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Show week. They will then be prepared for the longest voyage they ever will undertake, that is, from New York to San Francisco, througn the Straits of Magellan, about IFi.OO.j nautical miles They 'will take no pa;sengers and it has not been decided yet whether or not their skippers will go with them. Reports of the sale of the two ships have been current for several weeks, but are now officially confirmed. They have been purchased by a Pacillc coast company which will use them between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Ang-eles. The two boats will be replaced next spring between New York and Boston by two new boats, as they have been profitable investments to their owners and have practically paid the cost of construction 1 ,fi00,0tij each, since they were put Into commission. com-mission. They will leave New York for San Francisco on Octoler 10 and are expected to make tho trip in about fifty days. OIL-BURNING STEAMERS FOR PACIFIC COAST i ' ' York. Sept. "u. The oil burning burn-ing turbine steamships Yale and Harvard, Har-vard, tin- swiftest coastwise ships In I the world, will mnko their last trips between this port and Boston this |