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12 MARINE FOR LAKE MICHIGAN SERVICE. PLANS OF ELEGANT NEW GOODRICH LINE STEAMER--GREAT PAINS TAKEN WwitH LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES--IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. Plans for a new screw passenger steamer for the Goodrich Transpor- tation Co. are about completed at the drawing office of the company in Chicago. A glance at the drawings shows that great pains have been taken to provide for the comfort and convenience of passengers in every respect and to make lake travel on the vessel a real pleasure and health- ful outing. The appointments and equipment will be magnificent. Prin- cipal dimensions of the vessel are: Length over all, 256 feet; length on keel, 288 feet; beam (natural), 40 feet 6 inches; beam over guards, 48 feet; depth from top of keel to cabin deck, 25 feet 3 inches; depth, molded, 16 feet 6 inches; depth of hold, 15 feet 9 inches; draught of water, loaded, 12 feet. : Se ' a Engine will be of the triple expansion type, with cylinders of 22, 38 and 64 inches diameter and 36 inches stroke. Steam will be furnished by three Scotch boilers, each 11 feet 6 inches in diameter by 12 feet long, and the best system of forced draft will be installed. It is intended to develop a speed of not less than 17 miles an hour. The vessel has been designed for winter as well as summer service and consequently is espe- cially modeled, strengthened and equipped for breaking ice which might be encountered, and she has an unusually large coal bunker capacity. The plans were gotten out for a wooden vessel, as the width of stern and a few other points will show, but it has as well as been decided to build the vessel of steel, and if this is done the change will affect only the scantling plans and not the general arrangement. The letting of the contract only awaits a settlement of the present disturbed labor situation and a return to somewhat lower prices for material, which are expected shortly. The steam heating arrangement of the vessel will extend to every room, so as to provide comfort in cold spring and fall days as well as in winter. On entering the large vestibule, or social hall, on the main deck tne passenger finds the purser's and clerk's office, and steward's and bill * REVIEW. [April 12, in' m occupies the space usually allotted to pilot house, but is Ha ecer'and Upasists of a parlor on the 'starboard side and bedroom on port side. These quarters are entered from the starboard side only, and are comfortably and suitably furnished--desk, sofa, lounge and easy chairs in the parlor and in the bedroom a bureau, washstand, wardrobe, d, etc. : = The pilot house and chart room are above and a little abaft the cap- tain's quarters, or just at the after edge of the bridge and on the for- ward end of the lifeboat deck. Being so well aloft, the pilot house is away from the deck on which the passengers congregate, and this precludes the possibility of shutting off the pilot's view ahead. He thus has a much better outlook and is free from the pernicious influences of flickering lights at night, often encountered when on the deck below. There are toilet rooms for ladies and gentlemen on the upper deck, in addition. to those on the deck below, and they are easily reached at all times, being: located in the trunk near the funnel and engine room skylight amidship.. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES. One very marked improvement over other vessels of the Goodrich line, or, in fact, over any on the lake', is the very complete (and some might think unnecessary) arrangements made on a large scale for life- saving appliances. On the boats' deck--named so because it is reserved for lifeboats and life rafts--are eight large lifeboats, built after the most approved regulations, which are always right side up. These boats have a capacity for 284 adults, and with two smaller boats for twelve per- sons each on the deck below, the capacity 1s increased to 308 persons. The smaller boats always hang on the davits for use in case of an acci- dent or emergency of any kind. In addition to this equipment there are six miodern life rafts built for thirty-five adults each, or a total of 210, Thus there are life boats and rafts of the finest kind for the care of 520 persons, and life jackets, floats, etc., are in addition provided for about twice that number. President A. W. Goodrich has spent considerable time and money during the past few years in investigations and experi- ments relative to the handling of life boats, the design and equipment of the same, and life-saving devices generally, and the Society of Naval NEW GOODRICH LINE PASSENGER STEAMER FOR LAKE MICHIGAN SERVIOE. clerk's office at the after side of the hall, with their quarters conveni- ently