| Show FLYING ACROSS THE ATLANTIC it looks as though naval architecture had abut reached tile the point boint beyond which humanity cannot go and im prove but ut of course courie the same thought occurred to others years ago occurred to tu almost everybody when amid the blare of trumpets the beati beating ng of drums and the shouting ng of a chap populace the great Easte eastern rim was baptized in british waters perhaps a dzen or even lees bees years hence we shall look back at our present sail asil ing craft and wonder how we ever got alo ng lag with them at all As to the leviathan spoken or of its creation was in a word an abortive attempt to beat the world merely g a cue case ot of vaulting ambition overleaping over leaping itself its hugeness was all there was of it and this proved to be so clumsy and ana tr imless a quantity gnat it did not deserve to count any more than a great circus tout tent does in comparison with a neat and cosy garden pavilion it Is truly said that there is a whole fleet of vessels Vessel fl in new york anyone of which for all the uses aud and purposes for which a ship is 18 built Is superior to the british mon ster riter but the latest contribution to the atlantic passenger service is not far behind it in size and is also ahead of any other in some respects she lame has just completed her first voyage and la n named a m d the campania she is feet 1 long 0 n gl 66 feet beam and develops hor horse se power as against by the great eastern but the white star line is completing a vessel that will greatly excel the campania in all material respects it to is to be named the gigantic will be feet long or about 12 feet more than the great eastern and it its engines will have power rated at corsel the steamer city ot of berlin a few years ago was the crack At lattio voyager now she is insufferably slow requiring eight days to make the trip the close of the fifth day now finds the greyhound 0 1 not far from port at once it must be there and moored by that time and then commences the process of chipping off fragments from the five day record and bringing it nearer and nearer to I 1 four until perhaps there will be no fraction of it remaining then what will we still be able to go on curtailing time or will a stagnation be followed perchance by a reaction no one can tell it is enough now to rate the city of berlin and its associates as back numbers altogether for vessels that beat beather her two days will by the cam m pania and gigantic be relegated to t the second class the former of these la Is set down for hut but a fraction over five days and the builders of the latter promise a trip from fastnet to sandy hook ook in hourel |
