Arizona weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1885-1903, 1900-06-06
EN- ROUTE TO PARIS EXPOSITION.
From Our Regular Correspondent
AIid-Ocean May On 1uop

In ,tr TO reach the Paris exposi-
ton sc Americans must embark.
Thee IS no dry road thither Embark
alton on Il great liner is AN act on a
great stage, with comic. me.odramatic
and even tragic scenes. The huge
vessel looms alongside De. pier. The
hour for sailing is II. but three hours
earlier the passengers begin To arrive.
with bag and baggage. scrip and scrip
page. some with family. Wallets and
maids. others alone: some with six
trunks. others with grip and an
umbrella; some in liveried carriages,
others on a street car. Messengers
arrive with flowers. the riffs of
/ friends
For an hour or more before the
time for sailing the decks and public
rooms of the great vessels are crowded.
/ bur for the most part by relatives and
friends of those who have come to see
the passengers off. The hour for sail
ing is near. the screws of the steamer
are turning. but merely for practice,
getting their hand in before they
strike the long wet streak across the
Atlantic The ships band breaks up
on the bable of tongues with a lively
promenade Many. supoSing the hour
! has come. rush down the plank. lest
they he taken to Europe unprepared;
but the more experienced await the
! final signal. for the band Will with
intermissions. play several more airs.
/ Tie time for parting has come
Those who sail on the Hamburg
American line are largely i,crman-
Americans, and they either feel ;AnIc
or pretend 10 feel more. or restrain
their feelings less. than we undemon-
strative un-hyphenated Americans
They kiss. embrace and veea. and
then, after Il breathing spell rush "a;
each other and do il again. Men kiss
men. and women kiss women. ct vice
versa ad libitum. all the while hook
ing at each other with such looks of
longing despairing fonGnesS as we
are accustomed to see only when the
coffin lid closes for the last time
FINELY there is signal for frien1s to
leave the boat. and, after q last repeti
ton of narrowing pa~,in-s The i'm
mense steel floating hotel moves
slowly from the pier and Then with
increasing speed sails down the bay
and out to sea.
In the crews which man the great
passenger ships of the German liners
the German empire has educated
race of seamen that is second numeric-
ally to that Of England alone. ana
perhaps not second in the skill. cour-
ge and seaworthiness of the Individual
sail II. 1t must be remembered that
these trained men of the merchant
marine belong to the reserve force Of
The German navy. and can DE called
on at any moment 10 man the war
ships that he German kaiser is SO in
dustrially building. 1t should be re-
membered by our counirymen and our
statesmen that within the last year
the United States has ent an army Of
10000 men over 4 sea route of Zoo
miles. and that England has tIaversed
the same distance with more than POO
600. and $4,000 horses. We are no
longer the isolated people. sea-girt is
by fire we once were. and we have
not an overwhelming navy like that
of England TO protect Us. Count
Won Moltke said that he had drawn
dozen successful plans for the inva-
sion Of England. but had never been
able to plan successful retreat after
he had landed an overwhelming Ger
man army Would he find the same
difficulty with the United States:
He or rather his successor. viii if
our sea power keeps pace with our
wonderful material development and
our widening interests abroad.
We are now in sight of Cherbourg.
with its great walled artificial harbor
and colossal statue of the Great Ma
poleon. astride big bronze stallion.
his arm extended pointing 10 the
magnificent wall stretching far out in
the sea, and inscribed below in ex-
celent French. though he spoke an
Italian patois. I viii reproduce NJ
Cherbourg the marvels of Egypt
I shall take the train for Paris to-
morrow. and in my next letter win
tackle the exposition. The subject
mas already been much be-written, and
would despair of writing anything
worth printing were it not for the fact
that it is physical imposibility sci
entifcally proved that 10 two eyes
ever see the same object. If this is
true of the physical sight, how pro
foundly true it is OF the pSychical in
sight