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Show FUNERAL CEREMONIES HELD FOR OLD BOAT OAKLAND. Cel., June 10 (By U. P.) It waa a funeral, but everybody waa happy. The forp.o waa the ancient prchta-torlo prchta-torlo ferryboat Canlcn City, built either h few ycara before, or a f-w ycura after Murahall discovered aokl In Callfnrnlathe muaty records are very dim aa to tlie exact date. The fiarden City, which haa been I doing llaht duty aa an auto ferryboat acron the bay of recent yeara. waa put on the paaaenaer run by tha Kouth-i Kouth-i ern I'ai'tftc a number of months ago, when the ferryhot Piedmont waa put out of commtaelon. When the day came for taking tha Garden f'ltv off the paaaenger run the regular ommutera on the boat were ao happy that they decided to hold a funeral uh a aurprlae. They boarded the (tarrien Cltv bearing an exact miniature min-iature of the old tub and then, while the boat meandered acroas tha bay, they paraded about In mourning, and I finally consigned tha replica of tha old veaael to the briny watera of tha bay. The corpae refuses to do likewise, however, and had been put back on I the 'apeedy- work of transporting autns from ona side of the bay to the I other, while the Piednwnt Is back on 1 Its r golar run. |