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THE AMERICAN STEAMSHIP.
From Allan McLane's Day to
the Present Writing.
How Compound Engines Have Swal
lowed the Walking Beam.
The Kxtravagant Sldewheel Fleet of the
Pactfle Mall Company and tho Giant
Blunder of Building It—The
Lines of the Paclflo.
Id the first part oi this article I closed
tip with a description of the Vanderbilt
Bteamship, then the largest wooden ves
sel in tbe world except the sailing ship
Great Republic, owned by Abiel A.
Low, who died in Brooklyn about two
weeks ago. A very correct model of the
Vanderbilt may be seen in Hancock
Banning's window on Second street,
near Spring, and Capt. W. L. Merry of
Nicaragua canal fame, pronounced it an
excellent likeness when he was here in
October last. At the period when the
Vanderbilt was running to Havre, the
record stood like this on transatlantic
passages:
ACB.OSS THE ATLANTIC.
Year. American. d. h. m.
1852- AtctiO* 9 17 15
1853— BalliO* » 1« 33
1800-Adriatio* 0 13 30
1859-Vanderbiltt 9 8 00
Enell'U.
1853-Perala. P 1 45
180H— Jootla 8 It 61
1867-Scotiat 8 9 31
• New York to Liverpool, t New York to
Southampton. } Liverpool to New York.
„ ***
i In those days a passage meant from
import to port. Now they are timing
'Bhipe from Sandy Hook toTuskar light
or the Connebeg lightship, which is a
good deal shorter distance to be mn,
Sandy Hook being 2G miles from New
York and the distance on the other side
being still greater. It is 3198 miles
from New York to Havre, and from Liv
erpool to New York about 2GBB miles,
while the ordinary passage is computed
from Sandy Hook to Daunts rock,
which is 2782 miles. The oscillating
engine, which was first introduced on
the Republic, then plying between
Philadelphia and Charleston, was put
into the Illinois and Golden Gate
(double) and the John L. Stephens
(single) of the Pacific mail line between
JB5l and 1854 ; and into the Adriatic of
the Collina line in 1857. It was very
economical and conducive to speed as
'well, but waa objectionable about mak
ing landings, ac it did uos reveree
"handily.
Up to the outbreak of the civil war in
ilß6l, the Adriatic was the largeat
wooden steamer afloat, but in tbat year
"the keel was laid ior a steamer that
should surpass them all both in size
•and speed. By this time opinion bed
revolted against double engines for side
wheel ships, because in heavy weather
■one wheel would be totally submerged
to tbe pillow-blocks while the other
would be almost, if not entirely, out of
water. Thia created, of course, a great
strain upon the center shaft, being that
portion of the shafting lying between
the cranks of the two engines. In this
way the Golden Gate broke three shafts
in five years and the Illinois two
in the same period, while the
Sierra Nevada, Cortes, Winfield
rJcott, and Prometheus in three years had
eachbroken two. On tbe other hand the
TJnited Ktates, Ocean Bird, Golden
Rule. Brother Jonathan, Golden Age
and Pacific, all ran over 10 years with
their original shafts. Hence it was that
Allan McLane, on his accession to tbe
euperintendency of the Pacific Mail fleet
and afterwards to the presidency of tbe
company, decided to use the Bingle beam
only. The new steamship waß called
the Constitution and arrived in San
Francisco in October, 1862, previous to
which time she had made a little for
tune in carrying to Fortress Monroe and
other southern points, troops aud muni
tion of war for tbe government. Oapt.
Oliver Eldridge, my ideal of the most
enlightened type of an American sailor,
was her commander. He iB now resid
ing in San Franciaco in the twilight of
an honorable life.
In those days the Panama steamers
were doing all the passenger traffic of
California, Oregon and Nevada; and the
big Constitution was a howling succcsb,
as she carried from 1400 to 2000 passen
gers per trip at $300 each. She waß tbe
first boat to make the trip between San
Francisco and Panama inside of twelve
days. Emboldened by her aucceßß the
company built tbe big Golden City, of
the same length as the Constitution
and two feet more beam. This waa, in
my belief, the best sidewheel ship ever
built, right up to the present writing.
The schedule time was 200 miles per
diem, and tbe log-book of the Golden
City (still preserved in the Pacific Mail
archives) will show that she on more
than one occasion made this with a con
sumption of 28 tons in 24 hours. With
40 tons she could keep up through pretty
bad weather, and with 60 tone she
could drive through the biggest gales
she ever met. In 1884 the company
built three steamships—the Henry
Cbancey, Arizona and Colorado —the
latter intended as a eiater chip to the
Golden City.
