The Newtown bee., 1905-01-06
NE WS FROM PARIS.
A WASHINGTON FRIEND SENDS AN IN
 TERESTING LETTER.

The following detailed account of a trip to Paris, and description of this beautiful city will be of interest to the readers of THE BEE: We sailed from New York, October 5, at 8 a. m., on the ship "Deutschland." Though it is not the largest boat afloat it is the fastest, and holds by some hours the record on all Atlantic trips. Her fast est time is five days, seven hours and 38 minutes. She has 2 length of 687 feet and a breadth of 67 feet, her weight being 23,OOO tons. In order to supply the necessary power there are l6 boilers is consumed at the rate of 573 tons per day. It is needless to say that the provisioning is the most i'm portant par of all, when you consider that when her cabin list is full there are more than sixteen hundred people on board, including her crew of five hundred and fifty. Amongst other things provided for the voyage there are three tons of poultry, ten tons of meat, seventeen hundred dozens of eggs, 75 barrels of assorted vegetables; l75 barrels of potatoes, four and half tons of fresh fruit, $50 pounds of yeast, 90 barrels of flour and 400 of drinking water. Those facts, though uninter-
 
 size of the ship. A I said before, we backed slowly away from the dock at a little after eight o'clock, in the midst of cheering from the crowd on shore who were waving American and Ger man flags and vainly wishing us a good crossing. Then a little pompous tug took us down though the harbor and almost before we knew it the boat be- gan to vibrate with the power of her own engines, and the shores of Long Island were rushing by us, as we had really started on our voyage and all connection with land cut off. Almost immediately we ran into cloudy weath CT, and the next day it began to rain, not to clear or to give us a glimpse of sun or stars till after we had been in Paris for some hours. So every day passed like every Other-the decks were | too slippery and wet to walk on with | comfort or safety: there was no view | to be had for we were shut in not only | by fog but by canvas to keep US from | being entirely drenched. Thus for five l sit tightly tucked in our steamer chairs, the only diversson being a band 1 concert on deck every morning at ten or the chance that some sudden roll or pitch would put some pOmpOuS stout man off his balance and cheer us up for the day. But on the sixth day there came diversion. Suddenly we felt the boat become still as her engines stopped, and of course every woman got pale and nervous and every man
 pretended he wasn't. But soon she | went on only to stop again in 20 min- uteS. After some time we discovered that owing to the fog and clouds they | were off their course and so for Safety's sake were going to stop every few min- uteS till they knew where we were. So | all day and ali the evening we stopped; | and, in spite of the big dinner which is given to the captain on the last night | out, every one was discOnsOlate and no ore knew when we would land or any thing about it. But just after mid night there was shout and there | ahead of us were the lights of the Scilly Islands, showing through the l lifting fog. Then every one, whether and great publication enSued, for our journey was nearly over, and in spite of our horrible weather, and in spite of | being driven from our course, we were | on time.
 The next morning, October 5, at o'clock, we were in Plymouth harbor, where two boats met us to take the passengers and mail for England, as the Deutschland herself enters no dock | between New York and Hamburg. Plymouth harbor isl one of, the most beautiful places that can be imagined. The bay is very irregular so that on all sides lie the shores of England. That | morning the entire harbor was filled with little old fashioned sail boats of l the style of century or more ago,