Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-08-24
THE FOUR DAY SHIP.
NEW GERMAN VESSEL MAY CROSS
 THE ATLANTIC IN THAT TIME.

ttE ALLAN llC TN lTlAl HIVE. Record Breakers Now on the stocks-Great
 Enterprise of the Hambure-American
 Line The Poaosi the Largest Sailing
 Ship Aaoat.
 The boast which the German emperor made the other day, when he said that his new battleship Kaiser Friedrich III was superior to every other ship of the kind, is not likely to be repeated in substance after the trial of new mer- chant ship now building at 6tettin for the North German Lloyd line. Tho new ship was laid down for the express pur- pose of competing with the fliers of the Cunard and the American line. She will be 626 feet long between perpen- diculars, and that means perhaps nearer TOO feet than 600 long over all. She will be 66 feet wide and have depth inside of 43 feet, while her engines are to develop not less than 28, 900 horse power The chances are that she will have more than 30, 900 horsepower be- hind her twin screws, like the Cam pania.
 The building of this ship is attracting great attention in every shipyard of the kind ill the world, for 1t is the first real effort the German builders have made to surpass their competitors in Great Britain, and many engineers think the effort will succeed. They even look fo1 four day ship.
 The Germans have had to work at Q disadvantage in shipbuilding because of the higher prices of nearly all kinds ot materials Labor Is somewhat cheaper in Germany, but the distance of the mines, and especially the coal mines, from the shipyards more than makes up for the price of labor Moreover, the builders are burdened by laws compel ling contributions to old age pension fvnds and accident insurance assooia tions.
 In addition to the bhipbuilding at Stettin the North German Lloyd has another of the same dimensions build ing in the Schichau yard at Dantzic, where some of 9ermany's swiftest tor- pedo boats have been set adoat.
 The Hamburg American line will very soon have the largest cargo barrier in the world in its employ, but this vessel is building at Belfast. It is a twin screw ship 660 feet long, 62 feet wide and n feet deep. Its dead weight capacity is 12,00Q tons As the besi American freight ~ars oarTy 30 tons dead weight it would require 10 freight trains of 40 cars each loaded to their full capacity to i'll this ship.
 In the matter of sailing ships. al though Germsny's fleet is smaller than that of Great Britain, she has not only the largest vessel of the kind In the world, but also several of the swiftest. The Potosi is a five masted ship, 360 feet long, inside measurement, 4916 wide and 31 feet deep inside. She dis places 8,470 tons on a draft of 2S feet, and her capacity is 6, 900 tons dead weight. With all sail set, shs spreads 50, 0s0 feet of canvas to the breezes, What is more, she is swift and handy ship, turning in stays as easily as 1000 ton bark. To give strength beyond insurance requirements, the Potosi has substantial bulkhead at each of her four full rigged masts, while bridge house was built amidships for one-sixth of her length. It is the German boast that the Potosi is the largest, safest, driest and swiftest sailing ship in the world.
 In former years the American news paper printed with pride the records of their swift ships Here are some of the records that German papers have print ed recently about German built ships: The Preussen, steel ship, built by Blohm & Voss, Iquique to Hamburg, Fl days; Luna, iron bark, built by the Germania yard, Rangoon to Falmouth, 02 days Placilla, steel four masted bark, built by Tecklenborg, channel to Valparaiso, 68 days; Selene, steel ship. built by the ,Rostook yard, channel to Melbourne, Fl days; Hebe, steel four masted bark, built by Blohm & Voss, channel to Ade- laide. 80 days. The last named vessel covered 13, 485 nautical miles at an av- craze speed of s. 14 miles an hour and the Selene averaged 914 knots over course of 6. 425 miles Berlin Cor. New