The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-08

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
,ations Upset-COnsequent
uord work and short Liv-
r.,m the New York Evening Post
.- IN a big steamship" said the
..,osr Of a liner to-day, is trade
chs n isn't like firing anywhere
rbc demands on a man on his first
more and different. If he isn't
FnP 80. .6. work. he is almost useless. 1t
W. ,boasht chat any big, strong fellow
., shovel coal would do well enough
.l some one TO tell him how 20 do 1t
hour or TWO. That may be true OF
rs, on a locomotive. but it isn't the case
,,.. e,rn,ce-room of a big steamship. 1t
4 H.. wear 10 make such a fireman lie
,~ov more than how 10 keep head
,.,r, ON. he must learn how TO stand
s..,.-bov TO work in it. The man
/ Is, bs seasoned If he isn't he only lasts
..,lo while: and, even for that time
,rl, is sure to be badly done.
..,,.,,. have from eighty to one hundred
liner. and each fireman has to
..,,r faur fires. There are three
..,s. I'm "a day and Neutrality-suspicious.
80 il takes from sixty to seventy,
1 r,,, ,o keep the fires going. The cal
/ '..,,s are made to a man. Men are
/ ...,r,ad in horsepower. The engineer
bog. many horsepower it takes to
.,rs his ship given number OF knots an
He knows exactly how many flres
4 ..,,,iros 10 get this power, and knows
,,.b fire must accomplish. lie
also. lust how many fires man
a., attend to. So, in fine, he gets II down
4 tis that so many tiremen equal 50
nj. HINTS an hour, and governs hlnseH
q ,,linelv. If the ship is TO be driven al
,,. krots an hour, he will ship a Ger
q ',,,,,,or of men; Il at twelve knots an
y aiH ,,,1,,oft touately smaller number.
y ',,i,n5afion is made for emergencles-
INV rate. the margin of men allow
Il ' ,.5,,. small So, to get the speed de-
io5 bis men have to be competent 10
80. tl,eir fires and strong enough 10
- tboir work through the voyage.
Il M, * Main now. how important IL Is 10
4 .vf,srieuced men. If anything goes
4 ,. ,.itb the force, the engineer car
,a,ions 90 for nothing, and the speed Oh
MT suffers as a matter of course
81 zoo, dremen in the first place, doH
II 7,u. how to throw coal through a lul
i aco door. and they certainly doh hho"
q, INV 10 keep a red fire and an even sur
3 ,ce Of coal inside. Some of them can
4 t5a onening. Why. I've seen them
81 through the door! A man who knows
Il business is like a machine, and for ac-
turacv in handling a shovel hes marc 10
Il oat The contents shoot into the ire,
oar and nice; and the man. gets out OF
fire every pound of steam it's got IN
Fl If us required. A green fireman IS
IN only clumsy with a shovel and lgho-
En- in the management of fire; he can
IA and The air and the heat in the furnace
'soom. which is very important, indeed
81 These men work where the temperature
ia constantly about 120 degrees No breeze
oes with that heat 10 make it more bear
"a bic and the air is charged with dust.
49,. IN the furnace-room you feel as
ii 0ugh your insides were drying up. That's
Ia here it strikes the new men, and they
|4sul stand it long. More than that, they
r. sick-deathIv seasick, and have TO
NtVeuty-four-four hours on and eight
FL ours off. Their time off is short enough
Ir them. IT'S hardly long enough to re-
1l0ytr from a bad attack of seasickuess,
III YOU viii imagine. Take a crew of green
NJ. even with a number who have been
IA sea before aud % per cent. of them
SRill be laid IN in two days. 1t may not
IN soasickness; but, if not that, the heat
Il d tbe hard Work will do them up. Then
M lat's the engineer to do who has cal
xllaed on getting so many horsepower of
III am and so many knots of speed out of
81 CD mani That's what l mean when /
M that . fireman must learn his trade.
an must atcustom himself to work under
81 b conditions. That's not a matter OF
a or two
81 tNhy. when the HaUVard-or Yale. I
q get which-left this port on her first
81 flHe as a Wdrship, at the beginning of
a War, she had crew of firemen as
n Fen as YOU could find. Some of them
a r. office clerks, and that kind of men.
Il A." many knots do you think she made?
NH'y couldn't get more than three out
88 aer for while, the firemen were so
- ocked out
u ne ilremen start in-or should start in
III as eoal-passers. All they do is to break
Ill al and handle 1t from one place to an
NJ ncr' This isn't such hard work as fir
III ana IT gives man a chance to get
Il 80 10 l2O degrees of tempera ture and a
Fl y air He cen also learn how to fire
NY enough if he keeps his eyes open
III 'tr year or two years at coal passing
IA ready TO be a fireman; and. if he is
IA 5000 man. he has no trouble in getting
IA promotion as ] might call it, The
sep IS an advance to the job OF oil
'oo1 tiremen are made oilers after
years. They can't get any farther
IA SNsiA'er is another kind of man Fire
IA i" aye pald Is a month on the English
"a ana $40 month ON the American
SSefs get about $40 less a month
ol'eiS gel 4he same as firemen The
a''ase IN thai joo is that il is cleaner
HeN work in the engineroom, too,
'He temperature is not as high as
IA p'effes. In this port firemen have no
81 I'm M getting work They ship for
9l'se' and are paid off when the yes
n mes home port again Then
3. ,'ee' they come back, if they don't
q s,,-I, 'IuhN or fall into any other kind of
III WORK IS. of course, fearfully hard.
III oi man pretty quickly. I've got
under me now who has been a
n h., TOT 'hlrtE years. He's an excep-
IA IV'Sh | don't know of another
Id sbo,.i3p mas anything like such record.
harso., pa, the life of a fireman on a
III an ''i' ncr down at about ten
Sfor, .T many last much longer in the
h. ,b., u'l simply come to the concIu-