The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-23
NEW HAVEN TO SCOTLAND.
INTERESTING ARTICLE ON THE
 TRIP BY JOHN JAPP.
Ideal Life on the Ocean Wave-Chat With Rev. John G. Patton of MtssiOn- ary Fame-ImpressiOns of the Old Country and Other Interesting Anec- dotcs of the Trip-Arttcie 1.
PART l.

I PART I. ! It hath been customary in days gone
 by to speak or write of the "sood ship 1 when referring to trading or passenger vessels-one and the same thing in
 those days, by the way-howbeit the quality of the said vessel may have
 been very bad. Such amenities of lam
 guage really meaneth very little, and mattereth not whit. If it pleaseth the writer or speaker to dub a broken
 down, unseaworthy old craft as good
 ship" who will gainsay him. But cus- toms in language, as fashions in dress,
 changeth with the changing years. We, in these unregenerate days of slang and corrupt English have almost forgotten this delightful if sometimes misleading, old phrase. And yet, methinks, in these latter days of grace and enterprise, it
 would be more appropriate than in days of yore. For with all the great advance of science, art and industry in the past century, we must reckon the improve
 ment in ocean travelling and transport
 as one of the greatest causes and ef- fects of modern civilization. It em-
 braces all those three great branches of
 
 ing and navigating of the modern ,ves- sel, art in the luxury of it's appoint ments and creature comforts, and in- dustry in the rapidity of transport of freight all oyer the world. Who can
 gaze on one of the magnificent floating
 palaces that circle the globe, like swift
 messengers of peace and love, and for bear casting their minds eye backward for even one short century. To com
 pare the goodliest of the vessels, then,
 with the mediocre of to-day, in speed
 grace or comfort would be like compar
 ing the old stage coach with the En-
 pire State Express. And it is even
 within the memory of man to testify to the vast and almost incredible improve ment. Why repeat old history! Need 1t be set down here how many weeks it used to take to cross the Atlantic, the cabined, cribbed, confined space to live in, and the awful terrors of sea-sick- ness? It need not. Every body knows it either from personal experience or hearsay, and almost everybody, who is anybody. knows of the delights and comforts of modern ocean travelling. But, though every schoolboy knows to some extent the commercial ramif1ca- tions of the great steamship companies, to fully appreciate the comfort and se- curity of travelling nowadays one has to travel. gS 4,1
 Enough, enough. Come off your perch! What has all this to do with a trip to Scotland?"
 Easy, my masters, gently, By'r lady and gadzooks likewise f faith, it hath everything to do with it. Ye can not cross the ocean in a coal scuttle And if I cannot tell my story my own way, so please you, shall not tell it at all."
 "All right, you garrulous old mouther, keep your wool ori and go ahead"
 Well, we'll, to resume. In the olden time such was the fhumor of the people, a vessel might be announced to sail at a certain hour on certain day, and sail, more than likely, very promptly the same hour and day the following week; and all in good part and feeling. People were not in such hurry those days. Even now, when everyone wants to "get there" first, there occurs delays rarely 'tis true-in the sailing of our ocean liners Tn the fall of last year had a personal experience of this am noyance. Thus it was: The "good ship F'urnessia, of the Anchor Line, was billed to sail Saturday, September g, 1900, at noon but owing to the exi- gencies of commerce was delayed till Sunday afternoon The "exigencies" lere referred to was the shipping of a 1 arge quantity of electric plant for the | new inst a 11ation in the citv of G1aS-