Same clever maritime writer (I know
not who) hae eaid that there werenevor
two sister ships, and Buch appeared to
be tbe case in this instance. The Colo
rado was built on the Golden City's
lines with the same boiler surface, same
diameter of cylinder and stroke of
piston (108x144 inches) and yet she
never could equal tbe Golden City's
time by ten hours, without exceeding
her consumption of fuel naarly 18 per
cent. In weather where the Golden
City would burn 32 tone of anthracite,
the Colorado would require 38 to 42; and
in heavy weather 80 tone would be the
beet ebe could do for hereelf. The came
ie true of sister locomotives. S. G.
Reed, now a reeident of Pasadena but
then vice-president of the Oregon Steam
Navigation company, went east in 1867
and bad two engines of like weight and
deeign built at Paterson, N. J., for their
Cascade portage. Money wae no object,
they wanted the best. One of theee wae
named for Colonel Ruckel and tbe other
for himself. The Reed could always
haul eight loaded cars up tbat eteep in
cline, while the Ruckel would almost
blow her cylinder heads out in trying to
handle seven.
Just about 1864 came a menace to the
sidewheel Bhips in the shape of four
propellers bnilt by John Elder of Glas
gow for the Cunard line. They were
2800 tone each, with 2200 horse power
in tbe shape of compound vertical en
gines, designed to economize both epace
and fuel. The latter waa accomplished
by working th» nf-enri r>v*T twice, with a
LOS ANGELES HERALD '» SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12, 1893.
high-pressure cylinder of 34 inches and
a low-pressure cylinder of 72 inches;
and these ships, carrying easily 1750 to
2000 tons of measurement goods, made
within a day of aa good time on a con
sumption of 50 tona aa tlie Scotia had
been able to do with U5 tons in good
weather, and 120 when it waa blowing
hard. If any man but Allen McLane
had been at the head of the Pacific Mail
company at that time he would have
seen the handwriting on the wall —the
demand for increased speed, moie stow
age capacity and less combustion of fuel.
That good-natured and amiable gen
tleman, however, saw nothing but the
comforts and ease of a voyage on such
palatial ships as the Henry Ohauncey
and Colorado, and the warning con
tained in the four new ships of the Cu
nard line, the China, Java, Cuba and
Parthia, passed by him unheeded. In
1805 Cornelius Cole, then a senator from
this ntate, procured the passage of a
subsidy granting the Pacific Mail com
pany $50,000 per trip for carrying the
mails oncn a month from San FrancißCO
to Hong Kong, by way ol Yokohama, in
Japan.
Don't understand me as blaming Mr.
Cole for the advocacy of this proposition.
I would have advocated it under the
sanctity of a senator's oath, as well as
in the capacity of a private citizen, for I
have seen England outstrip us under the
present system of subsidies till we are
really a fourth-rate commercial power,
as I shall presently show. Today the
old and rickety City of Peking, built by
the shoddy contractor, John Roach, are
together with John and Adolph Spreck
els' two Australian vessels, the only
American steamers in foreign trade.
I like to hear these Britishers talk
about how the compound engine (the
principle of which was demonstrated in
the steamer Empire State on Lake Erie
in 1852) of John Elder had side-tracked
American commerce. The compound
engine was an established fact in Amer
can commerce before John Elder waa
out of bis apprenticeship. I can ahow
you a dozen American vessels propelled
by compound engines tbat can beat the
time of tbe best ships of the Bains size
that John Elder ever built in his life, a
little later on.
The Pacific Mail company built ior the
China route the grandest and most com
fortable ships that ever tnrned a wheel.
These were the America, 4200 tons net;
the China and Great Republic, 3800 tons
net; and the Japan and Alaska, 4000
tons net. All these ships had a single
beam engine 108 inches by 12 feet stroke.
In addition to these they had tbe Col
orado and Arizona from the Panama
route, to replace which they built the
Arizona and Montana, each 3200 tons
net, with 100-inch cylinder and 12 feet
stroke. Tho latter is believed to have
been the fastest sidewheel steamer that
ever carried the American flag.
By 1872 these enormous steamers,
whose engines occupied twice the space
oi the present triple expansion engineß,
and, by the way, never could run as fast
by three miles per hour, bad got to be
thoroughly obsolete, such as remained.
A new board of directors had got into
the Pacific Mail and it was evident the
grand old paddle-wheel ships had to go.
The America had been burned at her
anchorage in Yokohoma, the Japan de
stroyed off Formosa and the Alaska
hogged to death on the rocks at Aber
deen, just outside oi Hong Kong.
