The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1910-05-22
GREAT SHIPS.

new bOf0UU-ton ship. Mr., Booth, tn,
chairman Of the Cunard Steamship
company, said at recent meeting o
the shareholders that. In his judg
ment, the feature of the New Yorl
trade lay with the 10000 or $4,000
ton combined passenger and carg,
boat. He spoke from the experience
gained from the Dusitania and Maure
tania, each of them nearly $4,000 tons
These ships have been SO successful
that n ship still larger is to he bull,
TO share the New York service with
them. though it is not expected thai
the new ship will have the speed OF
either OF the old ones.
And the White Star line is building
four monster ships exceeding In size
the present Cunarders Two of them
are well under way, the Olympic and
the Titanic, each of which Is to be
about $4,000 tons. The Olympic will
be launched In October and the I'll.
tanic is expected to be ready not long
after.
a third vessel OF the 40,000-ton or.
der is that which the Hamburg -Ameri-
can line is to build in Germany. Meth
er the White Star boats nor the Ger.
man ships Will have very high speed,
probably not to exceed twenty knots.
We have often stated that the gov
ernment advanced 100000 400 TO the
Cunard company to build its two great
ships. 1t seems now. says the Tele-
gram. that the sum of $4,000. 900 In
stead OF s10,000.000 was advanced.
which suggests an expenditure of not
less than S6.501000 on each vessel
The White Star boats are expected to
cost the same. the reduced speed low
ering the cost.
That reads all right. but what har-
bors arc that kind of ships going to
enter? The Lusitania and Mauretania
now draw about thirty-three feet each
and they have only about two feet of
water under their keels when they
enter New York hsrbor. They might
run to Newport News or to Newport.
R. l.. but we know DO other ports on
the Atlantic side that could receive
them.
AS things are progressing the only
limitation there will be on ships after
a little more will be the difficulty OF
finding harbors which they can enter.
Then there is another question, ships
as costly as they are have 10 be
kept going to pay any interest on their
cost. Neither remains in port more
than three or four days. How are
they going to load one of those ships
n that time? OF course. they have a
1ozen hatchways and they have steam
1oiSts on the boats and wharves. but
10000 tons of freight to lower into
/ ship and to stow 1t So It Will not
sndangcr the ship by all shifting 10
'ne side when the ship rolls Is a
reat feat.
Up in the Lake Superior country
hey load 5000 OF 5000 tons of iron
IRE in short time. but that Is easy.
hey simply have chutes from cribs
IN shore. and they discharge the iron
IRE from those cribs through a f1ume
IT pipe into the ship But there IS
10 slowing away In that case-they |
simply fill the ship with iron and |
here 1t is. But mixed cargo in
'ases and cans and boxes and bar.
els cannot be loaded that way and |
hen after II is In the ship II has TO he
placed and lashed However. they
know what they are about
md have their owns means OF doing
hat kind of work.
But what a change In fifty yearsi
les, in thirty years. for that matter
Thirty years ago a 5000-ton steamer
vas the exception. In the old Cali.
ornia days they used to advertise the
teamers. The advertisements are
led IN Nmemory something Ike this.
The magnificent steamship Golden
ate. with double osclllating engines.
4 5000 tons burden. will sail on the
tn The Golden Gate did have
ouble engines, hut here register was
Nactly 2167 tons; and she was a
reat ship in those days and She fire.
uently brought into San Francisco
800 passengers. 1t was a little I'M
omfortable all the way up from
'anama, but, then. 1t was very com.
orting 10 the owners OF the ship. be.
ause in those days the frst class pas
engers paid $3.50 each. the second
lass s275, while the steerage was
heap at 800
And now when we read that tho
'anderbilts and the Laws of New
'ork give great entertainments.
larry princes and get divorces, old
alifornions read with grim smile
nd say to themselves: I'VE helped
lat girl 10 marry prince; we win