Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-01-23
ARRIVAL ~ TnR rAConA.
4 New Seean Collier for he Pueel
Sound anA San Hrancfses Trade.

bsand anA San HFancisee Trade.
Yesterday morning the Pacific I'm
provement Company's new steam col
her Tacoma arrived at this port, and "a
she was the largest steam vessel that
ever visited Seattle, she became the cen-
tsr Of attraction, and was visited BY
hundreds Of psrsons during the day.
The
~ built in the yard Of VIM. Cramp 4
Sons, at Philadelphia, and il an iron
scEsw Of 2ll2.64 tons register, and has
carrying capacity Of 1000, having brought
thai quantity Of freight out from Now
Yo1f 70 San Francisco. Her dimensions
are: Lsngth, $50 fest; beam, Il fest;
bold, ~ fest, and has three decks. She
% propelled by . compound, o0ndensing,
high and low pressure engine Of 1000
horse power. The Tacoma made the
aUIcxEsr PASSAGE on RECORD
between Hampton Roads, Virginia, and
San Franci1C0, her actual time between
those points being - days, hour and
- minutes, and her running time Al
days, Ii hours and 30 minutes. She
made no st0ppa9es and encountered av-
erage weather. This steamship 10 de-
signed a. collier betw can Tacoma and
San Francisco, and will take her first
cargo from there a. soon a. it can be
placed IN her. She il classed "A 1O0'
Enalah Uoyds, and has q certificate for
70 years from tho American Shin Mas
tern' Association Of the United States.
The Tacoma 10
q follows: Master, Captain Geo. D.
KoRtx; Chief Officer, Capt. L. L. Sim
mona; Second Officer, Christopher Red
man; Third Officer. VIM. Willoughby;
Chief EnGinser, Harry Wilson; First
Assistant, Jas. X. Grant; Second Assis-
tant, VIM. No6att; Third Assistant, A.
RYinRlo. She carries q crew Of fifty
persons all told.
She sncoun tered rough weather ND
the coast, and did not make more than
an ordinary passage. Her ordinary
running time . said to be about u
miles hor,. She has no passenger ac-
CONSIDERATIONS, but il safe, dry vessel,
and . good freiRhter. 1t has not yet
been fully decided whether she will
carry freight up the coast or not, but in
order to give il . test, she brought few
hundred tons up the present trip. She
10 lifted with all the latest improved
steering eppafatus, steam winohes, etc.
Captain Kofts 10 we'll known on ths
Sound. having commanded the light
house tsnders1S hubrick and Manzani.a
for several years. He was also Captain
Of the Ori1smme ct tho time Ben Hol-
liday and party made thsir tour Of the
Sound in her.
The drst officer, Capt. L. L. Simmons,
10 also we'll and fav0rably known on
the Sound. He was master and pari
owner Of the bark Great Western, for q
long time in tho coal tradeE between Sc.
attic and San Francisco. By the burn
ing OF tho bark, eight months ago
Captain Simmons lost several years
hard earnings. He then went to his
homo in the East, from which he had
been absent over four years, and found
his wife ON her death bed, and she died
two days after his arrival. The loss Of
his property he could bear, but the
death Of his wife has almost broken
him down in spirits.
]. F. Steinberge, q large stockholdei
in the Pacific improvement Company
and manager of the Tacoma, is on the
vessel, and ID hero in tho interest of the
corporation which he represents.
Last, but not BY any means least, the
Tacoma brought to the Sound, Mr.
Chas. II. Wells, Of San Francisco, man.
aRer Of Wells line Of sailing vessels
who comes here to make tho aouuaiut-
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