The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-24
Put on a 25-Knot Clip During a
Successful Trial Trip.
uosT SATISFACTORY RUN YET.
Eat n single Stop OF the Enso
~. Ts~e She left This city
up,l she HaA Gese 20 Tacoma
ana Returnea-<soveTnm P
,sr,x IN He MADE Early Next
Week Over IN sO-Mfe Soee

Tn. ,,t.se torpedo boat Rowan put on
s-knot clip yesterday on what VIII p'o0
.hsv h. the last run before the government
- ~.u give her an official trial. Up
and down the Scand. wherever ETC "'''
the national ensign on nearly every "1s
role was dipped in honor OF the ii'''s CT
tina, was making better time py ee'e'@'
knots than has ever been n1a1 Oh
.oana waters before. The run was 'h-
,,,ost satisfactory that the Rowan has ysI
made. There WAS not single STOP !"
Shs engines from the time the eoas 'e1N
Moran Bros wharf until ire round TIP
"a Tacoma had BEEN completed
Capt. John Il. Libby. OF the Puget
Sound Tug Boat Company. who In In
command of the Rowan for Moran Bros'.
ordered the Rowan out OF the slip at IL
O'Clock yesterday morning. Three tons OF
Cardiff coal. which makes q warm IRE
with very little smoke or cinders. was care
fully stored IN the SIDE bunkers and the
torpedo boat was ready. Her fires were
burning well and Engineer Hem and his
assistants had been grooming the engines
ing out OF the harbor and was given speed
or Al-Ri point TIE run 10 Tacoma was
against strong wind and no attempt was
made 10 push her. The average time was
twenty one knots This speed made very
little difference In the steadIness OF the
boat.
Boats Get Curious.
Just before entering Commencement nay
Q small! schooner was passed. Her cap
tain, on seeing the nature IT the Rowan.
dashed into the cabin Tor the schoonsr's
Tag. then stood OH tae raj! and waved II.
A moment later the schooner poked her
nose into the big swell kicked up oy the
Rowan's prope,.ers and the captain axnost
went overheard. The tuss and sternwheei
steamers passed seemed 10 be Possessed
with an in0riinata curiosity concerning
tie Rowan. In order to inspect her more
closely they would head directly Tor the
torpedo boat and Capt. LIBBY would have
TO sheer Off. With "A boat going over TWEEN
~ mics an hour there IL no use taxing
chances The captain OF small tusboat
thought that he would get better view
by crossing the Rowan's bow. and 1t took
careful steering 10 get around him.
The Rowan threshed her way Into Taco
ma harbor shortly after noon and was Ha-
lutei By al the boats along the front. All
tho mills salysted by dipping their colors.
The Rowan did not stop for a minute but
made a wide circle around the bay and
started back towards Seattle. The engines
were working 70 perfection by this time
and Engineer HEM put more speed into
her. With every knot aided the pulse
beats of the powerful engines become more
evident. Her narrow hull amidships was
q mass OF weighing machinery working and
twisting In and out with terrible speed.
The oil screens had not yet been put in
the engine room and the green lubricant
was flying In all directions from the
swiftly revolving wheels and shafts. The
oilers were soaked through and the en-
glne room floor a pool Of OIL Black
smoke pouring out from her three shog,
stacks told that four arcinen down below
were working their best.
A Twenty-nve-knot Rntc.
Shortly after IA sSing Robinson point the
Rowan got up tn the 2,-knot rate. On the
short upper deck at the bow the CULVER and
snake Caus4a by the increased workings
az the machinery was very perceptiblc. bat
tho hull was almost as steady as ever. The
wind tore past the coming tower and
gave orc feeling only experienced on the
pliot or ! swiftly moVing locomotive.
The Stern WIS p"i|d down nearly twclNc
inches below ~" water mark ~ the oTlin.
AIRY rate NJ speed Far behind tratieti a
foan,y wake which marine authorities say
H. the rraitlcst they have ever seen be
hind fast boat. II pluugcs up tu~t under
the narrow stern as though thrown from
an immense hose. II rises. huhbsFng and
foaming f1ily two feet above the surface
% the Mater ard II times spflnktcr9 th..
hogiAanta' stripes Of DId Glory iloa !nE he
bind Th.s wave follows for perhaps zen
feet In IS ' shape until q ts caught by the
big liisivTHN I'll thrown =. ukwara ard tiI,-
wars oy the two pFopcliers TFals ssvel,
tears ana tGreshcs lie water again ana
finally rms or with IL towards either SHORE
In 81 6o1Alc foRos-rrc~tel htslows
TIE RaW9n's rsvsn IS - sharp that the
bow swell f. hardy pvrovntshle. 81 nj
fountain OF spray springs up on either