Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-11-25

soul OF snow
. Cheeks that glow!
When you lead her 70 the priest
One little kiss yoaIi have at least
Ere dancing at the wedding feast
With the bride Of Albuque,qn,
BIG THwEE.MAsTED sCa0OSERs.
Bigger Now Than Many square.rigxes
Vessels. and Easier TO Handle Ex
eeps On Lang Voyages.
New York San.
Too vessels were lying at Pier II
East River, loading general merchan
disc. One had two mass, the tforwarC
one with yards for foresail, tgo topsails
a gailanttop sail, and royal. Ii wa.
the bri2antIne Tree Cheers, belonging
to John Il. Li,hgow of Halifax. Shs
registered ls5 tons. No. far astern Of
her was another vessel that had thre.
tall nasts without yards. She was the
schooner Tom Williams. belonging Il
n. Edwards and others of this city. She
registers 367 tons.
We used TO think that square sails
were needed to drive large bulls
through the water, but there you see the
schooner is nearly twice as large as the
| square rugged vessel" a sailor standing
on the pier said. "Big schooners with
| three masts are becoming the fashion
| l have seen fuli-rigged ships tina, were
not much larger than that schooner
| there. Except for round the world voy.
ages, the schooner as now built is the
most economical vessel afoat."
As now huiltT'
Yes. As much improvement has
been made in schooners as in other YES
sells. The chief difference il in the RIG, -
The words Of the sailor were repeated
to vessel owner familiar With the his
tory OF the coasting trade. He said /:
The man was about right. The
schooner is very economical vessel.
She costs less to build, because there
are no yards to make and rig. The
masts cost less. A smaller crew can
handle her with equal safety. Did you
ever watch ship go about from one
tack to the other What with rising
tacks and sheets and bracing around
the yards and getting everything snug
again, il is a job that is performed
when the watch is called, 60 that all
hands can have a chance at the sport.
Besides that, the ship while in STAYS
often loses her Roadway and drifts
astern part of the time. But when a
schooner is beating to windward the
helm is put down by the man at the
wheel. She comes up with her canvas
shaking fore and aft. A man shifts the
tOpsail tack and the booms swing over.
The mate looks on with his hands in his
pockets. Two men only are ON deck.
She never loses Roadway for an instant.
but gains several lengths to windward
every time che tacks. Once around
she will run from one to two points
nearer to the wind than the ship.
The schooner rig is an American in
vention. Capt. Andrew Robinson of
Gloucester, Mass, built the first one in
1I13. 1t had two masts. 1t was rig
that came to stay. As the coasting trade
increased the vessel owners built larger
schooner and rugged them with loftier
spars and greater spreads of canvas
They all had two masts only. About
1855 or 1856 they began to see that the
great mainsail was too heavy q sail for
the small crew of schooner. The
schooner spread too much canvas Cor q
gale of wind, even when close reefed.
So they put three masts into the schoou-
ers, making three sails out of the can
vas formerly used for two. The schoon-
er Lydia p. Cowperwaite was launched
at Forked Rivers, N. j., in 1856 She
was great schooner in her dav, and
she is not bad one now. She was one
of the first three masted schooners.
She will carry $50 tons OF cargo. She
is now the property of G. A. Williams of
New London. But schooners are afoat
now that could take her ON deck like a
long boat, md not settle very much
either. Afte1 tho war, as the ooasting
trade increased, large schooners were a
necessity, and the number OF three
Nasted schooners increased. Unc-fift
of the schooners in Lloyd's American
Register have three masts. Nearly one
half of the schooners launched in 1882
had three masts, and all schooners of
800 tons burden and upward are now
rugged in that style.
The advantages Of having three high
and narrow and therefore light and
easily handled sails in place of two
high, broad and heavy ones are 90 OBJ
vious that sohooners of only 200 tons
are rugged with three nasts. The John
s. Case, q three master of Rockland,
Me-, il only 112 feet in length over all.
Brewer, Me-
"How large are the largest three-mast-
ed schooners?"
"Wm. Ingersoll d Co.'S Nellie J.
Saunders 10 ono of the largest. She was
built by David g. CARL at City island
in 1889. She will carry l,500 or 1,600
tons Of coal. That would have been q
good load for ship once. There are
larger schooners than she 10 but not
many. AZ that size tho sails become
pretty heavy and then resort IL had to
four naasts, all rugged With fore and aft
calls. The Elliott b. Church, belong
ing toJ. b. Phillips d Co, Taunton,
has four masts. They are called tho
fore, main, mixzen aud spanker. That
schooner Is 1872 feet long, 40 feet beam,
and l6 feet deep. She will carry moro
than 20OO tons. Thefe are plenty OF
banks that will not carry % MUCH"
Mr.. Jesse CARL of Newport, Long
Island, was asked about the develop
mont Of schooner building. He said !:
For the coastwise and Gulf trades
schooners are unequalled. The most
profitable sizs for the coast trade 10 ono
that viii caley 500 or 800 tons Of coal.
For the West India trade larger ones
are built, with great success. The
whole question of rigging q ship il to
ges she necessary spread of canvas IN
the most convenient shape. For long
voyages schooners have not done 50
we'll AZ vessels with square sails, be-
cause the square sails are moro easily
handled in a gale of wind. ! have
heard that men who had taken schoon-
era to the East Indies once could not be
persuaded TO do 50 again. After gale
of wind il is impossible to spread canvas
70 steady the vessel"
Why so 2"
"Donft you see that in schooner
there are NO braces to steady the gads,
as there are on square rugged ship 20
steady the yards. When q schooner IL
rolling around with no wind the sails
sway and surge across the deck with q
report like that of q cannon. The sails
have to be lowered 20 keep them from
slatting out, and there the vessel lies
wallowing in the swells like porpoise.
That is an experience TO make any man
sick. On . square-riR9ed vessel the
lower topsails could be cot. Then In
voyages 10 the East Indies the great
spread Of canvas in . square riRRed
ship are great advantage In the tfsas
winds."
..Are schnonsYs ever built Of iron?''
rs asked Of down t0wa shiSbuiider.
"Somefimos. There are half . do7eu
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