Show I Gas Engines for far Freight Steamers in Orient liB 1111 battle for tor trade on tho lie C high seas SenA i It is n a ono one In the Far Kant Edict 1 especially the prices obtained small for Cor ocean freight are arc extremely Out there lucre the competition la its decidedly Ilee mixed even cn the tho antique Chinese Junks mill stihi calling regularly nt at potts port for tor heavy henvy I loathe londs of ot While slow Blow llo they the can fill Ull the of ot big shippers of o what 1 It is called slow freight So Ho owners all nil over aver the tho world new mw sub substitute substitute are arc over even on the tile lookout for tor some tome In present pre nt methods of ot handling their vesSelS vessel vell cl that will reduce the price of ot coal crol and get t the mamo power results A number of ot Inventions have been made modo that have Ille helped increase o the coal conI efficiency In stilt tho the but these big bl tramp expenses were very large This refers r particularly to tramp ere enc trading In tho the Orient where tile the cOSt of ot fuel Cuel has risen tO so o very nry high In the past JUlit year tr that the big steamers hILO havO Increased cent on nil all boats boat and the tha fares nr ares K 10 It per cost of ot handlIng bundling freight has gone gono up In proportion motIve Io for tor cargo steam Gnu Gas ns JlII u a mot power number of ot Union times but hut en ens er teas has been tried clod n a the latest experiment has hots made with nn an old British gunboat Tho The ship chili Is anti so 80 n C very cr sma con tons In weight Vel Jh t corn She made matle n a distance of ot M 11 miles at nl ata a n of ot 10 knotS knot nn an hour drIven by gas cd by tho machinery which I had been Installed on her herThe The Tho saving j in space IB is l tremendous which counts for tor much on board a freighter There Is III no stokehold Tho The entire staff taa necessary Is only three engineers and two firemen The gas gns producer Is extremely simple being only n a 61 01 cosing canIo lined with firebricks The fuel tuel In is fed ted Irons from the tho top aud and only requires attention 24 times during nn an entire day tiny and night Also tho the coal la lie l practically nil consumed under tho the action of oC the plant nod and all of ot the tremendous t waste encountered at this point In ordinary ma machinery machinery chinery In is eliminated tet Tho The of ot labor In the gas s engines Is large Tho gnu gas ls 14 lit formed by air being drawn Into the tbt consumer In ire the bottom After the gas gnK Is IB mode made It must bo be passed through n a cooler and several cleansIng processes but machinery requires no attention and In Is simple and gets gate oat of ot order Infrequently After Atter being cooled and nOlI dried and scrubbed tho the gas gns la lI sent along to tho ho combustion chambers of 01 tho the en engino Kino gino |