The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-09-07

irgly uncomfortable, even before the ship
began to pitch in the trough of the sea.
The rooms are large, beautifully furnished,
well ventilated and brilliantly lighted at
night by electricity, of which light every
passenger has full command. On each
side are several large rooms like those in
first-class hotel, baYing beautiful rugs on
the floor, bright polished brass bedsteads,
and scattered around every luxury that the
heart could desire; the. hangings are
gorgeous, and all the palatial arrange
ments in perfect keeping. Attached to
each of these fairy palaces are splendid
bath rooms, with hot and cold salt water
baths; in fact nothing is wanting to make
them as complete as human ingenuity
| could devise. The grand saloon or dining
room excels for costly luxury anything of
the kind that ever floated on the sea. 1t
has not the between-decks look of the
ordinary steamer saloon; the ceiling is.
grand and lofty, and in the center rises an
exquisitelv beautiful dome of light stained
glass, while the furniture is of the richest
the silver of the table service are of rare
beauty, and the table cloths and napkins
| of the finest and best that can be made. A
remarkable feature is the flooring, which
is laid in beautiful mosaic. 1t looks like
the finest of encrusted tiling, but it is rub
| ber, and adjusted that the foot will not
slip when the vessel pitches and rolls. All
the closets and other conYeniences could
not be surpassed, and the passenger carries
with him across the sea all the comforts
of home.
| But let us descend and take look at
the mighty engine that drives this ponder
GUS mass through the fierce waves at the
rate of twenty-fi miles an hour. can
only look at it; cannot describe those
mammoth shafts, levers, wheels, cranks,
pistens and cylinders-all shining like
polished STEEL. You young ladies who find
it difficult to keep pair of scissors or a
bodkin bright, look at this ponderous en-
| gine. No lady's work basket was ever
half so clean. That grimv savage; all
covered with SCOT and smoke, wipes every
portion Of the engine as tenderlY and affec-
| tionately as if it were his own child.
Away down in the freroom one hundred
and seventy men are employed to feed the
capacious NAV of the monster with hun
dreds of tons of coal that she requires in
her trip across the sea. Look at those
fires as she rushes through the waves, hear
| a hnarcn Of ha nd Of
the grimy monsters that feed them, and
from whose bare backs the sweat pours
down like rain.
All, here we are in the kitchen, a most
important place, where there are hundreds
to feed. Oh, the ranges, the ovens, the
pots and all the cooking utensils of copper,
shining like FURNISHED silver. There is a
small army Of cooks and walters, and
everybody finds enough to do. The ar
rangement for first and second cabin are
entirely distinct, but the second Is elegant
enough and comfortable enough for any
reasonable man. The smoking-room for
gentlemen is one of the most superb apart
ments in the ship, and all around it are
card tables for those who like whist, ,euchre
or poker, and soft lounges and easy chairs
for lookers-on. The terrors of sea travel
have entirely disappeared, and under
favorable circumstances, without any
further improvement in these ocean racers,
shall expect to see the passage made be-
tween Liverpool and New York in five
days.
This week will be remarkable in New
York for some years to come. For the
first time in the history of the State, and
hope the last, four murderers were
launched into eternity together, and that
there were not five was owing to the Glenn
ency Of the Governor. who at the last mo-
ment respited one of the condemned for
sixty days. There is a terrible significance
about this wholesome slaughter which ap-
peals to every man and woman In the
community and the question is forced upon
us: Are we all dong our full duty where
such a state of affairs can by any possibili-
ty exist9 Should we spend millions to
Christianize the Hindoo in India, the idol
ator in China, the wild saVages on the
Congo or Zambes, while in New York
and other great cities these red fields lie
ready for the sickle of the reaper. 1t was
announced on the day of the execution
that all these murderers were reared and
died in the Catholic faith, and Immediately
after their death two of them were inferred
in consecrated ground in Calvary Gene
terry. That fact caused quite commotion
in another quarter, but the incident seems
to have been kept out of all the papers.
Two weeks ago a gentleman died in
Brooklyn, who for forty years had been the
trustee servant of one of the wealthiest
corporations in that city, and after long
years of honorable service he became its
superintendent, loved and bonored by
every one who knew him. In early life he
married plous young Catholic lady and
his children were reared in the Catholic
faith, and all their lives have been pious
and regular communicates. When CAL
vary Cemetery was purchased this gentle
man was called on for assistance, which he
eheerfully gave, purchasing a handsome
plot and inducing several of his friends TO
do the same. When his wife died he laid
her there, and he expected when his final
hour came to lie beside her. That time
came two weeks ago, but when his chill
dren applied for burial permit they were
quietly Informed that as their father had
not died In the Catholic faith he could not
be buried in consecrated ground. After a
time' however, on an appeal to the Arch