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Show HIGH SPEED SHIPS WANTED Jlapid Transit In Ocean T-avel Is the ,, Popular Demand of tha Day. Among the advantages claimed for the Increasingly popular passenger ships of largo size aud moderate speed should bo mentioned the fatt that many of them are showln? In regular ser.ice a rate of gpeod which la fully 'ns high as that which they' maintained on their trials In smooth water, states the Scientific American. Moreover, because of their great weight and momentum and their moderate mod-erate speed they are not so greatly affected af-fected by adverse weather conditions v as the faster ships and their coming and going la marked by great regularity regulari-ty and a close adherence to the sailing echodule. If a 23-knot ship runs Into n heavy " head sea It must make a much great er reduction In Its speed than Is necessary nec-essary In a vessel of say 15 to 17 knots speed; and, consequently It will bo more llablo to miss a tide and suffer a night's detention, say nt Quarantine, New York, than a ship of the idower typo. As showing how the big vessels ves-sels of the Intermediate type are running run-ning well up to their trhl speeds, we may take the case of the Amcrlka, which In a recent passage from Cher-bourg Cher-bourg to Sandy Hook of .1,140 miles maintained an aerage speed of 17.31 v miles an hour, while on Its preceding easterly passage It tovcr-d a distance of 3,088 miles In seven days, six hours , . 'And 24 minutes, which works out as an 3j average speed of 17.71 miles an hour. The hlgh-speol liner, however. Is not In any danger of being forced out of the field by Its slower slstors, as witness wit-ness the fact that the North 'Gorman Lloyd has under construction n twin ship to the 23',4-knot Kaiser Wllhclm der Crosse, and that the Cunard rom- pany will shortly put a pair of 24 U to 25 knot vessels In service. So rapid Is the Increase In the number num-ber of those who can afford to pay the highest rates for Atlantic travel and so great is the demand for rapid tran-' tran-' sit on the part of those to whom time Is an object that we look to see a Hm-ltod Hm-ltod number of 25-knot vesseb built , from time to time for the Atlnnllr ser vice. The majority of the trans-Atlantic liners of the future, however, will undoubtedly be of tbo Ar"rlka and the Baltic type, for not only are these the shlfls upon which the- companies com-panies depend for tho greater part of their rovenuos but because of their steadiness, absence of vibration and the more lengthy so.i trip which they afford, they are becoming Increasingly popular with the traveling public. |