The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-02
TO RIVAL THE KANSAS CITY.
THE STEAMSHIP AUGUSTA NOW A
FLOATING PALACE.

Over 100000 Spent in Making the
Vessel Ovcr-WiII he Put on the
Line Monday to Take the Place of
the BirminGham-Other Vessels TO
he OverhnuIed in Turn-A Change
Made in the New York Agency.
Mr.. John NJ. Egan, acting president Of
the Central Railroad and Ocean Steamship
Company, returned yesterday from trip
to New York, where he went on busihess
connected with the steamship company.
While at New York, Mr. Egan received
the resignation of the agent for the com
pany at that place. Mr.. NJ. c. Hammond.
Mr.. Hammond had been transferred to the
agency at New York from that at Phila-
delphia, when the Ocean Steamship Line
between Savannah and that city was tax
en- Off. His resignation Of the New York
agency was accepted and Mr.. D. S. Euro
was appointed temporary agent In his
place. Mr.. Euro has been employed by
the New York Office for a long while. He
will now be in charge of all the office
work, while the business of the company
al the piers will be under the manage
ment of Mr.. p. e. LeFevre, who is the
company's superintendent engineer.
While in New York. Mr.. Egan paid a
visit to the steamship City of Augusta,
which has been on the ways undergoing
repairs for nearly three months. He was
very much pleased with his inspection of
the vessel, which he found to have been
greatly improved by the thorough over
hauling and renovation that she has re-
ceived. All the vessels appointments are
snow in splendid taste, and she will be one
of the handsomest of those on the Savan-
Matthew York line. From stem to stern
and from keel to topmast she has been
thoroughly oyerhauled and made as good
as new. Quadruple expansion engines
and new boilers have been put in, and the
vessel will be able to attain a speed fully,
if not quite, equal TO that of the Kansas
City, the fastest vessel on the Atlantic
coast lines. The work that has been done
on the vessel will cost the steamship COM
pany 100000, and when she again takes
her place on the line, which will be next
Monday, her palatial appointments and
ability to reel off the knots will make a
ANbhih AOl tilt ilOllOI sue mas Hdu OF DSdT-
ing the name of one of Georgia's most en-
terprising and progressive cities.
The City of Augusta will take the place
of the City of Birmingham sailing from
New York Monday, which will be that
vessels date to sale The Augusta has
already had one trial trip and the second
will take place on Saturday. Mr. Egan
was aboard her last Saturday when her
machinery was turned for the first time
The trial trip day before yesterday was
very successful, and no doubt is felt but
that Saturdays trip will prove equally So
When the City of Birmingham is reliev-
ed by the City of Augusta she will go on
the ways herself for slight repairs, and af-
ter this work is finished, will be given her
annual inspection. The Kansas City will
follow her, and after all necessary work
has been done on her, the other vessels
will be taken off in turn until some re-
pairs have been done to them all. The
city of Macon will be the only vessel
upon which these annual repairs will not
be necessary, as she was given a thorough
overhauling before being put on the con-
Meeting line between New York and Bos-
ton.