Show A NOVEL OCEAN RACE tho steamers fire vp till the draft alloo ucla in tona of coal in these days of ocean racing the speeding is nearly always done against lime but there was a battle royal ended a few weeks ago between the american steamships prince and muriel says the cardiff mail that would have started the of on the most collected of camen the prince left dem arara on november 17 and bogged jogged leisurely away on her journey northward three days later alie muriel set sail for barbadoes and journeyed in the same direction both vessels were about abreast at this time but separated by a wide patch of ocean three days later however they narrowed the angles of their courses down to the apex and when they were in of each other it was pull devil pall baker for alie lead down in their vessels liolis their engines banged and rattled in countless revolutions twisting their screws as they were never twisted before and out of the mouths of their smokestacks smoke stacks came inky clouds neck and neck they ame tame t up the coast and every man jack aboard in the parlance of the ea rooted hard for victory in the stokehold toke hold according to one of the firemen they have to shovel in coal they just opened the furnace doors and the draft licked in tons at a time for seven days they w ere in ight of each other and the muriel with a magnificent burst of speed crawled up on her rival and then quickly I 1 ran out of eight |