Show SAILOR S pt plain n C. C H. H Palmer who AVIO was wae first officer officerS j 0 st steamer amer Great Groat Eastern when she sho laid the tho S nd c cable ble i is waiting at Shanghai China for forS S joJi from the Chinte custom service in S i has lIas been engage engaged thirty thirty-ouo years He lie Hethe bou the Great Eastorn t to the th China Press S SS a H S t e Avas ivas vas about six times tho the sizo size of any of ships of her day daJ and ird seven seven times a as large huge lunard steamers of the same date She had 11 CS the steam power of the tho largest of the J steamers and and and could carry twenty t times mes anY passengers erH with coal for forty days days' con con- I ij Her tonnage was j t tons bus ns and HJ-d. HJ she shet t o. l largest argest ship hip in in the world until the Adriatic S i Tons the the largest White Star liner until th the the Ol and th than the most 41 Olympic and larger large 11 r uJ battleship yet in commission the tho Ner Nep- Sho he had accommodations Jor for four thousand sand 4 is S rid JIo Great East Eastern rn was Avas feet long and amI 63 83 3 earn jeam am She had a ser w propeller er and paddle combined and her designer had an idea Ji JIO could be made profitable on the tho route 1 to Australia b by bj- way Avay of f Cal Cape e of oft t nope But her hei full steam Avas only S tise t I IS S It l the Great Eastern vas AVOS never llover a good s sailor success 8 as either ither 3 a freight or a passenger 1 gr r r. r She Sue had a fashion of tumbling and rolli roll- roll it- it i torm which was Avas not ot agreeable to those t Finally she was Avas used to lay Atlantic S. S Jl fr S Jil and then fhe he inspired inspire ones said that ion that caused her to be bo built was Avas S lU r S ht lay Atlantic Ian ie c cables bles' bles It was Avas as a dis- dis l 1 b after affer the fact But in WF 4 1 ci u days ys smaller t ships are used t to ni more e nisi JIl Jn laying and repairing dee deep sea sea seaby Ji is' is b by some means it can be e ascer- ascer T S. S the tHo office c on either cither shore just where the sn t tKo ho cable is The small small ship goes there both ends cuds of the cable and unites them thel if lp unites fops the ca cable le back in into o tho the sea and nd in In la lay lay- long cable two ships take equal amounts of S and proceed d fro from n neach each shore e to S Doable c I. I until they meet mett where the ends arc are l- l the tho flags lire lire e dipped in salute I a agun gun or 01 two 4 iid U with all all the pomp and amid c circumstance of Q t discipline t c is de li rb S I tain Palmer Pulmer has ha had an eventful Yh a boy of fourteen lie ILO io was was one of S S sailors ail rs rs' sent ashore for foi supplies supplies- cs 5 for the theS S t ore at Melbourne h in 1852 S S ush h was IS on at the tle ti tune time and ancl the other S saying We Y e arc off f for the digS dig- dig ind left the boy bor to tu scull the tho boat three i ck k to the ship S S W ou 4 so th the Trent when Mason Iason and Slid Slidell n g f r te envoys envoys' were vere taken off by Captain CaptainS S jn Inthe the Saji J Jacinto acinto lie was on on a transport lt 1 troops troop to the Crimean w war r and Ind took a lyuber Juber of wounded in char charge e of Florence of-Florence f S pIe lc to the Smyrna Ii hospital Jung ing of or big ships McKay IcKa th the great ship f Boston built the Great Republic It Itt t I fc ed b by the English government in the war V r to carry carly troops troops' and war v ar n munitions p from PI Plymouth England to Constanti- Constanti k 4 was vas the time greatest sail sail ship l ip ever vel vei built date An English war vat steamer was sent S the vessel which was loaded loade with withA S s A ml regiment of sol soldiers soldiers' rs' rs and anda d a heavy S Stores tores When the ship got got well to sea S to p-to td put on sail the sf steamer had to signal fj f take fake in sail sail sail-it it could not keep up with h n she reached Constantinople she towi tow- tow k i- i every vory cr craft ft that had ever been in n that t n n. old Turk a asked l ed if it was an in English ul td he was told that it was an an American n S 1 i. ie took Ii-took e took ook a lon long look anc and anc then Said aid A Amer Amere e s be a mighty bi big country That was in into to L days day's of AlU American liean shipping There ThereS S Old t urk T nor barbarian nor civilized i man in i f part of th world who because of i r an n shipping now now- thinks America a iJ is a mighty might country The fhe glory has p passed a away va |