The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-01

Many GeOrgians Attended.
Atlanta, Ga, April 3O.-The Atlanta
party which went on to the launching
of the new steamship City of Atlanta,
left this city at noon Thursday in the
private car of Maj. j. F. Hanson, pres
ident of the Central of Georgia, and of
the Ocean Steamship Company. There
were in the party Gov. and Mrs. Ter
rell; Capt. and Mrs. James w. Eng
lish, Col. and Mrs. James w. English,
Jr., Miss Jennie English. sponsor, who
christened the new vessel, and her four
maids of honor, Misses Cordelia Gray,
Sarah Peel, Josie Stockdell, and AIDE
laide Howell; Mr. Hugh Adams, Mr..
Charles Ryan, Mr.. Gordon Kiser, and
Mr.. A. Ward Cobb. The party will
spend several days in New York be-
fore returning South.
The City of Atlanta is a sister ship
to the City of Columbus, which was
launched in February, and which takes
it's place in regular service between
New York and Savannah Tuesday. 1t is
expected that the City of Atlanta will
follow in the regular freight and pas
senger service of the Savannah Line
in about three months.
The hull of the new ship is construct
system, channel steel construction,
with channel frames, beams, stringers
and ties, and is constructed in the
highest class under the United States
Standard Steamship Owners and
Builders Underwriters rules, and es-
pecial survey by their representative
to Glass AL for twenty years. Scant-
ling and material used in the con-
struction of the hull were tested to
the highest standard by experts of
Robert w. Hunt & Co. at the mills,
and also received a yard test during
construction.
Dimensions of New Ship.
The dimensions of the new steamer
are as follows: Length on 12-foot
water line, $40 feet; length over all,
1896 feet; breadth of beam nodded, 40
feet; depth nodded, q feet.
The spar and middle decks are
OF steel, the hurricane deck is of steel
covered with asbestos and then plank
ed and covered with canvas, making
the passenger deck apart from the
freight accommodations and fireproof.
Water ballast capacity, 916 tons; bunk
er capacity, 42S tons; cubic freight ca
pacity, 1852, 206 feet; lightweight ca
pacity of cargo and coal on mean
draft, IS feet 6 inches, $500 tons; speed
when loaded. u to Is knots. The gross
tonnage of the steamship will be about
S 500 tons, or $50 tons larger than her
sister ships, the City of Macon and
City of Memphis.
There are four decks extending all
fore and aft, accommodations for
eighty first class passengers being pro-
vided on the hurricane deck, and ac-
commodations for intermediate and
steerage passengers on the spar deck.
The dining room, which is located for
ward, is especially arranged to in
sure perfect ventilation and is elab-
orately decorated, the forward win
dows being of cathedral glass. The
kitchen is on the spar deck or deck
below. The smoking room, music room,
officers room and pilot house are To-
Gated on the promenade deck. The
ship Is electric lighted throughout;
with perfect system of electric bells
and has rooms arranged en- suite, with
folding Pullman upper berths
The vessel will be equipped with one
triple expansion engine. Diameter of
cylinder, high pressure, 3S inches; in
termediate, As inches; low pressure, IS
inches: stroke of piston, AZ inches;
steam from four single end boilers IA
feet inches diameter; length, 10 feet
6 inches: pressure of steam, $50 pounds.
Blake pump feed, water heater and I'LL
ter will be used: steam steering engine
of the most approved style, hyde cap
stan and windless; also Baldt pattern
stockless anchors.
The Savannah Line feet now COM
rrises eleven large modern steel
steamships, with a combined tonnage
of 45,70O tons, and can with promptness
and safety care for freight and passen-
ger traffic moving between the seq
tons II serves.