The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-06
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positions close to large heating stove
Separate airy lavatories electrically
lighted at night, and containing plunge
and shower baths with continuous
water supply, are provided for sailors
and firemen, so that here at least,
s. Jack can have no legitimate excuse
for a failure in personal cleanliness.
Close to she forecastles, which are
separated by passage-way feet wide,
are placed separate rooms for the lead
ing stokers and lamptrimmer, for the
electric light Notwithstanding, lamp
trimmer is carried. Each of these
rooms contains chest of drawers,
washstand, seat, heating stove, etc.
Nor has the sick seaman been for
gotten in the arrangement of accommo-
dation, for a large and airy hospital
12'X12'XS', containing four of Hos
kin's patent galvanized iron cots, a
table, seat, heating stove, mirror, water
carafe rack, and large washstand dis
charging overheard direct, with an am
pie water supply, has been erected in
an isolated position in front of the
poop, away from the noise, the heat
and turmoil of the machinery, and the
work-a-day hustle of the ship, forming
AN ideal retreat in which the sick sea-
man can recuperate, or the malingerer
weary, when deprived of his pipe and |
TO C 'sle gossip. The natural ventila
shades of all the old West Indiamen |
and Jayamen! how you would gasp
with establishment could you see it, and |
how the unfortunate, tortured with the
pains of malaria in the iron-covered |
forecastle, or officers "room'' of a
F'frst-class cargo steamer fitted with
all the most modern appliances of the
rapid handling of cargo vide "sprat-
catcher 50 prospectus-whi1e lying in
some West Coast of Africa or Central
American port, would pray for its
universal adoption, if told of it; an
electric fan is there, ready to cool and
purify the atmosphere should the rise
of temperature become too much for
the patients comfort.
Well satisfied with all I had seen in
the mems quarters, / felt curious to
learn whether equal care had been be-
slowed on the officers and engineers
accommodation, but on turning to walk
aft, I became greatly impressed by the
massive and Imposing navigation
|
fttingly by large gilded figure of the
Scottish Lion, in an easy pose, an en-
blem of untiring watchfulness, ever on
the lookout ahead as the vessel pur-
sued her way across the painless ocean.
and I fell to thinking, "Here is an
example of how much can be done to
put a little comfort into the working
lives OF our Ishmaels of the sea, when
the problem is grappled with in deadly
earnest.
PROTECTED WHEELHOUSE.
As seamen know all too well, two
hours "trick'' at the wheel on :" Mount
Misery during a winter passage
across the North Atlantic, in the face
of rain, hail, and snow, with feet and
hands alike benumbed with cold is,
one may safely say, the most mlsera-
BILE and comfortless of all the seaman s {
duties But here again, Jacks per- t
sonal comfort has been kindly thought {
of by Captain Black when designing I
his latest " Monarch,'' for, erected on 8
the flying bridge, % feet above the I
load water line, is a steel wheelhouse, c
heated by steam and lighted by cleo I
tricity at night Inside are placed the t
steering-wheel and Whyte-Thomson' s a
latest Admiralty type of steering-com- '
pass, with flag lockers, and writing 7
desk for the officer on watch, close to 1
which is placed a speaking tube COM t
munfcating with the captains room. P
On the top of this wheelhouse is placed L
the standard eompass-another OF o
WHITE homson's patents, by the way; a
indeed. Captain Black and his shippers t
deservedly swear by Whyte-Thompson S II
instruments-in an idea n
position, alone, and far away from all $;
danger of local attraction, and r.
guarded against accidental damage py u
being surrounded by solid brass stan g
chions and rails, and having a speak N
ing tube to the wheelhouse for coming
purposes. In this wheelhouse, the helms N
man puts in his two hours 'speH
completely sheltered from d
all bad weather, and is enabled TO u
make a truer course by far, than would Ell
be possible at a wheel exposed to all b'
the violence of the elements. u
The first and second bridges nave :.
steel bulwarks, 8 feet inches high, .
carried right round, and there are wing u
houses on each side of the second OF