Tbe Colorado and China were rotten,
and the Great Republic, which cOBt
$780,000, was sold to D. O. Mills for
$80,000. She was subsequently wrecked
at the mouth of the Columbia under cir
cumstances that indicated she was "sold
to the ineurance companies." The
company, after letting several brick
houses fall on them, finally built four
ehipß such aB they should have built 10
years before. Theße four were of 2500
tons each, 2000-horse power, and named
respectively Colima, Grenada, Colon
and Acapulco, and could carry from 250
to 400 tons more freight than the old
Golden Gate or John L. Stephens on 30
tons lees consumption.
**#
Then came the American splurge—the
building of the two great steamers, City
of Peking and City of Tokio, which were
launched in 1874. The former was the
first in the water and she was that day
the largest steamer in the world in com
mission, as the Great Eastern bad been
already condemned. Her tonnage was
5050 tons and her horse power 3240, be
ing a double set of compound engines,
set tandem. Today she is only a third
claßS vessel in point of size and speed,
though not in appointments. The To
kio was wrecked near Aberdeen by Jeff
Maury, in whom a good mate was
spoiled to make a very inferior captain.
.**
EJThe deposition of Allan McLane and
ttie election of E. K. Stockwell, a Chi
cago stockbroker, to fill the place was a
bard blow to the Pacific Mail. He was
a man of no commercial education and
had no ideaß above stock gambling.
F.very time he got "cinched" in Wall
street he would go after the pay rolls of
the Pacific Mail Steamship company
and cut down everybody's wages. Then
he sent out a Washington lobbyist by
the name of Irvin, a trafficker in tho
consciences of congressmen, to be asso
ciate agent with Capt. uliver Eld ridge,
which so disgusted that pure old Yankee
sailor that he resigned in disgust.
Since that time the Pacific Mail,
which was originally capitalized at
$1,600,000 in 1848. and rose to a valua
tion of $26,500,000 in 1865, has on
several occasions come very near going
by the board. It is now a mere "tender
behind" to the Southern Pacific and
their Pacific roads, and its prestige ac a
great common carrier is departed for
ever. I ask men who love the American
flag to look over the annexed list of
Bteamships under foreign flags in the
Australian trade alone.
* *
PENINSULA AND ORIENTAL LINUS.
Name. Tons. Name. Tons
Australia 7,000 Rome 5 .100
Anglfa 0,200 Carthago 5,900
Brtltauia 6,200 -Hian-ron 5,000
Arcadia 0.200-lu'lej 4,500
Victoria 6,100 Ballara* 4,500
Oceana 6,100 paramatta 4,900
With six other spare boats of from'4ooo
to 3500 tons. Trips, semi-monthly.
OUIBNT LIKE.
Ormuz 6,000 Orizaba 6,000
Orient 5.H00 Oroya S,RnO
Austral 5,000 (Irotava 6,000
Ore-timba 5 00 i Liguria 4,500
I.usltania 4,501 Valetta 4.C00
Cuzco 4 000 Saroune 3,500
NORTH GERMAN—LLOYD'S.
Kaleer Wilhelm * 7,o"o|riohenzollen.... 4,500
Fuerstßismarck* 7,ooolHobeusuiefer... 4,500
[* These shipß run ou the Pacific from May to
Kovt^iber.]
MKSSA3ERIK.S MARITIMRS LINE.
Villedo 010tat...700() Auitra'.lon 0000
Airaand Benae. ..7000 Oceanion 5000
Poljnesien 6000 Yarra 4000
It will thus be seen that out of 34
steamships plying between European
porta and Australia alone, to 9'iy noth
ing of the Atlantic lines, there are 20
larger than the City of Peking, which
wae tbe largest merchant vessel in th c
world on the day she slid into the water.
Comment is unnecessary.
It ia not a pleaaant pic ture to con
template, more especially when one
knowß that the American ships can
always beat English ships of their size
on the Bame consumption of coal. Thia
is amply proven by the records and logs
of tbe Alameda and Mariposa of the
Spreckela line, which make 325 milea a
day in good weather on a consumption
of 48 tons of bituminous coal and proba
bly they could do it ou 30 tons of an
thracite. The New Zealand Union com
pany brought out the Mararoa (the
most complete ship of her eiza ever
built on the Clyde, by tbe way) tbe beat
she could do waa 325 miles on 51 tons
and 293 on the conaumption of the
Spreckela ships. Those ships were built
by Cramp & Sons, who also built the
City of Pueblo, Queen and State of Cali
fornia.
