Smyrna times., 1883-04-18
For the Smyrna Times.
jay Gould's Atalanta."

"Was it a small white, curly dorg,
with blue ribbon around his neck,
yer was looking for, Miss?" eyes"
gasped the young lady, in anxious
suspense. "Well, Jack Adams New
FOundland purp, he's gone an swal-
Tered him." Thus on the 7th inst, at |
Cramp & Sons ship yard, Philadelphia,
amid the plaudits of the spectators and
the swapping of bilge blocks the yacht
that is intended to "swaller" all other |
Along in the early years of the '70s.
when the announcement came that the |
English yatchs LiUidia and Countess Of
Duferin were coming over to take back
the Queens Cup" that the New
York Yatch Association held as victOrs,
straightway preparations were at once
made to receive them. John Roach at
Chester Pa, was about then cOmmenc-
ing his famous career as the leading
ship builder of the country and to him
was given the order which produced
the yacht Columbia the "no expense
spared prOyiso " was given and carried
out to its fullest extent in costly carved
hard woods, and the glittering sheen of
! gold, silver and brass while the feet sank
deep in velvet carpets, the matchless
| Columbia swung to her anchors in all
the pride of her beautifully curved
lines and gorgeous appointments at
cost to her owners of $4,000. Such
price was unheard of. Amy of the
Delaware ship builders would have
taken a similar sized vessel devoid of
appointments for $4,000 at the time,
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her rich saloon outfit to cost the differ
ence. In the book of Revelations ships
are classed with the evils that must
disappear from the earth, and singular
as it may appear, there is something
mysterious about the movements Of
ships that take the shape of the phant-
om ship Flying Dutchman, that is said
to haunt the South Atlantic and can
never be approached within speaking
distance. The costly Columbia is a
thing of the past. Mr.. Gould's yacht
AtdldntG towers above them all at a
cost of $3.50, 900 and under the pressure
of her compound engines she will leave
Sandy Hook, New York Bay, on the
tour around the world, the peerless
representative of the power of wealth
If the imagination chooses to follow the
probable course taken, how this wealth
will shine and shine sgain in the many
places that can be visited in a voyage
around the world. At first after haul
ing well out to the eastward to STRIKE
the southwest trades, the course i
laid for Cuba through the Mona pas
sage, and the AtdldntG will dip he
6 first flag under the frowning guns o
the moro Castle" here the civilities o
, Spanish port like Havana will b.
. about all that will be taken under
trepic sun and CLASSY sea, and afte
= leaving the Windward Islands tn
= course steered for then will be tn
q "Azores" full eighteen hundred mile
. across the Atlantic from thence to tn
:, British ports and across the North Sc
!. through the Baltic to St. Petersburg re
% turning by way of the English Char
. mel; the coast of France is skirted, tn
y Bay of Biscay crossed and the cours
laid for the Strait of Gibraltar an
thence to the Mediterranean wheI
= opens all the most famous ports of tn
!. historic region. Constantinople is vi
. tied and threading the maze of Arch
= ~ paligo's to the eastward, Smyrna an
~ ~ the Holy Land is within reach. an
:" thence through the Suez Can
a down the Red Sea and through ii
:, strait of Babelmandel. The vast e.
~ tent of the Indian Ocean brings tt
6 AtdlGntd in contact with the intrica
~ navigation of the far East. He
~ months and months may be spent
4 visiting the ports of the Orient, he
- what little is known of these stranl
= people has been obtained from Il
~ intrepid missionaries, and to Wis
- Bombay, Madras and across the Bay
hso, Bengal through the strait of Mallac
and along the continent like island
~ Borneo to Bankok and Manila in t
ar Philippine Islands, is to follow in the fo
40 10 steps of these people who carried
ESs light that still shines with more eff
NJ gence than could ever glitter in t
ID AtGlanta's golden saloons. Leavi
ID the PHILIPPINE Islands the course is ne
- laid for China and in succession CON
=, Canton and the intermediate poI
for until Pekin in the Yellow Sea is reat
ba ed, and the Japanese cities being
H0 last to touch at, unless the desol;
- coast of Siberia should be skirted in
IT,, immense distance to the edge of
.y and the Artic circle when the helm
~ ~ put hard over the yatch swings arou
' 'st and the magic words for those cliH
Dc passes along the deck of Homewa
"a Bound, and now the course can be
@ ',os the westward across the broad Paci
100 to the Columbia River or the Southt
nd passage through the SoOloo sea to
r ,m" Sandwich Islands and thence nOrthw
L. four thousand miles to San Francis
,nd From there comes the long stretch
sea and coast around Cape Horn q
north to Rio Janerio from there "
out to the eastward to clear the Wi
I hat ward Isles the yatch crosses the Eq
f"r' tor and steers for Sandy Hook OF
r. northwest course on reaching VIII
sd Mr.. Gould will have circumnaviga
tru the globe in a style hitherto ne
Wy before attempted by any citizen of
:, United States.
tha n Smyrna, April 9th, 1888.
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