The evening world., 1894-02-16
THE STORY OF THE PARIS.
Her ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Trips rni
Her Adoption ns nm American snip.

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The Paris has been acclaimed on both
sides OF the Atlantic queen OF the
Ocean," because of her magnificent APP
pointments and wonderful speed.
/, She Is the sister ship to the New York.
OF tn. American line. hut much faster.
She Is Ave years old. having made her
Made trip from Queenstown. where
she was built. to this port In the Spring
OF 1889. arriving here April 3. after
a cruise of 6 days Is hours s. minutes.
Since that time-hrst under command
of Capt. Frederic Watkins and latterly
under Capt. william G. Randle-she
has repeatedly reduced the record, Till,
In July, 1892, she crossed the ocean to
New York in 5 days. Ii hours and IS
minutes, and made runs of 5l9 and 500
miles in twenty-four hours.
This ocean palace was built for the
Inman line. which. taking advantage of
the law submitted to Congress by W.
Bourke Cochran allowing ocean steam
ships of 1000 tons. built abroad, hut
owned for the most part by Americans,
to obtain American registry and fly tho
Stars and Stripes, reorEnniz"d as the
American line in 1892.
''t' VIC - ~
Of President Griscom. Of the American
line. hoisted 'Old Glory"on the Paris
March I, 1893, before a large assembly
OF distinguished men and women.
Then the steamships name was fore
shortened. and she has been plain
Paris" ever : nee. she Is almJs A iupli-
cate OF the New York. She registers
lO,5oc tons. Is 5s5 feet long over all and
S25 feet on the water line. She has an
extreme beam of 81 II feet.
The Paris is "A big steel steamship, pro-
PEELED by two three-bladel screws, %
feet in diameter. and driven by two sets
OF triple expansion engines OF 2o,000 horse
power. supplied with steam from nine
steel boilers, Weighing "A tons each.
On her trial trip the Paris showed a
maximum speed of twenty-five knots ar
hour, and she was the first twin-screw
steamship OF any Importance in ths
transatlantic service.
This greyhound OF the sea- has beer
the victim Of another accident, which
endangered the lives of l,no0 passengers
1t was in March. 1890. when the steam
ship was 2e miles from the coast o
ireland, and 1t was with great d~ificul,!
> that she was kept afioat till a steam
ship and tug came to her relief an.
towed her into port
After that accident the leading en-
gineers of England visited and inspecte
the steamship, and what they foun,
was described by one of them as fol
,ows:
W examined the englne-room care
fully before anything had been removed
Everything that could be broker ha
been broken; what could not he broke
was bent. twisted or distorted. Nothin
so complete in 2 breakdown has eve
been seen before. The explosion of
great shell might work such havoc /
an ironClad,
But the ruin was not confined to tn
engine-room, The A frames had disaI
peared bodily, the piston rod and cross
head were folded back along the tail no,
which was bent like a bit of wire, nnarl
in a semicirCle. one side of the con
denser had been torn out. the tub,
were all displaced and nattened, the a
pump levers were rolled up like ribbon
but aside from this the great screwshaf
q inches in diameter and over 100 fe,
long, was ripped out of it's bearinI
4 from end to end OF the screw tunnel al
dropped back again. All the cap Dol
were smashed, a great rent torn in Il
~bulkhead, and the half inch steel pla
where the shaft passed through was bel
and buckled like a bit of paper"
. The shing OF the condenser W
followed by an enormous rush Of wat
into the e"ngIre-room. The engir ee
worked like beavers TO stop two holes
the bulkhead. but were driven out
b nood. The dynamo room and sore