The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-26
TO BE TOWED AWAY.
Steamer Emma Hayward Will
Go to Columbia River.
TOO SLOW FOR SOUND ROUTES.
Her Wheel Taken Out to Make the
Trip safer-SteamshIp Passen-
ger List-w ater Traflc.

among the latest changes in steamers and
their runs made by the Union Pacific company's
new Puget sound port captain, E. r. Rathbone,
Is the removal of the steamer Emma Hayward
from the Sound to the Columbia river. Some
months ago the Hayward, while on the way
from Whatcom TO Seattle, met with an accident
In which her shaft was broken. The steamer
was towed to Tacoma after time and
Fort Captain Clancy directed that repairs be
Immediately made. Workmen took the wheel
out OF the steamer and then the port captain
concluded to allow the repairs to wait while
ana no further action was taken with regard to
hnai disposition of the boat until few days
ago. The Hayward was lowed from Tacoma to
seattle yesterday and she was Immediately put
In shape for the ocean voyage TO Portland,
where she will be used the coming winter as a
tow boat for barges and ships on the
Columbia and Willamette rivers between
Portland and Astoria The company's nam
moth Columbia river bar tug, Escort
No. 2, which has been on the ways at the Seattle
Dry Dock Companys works undergoing a gen.
erai overhauling for the past month, will tow
the steamer around. The Escort will leave Port
Townsend with the Hayward next Tuesday
morning, and she will then Immediately put to
sea with her charge.
This will be the first time in the history of
Pacific coast steamboating that a stern-wheel
steamer has made the ocean voyage without
a wheel in place aud without steam
up. 1t is the intention of the
company to complete repairs on the steamer at
Portland. The reasons for the company's tax
ing the boat around in such an apparently dis
abled condition are interesting The Hayward
being, like all sternwheel steamers, mere shell,
viii be subjected to many severe wreuches and
twists from the oceans waves, and by the time
the treacherous Columbia river bar Is crossed
the boat will be in shaky condition. Should
new wheel be put in the steamer here and the
boat be allowed to propel herself around
the wear and tear on the. frame
would be very severe, for in driving
along and keeping out of the trough of the sea
uniform rate of speed could not be maintained
owing to the fact that part of the time the
Wheel different from propeller which is con-
tinually submerged, would be out of the water.
Should wave strike the bow the boat, instead
OF rising with and mounting the wave, would
be driven head on into the wave, thus causing
great strain not only on the hull out on the
machinery, and the decks would
be flooded with water. In tow
ing ali these difficulties of passage
are to a large extent surmounted, and 1t may be
that the result of the experiment, If it proves
successful will have the effect of causing steam
boat owners when shifting their shell built
boats from one district to another via the ocean,
TO adopt the plan introduced by the Union Pa
cidc Company with regard to the transferring of
the Hayward.
The Hayward is IT'S feet long and thirty-two
feet wide. She was built at Portland for the
Sound trade, and made the ocean passage from
the Columbia river about seven years ago. The
cause of the present changing OF the steamers
run is due to the fact that sthe people of the
Sound demand more elegant and faster means
of navigation than Is afforded in steamers of the
HayWard's class