Old John Roach was an awfnl old
fraud, and Secretary Wbi tney did not
Bquelch him a day too soon. He could
build good ships when be wae well
watched, as in tbe case of the Colombia
and Oregon, of the Union Pacific line,
but Villard knew Roach, and that waa
why he paid jack Henderson $400 a
month to watch those ships while in
process of construction. I know that
whenever Cramp is paid tbe same price
per ton that is paid John Elder or Har
lan & Wolf he can build as good and as
big a ship as they can. And it may be
news to some of my readers that the in
terior woodwork of the City of Paris and
City of New York was all done in Cramp's
yard and put in place by American work
men.
Cut down the robbers' tariff on iron
plate, which benefits one state (Penn
sylvania) and does not help any other,
and you will Boon see America building
more big chips like the City of Peking,
to run to China, Australia and Europe.
We have built more good shipß between
2500 and 3000 tons than ever were built
on the Clyde or at Belfast; and now,
having gone all around Robin Hood's
barn, I conclude by asking the question
with which I began this article —will the
restoration of tbe Democratic party to
power bring back the prestige of our
American commerce on the high seas ?
T. B. M.
r ' "CAN BTILL LOVEr*"
I thought I could not live if yon wore gone.
But life has taught me sterner things;
Tho bird whose mate is dead lives on—
Aye, lives and sings.
Perhaps his song has more of sadness—
A note or two of pain;
'Tie Bweeior music with the mournful cadence
Than woe the careloss, joyful strain.
I stood beside your gravo and wept alone
And thought love was forever dead to me;
My life had early lost love's glorlons sunlight I
And ncvor moro my heart could happy be.
But time has taught mo many tender truths— |
That life can never wholly be unblest.
I cannot live all lonely in this world of woe
Because I loved you, dear, the best.
Tho tender lovo that bears so much for me
I gladly take, nor feel
My love for you, dear one, has weaker grown.
My heart less stanch and leal.
I love you first, and you were always dearest;
Yet, liko the bird whoso mate is gone,
I still can find a tender Joy in loving,
Nor wish to dwell forever here alone.
—Agnes L. Pratt, j
The Senso of Smell In Dogs.
Dogs are able to track their masters
through crowded streets, where recogni
tion by sight is quite impossible, and
can find a hidden biscuit even when its
faint smell is still further disguised by
eau de cologne. In some experiments
Mr. Romanes lately mado with a dog he
found that it could easily track him
when he was far out of sight, though no
fewer than eleven people had followed
him, stepping exactly in his footprints,
in order to confuse the scent.
The dog seemed to track him chiefly
by the smell of his boots, for when with
out them or with new boots on it failed,
but followed, though slowly and hesitat
ingly, when his master was without
either boots or stockings. Dogs and cats
certainly get moro information by means
of this sense than a man can. They often
get greatly excited over certain smells
and remember them for very long pe
riods. —Chambers' Journal.
Tho Woodpecker's ITome.
The woodpecker's home is very like
the kingfisher's, but it is dug in rotten
wood instead of being bored in a bank
of earth. Prom the great ivary billed
species down to the little downy fellow
of our orchards, the woodpeckers build
their nest, or rather excavate them, oa
tho same general plan. The hole at first
goes straight Into the wood, then turns
downward, widening as it descends, un
til it gives room for tho homo. If you
will go into any bit of unshorn wood
land during early spring aud will keep
your eyes open, you will sco a bright r«d
Load thrust out of a round window In
some decaying trunk or bough, and the)
woodpecker will sing out, "Peer! peerr
which always seems to mean that his or
her homo is a most comfortable and en
joyable place.—Maurico Thompson in
Uolden Rule.
. *iay, wagons and Tramps.
One hardly expects to find humor in
tho reports of town officers, but occa
sionally some of tbe unintentional kind
crops out, as in this item of disburse
ment in a Hartford county town, "Mrs.
M. Leak, for maintaining watering
trough, thrcedollars," or this from a town
In Massachusetts, "A new building haa
been erected the past year for the pur
pose of storing hay, wagons, farming
tools, tramps," etc.—Hartford Post.
Tho Height of the Atmosphere. ,
Calculations, based on the observa
tion of the refraction of light, have
caused it to be supposed that tho air be
comes so raro at the height of about six
ty miles that that distance may be re
garded as the limit to its sensible extent;
but other calculations, made duiing tho
present century, of tho distance from
the earth at which meteors ignite indi
cate that tho atmosphere extends ta up
ward of a hundred miles.—Philadelphia
Ledger. ■
Tw* Striking Heights. J
Sir William Don, when quartered with
his regiment at Nottingham, was walk
ing in the market place, and was met by
two mechanics, one of whom thus ad.
dressed him: "Sir William, me and my
mate 'as got a bet of a quart of ale about
yer, and we wants to know yer 'ight."
