The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-15

I no one; if she is allowed to go on. half
a score of other nervous women will be
Historically convinced before night
Ihat the ship has pirates aboard. The
captain has to enter the debate. and
with diplomacy, humility. sternness. jo-
Vitality and majesty mixed. to coax
fiatter and terrify the screaming one.
till she sees reason and finds her jew
elry in her handbag.
Meantime men have begun to carry
reports to him. At noon come reports
of speed The tale of the patent log is
one. A table showing the revolutions
per minute of the mighty propeller
shafts is another. The hourly and
daily run must be computed from
these and the astronomical caIcula-
items; and then the figures must be
checked and compared with figures of
previous voyages.
The Days Run
If the days run is below the best re-
cord, he looks at the record of wind
velocity and at the record showing
the drift caused by currents. He esti-
mates the weight ana force of a pos
sible head sea, to judge whether the
decrease in speed is due to causes
without or within the ship.
If it seems to be within, the en-
gineer must report on conditions.
Then come tables showing coal con-
sumption per hour, per hundred revo-
lutions Of the shafts, and per day, with
comparative tables showing previous
records.
A ship is sighted and spells a VIM
ping message. He must give orders
for the reply Entry must be made at
once in the log. showing the name
of the vessel and date, hour longitude
latitude, whether bound east or west
and her message.
All the clocks on board. nearly a
hundred of them, must be regulated
by the electric current from the chart
room. a report must be called for
from the officer in charge Of the score
and more Of the bOats-represent
a fleet in themselves as big as that of
many small yacht clubs
Women passengers beg for the priv
ilege of inspecting the navigating
bridge. They want to know how the
ship is worked
There has been a row in the smok-
ing room-a bad row. Men are at the
point of fight. II is too big a matter
Of ships police duty to be handled by
anybody except the captain in person
Before he is done with it, he has held
regular court inquiry and acted as
Intermediary. judge, jury and chief
OF police
HIS Part rs Host.
It is time for him now to mingle
with the passengers for few minutes
ana act his part as most. Back 10 the
bridge he hurries to look over the
chart on which his first officer has
plotted the days run 1t must be Veri-
fed by the monday observation. As
soon as the sun has been caught and
its tale figured out. the log must have
these blanks filed in: number of DAYS
out-barometeT- thermometer - winds
-directiOn-fOrce. 0 to 12-latitude-
longitude - distance ruh-weather-re-
marks.
Another vessel is sighted. The pur-
ser arrives with his daily official re-
port. The chief engineer appears in
the doorway to tell of something that
he doesn't approve in; the matter of
the crank shafts behavior. He thinks
perhaps the ship should be slowed
down for half an hour. The captain
thinks not. If the captain has thought
wrong. there will be vast trouble pres
entity. But if he thinks wrong the
other way and slows down. he Will