The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-05
LARGER STEAMERS.
MieHTieR OCEAN LINERS ARE TO BE
BUILT.

mr.. Ismay Says His Company L. Construct
ing One which VIII he Bigger Than
the Kaiser wilhelm der Grosse-Nsw
vessels Are TO Consume Less Coal.
Two incidents connected with the trip
Of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse from
Bremen and Southampton, which ended
recently. are of unusual interest. One Is
the fact that an accident to the gigantic
steamship, which caused her 20 heave 20
IN heavy gale for about eight hours, did
not prevent the vessel from making an ex-
traordinary run in that day. 1t was a lit
tie over 542 knots The other incident
was the choice of that steamship by Bruce
Ismay for his transatlantic trip, although
his wife and children sailed by the steam
or Majestic, which is one of the steamships
Of the line which Mr.. Ismay's father Great
cd and of which Mr.. Ismay is one OF the
managers. These two steamships left
British shores about the same time. The
older and smaller of the two, herself looked
upon as one of the finest of ocean steam
ships, reached New York within an hour
of the German leviathan whose achieve
ments since her first trip have been such
as to cause admiration and much surprise
on the part of marine engineers and those
who are managing ocean steamship lines
Marine engineers in New York, and, it
IL said, on the other side, expect 10 see the
Kaiser wilhelm before next year is half
completed break her own record and all
records, and prove perhaps that the four
day boat Is no more of q dream than the
two minute horse.
Her engineers say that she has not done
her best and the fact that Mr. lsmay was
one of her passengers upon this trip may
be accepted as proof sufficient that he one
of the gcnuises Of ocean transportation,
has been SO impressed by this splendid
piece of German workmanship that he de-
sired to familiarize himself by personal
study with such details as could only be
learned while a steamship is upon passage.
Mr. Ismays company Is constructing
one steamship which will match the kai
ser Wilhelm in sizo and In power-in fact,
will be larger than this greatest OF ocean
steamships IL will be built, however, by
the workinen of Great Britain designed
by the marine engineers of that country
after plans which Mr.. lsmay himself and
associates have In part suggested. IL Is 70
be greater than the famous Great Eastern.
and Is expected to make as swift time as
the Kaiser Wilhelm can develop. May or
Strong at one of the dinners which he has
recently attended spoke of the coming OF
this steamer and declared that IL was a
shame that the Greater New York was I'M
able to offer to such vessel the hospital
ity of a sufficiently large drydock If re-
pairs are needed, the vessel will be COM
PEELED to go TO Newport News or to the
British provinces. But New York is not
exceptional among great cities in lack of
facilities of that kind, and even in Liver
pool they are wondering how they will be
able to drydook this new oceanic monster.
The drydock in the Mersey although 10
is very large can be entered by such steam
ers as the Lucania or the Majestic only
after the utmost care has been taken by
the engineers, "a greater care than that re
quired to steer the vessel through a mar
row and rocky channel
Mr.. Ismay has come TO the United |
States, there is good authority for saying,
TO take charge, for the present at least, of
the American interests of the line OF which
he is one of the managers. He served as
American representative for "A number of |
years and was thon ranked as perhaps the |
sblest of all the men Europe sent 10 Amer
lea to build up and maintain an ocean |
commerce. Four of the leading lines are |
investing vast capital in new steamships |
containing the most approved kind of ma
chinery and also new appliances which |
will make a greater rate of speed possible |
with smaller consumption of coal than |
some of the larger steamers now find nee
essary TO use.
1t is also believed in Europe that the |
carrying trade from America to Europe
and to other parts of the world is to be |
vastly increased in the next few years |
This is to be trade very different from |
the chief line of exports characterizing |
American shipments to Europe in the past |
such as breadstuffs, Illuminating oils and |
cotton. Our machinery is going to Europe
in rapidly increasing amounts Only re-
Gently New England manufacturer ar
rived home after having sold in Great |
Britain $3.50, 900 worth of carriages
American machinery of all kinds seems
to be surely supplanting, or at least &C
lively competing with, those manufactured |
In Great Britain aud Europe, and it Is |
this new tendency developed within recent |
years and due very largely to the fact that |
American inventive skill is unsurpassed
that American wages, while they are the
highest in the world, are the most eco.
nomical because the highest results are at.
tanned from the labor which those wages
pay which causes these later activities In
the ocean steamship business. These are
problems which confront the managers of
the ocean line of steamships, and 1t Is
doubtless for that reason that Mr.. Ismay,
who one Of these days will be the head Of
the line which his father established has
come to New York to act for time as the
American representative of that line. -
Holland in Philadelphia Press.