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Show r . THE LEIII SUN. LEIII. UTAH i, . i They're Ready to Defend America's Coast Birthday' Celebration in Baltimore w m i i 1. r tm m svw. Recalls an Important Chapter in the History of American Transportation ul oft. PERSONALS EVERT WOMAN'S FRrEND Dr. Murray'l Hygienic Powder. Sample b mall. 10c (coin). Ml'RRAY MKU. CO.. tittfl Metro An., UOLLX WOOD, CALIF. 11.1 M " ws4if it PHOTOGRAPHY S Ma 1 imm data mq&hm twt Itwi i mi m fru m exctu. V J i xr ts- OHX 1NAHHOT1 Th, . a pnM M nOaanaiMkanm faimial, a na UM anrf amanwN Mm Ma.lM MM Mt NftM KG. SO Hi j-e II uO. 0MA s : A 7 I.- i. a, t" .j : . ' t' w v H ft c ick pa; f their 'raaati ' avails Idress suspg I from HI, scl is as lollier'J se ition that t J itipancii wayyoij Qrstad ird-jci havt'J youeai is mc: )u dori I -talk' food. It atta" iy, bci statu ick, ton Jl-Bra justttt kplad eCreetl lie, It a Q. ithyis; . I 1 F -v Vl il ' sapeake bay. ; was just 100 years ago the Georgia, the original ship of the company, rted on her maiden voy- from Baltimore to Nor land the line has operated ost continuously since t time. So, on the anni-sary anni-sary of the Georgia's first ?, Gov. Herbert R. O'Con- )f Maryland, accompanied Baltimore city officials the mayors and , city Mgers of three neighbor- cities in Virginia Nor-Newport Nor-Newport News and rtsmouth were driven vn to the Baltimore water- bt. tee they were greeted by women, dressed in the nines of a hundred years ago. mg them was an actor, wear-a wear-a high silk hat and a black coat and Dlavine the nart Cap'n Jim Coffee, skipper of HE SOUTH! k,kiinMiiiiuiuiiii..nH ... BAY tliwu! 99 i j-wifpi sundaya. Via BAY XLXIV2 r. Hprbert R. O'Conor, governor of Maryland, surrounded by a l( costumes of a century ago, cuts the 100th birthday cake of the By ELMO SCOTT WATSON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) ALTIMORE, MD., was recently the scene of a birthday celebration which had more than local significance J because it recalled the ea'rly days of an important nter in the history of American transportation. For it f - ..n,i f i T r i i 1 1 i j a ;rked the lUUtn anniversary oi me iounaing oi xne oiaest amboat line in the United States the Baltimore Steam ket company, better known as the Old Bay Line because s century of activity in the f friends or relatives in Virginia or the Carolinas could take a boat from Baltimore to Portsmouth and then continue their journey over the old Portsmouth and Wel-don Wel-don railroad southward. Steamboat's Early History. ' As a background for the significance signifi-cance of the anniversary which was celebrated in Baltimore it is necessary to go back to the beginning begin-ning of the Nineteenth century in America. Whether James Rum-sey, Rum-sey, John Fitch, Samuel Morey, Henry Miller Shreve or Robert Fulton was the "inventor" of the steamboat is still a matter of dispute among the historians. But the fact remains that Fulton's successful voyage on the Clermont Cler-mont up the Hudson in August, 1807, gave the first real impetus to this form of transportation. The next year a regular line of steamers between Albany and New York was established; within with-in the next year John Stevens had made the first coast-wise steamboat steam-boat voyage in America when he took his Phoenix from New York to Delaware Bay ; within the next five years a line was running on the Delaware, a steamboat had been built at Pittsburgh for service serv-ice on the Ohio and another, bearing bear-ing the picturesque name of Walk-in-the-Water, had been built near Buffalo to ply between that city and Detroit. In 1819 an American ship, the Savannah, became the first steam craft to cross the Atlantic, but this new form of water travel was a long time in coming into its own on the high seas. The Americans still clung to their fast-sailing packets and clipper ships. Steam Navigation Expands. However, when the English sent the Great Western and the Sirius across the Atlantic to America in 1838, the Americans began to wake up. The result was the rapid expansion of steam navigation nav-igation during the forties and fifties fif-ties with the Baltimore Steam Packet company as one of the pioneers along the Atlantic coast. In 1845 the Old Bay Line was operating three steamboats the Georgia, the Jewess and the Herald. Her-ald. It continued to add ships during the next decade and to enjoy great prosperity. Then came the outbreak of the War Between the