The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-04

there is than one way of celebrating.
JUST BETLDEEN YOU IND NE
At sea-Lattude degrees w, Longitude "a degrees NJ
Sunday June ~, Royal Mail Steamship carpathia.
WHALE, school of porposes, four ships and
n night the only voyage
far,and Queenstown, landing leaving
York at o'clock June g. Friday morning
next. One day is SO like another
realize that to-day is Sunday Except that plays cards
shuttle board quoits and that service held
dining salon. everything just the There is
the routine of promenading deck lying
in chairs, wrapped up like in rugs,
amount of doing, reading watching
ever moving the ending rise and fall Of the boat
the ncessant chug, chug, chug of the engines
New York hot the day sailed, with the
mildly which only New York can boa ST. The ship was
of wild confusion before sailing time
Passengers coming aboard with Precipitation standing
beads on their faces wild eyed thinking evidently or
acting if they thought something away
them they did not hurry hurry hurry actually nail
it down There porters carrying
grips suit shawl containing
piows-surey porters before to
for every finger At end of the ship trunks
at time cutched by huge and lowered into
hold feet below the water line At the
bales Of lifted and lowered into the bowels the
ship in the On the water side of the boat,
elevator had sucked grain from out barge and poured it.
loose, into another Perhaps
same wheat from the western praes Minnesota,
Dakotas Iowa or Wisconsin half hour before the adver
sed sailing tme all visitors left the ship minutes
was pulled ashore and last of all the
for the saloon passengers Then there low,
whistle another and anotherand then slight
began to slide
But liner backs into the
her power How, then being guided? Looking
down from our three story height little dot of tug
with her nose against and it was her humming engines
which pushed the great unwieldy liner the
Then another little dot of put her
stern the other side between pushed
pushed until the bow Of the carpata squarel
down stream. Only then did the ships engines begin
BY six o'clock were at Sandy Hook and the
ming of sight next eight days
The always hardest even an ex-
perenced traveller, exception u.s. The
ship small people everywhere there was no place
into which could crawl for privacy
Not to ones
who have the right days
sailing of New York in gulf
heat deck and sitting heat in the inside
late in the afternoon of the
and decided change The air COLDER
coat collars turned steamer brought
donned and the long
lief settled invigorating GOODNESS
the rest of the trip
There really aboard ship except on
windy too showery there perfect
chairs in the library writing desks
and tables and dvans and chairs every table,
but all tight to the enough away
desk table to permit slip in this
writes, the extreme edge of the chair
be used It is literally sitting ragged edge-and
whether is the ragged edge something nothing
after jigged slipped around
for few minutes
The chairs in the dining tight to the floor too
but have saving swinging way
take his at the table
and then aboriousy swing place.
tonary furniture is weather
exactly comfortable in any
The first morning out for a promenade be-
fore breakfast and when looking sharp
black points sticking out of the
call attention to them,
eaped out of the water and dove joyousy again
too astonished to make loud
and four began jumping out diving unison
made could not have been dgnfed squeal
of delight Fortunately there
hands and they must have long
of "land lubbers.' I racking NV
brains for the of these playful
knew had heard of Them merely hearing things
not fix them in ones mind like seeing
looked inqungly at the
engineer who smoking nearby with
he said Porpoises Only "porpuss
And then, do know, felt funny. have al
heard of PROPOSES and their playful
stories Of the and from in
ships, but had porposes like
that not going to ten what thought they