The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-09
Brooklyn Eagle.

Brooklyn Eagle.
 Remarkable Improvements may be ex- pecIed In uans-Atlantic passenger and lreignt service during tue next two years. The tindcncy Of the modern ship toward great size has almost reached it's limit under present mechanical conditions, but startling innovation. Is promised In the adoption of turbine engines and oil fuel to transatlantic vessels. A fleet of ships equipped with these engines and burning oil tor fuel will soon be established, but in the meantime the existing conhpanies will not be idle. The North 1-. -.man Lloyd Company Is building at Stetten a ship which Is destined, apparently. to be the largest, passenger vessel afoat. Three problems which nave long con- fronted the steamship companies-the three problems of speed. space and econ omy-all seem to be nearer solution than ever before. According to Prof. Robert II. Thurston of Cornell Universlt1 the gi eatast authority upon mechanical en. turbine engines. The new North Ger. man Lloyd snip is expected to make A l.; knots. A sh,p of similar size equipped with turbine engines can make Se knots at half the cost and with much more space available for passengers and freight.
 Within two years the New York and European Steam ship Company. which has it's American offices at 55 Broadway. New ork, promises to operate line of ships
 
 lantic at an average speed of 30 knots an hour. As a result of this :smIrkable speed the company exp scts to obtain val uable mail contracts and will und srtake to deliver the United States malls from the New York postoifice to that in Lon don in four and ,one-hslf days. It's re- cord runs will be from postoifice to post. once, instead of from lighthouse to who hear of five day trips across the Atlantic often think that they will land In five days time, but when they get aboard they discover, usually. that the time Is reckoned from the last Elimner of Sandy Hook Light to the first flash of the light on the Irish coast. The new company intends to time It's ships from landing to landing.
 Another remarkable innovation wili hs in the engine room. Instead, of being a a place of ponderous levers. plunGing pis- tons, steam pipes and greasy heat 1t Is to be as quiet and clean as the Social Hall. The engineers on duty will not be bathed in black oil and precipitation. but. instead. will be clad in spotless linen. "The slave pitt" otherwise known as the fire room. will disappear. and with 1t will go the heat tortured hremen The captain will he able to control the fires from his bridge, if he wishes to do 90. From the same place the navigating ofif- cer can reverse or stop the engines with out signalling the engine room. if the emergency should necessitate such ac- uon. or he can signal DeloW Tn the uSuA way to the engineer.
 On these new shins there will be much more passenger space than exists at present. because the engines will not be six stories high and the coal bunkers will be missing. The engines of these new ships will occupy the lowest deck only The boilers will be set In the middle of the ship but being of. the water tube variety will occupy less space than the ordinary marine boilers. Inc space thus saved can be utilized either for passengers or freight. Added com. fort will be given to passengers also, be- cause they will be able to occupy the after deck in a head wind without being compelled to wear veils or goggles to pro tect their eyes from the cinders that come from the tunnels. There will be neither coal dust nor coal trimmers aboard those ships and the passengers will be able to enjoy a dustless and dirt less cruie.
 All of these announcements and prom ises read very much like fables. of course. but President Wilson of the New York and European Steamship Company, says they are true and that thev VIII be faithfully performed. The company seems to have ample capital and Is hacked by men not oiven to identifying themselves with chmerical ideas.
 Some of the mystery will probably be dIspelled when 1t Is said that many or these maritime wonders are to be brought about by the employment Of turbine en- zines in place of the usual marine recip- Tocatfng engines The experiments or the British Government with turbine propul- sion for some of its torpedo boats have definitely established the fact that this form of engine will propel ships at tre. mendous speed and 90 the intention or the New York and European Company 10