The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-05
Mr.. Dooley on Ocean Travel
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BY F. P. Dunno

aWell, SIR said Mr.. Dooley. II seel
this here new steamboat has broke all
records. 1t comes acrost tn Atlantic
ocean in four days. Passengers that
got aboard at Liverpool on Saturday
were in New York Friday AFTERNOON"
But that's more thin four days.
said Mr.. Hennessy.
mot be nautical time. said Mr..
Dooley. '.Ye mustn't rgure it out tn
way ye do on land. On land We niyer
read that TIL Thunderbolt limited has
broken all records be thravellin' firm
New York lHarrisburg) to Chicago
6Fort Wayne) in eight hours But
with steamboat It's diffrent. Ye|
saw lot iv time off ayether end an,
what's left is tn wage. TIL Con-
yard lines great ocean greyhound or
Ilevfthin iv tn seas has broken all rec
ords w transatlantic passages ex-
cept thin made be tn Germans. She
has travelled firm Liverpool Ca rock
so far off tn coast iv Ireland that /.
Eniver see it, to New York SANDY Hook
Elightship) in four or five days. Brit
tanya. again rules tn waves So II.
we've amy frinds inclined to boast
about maxim q record, ask thin did
| they swim aboord at Daunt's Rock an
swim off at tn lightship. Ii they
didn't. refuse to take off ye'er hat to
thin. TO tell how long it takes to
cross tn Atlantic compute IN
| elapsed time firm boordin' house to
| boordin'-house. It's firm q week to
ten days, depindin' on tn time We go
| to bed whiri we come home. Nanny a
man that come over on f1ve-day boat
| has had tn divvle iv time ex-
D}afnin' to his wife what he did with
tn other two days. No record ~
| transatlantic tllravels takes into ac-
| count tn longest. toughest an most
dangerous part " tn passage, which
| is through TIL New York customs
/ house.
But its wonderful, anyhow. It's
wonderful that man shud cross IN
Atlantic ocean, annyhoW, an lis
enough to make We dizzy TO tnink ~
| him crossin' it in an iron boat tnat
looks like row iv off1ce puliaiflss.
TIL grand times they mustve haa:
/ All tn time they We're on tn boundlh
/ pillows tn wireless tiliygraft kept
/ thin in touch with horae. IN DAY
/ was whin man got on poat oil
i was lost FIR a week or ten days. NoWs
be hivens, through tn WondheFs ~
i modhern science, he's hardly settieo
down to cigar an a game Nv plnochle
| with another fugitive that ne Just
met whin a messenger boy comes down
tn, deck on his bicycle an hands nun
a tillygram with glad tidlngs II IN
home. TIL house is burned. tn, sner-
Iin has levied on his furniture, or IN
| family are down with tn whoop1n
cough. on tn other hand, we know
all about what they are dom an poard
IN, levithin. Just as ye're wife is
thinkin' iv we bein' wrecked on des-
ert island or fioatin' on raIt an
sfgnallin' with red flannel undnef-
/ shirt she picks up tn pa-aper an
i reads: .Th' life fv tn ship is Maiachl
| Hinnissy. a wealthy bachelor 1r ~
i piftsburg. His attintions to pretty
i widow firm Omaha are most marked.
i They make a handsome couple
ssWelf. sir, they must'ye had IN
/ glorvous time on boord this new boat.
q In tn, old DAYS all We knew about
shin was that she left Liverpool an
landed in New York afther most as
4 thressin, wage. Now, be htyens. we
r-read iv tn gay life aboord her II III
! day In dav: .Th tie in tn blliyaFd
tournvmint was played off last night
TIL restaurants are crowded nightly
an great throngs are seen IN Nam
sthreet undher tn brilliant liiumiha-
tons. TIL public gardens are in fuil
bloom an are much frequented DC
81 chfldher roIlin' hoops an sailin poats
in tn artificial lake. Tn autymoolh
1 speedway gives gr-reat satisfaction
TIL openfn' day " tn steeple-chase
& races was a success. TIL ilivator in
tn left annex fell thirteen stories
Thursday, but no wan was injured. IN
brokerage house iv Conem an Comp ny
, whit into tn hands ~ receiver TO-DAY
TIL failure was due to tn REFUSAL ~ III
banks to lend amy more money on
; hat pools TIL steeple iv tn sweden =, :,
Dorian church is undher repair IN
j Daily Fog Horn has put in three new
color presses an will begin pr1ntlh
!. colored supplement Sunday next. an
so it goes. 1t amt boat at al. Il
: a city.
| AT Taste I thought it vas, but Han