| Show from the N Y evening post root march match ista THE S rory OF A GREAT FAILURE the ile unfortunate stockholders who we were re for thre or four years on the anxious beat seat about the be building of their monster steamship the great eastern easters and who for several years at el wards suffered still greater anxieties in the effort to make her pay her way are re now at their wits end to get rid of her when she was built she stuck on the ways and now hat that they want to sell her she sticks to their lanes lands even a raffling scheme will not carry her ler ier off there never was so conspicuous an instance cnstance of vaulting ambition 0 over v er leaping itself as this of our cousin jo john h n buis bulb buls great ship about ten 3 years sears ears ago a joint stock company applied to the british government for a subsidy to carry the british mails to the east indies this was refused but their engineer the he celebrated brunel offered to avoid the oh ejection ecklon by means of a monster ship he sketched a plan for a vessel which should carry passengers and coal elouth to make the whole voyage while she should have speed enough to make the passage almost as quick y as one orte can go by the overland route and of f C course 0 urse urbe at less expense and with infinitely less trouble troubie te granted that or even passengers could be regularly reg obtained for the outward and homeward taps the experiment promised to be successful when the day for launching came the monster ship stuck fast i upon the ways it cost the company as mu much ch to get her down I 1 L to the water as a common steamship cost to buird build on her trial trip one of her boilers burst and killed half a dozen of the crew soon after she was nearly wrecked 1 in holyhead Holy head harbor on her first voyage she broke her rudder and bad to spend some months on a gridiron to be repaired on her next she knocked a hole in tier bottom on montauk blon AIon point and had to 0 o be expensively repaired aired alred in flushing bay next she ran down a esel vesel in the irish channel and then her owners who had bad borrowed money till they were tired determined to sell her all this time she be has lost moner monel mone mono in her three vo out and back to the port she carried passengers ard earned in all but to run her cost all this and more her failure appears from all accounts given to have been more the result of thoroughly ably bad manil mansi management gement than any else she is acknowledged to be the grat vessel ever built she is as comfor comfortable in the seaway as other vessels she is dou doubtless atless as safe if not safer thlin thin any other passenger steamer afloat asiat had llad she been carefully managed she would have popular with passengers but from the beginning there have been serious faults of neglect in ili those wb who had the care of her the accommodations on board were not as good a according in to the reports of passengers as on other steamships the food was plentiful but poorly cooked the cabins were large but not sot comfortable sometimes not riot clean through some neglect of the officers it happened twice at feast least that the luggage I 1 ct cf he the p is engers or a considerable consider abe par part t of it was ground to pieces in the trunk yoom loom which was badly st at wed accordingly persons who bad made one passage in her did not care to repeat the experiment nor did they strongly advise their friends to go in her in other particulars her affairs were even more ply poorly conducted she was insured for so large a sum that the premium cost above twenty nine thousand dollars yet when she ran upon the rocks off montauk she had bad no re regular gillar cast pilot on board and the insurance companies refused to be held responsible for the cost of fit repairs she is now w to be boldin boidin sold in some forne way ata at a recent auction two hundred and ani fifty thousand dollars were bid tor for her herbut but therewa there was wab sare a re seive bid by the company of six hundred and fifty thou thousand and dollars so that no sale eale took place she is valued at twelve hundred thousand dollars |
