Show the great eastern as a show ship tho last days of tho great eastern were certainly sad considering the pur pose for which she was designed a nd the great work she did in cable laying for some time before she was broken up on the mud of the eivar mersey near liverpool she was on view as a show ship one firm of liverpool cloth aers hired her for a season and in addition to using her for its advertising purposes made use of her for catch penny shows in the largo cable tank a circus was fitted up and performances given at so inuos a head while other exhibitions of the coney island type spread all over her deck now york sun |