Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-05

was launched last Saturday and christcned
Hendrick Hudson. II is pronounced the
largest passenger steamer in the world
used on inland waters The steamer will
accommodate 5000 passengers and is hand
somely decorated throughout AS no
freight of any description will be carried,
every deck is given over to the use Of pas
sengers. The general dimensions are;
Length over all, 800 feet; breadth of hull,
43 feet; depth, IA feet; draught 8 feet.
The new boat will be placed on the AL
bany-New York run next August The
Hudson will cost almost 100000.
Transatlantic travel this year promises
to make a new record in volume All the
steamship Offices in Lower Broadway are
doing the great business of their existence
Never before has a desire so thoroughly
awakened to travel in foreign lands. IN
the morning mail OF one OF the agencies
the other day were no less than 100 letters
making inquiries about sailing. Whole Of
fee STATS are working overtime to keep up
with the volume of business. When at the
close of 1906 figures OF the different lines
were summed up and It was found that in
round numbers 5000 first and 10000
second cabin passengers, a total OF $4,000.
had gone to Europe from the port of New
York alone, there was a general specula-
ton as to what this year would bring
forth. Some doubling Thomases predicted
a slump, but they were few. The business
done so far has exceeded the hopes of the
veriest optimists, and the outlook has never
been equalled or even approached.
Twenty per cent over the record of last
year is regarded by many as a conserva-
tive estimate of the increase in the vol
ume of this years business. This has moth
ing to do with the figures for steerage
traf1c. There are some who say that IS
per cent would be a better estimate, based
on the bookings already made and the vast
number of inquiries that are pouring in.
The United Fruit company's steamship
Bodo, from Port Antonio. Jamaica, is prac-
tically of the maritime lists. The men
who go down to the sea in ships can't
quite puzzle out where it does belong since
1t gaily jumped the bar of Clos Inlet, l..
l., and crawled ashore.
The Bodo lost it's way in a snowstorm
and when Captain Berger N. Larsen
thought he was off the Jersey coast he
felt a bump, after an eagle-like swoop on
the top of a big wave. He Immediately be-
gan firing of rockets in the hope of awak-
ening Jerseyites
The Bodo, which draws eleven feet had
been cropping its way through very high
seas. The bar of the inlet is exposed at
low tide, the beach sloping gently to the
water line. Beyond is deep water In the
hollow of the sea the Bodo would have
struck upon the bar and have been
smashed to pieces. AS it was, 1t was riding
the crest of a mighty wave when it
reached the bar. 1t didn't bump until 1t
hit the beach, the wave that carried 1t
there scurrying back to sea and abandon
ing it.
The life saving crews of Oak Island and
Fire Island answered the signals. but It
was high tide and the surf was too heavy
for them to go to the Bodo. When the
tide went out there was not a drop of
water within 200 feet of the vessel The
crews of Fire Island and Oak Island
strolled out to the vessel and paid a morn
ing call.
There is no way of getting the Bodo on
the maritime lists again unless a canal is
dug for 1t.
Despite its reputation for msrule under
Tammany New York has a way OF doing
things that will no doubt surprise property
holders in other cities. At meeting of
the commissioners of the sinking fund
resolution was adopted that the Pennsyl-
vania pay 100000 for West Thirty-second
street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues
The Pennsylvania, New York & Long Island
railroad, which is building the immense
terminals for the main system. secured the
abandonment of Thirty-second, from Sew
enth to Tenth avenues, having purchased
property on both sides of the street For
the blocks between Seventh and Ninth ave-
nues the Pennsylvania paid to the city
$7SS,OOO, or an average of $4,000 per block
Nearly forty years ago there was a famine
In China and the New York Chamber OF
Commerce raised a fund of $4,000 which
was sent to China for the relief OF the
sufferers. In return the viceroy OF Marking
sent to the chamber a tablet with an in
scrption which was never translated till
the other day. when one of the Chinese
commissioners now In this country said 1t
read:
There may be a difference in races
there exists a universal brotherhood"
Attorneys for the New York Central rail-
road created a new basis for the settlement
of damage suits growing out of accidents
when they compromised with Rev. DR..
Daniel Bella, a slovak preacher. at the
rate of 1900 for every bone broken.
DR.. Bella was In the viaduct collision
at One Hundred and Fourth street last
fall. When he was removed TO St. Marks
| hospital it was found that twenty of his
bones had been broken. Figuring on the
basis of $1,000 a bone the railroad COM
| promised the case for $4,000.
The proprietor OF the newly furnished
| New York hotel has given an order TO a
publishing house for 200 Bibles. which will
| be placed In the rooms for the use Of
guests 'It will surprise most persons to
| know ne says, that a great many re-
/ Guests come to us from commercial trav-
elers for a copy Of the Bible. They say
they Nike to read a chapter before going to
bed Just why they do not carry the book
with thern ! don't know. but it is a fact
this supposedly goddess class Of men often
| call for the Bible when stopping here"
EmtlieH of the Rich.