Show I GREAT SHIPS The contemplating anew a anew anew new ship Mr Booth the tho chairman of oC the tho Cunard Clinard Steamship company said at a recent meeting of tho the shareholders that In his judg judgment judgment ment meat the feature of the tho New York trade lay In with wilh the tho or ton combined passenger and cargo boat He spoke from the experience gained from the and Man re tania each of ot them nearly tons These ships have havo been so BO that a n ship shin still larger lar or is to he be built to share the New Now York service with them though it Is not expected that the now ship will have the speed sliced of either of the old ones And the Whites white Star tine line Is building four monster mon ships exceeding In lit size alze the present Cu ardors Two of them are aro well under way the Olympic and the Titanic each of or which Is to lo be bo beabout about tons ton The rhe Olympic willbe will willbe willbe be launched In October and the Ti frio Titanic tanie is expected to be ready not long after A third vessel ossel of the tho or order order der Is that thal which tho the can line is to build in Germany German Neith Neither Neither er er the White Star boats nor the Ger German German German man ships will have very vcr high speed probably not to exceed twenty knots We e have havo often stated BUlted that the tile got gov government go advanced O to the Cunard company compan to build buill its two great ships It seems now says cays the thc Tele Telegram Telegram Telegram gram that the sum aunt of in instead Instead instead stead of or was advanced which suggests an of not less than G on each vessel The rho While Star boats aro are expected to cost the same tho too reduced speed low lowering lowthe ering erlnA the cost That reads all right rihl but what vhal har liar harbors harbors bors are arc that kind of or ships going to enter The and I now draw about aboul feet each ea h hand and they thc have haye only about two foot feet of water ater under their keels wen w when en they the enter New York harbor They The might run to Newport News or to Newport R I but we know no other othor ports on tho too Atlantic side that could receive I them themAs themAs themAs As things are progressing tho the only limitation there will be on ships after n a little more will be the difficulty of or finding harbors which they the can enter Then there is another question ships chips as costly as they are have bave to be kept t going to pay any an Interest on their cost cast Neither remains in ill port more moro than three or four days How Now aro are they going to load ono one of those ships I In that time lime Of Or course they thoy have a dozen hatchways and they thoy thO have steam lean hoists on the boats and wharves but tons ions of freight to lower into a ship and to stow It so It will rat not endanger the ship by b nil all shifting to toone toone toone one side when whon the tho ship rolls foils Is a great feat Up in tho the Lake Lako Superior country countr they thoy tho load loud or tons tont of iron ore In a short time but that is easy they thc simply have havo chutes from cribs on shore share and thor than discharge the iron I I I ore o re tram rom arose cribs through a flume or pipe into the ship But nut there is s sno no stowing away awny In that case they s simply imply nil fill the ship with iron and thoro there it Il Is fa But a n mixed cargo in incases incases cases and cans and boxes and barrels bar barrels cannot be bc loaded that thal way and then after It Il is In too the ship It has hns to lo bo be placed and lashed However they evidently know what they thc are arc shout about and have their owns means of o doing that hat t kind hind of work But Dul what whal a change in fifty years Yes in thirty yens years for that matter Thirty years ago aSo a steamer steam or was the exception In the old Call Cali California forma fornia days das they the used to ads advertise the steamers The Tho advertisements are fled fied In iu something like this The Tho magnificent steamship Golden Grate Gate with double oscillating engines of WOO tons burden will sail aril on the The Golden Gato Cato did have hao double engines hut hero register was exactly 2167 tins t and md she was WM a great ship In those days and she sll fre fro frequently frequently I brought brol ht Into San Francisco 1601 passengers It t was a little un uncomfortable comfortable all 11 the way ny up from Panama but then it was very err com corn comforting forting to tho too owners of the ship be because because because cause In n those days the first class cla G pas passengers passengers paid each the second class 2 while the was vms cheap at noo And now when we wc read that tho rho and the Lawn Laan of New NewYork NewYork York give great entertainments marry many princes and nd get et divorces old Californians read with a grim smite smile and Fay say pay to themselves We c helped that girl 10 to marry n prince WI vo se will I have to help pay for that thal divorce and then we wo took look our lives In iu our hands lo to do it ll Talk of or trusts and combines and graft Never was any more scientific or heartless hear eB robbery robber ever perpetrated perpetrated on poor 1 human human nature than tha n was practiced by br the steamship com con during the first ten years year that California was a state nn |