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A NICE COMPLIMENT,r-nn11)-itTho Immense Now Steamer Ldunolied at Tib-nron Is Christened H Ukiah,”8e11yDi3JiAbout 5 o’clock Saturday evening the following telegram was received here: .~ San Francisco, May 17, 1890, Judge McGdrvey—Please say to tlic good people of your city that wo have decided to christen the now ferry stunner ‘‘Ukiah. She will be launched at 10:30 to-night. While we will sprinkle the how with a liberal quantity of chnmpngue, we ahull hold some in reserve to drink to the prosperity of your eity and the success of this connecting link with the metropolis of the Coast. The capacity is greater than any steamer on the Hay, hot we hope and expect the tratlic from your county will increase until it will require many trips each day to carry your people and the products of your valley. Remarks are ill order..J. F. litmqiN,• II, 0, WHIT!NO.The announcement that the new steamer would be named Ukiuh was a complete surprise to our citizens, us no intimation of such a compliment to our city had ever been hinted. Tho surprise was a. most delightful one and our peoplo appreciate it very highly. Shortly after ttie receipt of the nows the following response was telegraphed to Presid* nt Burgin and General Manager Whiting, of tho S. F. N. P. K. It. :Uriah, May 17,1890.To .7. F. liurgin and If. C. Whiting, Fan Pra:i~ etneo—Uklah in the Emerald Valley sends greeting to her namesake or, the bay. Wo accept the compliment of the christening with feelings of gratitude niql appreciation. May the magnificent proportions, and beautiful, stately appenr-aneo of the boat be u prophetic emblem of the coming size and beauty of our city:--Ukiah, the largest boat on the Ray, and Ukiah, the largest city on the line of the 8. F. N, P. R'y. We pledge-onr county to nobly respond to the splendid enterprise of your Company.Citizens of Uriah.The name of the liew steamer plainly ehows that the kind feeling entertained toward Ukiah by the late Col. J. M. Donahue, to whom our city owes much of ItH present prosperity, is still retained by the management of the railroad, We know that t!i© sentiment of every resident of our city is voiced when we extend to this management our heartfelt thanks for the j magnificent compliment paid us, and our sincerest wish is that the sweet smilo of good fortune may ever beam upon Ukiah, the “Gem of the Coast Range,” and her beautiful namesake on the water.The following account of the launchingof the Ukiah is taken front Sunday's Examiner;The now and elegant ferry boat Ukiah was launched at 10:43 o'clock last night at the Tib-wrou yards iu the presence of about 800 people. .The tug /Etna left Ynllcjo-strcet v hurf at 9 o'clock, having on board n number of invited guests, amlarrived ntTiburou at 9:15. A special train brought a large number of people from Sub Rafael.The shipyards were lighted by bonfires and torches. The blocks were knocked away, and as the cradle containing the steamer commenced to gracefully slide down the ways, Miss Olive Maguire, a cousin of the late Colonel Mervyn Donahue, stood in the stern and broke a bottle of champagne on the rail, exclaiming in a clear voice,I CHIUSTCN THEE UKIAH.Not it sound was heard until tho vessel struck the water and the launch was most successful. The tug .Etna towed her to the Donahue slip, where she will remain until Tuesday, when she will be moved to Mai it-street wharf to receive her machinery, now being constructed-nt the Fulton Iron Works.The Ukiah was built for the San Francisco North Pacific Railway Company, and will be used for passenger and freight traflie between Ban Francisco and Tiburon. She will be the finest ferry boat on the hay. She is over 200 feet over all, beam 78 feet, depth lfiitf feet. She willhave a 1700 horse-powcr engine, 65 inch cylinder, and 12 foot.stroke. There will be room for sixteen freight cars and accommodation fur 6.000 passengers. The cost is about $130,000, aud no expense has been spared to make the vessel first-class in every particular. The steamer will be driven by a beam engine sixty-five Inches In diameter and u twelve-foot stroke. The wheel:, are twenty-seven and one-half feet in diameter, with twenty-four buckets in each wheel, each bucket being eighteen inches in breadth by twelve feet six inches in length.She will have the finest pair of steel boilers ever constructed in this State. They are 25 feet long by 11^ feet in diameter of shell. The toilers will be entitled to have a working pressure of 60 pounds to the square inch, and they Weigh 70 toua each. There will be electric lights throughout, with steam steering gear, and four cabins on the main deck, similar to the Now A ork ferry boats. One side will be exclusively for ladies. Sixty men have been employed on t to hull, the keel having been laid in the middle of last Octobet. It is expected that the Ukiuh will make her first trip about the beginning of August.
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Mendocino Dispatch Democrat
Ukiah, California, US
Fri, May 23, 1890
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