States in which this line played an interesting and unusual un-usual role, its boats operating, as they did, between ports in hostile territory. Three ports were chiefly Confederate Con-federate ones. Norfolk was, of course, pro-Southern, as was Baltimore, Bal-timore, in sentiment, even though Maryland remained in the Union. The Old Bay Line was operating the Louisiana and the Adelaide on regular runs between these two points when the war started and the Union forces seized the latter boat at Fortress Monroe, forcing Cap'n Cannon to disembark disem-bark his passengers and the mail. Later the Adelaide was used as a transport attached to the joint Atlantic blockading squadron and, as such, she took part in the bombardment of Forts Hatteras and Clark on August 28 and 29, 1861. Some time before that the Federals Fed-erals captured Norfolk and notified noti-fied the company that it could not sail its vessels farther south ' jStea SEA-KAHD and ROAHOKI 1 1 Ik um, ft." !5 "-"-hE.TS" O.TIO.T,,,'""l- i hw.ih..MiJ: U . JIV". f mi tsitHiSiF " fc.'Hn.L, 1 1 -,--77 K. nih w PAr,r: oads fpvi ouumern Ca jrhoto co?rtesy Legh PacS'?"1, Balti" raclet company.) who wel- ? :mS ba?" Star?- v., ..e fact that Mirlr. ancles, on hnfH enc thf Uess race of h hA ..at a. when rn. Tlrimen- aa i e rapidly be- ished to vit bevy of Baltimore beauties dressed via Bay Line. than Old Point Comfort. However, it maintained a daily service with the Louisiana and the Geor-geanna," Geor-geanna," the line's first iron-clad vessel, between Baltimore and Old Point throughout the war. The Union navy yard at Portsmouth, Ports-mouth, being close to territory held by the Confederates, was in constant danger of being captured cap-tured so the Federal government decided to give it up. All of the vessels in this important naval depot were burned or scuttled. One of them was destined to have a thrilling history. She was the Merrimac which was sunk. Later she was raised by the Confederates, Confed-erates, rebuilt as an ironclad, renamed re-named the Virginia and sent out to attack the Northern ships in Hampton Roads. Historic Naval Battle. The result was the engagement between the Monitor and the Virginia Vir-ginia (or Merrimac) on March 9. 1862. which changed the course , . . P.-.v.w .... mA.-.'...'.......'.-: -- -ji----.f-:.-r. v.v .-.-.-j Capt. James Cannon, master of the Old Bay Line steamboats from 1840 to 1868. (Courtesy Old Bay Line). of naval history. Among the shipping ship-ping which was at Old Point Comfort Com-fort on that day and which saw that engagement was a new boat which the Old Bay Line had recently re-cently purchased, the Thomas A. Morgan, an iron sidewheeler, 192 feet long, which had been used as an official mail boat between Fortress Monroe and Yorktown. Later, when the Union forces evacuated Norfolk and Portsmouth, Ports-mouth, one of the Old Bay Line's ships, the William Selden, was captured and burned by the Confederates. Con-federates. Other losses suffered during the war seriously handicapped handi-capped the line's operations but it managed to survive. It resumed its regular runs and ordered new boats, such as the Thomas Kelso and the Eolus. Incidentally, In-cidentally, the first time the name "Old Bay Line" was applied to this company was just after the close of the war, on July 24, 1865, when an advertisement in the Baltimore Sun stated that "the old established Bay Line is operating op-erating daily the steamers Louisiana, Lou-isiana, Georgeanna, Adelaide and Thomas Kelso from Baltimore to Norfolk with connection at Fort Monroe for James River landings land-ings and Richmond." By 1870 the company was again prosperous and had placed in service its first screw steamer, the Transit, which was used only for freight. Since that time, the Old Bay, like the steamboat lines in other parts of the country, has played an important part in building up sparsely settled regions and fos- terinff the economic ana social development there. But to this line belongs the distinction of 100 years of continued operation and service, a notable accomplishment accomplish-ment in any enterprise in a nation na-tion which itself is only 164 yean old. 1 te .