The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-30
YALE AND HARVARD LEAVE Us
Turbines HEREAFTER no RCA
ON THE PiCIFT GOtST.
To GO Around the Horn and Ply Between
san Francisco and los Angeles O'l
Furnaces To Ne Made over 10 Burn
Coal Cost about ~. SOO, O0o Each.


Furnaces To Ne Made Over 10 Burn
Goal Cost about l.SOO.Odso Each.
The oil burning turbine steamships
Yale and Harvard oi the Metropolitan
Line will make their last trips between
this port and Boston Tomorrow and
sunday and will then Ia prepared for the
longest voyage they ever will undertake.
that ~ from New York To- san Francisco
through the strait % Magellan. about
IS OoO nautical miles. They will take
no pas-en gers and II has not been decided
vet whether or not their skIppers will
go with them.
Reports - the sal' ~ the two great
turbines the swift-sf CO1stwiss ships
ia ia" world. hav" been published IA the
msi several weeks but ~ was not deiin-
it-ly announced 10y the line untIl yes'sr-
day that they had been bought by = com
Iany un ia. Pacific coast that has been
trying To get them for more than q year.
representative. ~ the Metropolitan
Lin. said last nigh, that thu Vale and
Harvard had been profitable and thai
ths line had got practically all h had
paid fur their construction, which was
somewhat more than ~ $50 UO -sch,
would hir IN commission az IN" begin
ming IT next spring two turbines Just
as VT and as economical.
To negotiate the sea space between
New York aud san Francisco the Yale
and Harvard. the fr-i turbines 20 under
take ia. passage ~ ne ~ rli Of MaRel-
Ian. viii each have - recJuvsrt -iS Of
their oil burning furnaces into coal burn
r.. A. Il.
and comparatively inexpensive The
ships can 10 about j.ru miles un ull alnn"
Tn. furnaces supplying oil fire t. six
toler- will h. l.aft ~ they are The ships
cannot carry enough ~ 20 last all IN" way
- san Francisco and cannot ge' oil On the
route IN South American ports 81 call
They will coal after sNhalis, ing their oil
supply
The impression of the I'm" j. that the
ships. which Will he paid for uu delivery
at san Francisco. will make the trip IN
less than fifty days The company that /
j. buying them will run thsm b-'wesn !
san FRANCHISE aud Loo Angeles carrying !
pas-en gers and fret Rh, They will be- ,
The smaTrest ships on the Pacific coast (
and are expect "a > cover he rim Of about 4
l75 miles bsG Saa Francisco and Los
Angeles ia about eighteen hours. ar just
a few hours more than thav take h-tw'a
Boston sEd this pou They will com-
pee with the ~ i!road- N the freight
arriving business
The Vale and Harvard have been
money getters from the beginning. bm
yer" . dead lISs In The winter season.
md th,s may he or" - the reasons for
ending them 20 sea where they may he
% lived all he yelr round They viii
cave his port uu Ocr pb.'r ~.
SAS IHsS,isCo sept - The cali
prna- Ntlaut,c Steamship Company =
~" ;iti" e M. line which WIll rtm FROM
'"attl, ., Panama. touching ~ San Fran -
iscu and Las Angeles T. = owned hv
BATES a Ikesbr.u gu ~ san Franptsru.
hipp.ng merchants. whp have - dozen
iipper- running around he Horn Ihi-
70 IA. understood hr-. has
hartsred he Yale aud Harvard bu. has
lot bought them ! PROPOSES 10 cut "a J
'alf freight and passenger rates Ia Pan
ma