Sir Will)'m answered, "My height is 6
feet 7, ana yours is the height of impu
dence,"—-Loudon Journal.
AS tiooa as He tia...
A reproof which was just and not dis
courteous was once addressed to a young
rector who had been reared under the
highest of church doctrines, and who
held that clergymen of all other denomi
nations aro without authority and not
entitled to bo called ministers of the
Gospel. One evening at a social gather
ing he was introducted to a Baptist
clergyman. He greeted the elder man
with much manner and ostentation.
"Sir," he said, "I am glad to shake
hands' with you as a gentleman, though
I cannot admit that you are a clergy
man." There was a momenta pause,
and then the pther said, with a quiet
significance that made tho words he left
unsaid emphatic, "Sir, I am glad to
shako hands with you—as a clergyman."
—San Francisco Argonaut.
Why the Child Cried.
A Brooklyn physician says that he was
recently attending a family where the
little man of the house wa3 in a some
what refractory humor, and thinking to
quiet him he said, "How would you like
it now if to punish you I should take
your little sister away from you?' The
boy sulkod and did not reply, but as the
doctor arose to take his leave tho child
burst into a woeful blubbering. He was
asked what was the matter. "Doctor's
goin away without takin sister," he an
swered.—New York Recorder.
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cheerfully recommend all who are troubled w,th the same complaints by which I nave been
o;:iicted, to give Ur. Hong Sol a fair trial aud ho will care you. MRS 0, M. WALTgR I ),
Nove-nber 21. 1032 Blame sireet. Los Angeles, Cal.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I have been pick for nearly two years by Buffering wit*
great pjlu.s In the back, head, coughing and weakness, and-unable to get out from bed for somi
time. About three weeks ago, having called on Dr. Hong Sol for consultation, who oronouuee<
tbat I was allllcteu with kidney disease and lung troubles. He Insured me by locating how ant
whore it pains rac; and also explained how and when I cough the most, etc. At once I begin t(
try his medicine, which I found It to be a grea-. help to me. I had taken his medlclno for threi
weeks and now lam well. This is lo ceriify that Dr. Hong Sol has cured me of my sickness, and
I am cheerfully recommending him to theputilic. MM. M. J. TEMPLa,
Dated March 3,1832. 330 Winston ttreet, Los Angeles, Cal.
For two months 1 mfferod with pain in the bladder. Three doctors treated me, each one glv
lug a different cause for tho trouble, but doing me no go:d. Took Dr. Hong Sol's medicines 10,
two weeks and whb entirely relieved of alt pain. H. H. MOKE,
Los Angeles, January 14,1893. C 55 South Olive street.
For three years 1 was a sufferer with rheumatism and kulusy troubles and was unable tf
walk I was very much bloated aud suffered excruciating pains. Five doctors have treated mi
and failed to benefit me. They have given me uo as incurable. I was recommended to Dr.
Hong Boi for treatment. Inm glad 1 had went to him. He cured mo in two weeks' time.
Dated September 14,1831. WILLIAM goble,
St & 8u G mos 10134 First street, Oakland House.
Wonderful Cures
-* —BY —R-
DR. WONG !
713 South Main Street, Los Angeles, California.
• ' i /eating diseases through th(
„ nr l,l >> 1 pulse and excellent remedies are great blcea
wona * I ings to the world."
For seven montns 1 was treated by Eve dlfterent doctors, none ot whom stated what my dis.
ease was During teat time 1 suffered terribly, and conlinuod to (ail until I became a skeleton.
For the list three months I had to be dressed, fed, and have my water drawn. Finally my feet,
limbs hands and fsce became swollen. I could not rise from a chair, and could scarcely walk,
and was cbligr-d to have my water drawn from fifteen to twenty times a day. My friends con
sidered 1 would not last many days. I then—three months ego—commenced treating with Dr
Wong. The first dose ol medicine completely relieved me. and since 1 have not been obliged tc
rc-fcort'to artificial means for relieving my bladder, in five days I was able to dress and feed my
self- in ten days the swelling had left me and I could walk as well as for years before. I now
weli-h as ranch as 1 ever did, and feel better than I have felt for fifteen years. lam 75 years old
and feel tinton. Dr. Wong says I was allilcted with one ol tho fourteen kinds of kidney diseases.
River"; Cal., August 29, 1830. W. W. CHENEY.
Hundreds of other testimonials are on flle In the doctor's office which he has received from
his numerous American patients, whom he has cured lrom all manuer of diseases.
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