The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-05-29

Nrcokage OF Some Kind Scc;ns TO Eaye
knocked or th" Port S,rcw-Port Engines
stopped Automatically, Gin 60 BACK Ono.
Legged. B Per cent. on rares-A
Danga;cr Of Martin Maioncy Died Aboard.
"r"chaE" from a sunkcn ship or, maybe. q
d'I'in.: log from "a understanding derelics
wa prob bly, The eau . OF tho proiractnd voy.
ag" Of ia" Amer can liner New York, which
arrived from southampton aud CheiGourg on
SnAd.y nlcht and anchored outside the bar.
Her starboard engines only were in commits.
sion. She lad covered nearly two thousand
niles of tho uip from thcrboury at three.
quarters speed, or ar the rate Of fifteen knots,
which i, better than tho ordinary single screw
does in Pleasant weather. Her port engines
had nothing 10 doaitor o 20 o o'clock on Tuesday
night when the port propeller, n massive COM
binatou Of manganese bronze about twenty
feet in diameter drCrped down among the
mermaid ~carrviJg with II n large section OF
the cupboard art of the propeller shaftins and
the great brackets supporting the stern tube in
which The outhoard shafting worked.
Unlv "A few Of the 27i cabin PASSENGERS had
gone TO bed whcn the propeller cut loose from
the shi? al who were awake felt the liner vi.
bratc as II she had run over a scaQuake or
grated across n reef, The impression OF most
of the passengers was somewha, vague. They
thought that something had happened"
Everybody In the engineers department knew
this immediately. In" port engines, under the
influence of an automatic governor that cut oil
tho .tcanl the moment the engines ceased
10 have n propeller 10 turn. knocked on
working. Nearly all tho passengers hunted
NJ ufic,r Rs and asked what had happened. The
speed of the starboard engines was reduced and
a superficial examination was made by an as
sisl ant engineer lowered over the stern. He
found that the big propeller and the brackets
were gone. The skin of the ship was undanl-
eyed aud she proceeded. under threc-Quarters
81 eed with her starboard engines,
1t was thOlght at first that the loss OF the
propeller might have been due 10 a flaw IN the
propeller shaft, but an examination by a diver
after the ship got into dock here revealed
scratches and bruises along the port side CT the
liner, forward Of tho propeller. indicating that
ilotsam OF some, sort bad probably smashed
against her and had been swept with the wave
OF replacement against the port screw.
The New York viii Sgl! on schedule Tor South.
nmpton at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
None Of her passengers booked here has given
up "A berth. As an lnduCetlcnt Tor oil who nave
secured berths to take the Trip. the line has
offered 10 deduct % per cent. from tho original
price OF tickets In consideration of the fact that
the New York will, under one set OF engines,
| Will land passengers at southampton on Friday
| afternoon instead Of Wednesday evening. She
I cannot repair on this side conveniently, as her
duplicate propellers are at Southampton. She
Will lose only one trip repairing -,
Miss kittlc Naloncy. the iNteen-year-old
aud Schroon Lake millionaire, died OF heart
disease two days before the mishap to the ship.
! Her mother was travelling with her. The body
was brought TO this port,