Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — Plan for Improving Steamers. [ARTICLE]

Plan for Improving Steamers.

If the owners of the Campania pulled out all her boilers and for every live pulled out put back two new boilers same diameter, same length, same heating surface—in fact, each new boiler an exact sac simile of the old one, except that the iron must be three times as heavy, so as to fit it for raising 500 pounds of steam instead of ISO pounds of steam, and if they alter the first and possibly the second cylinders of their engines (leave the last cylinders alone; they are the true measures of the steam consumed) so as to fit them for working 500 pounds of steam and expanding it down to the same pressure as at present, then I say the.y will save three-fifths of their present boiler room, they may dismiss three stokers out of five, retaining only two, and they may reduce their quantity of coal and space for coal to about twofifths of the present quantity—say from 3,000 tons (if that is the quantity) down to 1,200 tons, and they will still drive the Campania at her present speed—2s miles an hour. But the saving of coal will be on the coal used for the actual propelling of the ship.—lndustries and Iron.