The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-25

a most important feature of a ship. the engine rooms are by no means to be overIo ooked! This mass of machin- cry so complicated to. the inexperi- enced eye, seems simple to the train ed minds and facile hands that urge it to motion or bring it to a stop a+ the command of the unseen navtgat- ing officer. This department, for midabIe on the large ocean going ! steamer, is brought to even greater perfection on the modern man-of-war where it is the vital spot of the ship. From the water line and extending g three decks below, there is an appa- rently complex mass5of cylinders, pis- tons. pumps, tanks, boilers and instru- ments each having its own share of the work to perform, but in the case of twin screw boats. each so conpen- sated that it takes its own strain and sometimes automatically takes up the work of the opposing section should that become stopped.
 Generally speaking the propuIsive force of a battleshtp is steam, though electricity, generated from steam, plays an important part in the rnanip- u1ation of the boat. it's guns and lights. Incidentally in the engine room, the bilge pumps. condenser pumps and other auxi1iaries are operated.
 All water drank or used in the course of the day. which on the Ken lucky amounts to between 5000 and 4, 900 gallons is made fresh by taking it from the sea. Enormous conden- sers are used for this purpose. Fresh water takenS from rivers or on land is used over and over again in the boi- 1ers by a similar process of conden- sation.
 A small part of the engine room is the naachine-shop, yet this is so big that four 1a.thes, two drill Expresses and a number Of other machines are belt driven from g. dynamo. Nearly 200 officers and men on board battle ship work in the engine room and it's tia officers commanding the Tnachin- cry division is one from Bridgeport, Jack Ross, while others from New Haven and Hartford help to drive the big ship on this cruise
 As already intimated the electrical division of a battleship is of prime Importance. On the Kentucky. two large rooms are devoted to that pur- pose, containing dynamos that would make the central station of a small city envious. Perfectly clean and white through, their black bodies GOV ering the swiftly moving armatures that are capable Of developing thou sands of horse power and delivering the intense rays from the six big
  the eye. Here again Bridgeporters are found in command and help to make life bearable under an almost tropical sun that sheds it's rays over steel sides aud decks and are only dissipated by means of the blower and ventilating system electrically operated.
 To the lay eye a battleship is Of great bulk. This fact is intensified by a weeks life on ship. The bat tleshipsis to other ships as a mother to its young; for in heavy weather the smaller craft cling to it for protec- ton as does the country in time of war. During the recent blow in Tan gier sound, the Kentucky became the anchorage of several smaller tugs and boats, which rode out the seas in the wake of the Kentucky, which hardly moved from it's level in the swell.
 It is expected the next port of call 1wiH be Portsmouth, Maine for which all eyes will he turned as the Ken lucky passes out Cape Charles and Cape Henry tonight.