The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-07
THE NEW TUG M'cAULEY.
She is Given an Ovation on Her
Arrival in the River.

ATEANaA IN the A4N6Is
The tug William F. McCauley arrived
yesterday morning from Camden. n. J..
where she was built by John H. Dialogue
& Son for the Propeller Tug Boat Com
pany Of this city. and named after Mr..
William F. McCauley. secretary and treas
urer Of the company.
The McCauley left Camden Monday af-
ternoon, in charge Of Capt. Van B. Avery,
Chief Engineer Frank B. Avery. As
sistant Engineer W. 3. Hills, Mate Alfred
Smith. Deck Hand Theo shenteIle, Fire
man Caleb Johnson and William Washing
ton and Cook Ed Gardner.
The tug was given an ovation as she
came up the river. Every whistle blew
welcome blast and flags were dipped as the
vessel came abreast of the wharves. She
was mOored at the wharf at the foot of
Drayton street and was visited by crowds
OF people during the afternoon.
The tug is one Of the finest Of her class
afoat. She is 100 feet long, beam p feet,
depth, y feet, draft mean 3 feet 6 inches.
The hull Is wholly of steel frames, spaced
eighteen feet center TO center for a dis
lance OF forty feet amdships and twenty
inches forward and aft. The main deck
house is of angle Steel frame and steel
plating, stiffened with outside butt straps
and steel angles. The pilot house is OF
wood, finished in cherry, with one berth
and two seat lockers heater and chart
table in center The windows are all
French plate glass The porter curtains
art or the wheel and window curtains are
OF heavy damask The captains berth
IS OF rich terra-cotta brocade silk, with
BRASS pole and rings. all in keeping with
the CHERRY hard finish. The steering
wheel is of locust and mahogany, with a
galvanized iron roche wheel on the barrel.
a new kink of the Avery Bros, by which
only single blight of chain leads over
and connects with the steel wire tiller
ropes below deck, with turn buckles to
take up the slack and makes a durable.
safe and neat job
The dining room is paneled in wild cherry
and will seat ten people, cherry glass
rack and handsome combination electric
ana OIL hanging lamp. The galley is hard
hnished in ash, having ample china lock-
ers, pump and sink, refrigerator adjoining
The engine room is hard finished, paneled
in black walnut and ash, black walnut
gauge board and nickel electric and oil
lamp. The captains state room, with
toilet room adjoining, is finished in cherry.
pea-green and gold brocatelle curtains and
nickel lamp fixtures. The engineers room
Is hnished in walnut, with toilet room
adjoining, pea-green and gold brocatelle
curtains and nickel lamp fixtures. In the
lower forward hole is the crews accom-
modations and hawser racks. Forward of
that Is the store room and capstan en-
gines. Forward of the collision bulkhead
the space is piped off for a tank. Under
the fore castle floor is a steel tank of $50
gallons capacity for drinking water. There
are five iron bulk heads, three of them
water tight
The engines are compound surface con-
densing, with cylinders 1Sx32x24 inch
stroke, with Meyer adjustable cut off on
the II. Z. and adjustable link on the L. F.,
which gives the widest range of capacity
from the most power when it is needed to
the most economy doing light work The
steam capstan and windlass has two S-inch
cylinders which would be rated 81 horse
power, and geared up to 80 to l, which
gives a pulling capacity of Q,70O seven
teen hundred horse power, which, with
the 400 horse power of the main engines
gives an aggregate of 2,10O horse power. or
equal to five tugs of the size of the NC
Cauley," without a steam capstan and
windlass.
The pumps are all independent, of the
Blake pattern, a circulating and
wreeking pump cylinder six inches
water cylinder ten inches haV-
ing common stroke of twelve
inches, capacity SIG gallons per minute
on piston speed of 200 feet per minute
AS wrecking pump there are 4-inch sue
lions on both sides of the house, and as a
fire pump will throw four streams from
from 2I5-inch hose.
The fire pump duplex, with steam cylin-
ders ne inches. water cylinders AZ inches,
stroke 10 inches. capacity of 1874 gallons per
minute, and with 50 pounds pressure at
nozzle viii throw a horizontal stream 175
feet, vertical 1877. In the steam pipe will
be Mason pressure regulator which will
stop the pump when the pressure exceeds
so pounds, by shutting off the water with
the Callahan" nozzle. This pump also
has inch suction to both sides of the
house, in addition to the larger wrecking
pump and suction and discharge from the
tanks, suction from the bilge and discharge
to the condenser
The air pump is single steam cylinder
inches, twin air cylinder 10
lnches' all of S-inch stroke
Feed pumps are vertical dunlex
automatic, steam cylinders 81 inch. water
312-inch stroke So inches. Sanitary pump
duplex, steam cylinders Az inch, water
cylinders 2%-inch, stroke 4 inches, deliver
ing through guides and to closets a H.
men connection to both sides of deck
house.
The electric plant consists of direct
connected automatic cut off Case engine
of 10 horse power. The dynamo and in
candescent system of the Perrett make
furnishing a Huntingdon search light of
(600O) six thousand candle power and 20
incandescent lights for lighting the vessel
The boiler is of the Scotch pattern. IL
feet diameter by IL feet inches long. two
corrugated furnaces AZ inches diameter by
5 feet long, allowed 100 pounds of steam
Double stack, so inches diameter, 22IS feet
above the upper deck.
Two metallic life boats will be carried in
davfts. The boat will be equipped and
licensed as an ocean passenger steamer
and allowed fifty passengers
That the Frank McCauley," as she will
be generally called. should be the most
complete l00-foot boat in America, if not
in existence to-day, is not surprising
when it is considered that she is from the
combined talent of the Propeller Tow
Boat Company, which spared no expense
and the Messrs. Dialogue spared no pains
in this. as in the other boats built for
the company.
ROYAL ARCH MASoNs.
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