Show A CORRESPONDENT in the city who states that he has sailed on the great steamships plying between San Francisco and China and that he was on one of them when her shaft was broken and that the shaft was repaired at sea in two days and that the ship steamed her voyage voy-age out afterward wants to know why such was not the case with the Anchoria Our correspondent evidently sailed on the great steamships referred to as a passenger or he would know that no steamship at any time employed on the line he speaks of ever had a shatt broken On two occasions steamers steam-ers of the P M S S Co had their crankpins and shaftcranks broken and as these parts are always kept in duplicate on board the ships they were replaced after hard labor and long delay I No ship ever carries a duplicate section of her shaft proper and no man could well fit it if she did The Anchoria broke the after or hinder section of her shaft which lies in the thrustbear ing or last bearing aft and is covered by an iron shield or shaft alley and therefore could not be moved without moving the cargo and cutting out the I shaft alley |