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SHIPS LIKE NEEDLES.
NEW SHAPE FOR VESSELS INVENTED
BY A WASHINGTON MAN.
>e Thinks It Will Revolutionise the Ship
ping Industry—Built Expressly For the
Central and South American Trade.
Looks Like a Success.
In a few days the Howard Cassard,
the first specimen of the new type of
ecean vessel, will make her trial trip
down the Potomac river from her dock
at Alexandria. The Cassard was built
at Baltimore, but she has been lying at
the Alexandria dock for a year fitting
up for this trial. She was brought to
Alexandria to be completed because the
Arrow Steamship company, which owns
her, started to build an ocean vessel of
this type at Alexandria and was driven
almost into bankruptcy by attacks made
on the new ship by a New York news
paper. Mr. Fryer, the inventor of the
improvements in ship construction to
be found in the new vessel, had a feel
ing about sending the Cassard on her
trial trip from the wharf from which
the Pocahontas would have started if
her construction had been completed.
Any one who knows nothing what
ever about ship construction and no
more about ships than can be seen from
a dock would be interested in the Cas
sard because of her odd shape. She is
only 16 feet across at the widest point,
yet she is a seagoing vessel, and her
owners expect to put her in the Central
American trade from New Orleans or
from some point on the Florida coast.
Mr. Fryer’s idea of the usefulness of
the new type of vessel is associated with
the development of the Central Ameri
can republics. He has two engineering
schemes which he thinks will open up
the interior of these mountainous coun
tries where pow only the pack mule can
carry freight. This road, Mr. Fryer
says, he can construct at a cost of
|IO,OOO or $12,000 a mile. There is un
doubtedly a fortune for the man or men
who will find a means of opening up
the interior of Honduras and other of
the little republics.
The construction of the Howard Cas
sard is not exactly what the construc
tion of the larger vessels of the type
will be. In the Cassard the boilers ex
tend above the engine deck, and the two
smokestacks stand out above the ship
just back of the wheelhouse. In the
transatlantic vessels of this type the
stacks will be carried up at the sides cf
the vessel, and there will be nothing to
break the line of the saloon from one
end to the other of the ship. The en
gines are ail below the cabin deck in
the Cassard. They will be below the
water line in the big vessel They are
a great part of the weight which pre
serves the specific gravity of the ship.
It was a serious question in the minds
of some people when Mr. Fryer made
his plans public whether the new vessel
could be kept upright in the water. Some
people asserted that she would turn over
and sink to the bottom on the first trial.
A newspaper asserted that Mr. Fryer
knew this and that he was practicing a
“bunko” game. This paper has been
sued for $1,000,000 by the company.
Against a great deal of discouragement
the promoters of the Arrow company
have gone ahead with the slow develop
ment of the Fryer plan. They have now
a working model 222 feet long, which
cost $150,000, and which has not only
floated, but weathered quite a little
gale in the Chesapeake bay. And her
captain reports that while the wind was
blowing about 40 miles an hour the
Cassard rode the water as easily as
though she were standing at her dock.
In the transatlantic vessel of the Ar
row type there will be two cabin decks,
each lined with staterooms. No smoke
stacks will make a break in the line of
the saloon on the cabin decks, and the
engines will not rise through the saloons
as they do on the great Atlantic liners
now. In this respect the new vessel sug
gests the Mississippi river steamboats,
with their long saloon cabins opening
into staterooms on each side. In the
smaller vessel there is no break in the
passageway between the staterooms for
the engine. That is entirely in the hold
of the vessel. Its weight is 80,000
pounds, and there is a 70,000 pound
keel of iron, which assists the engines
to keep the center of gravity below the
■water line and to prevent the vessel
turning over. It is in this line of state-'
rooms, extending down the sides of the
vessel, that she appears remarkable tel
the casual observer.
Imagine a sleeping car afloat, and you
will get a good idea of what the How
ard Cassard will be when she starts out
next fall to take a party of 50 excursion
ists to Central America to investigate
the possibilities of commercial develop
ment there. The vessel, through its en
tire length, is divided at regular inter
vals into “sections” or staterooms. The
sections will be divided from the aisle
by hangings, which will insure partial
privacy at all times. The staterooms
will have doors, which will guarantee
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aosoraie privacy. mere win do a com
mon dressing room at cue end—the Stern
—for men, and another common dress
ing room at the other end for women.
There will be no dining room, for the
meals will be served as on a buffet car,
on little tables which can be set np in
each section. Each section will have its
upper and lower berths, which will fold
away during the day. Most private
yachts now have the upper bmdhs of the
sleeping car, bnt the introduraon of the
full section from the sleeping car will
be novel.
If the Cassard can be kept afloat—and
it seems probable that she can—she can
undoubtedly be driven through the wa
ter at a remarkable rate of speed, for
her narrow hull offers a minimum re
sistance to the water. It is perfectly
semicircular for about 30 feet amidships.
Then she tapers gracefully to a kniiv
blade bow and to a finely modeled run.
The shape of the hull and its smooth
ness give the vessel the appearance of a
huge racing shell
The construction of the frame of the
vessel is novel. It is put together, as
Mr. Fryer expresses it, like an eggbox.
“In the ordinary vessel, ” said Mr. Fry
er, "the hull is constructed first; then
the dividing walls are put in. We have
built the dividing walls of iron, and
they are a part of the hull. Primarily
the whole vessel is constructed of iron.
There are 68 transverse frames in the
hull, turned out at the rolling mill just
as they were put together at the yard.
