Show EVOLUTION OF tsie THE OCEAN G 0 ilow how the new vessels that are intended to break all 11 records for speed and splendor compare with the Als miserable erable little side paddle steamship of eighty years AGO strides of the tha shipbuilding ing art from triumph t to triam i co the of haval architecture has progressed reeA to tho the 10 of tho the present day new tork D dec e c 3 the th fal famous great eastern easter 11 in t th been days day might pnra parade do her SEO CEO foot length from deml to ocean and took look in vajo for or any signs 0 the wondering admiration that greeted elected her appearance when she was by far the bluest biggest ship afloat there are many vessels veel that approach in length very doss close to that of this the erst erstwhile title queen of 0 the sees edaa and among the trans atlantie beauties now bulling building find and shortly to be launched there is 13 one that surpasses manaea au her this Is the new white star oceanic c at present in course of construction in the nelfa belfast il shipyard the oce oceanic a file la all over feet eel in length and will wl I 1 a u c c e la in lowering the atlantic reco record to five da daiil her enormous nor mou engine will require not I 1 ices e as than tons toni of 0 coal a day and d her equipment will bo be the finest ever put into a steamship it Is doubtful however it if tho the oceanic vill continue long to hold the record as the finest vessel aloit so keen ts Is tho the desire for supremacy in shipbuilding anil and naval architecture lecture that no sooner la Is one marine beauty launched launch than orders nrc are alven on for the tb construct construction I 1 0 of 0 one that will her tho the story of nineteenth century shipbuilding from the time when the first ocean going vessel driven by tile tha savannah made ill the All atlantic almarill arill trip eighty years ago in the then remarkable time of 0 twenty six days la 14 one of 0 I 1 triumphant progress in tracing the evolution ot of the modern steamship from tho the ton savannah to the croat creat oceanic the ors en of progress reIts begins rans with the establishment or of the nest farst regular line of atlantic Atlant lc steamships when a cunard vessel made the voy feffe a ge from liverpool to boston in 1341 this pioneer in the v vast ait ocean lennie of today win was the tha britannia which was waa one of a leet fleet of tour four wooden with alth side ride wheels wheela the other three being byln nama named d the i the columbia and the Caled the appen appearance rance of the Inri tinnia in cotton boston anade m ale almost as on an as the great Fa eastern stern did liler later the side aldo wheela heel r made tho the trip in the unprecedented time of 14 days q hours H jr hr r measurements were feet in lenth len lm iti th p con 1151 tons tom c a of if cn gires NO enre power coal consumption thirty eight tons LOVS daily what a poor showing the mar mirano ino monster of 1 10 makes in comparison compa ilson with the splendid screw at adners of th ill same line today the Lucan Luell nia la and with their fret feet ot of I 1 densill of tons toni en alnes of 0 horsepower horse power mirld InakI making the atlantic voyage in six nix days with daae the cunard line held a prom prominent I 1 c t place in the early history of shipbuilding ing the quer queer old paddle v w hecl sit steam of this lint line doomed when in W isca the first cunard cunarro vestel vessel to be pro pc llad by a screw was put on in ID the shape ohapa of 0 the tb china a itcan cw tons uh D ci 0 twelve years later there 1 1 5 launched the th ORD bochnia Both nia and 1 I ScTt lii 6 1 I of 0 tong and vt 0 crossed the ocean in these jjr a dered how they ave ever hid ill ent th courm to make the trip in the lh i olde il ali aliel el affairs which elul no 0 once the nta nt a toon surpassed however or in li ik serla berila Re rila a 0 no the atlantic tho the enlie En rv lii l was a rm eldered a gigantic boat boat ann cnn then being aln p j feet act in length anil and Pon sagi of borse potter politer she made I a 00 run nin of 0 darn and eight hours houra tim popl people held up their hands un and W horror st fit such auch in I 1 hoerz tremendous speed aci on the th irl ft thin than came the th city at 0 romen rometo to 4 switch the pilm for size lz 1114 alt ym from froim the famous amoni Ser serela vla the th 1 a of roma hont was forty orty live nr inn oat him lo 10 than the tha serela Ser vla tons ton amila 4 and d most remarkable remark ablo thing thin of all to s same sha hr had three stacks with the tha appearance ot of lh ill city of beiran the rivalry far the ormin ocean record that hut hag haa lo bew 10 0 kept kepi im imons among atlantic the record wag wa reduced in to lo six days twenty two hours houra by 1 6 A kii ka of 0 th gunn line fine this fill remain i ter for a brood while the best amt urne unit na 1 d but alit hi records wr wore shattered in ayi 1 tv b n the b a U umbria bria hafl m ad e the th W im 1 oan p 5 6 aap 22 7 alnut ml nut s 1 the nw new Ocein lc win will seek to jo do its in i trip in the th estril time alm of 61 BT days day thum thou a paiiT ir nr to crome th ahr normn cn in lii time ilene thin hirvi croon this continent the th tm the th oceanic li is aner wt fl to ako will in place hr her mill fahid nd of the th nn in r wilh ll bor 0 it API nold phlp aphid of lift in i tons M font 1 nath and nia 60 enot b lam baut aut hufh la Is at present the th finest ant afloat |