New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-17
SATISFIED WITH OIL FUEL,
SUPERINTENDING ENGINEER OF AMER
ICAN-HAWAIIAN LINE LOUD IN
ITS PRAISE

One OF the first steamship freight lines 10 adopt
I oil as a fuel IS the AmerIcan-Hawaian Line
which operates a fleet Of steamers between this
port and San Francisco and Honolulu. The
company has built nine steamers within the
last two or three years to take the place Of the
old clipper ships which ran around the Horn and
to handle Hawaiian sugar The steamers sail
from this port for San Francisco with general
cargo At San Francisco they take aboard any
freight Offering for Honolulu and go to the
Hawaiian Islands. Taking on sugar there they
. sail for New-York
The feet consists of the American Hawaiian.
Oregonian and Californian, 5000 tons each;
Alaskan. Texan and Arizonian. 11.O00 tons each,
and the Nevadan and Nebraskan. $500 tons
each. The last two steamers are designed for
the San Francisco Honolulu trade exclusively.
They are provided with cold storage plants for
Transporting meats to the Hawaiian Islands and
fruit from the islands to san Francisco The
entire feet is completed with the exception of
the Arizonian. which will be finished in about
two months. The Nevadan and the Nebraskan
have already been fitted with tanks for carrying
fuel oil. and the other steamers will be equipped
with the apparatus as fast as possible
The Nevadan has made three round trips be
tween san Francisco and Honolulu using oil as
fuel. and the Nebraskan is now making her first
trip The distance covered by the Nevadan in
the trips was l-,Fsl miles ne OWIeIS are sat
is1ied that oil is the best fuel for them to use
on their vessels from the results obtained from
the Nevadau.
The Nevadan Is equipped with Scotch boilers
built TO be worked a pressure OF eco pounds
TO the square inch. and 10 drive the ship at the
rate OF eleven knots hour with coal as fuel.
These boilers also furnish steam TO the refriger-
ating plant. the steam winches. the blowers,
the different pumps. the electric light plant, etc
The apparatus for using the oil was designed
by Y F Lassoe. experimenting engineer Of the
American Hawaiian Steamship Company. and
Luther D Lovekin Of the New-York Shipoulld-
ing Company. where the ships were built In
their system the oil is atomized by air intro
duced n low pressure, and the Howden drauGnt
system is used TO heat the air before entering
the fire boxes. The Nevadan and the Neoras-
kan are provided with oil tanks Of 800 tons ca
pacitv. sufficient to take the steamers from san
Francisco to Honolulu and back again and leave
eight hundred or nine hundred barrels IN the
tanks at the end OF the trip
on the last trip OF the Nevadan 70 Honolulu
which was begun at san Francisco on October
Q. and terminated on october 10. Nj Lassoe
said DAY or two ago:
boilers and engines were worked 10 their fuli ca
80 The steam was kept at 200 pounds. with no
variation Of more than pound or W. ~ s .l, ~
stsrL Tho boilers developed $50 horsepower,
S1irE % hounds 81 oil wee used per indicated
- Tba consI,mption was 5 0o6 pounds or
nine and one-fourth barrels or on an ,t~ea hours
ard the average hourly speed was 1913 knots. Kun
nns "l1 IT, coz s5vsnrage Of oil over coal Indicated
IN our experience is that 20 per cent more power
mis- but the pressure is maintained az the same
point There is rednCtio III, "a IN me-, Instead Of
nine frenen use three. and are Obliged to have
no coal passers OF whom we should require SIX II
using coal - $1,000 %
run at speed Of ten knots an hGur as an o.
Tnent The steamer left Honolulu on octope -
speed vas - kil,ts an the outward trip The
with he same 55 Va zoo barrels or y per
hour This was 191 barrels less than on me o sI
Tbe amount of oil burned per indicated horsepower
I27 pounds While the dlierence II, ~ ,;T,
Arrsrartlv II is more economical 20 use the maxi
mum power Of the boilers 6e o 7n9 a seVsporae from
= - x rounds Of water while pound Of coal viii
evaporate only from 20 ga pounds
sneaIing Of the future Of oil as a fuel for
s,esnsbips. he said that he thought it was
better adapted TO fast passenger steamers than
n freighters. and that he looked for its devel-
opnent in that direction I think, SAID ne
..tba+ oil will be used in TWO years on such
tat,,ars ss the deutschland. the Lucania and
The Kronprlnz Wilhelm Oil will give ~ per
cent moro power from the same boiler plant VIII
reduce the hreroom force on such steamers from
sixty 20 eighty hremen and forty coal passeIs;
win give more even pressure OF steam ana
evaporate - per cent more water per pound
q fuel" -, -,,.
T'ba America n Hawaiian Steamship Company
Is contemplating the establishment or an OH
storage plant al st. Thomas. where us NesseIs
~ SION for fuel on their way 10 and from san
Francisco The oil would be transported 10 81
Thomas directly from Texas
It has been found that while the specihC graz
- If oil is lighter than that Of coal, ton
occupving from "a 70 b cubic feet OF space, 1t
slows so much better that from IL 70 ~ per
cent more oil than coal can be slowed in a
given space
SUNDAY SCHOOL CELEBRATION.