The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-23
win consist mainly in devising me-

will consist mainly in devising me- thods of cooperation.
 The two principal objects which the new body. will set itself win be to SC cure reduced fares and better condi- tions on board for the emigrants and to provide labor bureaus in all the im- portant centers of tbe American con- tinent, so that an emtgrant on arrival instead of being allowed to settle in the overcrowded cities where the pros- poets of work are poor, may be for warded immediately to 8 town in the Interior where employment will be found for him by the local committee.
 Two Atlantic Linerm.
 Somewhere or other there must be a good deal of confidence in the future of Atlantic trafic. We have only lust got over one of the worst years in Its history, and yet two new big At- lantic liners have just made their first voyages.
 The White Star liner Laurentic is of about 15.000 tons. while the Min newaska, the new Atlantic transport steamer fs o< 14.000 tons. The Atlan- tic Transport boat carries only first class passengers and for these, to the number of about ssQ, she has ideal accommodation.
 The Laurentic Is built to take 2so flrst-ciass. 4a0 second, and about 1, 900 third class to Canada, The two ships between them will thus carry e total Of over 1000 people Then it has to be remerse cred. .sthat only a few days ago the Lapland, l7.00Q ton steamer built for the Red Star Line, which is also included in the combine made her first voyage from Antwerp to New York. via Dover.
 This vessel can herself carry some- thing like 5000 passengers. These eAa kNag &~ A A iantic fleet are thus made by a sin. gle inte . st at time when existing tonnage might possibly be considered as ample. But steam shipping. nar- ticularly on the Atlantic, can never afford to stand still.
 Certainely no one can asert Bruce Ismay, of the White Star Line, Is un- progressive for within the last fort night or so the companies under his control have placed fin tlae Antwerp New York trade the biggest steamer than has ever gone up the Scheldt, ir the London-N0w York service the Tar gest steamer to go up the Thames and in the trade between the Mersey and Canada the biggest vessel hereto. l fore employed, This is a new sort oi record which may well occasion pride Presumably this treble event is ac. companied by a conviction that there will be room for all these ships. In, deed, 1t must be so. otherwise the tws leviathans which are to be built fol the White Star Line at Belfast woult scarcely have been put in hand. Ant If the luxury which distinguishei these latest Atlantic liners Is a fore taste of that which will be forthcom ing three years hence in the olympi' and the Titanic in a stilt higher dc gree, as is promised 1t is clear tha the standard of comfort, high thougi it is, has not reached it's zenith.
 It Is an open question as to tn, precise form of engines which vii be adopted in these monster ships du' in 1912. Indeed, there is every req son why 1t should be so. since tn, White Star Line would naturally~wisl to be guided by the experience whtcl is furnished by the Laurentic. Has ty people who have already decidei that the Oiymphic and the Tiantic vii be sngined upon the combination prtn cipls may prove right or they m prove wrong. At present the poin Is entirely undetermined.