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Show A careless dispatch says the new steamship Cedric, just launched, will draw forty-nine and one-half one-half feet of water. Of course, that meant forty-nine forty-nine and one-half feet depth of hold from the main deck to the keel. Not many harbors could accommodate a ship drawing forty-nine feet of water. But speaking of the Cedric, which is to be of 21,000 tons, and with a carrying capacity of probably 25,000 tons, it can be seen at a glance the . struggle constantly being made to reduce ocean freight. The Cedric will burn no more coal than the Lucania half its size; it will not have any more numerous crew. It will have double the carrying capacity, and hence can profitably carry freight at half the figures of the flyer. And such a freight It would take on the tonnage of seventeen seven-teen railroad trains, each of thirty cars and each car loaded with fifty tons of freight. That would be in wheat more than 800,0000 bushels, of corn 900,000 bushels, of oats 1,550,000 bushels, that approximates ap-proximates the size of Noah's ark and will be a much better sea boat |