Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-02-28
FiNESTOFOcEANL LINERS
New Cunardcrs Giants With
Nearly oo,ooo Horsepower.
LONGEST VESSELS EVE3 BUILT.


4.0oo Persons, With Daily yewspa-
per ana a T~heater-John Bun De-
terriined to win Back. niue Rib
bon.
Enough information hes d tal
across the sea TO enable the coMp4.A
ton Of accurate forecasts Of the twin
Cr.uard floating castles Of steel whie
are 70 be put I'VE next year ana o
make their maiden dips in New Yorf
waters ia June Of 1903, says the New.
4ork World. They will be TIE lonses.
vessels in the world aud have create
power than any Other craft anoat.
Their correct measurements are: Sever
hundred and thirty feet length. seventy
feet beam, general speed t~weniy.hyg
knots, with Indicated horsepower Of
s9,7g0, burning from 500 to Loco tons
Of coal every t~wenty-four hours, \
team Of horses driven In pairs. react.
ing froln Che Battery. New York. ID
Gftean mics beyond Pouglkeeps.a.
would exert no more power. They VIII
be of the triple screw type, with three
sets Of six cylinder engines. The dis
placement OF each will be 26.S00 tons,
Three tweaty-four foot manganese
bronze propeller5 Will drive them.
When this small city puts to sen. #
daily ews3aper, published from Mar
conigraIas. wlll keep the population ia
touch with Wall street. the race track,
the theategs ard the news of tie world.
The salooa passengers will be berthed
ia tie superstrueture amidships. Such
features as a theater. grillroom, chill
dren's playroom. dining tables on decS.
elevators and D grand dining saloon
three decks high will be Incorporated.
In dull seasons the storage 4 be
utilized for cold storage. There will be
twelve decks, including the water bot
tom.
AS for the mechanical devices, they
viii include automatic stokers, longi-
tudinal bulkheads and a sufficient num-
Der Of traverse bulkheads so that sew
eral compartments could be flooded at
the same time without sinking the steel
island. The number pf saloon passen-
gers viii be about 900, of second cabin
$50 and Of steerage 1900. A crew OF
900 viii suffice, only fifty of them be
ing able eamen
John Bull has set his heart upon re
covering the blue ribbon of the Allan
tic. He does not care how much the eff
fort costs or how Improbable the en-
terprise, provided the German liners
are beaten.
With the prodigal generosity, prompt
cd by patriotic and sentimental mo-
tives. of the British government the
new wonders are designed to wrest the
Atlantic record from the German fiji
ers. the Deutschland, the Kronprinz
Wilhelm, the coming Kaiser Wilhelm
ii. and the coming new Hamburg
American masterpiece. The Cunard
giantesses will span the Atlantic in lit
tie more than four and one-half days.
On Dec. 10. 1902, Lord Inyerclyde.
chairman; David Jardin, John William
son and the directors Of the Cunard
Steamship company signed contracts
for, one of these hodern Great East
erns with the Fairfield Shipbuilding
and Engineering company of Glasgow
and for the other with the Vickers-
Maxim company of Barrow.
The new ships will be christened the
Britannia and the Columbia. Each of
them will cost $6,250,O00. The Cunard
contracts call for twenty-six knots for
six hours and twenty-five knots for
two days continuous steaming. The
calling for the bids under the admir-
atty subsidy revealed the imposition
of this condition of unusual severity:
IF at the end Of a years running the
vessels shall have failed to achieve an
average of twenty-five knots through
out their voyages round trips from
Queenstown 20 New York and back
they may be returned to their build
ers."
The British government subsidies
the Cunard line Mt $750,o00 a year.
The w boats are to be built on VI
government loan. to be repaid In TWEEN
ty years, the period beginning at tA1
completion of the second ship. Tie
company pledges itself to remain out
side of the Morgan steamship combina-
ton, known as he International Mer-
camille Marine eompary, and to remain
purely a British undertaking. Freights
are not to be raised unduly or prefer
entail rates given to foreigners, Its
fleet is to be held at the disposal
of the British government, which is at
liberty to purchase any or all Of its
steamers at agreed rates.
The governments loan for the con
struction of the twin vessels will bear
interest at 2A per cent, the security for
tie loan being a first charge upon the
ships and upon the assets Of the com
pany. The principal is to be repaid in
installments.
Flowers by Tons For British Tn5Rea.
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