adjoining their offices, and on the fore side is the parcel or packag room. The smoking room and bar is reached from the vestibule by an easy stairway, as it is directly under the social hall. The bar, with its fixtures, will be equal in appointments to that of any first-class hiotel. On ascending the grand stairway the cabin deck is reached, on which are located seventy-six staterooms with 160 berths. On the fore part of this deck is an elegantly-finished dining saloon. A well-appointed pantry is immediately forward of the saloon, and directly under the pantry on the deck below is galley arranged and built too take care of a very large num- ber of passengers expeditiously and satisfactorily. On the after end of this deck is the ladies' cabin and music room, with large easy chairs and lounges comfortably and richly upholstered. Directly off this cabin and on the same deck are the ladies' retiring rooms, lavatories and large en- amel-finished bath room. 'These quarters will be finished in polished hardwood and marble and will tbe mirrored, efficiently lighted and well ventilated. Large rooms for four cabin maids and the clean linen room adjoining are built in the trunk near the engine room skylight amid- ship. The promenade deck above is reached by easy-grade, large stair- ways at the after and forward ends of the midship engine trunk, and at 'the top of those stairways are magnificently decorated vestibules lead- ing out onto a wide promenade all around the ship from stem to stern, about 75 per cent. of it being sheltered from rain or sun by the boats' deck overhead. UPPER DECK ARRANGEMENTS. On the promenade deck are fifty-two staterooms with 108 berths. Some of these staterooms are much larger than others. They are fur- nished as parlors for three or four people and are richly upholstered and harmoniously decorated. These rooms are all well lighted and ventilated, in fact provision has been made for daylight and fresh air in every state- room on the boat. The hallways leading to the staterooms on this deck are as wide as are to be found in most hotels and will be heavily carpeted. Writing desks with all materials for correspondence are to be found in quiet, convenient corners, and on the outside in various places on the promenade are ice water drinking fountains with silver cups. The a i ae a a sea Architects and Marine Engineers; of which he is an associate, has given the subject special consideration at recent meetings. All the life boats will be carried on steel davits, which, when released, fall outboard into po- sition for lowering the boats immediately. They are tackle-borne, thus avoiding the labor and waste of time spent in the old method of swing- ing the life boats around with the davits, one at a time and steadying and lashing them before lowering away. Among the fire protection appurtenances will be a system of pipes overhead on the main deck and in the hold. These pipes will have about 100 sprinklers attached to the main deck series and also to the hold series.. Each sprinkler has a radius of action of about 8 feet, and when the pumps are started and the controlling valves opened the entire main deck or the hold, together or separately, can be deluged in a few moments. The system of overhead piping is so arranged that water need not flow except in the place where fire is threatened or already exists. The main cabin and the promenade deck and upper works are protected from fire by hydrants that have hose all complete and attached ready for use by a drilled crew, and they will be able seamen, as no deckhands will be allowed on the passenger decks. Chemical fire extinguishers and hand pumps are located all over the vessel in handy places and always in view. The steamer lowa of the Goodrich line was the first vessel to be equipped with the sprinkling system installed. Nearly every vessel of the fleet now has it more or less complete, and it is periodically tested to see that it is in perfect working order. Every room on the new vessel will be furnished with one or more 16 candle power incandescent lamps, with a cluster of lights on brackets in each of the larger staterooms. There will be two large dynamos and engines operating a day and night circuit, consisting in the aggregate of 600 lights of 16 candle power each. There will be hot or. cold running water in every room at any hour of the day or night, which is one of the conveniences that will be much appreciated on this modern specimen of naval architecture. On the main deck and away from the passenger en- trance are located engineers' and oilers' rooms, and rooms for stoker bartenders, head waiter, porters; waiters, cabin watchmen, etc., and alt over counter of the stern are gentlemen's toilet rooms. Although there is quite a large passengers' valise and package room off the vestibule, there