New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-16
LAST OF THE CITY OF ROME
THE ANCHOR LINER To BE BROKEN UP
SOME OF THE PASSENGERS SHE
CARRIED-A YARN IN RHYME.


A dispatch from Europe few days ago con-
tanned the information that the steamship City of |
Rome. we'll known 10 many travellers. after trav-
cling across the Atlantic between this port and |
Glasgow for twenty-One years. in the service Of
the Anchor Line. to be broken up for old junk
One Of the last Of her type. to which the City
of Paris and the City of New-York. now the Phil
adelpha and the New-York. of the American Line.
belonged, she is giving way a more modern and
speedier boat. the Columbia. Like the Paris aud
the New-York. which have been remoeehed at an
expense OF hundreds of thousands OF dollars, she
had graceful clipper bow and three stacks. Her
lines were particularly graceful In her prime she
was one OF the largest passenger carriers ahoat-
She could accommodate about two thousand per-
sons and had in her cabin on one voyage more
than five hundred passengers
The building of the City Of Rome. Whieh was
launched at the yards of the Barrow Shipbuildius
| Company, at Barrow-in-Furness. England In ISL
| was connected with the demise Of the old Inmah
| Line. This line had ordered the steamer When IL
was completed the company sued the builders lot
| a sum of money alleging that the steamer did not
fulfil the contract The builders refused TO deliver
| the steamer and chartered her TO the Anchor Line
| In her early days the City OF Rome used TO make
| the trip between Glasgow and New-York in seven
/ days.
| MANY well known persons crossed her
| Thomas Hughes the author of Tom Browns
! School Days and tom Brown at Oxford, came
| over on the City of Rome 10 visit the colony at
|
particuIar trip received wide newspaper notice az
| the time because of the action of the well known
| author and other passengers. VINO comPlanlsu u
| the agents of the Anchor Line that oaccarat was
/ plaved in both the smoking room and the recep-
! ton room for large stakes, and boys were per
mitted to see the play and TO take part c MhSn
Henry Irving first visited this country IN l'sS me
| sent his company the City OF Rome. Sons
of those in the company who crossed on tne aSoie
Al Hndr T1ss Meredith BAH Norma Forbes Charles
Harburyi Mr. ana 5 Mrs' and Was buried at Cieve-
land at the age Of eighty years, while on q recent
tour With the G9Gny Ha ar Miss Jessie
ward William TeTrss who Mas Wssss% the poe
also on Mat Mas %rote
seaman's Orphanage at Liverpool Mr. Bal set T., II
benefit OF the l and more than seventeen
949qed at Of santiago sailed santander SPAIN
ON sne C eSrs Gt crossed the Atlantic this
feam tba there We're more than three dozen min
listers of different denominations IN the caoln ~ ~
SomP9sng ballad IL on w sae ah Rfi O. Rs Yarn
the City of Rome" and ran as follows
Twas on the steamship City Of Rome
| OF the good old Anchor Line ..o,
I That / saw the deck human "fecA'
| Who gazing into the prime
He'd a hymnbook clasped beneath each arm:
| He'd clerical collar white.
And again and again single strain
He recited with all his might;
.Oh l am Unitarian,
And Aha Baptist ptsS' bold though bsRtisms Cold
And l am also true hebrew
Then he shrieked hymn out through his nose.
ATd wat s1ltGr the heaf saiiors dying throes
l spoke to him and said;
! "oh. it's little know Of religion so
Z You'll please explain 20 me-.
For I'll eat my vest. II ] can digest
: How possibly you can be
: "A Unitarian, a Presbyterian.
! That's religion enough for the passengers
The captain and all his crew
He ran his hands through his Priestly hair.
stopped bowling through his his, nose nose: sok
Related To me his woes
Twas on this good ship City of Rome
i sailed for the English .,;ss so aoi, 90. ~,
To be free from care. snin sat sea ar
And eat sardines on toast
And all was merry as a marriage bell.
And the r ship HsF PT9Hd u nefe
Three dozen preachers appeared
They preached that night in the music hall
Till about half-past eleven. -
Then out on the deck began to bawL
And began next morn at seven.
At breakfast time we had Iong prayers,
For, by way OF easing all our cares.
They gave hymns for dinner.
And one by one the passengers died
And, each one gave up breath.
The verdict Of the doctor was
! This man was preached to death
Till was the only one man left
OF all that went to
1 of reason almost bereft
When they got converting me.
And one Of them made M Baptist bold
And a Unitarian another.
Then I entered the Presbyterian fold
And 1 called Hebrew brother
SO I never cease to howl my hymns.
And never cease to pray;
And a single strain, again AMI again
l sing. which is TO say:
&c oh. I am U-ni-tar-i-an.
And Presbyterian. too,
And a Baptist bold though baptism's cOld),
md [ am nlSn a Hehreur