The Republican journal., 1908-07-16
A LAKE FREIGHTER.

of course everybody knows that on
she Great Lakes there are passenger
steamers equal in size and equipment
To manv of the ocean liners, and freight
ers that in capacity are second to none
IN the coastWise trade. The Queen OF
An fraiphters on the Great Lakes, and
the finest appointed freighter in the
world, is the steamer Wilpen, built at
detroit and now about completing her
first wear of service. The Mllpen has
the fine lines of big yacht and the
carving capacity OF a big frelghtef,
Her record cargo is ,1S2 tons of ore,
and her average during nine trips, 49,
IFS tons. She is SO feet over all, has
"a feet beam. and her nodded depth is
% feet. She has 80 matches worked by
deck engines and cables. Her power is
furnished by triple expansion engines,
the high pressure cylinder beng "A
inches. The top of her pilot house is
56 feet from her keel, which gives her
majestic appearance in the water, either
Sight or loaded. The passenger quarters
are described as grand. There are six
stateroomS each with connecting prl-
gate bath, private dining saloon, a
room for ladies' maids and a magnificent
observation room. Then there are the
owners stateroom and the captains
raom and office both captain and owner
having private baths. All the quarters
are handsomely furnished The obser
yation room is fitted luxuriouSly with
che finest kind of mission furniture,
with the touches built in the walls. A
novel feature of the observation room
is the orchestrion. A bookcase built
in the wall between the observation
and the captains room supplies reading
matter The dining saloon is in solid
mahogany and the sideboard is loaded
down with solid silverware, cut glass
and costly linen. Below the dining
saloon and the state rooms is the galley,
connected with the pantry above by
means of dumb waiter. An ex-
perienced chef cooks in this galley,
only being required, however, to COOK
for the passengers He has full crew,
including porter, just as the steward
On the after end has also. Both stew
3.lds have a refrigeratlng plant, which
does away with the ice question entire
iy. They also have the advantage of
running hot and cold water, supplied
from the engine room. Every room on
the boat, where it is needed, has run
ming hot and cold water The stewards
have their own bath, the engineers and
mates. each have their own bath, and
the others on the boat are also furnish
ed with bath or shower. 1t is said that
there is no other boat ahoat on the
lakes where the mates and entire crew,
down to deck hands, have running hot
IN IL cold water in their room and an
adjoining bath. The Wilpen is steam
heated, of course, has a powerful search
light, and carries in addition to other
boats an 1S-foot naphtha launch.
Carl Schurz in his autobiography, af-
ter describing how he happened to 60
10 Washington, at the request of
Horace Greeley, to take charge of the
news bureau of the Tribune, says:
Thus l entered the journalistic
fraternity. My most agreeable expert
ence consisted in my association with
other members of the craft | found
among the correspondents of the press
a number of gentlemen of uncommon
ability and high principle-genuine
gentlemen, who loved truth for it's own
sake, who heartily detested sham and
false pretence. and whose sense of
honor was the finest. This was the
rule, to which, as to all rules, there