The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-14
WILL BE SEEN IN SAVANNAH.
The New Steamship OF the Merchants
and Miners Line.

and Miners Line.
The tandsomest and largest vessel hail1Dg
from Baltimore is the new Merchants and
Miners Transportation Company's steam
ship Fairfax She left Wilmington, DEL.
Thursday. Harlan & Hollingsworth were
the builders. The Fairfax is SO called after
Fairfax county. Virginia. and is named in
accordance with the company's rule to name
all their vessels in alphabetical order after
counties in the states where the line does
business.
The Fairfax is a four-deoked iron pro-
peller, with two pole masts, fore aud aft
rugged. Her length on the water line is
go feet. her beams, nodded. ~ feet, and
her depth of hold is "a feet. Six bulkheads
extend to the deck, four of them being water
tight. Her engine and boiler inclo'ure is
between iron bulkheads rising from the
lower hold to the fourth deck, and around
the smokestack TO IL inches above the deck
house. Her motive power is u triple-com-
pound engine, with inverted cylinders. The
high pressure cylinder is % in
ches In diameter. the intermediate cylin-
der As inches, and the low pressure cyl
iuder 70 inches in diameter. The stroke OF
piston is 48 inches Steam is supplied by
four cylindrical return tubular steel boilers
1875 feet In diameter and II q feet long. The
working steam pressure is 100 pounds to the
square inch. The propeller has four blades,
is 10 feet in diameter, with % feet pitch.
The engines during the run have moved
noiselessly. The walls OF the engine~room
are painted and grained in handsome oak
panels. The lower hold, xcapting thas
portion occupied by the boilers and coal
bunkers, is given up to freight, as is also ell
the space on the main deck outside of the
boiler and engine inClOsure
The dining-room on the main deck is
about 100 feet by 20 Feet wide and opening
out Sof it are twenty elegantly fitted and
furnished staterooms, each OF which con-
tains two berths. The joiner work of the
dining-room is ia butternut wood paueled
and polished to a glsss-like surface The
ceiling is nodded and pansled and painted
in white. The floors are covered by
carpets OF the finest texture and bright
colors, but in small figures. The furniture
six tables and eighty-two stationary
chairs-is of mahogany, upholstered in
red plush. A three-llght silver lamp hangs
over each table, two branches Of each
lamp being for electric lights and one for
oil. Across the after end of the dining
room is a large plate glass mirror,
and at the forward end a handsome
stairway rises to the social hall on
the saloon deck. The dining-room is heated
by two radiators, finished in gold Dronge.
The saloon above the dining room is flu
ished in gold and white. The deck is pierced
by long well, running nearly the entire
| length Of the saloon. and guarded by a
heavy-railed balustrade. Through this well
the light streams from a skylight In the
upper deck, and lights the saloon and din
| ing-room below. The contrast between the
dark colors of the dining saloon and the
white and gold Of the upper saloon is very
effective. The social hall, at the forward
end of the upper saloon, and around the
| well of the grand staircase, Is in the same
coio-s as the saloon, of which 1t is part.
The officers quarters, the outside state
rooms and the smoking room ore all elegant.
Capt. March's quarters are finished In olive
and maple wood. and the smoking room in
maple with a floor of alternate strips
black and white wood. The ship is
supplied with electric lighting. steam
steering and hosting apparatus and
every modern appliance to make her one Of
the most elegant and complete coastwise
merchant ships in the American feet, and
| is one of the haudsomest vessels of the kind
ever sent out from IN American shipyard.
The officers of the Fairfax are: John =.
March of Boston. captain; A. J. Wherrett
of Baltimore, first officer; Charles T.
Smith Of Boston, second officer; William
B. Turner of Baltimore, chief engineer;
Lewis Vogt of Baltimore. first assistant en-
| eineer; William II. Chase Of Baltimore.
| steward. Her crew, including officers.
numbers forty men. This week the vessel
will be thrown open for public inspection,
and she will then take her place on the
Boston line and will probably visit 5avan-
nah during the coming season.