The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-20
Oil RUNS THB TURBINES WELL
M MORT coal ron THE var
AMI THE HARVARD.
seasSing EnEinecFs Interested IN q TRIAL
TTiP mat RveFybsSy saw sueeeed
siOkehold DlsAppsAFs. Win Nest 81
ire siOGeFu and Most oF the amohe.


the steGera and Most 90 the Rmoke
The triT.I AsSWW turbine Yale OF ths
Metropolitan Line demonstrated yester-
day in a trial spin TO SEA beyond The Am
brose Channel lightship and back that she
could do quite AZ well under steam gen
Grated by oil fuel a. she has done under
power developed by the use Of coal in the
old fashioned furnaces that the manage-
ment Of the line believe will BE- relogated
soon TO the scrap heap Of nautical reminis-
oenoes in which the old clippers repose.
The burning Of oil a. steam generating
fuel aboard ships may b. classified almo.,
among the antiquities. but the Use Of oil
a. hlsi N the cOastWise passenger service
OF the Atlantic coast is an innovation.
The Yale is the first merchant turbine
IN the country that has been equipped with
oil burnera Her Ristsr ship, the Harvard.
also has them and win sail for Boston
on Monday after a preliminary trial that
will b merely a fOrmality.
Representatives Of every steamship
and transportation company hereabout
and several Ofioes Of the navy were
aboard the Yale when she started out
OF her doCk at the foot 81 Rector street
yesterday morning The novelty OF an
American Passenger turbine burning oil
had attracted experts Of all sorts. After
the trip they said they were aatished that
the system had come 10 stay. No effort
was made to speed the ship except in
sPirts. when she developed about p knots.
The average from the time shs Ion, her
dock until three \Dalzell tugs helped to
warp NEE in about three hours later was
seventeen knots. which Robert MoGreEor.
the consulting engineer and superntsn-
dent of the line. said was simply CRUISING
speed. To do her best the Yale must he
IN the unObstrlcted waters % the Allan
TIC. Going up the Sound she has 10 slow
down for fear of washing away Islands
and things and upsstting all aorts Of
smaller craft that make q habit Of ,isin1
the great strait. But she MAKES up for
her enforced slownsus when she gets
beyond Block Island. whOopinR her aver
age away up. 80 high that President CAL
vim Austin Of the line utterly refused 10
make q guess about Il. although General
Passenger Agent o. u. Taylor suspected
u was pretty close 10 twenty-five knots
What astOnished tho men who went
down in the stOkehOld Of the Yale Wa
The utter absence % anybody resembling
siokers. Only last year she had forty |
sight grtmy ahOvellsrs mostly Portuguese. |
who had a habit Of not showing % on |
cccasiona when theirSsrvIces were needed |
badly There we're only eight men who 1
may he ranked AZ stokers on duty ysstsr. /
day and all that they had to do was 20 |
turn a few valves The heat Of the boiler 4
room was not more than IIO degrees and
by moving att. where the big oil tanks
ARE. and getting in the neiKhborhood Of
4 ventilation the men who turned the
valves could feel quite comfortable. A.
The reporters who went below did for
half an hour
The uitramarine poets viewed the CON.
iiuons with some regret. The pictur-
ssque and sOoty folk Ia red shirts or no
shirts Whatever were missed The stoke
hold was not stokshold az all. Il looked
like tunnel lighted by electricity. The
roar of the oil an Il was sprayed by the
steam atomizers under the hoilers was
almost az deafening a. the thunder n the
subway There was no Odor. ~ al ,he
smells Of combustion went up the twin
also there was no smoke. at least
not IN the hrsroom and there was hardly
my nore pouring nut 81 the funnela than I,
night come from colossal lamp chimneys
That = what the tunnels arc now De-
'asiOnnlly some smoke came 10. bu' IN
vas due. W.. MotireEor said. entirely %
he unismiliarity % the force with the new
tevice. Ne WAS inclined 70 predict that
he coming Of the oil burning pas.sneer
hip on the Atlantic coast would solve
N. rtoker problem. that problem being
ne uncertainty o. fremen fulflRnV their
obligations
The Yale burned yesterday about 100
gallons Of oil an hour which IL lees than
he will send aloft N vapor whom she Is
Eoing full tih. She Will then burn in
'ound trip between this port and Boston
bout 1.S7t gallons Of oil. which h dearer
lere than it is on the Pacific. Whers Il IL
ised Ivy many steamships. chiefly freight
'u She Used 20 burn 2sS tons OF coal
N a round trip and II took her eskht
lours 10 take the coal aboard Now all
he has 70 DO In 10 summon a Standard
NJ barge and have pumped into her tanks
n iust one hour enough fuel for a round
rip. |;
Naturally there 10 no noias and no d,lst
md passengers are not disturbed II thew I
appen 20 BE- aboard The saving Nv
be oil fuel. chiefly in the cost Of labor. T,
III be about sbOo . month. No cindsrs !
MI on the dscirs. and therefore the coat
{ painting Il reduced. not 10 mention
be comfort % passengers who may
= promenading with their best RiFls :
2 thsir wives.
Capt Thomas =. Hawes Of the Yale
aid he felt certain that the ship would :
o even better burning oil than coal. {
Is would not DO bothered when creep 4
lg through a fog with the added OBJ
Duration Of smoke from the f,hBels
Il IL declared that the oil burning
ystsm ~ used ~ the Yale lsnsthens
10 ne u the boiler. does away with tho e
sosuity u cleaning fires and the o0nss-
usnt reduction 0f speed and lnoreasaa
10 ssoaminE radius When In port :
lsre 10 no hanking OF fires and the supDly /