Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-12

IL Is curious, Sell-pOSSeSSeu, Olu-IasnlOneu
the Cunard. (Scotchmen they
are.) 1t was born before the days Of
steamships, it inaugurated ocean steamer
lines it never has lost more than one yes
sci; it has never lost a passengers life at
all its ships are never insured great
mercantile films do not insure their goods
sent over in Cunard ships; it is rather
safer to be in their vessels than on shore.
Q d-tashioned is the word. When thing
is established by the Cunarders, it is there
for good and all, almost. Before adopt
ing new thing the chiefs cogltate and
cogtate and cogitate; they then lay it be-
fore their head purveyor, their head mer-
chant, their head builder, their head engi-
neer and all the captains in the service,
and they off and cogltate about year
then if the new wrinkle is approved it is
adopted, and put into the regulations. In
the old days, near 40 years ago, when this
was an ocean line of sailing vessels, corpses
were not permitted BY the company to
take passage, or go as freight either
sailor superstition, you know. Very well
to this day they won't carry corpses.
Forty years ago they always had stewed
prunes and rice for dinner on duff days;
well, to this present time, whenever duff
day come around, you will always have
your regular stewed prunes aud rice in a
Cunarder. If you don't get anything else,
you can always depend on that-and de-
pend on it with your money up, too, if
you are that sort of person.
1t takes them about 10 to ID years to
manufacture a captain but when they
have got him manufactured to suit at last,
they have full confidence in him. The
only order they give a captain is this,
brief and to the point: Your ship is
loaded, take her. speed is nothing follow
your own road, deliver her safe, bring her
back safe-safety is all that is required"
The motel Cunard company is composed
simply Of two or three grandchildren who
have stepped into the shoes Of two or three
children who stepped into the shoes of
couple of Old Scotch fathers; for Burns
and Maclvor were the Cunard company
when it was born; it was Burns and
MacIvor when the originators had passed
away; it is Burns and MacIvor still in
the third generation-never has been out
of the two families. Burns was Glas-
gov merchant, MacIvor was an old sea-
dog who sailed ship for him in early
times. That vessels earnings were cast
into sinking fund with the money they
built another ship, and then another, and
thus the old original packet line from
Glasgow to Halifax was established At
that time the mails were slowly and expen-
sively carried in English government YES
sells. Burns & Maclvor and Judge Hall
burton ("Sam Slick'') fell to considering a
scheme of getting the job of carrying these
mails in private bottoms. In order to
manage the thing they needed be quiet
about it, and also they needed faster yes
sells. Halliburton had relative who was
not a shining success in practical life, but
had an inventive head; name, Sam Cum
ard he took his old jack-knife and a
shngle and sat down and whitfield out this
enormous Royal Mail line of vessels that
we call the Cunarders--a great navy, it is
doing business in every ocean; owing
10 steamships of vast cost; conducting its
affairs with the rigid method and system
OF national navy; promoting by merit,
priority in routine, and for conspicuous
service using a company uniform retir
ing superannuated and disabled men and
officers on permanent pensions, and mum.
berng its servants by hundreds and thou
sands. In its own private establishment
in Liverpool it keeps 1000 men under pay.
Thai is what Sam Cuuard whitfield out
That is to say, he whitfield out little
model for fast vessel; it was satisfactory,
he was instructed to 60 and get the mail
contract, simply under his own name; he
did it and the company became commonly
known as the Cunard company then the
company tried steam and made it work !;
they prospered, and bought out Halliburton,
and also Cunard's little interest they re-
moved Cunard to England and made him
their London agent; he grew very rich
and unspeakably respectable, and when he
died he died not as poor, dreaming
provincial whittier of experimental models,
but as the great Sir Samuel Cunard, K.
g. b., or G. W. X, or something like
that, for the sovereign had knig GIFTED him.
-NeU York Tribune.