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THE BRUNSWICK TIMES-CALL. VOLUMEXI. NUMBER $l. The Largest Sailing Vessel in the World Now Due in Brunswick*. The Only Atlantic Port. South of Norfolk This Vessel Can Load - ■ * fIMMB I ""p U HUS* Vf c Olv Below the Particulars Re garding This Immense Vessel As Taken From the New Terk Herald of August Twentieth &L|jg W. >VeUt eoece.a. i | Camden. Me., lat fit e‘ ri*U h*r JP?V 16 it too ilec.B'iii i' lh* ■iiiflJw™ 8 fiv > mwer of ayj t e tan*, ■HP)bn B. Pre.cott, aud whan they PKard that he was to hive a * x roaster built they mad* up their minds fiat the eoterp'Uios T*ua oil skipper had last hia wits in following bis ambition t’o build the fcUge.t schooner in the worid. But Cap'.altfMolm G. Crowley is a very practical sort of mao, and he knew woat L was doing when ha care to Harry M. Bean the contract fora six-mast*;, a vessel that should carry liya thousand tons or more at a lead and set the shipping world agog with her size and withal her haudini**. It was on April 1, this year, ibavih kiel of the six master was laid in the Bean shipyard. A big schooner is no novelty nowa days, for thero are plenty of fo'S and* afters of 1,500 tons and over, and a number of more than 2,000 tons net regis er; four master* ara numerous and five masters have ceased to at ract much attention, but a six ma t?r ot 3,750 loos register, with a carrying capacity wf rising 5,000 tons, is some thing to wonder at, and so among {Bail ing voste's th 3 George W. Weils is le garded with much me sane interest as Is the Ocranic or tt,e tijutschland am in/ ihot uns. tlam.ic express boats. Auoihei six masted schooner, of about ihe same size as the Gaoree W. Welfo, is being built at Bath. The Georg s W. Wells la a veel ef raagu flceot di ntnslms. She is 302 feet 11 inches long on the keel, 345 feet long on top, 48 feet 0 inches beam and 23 feet deep. She has two full deCKa, with a poop four feet deep extending from thetsffrail to lbe forward hatch, and a set cf b< ams In hole forward, braced with hanging and for flld-aft knees. Uer frame is whi'e oak throughout, and all her planking and ceiling hard pine. Tue gaiboards ar 8 inches tblak sad other planking 0 iachj# Uer ceiling to the lower deck t Jecu decks 10x14 inches. A remarkable feature of the eonstruc- Ition of the monster is her keeleou, which is 13 feet high afl, running up to khclghtof 17 feet forward In ordinary vessels a man can easily i climb over the keeleon, but in the . ip -^gaegsasKagHT-Wl, l ' ■' V',, 1' l„l, 'll Tgffrt JSSSSM _ ; ' ..%■'■;■ . -t; - _ *£*■’ ■■■■ ' -A.- b * ’• • ; ' V < So <s T#£/?Mjsy (3. <s> . . -.-i—.■■ I THE GEORGE W. WE ELS George \V, Wells it extends up to the lower deck beams, wliicft ere bolted to H, and acts as a great backbone to strengthen the vessel. Tills fcee'au .is built up of hard pine timbers 11 .inches Sqaare, aucf is fastened with 50 tons of 13 8 meb Iron bolts. The celling id Inn tened with 1 :J 8 and 1 J 4 I cii iron and the planking with 13 4 inch ioewsttreu na:ls and iron and coppi r butt bolts So great is the sweep t f h r and c"n that the vessel’s houses, althufigh of generous size, look small. II -r after bouse ia fit! feet fejaare. Amilrhlps is the galley and forward the engine house and forecastle, while she aso has a wheelhouse for use in bad wea her, something seldom found on coastng vessels. The yessers flttlngs include a Hyde windlass, operated by a 30 horse pow er engine; two pumps, with a combin ed capacity of 1,200 gallons a minute; a stockless anchor, weigh'ng 8 009 pounds, frem Chester. Pa.,acd a Cam den anchor, weighing 7,500 pounds,be sides kedge and stream anchors, weigh ing respectively 900 and 600 pounds, and 200 fathoms oi ~ 1 2 .inch bar chain. She ha; a Hobson screw v.eer* BRUNSWICK, GA. SUN DAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 1900. Ing apparatus, bu' t c?per-ally for her. ftf Uctl.iia 1 f f ie„ by tdo Hyde Hteani Windless Company, of Barth. Her water tank; hold 7,1-00 gallons. Her six lower masts tre splendid sticks of Oregon pipe, each 119 feet lo.g aud ,30 Inehc; in diameter It, the l partners; topmasts each 5* feet long, 1 tho foretopmast 20 vhclus in diameter at the cap. Thejlbboom is 75 feet tosg, 20 inches at cap; driyerboero 75 fCtt long, 18 iaches In the eiiigs, o'ler b.octp* 12 feet long. 14 Inches in the slings, Tier foretopnmsf, drive rboora and jihboom are of Oregon pine, all the other apart of native spruce. All the standing rigging is of wire, set up with tur-nbuekles; rigging cm the fore man 4 1-2 inches, on otberniaet4 I*2 inches. The masts are named as fol lows, beginning forward:—Foremast, mainmast, mizzenmast, epankermasl. jiggerraset and drlvcrm&st. The vee sel