New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-07
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Ored cruiser that she is to be when completed Inc
supersucture that IS being erected gives her more
finished appearance The turrets, too, are partly In
place. The machinery for the Maine is fast approach
ing completion at the works of n. +. Palmer, IT, Co.
Although there are more powerful engines now in
course OF conslrucon-or cruiser No 10 and for the
battleships-at the time that the Names machinery
contracted for that was the most powerful eNer
undertaken to be built by an American establishments
The contract price the machinery and boilers Is
$735OOO. The Names engines are OF the triple
expansion type and peculiarly about them is the
arrangement of the cylinders. The low pressure cyl
nders are so arranged that they may be disconnected
when it desired to work Mt low power This VIII
prove more economical than al of the cylinders had
to be worked at the time. Nearly all of the WORK
Ing parts OF the machinery made of forged milo
open hearth steel
1t was originally intended that the frames OF the
engines should be of hollow columns of cast Steel bu
when twenty of these columns were delivered by the
Standard steel Works and found defective, change was
decided upon in favor of wrought steel columns. The
engines of the Maine are provided with two sets OF
cylinders The high-pressure cylinders measure
thirty-fve and onehal Inches the intermediate MY
seven inches and the low-presSure cylinders eighty
eight inches The stroke of the piston is thrtysX
inches Although the machinery OF the MAINE Is Vi
the same type that for the Texas beng Dulit at
Norfolk the boiler arrangements differ materially The
Maine will he provided with a nest Of eight single
ended steel boilers OF the return fretube type Each
boiler measures ten feet in length, and has an Outsue
diameter of fourteen and two-thrds ieet lhee WIZ
he three corrugated furnace ues OF three ana Ohes
feet internal diameter for eaeh 9o
in each, and fore and arr neroo f o S eae yeH
operating uIder the ashpt OF each furnace Ihe aspS
being closed when under forced draft ING IoIceu-
df system arranged for the Texas Is that known a.
The closed 1re-roOm system the air being supplied ~
two blowers. The former vessel Is beihg pun. ~ a.
designs drawn by the Navy Department, Whlle te ug
signs of the Texas purchased by secretary VIM
ney from England, $4,000 being paiu lor ine rio
relative merits of these two ystems nav g ,h Nmer
strated the trials OF both the Engsh anu C svetm
can vessels Although the closed ~ the vessels
has proved disastrous on some % pr r no
Of the English navy, notably the bart"oV on the
fatal SId some OF the otter vessels Of the United
c,te Nav 0icers who were the trials OF the
charleston san Francisco S0hcO sys er Consider it
greatly superior to the other, ana Say tut wv M!
work NOR ,os %lRsE Soo %l that c boilers are injured
ess i and that there is less trouble from eaidis.
With the closed fire room system Oh iooee ~ any scci
is practically access to SAFETY III case VI any "''f
de4 10 s 1e Of Evolution minus the Chicago and
tho YorkttoWn which are in the hands Of the Navy
Var srl workmen at Norfolk will soon be ready for
0Pe"ioHti s Y barbor about july T. They will then go
o GARDENERS Bay where there will be pracuce WIN
In f o % to- the vicinity Of Newport for squadron
manoenvres The vessels of the North Atlantic squad
Uiion as has been reported II IS true that the
vessels OF both squadrOns have been drilled 70 an eN
ceptonal extent and during the last few months
have kept up their fleet and target exercises In south
ern waters Nevertheless. i'm view of the great differ
ence between the old and Gle new vessels the crews
will benefit much by additional instruction IN inc pro
posed series OF manOcIvrcs There VIII be the usuaI
practice IN individual ship drills and exercises WIN
The great guns I'm landing parties with tests Of speed
and hardness OF manoeuvres for the vessels and so on
test Is now going on in the steam engineering
shon i'm the Navy Yard for forcing oil under pressure
into bearings instead Of letting flow In. as In the old
way IL is expected that This will keep the bearings
better fabricated and will reduce the friction.