The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-07

| herself of all her water ballast the Da-
| kota may increase her weight to the
extent of 1O,144,00G pounds, and may
! thus sink towards the fishes an addi-
| tional distance of four feet three
! inches.
Both the Minnesota and the Dakota
viii carry big shipments of frozen meat
and Of other products CONCEALED for
| preservation. Hence a special hold in
each ship is constructed to receive 1865
tons of refrigerated cargo" AS ship
pers of frozen goods are very DESTROYS
| of obtaining for their shipments a uni
form temperature throughout each
voyage, the adequate insulation of the
holds just named is most important.
Wherever practicable the refrigerator
holds of the Dakota are insulated with
| pumice stone. 1t forms a layer six
inches thick between walls composed
Of wood and paper. Pumice as an in
sulator is more or less an experiment.
But it is germless and on-infammabIe
| and its insulating qualities as against
heat or cold are supposed to be eGual to
those of cork
Still another insulated hold is set
apart for keeping the ships provisions
at a temperature of 25 to 40 degrees re-
CARELESS of the tropical sun.
Rat Proof Hold for Silk.
Significant Of future cargoes as
unique as they'll be valuable is the hold
prepared in the depths of the Dakota
for the exclusive purpose of carrying
silk. Here the builders will defend
precious fabric from it's most feared
enemies; the floor, walls, ceiling, doors
and ventilating orifices are all rat
proof.
Although the Dakota is designed
primarily as a freight vessel it will
accommodate from the first large
number of passengers, and it may be
altered to receive a still larger number
as the growth of passenger traffic de-.
velops. Decided merits of the paSsen-
ger quarters will be the convenient
means of communication, the light and
airy corridors, the wide, breezy spaces
for promenading. Nothing will remind
the experienced traveller of the stuffy
quarters with which he has grown IA
miliar as his usual home at sea.
The majority of the frst-class state
rooms are outside rooms, refreshed by
every breeze from the waves. The
windows of these rooms will be deco
rated with stained glass. The state
rooms are arranged in pairs, so that,
when desired, two rooms can be thrown
into one.
On the two upper decks, above the
promenade deck, several bridal cham
ber," or special apartments, include
each a bedroom, bathroom and a sit
ting room. These suites, richly fur
niShed, contain tables, WardrobeS, brass
beds and other unusual conveniences.
On the highest, or boat deck, the
smoking room, bar and barber shop
appear as harmonious triplets. The
paneling of the smoking room is in
Flemish oak, with alternate panels Of
selected marble. The upholstery is of
leather. The smoke will be drawn off,
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an electric fan above the ceiling. Be
sides the bar a buffet is provided with
a seating capacity for seventy men in
search of favored straws.
On the promenade deck, two floors
below the boat deck, are the library
and the ladies' boudoir The ladies'
room is paneled alternately with silk
and with bird s-eye maple. The ceiling
is of staffWork, delicately tinted. The
upholstery is, or rather, will be-for
the Dakota, of course, has not yet re-
ceived her fittings and equipment
the upholstery will be a dark olive
green with draperies of lighter shade.
A large open fireplace will comfort
lonely wives and sweethearts. The Ii
brary, adjoining the ladies' room, will
be paneled in quartered oak.
Playhouse for Little Ones.
At the AFTER" or rear end of the
same deck, a nursery or children's play
room will be frightened with cherry
furniture and woodwork and with
stained glass windows.
AS to its architecture, therefore, the
prominent features of the Dakota, as Of
the Minnesota, are her great depth
and width in proportion to her length;
the bulkhead halving the ship length
wise; the straight lower decks; the
high tween decks" that is, the high
ceiling, in a landSman's language. OF
each deck or story; the system C :
bic matches, one set for each OF thu
longitudinal halves; besides other fea-
lures of merely technical interest.
Coming to the equipment of the Da-
kota we should find two sets of three
cylinder, vertical triple expansion en-
gines of the direct-acting, surface con-
densing type" The diameters Of the
cylinders will range from two feet five
inches to seven feet five inches; that
is, within the biggest cylinder as it
rests upon it's side, a tall man could
stand upright, wearing a silk hat, and
/ find abundant room. The length of the
eight-inch piston rods playing through
these cylinders is ten feet nine inches;
the length of the stroke they take is
six feet less three inches. When
the engines are working with a steam
pressure of 230 pounds to the square
inch each engine will develop about 81
600 horse power.
There are sixteen Niclausse water
tube boilers, constructed for a steam
pressure of ESQ pounds to the square
inch. They will contain 1854 square
feet of heating surface. The CRATE
surface, or that exposed to the fire, will
be 1850 square feet, equal to the area
of an open lot three blocks long and
three blocks square.
The great smokestack, through which
forced draft will be induced by fans,
will measure nineteen feet fore and aft,
sixteen eetsfrom side to side, and 1874
feet in height. That is, this smoke
stack would easily reach from a city
sidewalk to the top of a story
building.
Connecting the six engines with the
two big screws or propellers, one on
each side Of the rudder and a short
distance in front of it, are two '.tail''
shafts more than half a yard in diam
eter and nearly thirty-seven feet long.
The propellers are twenty feet in
diameter. Each has three blades OF