The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-09
"Therapeutic InocuIation" Is
Text for Notable Address

stitutions as the Jewish Board of
Guardians and the Jews Temporary
Shelter. Mr. Israel IangwiI, president
of the Jewish Territorial Organization
which has lately been diverting the
stream of American. bound immi grafton
to Galveston. is in hearty sympathy
with the proposal, and it is expected
that he will discuss the subject with
Mr. Jacob II. Schiff. the well-known
philant hropst. who Will shortly be here
on a visit. with a view TO conVening a
congress Of Jewish representatives., 10
Law down the general lines of work of
the proposed international organiza ion.
As there are influential societies al
ready al work on the continent. partlc.
ularly in Russia, Germany and Austria,
in aiding the progress of the Jewish
immigrant from his home to his destl-
nation, the task of completing the in
ternational organization will consist
mainly in devising methods of cooper
alton. The two principal objects which
the new body will set itself Will be 10
secure reduced fares and better condi-
tIons on board for the immigrants and
TO provide labor bureauX in all the I'M
portant centers Of the American CONT
nent, so that an immi grafton on arrival,
instead Of being allowed TO settle III
the overcrowded cities where the pros
npt1S OF "uIk dI' IpDI. ma p' Jpi
wardcd Immediately To n town in the
interior where employment will be
found for him by the local committee,
Somewhere or other there must be a
good deal of confidence in the future of
Atlantic traffic. We have only Just
got over one Of the worst years in its
history. and vet two new big Atlantic
L,, tbnir
ages. The White Star liner Laureutic
is Of about 5000 tons. while the Min
newaska. the new Atlantic transport
steamer. is Of Ia, 300 tons. The Atlantic
transport boat carries only frst-class
passengers and for these. TO the number
Of about $50. she has ideal accommoda,
tions The Laurentic is built to take
200 first tclasS, 40 second and about
1000 thrd.class 10 Canada. The two
ships between them will thus carry a
total of over 1000 people. Then 1T has
to he remembered that only n few days
ago the Laplsnd. l1,000-ton steamer
built for the Red Star line. which is
also included in the combine made her
first voyage from Antwerp to New Iork
via Dover This vessel can herself car
~ something like 1000 passengers.
These three substantial additions to the
Atlantic feet are thus made by a single
interest at a time when existing ton
mage might possibly he considered as
ample But steamshipping, particularly
on the Atlantic, can never afford to
stand still.
Certainly no one can assert that Mr.
Bruce Ismay of the White Star line is
unprogrcssive, for within the last fort
nj ght or so the companies under his con
troll have placed in the Antwerp New
York trade the biggest steamer that has
ever gone up the Scheldt. in the Lon.
don. New York service the largest
steamer 10 go up the Thames, and in the
trado between the Mersey and Canada
the biggest vessel heretofore employed.
This is new sort of record which may
we'll occasion pride. Presumably this
treble event is accompanied by con
viclion that there viii be room for all
these ships, Indeed. it must be so.
otherwise the two levinthnns which are
20 bc built for thc White Star line at
Belfast would scarcely have been put
tiuguishes these latest Atlantic liners
is a foretnste of that which will be
forthcoming three years hence in the
Olympic and the Titanic in still high
or degree. as is promised, if is clear that
the standard Of comfort. high though il
is. has not reached its zenith.
1t is an open question as TO the pre-
clse lorm OF engines Whlcn VIII be
adopted in these monster ships due / n
1912 Indeed. there is every reason why
it should he so, since the White Star
line would naturally wish to he guided
bv the experience which is furnished
hv the Laurcntic. Hastv people who
have already decided that the Olympic
and The Titantic will be engined upon
the combination principle may prove
right or they may prove wrong. Att
i,ra hn pf 10 apt,rol,.
mined.