will carry 12,000 square yards of the heaviest ducks, ia the following pieces:—Driver,jtgger,spanker, mizzen, mala and fore sails, six gafftopsaile of the sum- respective designation*, driv ot jigger, spanker, mizzen and main* topmass bta/salis and five jibs. In the after h •> *■ are the ot hi ns, and six staterooms, beside* a Ohtfxfr'dom . Tht stetfcjooui; will t>- occupied by the op*ain, his two rr. ites, steward and engine-'-, end., 'including the chart, room, which cat' ho II 'ed up with sleeping secernniosinth n• , there will b. two spire room ■ for pass-ngers. The cebits/nd s’atercnms a.e llnished in sb, sycamore and cherry, and sup plied v i'h abeam bee', hat hr, h't and oolil water, eiec'.rc bat's and i tele phone line to and -ng'ne house. * In :be construction of this vessel there have barn used immense quanti ties of materials, inoluding tons of white oas timber, over one million feet of bard pine, about one hundred thousand feet of white pine deck plank, and KSTcral hundred tons of iron and copper bolts. Her material* would make a load for several good e zed ■ schooners.' • She ia not only a very large vessel, hut also a hand,on,a oraft, being much the best, looking of all the large schoon er* Htr great length tskci away ai:> appearance of balkiness, and she looks like au immense yacht, with her sharp bows, elean run af;-, and graceful lines ad over. A mere s'atement of her dimensions oonveys to the landsman but a faint Idea of her size. Some comparison will assist. Few full-rigged ships, either wooden or metal, are as large ss this tobooner, and the next largest schooners now alloat, the John B. Prescott and Na thaniel T. Palmer, are eaoii about five hundred tons smaller than she. The largest steamer running to iipogor is fifty-eight feet shorter on top than the eix-master; twelve vaurcls like her, ranged in a tine, would oocnpy a mile of pier frontage, for from the tip of hor driver boom to the tip of her jib boom is about 425 feet. She can oarry as much coal at one load as can three of the Philadelphia and Reading rail road steam oolliera, and about twice as much as ia carried by the first flve mas.ed schooner ever built—the Cov eroor Amur. A sobconer that would have been cslled large twenty years ago could not osrry enough coal to ballast this giant of the Camden yards. Will the big aobooner be profitable? There seems to be oo reason why she URICTE FtYE CENTS should not be a grrat money-maker Carrying at least five thousand tons of coal on a draught of only twsnty-fsar feet, and with only fourteen men, all told, for crew, (master, two mates, steward, engineer and nine her managing owner, Captain John G, Crowley, claims that she can best tb* barges to death at coal carrying, even, when freights arc low. She oarries at least six hundred tons more than either tbs Joho.B, Prescott or the Na thaniel T. Palmer, and only one more man than is required for those great live masters. A. full-rigged ship, of equsl size, would carry at least thirty, one men all told. Messrs. N. Emanuel &. Company who haye chartered this immense Tea sel are probably the largest erosstic* shippers in the United States. They do a very large foreign business in connection with their and )aiestlo busi ness, They were the first people to bring the four masted schooners to Brunswick the barges and the five masted schooners and now this charter ot the largest sails ing yessel nffoat with a capacity of at least 50,QU0 ties places them amongst the largest shippers along the Southern coast. In an article on the building of six mast, the Nautical Gazette, of New York, the leading marine publiaatioa of this country, says: •‘The great question now is as t* whether the six-mast will be success ful. They certainly ought to be eco nomical, for, with much greater car rying capacity than the five-mast, they need but one more man in their* crews than the five-stick requires nli told, A full-rigged ship of equal size carries about 31 men all told. If they prove to be st.fi - , and steady in hard weather, then but one difficult will remain—their draft. The Gc jA W, Welle will draw if->1 of with 5,000 tons hst< up i* depth." that s|" , ■ con: rgt.it I ■ ; 4 t * MB w or! 1 ill • K ) * and hti .1 i oiti* -n : JR ar , ■<! *cf Iff' today at .lie tVenby terian church. At themormnglsorvice, Rev. W.U'ephens Tucker wl I preach. The pastor wit preach at the evening service, woiob begins at 7:30. Attractive music will be rendered by a chorus choir. The Sunday eebool sneete at 3:30p. m. A oordial invitation and weloom* Is ex* tended to Christian people and tba public, to ali the services. The offer ing today will be for the Assembly’s colored evangelistic work. We all need “Other People's Maoey. *