The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-19
TRIAL TRIP TODAY.
Everything in Perfect Con-
dition for the Mont
gomery's Run.
DESCRIPTION OF THE CRUISER.
Principal Dimensions and Radius
Of Action-Her Motive Power
The Batteries.

New LONDON, Jan, 10, 1S94.-The new
cruiser Montgomery weighed anchor at nine
o'clock this morning and, with the members
of the Trial Board and their assistants,
steamed out of the harbor on her way to the
thirty-six mile course in Long Island Sound,
over which the speed trial will take place to-
day.
The Dolphin, Vesuvius and four Navy
Yard tugs that will serve as stake boats
went out during the night.
The rain, which had been pouring during
the night, ceased at sunrise, and the air be-
came clear with faint breeze from the
northwest. The water was as smooth as
glass. The day promises to be perfect one
for the trial, and the contractors are conf
dent that the new cruiser will make good
showing.
The run will be from point off Say
brook, where the Dolphin is stationed, to a
point off Stratford, where the Vesuvius is at
anchor, aad return. The distance is seventy
two miles, exclusive of the turn.
DESCRIPTION OF THE CRUISER.
The Montgomery is of the simple cruiser
type. the disposition of her coal and water
tight deck 1l-16 of an inch thick being the
only protection to her boilers engines and
magazines. The hull is built Of mild steel,
and the rig is that of two-masted schooner,
spreading about ,2S9 square feet of canvas.
| The water-tight deck extends throughout
the entire vessel, sloping toward the sides
and ends, under which are placed the
| s'vitals" and steering gear. The principal
dimensions are: Length on load-water line,
| PSF feet; breadth, extreme, 81 feet; draft,
mean, IA feet q inches; displacement, 1000
| tons: indicated horse power, maximum (con-
tract, 5,4eo; speed (contract, IL knots;
The normal coal supply is 200 tons, but 455
| tons of coal can be carried; and with this
| full supply the vessel will have radius or
action of IS, ,952 knots, 37.6 days steaming,
at 10-knot speed; 3,022 knots, 7.s7 days
| steaming, at 16-knot speed; 1,624 knots, $40
days steaming, at 1Sknot speed.
THE MOTIVE POWER.
The motive power is furnished by tive
| triple-expansion engines, each engine work
| ing one OF the twin screws and placed in q
| water-tight compartment, separated from
the other engine by a middle-llne bulkhead-
| The engines are of the vertical inverted cyl
| inder directacting, triple-expansion type,
each with high pressure cylinder OF 70 a
| inches an ermediate-pressure cylinder OF
80 inches, and ow-pressure cylinder 6S
| inches in diameter; the stroke OF all being 10
| inches. The collective indicated horse power
of the .propelling engines, air pump and cir
| culating pump Is to be 0,4OV at 1oo reVoiu-
| tions per minute.
| There are three double-ended steel boilers
of the horizontal, return fire. tube type, two
| of them II feet inches by 18 feet inch
| long, the other II feet inches by Is feet
| 81 inches long; and two single-ended steel
| boilers, IL feet Inches in diameter, by feet
| I1S inches long; all built for working pres
! sure of 100 pounds. Each of the three double
ended boilers has FOUR and each single
ended boiler two corrugated furnace aues of
| 3 feet inches diameter. The total
heating surface is 10,966 square feet
and the total CRATE surface 1886 square feet.
Steam reversing gear, ash-hoists, turning
engines, auxiliary pumps, fans, engines for
working machinery in work shop, and Wind
| less and steering gear are supplied. There
| is cistilling apparatus and refrigerating
plant capable Of making 200 pounds of ice 9
day, besides supplying ample cold water and
keeping the NEST room at temperature OF
thirty four degrees, Fahrenheit.
| THE BATTERIES.
| The main batteries are eight 6ve-inch rapid
| fire guns and two six-inch rapid fire guns.
The secondary batteries are six six-pounder
rapid fire, two one-pounder rapid fire and
two Gatlings.
| There are three torpedo-launching outfits
-one in the stem for Howell torpedoes and
two on the main deck, forward, for White
head torpedees.
The contract price is $612, 500, and the con-
| tract was signed by the Columbian Iron
\ Works on November 2, 1889.