The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-31
1T Eastern Shipbuilder Favors
Puget Sound.
r,aks OF ERECTING A PLANT.
4. schoonmakeF Tells Of .
r.esed Insesftgatfon Of the
aAvsatages Of This Petnt-Ans-
.H.~ee Of Mild Climate in the
Us r.~~aeuetion Of BattleshiDs-Se-
~1sae Versus San Franctsco.

4 -. ~ the largest iron ard steel ship
1920 Of the East VIII be out mere early
Qsing 10 investigate 1ns oppor. u'isues
& 1ecafing his plant on Puget souna- 1
Sse eeer this gentleman and spoken Witn
~ bat cannot give nss name.
-, vax what r. X. Scaoonmaker, the
!; !. ss-rkiIcan speaker who stumpe9 the state
! ~. All and VINO IL fzvorably known as
+ !. ..a1tieal orator said at the Hotel Seattle
y ~@sz1.rAay afternoon. Mr.. shoemaker
- rvceutly returned from New York. and
Z 1.er. his home at Plainfield, -. j. he
~ tits sh:pbuiIder 10 whom he aliudes a
- ueeks ago. Mrs. Schoonmaker. who
s-.euunanles her husband on this trip, Is
~~urised and delighted with the mild
! esnt6r weather OF the Sound.
: ~. gentleman OF whom Mr. Sehoonma-
4 - aueaks has decided 10 investigate the
! s.nortun,taes of sh.pDaisaing aere as d.
: .sse rssult Of the magnificent feat Of the
Ssst,sehlp Oregon I'm her wonderful trip
49, South America last spring.
Due to the Oregon.
fenutruesors and sil.pbuiiders throughout
! - Fast have been investigating the cause
p fhie remarkable work, and they have at
- found out why the Oregon Is superior
- vas built In a climate OF little vari-
-. The thermometer seldom goes be-
s - r "a San Francisco. and seldom above
IN normal range IL from IS 10 ". Del
80 parts of steamship built In such
1 & eHmate At different times OF the year do
{ - suefeY from expansion and contraction.
e.,.a6d by heat and cold. That IL. parts
p he ship built In summer and In winter
"a Two delicate pieces Of mechanism or
"a mates for the hull. the one built IN
- winter and the other In the summer.
- ef the same size. and when placed in
r. ship they expand and contrac, with
~ a. cold 10 the same degree. That Is.
~ variation OF climate Is so little that the
Avpnnston or contraction OF the steel Is
~ 0me the year around. or so very near
~ nme that no difficulty Is experienced.
Climate Good for Iron.
n wilmington, whore the Cramps are
kntsd, the variations Of the thermometer
~ more than 100 degrees. from zero to
~ Il may thus be seen that machinery
6nnGfr,cted in the winter at zero would
~ q that constructed In the summer at
n above. The pieces which are delicate.
Notwithstanding their great weight, will
~ At. This Is recognized principle
smon9 Eastern shipbuaders. They have
oGs9 been able to figure the contraction
m he expansion to such u nicely that
der could overcome the bad results
IAey. or 81 least the gentleman whom
-. 0choonmaker met, have come to the
G1Hunion mat THIS hnsfencc or china e
ecaounts fully for tho perfection OF the
Oregon, built or the Pacific coast, and the
kfef1crity Of the Texas and the Msassa-
chu1etfA. built on the Atlantic. The Ore
Scn was no closely built. her parts were 80
well adjusted that she was able 10 make
her Mmlmile trip without loosened bolt
1da ahipe built on the Atlantic have not
TIE nicely OF fittings. the evenness and the
compactness In the 1lr7cture OF different
pafts Of machinery and hull THAI made the
oegon's trip possible.
Seatfie has climate with hardly great
= veriation Of temperature than San Fran
10 She has one thing which more than
snets tho slightly greater variation
81 The freight from Seattle 10 San
Ifanasoo on every pound of coal used i'm
~ construction OF a man-o f. war must b.
odded 10 her cost. That IL why Mr.. Schoon-
uAkers friend Is coming 10 Puget sound
nsnsr than to San Francisco. for that city
oets her coal from SEATTLE.
he would be here now If he knew the
naenincent winter climate here.