The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-09

Unheated, unfinished with the most
ordinary necessaries of travelling,
secluded to the point of absolute dan
ger for lonely passengers, the wonder
is that so progressive and comfort-lov-
ing a people as the British have tOlera-
ted them so long.
Now, if they will only put q cow
catcher and a big headlight on the en-
CINE and add to the train a baggage
car in which the luggage" will re
cared for and transferred without the
owner thereof being worried to death
at every junction, railway travelling in
Victoria's dominions will be as COM
Portable hereafter as it has always
been in those of Uncle Sam.
Liverpool has lost its ship building
industry for all time, the last ship to
be built on the Mersey having run off
the ways last week. This may seem
surprising news from the largest sea-
port of the world; but the tendency of
the ship building business has for years
been towards the Clyde, and the few
yards that remained in operation at
Liverpool were devoted mainly to re-
pairs, with an occasional order for a
gunbOat or government launch. Even
these are now silenced, as the eXter-
prising Port and Docks board has just
extraordinarily the largest in the
world-for the purpose Of meeting the
growing competition of Southampton,
and accommodating the huge ocean
liner of the future. Every foot of wa
ter front is to be devoted to docks o..
their appurtenances, and the work,
which will cost millions, will be rushed
so that when the mighty Oceanic starts
from Belfast to take on Eer first cars
H. Gv,I rT1= vrrfa
gates wide enough to receive her. one
of the worst handicaps the Great East
ern labored under was that her un-
usual width would not permit her to
enter any of the docks at Liverpool,
and her loading and unloading mad 10
he done by lighters in the river, which
was as costly as it was dangerous.
Peter Dunn. the Chicago newspaper
man who has won both fame and gold
bv his amusing weekly dialogues be-
tween Mr.. Dooley and Mr.. Hennessey,
is going over to his native Irish heath
next summer. He is said to be native
of county Roscommon, and it is claim
cd that the peculiar dialect of his in
irnitable productions is drawn from his
early recoIlections of that section Of
ireland. "Dooley' has grown to be
oufte a fad in London, where his book
is meeting with lively sale. For TINS
he has to thank the Spectator a
good deal. its editorial review of his
book. "AIr. Dooley in Peace and War
having attracted considerable atten-
ton particularly the statement that
tbe author is a worthy successor to Ar
temus Ward This comparison IS,
however. hardly iustifable. Artemus
Ward viii be read with interest ana
pleasure generations hence, Wh ne
Doolev's points viii not outlive the
nT qe, decade; they Will fall dulled
and lost upon the people Of the future.
Mr.. Dooley is wise TO make ms nay
while the sun of the Americo-Spanko
war is still in the heavens.
He will disappoint a great many many pee. peo y,
Die if his gifted pen does not cut some
funny pranks while he is abroad IN
ireland. He certainly cannot suffer
from dearth Of material, as his ooserN-
ant eye surveys the situation IN the
Emerald isle.
Some fearfully and wonderfully Wit
ten advertisements appear from time 10
time in the newspapers O. Great BRIT