Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-07-17
GIANT OCEAN LINERS.
Carrying Capacity Equal to a
Train Seven Miles Long.
FIVE ACRES OF DECK ROOM.

FIVE ACRES OF DECK ROOM.
Description of the New Steamships
Which James j. Hill Is Building
For the Transpacific Trade-Each
Vessel Will Be Provided With the
/ Finest of Electrical Systems.
When James J. Hill, the railway
magnate, was in Kansas City few
days ago, he told reporter for the
Kansas City Star that the Great North
ern company, of which he is the prin-
cipal owner, was building two of the
largest steamships in the world for
the transpacific trade.
A circular received recently at the
Burlington Offices goes into interesting
details as to the size of the new ves-
sells. They will each be $50 feet long,
1917 feet extreme beam and ssh feet
extreme depth, with a gross tonnage
of about $1,000 tons and an extreme
load of displacement of about $4,000
tons. The amount of steel required in
the construction, including 100000
rivets and forty miles Of wire in the
installation of their electrical equip.
ment, will aggregate $4,000 tons. There
| are to be five continuous decks from
stem to stern, all of steel, beginning
at the bottom, as follows: Orlop, lower,
between, main and upper. Below the
main deck the cargo will be carried. On
this deck are to be accommodations
for second class, third class and steer
age passengers and live stock. Above
the upper there will be three midship
decks for first class passengers, max
ing eight decks in all, including the
bridge. The dining saloon will be
placed on the upper deck, the library
and women's saloon on the promenade
deck and the smoking room on the
boat deck, while the captain will have
his charthouse and cabin on the bridge
deck.
Each vessel will be provided with
the finest electrical system ever In
stalled on shipboard, including thirty
eight cargo winches of the most ap-
proved type. They will be the only
ships that handle their cargo by cleo
trio power. All the auxiliaries, includ-
ing practically all the machinery out
side of that propelling the vessel, will
be operated by electricity. The coal
bunkers are capable Of carrying about
5000 tons and are so arranged above
the boilers that the coal will gravitate
by its own weight to the firing plat
form, making great saving in coal
trimmers. Several boilers will be fitted
with mechanical stokers.
The ships will be provided with two
propelling twin screw engines Of the
most approved design and of about \
10000 horsepower They will be capa-
BILE of generating speed of seventeenth
knots an hour. Each vessel will also1
have sixteen water tube boilers of the
modified Niclausse pattern, so con-
structed that in the event of accident
or damage to one or more the speed
of the vessel will not be affected. The
most approved laundry system will be
provided on the vessel. Several Of the
cargo spaces will be well insulated
and arranged for the carrying Of fro
zen meat, perishable fruits, vegetables
and other food commodities Two
large electrically driven refrigerating
machines will be arranged so the tenn
perature, If required, may be lowered
to zero. Large cold storage rooms for
carrying provisions will have capaci-
ty to feed 1900 people for four weeks.
Extensive systems of fire protection$
will be provided. 4
Passenger accommodations will bef
provided for $50 holders of first CLASSY
tickets, 100 second class and ITO thirdS
class tickets. In the Storage 500 pas
sengers can be placed. The staterooms,
will all be on the outside of the cabin.
thoroughly ventilated and cooled.
Summing up the capacity, they will
carry double the cargo Of any other
ship in existence. Each vessel has
deckroom of more than five acres
available for carrying freight, and each
will be able to carry more than 100000
bushels of wheat With the average
freight car that would be the capacity
of railroad train seven miles long To
transport a full mixed cargo Of one Of
these vessels would require $500 ordi-
nary freight and passenger cars, or 1875
trains of twenty-five cars each. So far
as capacity is concerned, they will be
six times as large as any vessel now
plying the waters of the Pacific They
will be running between Seattle and
the orient within year. They are
building at New London, Conn.
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