New-York tribune., 1903-06-07

ness and the modern Sound vessel must be stanch.
In order to be profitable the passenger vessels
must have enormous carrying capacity This Is
secured by building the hull Of steel extending the
ruards greatly bevond the hull and piling up the
superstructure deck upon deck. The development
of the Sound type has been steady and not unin-
teresting
Soon after Fulton's first steamboat made her sue
cessfuI trip on the Hudson, steamers were put upon
the Sound between New-York and New-Haven. In
1927 the Chancellor Livingston was taken on the
Hudson and put the route between New-fork
and Providence. She of the most cele-
brated OF early craft having been built in lS16
of oak cedar and locust by Henry Fckford. who,
in his day was most successful shipbuilder her
tonnage was 496. when most merchantmen olo not
go over 800 tons length 157 feet, her Width
SO feet. She American built, even TO her poll
ers and engines. She showed in hull ana upper
works some promise of the development that has
come in latter day sidewheelers. She had q sus-
gestion Of the overhangtng guards. the ROUNDED
paddleboxes and the tiers of decks that mark the
boats of to-day. but she had three masts well hung
with sails and every advantage was taken Of natu-
raj motive power. She once made the TRIP tIr LON
much Dragging over the record ....,. +,o-,
all sidewheelers- increased and after time came
the invention Of a screw propeller, which began to
peIer is best for long ocean voyages. where ship
Is subject b It to the e fba be et w high
speed and shallow draught- The New-Y4rk Is a
w6eeier f6ee In her the toe tonnage cTep to 5 While
guards swept from stem to stern in graceruI
curve and decks began to rise from them
The Massachusetts. of 626 tons built a little later,
showed the gradual development OF the type, and
began look something like the modern craft
She had no mast two tunnels and a walking beam
became the elimination OF wooden vessel conStruc-
ton The Bristol and her sister ship. the Provi-
dence, became world renowned as the most palatia!
vessels known. The Bristol S73 feet over all
and had beam of the hull OF As feet beyond which
her guards extended, that her total width or
deck was So feet. Her tonnage was 2962, and there
were accommodations IN her tiers OF deck rooms
for twelve hundred passengers.
The first Sound steamer to have a steel hull Is
said to have been the City OF Worcester. built in
1881 She was followed seven years later by the
Puritan the first of the present feet OF the Fall
River Line The Priscilla was an advance on the
Puritan size strength and beauty of appearance
She is the greatest sidewheeler afioat, having
displa cement of 5292 tons. speed Of p knots and
passenger quarters for 1900 persons:
The steamer building at the Fore River
wards is q little smaller than the Priscilla She
has finer lines than the other boat. and with equal
are: Length 397 feet all. 30 feet width of hull
and a total of IS feet over the guards The new
boat will have miles of decks. lower main, saloon,
gallery, hurricane, break, dome and donehouse
being their several names.
special type Of vessel is not the only feature
which the Long Island Sound service has developed.
There is a new paddlewheel which is far ahead of
the old one It has blades. buckets, that
feather entering and leaving the water with the
broadcast pushing surface continually while sub
merged. The wheels on the new steamer are to De
So feet diameter, each with u buckets feet wide
and IS feet long.