The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-10-09

suffering Samuel Johnson he yell
ed. whats this cryptic sentence
mean?'
The CORRESPONDENT explained that 1t
was one of his own code words. mean
ing that the l.usitania was going ahead
at high speed. The word full" after
"tank." he said. would mean that she
was going ~ her top speed of twenty
five knots.
The weakest part of the great liner
was the Cunard Daily Bulletin, which
was SO feeble that the printer used to
go to sleep setting it up. 1t struck the
crowd OF newspaper men on board that
it would be a kindness to the purser.
who was editor as we'll as press cen
sor, If we took the labor OF his hands
and brought out a real live paper filled
| with the little incidents and romances
that were happening every minute
around us. When the proposition was
put to him Mr.. Lancaster stepped back
| at least four feet. with alarm depicted
on his cherub-like ~countenance. and
said:
"Oh, no! One would eve know
what would happen to one II n al
lowed ones work to be taken out Of
ones hands, would one?"
1--WE thought that 1t was possible
one would not" judging by the re-
marks the owner Of the amateur code
made daily about the censor.
BY oon on Tuesday we had made q
run of SIS miles, 1921 miles from
Queenstown, and all on board felt hap
py with the idea that the British nag
would once more fly in the van and the
colors Of the famous Deutschland
would be hauled down. Alas, It was
not to be! That night we had a rough
sea and n strong north-northeast wind
which whistled around the promenade
deck, but did not rock the ship a little
bit.
The pools were auctioned on each
night in the smoking room, which
seemed to arouse some of the men on
board from their lethargy in the hope
Of winning money from their fellow
passengers. The highest pool was
$1,000 and was won by a man who
paid 5000 for the number.
About midday on Wednesday,, after
the run Of $40 miles had been put up
on the notice board, the whistle was
blown, and as the weather was clear
we all rushed out on deck to discover
the cause. BY the aid of powerful
glasses we saw a small steamer about
twenty miles ahead right In our track.
t The vessel looked so near to the Off
Ger from the altitude Of eighty feet on
the bridge that he was afraid the I4ust-
} tania would run her down, and a Draw
, ny chief from Scotland's shores shout.
ed out over the bow, "Ship ahoy, get
, out of the road or Wen sink you! AL
most before the excitement had died
away we passed her.
= On Wednesday night we had a cOn
cert in the lounge. with a couple OF
speeches. in one Of which Senator
Sutherland declared that the Lusitania
was more beautiful than SolomOn's
e temple and large enough to hold all his
wives and mothers-in-law. while Rob
ert Baifour, NJ. T., spoke of the shil
e as nnut!.er link of friendship bctWeel
y America and England. Senator Suth
$ orlanl caused the first laugh that haI
l. been raised on the ship since leavin:
v Queenstown by his speech because h,
came from Utah, though not a Nor
mon.
J. Late on Wednesday night we noticed
U that the speed had increased Yer.
much, and the steamer was slippin:
e through the water at a great rate
q Then at 11:3O p. M. a fog came on an,
dashed our hopes once more. We cOul'
o not make out where the bad lucl
e came from. as there We're no Jonah
o on board and all hands were kind t
II Bill, the ships big black cat, whicl
Il always walked the rounds with tn
u master ut arms when he went throug
l. the ship at night. Then some II dis
n covered that we were to land in Ne,
le York IN Friday, the 18th, and lie q
II the DOT of Thirteenth street. The
=, we knew that the record held by til
Is Deutschland for so many years woul
not be lowered this trip.
u Next day at noon the run of 500 we
announced, which was the best sint
We 't"A DuL ! was " AoSC W y"
D. us. AS we passed Nantucket lightshl
y Captain Watt said he was pleased wit
a. the ship and satisfied that she ha
80 done all that was expected from he
o but he would not speak Of what tt
Of Lusitania might do In the future.
es The canny Scot who had charge
N the engines said In an off momen
re when the press censor was not stan
N ing by, that we had consumed abo'
n 1000 tons of coal u day; but, judgir
n Of the trial trip when she used up 70
n ty-fve tons an hour, there Is a like
. hood that 1t was nearer LOO to 1,2O
Up All hands on board enjoyed the tri
but there was a general though u
rs reasonable feeling Of disappointing
that the steamer was not driven a !
10 tie more to beat the German steamer
NJ records.