The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-05
Will Be the Liner
Oceanic.
FATHER O'FLYNN."
Something About the Au-
thor of This Popular Song.

ten up in the columns Of the Ameri-
, can and European press, the size of
the vessel making her construction an
event of first Importance in the annals
of modern ship building Most of the
articles dealing with the ship. how
ever, have either been too general or
too technical in tone to give the aver
age lay reader clear idea of the
ships enormous dimensions. Perhaps
the following facts will therefore be of
interest to the popular mind:
First of all. the Oceanic is expected
to make a regular Wednesday morning
arrival in New York and Liverpool.
That is, her schedule sailing day from
either port being Wednesday, she is
due at the port of destination the fol-
| lowing Wednesday, the trip both ways,
| of course, including the stop at
| Queenstown to receive or land passen-
| gers and the mail. Her designers go
even further and claim that as soon
| as the ships engines are shaken
down" and everything running smooth,
the Oceanic will do the voyage from
| Liverpool to New York in four and
one-half days. The coaling capacity
is so large that the steamer will be
able to go around the world without
coaling. She can accommodate
larger number of people than has ever
| been afloat before on single ship-410
first-class passengers, 200 second class
| 1000 steerage or third-class and 1894
crew-2004 souls in all.
| Two street cars could pass each
| other inside one of her smoke stacks if
it were lying on the ground, and an
athlete could do his 500 yards sprint
around the upper decks if he wanted
70 1lr1 If
Not less than $4,000, 900 will have been
spent on the ship by the time she is
ready for sea.
In a general way, the Oceanic will
compare with the historic Great East
ern, as follows: Length of the Great
Eastern was $50 feet, that of the
Oceanic is 704 feet. When loaded for
voyage the weight of the Oceanic will
be 2S,500 TONS the Great Eastern's
weight was $4,000 tons. When it
comes to the engines and the steaming
capacity, there is no comparison be-
tween the Oceanic and her mightiest
predecessor.
| Already there is talk Of another of
the great ferrying companies of the
Atlantic-probably the Cunard-having
| plans made for a steamer even larger
than the Oceanic. If this rivalry keeps
| up, there will be need of some deep
| dredging in New York harbor or those
big ships cannot come in and steam UP
to their piers. Boston will not be in
the new competition at all, and she
never will be until. her sleepy, slow
moving Solons wake up to the need Of
spending few millions on the develop
ment of her dock system and the
Strengthening and deepening of the
channel down the harbor Boston
might be made the Liverpool of Amer
lca' II Bostons public men were only
enterprising enough to take a leaf out
of the English LiverpooIs book, in the
way of providing sufficient and proper
accommodation for the largest ship
ping AS it is today, none of the
| large Atlantic liners come into Boston,
| partly because of the risk of ground
ing coming in or going out, in the
crooked main channel, and partly be-
cause the antiquated piers at East Bos-
ton are not large enough or the water
alongside them deep enough for The
SHIPS requirements.
Boston needs a board in charge of her
harbor and dock system, made I'm of
| cltlzens as alert and progressive as
those VINO compose the Liverpool port
ana docks board, men whose brains en-
lerprlse and courage have made the
city by the Mersey the foremost shin
ping port Of the world.
u the large colony of brilliant literary
lilshmen who make London their HOME
mere is none more popular than Artbr,
FerclVal Graves, son of the Protestant
plshop of Limerick. Mr. Graves organ
izeu the Irish Literary Society of Lon
qon which includes in its memberships
justin Mccarthy, r. P. O'Connor Rarrp
brien' Charles Gavin Duffy, Stopford
BROOKE, Standish O'Grady Francis A
fahy, John Augustus O'Shea Frsni,
NJ t, gran1 nephew of the apostle
o o., temperance, Lady Wilde, 7. D. Sni-
writer's. - ~ wen hiloWh
Mr.. Graves is himself an au+bo,, 80
no mean standing. He writes much for
.ne press and in the magazines. Rut he
mas made his greatest fame nv Gov,
posing the words of the ever-non,,in,,
sons' rather O'Flynn" What othe1
sung writer mas put together in orr dav
SUCH slnsaple' lines as these:
VI priests We can offer a charming
variety, N'i''' ming
Ear Ear renown'd for larnin' and pietv.
F t,ti S 9uHance we Widout improperly
''iis ~, flynn as the fow'r Of them
(Chorus)
r rie!e d heaIth to you, Father O'Flvpr
2iaInte ana Slainte and Slainte OIL -
70" rtulest preacher and Tendance
i teacher 'ehoerest
creature In oSld Donegal.
Don't talk of your Provost ana r.,,.
4 of Trinity, u elbows
Fafnous for ever at Greek and T.a+i;4
EalX and tho divils and ali at Diyyi,iit3y.
ALL CO Oh them
Come, | venture to give We NV word
4 never the likes OF his logic was haera
/ Down from mythology into tba,. nearu
Troth! and conchology if he nay ~ 91io !,
call. nc hau the
och' Father Flynn, you've a wondarr,,.
4 way wild you.
All ou1a sinners are wishful to pray
All the young childer are wild 60
fouVe such way wild Won Fa+bor
Avick! '0"' ather
sun for all, you've so gentle a. soul
pau' you've your flock in the grandest
Checking the crazy ones. coaxin' on
Liftin' the lazy ones on with tho stio,,
1 volity, III
Still at all seasons of innocent iollitv
Whefe was the play boy could claim AZ
equality al
| Once, the Bishop look'd grave at 1,o,,x
I Jest, ''o'
TIL this remark set him off wild the
4 rest ''s
! is it lave gaiety all to the laity
cannot the clergy be Irishmen, too?n
OF the members of this London Liter.
airy Society mentioned above, there ie
one, Mr.. Fahy who though little KNOW
on thas side Of the water, has won for