Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-08-28
ON PICKING ACCIDENT
EXTENSIVE REPAIRS
ARE VERY NECESSARY
STATEMENT OF CAP. i. TeEmAiN
SMiTH-SHOP AND Tl-7uST
BLOCK BRoH:N--Ao
$40 A50ARl5.

| WAL lluST 'llN Oh ISklnbf NUtGH on
sunday morning last wa disabled In
the Inland Sea, near lmaBa.u abOu;
l2j miles from Kobe, arrived at Kobe
IN tow of the Glen line steamer Glen
roy yesterday morning Hlgh tue Kobe
chronicle OF Friday, rrpsbus Nada
Point at about 4:3u. or the twelve
saloob passengers Tue vessel carried.
'eu hau renamed on tne h3aL. Whi'f
'"o' one OIL Whoih was o""yH "eN1H''
went u 'heIr ues'ihhl'A' OVERLAND
On Thursday morn M a representa-
tive OF the Chronicle saw Eg,h thu
captain and CHIEF e1glpeer With re-
gard TO the breaking OF tte vessel :
shaft, which will cost the Pacific Mall
Company many thounInds OF yen, be
sides placing the liner on the shelf fol
some considerable time. The City OF
Picking, although getting old, Is still q
fine vessel II may be mentioned that
ner masts and yards carry sufficient
sail TO have enabled her 70 reach port
sea. As Captain j. Tremaiua Smith
explained, IL is not tuc first time tina;
such an accident has beflllen the ship.
Some three years ago she broke her
tail shaft and sailed under canvas Tor
fifteen hundred miles across the Pa.
cific. but in the narrow waters OF tIe
Inland Sea such a COurs" would have
been dangerous.
In answer to mouiries Captain
Smith said the Incident occurred on
Sunday morning about three miles 20
the north OF lmaharu, ana the first
knowledge those on hoard had OF any.
thing having occurred was the slowln;
down and stoppaBp Of the vessel.
When the nature ot the accident was
discovered, she was allowed to drift
with the tide until site anchorage
was reached, and a. soon as possible
q telegram was dispatched to the
agent at Kobe, though it appears that
this did not reach che agsut till the
following day. When che SHAFT broke
sound was heard by those In the
engine room as II the boat was ground
ing, nut no sound was heard by those
on deck. Besides the twelve cabin pas
sengers, the vessel carried the Chi!
nese crew OF the complGy's new lin
er Korea. In referring our reporter TO
the chlei engineer tor technical details
OF the breakdown, captain Smith said
that the thrust'shatt ana thrust'block
were broken. and that the vessel would
nave 10 wait In Kobe untlel new shaft
arrived from San Francisco.
Mr. Mcclure, who has Deeu for TWEEN.
ty.fve years an engineer on the boat.
was kind enough 20 snow our repre-.
sentative a sketch he had made of the
thrustshaft and very carefully ey.
planned everything The shaft of
ship Is in four sections, consisting OF
the thrust.shaft. aud the main. inner.
mediate, and tail shafts. On the tail.
shaft is fixed the screw, and the thrus,.
shaft Is that nearest the engine. ann
the most important section. IT,
length of the thruat-huaft IL thirteen
feet, and the crack extend, in a dlacD.
nal direction for three faac The thrust
block was also broken, so thai IL was
impossible to fix t. The shaft is II
inches in diameter ana twenty inche,
on the rings, and when IL 4, ayDlained
that the thrust.shaft takes all the
strain OF the engines, and also bears
the strain caused by tue revolution of
toe screw against the measure of wa
ter, the reader who IL nor arouaintad
with engineering tacbnic1.lties will nm,
derstand the difficulty which the engI.
neers had TO face. Gid another mart
oil the shaft broken il could nave bean
repaired or replaced, as has been done
before at sea, but in this case there
was nothing to do but 10 wait Datiept. |
ly for assistance, as il was imposslbls !
TO repair the shaft
Mr.. Mcclure was of the same op,n. |
ion as the Captain, and thought tina. |
the damage could not he raDafred IN |
Kobe. He believed the yJrly would be |
done in San Francisco ana he would !
not be at all surprised If a shaft was
not already on the way.
During the many years the. CITY Of
Picking has navigated the Pacific, on
her voyages between San Francisco