Show GERMAN SHIPS AND COMMERCE The Boston Globe is enthusiastic over the modern merchant steamer It I says they have no trial trips but go straight to business as soon as completed com-pleted and attract comparatively little lit-tle attention I cites the Deusch land and calls It a sea serpent of 1B C6C tons of steel And when we speak of sky scrapers on land here is an ocean sky scraper five stories high a floating city with an ordinary population popula-tion of 1097 souls Her plates If piled five feet high would make a wall seven miles long Her coal bunkers would supply t ely of 1697 inhabitants for two years She consumes while at sea 543 tons of coal a day She has an elcc trIo plant that would light a clly of 6000 Inhabitants and has over 100 auxiliary aux-iliary engines besides the Ihunderers that drive her through the water Her hire for labor alone for one round trip Is 10000 and 11 costs 750000 a year to run the ship The list of hen stores is a curiosity The stores for the trip on which she Is expected to demonstrate lhat she Is the fastest ship in the world consists of 2000 quarts of milk and cream 4000 pounds of butter 16000 pounds of fresh meat 2000 chickens and duck JQOO pounds fish 15000 eggs 80 barrels poialoes 75 barrels of lemons canned goodo and sailed meals without l limit COOO pounds hum and bacon 0100 pounds sugar 1500 pounds coffee for the cabin 2000 pounds coffee for tho crew 1848 quarts red wine liDO quarts of cqmmon brandy for the crew with 9000 bottles of wine for general use She Costs 3400000 She is more than n shlD she Is a notice to the commercial commer-cial nations that Germany Intends to tale her full share of the commerce of tho deep sea that she Intends to have finer ships than any other power that in her textile and design schools at home she Is preparing men and women to make finer goods than the other powers pow-ers make lhat she accepts the worlds competition and believes she can make headway against It I Is a pity that the United Stales has not ten Deutsch lands building to run n line from San Francisco and another from Seattle lo the Orient by the lima the great Siberian Si-berian road Is completed to Vladivostok |