The daily gazette., 1883-11-28
ArAsr srEAMER.
A Successful Trial Trip OF tire Olympian
Yesterday--ReTnarkabI Time.

neutrality-suspicious. 1linGs
The Harlan & Hollingsworth Company
have again proved themselves to be the
builders ofthe fastest steamers 10 the world.
If 'hey had not done so before, they did so
vest, rday in the Trial of the steamer Olympia,
built TOR the Oregon Railway and Naviga-
tion Company. The steamer let the wharves
Of the builders at 7.45 a. M, AID returned
about 3.15 p. m. During the time the
steamer ran down below Fort Delaware and
up to League Island doubling over most Of
the distance.
The speed developed In her runs over
known measured distances was over 81
miles an hour, with As pounds OF steam and
against a heavy head wind. The registered
dimensions OF the steamer are as follows:
Length, 261.5 feet; beam, 40 feet, depth of
hold, 1875 feet; tonnage, 1,4l6 60 tons.
Yesterday she drew 8 feet Q inches OF water
both fore and aft. The outside plating of
her hull is wholly of steel, while the interior
is mostly constructed of iron. Upon the
centre of her wheelhouse is painted for her
badge picture of Mount Olympus, as typi-
cal of the name she bears.
The vessel Is fitted out with q complete
set of life-saving apparatus, including four
metallic life boats, each % feet long, four
iron life-raits, spars, sails, compasses, ETC.,
for life-boats, floats, life lines, axes, buckets
$50 life preservers, etc. Upon the hurri-
cane deck are located the pilothouse and
the quarters of the captain and the first and
second officers. The former Is finished in
cherry with double steering wheel feet
in diameter and all the usual nautical ap-
planes, In addition to electric signal
bells, etc.
The trial was satisfactory in every point
and the representative OF the owners, who
was on board, congratulated the builders of
the vessel upon their success.
Among the persons on board were Presi-
dent J. Taylor Cause, Vice President Harry
T. Cause, Captain Nathaniel r. Benson,
Nathaniel R. Benson, Jr., and Thomas
jackson, OF the Harlan and Hollingsworth
Company; George Fl. Carpenter, of the ship
joining department; Foreman James Car
michael, OF the machine shops, and other
| well-known men connected with the works.
Among the invited guests were j. G. Hen
| derson, consulting engineer and superin-
| tendent of the Oregon Railway and Naviga-
ton Company; George II. Crosby, assistant
| superintendent; Captain Ackley and Chief
| Engineer Pugsley, who will take the new
steamer around the Horn to her destination
| Stephenson Taylor, vice president of the
W. and A. Fletcher Company of New York
who built the engines and machinery fol
the sister steamer, Alaskan, built al
| ROACH . enlpyaiui William MARIAN, nepnc"
OF the late Samuel Harlan; Captain George
K. johnson, engineer in the United State
Navy, who is superintending the construc
ton of the machinery OF the United Statei
monitor Amphitrite; Captain Willard
Thompson, superintendent of the Eastern
Shore Railroad and Steamboat Company
David Appleby of Chester; J oseph Rarre,
superintendent of William Porter's Sons, o
New York, manufacturers OF electroiler
and oil lamps; Captain B. s. Osbon OF th'
Nautical Gazette; and representatives of tn
press. The steamer will run on the Puge
Sound, Washington Territory.