Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-07-13

and which doubtless with all prudent mind
will Justify the commander in the unusu,
care he took to keep the great ship SAFE
Captain Vine Hall is one of the most exper
enccd navieators of the English East Indi
trade, bat in addition to the caution which h
naturally felt incumbent on him, from tn
fact that he had never crossed the Atlanti
before, he was doubtless deeply impressed
with the paramount importance, not only t.
his employers and the cause of science, bu
to England and the whole world, of giving .
substantial proof, that ships of the size Of The
Great Eastern could safely cross the deep
It was therefore prop; rly matter Of second
airy consequence to him whether the enthusi
assn Of his passengers, or the ardor of his en-,
gineers or officers should chafc at his diver.
gcnces or extra care; he accomplished the
great point that was required, and we who
left England with him but ten days before,
are here to approve his action. When he
retarns 10 England in September, he will give
the leviathan its head, and she will then
prove for herself that speed is one of her at
tributes as well as safety. In fact, she has
proven it already by the manner in which
she has accomplished this voyage; and there
is not passenger who crossed in her but
views her as beyond all comparison the most
superior passenger ship that ever foated.--
The extra distance which she ran on this trip
is certainly equal to more than days travel,
and, when we add to this the fact that "a
hours margin is always allowed to new
ships first voyage, and take into considcra-
ton, also, that not an officer on board had
ever made voyage in her, that the men
we're allra recruits, fresh levied, within three
days of starting, and that even the stokers
did not know how to spread coal to advan-
tage on the fires, we cannot help regarding
even the time she made as great triumph.
scngcr ship, it is hardly possible to say too
much in praise of her. She meets all the re-
quiremeats of the most luxurious hotel, and,
when the weather drives her inhabitants be-
low, they can promenade through her cabins
upon long walks, or lounge about upon SUI
perb divans, listening to music that would
not discredit the most pretentious concert
BY her continued steadiness sea sickness is
entirely ignored, and, in the way of strength,
no iron structure that ever has been made
can at all compare with her. This was i'm
pressed upon us by every sway of the sea,
and the idea which she continually enforces
on the mind, above all others, is her absolute
safety from all the ordinary dangers of the
ocean. Against the risks resulting from con-
tact with solid body, she is beyond all cal
culation stronger than anything which has
yet been seen afoat. The manner in which
her vast weight stood poised upon two single
rests in the builders yard for weeks before
her launch and the laundering against her
sides of the huge battering rams that smote
her inch by inch toward the water, give evil
dence Of what she can indure. No shoal or
beach could break her before all her passen-
gers could escape; for "her scales are her
pride, shut up together as with close seal.
They are joined one t. another, they stick
together that they cannot be sundered. y
Above all other ships she should be chosen
by the timid, and it really is a puzzle to me,
how so many intelligent men who had read
the history of her construction, and who were
about crossing to New York at the date Of
her departure could be induced to choose any
other vessel. She is certainly exempt from
all the ordinary dangers of the sea, and any
one who will go into her bow and look at the
fourteen feet of deep matted iron in that
welded beak, viii credit her with sufficient
power and impulse to split and push aside
any ordinary iceberg.
FUTURE OF THE GREAT EASTERN.
The future destiny Of the Great Eastern
has not yet been decided on, but there is a
strong probability she will be retained in the
passenger trade between New York and Mil
ford Haven, which latter is to be her English
port Of destination from this SIDE She can
not be put profitably in the Eastern trade, as
1t is proved from her late consumption that
she cannot carry coal enough, with cargo,
for the voyage out and back; while as a
freight vessel between England and New
York the cost of lighterage would eat up all
her profits. Her employment, therefore, as a
first-class passenger ship between the me-
tropo1fs Of the Western world and Europe
seems to be the natural destiny for the Big
Ship, for she is too good for anything else,
and can conceive Of no other service by
which she can be made to pay. She would
not only take all the first-class passengers
who now yearly swaf,n to enjoy the wonders
and gayeties Of Europe, but she would create
travel, and her gorgeous gentleman's saloon,
larger than the rotunda Of the Astor House,
with its elegant mirrors, its rafting dice, its
flock Of walters, its quoits, its skittles-all
under eye of its smoking loungers, at center
tables or side sofas-would WOO many a hotel
habitue to the enjoyment of the mere trip up
on the ocean.