Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-04

IN oMANCE has indeed gone from
~ transatlantic travel. That is
Y all except the Cupid variety,
which buds and blossoms in se.
questered deck corners and coy hid
den hooks of ocean steamships and
leads to matrimony or slimony. But
the romance of the sailing vessel. clip.
per ships and the packets, as far as
The passenger service TO European
ports is concerned, disappeared with
the arrival of the steamship. When
the steamer Asia in 1851 crossed the At
lantie in 10 days and hours the death
kneIl of the sailing vessel as passen>
ger craft was sounded, and the oIdtiine
clipper, with her skysails. star scrapers
and heaven disturbers beilying to the
breeze has long since disappeared
from the sea. With them has gone
the last element of romantic contact
with the person of the jack-tar who
knew every rope and spar and could
beat the preachers IN that he could
noX the compass forward ana back
ward, whereas they can only repeat
their prayers one way.
Steam has accomplished it's mighty
mission Well So well, In fact, thar
the ordinary globe trotter thinks little
more OF II voyage to London than a
Terry ride to staten island. There Is
a difference In the fare and the sel-
vice Is better but essentially the At
lhntic ocean rs nothing more than a
ferry between countries. The modern
leviathan. driven by powerful recipro-
eating or turbine engines, makes con-
nections with stated trains, barring log
or accident. Throughout the trip pass
sengers on the big floating palaces
are enabled by means of wireless te-
Biography to keep IN constant commune
cation with botn sides of the Atlantic.
The arrival OF steamship in port
can now be foretold almost 10 the
hour.
From the year 1851 when the steam
ship Africa made the trip between
Liverpool and New York In 10 days
and hours, the science OF shlpbunding
and the development of high speed
engines has gradually cut down the
lilne or passage between Europe and
America and drawn tho two continents
closer together. Steamships which 10
and 10 years ago We're considered queens
and years ago were considered queens
of the sea have now boon superseded
by vessels OF size and power that were
not dreamed Of Their laurels wrestcd
from them they are now classcd ils
SECOND, third and fourth class boats,
OLD SALTS HAD THEIR LAUGH.
IN the. early days of Transatlantic
steamship navigation inferior machlh-
cry and poorly modelled ships made
travel between the two continents
more OF less preeariOus undertaking
Deep-sen shippers of the old sailing
vessels laughed steam and the pros
pel'er 10 scorn, and not without cause.
Tor the very oldest mossbaeks still
discuss the marvellous feat OF Cant.
samuel Samucls of the Dreadnaught,
VINO sailed from Sandy Hook to Queens,
Town In days and n hours In 1859.
During the entire 2,S0O miles the swift
vessel maintained an average speed OF
over IL knots an hour.
but steam soon overlook the sailing
craft and left her hull down ON Inc
horizon OF transatlantic transportation
betWeen 1900 ana the sos steam vessels
developed gradually. During the last
zen years the growth OF the mighty
TRANSATLANTIC fleet has been stupendous
The present year viii mark an era
IN ocean navigation IN having witnessed
me practicable operation of the turbine
engine ana the passage OF the first
boat IN less than five days, For wears
ihe cream OF the ocean navigator has
been 10 command a four-day boat and
we honor of staying inside OF the i've
gay marx. ana getting well on toward
tne hoped-for time went TO Cant.
WATTS when he brought the Lusitania
from queenstown Ga sand Hcor =.