- ' An&W J. Mannins: coast defense runs u-ni k Af th i oT the United States. Members of the 207th coast artillery of New York are shown receives instructions in their duties. A number of regiments of the National Guard, particularly along the Atlantio seaboard, are being transformed into coast artillerv units. Thpv uiii h m - " m.v iu a.BJv n,iA..na tviiiiu iivm sillier tUC BCa or the air. Regular army coast defense units are likewise being expanded. England Moves German Prisoners to Canada 1KJ1 IT&TTSr 1 : S i ) r ill? v rx. "tip- frfeVT4T- I Ikix m r Hv'K-"?t l 'III i 5i - Jrtai The Germans have landed In Canada, as this photo shows. But they came as prisoners of war and not as conquerors. The above detachment are shown marching through train sheds in Quebec, on their wav to Canadian prison camps. Canada was regarded as an extremely safe place for these prisoners because they are all specialists, including air pilots, parachutists and navy men. Originally imprisoned In England, they were moved to prevent danger during Hitler's attack on England. Willkies Look Over Their Fan Mail r r Mr .4 Z'- " 1 v. jf-J Mr. and Mrs. Wendell L. Willkie are shown at work on a laundry basket full of congratulatory letters and telegrams. While the avalanche of messages mes-sages that followed Willkie's nomination for the Presidency at Philadelphia tapered off somewhat, they continued to receive hundreds of letters every day from all parts of the country. The Republican nominee took a short vacation before opening his drive for the Presidency. Sonja and Husband on Honeymoon J. :.J. s t Refugee Princess Princess von Starhcmberg, wife of the former vice chancellor of Austria, is shown with her son, John. The princess, a refugee from her Nazi-ruled native land, is in America Amer-ica pleading the cause of refugees seeking a haven here. French Fighter V 1 y X Sonja Henle, skating star and a favorite among movie fans, is pictured pic-tured here with her husband, Daniel Reed Topping, whom she married recently In Chicago. Topping, millionaire sportsman. Is president of the Brooklyn Dodgers football team. This Is Sonja's first venture in matrimony. mat-rimony. It is her husband's third. She Is 27 and he Is 28. 4 Gen. Charles de Gaulle, undersecretary under-secretary of war in Panl Reynand's cabinet, who heads a French war committee in London to continue the war against Germany. He has Jurisdiction Juris-diction over all French citizens in England. An Old Washstand Becomes a Sideboard By RUTH WYETII SPEARS CO MANY of you have written me letters of appreciation about the new SEWING BOOK 5 that I want to thank you all here at one time. In Book 1 is sketched and described methods of making slip covers, curtains, bedspreads, dressing tables and other things for the house. Next came Book 2 with gifts, novelties and a glossary of embroidery stitches. Then, in Book 3, I began to share with you YfclLOW (THUMB TACKS HOLD TOP HN6rt tKIU. AND SKIRT OR4.KI0E Off ATES or Boxes: rfK-t. i vti I nw T j? I u some of the human interest side of this fascinating job of mine, and to tell you about the adventures adven-tures of many clever women who make the things that they want for their homes sometimes from almost nothing. There were more of these adventures In Book 4, and there are still more in Book 5. There is nothing that pleases me so much as when you tell me that my sketches are so clear that you can see at a glance how to make things. I am glad that everything needed is In' today's sketch about this remodeled washstand because be-cause I have used up all my space now; and the frill around the top shelf is five inches deep. Books are 10 cents each. Send order to: MRS. RUTH WYETII SPEARS Drawer 10 Bedford IIIUi New York Enclose 10 cent for eacb book ordered. Nam Address INDIGESTION may Hect I ha Heart Gas trapped in tha ftonwh or frullet mar H I1ki hair-triKuer o i tha heart. At tha I irttt ain of diKtreaa mart men ar d wumtn depend on HeU-aiia TatiUta to et iraa frf. No laxative but miute of tha fuit(t-ar-Hnir mtMlii Inea known for arid iniliKrahon. If tha FIKST UOWB doann't prova Hi ll-ana brtUr return bottia la u mod rweiva OoUliLE Uowy Hack. Sio. By Way of Disagreement Agreement exists in disagreement. disagree-ment. Lucan. IF Salt Lake's NEWEST HOTEL Ji V- 1 '1, t 1 t ft Hotel TEMPLE SQUARE ppoiitt Mormon Tunple BIGIILT EECOMMENDED Rates $150 to $3)0 It's a nark of distinction to stop f this beautiful hostelry ERNEST C KOSSITEB. Mm. 'AH the Traffic Would Bear' There was a time in America when there were no set prices. Each merchant charged what he thought "the traffic would bear." Advertising came to the rescue of the consumer. It led the way to the established estab-lished prices you pay when you buy anything today. |