These frames are saddled on the keel
36.4 inches apart, and each of these sec
tions conforms to the shape of the hull
transversely at the point where it fits
in. The walls of the staterooms are of
iron. They will be finished off hand
somely, and they will have the orna
mentation of wooden partitions, but
there will not be enough wood about
the whole vessel to make a respectable,
bonfire. It will be impossible, there
fore, to burn the new ship, and compe
teht engineers who have examined her
say that you could roll her down hill
without hurting her very much. ’ ’
An expert has described the construc
tion of a “cellular extension upward of
the heavy keel. ’ ’ These iron cells make
a rigid frame, and they furnish water
tight compartments, which should be
insurance against sinking.
This 70,000 pound keel has other uses
than to lower the center of gravity of
the vessel The main shaft which drives
the screw (it weighs 33,000 pounds)
rests in bearings which are also bedded
solidly on the keel. This gives them a
foundation like masonry. The engine
also rests directly on the keel It is a
rock shaft engine of peculiar type, and
recently it was running at a speed of 20
revolutions under five pounds of steam.
And though the engine was just below
the cabin deck there was no perceptible
oscillation.
There is a series of airtight compart
ments just within the skin, and some
of the spaces can be used to hold water
ballast as the coal is used up and the
hold of the vessel lightened.
Os course the entire hold of the ves
sel is given up to machinery, etc. There
is no space there for freight. And the
idea of the Arrow steamship is a vessel
to carry only passengers and express
matter. Mr. Fryer believes that such a
vessel can I ■» made to pay from the start
in the Central American trade. She can
carry fruit in one of the sections, and
the freight on this alone ought to pay
nearly all the expenses of a trip.
Some one who was interested in the
fruit trade in New Orleans said when
the new line of vessels of the Arrow
type was proposed: “There is a mint of
money for any one who will get into
this country simply the fruit turned
back at the wharf by the inspectors. In
a ship which can make the trip from
Honduras to the United States in about
35 hours there is no reason why fruit
should not be brought through in prime
condition. ”
If the Cassard is a success, Mr. Fryer
wants to lay the keels of two vessels a
little larger, 257 feet over all and of 20
feet beam. This will be the size of the
vessels which will go into the Central
American trade. It will require five of
these ships to establish a daily line ba<
tween New Orleans and Honduras >r
four of them to establish a daily line
between Punta Gorda, in Florida, find
Honduras. No vessel need be more than
12 hours at her dock at the end of the
voyage.
There will be no freight to unload.
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THE HOME TRIBUNE. TUESDAY. JUNE 18. 1895.
ana the passengers ana express matter
can be stowed away very quickly. It
will be something like pleasant travel
ing to step aboard a floating sleeping
car at Punta Gorda and after two nights
and a day find yourself in Honduras.
Mr. Fryer believes that he can bring
the trip from Guatemala to Washington,
water and rail, from ten days down to
four.
When the Howard Cassard goes down
the river on her trial trip, there will be
some anxious eyes watching her. The
stockholders who have put $200,000 in
to the company which built her will be
represented, and so, no doubt, will be
the navy department. The demonstra
tion of the practicability of the new
form of construction will mean abso
lutely a revolution in the carrying trade
so far as passenger and express traffic is
concerned. Therefore the trial is one of
the greatest interest and importance.
Can Mr. Fryer accomplish with his
vessel all that he claims? Only experi
ment will show. The experiment is to
be made with a model that should make
a conclusive demonstration.—Philadel
phia Times.
THE NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Judge Harmon’s Career In Politics and at
the Bar.
Judge Judson Harmon, who succeeds
Richard Olney as attorney general of the
United States, ranks as one of the lead
ing lawvers and jurists of Cincinnati.
numT! ne nas practiced his profession
for 25 years. Judge Harmon is 49 years
of age and is of imposing appearance,
being 6 feet 2 inches in height and of
athletic build. His hair is tinged with
gray, and in any assemblage he would
attract attention.
The new attorney general is the son
of a preacher, the Rev. B. F. Harmon,
who removed from New York state to
Ohio in the early forties. In Anderson
township, near Cincinnati, Judson Har
mon was born on Feb. 3, 1846. He at
tended the public schools, and was grad
uated from Dennison university, a Bap
tist school at Granville, 0., in 1866.
Three years later he was graduated from
the Cincinnati Law school, and entered
immediately upon the practice of his
profession.
Judge Harmon entered political life
in 1872 as a leader of the Independent
Republican movement. After the defeat
of Greeley, he joined the Democracy, and
has since been identified with that party.
He ran for judge of the court of common
pleas of Hamilton county in 1876, and
after a contest before the legislature
Judge Joseph Coxe got the office. In
1878 he was elected judge of the supe
rior court of Cincinnati. He was re
elected in 1883 for five years, but in
1887 resigned to become a member of
the firm of Harmon, Colston, Goldsmith
& Hoadly. This was when ex-Governor
Hoadly and Edgar M. Johnston moved
to New York. The judge has a very lu
crative practice, his firm being counsel
for several railroads, notably the Balti
more and Ohio, Southwestern, Cincinnati
Southern and Louisville and Nashville.
The new cabinet officer resides with
his family in a beautiful home at 375
Kemper lane, on Walnut Hills, Cincin
nati. His wife, a charming lady, who
will grace Washington society, was a
Miss Sibley, the daughter of Dr. Sibley
of Hamilton, O. Mr. and Mrs. Harmon
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of Edmund Wright, Jf., of Philadel
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youngest, Marjorie, is just 14.
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PHYSICIANS ARE ASTOUNDED BY A
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A Young Man Stricken with Landry’.
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“ Now, comes the part that has astounded
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Slowly but surely I gained my old health
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