The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-09-13

must De much more than doubled In Such
4 snip a. the Oceanic, of the Witt Star
Lane, now being built at Belffst, are TWO
."ss.hs'' anu MY ieet long, zach SHAFT
Incredible 70 the beholder. that this huge
smart could break, but more delay hap
pens ram It's arrangement than from any
other accident In ocean traffic. This room
- separated by an iron pal tltion from the
HLea. noiu wnere the Immense amount OF
luggage ls stored; and on the same level
Is the electric machinery which lights tae
SHIP ana liners are also other appliances
Wnion conuente the waste steam from the
engines into water for the use OF the chip
except that for drinking purposes.
net ON 10 Orcusl for we ARE bound TO
tont not place which has become so
mythical In the theological world, but Is
living reality to thousands OF human
beings who furnish the motive power By
means OF which millicus OF our fellow
citizens derive the pleasurs and profis In
eident to their years outing. The story
o. or. a, nc, and the saerihce Of one life
Tor the life OF another has lie prototpy Q
here, and ons needs not to 60 bark 10 he
Sreek classics nor consider higher law to
learn lesson OF sslf-abnegation.
An asbestos curt tain was raised. an oder
given to clear path In the pile of COAL,
anu we entered the lower regions, stand
ing uEder the air-shafts which now ma
teriailY ameliorats the condition OF the e
men whose work dooms them after NO or
three years of toll to the certainty OF q
haven OF rest, that bourne from which
no traveller returns. Every fifteen minutes
they shovel into the great white.hent ted
cauldtors on this ship, thirty six in nun
Der, four to SIX hundred ponds Of coal.
During the day they consume two hum
ured ton OF GOAL, while steamers of great
or speed consume Quantities IN more than
geonietrlcai proportion. 1t Is In front Of
these terrible fires that the men receive
their death-blow; Tor. on returning TO the
air the whole heated system receives
shock which soon undermines the consti-
tuition and sends them to an early tomb,
the most dying OF consumption. Al the
engineer said they drop of early from
heat aud cinders and the intsnss labor
required to propei the ship. Thirty-six
mystic Charons seemed to have left their
boats and, although they had not carried
Is over, blackened beyond the semblance
Of men with arms barred and body bert
like aged men before their Tins they re-
sembled old Father Time in the primer
This was the moment Co shovel and the
men worked with viii. It is not SO
inconceivabla that under such treatment
the ship Is propelled as that II can ever
lie made to stop. Every four hours they
chnD ge, from sixty to seventy five being
employed on the ship.
1he cold storage ~ stem is very interest.
ing and as we went up to find it. IL
seemed that we had left behind wierj.
strange world. Poor stokersi Their san
Vice Is perhaps the most deplorable of all
hired labor In the world After the heat
OF Hades comes blisl from the Arctic
regions; for through process something
like liquid air the system of conders ID
ammonia furnishes the snow Zoe for the
preservation OF the beef which Is carried
over In refrigerator chambe to the Eng-
ish markets. This process Is too intricate
for any but the scientist.
We reached the upper deck by wierd
staircasa from the carpenters shop and
the wind gave our garments broadside
OF paint which the skilfuI sailors quickly
removed with waste cotton tipped in tur-
pentine, 81 that not q yestige remained.
This hustle attending the landing at
Liverpool and the excitement of the In
spectors' visit are most wearisoma es-
pecially on hot day. The push for pre-
oedence In the custom -hous,, the final
dash for porters to remove the identified
and examined luggage. and the struggle
with the ineorrigible oab-men are quite
sufficient TO bring on n fit Of nervous pre- s.
tration which no amount of ssryohnine
tablets nor days of delightful travel can
quite remove We es saped all this by get
ting off at Q 1eenstown, and In les, than
an hour we i1und ourselves ensconced In
q fine hotel Ia Cork, where we first learned
how lovely tine Irish are In their homt s
and began TO understand the delightI OF
travel in the Emerald Isle.
We Immediately prepared to visit Blair
ney Csssle, hoping to receive that "sweet
persuasive eloquence almc 81 Irresistible, "
which In the words of Fathsr Pront en-
ables one to
:. Grow eloquent.
IT'S he may chamber
To lsdy's chamber
Or become a member
OF Parliament
"The groves of Blarney
Down by the purling
OF sweet silent streams
IT'S there the daisy
And the sweet c6rnation
The blooming pink
Ana the rose SO fair
The daffodowndiIly
Likewise the lily
All flowers that scent
The sweet fragrant air
A. II. g.