Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-06-05
THE NEW HUDSON.
From the Cincinnati Commercially

From the Cincinnati Commercial
Writing of the new steamer Hudson.
which has Just been built for the st.
Louis and Evansville trade, Capt. j. F.
Ellison, her commander, says:-"Hel
hull is 225 feet long, beam 81 feet, hold
60 feet, floor 36 feet, bottom plank
4-3. PA, side plank 4-3, bow timber 4x5,
knuckles 4-6, floor timbers &C., side
timbers 4x5, main keelson 7x14. Her
| timbers are built after timber speciica-
tons furnished by Silas Atkins, inspec-
| tor for the st. Louis Board of Under
writers, and are extra we'll fastened,
having a screw bolt every 6 feet, bolt
ing knuckle to bilge keelson and locust
pin in every inside joint, holding top
and floor timbers together. Model, 80
feet of a run forward, and from first
dead flat she tapers aft 9 inches in a
side to cylinder timber, where she
draws in to make a stem different from
any eve built, her skegs coming ou of
hull % inches from bottom, not fol-
lowing bottom line as in all skeg
boats, the idea being to combine the
sterling qualities OF the skeg boat
with the quick handling qualities of
the round stem boats. A glance at the
timber specifications will show all I'M
usually heavy and strong built hull.
She is no W drawing in deepest place,
with everything OH board but cabin
outfit, % inches, and we estimate she
will come out in 40 inches of water,
which will be remarkably light for a
boat of her class and bnild. She will
have 4 steel boilers 26 feet long, AZ
inches in diameter, with 2 f1ues each;
Niger boiler, steam fire pump, capstan
and freight holster. Her engines are
26 inches in diameter, 6 feet stroke,
built by James Reese, of Pittsburg,
with patent cutoff and vibrator shit
ing apparatus. Her shaft, 1O.2-inch
journaf-working water wheel, % feet
in diameter, with buckets % feet long.
She is fitted out with Janney electric
light. Her cabin is full length, having
80 lengths of rooms, with 46 rooms for
passengers and sleeping accommoda-
tons for 125 people, the rooms in the
ladies' cabin being extra large and fur
nished with an electric call-bell with
annunciator in the Office. This is
something entirely new in western
boats, and should be of great advantage
to ladies travelling alone and with
children, as their wants can be known
and attended to as promptly as in a
hotel. Cabin furnished very hand
somely with cherry finishings and fur
niture, and the floor covered with a
Royal Wilton velvet carpet of very ele-
CANT design. Every room i'm her cabin
has beds made of the finest curled hair,
giving her beds superior to those of
almost any boat aflOat. Her pantry
is one of the show places, being extra
large and finished in cherry and is de-
signed to be used when desired as a
private dining room. The texas is I'M
usually large, giving to her officers
ample and comfortable quarters. The
boat is regarded by good judges here
to be superior in general makeup and
appearance to any boat of the kind
ever built here. She was designed
and built here. She was designed and
built especially for the St. Louis and
Evansville trade, to fill the day of the
old Hudson. She is the property of
the st. Louis, Ohio and Tennessee
River Packet Company, chief officers
of which are Thos. NJ. Rees, presi-
dent; j.. F. Ellison, superintendent, and
Hunter Ben Jenkins, general freight
and passenger agent. This elegant
packet will leave Cincinnati on her
maiden trip this morning at 10 O'Clock,
and enter her trade at once, leaving St.
Louis every Wednesday 5 p. M, and
Evansville every Saturday at 3 p. IN.
She will be in charge of the following
popular officers: j. F. Ellison, master:
E. j. Anschutz, Glen Nolte and Alb
Veatch, clerks; Frand Farmsby and
Joe Oatman, pilots; Martin Sweeney
and John Sweeney, mates; Green
Hill, steward; Jas. Prewitt, carpen-
ter, and Hiram Jones, watchman.