Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-05-26

cary, aboard. But the caprice 0f rail- /
road usen II corsoas TO roatesaptste- No I
sogner had they got her goaEig better /
than ever she had lone than they be- /
came satisfied that
MORE RAPID TRANSIT
Than they could give, vas needed be
tween the tao cities. The old roate !
through the LiveYnore pass wore out !
iron too fast and the Vallejo route in |
yolved too much delay in transfer. Go
they solved the problem of boilding a
new road Up tie bay shore fron OAK
land, By San Pablo aud plEole point, IL
cross the straits nea. Martinez and coz
nee. with the Eailei 10 road scar Cordslia
on the S1isiu marshes. To carry ont
this system they were obliged 10 build
the monster ferry boat So.a1o. the larg
est vessel of her class in the known
weird. She can carry tvsnty freSShs
cars or sixteen passenger coackes on nef
deck at once. And with the Soiano
once In operation the company had no
fur,her use for the Yosemite. One
would think they would nse her as en
excursion boat during the simmer
months, bat the Central Pacific folks
have no friends, and in the event OF an
accident, such as often occurs on exeur-
sion bats, they would be cast for more
damage than boat could earn n
twenty years. Hence she has laid IN
Oakland creek for the past fo1I years
and
SCARCELY TURNED HEB WHEELS.
She is in excellent order, and | am
sase IN saving she is q better boat than
the day he WAS built. When rebulit in
1876 the work cost 700, and that Is,
if | am correctly informed. inst tie
figure Captain Irving has paid for her.
The Central Pacific folks have 10
earthly use for her, and she would die
Of dry rot if they did not sell her TO
somebody. She will be the only steamer
north of San Francisco with steel boil
ers, and il By far the finest boat that
has ever Piled British ColuIsbia waters
that is, when she gets there. She Is
287 feet long, or - feet longer than the
Wide West or X. X. Thompson, has -
feet breadth of beam and Ii feet bold.
Her engine is a single beam with 5o
inches diameter of cylinder and Il feet
stroke of piston. Her boilers are very
economical, and she will be able to run
IL hours continuous steamipg on nine
tons of Wellington coal. On excursions
she can carry 800 or 800 passengers with
PERFECT SAFETY,
INT il is not likely she will ever have
that many people on board of her at
once. The main deck saloon Is OF pol
ished California laurel with pllasters OF
| rosewood. Her upper saloon Is done in
white China caps with gold caps and
gothic carlines with d spacious social
| hall in front of the purser's office. The
upper story of her engine room IL cased
| in plate glass, SO tina; the passengers
| can read of the steam guage and count
| the revolutions for themselves. The
| need of such boat on the lower Fraser
| is this The building of the Canadian
Pacific railroad occasions the sending OF
large freights lat times, and they need
| boat that will carry from Victoria to
New Westminster as much as two boats
| like the William Irving and X. Z. Rithet
| can carry from New Westminster 10
| Fort Yale. In this connection we learn
that Capt. JAS. W. TIoup of this city
has been offered command of the X. +.
Rithet, 20 take the place of Capt. James
Tacklebury.
/ ThE GkDWIH
Upon Puget Sound and the Straits OF
Fuca has grown greatly in the past two
years. Tae o. X. d N. boats are carry
| ing lots of passengers and would do still
| better il they would send the S. G.
| Reed over there to run with the Emma
Hayward and string their line out from
Olympia to Laconner or Utsalady, con.
Meeting there with a smaller boat fol
| Semiahmoo.
"Well," said the telegraph writer
''that's pretty long story about one
steamboat, but must own it is not de-
void of interest. She has had quite a
lot Of ups and downs. hasn't she. Write
her up And with that he went back
to his work. Acting upon his sugges.
ton, l rave written up her history as
| far as my memory serves me. If she
has had more than one boats share OF
| accidents, it must also be remembered
that owing to her large carrying capa-
city and her great economy of fuel she
| has run great many more miles than
her two cOnsorts. the Capital and Chry-
sopolis.
ANOTHER PROBLEM DEMONSTRATED
| In the building of this boat, is the su-
l tSAtpktty Af-cS ASoaHd OsCh VIII
| fornia laurel or any other material The
| ChrysOpolis was built> of California
laurel, in 1860, and when they went to
put new boilers into her in 1872, they
found her to be rotten. They then de-
cided to make ferry boat of her and
had to cut her down to the waters edge
to do 80. They put in fir knees, and to-
day she Is (the Oakland) good boat.
The Yosemite was built in 1868 end all
her original fir timbers are as good as
the day they we're put into her, while all
her laurel has tied out and been
thrown away. She is good for fifteen
years yet. The Capital was built
wholly of fir. and was always called the
| Oregon lumber yard" in derision. She
is now eighteen years old and is capable
OF an immense amount of service yet.
Being 3l2 feet long she can carry twen-
ty-fye or thirty tons on her deck with
ease, and in summer time sha is n good
paying piece of property. have writ
ten this for the amusement of some old
friends who follow steamboating, and
hone IL will not proye tedious