Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-07-05
GREAT STEAMSHIP
ARRIVES AT SEATTLE
BEATS HER SCHEDULE AND Is
THE PRIDE AND JOY OF HER
CAPTAIN. ~
NEVER AN ACCIDENT OR MlSHAP
OF ANY KIND ON ENTIRE.
TRIP.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer of
June 2Sth contains the following ac-
count of the trip and arrival of the
Dakota" the greatest steamship
afloat:
Sixty days from New York, and with
record of having travelled 14,S79
miles without an accident, big or lit
tie, steamship Dakota arrived at
Smith cove at one o'clock yesterday
afternoon. At every stage of her long
voyage around the Horn the Dakota
exceeded the time allowance expecta-
lions of the officers in the Great North
ern Steamship company and she
reached port yesterday from San Fran
cisco six hours ahead of her schedule
Despite her enormous size, and she
is a trifle larger than her sister ship,
the Minnesota, the Dakota answered
every move of her wheel with the
greatest ease, and Port Pilot for the
Steamship company Capt. Robert Hall,
brought her alongside the rail dock
with no more difficulty than would
have been required in taking a launch
into her berth. Capt. Hall is enthusi-
astic in his praise of the Dakota, and
stated that all the way up from San
Francisco she acted like row boat on
a pond.
At the California port the Dakota at
tracted more attention than was &C.
corded the Minnesota, and purser
Alfred Watson stated that more than
ten thousand persons visited her while
she was in that port.
Averages Thirteen Knots.
From the time that she left New
York until her arrival at Seattle, the
Dakota averaged thirteen knots an
hour, Or 312 miles a day. Leaving
New York April 28th at lao o'clock
lin the afternoon, the Dakota reached
Coronel May 2sth at 7:O5 o'clock in
1.-THE morning, making S,7SS miles in
|twenty-nine days, sixteen hours and
Lthirty-five minutes.
| She left Coronel June Sd at 1910
O'Clock in the afternoon and arrived
at San Francisco June 20, after a run
Eof 5,2S6 miles in seventeen days, one
hour and twelve minutes. Leaving
San Francisco June oath at 6:10
Eo'clock in the evening, she reached
Seattle, a distance of S15 miles, at
one o'clock in the afternoon, complet-
ing one of the most successful voy-
ages of its length ever made by a ship
Iof anywhere near her size.
/ During the entire voyage the Dakota
used steam from only twelve of her
IIsixteen boilers and at no time was
Iany attempt made to urge her engines
to more than ordinary effort.
Fair Weather Prevailed.
/ With the exception of two days off
Cape Horn the weather encountered
by the Dakota was of the finest. On
the two days in question, however, she
was in the midst of a storm which
would have taxed to the utmost the
lssailing qualities of any ordinary craft.
To the Dakota, however, it was no
more than light blow would be to a
craft of ordinary size, and the huge
waves dashed themselves to tatters
OF spray against her mighty sides,
while her crew, many of whom had
fought the same kind of weather
aboard windjammer, with far differ
emit experience, laughed at the gale
from the security of her great bulk,
and comfort of her decks protected
| with canvas awnings.
None of the difficulties which beset
the first voyage Of the Minnesota
marked the voyage of the Dakota, and
as several improvements and changes
Which were made in the former ship
after she had completed her voyage
were completed on the Dakota before
she sailed, there is absolutely nothing
IN the way OF repairs to be made on
her at this port
l. Capt. Franeke Delighted.
| Capt. Emil Francke, who is in COM
mand of the Dakota, was enthusiastic
in his praise of her. Capt. Francke is
used to big ships, having been for six
teen years with the American Steam
ship company, during which he has
had command Of some of the largest
OF the Atlantic liners, having left the
st. Louis to assume command OF the
Dakota. To group of newspaper
men, shortly after the gansplank had
been let down yesterday, Capt.
Francke expressed his delight at the
manner in which the Dakota had be-
haved herself during the long voyage,
and pronounced her the finest craft
afoat.
Then he excused himself to 20 to
his wife and little son, who met him
at the dock after an absence Of four