Evening journal., 1898-05-04
JUNIATA'S SUCCESSOR
To Be Built BY the Harlan
& Hollingsworth Company
FOR MERCHANTS & MINERS LINE

SHE WILL BE ONE or THE FINEST
SHIPS EVER BUILT IN THIS
CITY.
The Harlan and Hollinsworth Com
pany has received a contract to build
another large steamer for the Mer-
chants and Miners transportation
Company. OF Baltimore.
The new boat will be the same s'ze
as the Juniata, built by the local COM
pany last year. and which has been
purchased by the United States from
the transportation company and fioted
cut as an auxiliary cruiser
she will be fun four-decked ship
of 270 feet length on the water line, AZ
feet beam moulded and "a feet depth
of hold. She VIII be built almost en-
tirely of iron, upon the model of the
steamship Fairfax, built at this ship
yard in 1891.
The hull, all the deck beams, all o{
one and parts OF two other decks to be
Of iron. The deck planlIing of the first
and secOnddecks will be Of yellow pine,
31bX6 inches, and of the third deck of
white pine OF the same dimensions. The
iron plating Of the third deck viii be
covered with pressed bricks laid in
cement
There will be three freight matches
on each, of the first, second and third
decks, and two in the fourth deck, the
after one Of which will be double. The
spaces between decks are to be about
eight feet each, the lower hold will be
feet 3 inches.
HANDSOME STATEROOMs.
The passenger saloon will be on the
third deck aft and connect with tn,
fourth deck by a large open stairway
This saloon will include twenty state
rooms and all the necessary. pantries
and closets. 1t will be finished in ligh
hard wood The house enclosing thu
machinery, kitchen and second-clas.
rooms. on the third deck amidship
will be rs feet long; on the fourtl
deck there will he a house about 10
feet long and 20 feet wide, which vii
enclose the engineers rooms the socia
hall and toilet rooms and passengers
staterooms; another house surrounding
the smoke-stack on this deck will en-
close the machinery, smoking-rcon
passengers staterooms and Officers
/ quarters.
On this deck forward the smoke
stack. an eliptical front room, will con
, tain the steering engine. first and sec
; ond officers rooms and toilets. On IN
top Of this house will be the pilot
house. the captains rooms and a stair
way leading below decks. The joine
work OF the saloons will be Of har
wood and OF finish equal to that OF an
ships built for the company.
| MAMMOTH PIECE OF MACHINERY
= The engine will be OF the direct ac'
T. ing triple compound variety with II
verted cylinders; the high pressm
r | cylinder % inches, the intermedia
r lcylinder As inches and the low pressul
, cylinder 72 inches in diameter. TT
stroke Of the engine will be AS inch'
, PROPELLER SIXTEEN FEET 1
o DIAMETER.
S steam will he supplied to the englr
from four cylindrical return tube boz
( ers Of 13 feet inches diameter OF she
81 and IL feet 6 inches long, the workin
!. | pressure of these boilers to be II
e rounds to the square inch. The spec
( Of the vessel is expected to average n
+ teen knots an hour at sea, when loa'
ed. to draw eighteen feet OF water. IN
n propeller will be four+bladed, blad'
e boited on the hub, and about siNtee
- l.feet I'M diameter.