The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-23
O. S. S. co.'s NEW VESSEL
WILL BE TURNED OUT FROM CHES-
TER YARDS IN A YEAR.

VIII Be Longer and Broader Than
the Kansas City But of Less Ton
mage and Less Passenger Capacity.
VIII Have single Screw and Triple
Expansion Engines and a Guaran-
teed Speed of IL Knots an Hour.
The Ocean Steamship Company's new
vessel, it is expected, viii be completed
in a year from April She will be $40
feet long. 80 feet beam, with a depth of
hold Of Is feet from the spar deck. She
will be Of $500 gross tonnage. with a p
foot mean draft. loaded. The new yes
sci will have accommodations for fifty
passengers. She will have a single
screw and triple expansion engines, and
viii have a speed of twelve knots.
The Morning News yesterday made the
announcement of the company having or
dered the vessel from the Roach Ship
building Company of Chester, Pa. She
will be by no means the first ordered from
the same company by the Ocean Steam
ship Company. Among those of the feet
that have come from the Chester works
are the Kansas City, the City of Birming-
ham, the Nacoochee, the Chattahoochee
which went ashore about a year ago OF
the Long Island coast, was also turned
out from Chester.
The new steamship is 10 be used prin-
cipalIy for freight. That is evident from
her comparatively slender accommoda-
tons for passengers. Some conception Of
the size of the new vessel when she mas
been completed, may be gained from the
following dimensions, which are those oil
the Kansas City probably the best known
of the Ocean Steamship Company's fleet:
Gross tonnage. 3,679; length, SzI rect;
BEAM 40 feet; depth 1873.
The Kansas City was the last vessel
built for the Ocean Steamship Company.
The loss of the Gate City made ii neces-
sary for the company TO secure another
and the order upon the Roach ShipOulld-
ing Company was the result There are
now seven vessels in the company's fleet,
the Kansas City. the City of Birmingham,
the City of Macon the Tallahassee, tns
Chattahoochee, the Nacoochee, and the
City of Augusta.
Victor fletcher will give a banquet to
half a hundred of his friends at the Vic
toria, in New York, tonight, and all be-
| cause he is probably the most-escaoed
| man in this country. Victor Fletcher is
| Cincannti man and he has figured IN
( more railroad WrGckS ana 0taQ more HdA =
row escapes than a dozen others. Here
! is what he has 90 say of his experiences:
Tell anybody that the safest place on
! a railroad train is in the middle of the
| train and on the right side. 1 have been
| in scores of wrecks of all descriptions,
| where men and women were killed or
| manned around me. l have been in street
| car smash-ups, run away accidents and
| fires, but never received so much as a
! scratch.
THE two wrecks l allude to in my in
| Vitations occurred at Aurora, Ind, at Z
| o'clock Sunday morning, and at Lock-
| land a few hours later. In the first,
| Judge Amos A Ewing, of Oklahoma, had
| his head and hands badly cut, while Su-
| perintendent Rawn, of the Baltimore and
| Ohio Railroad, nearly lost his life Dy
being thrown through heavy plate glass
mirror Eighteen others were also in
| jured-
II had a premonition of danger and did
not go to sleep. A freight train tried to
| pass our train on the same tracks.
There is a guardian angel that always
hovers over me. feel it everywhere I
60 have presentiments and act accord
| ingly. l have been in wrecks in Texas,
| Arkansas Indiana, at Kansas City, Trim
dad, Colorado and during che week three
| different times. What it is that protects
me / do not know"