Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1902 — COST OF OCEAN SPEEDING. [ARTICLE]

COST OF OCEAN SPEEDING.

Much has been said of late regarding the speed of the German Atlantic greyhounds. Not enough, perhaps, has been said regarding the coat of this speed. The latest creation of the North German Lloyd, Kaiser Wilhelm 11., is designed to do twenty-four knots an hour at an expenditure of 40,000 indicated horsepower. Our White Star liner Cedric, the largest ship in the world, will go seventeen knots with 14,000 horsepower. But, says the Shipping World, the Kaiser Wilhelm will bum 750 tons of coal per day, which is 190 per cent more than the Cedric, and she will .need 256 more hands to work her. Curiously enough, of her crew of 600 only for-ty-five will be ordinary sailors, the remainder being mechanics of various orders. —London Telegraph.