FOR tie
| commodaticn OF gncsts win add the volume
sion travel through New-Yor'i Bav, and demand the
services of 4 larger steam vessels than Is
| low gmp.oye II tLc bu.uess.
In order create TIE boats needed 20 accommodate
! this I1cr a-inS travel. a'd % insure exemption
rom The ainu ste ubol casulltcs of the past rear.
a movements has been progress tbs city amou
| weiikn0wn captiii-is and busn men Tor veral
weeks. looking 20 lie orstAz sion or monster com
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mauTed yesterday thc mpleion OF artIc Of in
corporation H. the orela.zafion Of the Iron steam
boat Company" aud lh. papers are 10 0e trd to-day
IN Ere hold " !. The capital stock of the company Is
put at $40 COO OoO It's to be divided into 100000
shares OF 800 Some Of the Hcorporators have
subscribed 100000 each To lie stocG ana Other sub
scrip.ions beenreceivcd amounting 900 The
John Roach. John Roach Of the
Delaware River Iron Works and -hipbullinG Company
Charles H. Cramp Of William Cramp & sons Phila-
| d-lphIa Shipbuldng Company; Joseph C. Ferguson,
! Pniade pha; Nathan c. Miller. Bridgeport Conn;
George ;. scott. banker and broker NewYork; Wash
| ingt0n f. Conner banker and broker. NewYork; Sdm-
uel Carpenter, general passenger agent Pennsy yana
Railroad; Charles E. Quincy, banker AMI brokcr, New
| York; J. B. Houston, president Of Pacific Mai
Steamship Company; James d. Smith, banker and
! broker, New YORK; Alfred r. Whitney. iron
! chant, New-York; W. J. Hutchinson. bunker aud
broker NewYork; and Rufus Hatch, banker and broker
New-Yorh The business OF ohe company to be con
Quoted at Long Branch and New YORK City
It Is proposed 10 build fleet of thirty
! excursion passenger boats wholly OF iron and
steel. each boat be divided into not less
than twelve water-tight compartments, thus
making them both 1reproof and almost II not abso-
utey safe against laundering OF being disabled
by collision otherwise. They OF sui able
pacty both ght and passenger traffic the ld
River and IN New York Bay, Long Island Sound and
other waters nd not to draw above eight feet of
water when loaded Their construction Will be OF the
best materials. They VIII be warranted % De Of such
! strength and seaworthiness that they BE-
savannah, Charleston New-Oreans and other Southern
| ports m the winter season, when required for
| excursion They VIII be provided with
proved rlachner, compound engines. steel boilers,
electric lights. ana appliance and species OF ap
paratus known Or insuiing comfort speed and the
ssfety fe The speed o., the boats be less
thln twenty miles hour In which respect they VIII
rank with tie Hudson River boats. It proposed
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ready for next summers business. Building will BE-
continued until aeet Of thr vessels has been
structed readiness for the immense traffic expected
during the worlds Fair OF 1893.
The business between ewYork City and the sea
beaches has nearly doubled year during the past
five years. The company believes. however. that the
growth OF excursion travel wi take place the future
more rapidly even than IN the past, pro-
vided The public b. assured OF being
carried in perfect safety steamboats,. The
number of lives lost AMI the amount Of property
destroyed On the water during the past summer were
appalling. I'd the puble became tmid IN regard to
their safety OD any steamboat Thousands OF people
To- C0noy Island and Rockaway by the tedious and
dusty and lines this last because afraid to 70
on the boats Many Of the boats employed in the ex-
business have been OF character dis
rust owing the condition Of their hulls and boilers
and the certainty of a ter rbie catastrophe in OF
fire. large part Of the public have had no faith in
them. and have avoided them. With class OF boats
70 be constructed by the company such fears VIII
dspclled. The vessels being Of iron and steel will be
strong seaworthy and virtually freproof; aud being
built compartment they viii be from the dan
ger Of sinking Of collisions.
Evidence Of nferiorty OF wooden steamboats, for
the purposes afforded by the ter
ribe disasters OF the past The large steamer
Narraganset burned and sunk By collision with the
stonngton. in the Sound, causing the loss large
number Of lives The Seawanhaka caught fire from an
explosion Of coal gas while going up the East River
and was burned TO the waters edge causing the loss OF
nearly forty lives. The Adelaide crushed and sunk
in the North River by collision with the Grand
public Had this been iron boat, built In cOmpart-
ments. # would have survived that collision, and have
gone into service again. By the collision OF the
steamer Twilight. wooden boat. with the schooner
Norman of the Battery. the lives OF 400 persons
endangered. The sinking OF the Erastus Corning, the
burning and sinking OF the steamship City
OF New-YOrk In the East River, and the
laundering OF the wooden steamship City Cruz
of the OF Florida during recent hurricane. by
which about fifty lives ost all important
moral In regard 10 the use Of wooden steamers for
cursiOn travel esp ccaly when are com
pared with the recent accidents the Arizona and the
Anchora at sea. long chapter OF other disasters by
the explosion OF boilers collisions etc, might re-
corded many Of which might not have occurred had
the vessels been constructed Of iron Of superior
materials.
The building iron steam in country is
comparatively OF date but the superiority OF the
iron vessels even FOR sound and river traffic has al
ready been tabllshed When the iron boats
introduced they speedily spaco the wooden vessels II
should be remembered that, up 20 1872, scarcely
iron steamship had been constructed IN
this country. did the rolling-ms aud
shipYards required for their construction then exist
The result OF enterprise built up since thst date is
that four iron shipyarts the Delaware 1879
1879 there built seventy.sx iron steam
shins OF 1520ss giving emplo oyment to OF
9s6 All these vessels seaeoing and equal In
strength speed and finish 10 any of their class
In In rnrIA A. tha nhI nft tha aho