The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-21

be iuxriously furnished and fitted out The ships officers are accommodated on the deck immediately below the owners quarters. and the engine room officers are quartered alongside of the engine at the after end of the vessel. where is also located the kitchen, dining room, and mess room for the crew.
 The propelling machinery, as is usual in lake vessels. is located in the ex- treme after end of the boat. The main engine is of the quadruple four-erank type. with cylinders IS 1-2, zS 1-2, 4S 1-2. and 66-inch diameter, each having Az inch stroke of pistons. and they are de- signed for an indicated horsepower of 2,000 when making eighty revolutions per minute. The cyplinders are arrang- ed fromforward in the following order: High pressure. first intermediate. sec ond intermediate, and low pressure. The high pressure it fitted with a liner se- cured in the usual way. The valves of the high. first and second intermediate are of the piston type. placed in front ' of their respective cylinders and driven | by Joy radical valve gear. The low pressure cylinder cylinder is fitted with double ported slide valve on the after ! end, operated by double bar Stephen son link motion.
 The bed-plate is of the girder type of box section, in two pieces, bolted to- gether, and has five main bearings lined with white metal. There are four back and five front columns, the for mer acting as guides for the crossheads. The piston rods are of steel, 3-S inches in diameter, and the connecting rods of hammered iron, nine feet long between ! centers, with wedge adjustment at top and 'T'' ends with bolts at bottom. The I crossheadc are of cast steel, keyed to piston rods, and fitted with steel cross head pins, secured with double taper and nut. The slippers are of bronze of large surface and easily adjustable The crank shaft, which with it's four cranks is built without couplings. is 12 1-2 in- ches diameter by 13 1-2 inches long, The thrust is of the horseshoe type with six go-ahead collars and five backing The engine is fitted with a direct acting steam, and hand, worm reversing gear, also steam turning gear at aft end of thrust shaft The propeller is four-bladed cast steel, of sectional type. The outboard bearing is IS inches dia- meter by f feet 8 inches long filled with lignum-vitae.
 The boilers two in number, are of the Babcox & Wilcox typ-, and placed with 12-foot space between them to fire athwartship. The working pressure is 2o0 pounds per square inch, and the steam is superheated the superheater being placed on top of the boiler proper The boilers are fitted with the mechani- cal stoker built by the Duluth Stoker Company, the coal being fed into hop pers, passing from thence on to travel ling grates, the ashes being deposited at he back of boilers and discharged overheard by means of steam- driven elevators The boilers are fitted with a system of induced draught, having two foot 6-inch diameter fans driven by double 6x5-inch high-speed engines. To purify and heat the feed water before reaching the boilers, two Learmonth purifiers are fitted also large heater into which all the auxinarfes exhaust.
 There are the following auxiliaries in the engine room, the pumps all being of the Blake type: One vertical cross compaund simplex air pump, two hori- zontal cross compound simplex ballast pumps, one horizontal compound du- plex feed pump. one horizontal duplex pump, one horizontal duplex pump. one horizontal duplex bilge pump, one hori- zonta1 duplex cooler pump. two Gener- al Electric generating sets of 15 K. W. for electric lighting, one Globe steam steerer, and one Sturtevant fan with at tached engine for ventilating purposes.
 The coal bunker is fitted in front of |. k T
 about $50 tons of coal Tn every respect the vessel has been fitted out and built to meet the most moderate require ments of the lake service, and there is not the slightest doubt but what she will fulfil every anticipation made of her. Lorain (O) Correspondence De- troit Free Press.
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