The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-02-12
WILD WITH JOY.
A Great Crowd Greets La
GasCogne's Arrival at
Her Dock.
TRIUMpHAL PROCESSION UP THE BAY
The Captain Saluted With Cheer
After Cheer as lie Game Down
the Gang Plank.


Sandy Hook, where she had remained
over night, and proceeded up the lower
Bay to Quarantine. A fleet OF tugs were
about her, bearing newspaper men,
friends of passengers. and company off
Gals. They clung close to her side ana
kept up a deafening salutation, which
was responded 10 by the passengers and
officers of the belated steamer. The en-
thusiasm was unbounded. The Health
Officer and officers quickly dispatched
their official duties and dozens OF per-
sons provided with passes clambered
aboard along with the reporters. The
Health officers boat brought the pas
sengers bundles of cabiegrams, kilograms
and letters. These were eagerly devour-
ed, as were the reports of La Gascogne
in the morning papers.
Captain Baudelon made a hasty re-
port to Agent Forget in substance as fol-
lows
on the third day out the piston rod
broke. Its now useless cylinder was
isolated and we continued the voyage
at a speed of eleven knots. Then the
crank shaft got heated and We came
down to nine knots. On the fourth and
fifth days out we had to change the
bearings Of the crank shaft, and this
caused delay of forty hours, and during
that time we had hurricane and
barometer of 726 Since then we have
had heavy west winds and were obliged
to reduce speed to eight knots; the crank
shaft working all right. We met no
stasr,er mof,,s eifher ptav I'm YESTERDAY.
r,,bar, 1z,s s,,ol,a an American line steam
or for ThilsdeInbia ana we made her
acquainted with our plight. Though we
met the toughest kind of weather after
t,a breakdown. vet we were able to
reach mort without any assistance
Fro11. Chies Engineer .Adolph Martin
was obtained a more detailed descr.p-
ton of the nature of the break in the
machinery. Mr.. Martin has been thirty
two years in the service of the company,
fifteen of that being in the transatlantic
route. The break occurred in one of the
piston rods about half way between the
traveller and the piston. 1t was cue to
a faw.
Though there were facilities aboard
for making repairs, the location of the
brea,7age was such that an attempt to
repair it would have required the NOV
Ing of machinery and would have been
attended with {. n more delay and dif-
fcult Therefore it was decided to dis
connect the affected cylinder from the
other two which are constructed SO that
they can be used Independently This
neeessitated the taking out CT the IN
Jured piston and occasioned a delay OF
II hours. The cutting out OF this cylin-
der reduced the power from 9,oOo morse
power to 2,5eo, bringing the speed down
to one-half. Later the crank shaft got
heated and the bearings had 10 be chang
ed. The break was not caused by any
strain from bad weather but simply to
the flaw which existed in the new ma
chinery. The engines are OF kpe quad
ruple expansion type.
There are six cylinders, set tandem
fashion, in two tiers of three cylinders OF
70 inches in diameter each. one inter-
med ate cylinder OF ~ lnches oia1neter'
one high pressure cylinder OF 42 inches
diameter and two fnterfnedlate GYM
ders of 42 inches diameter. She has
twelve boilers of the single-end type,
each feet inches in length and 10 feet
in diameter. Her boilers were tested to
carry a pressure of 106 pounds.
Before the first breakdown the aver
are revolutions to minute were 62.
When repairs had been made they could
not do better than 35. and after meet
ing the storm it became necessary to
reduce it to 30. The first breakdown oc-
Cured 1880 knots out at sea. 1t was
the piston of the intermediate cynnder
that cracked The second mishap was
the occasion Of most delay. 1t was on
the 5th of February that it occurred.
The isolating of the injured cylinder
affected the central of the steamer,
which passed directly from the high pres
sure to the ouadruple expansion cylin-
ders. The after cylinder became so heat
ed that the centre became disabled. 1t
was necessary to wait for 1t to cool be-
fore anything could be done.
AT THE DOCK.
The French line dock was the scene of
great rejoicing from the earliest hours
this morning The friends of passen-
gers on La Gascogne were at the dock
from the first peep of dawn, and re-
NAMED there despite the statement Of
the company's officers that the ship
would not be docked before noon.
The joy of the waiting crowd over the
news of their friends safety dubbed
over and infected all those who visited
the dock for business or from curiosity
The officers of the company were oblig-
ed to stretch a chain across the entrance
to the dock shed this morning, so great
was the rush to go on the pier. Every
one admitted had to show evidence that
he had friends on board the belated