The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-24
Oil as a Fuel for Steamships.


The result of the experiment of sending
a steamship across the Atlantic without
GOALS being waited for with great deal
of interest The steamship is the James
Brand, built by Sir William Armstrong.
She is entirely new, and constructed so as
to use oil as fuel. She isnot an experiment
vessel, but one of the largest cargo car
riers in the world. She is now making
her first trip She left Shields, England,
more than two weeks ago, bound for
Philadelphia.
The Brand is an oil carrier, carrying the
oil in bulk, and she brings with her a full
cargo The advantage of burning oil for
fuel is its cheapness. No fremen or
stokers are required, and the space de-
voted to coal and the quarters for fremen
and stokers is given up to cargo.
There are ships trading locally in the
Black sea that are oil burners, but the
Brand is the pioneer in crossing the At
lantic with oil as fuel It is said that
there is no more danger from oil AS fuel
than from coal The Brand is able to get
insurance at the very lowest rate, show
ing how insurance companies regard oil
as fuel for steamships.
If the trip of the Brand should be sue
cessful in every particular it is very prob
able that oil would come into quite gen
eral use as fuel on the transatlantic
steamers, as well as on other steamships
throughout the world. The saving in the
use of oil is so great that coal-burning
steamers would find it difficult to compete
with those that burn oil.
One Approves and the otherCondemns
Mr.. Ward McAllister, who has consti-
tuted himself the spokesman of New
York society, and Mr.. Oliver Sumner
Teall, who it is alleged, is trying to sue
coed Mr.. McAllister in that position, are
discussing in the newspapers the question
as to whether the President acted prop
erly in not returning the call of the
Infanta Eulaia.
Some of the people who think they
know what is proper for the President TO
do in all social matters are said to have
been greatly shocked when they heard
that the President had not returned the
infanta's call. Their view of it was that
the President had shown 'lacl of gal
lantry." 1t is probable that the Presi-
dent is much better informed as to the
proper course to pursue under such cir
cdmstances than his critics. His conduct
appears to have been entirely satisfac-
tory to the infanta and her friends.
Mr.. McAllister, although extremely
busy sealing letters when a reporter
called on him, consented to answer the
question as to whether the President had
been guilty of breach of etiquette. He
declared the President did quite the
proper thing, and that he would have
made a mistake if he had returned the
infantas call. The President exhibited
his gallantry," said Mr. McAllister, "by
asking Mrs. Cleveland to call on the in
fanta." According to his view the Presi-
dent has acted in the matter with dig
nifty and politeness commensurate with
his station"
Mr. Oliver Sumner Teall thinks
American courtesy was lowered by the
failure of the President to call on the in
fanta. He says, however, that the Presi-
dent showed he had a level head when
the infanta called upon him by content
ing himself with shaking hands with her
He thinks there would have been a scene
that would have made the ''Old Presidents
jump out of their frames" if he had at
tempted to kiss the infanta as some peo-
pie think he ought to have done.
The President doubtless has been greatly
amused at the opinions of the McAllisters
and Tealls relative to the etiquette of the
the infanta' s reception.