The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1895-03-23

ciples OF Christ. OF course the
Congregationalists predominant. i
being their party. AS to ladie.
and gentlemen it is about an ever
division. All told it is proving q
most congenial company. and
speaking for myself, the better &C
quainted l become the more
pleased | am | did not know a
single member of it before starting.
l anticipate having. when our
long journey ends. An increase Of
about forty tried. true and life
long friends. We are from twelve
different States: Maine, New
Hampshire. Vermont, Massachu.
sets. Rhode Island. New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey. Ohio,
Michigan. Georgia AMI Kentucky.
Massachusetts, leads with seventeen,
New jersey is second with six,
while Kentucky. Georgia. Ohio,
New Hampshire and Rhode
Island bring up the rear with one
each.
Our goo ship was built on the
Clyde five years ago, and is out
speeded by only two of the other
Ocean Greyhounds. And the
very fastest Of them has beaten
her time but sixty-three minutes.
She is five hundred feet long.
ifty-seven and a half feet wide,
has total displacement Of eight
thousand tons. and cost a million
and half dollars. Her two en-
gines have each an eight thousand
horse power and require three
hundred tons Of coal daily to sup
ply them. Her capacity is three
hundred and sixty cabin passen.
gers and a thousand steerage. She
carries no freight. We have on
board this trip, two hundred and
ninety-one cabin. ninety-hve steer
age and three hundred and thirty.
crew and officers; SO that we are
in all in the ship seven hundred
and sixteen souls. Our daily dis
lance is about four hundred and
fifty land miles. trifle over nine
teen miles an hour Our ship has
eleven water-tight comp rtments.
with a pump in each. which could
empty it in fifteen minutes.
Life aboard ship is a great
novelty. You have four meals
a day--breakfast, luncheon. dinner
and tea. The last-named comes
at nine O'Clock at night. You are
called to each meal by a cornet.
which sends its shrill blasts down
the cabin passages. and sometimes
is sounded so near your state
room as to startle you out of your
appetite. Two of these penetrat-
ing calls are issued for each meal.
the first preceding the second
from five to twenty minutes.
Everything in your stateroom is
fastened tight-glasses water-bot-
ties. wash bowls. etc. The spit
toons are Of suggestively liberal
pattern! You get into your berth
over a high board, which projects
a foot above your bed. In fact
everything is fixed for rough seas.
And sure enough you have them
Our first day out was smoothness
Itself. Every body was elated, and
at the dining-room with
great promptness and hilarity. But
after that the waves gradually rose
and kept rising till the spray
washed the decks, and the motion
Of the ship felt like a high swing
1t a Sunday,school picnic. And
with the rise Of the waves
came the fall Of the passengers.
A difficult word at an old fashioned
'pelling-match could not have
moved them down more rapidly.
The ladies. especially, succumbed
o the situation, and the gentlemen
we're not far behind. A man
his hat on the street of
windy day is is scarcely more ludi-
:rous, and gets little less sympathy