Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-06-27 | Page 16 | The Sailing of the Ships.

THE SAILING OF THE SHIPS The New York Times rimes noting the crush of people which always attends an nn outgoing steamship suggests suggests suggests sug sug- that reception rooms be prepared on the pier where the good-bys good can be spoken and that toward the hour of sailing no one be permitted to go on onboard onboard onboard board except those who are going to sail That brings to mind a curious phase of human nature There is something so fascinating about the sailing ot of ofa a great steamer that it has not failed to I draw a crowd every ery time a great steamship has sailed for the last half century People go to see friends off ostensibly but there are thousands that go merely merely mere mere- ly lj to see the ship off ofT for a great steamship is about the most majestic creation of man It is there chained to the pier but it has on board its ow own power which makes itself apparent by escaping steam The fact that it is a mass as big as the ark and that really the of two or three or four men are going to take it out to sea that things arc are so closely figured that they ther can tell almost to an au hour when they will reach port on the other side is the charm that draws men It is such a a. triumph of mind over l matter that men men never get satiated with watching it It is about the most splendid triumph of the last half century Tho The first little steamers were curiosities and men said How ITow splendid they are how great they are are and yet those steamships could no now be he put pitt on the hurricane hurri cane deck of a modern liner and not be much noticed That men can take a mass of or tons of steel loaded with rich freight and with hundred of human lives and just b by the ringing of a bell now and then thou direct it out of port and across the sea is isa isa s a triumph so splendid that it is not a wonder that it itis itis is a n perpetual attraction to the men on shore I