The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-17
SLOWER OCEAN TRIPS.
STEA MSHIPS OF THE FUTURE NOS
TOMAKE HIGH GINS IN SPEED.
vessels VIII be Much Larger-Greater
Luxury to be Provided for Passen
&C.,
gers Who Win Spend Eight Days on
the Water

gers Who wan Spend Eight Days on
the Water.
Inose who have predicted the building
OF steamships that would make the
transatlantic trip in four days are not
likely to have their prophecy fulfilled in
the immediate future. Four day steam
ers, like those that take week to cross,
are intended for money making.
The merchant marine has ever led the
naval branch in the matter of high
speed. The torpedo boats that dash
through salt water at more than thirty
knots an hour are simply the smaller
editions in speed and horsepower Of the
Oregon, Alaska, Arizona and other
ocean greyhounds that set tongues wag-
ging fifteen years ago.
So it is with the twin-screw yachts
whose triple-expansion engines send
them along at twenty knot speed The
experts of the marine world have come
to the conclusion that for money maxi
ing the craft Of enormous engines,
bulky machinery and ponderous screws
are not what they should be- A number
of the transatlantic lines have figured it
out that there is more money in ship
of ordinary speed than in one of high
record. The tendency to cut down speed
is likely to revolutionize not only travel
on the Atlantic, but the Suez Canal
trade as WELL
The Cunard, White Star and Ameri-
can lines are agreed on the question Of
building more luxuriously fitted but less
speedy boats for the service between
this port and the United Kingdom.
These three lines have done well finan-
cially the past ten years, but it has been
demonstrated that there would be still
greater profit in slower but larger yes
sells. The limit Of size has not been
reached, all the experts agree, and pre-
dictions are made that in the next ten
years, when the advantages of New
York's improved water front, with
longer and broader docks ana the new
forty-foot channel across Sandy Hook
bar will have been completed, are avail
able much larger vessels will be built
The American line is one of the first to
announce its intention to build for COM
fort and bulk, rather than for speed.
Now that the question of saving the
Paris, ashore in the English Channel,
das been settled unfavorably, the Inter-
national Navigation company, to which
the American line belongs, has contract
ed with the Cramps to build two new
steamships, each to be about two thon-
sand tons larger than the Paris or her
sister ship the New York. Instead Of
being capable Of making twenty-five
knots as the st. Paul and the ST. Louis
are, the new craft will not have a speed
greater than seventeen knots, and in
stead of crossing from the eedles, out
side Southampton, to Sandy Hook in
trifle over six days, as those two flyers
have done, they will make the $3.50
miles in something like eight days. The
Paris is $50 feet in length, with beam
of 6314 feet and a nodded depth of AZ
feet, her gross tonnage being 10000.
The st. Paul and her mate are each 554
feet in length, with beam of SO feet a
depth Of AZ feet and a gross tonnage Of
1923.
The two new vessels will be over six
hundred feet, or more than forty feet |
longer than the Paris and will have |
about the same beam as that unfortu |
nate vessel has They will, however,
draw great deal more water, with an |
idea of increasing the cargo carrying |
capacity.
The general impression prevails that !
ha no Onaoy1So ic 10 mako p,ir1npn1pqt |
of all the ocean records when she starts |
on her maiden trip to this side, an event !
which may now be positively an
nounced is to take place the latter part
of August. The White Star line has al
ways been mysterious about the speed Of
the new ships building for it's express"
service, and the fact that the Teutonic
and the newer Majestic were two knots
faster than what the company before
launching officially stated them to be,
has been accepted as an indication that
the Oceanic is to be speedy vessel
When Bruce Ismay, the head of the
White Star line, was here last he said to
shipping friend: Remember this.
Speed Is not the greatest thing in the
transatlantic trade" When he said this
he was simply rejecting his own wishes
ana L0OSe OIL MS ldtHeT as W the oCedH- |
ic. The Oceanic is to be 704 feet long, or
twelve feet longer than the Great East
ern, but she Is to be tremendous cargo
and passenger carrier, and not the flyer
that the majority Of people imagine.
Private advices from Liverpool say
that the Cunard line. when it decides to
build, which rumor says is to be very
soon, will construct steamers larger |
than the Lucania and Campania, which
are 622 feet long and Of 1880 tons each
but nothing like the 10000 horse power
which each of these vessels has, will be
supplied to the newcomers. They will
be built for an increase in cabin accom-
mediation and comfort, and a considera-
BILE portion of the space that is now CIV
en- up to machinery and coal bunkers
will be reserved for cargo-carrying.
Cutting down the horse power means
cutting down the machinery space, and
down both means reduction in
the expenditures for coal, which will |
mean the saving of big round sum ev-
cry trip.
The coastwise and West Indian lines
are also going in for slower speed. The
ew York and Cuban Steamboat compa- !
ny. better known as The Ward Line, has
lust ordered two new vessels from the
Cramps which, while they are to be |