Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-23

tho prluC1pdl anu 1uCcreSt duu any VI LILO
une1pended portion of the income thereon
paid over. At twenty-five years another
one-third, with its unexpended income
thereon, is to be received, and at thirty
years the final third. The final third Is
not to be paid until the person entitled to
it shall make proof to the trustees that at
least ons-h half of the portions paid over
has not been lost, squandsred or spent,and
on failure to do so the trustees are to re-
tain the unpaid share until the person
shall reach the age of thirty-five.
PER1Ls OF STEAM NAVIGATION.
Loss Of life and Property on the Assassic
During Forty Years.
In the concluding article of his series of
papers entitled "Notes of a History of
Steam Navigation" in the United Service
Magazine for December, Rear Admiral
George n. Preble, United States navy,
gives a valuable compilation of statistics
concerning the loss of life and property in
steam vessels on the Atlantic ocean. The
period covered begins with the first trip
of the steamship Sirius, in 1888, and ends
with the close of 1S79-forty years. The
tables were compiled from records in the
archives of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance
com pany of New York, and are as
full as it is possible to make them,
some Of the earlier disasters having passed
almost passed out of mind, leav-
ing no data behind from which to Judge of
the loss of life. The whole number of
vessels lost in these forty years was ia, CT
an average of between three and four YES
sells year. Of the number of lives lost
even an approximate estimate cannot be
made, for many of the vessels lost were
never heard of after leaving port, and the
numbers of their passengers and crews
can not be ascertained. The first steam
vessel lost on the Atlantic was the Presi-
dent, wooden ship of 1856 tons, sailing
under the British flag. She disappeared
mysteriously, as many vessels have done
since, and nothing was ever heard of eth
er the ship or her passengers. This was
in 1841, and from that time until 1854,
thirteen years, only one life was lost by
the wreck of an Atlantic steam
vessel. In 1854, however, Sec
ond vessel mysteriously disappear
ed, and her $50 passengers and
seamen were lost, This was the City of
Glasgow, another wooden vessel of 1909
tons. This was disastrous year for trans
Atlantic navigation, for it was in 1854 that
the Arctic was sunk, forty mlles:sof Cape
Race, carrying down 562 persons. The
Arctic belonged to the Collins line, and
was an immense wooden vessel for those
days, being rated at 5000 tons. She was
sunk by collision with another steamship,
the Vesta. From 1854 to 1860 there were
enough great losses to make people timid
about venturing their lives or their prop
erty on the ocean. In August, 1854, the
British wooden steamship Her Majesty,
from England for Quebec, disappeared and
all on board were lost. The Pacific, of the
Collins line, disappeared in 1856 with
200 souls, and LIE Lyonnais, French ship,
was sunk by collision in the same year,
and 26O were lost; in 1858 the German ship
Austria was burned, and 533 lives were
lost,and in 1850 the British ship Hungarian
was wrecked off Cape Sable, and POS lives
we're lost.
After 1860, however, there are COMPARE
lively few entries of ''all lost" and many
more of "all saved" The great disasters
of the forty years in which large numbers
| of lives we're lost (omitting those as given
as ''all lost,'0 were the loss of the City of
Glasgow, just mentioned, with $40 lives;
L
Lyonnais and Austria, with 200, 260 and
533, respectively; the Hungarian, of the
Allan line, from Liverpool for Boston, in
Tempest, 1867, the Rechid, 1861; the
ton 1880; the Commander, 1872; the Mary
Church, 1872; the Devon, 1872; the Ismalia,
1873; the Anna, 1874; the Colombo, 1876;
! %ho T. hn he
Herman Ludwig, 1878; the Homer, 1878;
and the Zanzibar, 1879. The first thirteen
of these, down to the loss of the Colombo
of the Wilson line, in 1876, are unclassifed
as to ownership and did not belong to any
established line.
OF the IA vessels lost, more than half
were wrecked, most of the wrecks being
close along shore; "a are classified as miss
ing, which means that they never reached
the ports for which they sailed; 10 were
burned land in the cases of fire all the pas
sengers were invariably saved) with the not
able exceptions of the Austria, in 1858
when the life-saving appliances we're by nc
means up to the present standard, and the
Sandman in 1878, which was caused by ar
explosion, 8 were sunk by collisions ani
stress of weather, and only are reported
sunk by ice. It is more than probable
however, that a large proportion of the q
missing vessels met their fate in this way
Only vessels in the forty years were
abandoned. and in every one of these
cases passengers and crews we're all saved
Of the steampship lines now in existence
the Cunard line is charged with the loss OF
vessels-the Columbia, in 1S43, and the
Tripoli, in 1872, life having been lost
the Allan line, in 1861, with 80 lives; tb'
Anglo-Saxon of the same line, in 1868
with 237 lives; the Cambria of the Ancho
line, wrecked in 1870, losing 1876 lives; tn
Scanderia, of the Morgan line, which dis
J appeared in 1872, with As souls; -
Atlantic, of the White Star line, which wa
wrecked in 1873, and $40 lives lost; thu
Vile du Havre, in the same year, with 13
lives; the Schiller,of the Eagle line, wreck
ed in 1875, losing 200 lives; the Deutsch
land, of the North German Lloyds, in 1879
with 157 lives, and the Pomerania, of tn
Hamburg American packet company, il
1873, with SO lives. Nineteen vessels i
the fortv Years have lost every sOul n