The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-13

THE BIG STEAMER NEW YORK.
A Description of Its Size and Fur
nishings.
From the Netu York Sun.

niShings.
From the Ne,u York Sun.
The new steamer City of New York came
up to her pier, foot of Barrow street,
Friday, very slowly, cheered by crowds
along shore, and got there at 10 o'clock.
A thousand people were waiting there.
The immense size of the ship is not appre-
ciated when you see her alone at even
short distance. Her form is so symmetrical
that it dwarfs her great dimensions. But
when she is near some other vessel then it is
easy to observe the hugeness OF the courser,
which, though the Germanic left her help
less at Queenstown with out-of-order
machinery, beat the Germanic over here,
and this, too, Notwithstanding an ad-
ditional delay of twelve hours on
the second day at sea. When the
Germanic lay near the City of New York,
off pier AZ, yesterday morning, the old boat
seemed, when compared with the new, like
a four-foot boy, trying to size himself up
back to back with a six-foot man. When
the new steamer had got into her dock the
promenade deck was on a level with the
roofs Of the big pier shed, and her upper
bridge seemed on level with the smoke
stacks of Troy and Albany boat hidden
on the other side of the pier. She has ten
floors From the water to Q high bridge
aud the top of the promenade deck the
ship is as high as four-story brown-stone
house.
She is furnished better than many a
brown stone front, and altogether she holds
more people than any New York hotel
Her best rooms, for the first-cIass passen-
gers, are on the upper promenade deck.
Some of thee are fitted i'll sui es, accommo-
dating four passengers. Each suite has a
bath room attached. Most of the trst-c!ass
passengers rooms are on tho main and
lower saloon decks. There are two sections
of rooms on each deck in front and two aft.
The tai mum 81 of passengers possible to
carry is 800 steerage, 200 second cabin and
100 first cabin, making ,720 in all. These,
with the crew, make the population of the
floating town over 2, 100.
The main saloons on the promenade deck
are the library, filled 18th 500 volumes, and
the drawing The drawing-room has
a window bow-shaped and looking down
into the dlning-room, which is on the upper
deck. The dinng-room is as wide as the
ship, and has six ia les in the center and
fourteen in the four side alcoves. 1t can
seat 300 people. IL has no low ceiling, as
in other steamers, but is 20 fe high,
with stained glass roof over which
is steel frame filled in with heavy weather
glass. This roof is so feet above the
water level. The promenade deck il Is feet
wide on each side of the deck house. and
gives passengers a straight walk OF 500 feet.
The smoking room is on the upper deck. 1t
has stationary seats and marble tables for
81 and can hold $50 people. There is bar
ana barber shop off it, Altogether, there
is not public room or convenience to be
found in a big hotel that is not on the City
of New York and the richness of the fur
nishings and the decoration is on the scale
of Fifth Avenue hotel splendor
One of the oldest things on the ship is
the rolling chamber abaft the engine rooms
1t is a big compartment, like an hour glass
in shape lying on its side When in use it
is half full of water. The theory is that
when the ship starts to roll this water will
run across the narrow center toward the
side, going downward. When the.ship has
reached the extreme downward roll the
water in tie huge hour glass has not all
run down there. Then, as the ship rises to
roll over on the other side, the water con-
tinues flowing powerfully in the opposite
direction, and thus offsets in large part the
counter movement of the ship. When she
rolls on the other side a like result is
brought about, and thus tho tendency to
rolling is reduced. Capt. Watkins didn't
have any water in this trip.
Pilot Oscar Stoffreiden of pilot boat No.
is brought the ship in. He said Yesterday
that he had never had a boat that he. could
handle SO easily. "When she turns she has
one screw go forward and the other back
ward" he said, land this makes it easy to
turn quickly"
George Kennedy and Charmagne Berg
son, Storage passengers on the City of New
York, said at Castle Garden that there was
a fire in the coal bunkers on Sunday morn
ing that was not extinguished for four
hours, and that on Monday the water ran
short, and condensed water, still hot, was
served IN the steerage These statements
were received with shout of laughter and
fatty denied aboard the ship last night.