The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-29
NORTHERN LIGHT And LIVERS
HRlZEN MIRINE POETS PIPED
4 BLTSHING ahI.
They InSiNI Un aIetrIfSInE ihr Aurora
ISoreaIIs rhat IAghIe'I ~ the Path
From sPrBgda some Faster tAlleS
Too. Partly Zen lIIramarinc Prose.

lsareaIls That lIghte,l ~ ihr Pnth
Frugn IsPrnuGia SOnse Faster tAlleS
Too. Partly m Inramarinc Prose.
Tn" press agents d the rival lines
from Bermuda came into the ship News
Once together. each fouriShtng type
written poem. The ultTanartne critics
decided to permit, the Royal Mail man.
formerly OI the British merchant service
and with a fine l.ondOnese accent. tn say
his piece first He did IL in a dramatic
manner. having also -een service On ths
British stage. prefacing IL With these re-
marks
Gentlemen vt the press-I hog your
pardon. Mr. Lynch. bat | can do this
stunt much better II you will kindly ex-
tinguish your pipe and take perfecto 81
, tho Royal Mail the steamship oro-
taVa
/ The UItranarines OF the Royal Mail
/ line
1t Is needless to saw that Won arr right
gentlemen ~ ! remarked, tho steam-
I -hip OrotavR. when within i0a "llles
4 south Of the Hook AZ half rast on Sunday
night discovered two p'ints oil the star
l.oard row a gorgeous illumination IN
tho empyrcap Il trust nv friend reTr~-
aeniiT tho .uei@C Line will not use thar
word'. Capt naRnall VAS on the hrifge
with the third officer. who was with
ShackIe;un ,at least. that il what ] have
heard on credible authority and ne
know = the aurora bor~alis when b" sees
H. That j. WHIST famed mp into the
heavens. gentlemen. ard that II what
in-rirad ,ne oi the rAq%enSer- to write
! tho Itt.a room hH'h shalt rcAal a. Won.
Ire ulirDnnrincs Police"
But before 10 on with the poem
wish to sAy $50 that every one ot the
ladies among the go Passengers ahnArd
the Oro'ava had bunch Of crimson
hhes h0 first ever brcUSat to ihss country
frcm Berlin Mia. and the only hlies Of Ber-
m ada they are really ,ransplan'ed' that
have "a delightful odor. Now, gentlemen.
are YOU ready for the poem h~aT no
dissenting voice 30 here's at you
Nature u a r,oo.l ecsiati-
Rl'u poem ~ 'he skN,
Nature poet IN iae atii'.
OF the realr % God knoNs why.
splendid r'rls Win crimson lilies
Decorating FssIrr dress
Murrnurrd .~urei, tnis thrill
Quite beyond ~ - eHpfe-s''
Colors In the sSy pr'sraic.
Cosors On IRE deck he sam~
| Tis the poe.'s view iphail-:
an tire night wa> 'ui % na"e
Flame IN rear'. OF heauA attentive
Flame II be,' ~ Faster nights.
Flame In agent pres Inventive
streaming nar1c- IN northern ngn's
The U1tramartnes Pipe all hands To
grog'-
the BerrnIIdiAn, I never have been on
the stage or IN officer aboard a British
ship That Ia why ! address you IN this
plain Yankee dialect
Whistle % rival press aRent--Rule
Britt mia. Britannia rules the waves
But. gentlemcn. there - no steamship
company that has monopoly on the
surGra 6orp,la Third officer Howard
u the Bermudsin and Capt Fraser AS
saw the rrccnish red electrical f-sto1ns
IN the northern sky, Mr Howard ssys
~ il the firS- time he nae observed the
aIr IRA so far south and that " indie to-
the bres KING up ni the ice IN the polar
regions. - We may look ont for iceserGs
Ne had no crims n lilies on the Bermu-
dian. They were red. white ana blue
The I1,ramarines IT'S the star
span led Runner sc
And. gentlemen. 7 wish - c1nfess q"
Won that | wrote the following poem
myself and I regret that l have not the
. hia'rtonic attlty ~ rcs'ite II ~ my tr1end
TeCitsd mis- eTiIsinn which ] shEN c1H
L. <hta md Iiv"rs'
The Nor,hsn ILgh's shine sr'cndSdI~
We IKE 'hcir clrvcs aad qu've-s
But whai Eoald old Berm'tda he
wIthou' .hr Northern HveGs'
The uItrArnarines decided that the
Barrludia1 man vas entitled u the prize
beca,igs. - the hreVitv " he poem The
Priton made an appeal which he was
tpld you'd not be considered until pre-
sentcd m ver~" form