The Worthington advance., 1900-07-20

what privilege We are having!
Ireland is beautiful, very little tc
little to suggest Emerald tho, rocky
cliffs, high and sheer, of some some
red stone. Again low shores with
fine farms laid out with wonderful
squareness and hedged with stone
with great exactness. Many light
houses on picturesque rock heaps
white, tall, striking. Today's ride
has been quite eventful-large fish,
probably shark; large flock of gulls
following US; scenes on shore; many
ships going either way; the stop at
Queenstown for nearly an hour; the
general excitement of getting ready
to land. Some days have been quiet,
but not this.
/ was up by 4:3O this mt rning, as
have been two or three times before
on this trip. Always the early hours
are beautiful, for work or reading,
quiet and profitable. l di4 not sight
the first land, but was out soon
enough to see it nicely. Some whose
nostrils or imaginations were in es.
pecially good trim noticed it even
then; but not until 7 q. m., did l mo
tice the land smell. Then it was
strong and fine. 1t sort of warned
one up as a good dinner would. First
one gull came, then another and
another, until now one cannot count
them. Thev swoop down in great
eagerness whenever anything goes
overheard; of course they are after
biscuits, etc., When anything eata-
BILE is found, they settle into the
water thick, a d clean it up absolute-
ly as far as we can see.> We have
take" nj, e pictures thus far: if they
prove good, they will bring a 20 d
deal Of enjoyment. There must be
Is cameras in our company. ....s ,.s. ..:,s.' /.
TIE operations a plsensto own we're
interesting. A Cunarder "Saxonia''
= an there at the same time. The sea
~as very smooth. Neither ship went
to tho inner harbor, but each was met
by lighters and discharged on to them.
We had two lighters. One WAS for
mail only and such quantities / never
thought of before-think of four or
five piles each az big as load of hay.
The other was for baggage and
Twas not a large boat
for out here, but v.ry large fer the
Mississippi or Lake Superior, and
when it left us, it was just buried
with trunks aud standing people. l
can give no measure for it. We had
on board 1910 people; 1 presume 500
left ns then. We are now out of
sight of land again, 275 me. Queens
town and Liverpool. Our usual day s.
log has been APO ma. perhaps, once
81 high as 443 ms. in "a h; lowest the
first day 389 nls.
Last evening some eight of the
men made a very interesting tour OF
The machine rooms of the vessels
massiveness, power, intricateness,
completeness are the main impression.
Two triple expansion engine. run by
22 engineers and 40 firemen, with
l6 double boilsrs, rs fires using 800
tons of coal daily. The rod for each
screw is two feet in diameter, and the
screw was revolving 65 time a minute
when we read the indicator. Terribly
hot down there. Besides these en-
gines is an immense distilling plant,
for salt water can't be used here:
OF course it won't do for drinking or
cooking; in the boilers the salt left
behind by the steam would clog and
crowd; in the toilet rooms or closets
even, it wont do for the pipes rust
out very much faster. Water for
boilers and toilet is takeu from port
in immense tanks in the bottoms of
the ship. Water for cooking and
drinking is distilIed-indeed is often
served warm, even when we call for
drinking water. Then there ia large
refrig-ratiug plant-,he first l ever
saw, I have no practical knowledge of
it-but haue read OF them. In this
the smell of ammonia was noticeable,
and the ice-fro.t covers the pipes
three-fourths OF an iuch deep proba'
bly,. When We were down down on
the level with ,he screw We were 20 #.
below water AID the ship went down
at least another 20 and I think 30
feet.
We have had a useful trip. No
storm or high waves, lots Of sleep, a
very congenial company, four hearty
meal, a day. l could go right on al
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