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10 THE MARINE REVIEW A STATEROOM ON THE CITY OF ANNAPOLIS fitted with sash with polychrome lead- ed glass. Opening off the smoking room on gallery deck is the wireless room, barber shop and a commodious bar. There is also a "Steiff" piano in lobby on this deck. The chief -en- gineer and assistant engineers have large rooms on main deck aft of freight space and alongside smoking room. " There are four staterooms with two berths and showers, 90 staterooms hav- ing two metal berths, seven bedrooms with brass beds, five of which have showers, nine bedrooms with brass beds and private baths' communicat- ing, seven staterooms with two metal berths and private bath communicat- ing, total of 117 staterooms. All state- rooms are fitted with independent heat and running water. The outboard staterooms and bedrooms are _ fitted with inter-communicating telephones and the inside rooms with return call bells. Telephones are also fitted in president's room, purser's office, bar, wireless room, dining room, captain's room, chief engineer's room and en- gine room. The spaces on lower deck forward and aft are divided into quarters for first and _ second-class men and women; aft on main deck is ladies' cabin. The pilot house is large and roomy and is finished in oak and has all necessary mechanical telegraphs and speaking tubes to engine room, also McNab and running light indicators. The floors of dining saloon, lobby, smoking rooms, toilets and treads of all stairs are covered with interlock- ing rubber tiling. The saloons are carpeted and all staterooms except those with showers are carpeted. The bedrooms with showers are fitted with hard wood floors and rugs. The vessels are fitted with steam windlass, steam steering engines and steam elevator engines. In addition to steam steering gear there 1s an auxiliary hand gear located on saloon deck aft. The vessels are well lighted through- out by means of bracket fixtures and clusters on newel posts of all the principal stairways, current being de- rived from turbine-driven generators. The baths and showers are fitted for both hot and cold fresh and salt wa- January, 1914 ter. Water heated by a steam heater in engine room. The main engine is of the four- cylinder, triple-expansion, surface con- densing type, having cylinders 23, 38 and two 45 in. diameter by 36-in. stroke. The cylinders are arranged with one low pressure at forward end and one low pressure at after end of engine, and are supported at front by round wrought steel columns and at back by east.aron: "¥" columns. oUhe back columns are fitted with cross- head guides of the hollow bar type. Connecting rods have brass boxes top - and bottom with gib and key connec- tions. The Main Engine The crank shaft is of the built-up type in' two pieces. The bed plate is of cast iron having four short and two long main bearings, bearings con- sisting of two brass boxes held in place by wrought steel binders and steel bolts. The valve gear is of the "Stevenson Link" type with a steam ram reverse engine located at back of main engine. A one-cylinder steam turning engine is located on after side of after low pressure back col- umn and operates through worm and gearing on crank shaft. A main air pump 22 in. diameter by 13-in. stroke and two bilge pumps, each 5 in. diam- eter by 13-in. stroke, are driven by levers and links from after low pres- sure crosshead. As these boats operate on a night schedule it is essential that the engine be as nearly balanced as possible. This was done by a system of equalizing the moving weights. In regular ser- vice it was found that the engines SMOKING ROOM, MAIN DECK, STEAMER CITY OF ANNAPOLIS