The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-14
LESS SPEED ON THE OCEAN
Transatlantic Liners of Future
Will Take More Time.
VESSELS TO BE LARGER
Coal Expenditure Reduced and Cargo
Capacity DEMONSTRATORS Will
Spend Eight Days on the
Water Instead OF Six

From the New York Mail and Express.
Those who have predicted the build
ing 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 30
knots an hour are simply the smaller
editions in speed and horse power of
the Oregon, Alaska, Arizona and other
ocean greyhounds that set tongues wag-
ging Is years ago.
So it is with the twin-screw yachts
whose triple engines send
then along at 20-knot speed. The ex-
perts of the marine world have come to
the conclusion that for money making
the craft of enormous engines, bulky
machinery and ponderous screws are
not what they should be. A number CT
the transatlantic lines have figured it
of ordinary speed than in one Of high
record. The tendency to cut down speed
is likely to reyolutionize not only travel
on the Atlantic, but the Suez canal as
we'll.
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 10 years, but it has been
demonstrated that there would be still
greater profit in slower but larger ves-
sells. The limit of size has not been
reached, all the experts agree, and pre-
dictions are made that in the next 10
years, when the advantages of New
York's improved water front with lon
ger and broader docks and the new 40
foot channel across Sandy Hook bar
will have been completed, are available,
much larger vessels will be built.
The American line is one of the fiji st
to announce it's intention to build for
comfort and bulk, rather than for
speed. Now that the question of saw
ing the Paris, ashore in the Ensl sh
channel, has been settled unfavorably
the International Navigation company,
to which the American line belongs has
contracted with the Cramps to build
two new steamships, each to be about
1000 tons larger than the Paris or her
sister ship, the New York. Instead of
being capable of making % knots as
the st. Paul and the ST. Louis are, the
new craft will not have a speed greater
than II knots and instead of crossing
from the Needles, southside South
ampton, to Sandy Hook in a trfle over
eli 1lS {t1rn Ia,-
they will make the 1850 miles in some
thing like eight days. The Paris is $50
feet in length, with a beam of ssh feat
and moulded depth of AZ feet, her
gross tonnage being 10,So0 The St
Paul and her mate are each 554 feet In
length, with a beam of So feet a depth
of AZ feet and gross tonnage Of 1859
The two new vessels will be over 800
feet, or more than 40 feet longer than
the Paris, and will have about the
same beams as that unfortunate yes
sci has. They will, however. draw a
great deal more water, with an idea
of increasing the cargo-carrying capac-
ity.
The general impression prevails that
the new Oceanic is to make mnce
meat of all the ocean records when she
starts on her maiden trip to this side,
an event which it may now be posi-
lively announced is to take place the
later part of August. The White Star
line has always been mysterious about
the speed Of new ships building for it's
express service, and the fact that the
Teutonic and the newer Majestic We're
two knots faster than what the COM
pany before launching officially stated
them to be has been accepted as an in-
dication that the Oceanic is to be a
speedy vessel.
When Bruce Ismay. the head of the
White Star line was here last he said to
a shipping friend: Remember this,
speed is not the greatest thing in the
Atlantic trade" When he said
this he was simply rejecting his own
wishes and those of his father as to the
Oceanic. The Oceanic is to be 7O4 feet
long, or u feet longer than the Great
Eastern 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 Il to be
very soon, will construct steamers lar
ger than the Lucania and Campania,
which are 622 feet long and of 81 500
tons each, but nothing like the 30, 900
horse power which each of these YES
sells has, will be supplied to the new
corners. They will be built for an in
crease in cabin accommodation and
comfort, and a considerable portion of
the space that is now given up to ma
chinery and coal bunkers will be re-
served for cargo carrying. Cutting
down the horse power means cutting
down the machinery space, and cutting
down both means reduction in the ex.
pendtures for coal, which will mean
the saving of a big round sum every
trip.
The coastwise and West Indian lines
are also going in for slower speed. The
New York and Cuban Steamship COM
pany, better known as the Ward line,
has just ordered two new vessels from
the Cramps, which. while they are to be
larger than the Havana and Mexico.
lately completely for that company, are
to be much slower. They will have lar
ger passenger accommodation. Each
will be able to carry 10 first cabin, SO in
the second saloon and IS in the steer
age
While the HamburgAmerican line in
its Deutschland, the North German