New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-18
THE IMAM LINES INNOVATION.
WHAT IT WILL GAIN BY MAKING SOUTHAMPTON
ITS ENGLISH TERMINUS.

WHAT IT WILL GAIN BY MAKING SOUTHAMPTON
ITS ENGLISH TERMINUS.
Much has been said In the newspapers In the
last few months about the changes that Will take
place in the Inman Line transatlantic steamship
service IL is autbOritat!vcly announced that on
February % the steamship City Of Ncw-iork will
make a new departure In the ransatlantlc service.
When She leaves this port, whether al an American
vessel or not instead of pointing her bow toward her
former home. she will take new course and sail
direct for southampton 1t is declared that In the
neighborhood of 80 100000 sterling have been or will
be spent to build In the port Of Southampton sucl
facilities as the International Navigation Company re-
1ure, this being the only condition which the line
would consent ito steamships making southampton
their fOrrgn home.
Southampton offers unexcelled advantages for trav-
oilers whose destination IS Paris the other great
cities Of The Continent. Swift Channel steamers leave
SOUTHAMPTON for Ilavre or ChcrbOIrg every night,
enabling passcIgcrS TO roacn Paris the following morn
Ing Direct steamers also ply between southampton
and the Channel Islands Amsterdam and Rotterdam. 1t
Is III. point OF departure for the Royal Mall steam
Packet Company the steamers Of which 80 to Central
America ana the southern Pacific. and OF She Union
Line 10 south Africa. There also direct connec-
lions TO all Australian. ChNese. japanese and East
Indian ports. II is estimated that the cts OF Paris
will deliver the United States mails ut the London
postoaicc at least eight hours than She has
previously been able TO do and four or five hours
SOONER than any other steamship aRoat. except her
sister ship the City OF New-lOrk. The Southampton
route will avoid the tedious practice Of calling Mt
Queenstown the disagreeabc and annoying delays AT
the Liverpool bar the inconvenience attending the
barkati0n and Decentralization at Liverpool and the
five hours railway journey TO London and all other
lines that book passengers to southampton embark
and land them on a small tender several miles out
In the bay, whereby they exposed TO the same
dsagre,ablc features at Liverpool.
The passenger viii have plenty OF time 10 settle
himself his hotel cOihfortabl, luncheon and do
half days sightseeing before his les fortunate brother
arrives who via Liverpool. No vcxa'iOus
delays at the Liverpool bar often amounting to twelve
hons: no disag. ecabc trip open tender,
separ ted rom your baggage no herding OF frs and
second cabin pass myers and th:Ir baggage Land
Ing stige ten fines too small for It's purI Csc.
quaIres with exiort.onae cabncn about tran pora-
ton OF baggage Liverpool the railway station
anxiety and missing OF meals to catch n certain
train; no worgy about losing trunks and packages ;
tedious railway journey Of five SIX hours before
tn, hundred and worries incidental to landing at
HvNppl.
And then on the return trip there Is no more
central and convenient point In England than the
port Of Southampton. The traveller who has wound
up his European trip Mt London. nincty-nnc Of
every hundred do. lakes comfortable breakfast at
his hotel has his baggage transferred TO the railway
station. whcr" the steamship company's ofhcnls will
take ch-r-e OF IT, he se,t himself for an hour ana
n half In the companys special train which uin