The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09

os ca,, on the eastern routes. where the great
 liners stop from twelve to forty-eignt hours.
 but once a steamer has put out into the At
 lantic she had nothing to stay her progress
 except the unforeseen. It is the same on
 bound stearnsrs-engines with greatly in
 creased horse power would pc neeaeo. Ane e
 Kronprinz has an indicated horse power or
 33 900 and can steam 23 knots an hour--but;
 as already stated. she burns 600 tons of coal
 every twenty-four hours The Egypt. one of
 the largest boats of the Pennsuiar and a 0risn sn.
 power which are capable of doing le knots
 an hour, consuming about xoo tons Q. coal a
 eastern routes are far apart. and for quick passages, such are made on the north AL
 antc enormously ne elrea sor inc stor
 age of fuel. The suez takes only steamers sr drawing not more than 26 feet. and. aga n, n the heat of the Red sea is such . that ,,,,, It IS impossible to condense the steam with snni. cient rapidity Thus the journey trom hon a. nos'
 Said to Aasn ssr,y nys asys " twetyfour hours being actually spent in tras ersing the canal. which is only eighty-seven miles, The entire run from London to Sydney, via Suez and
 calling at Colombo. q distance of 2.sss miles. occupies at the present time by the orieht
 Line nearly forty,tW0 days bre ne nsa' on jsn' s. and arriving at Sydney on Feb. 10. By the North German Lloyd the journey from soutn ina in addition at Fremantle. Is forty-eisht days; the last steamer left BremerhaVen on
 Dec 4 calling at southampton oh .ne on sln naD 0i oz Ry inc Peninsuar and Oriental forty four days are occupied travelling from Lonaon to Sydney On Jan. 9 their next vessel Will leave inc Thames and is due at Sydney OF Feb 22 Yesterday Sunday a steamer ot
 the Messageres Maritimes de e., france i,I srr,ys on Jan. 3i. covering the toNrney of lo.ooo miles in thirty-three days These steamers nroceed as far as Colombo at the rate or nI- ieen knots. per hour, and for the rest of the distance travel at fourteen knots. A steamer T
 such the Kronzprnz doing an 1N ayerase secoU ol plish this voyage from London in less than twenty three days. but she would consume con; e expenditure which ship owners do not believe to be justified by the present or near prospee- tive passenger trade ,...t.. o,,.. | to New Zealand and Australia has been lnau- gurated This Is via the north Atlantic across America by rail to San Francisco thence py steamer to Auckland and Sydney. The Amerl- can and Australian Line has hitnerto psen running a. comparatively ,aa speaA'hg; h,, at ths beginning of this year they put on three new fast steamers making a three weeks service, so that now the traveller can cross the faeinc to Auckland in seventeen days. instead Of Tn twenty two days. Thus passengers can Ieacn
 New York from England m ny9 n 9ay fayr and half days leave San Francisco. say, on Jan Ie-the next day of saiing-touoh at Homo lulu tHawaiD on the 22pd calling at Auck- land on Feb B. and arrive at Sydney on the 7th-in all a journey of thirty,one days; - Enormous improvement mas peen n1sus ip1s ,ha ,
 
 | contract time for the delivery of mails to the | Cape was as much as thirty-seven days, when | owing to competition and the protests or ner- chants here and in South Africa, the time Mas @ lessened to twenty and one-half days Ine | iourney-5 o78 miles-now takes Just over SIX teen days according to the mall contracts Even this has been beaten. the distance nav ing been covered in fourteen days and lev | hours But South Africa does not produce rpcb nassensers like our wealthy American | cousins, who spend G2oo for the mere passage ont or home The comparatively modest sum of 47 guineas is the highest frst-class sinsIe fare to the Cape. Several classes or steamers run to South Africa, the time occupying rom about sixteen days to twenty-one or twenty two days - ,. l., AL. ..it contract times which rule the speeds of steam ers As these arrangements expire slight im- movements are made, sometimes an increase of half a knot per hour but sucn oppor- tunities are infreuuent In this country we make contracts extending over several years, while in America the authorities make IreSh a9Teements every month giving the mails to the ships that have made the fastest run
 uiro " d,,ring the previous month. Incidentally.
 1t may be mentioned that our mails afe car
 ried at a cost of 3s per pound: whin the
 North German Lloyd gets only Is s'sd per
 A general comparison of the facts there-
 fore shows that there has been some acceler-
 ation in the speed of steamers tracing ID inc eastern and southern henfspheres, put
 that it Is far inferior in this respect wheIl
 compared with the passages to America, s
 not to be wondered at. when we remember
 that last year the north Atlantic lines farrleo'
 alforether I37 S52 cabin and 4o3.49i steer
 age passengers, against the very measuraoi"
 traffic of the eastern steamship lines.