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Show Life at Sea Is Uneventful. Life at sea is as uneventful as selling sell-ing groceries, according to Capt. F. J. Smith, who commands the Olympic the largest steamship in the world which reached port recently I!n doesn't find the romance or the thrill or the sustained excitement in his life's work that tellers of sea tales do. Of his forty odd years on the ccean he only remembers that the work was hard and the responsibilities great "1 have been fortunate, I suppose," h said. "1 have never been ia a wreck, I have never even seen a wreck, I have never seen but one ship in distress, and I have never had a serious accident to a ship under my command. Of course, there are storms and calms, fogs and bergs, but they are the incidents of every-day life on an ocean liner. My life has been com-! com-! pletely uneventful.' |