People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — ADVANTAGES OF SLOW TRAVEL. [ARTICLE]

ADVANTAGES OF SLOW TRAVEL.

The Old-Style Transatlantic Journey and That of tho Racing Liner. The slower-going steamer, say three hundred to three hundred and fifty miles a day, has decided advantages over the racer. To attain a high speed enormous propelling power is required and the ocean greyhound is like a great machine shop, the pulsations of that machinery jarring every portion of the boat. To double the speed, says the Baltimore Sun, of a vessel at sea the power must be cubed. The vessel to plow through the water at twentyfour miles per hour must displace twice as much water in an hour as it does when going at twelve miles per hour. That would require twice the power. But in addition to tliis the water'must be displaced in half the time, and that requires the power to be doubled again. So that a vessel which would consume five tons of coal in an hour going at a rate of twelve miles would consume, all other conditions being equal, twenty tons per hour if the speed is increased to twenty-four miles. After aU there are attractions in the old style of going to sea, with its leisurely gait, its perfect rest, its absolute change from all the conditions of life on land, which are superior intthe judgment of many people to the five or six days of hotel life between New York and Liverpool on one of the “liners.”