The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-10-25


their friends on other steamers that |
were crossing the ocean. One mans
wife had got aboard the Lucania |
through some mixup at Queenstown.
and the things she flashed to him by |
wireless made even the operator
vince. About 1000 words were re-
cetved and dispatched daily.
When / went to send off my first
message to the Times discovered that
we had press censor on board in the
person of Joseph Lancaster the purser.
When took 1t to him he glanced at
1t severely and, pointing out an OBJ
scure word, asked, whats this?" 1
explained, and then he crossed the Of
Tending word out and wrote it afresh.
"Are you really the press censorT' I
asked.
Drawing himself dramatically up to
his full height of five feet and one inch
the purser replied. 81 am"
The next day. Tuesday. one of the
correspondents on board gave the press
censor severe shock by suddenly an
nouncing that he was going to send n
message to his paper in code. When
the message was handed in the pur-
ser examined IT very carefully and
pounced on the words "We tank"
Suffering samuel Johnson he yell
ed. What's this cryptic sentence
mean%
The correspondent explained that 1t
was one of his own code words, mean
ing that the LusitaDia was going ahead
| at high speed. The word "fulr' after
'ttank," he said, would mean that she
was going at her top speed of twenty
Eve 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 well as press CEN
sor. If we took the labor of his hands
and brought out real live paper filled
with the little incidents and romances
that were happening every minute
around MS. 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 never know
what would happen TO one If one al
lowed ones work to be taken out OF
ones hands, would ene?"
1--WE thought that it was possible
zone would not" judging by the re-
marks the owner of the amateur code
made daily about the censor.
By noon on Tuesday we had made
run of 575 miles, 1,121 miles from
Queenstown, and all on board felt hap
DIV with the idea that the British flag
would once more fly in the van and the
colors of the famous Deutschland
would be hauled down Alas, 1t was
not TO be! That night we had a rough
sea and a strong north-northeast wind
which whistled around the promenade
deck. but did not rock the ship a little
bit.
The pools were auctioned on eact
night in the smoking room, which
seemed to arouse some of the men OF
board from their lethargy in the hops
of winning money from their fellow
passengers. The highest pool wal
$1,000 and was won by a man whG
paid 500 for the number.
About midday on Wednesday, aftel
the run OF $40 miles had been put u
on the notice board, the whistle Wal
blown, and as the weather was clea
we all rushed out on deck to discove
the cause. BY the aid OF powerfu
glasses we saw a small steamer abou
twenty miles ahead right in our track
The vessel looked 80 near to the ON
! Ger from the altitude of eighty feet o.
the bridge that he was afraid the Lusl
tania would run her down. and a Draw
nv chief from scOtland's shores shout
ed out over the bow, ship ahoy, Sc
, ont Of the road or wen sink your A
most before the excitement had die
! away we passed her.
ON Wednesday night we had cor
4 cert In the lounge. with couple
: sueecbes. In one Of which Senate
|. sutherland declared that the Lusitani
I was more beautiful than Solomon
? temple and large enough to hold all n
! wives and mothers-in-law, while HOT
. ert Balfour. NJ r. spoke Of the sni
; as another link OF friendship betwee
{ America and England. Senator sui
. eFiand caused the first laugh that ha
a been raised on the ship since leayin
. Queenstown by his speech because .
a came from Utah, though not q No
+ mon
+ late on Wednesday night we notice
+ that the speed had Increased Yer
much, and the steamer was slippin
p through the water at a grsat ran
g Then ut IL 80 p. N. fog came on an