Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-04-26
An Ocean Pa.aee.
From Success Magazine.

Every six months or sn a big new
liner sfeams up the North river. to tn.
west OF New York city. and displays II
great many flags; and the ~ferryboats
and lighters whistle the conventional
three foot sa%lutation. and the stewards
hand biares its brassiest as the levia-
than-it is always a observation-disclosures
laborously into her dock. Before noon,
we may be sure-certain newspapers
Will come out with imaginative pen
drawings of the monster OF the deep"
supposedly reposing In Broadway at
City Hal! park or standing upright on
her twin screws beside the Park Row
building. Then, for Il morning or two.
OF those of us who are so fortunate as
TO sleep In New Jersey will make it
n point to step outside of our ferryboat
cabin and stan among n baggage
trucks n the coal wagons try
to pick out the new liner by the mark
inss on her funnels--for your true sleep
er In New Jersey, though he may not
understand what David Belasco is 50
excited about. or who wrote Prone
taeus Unbound" or why Arthur James
Halfcur resigned. is pretty sure to know
that the Cunarders have red tunnels
with black tops. that the White Star
tunnels are buff with black tops. and
that the American and Red Star fun
nels are black and white.
Then. when we ave made nut the
two buff tunnels OF the 'Amerika..
| which identify the latest new ship az
tho property of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
line. VIC of Jersey city are likely to
remain OF a morning. In the ferryboat
cabin. and to bury our noses Ia the
very respectable New Jersey edition
OF IA very respectable New York news
paper. But the "Amerika" demands.
and deserves a closer look. She marks
the goal of Il s%hipbuilding contest In
which close to a half dozen great lines
! have hpnn long onUQ god She Ia n r,n,,-
BILE hotel In which four thousand per-
sons can live In greater or less comfort
land some of 1t very great. indeed).
during the seven or eight day voyage
from New York to Plymouth and HAM
burg. Every known device which con-
tributes to the comfort. the safety. the
health. and the recreation OF ocean
travellers may be found aboard this
wonderful shi.. and some devices which
were never known before. The system
of water tight b%ulkheads has been
brought to a point where II insures
nearly absolute safety. The 0rganiza-
ton OF the ship and the coordination
OF the different departments center so
completely on the bridge that the cap
tain has the control Of it all at hts
on a track Al does the Twentieth Cen
fury Limited" The navigating officer.
by merely holding ii receiver to his ear
can hear the under water signals OF the
a lightships. The lookout commune
Gates with the bridge. from his crows
nest on the foremost. through a loud
speaking telephone. Below decks there
Ii a very humorous Swedish gynna
:um. where you may lie or comfortable
sofas. and be vibrated and twisted and
JOlteI by cunning electrical machinery.
and where o may ride horses and
camels whose varied motions closely
approach verisimilltude There are
electric light baths and n florists shop
and a ladies' hair dressing parlor ana u
children's room with charming colored
panels from Mother Goose and
Grimm's Fairy Taies"--and so on and
on.