The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-08-10
specfal Correspondence QfMt ln1uigaloer.


CoAsr. July 2s.-Slr. John Frew and
myself left New York from the Inman
dock, pier No. 40, North river, on
Wednesday last at G q. M, July %, and
here We are, on the 2sth, $500 miles
away, off the Irish coast, having in that
time run through nearly eleven degrees
OF latitude and over sixty degrees Of
longitude, and lost about four hours and
thirty-ivc minutes Of Wheeling time.
We went on board our steamer the
evening before, along with several hun.
dred other passengers, stored our lug
gage away in room numbered 1877, wit
messed the good byes OF great many
people, smelled the beautiful and costly
flowers that covered the tables, saun'
tered up and down the promenade deck,
discussed the situation Us we saw 1t,
and finally turned into our berths ut II
o'clock.
At half past 5 next morning we were
nm and ont OIL deck and witnessed the
last freight and last passengers taken on
board, got the morning papers, liealI
the exchange Of fareweIis between the
crowds on the dock and crowds who
leaned over the railing OF tho vessel,
and finally, at sharp u o'clock, saw the
lines cast of, the gang planks pulled i'll,
and the great steamer slowly back out
into the stream and head for the sea.
The Germunic, OF the White Star
line, and the Westernland, OF the Red
Star line, went out just ahead Of ns, the
former for Liverpool and the latter for
Antwerp, and some people thought
there was to be a race. There could be
no race between these comparatively
slow steamers and one that is the greyest
OF the "Greyhounds," as wits soon seen
by the way We closed up the gap be-
fore Sandy Hook was reached.
At little alter s we passed the light
ship, discharged our pilot, and put to
sea at the rate OF eighteen and half
knots per hour. At the noon observa-
ton We had made fitty.eight miles from
the Iightship. The day was fair and
the sea smooth, and all the good augeries
OF pleasant passage were with. us.
They have remained with us ever since.
We have not had an hour oi bad
weather and only once genuine fog.
NEARLY A SENSATION.
That fog, short as it was, came near
giving us sensation; in fact did give
us one. A very sudden response was
heard close upon the starboard to'our
fog alarm, At once we came to a dead
standstill and blew the fog horn for all
that was in it. And so did the other
steamer. At last we got within gum
shot OF each other and passed safely.
We could only see her for a moment.
The captain said she was one OF the
Thincvallen line from Copenhagen.
Had our great l0,500 tonner struck her,
she would have been crushed like an
egg shell.
Ihis incident is all that has befallen
IFS thus far in the nature OF sensation,
good or bad. We have had the ocean
all to ourselves pretty much all the
time. The other fellows were all, appar-
emily, sailing north or south Of us. You
know the various lines have ocean
"Ianes" OF their own so as to avoid these
possible collisions. Ours is known as
the 2,930 mile route, and is laid at this
time OF year on latitude forty and
half and $50 miles south OF the New
ioundland banks. The winter route is
only 2,770 miles. The Cunarders run a
little south OF the lnman "lane,"
although we met the Etruria yesterday
afternoon fair and square in our course.
She had left Liverpool Saturday night
and was 800 miles west OF Queenstown.
She is the largest and fastest boat Of the
Cunard line, but is three thousand tons
under our registry and has never made
the run, us this steamer has, in five
days, nineteen hours and eighteen
minutes.
NEARLY NINE HUNDRED PEOPLE
We have on board nearly nine hun.
dred people, three hundred and twenty
OF whom are in the first cabin, two hun.
dred in tn esecondand three hundred and
fifty in the steerage. She can and has
carried eighteen hundred passengers in
addition 10 her crew Of four hundred
and ten. In August, 1880, she made
the run to which refer. This has
never been equalled between New York
and Queenstown, and therefore she
"wears the honors" in the Liverpool
trade. She is, US you know, one OF the
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twin being the City Of New York, and
the others being tho City OF Berlin, the
City Of Chicago, the City OF Richmond
and the City OF Chester. Her twin 1.-THE
New York; is her equal in all respects
save tho great record OF August, 1889.
She is just as majestic and luxurious,
and is II great favorite with the travel
ing public. They are NIL English built
and English manned ships. You never
saw anything more English than this
boat. II is pounds, shillinGs and pence
every way You turn. But all tho same
tits a great steamer, safe and staunch,
under the strictest discipline and
differed by men whose appearance at
once commands both confidence and
respect.
On Sunday we had the regular service
Of the Established church in the cab'1 q,
the captain officiating, as is the.custom
on all the merchant marine OF England.
He offered prayers for the queen and
her hopeful heir apparent, Albert Ed.
ward, and, parenthetically, for the
president OF the United states. Mr.
frew looked at me interrogatively Mt
this iuncture in the service and broke
the solemnity OF his countenAnce with n
slight smile. It is the last prayer for
orr good Uncle Ben that we will proba.
bly hear for some time. / compile
mented tho captain on the very clerical
way in which he read the service, and
told him that If he had not already
achieved fame as seaman he might
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