Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-08-26
FO' me smyrna Time
The Advent of a Whaleback.

In few days there will arrive at
wilmington, Del, to load a machinery
cargo for Puget's Sound, a queer look
ing craft that in the ethics of evolution
is destined to work revolution in the
personnel of common carrier construc.
ton. Practically, whaleback steamer
Is an elongated tunnel set adrift and in
E'rte"so the very opposite to the steam
snip OF to-day. If a singleness of force
may be assumed as the best basis
"hereon to erect so doubtful and so
tangible a procedure as to invest the
sneer OF ship, then a Whaleback to
use newly coined Americanism is
in it" for all that the term signifies
With the introduction of the trinle av.
pansiOn engine and twin screw so mar.
Vicious rate of speed has been oh
tanned by those other ocean tunnels
the great transatlantic passenger car.
riers, that marked reaching out-for
what a mOdiste would call-effect has
been taken hold of.
No longer are old styles resorted TO
as patterns. Mastless ships are an ali.
soiute necessity for augmented sDeed
"hen there are stored away in batter |
les OF boilers eighteen or twenty thous. |
anu morse power DEVELOPMENTS in |
steam. Indeed mastless ships are here
already and so are steamless ships into
whose capacious nav three or four
thousand tons of dead weight can he
dumped and the whole affair sent tn
some distant part of the globe if NOT
Che cynOsure of all eyes at least mar.
yeIs OF cheapness and dispatch. The
Jay OF close reckoning is surely at
nahu When these startling departures
Ia applied mechanics so readily moot
Tue approval OF successful experiment
somewhat pathetically the ships that
DoTe the Durthen of other days are now
i y ola age as Tennessean would saw
drugged" from place to place as nun.
Oereu Darges by pitless tugs. The |
glory OF their once proudly taperin0 {
spars that almost scraped the skv are 1
gone. The spOtless decks-HauIed. 1
stoned to immaculate Wilderness have
given away to cheap mineral naint :
Ipproximating into coal tar. The fam
,llul matches OF mahogany or walnut |
rave Oeen rudely taken out, and rough a
1Ihe Olns fore and aft alongside of
"hlch huge coils of towing rope at
ests sllensly of departed glory and the Q
houe OF getting along. And these too s
we're the old 49ers. Ships that car c
ied the flag, jauntily to every corner t
u the world and learned the winds 7
the stormy capes. These sbips
many OF them fell from the hands of C
ne great Baltimore and New York r
'ulIders, Abrams, Cooper, Webb a
1 d and leading all George Steers t
# New York. s.
ApprOpos of this builder it was he |,
'hO designed the Yacht America that b
7On the Queens Cup years ago against h
ne combined efforts of British Yachts
COWes, England. Queen Victoria p
BOX lively interest in the race and fc
,as present on the day in question. p
ne DAY being inclement her maiestv's ii
acht did not follow the feet over the in
purse but remained near the stake b.
Oa6 awaiting the return. At length Vi
he officer of the deck approached the b,
)mpanlOn way of the Queens Cabin al
1d announced that a sail was in SIGHT
Which one asked the Queen ?" "Yonr al
.ajesty, the American" replied the m
hcer. Again came the question T
which one was second 2" your ma hs
sly, there is no second. Even so it was vi
the America shot past the headlands at
Cowes with all sail set and her pc
asts bending like whip stalks before tr
e gale" Presently the helmsman dy
eered little and the beautiful Yacht vi
wv past the assembled royalty when to
u !, from the leeward sprang a tiny tn
vi and the next instant the IonvorS du
rs pulled and the stars and strines he
ounted proudly to the peak proclaim a
that henceforth America was in
ed mistress of the yachting seas
ough alas since then, shorn of the
premacy that once gave her first
ace among the worlds common n,
rrlers. JAMES B. SCoTT. No