Morning journal and courier., 1890-07-26

Ing Rooms-Many Passengers Utterly
Ruined.
LIVERPOOL, June 28.
To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER.
If your steamer have anything like a
pleasant passage, shortly after the banks are
crossed there is a gradual return to life from
the torpor, or horror, of sea sickness, and
you will fnd that q majority of passengers
will come back to cabin and deck chsstened
and bettered from their recent bitter expert
ences There Is q general recognition of
what has been going on; but no one is SO i'm
polite as to discuss the matter. The gra-
eiousness of late comers is something won
dertully genial and admirable. Grabbed old
fellows who snapped like turtles at the be.
ginning of the voyage actually crave your
acquaintance with radiant humility. Airy
young fellows have become excellent listen
ers. The "Miss Havishams" and faded old
dowagsrs have . sparkle Of condescension in
their hshy eyes; while the fair bellies of the
| voyage are positively angelic to all. There
has been an averaging up process all around.
From this time on your ocean voyage Is tru-
| ly delightful. You wonder how you could
have nisjudged this one. overlooked the
merits of that one, or failed at fret to recog-
nizs the pleasant characteristics of another.
In short. there is less bile aboard ship. The
ozone of the sea is giving Its magical elatiOn
| to all. Affability has dsthronsd irritability.
Enforced rest has become a soothing nurse
to the sore and hurt American nerve.
| In this kindly mood there are endless tri-
Hiug exchange of courtssies that yield the
heartiest acquaintaneeships, which often
grow into the warm, staunch friendships of q
lifetime. Men value each Others experiences
on shipboard. There is NO place like 1t for
measuring your fellow men justly. On shore
we dash ahead In our own little orbit, and
imagine all that is valuable to the world Is
within the atmosphere of our own immedi-
ate Armament The long hours of enforced
idleness yisld valuable enforced comparisons.
We fnd that innumerable other activities
| prevail, each essential to social cosmic per
fectioa and good. Al sea is the only plscs
where men stand still long enough 20 vel
observe this. So IL must be regarded as q
beneficial thought and experience exchange
But whether these feasts Of conversation
which are constantly everywhere occurrin.
on shipboard from cabin to eteersge, toucl
upon theology, sociology or industrial actiyi
ties, they universally begin and end upol
!, some feature of steamship life and service
What is our ships best runl What was he
r probably be to.morrowi what is to be tn
limit of these crack ocean liners' speed
Can ocean service be still much improvedi-
| and q score more similar inquiries upo
: which many an excellent idea, and muo
, general information, might be gathered b
! the msnagements of the companies them
!, selves.
Out of all this, and from much persons
> inquiry among practical promoters of ocea
travel, are gathered q few prevailing ideas
{ | These are chiefly upon the vital questions G
2 capacity, speed, safety and service or maxi
! mum of comfort to passengers. The latei
ocean greyhounds have q capacity of te
Thousand tons burthen, or better. On
company is now at work ON q eleven thou
|, sand five hundred ton ship. Two liners no
in commission are six hundred and eighty
6ve feet in length. or ave feet longer tina
the unwieldy Great Eastern, now bein
= broken mp for old iron at Eastman, in Il
y river Mersey, just above Liverpool. Nav,
. architects believe that before the year 1s(
q :, we will be crossing the ocean In steamship
y of fifteen or twenty thousand tons burthel
" upwards of seven hundred and Fifty feet
y length, which will make the passage In frol
q four to four and one-half days, and CON
= y fortably carry one thousand passenger
!, while their safety may be absolutely assure,
L money; and it Is believed the vast increa
ss of ocean travel will warrant the necessal
expenditure. One hundred thousand peop
~ now annually cross the ocean from Americ
e This involves an outlay of ten million do
i. lars. Each year this increases. Shortenir
% the time of passage is held BY steamsh
D. managers to greatly augment the proportie
!: of natural increase In ocean travel. Brief
il is the general conviction that while d
no travel amounts to one hundred thouesnd q
nually with six and seven day boats,
would reach one hundred and fifty thousal
with 1--WE day boats, two hundred thoussl
Ia with four and half day boats, and thr
Iss hundred thousand with four day boats. T
vn builders on the Clyde say to the compaui.
" "Gentlemen, IL you wish to put two milli
ng instead of one million dollars into sins
" steamships we can produce the four d
oh boat!n This is an open secret, and It is
- day not 80 much q question of whether
can be done, az whether the steamship COL
lp- paniessare willing to have IL done. The n
'rk son for their. .hesitancy, and that they are q
nd preaching the limit by easy stages, is OBJ
are ous. Any one company which would di
q TO astoundingly out do the others by putti
In upon the ocean lanes four, or even Ave, d
ms ships, must be prepared financially to VII
zen stand deadly war Of passenger and frsis