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Show BIG STEAMERS TO LEAVE NEW YORK TODAY AS USUAL X?:W VOKK, Feb. 9. Agonts of the hiu ttcatn?hi;i lines sailing t'r-'.ni t)', jiort noThinjj 'i Tu-'!;.n;a:ioii ( the Gcruiarj sta. a zoue to cauio any change iu plans for the transportation ; of either passengers or freight, they in- i clicated today. The outgoing liners tomorrow to-morrow will take on more passengers and freight than have Jcft port on a single diiy in months, it is said. The jNieuw Amsterdam, largest of the Holland-American line's fleet, will sail for .Rotterdam at noou. She will carry InO first cabin, 1 second cabin and seveuty-t'ive steerage passengers. Following her will be the Veendyh, loaded with a half million-dollar cargo consigned to the Dutch government. The Vecndyk will carry grain, general merchandise and foodstufis. Both vessels ves-sels have their names painted in four-foot four-foot letters along their sides, as well ,as the name of Rotterdam, their hailing port. The letters are in light blue. At1 night electric lights will be strung over the sides so that a passing war craft con identify them. Paul Kaguet, the agent of the French line, said today that the company 's steamships would continue to go to Havre, as no order to the contrary had been received from the home office in France. He added that he saw nothing in the present situation to rauin the slightest anxiety to passengers sailing tomorrow on the Roehambcau. The American line steamer St. Louis will leave for Liverpool with "0 cabin and 2 ."SO third-class passengers, and the new Anchor line steamer Tuseania will leave for Glasgow on her maiden eastward east-ward trip with 210 passengers. |