The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-05-27
News.
News.
Charles Wayne Ray,
On Cretic, $500 miles from New
York city

Tn BOARD y. y. NretlC, April 2l.-lt
has been very exciting during the last
two days, for our steamship. the Gre.
tic, has battled against terrible
northeast gale and the passengers
have about all been sick.
We are in mid.ocean, that is, l4S6
miles from New York city, but are late
on account of the very rough sea.
Last night the wind swept the up.
per deck and one life saving boat was
smashed into smithereens while today
a constant rain has followed us. Well
may we sigh as the poet,
Far from the shore far from the
trembling throng
| am borne darkly, fearfully afar."
Thus we recall anothers idea of
storm at sea-
Down came the storm and smote
amain
The vessel in its strength;
She shuddered and paused like a
frightened steed,
Then leaped her cables length"
But this is ocean life. one day the
waves are unblemished and look like
a sheet of glass the next it appears
like vast region of mountain peaks.
each one snow capped and frost
crowned. And then the bounding
breeze and rushing pillows send forth
musical strain tnat is peculiar to
the ocean. Many of the passengers
have been seasick; among the first
class cabin passengers are tifty-tive
men and lSl women. This is our fifth
day out, and on two quiet days the
games of cricket, billboard and shut
feboard have been popular amuse-
ments. We have as passengers law
yers. doctors, teachers, bankers, news
paper correspondents, ministers and
other noted professional people.
think have a very pleasant party
of tourists, the most of whom are
young people, full of life and vigor,
just on the verge of taking up LIES
responsibilities.
From Canton, Ohio, is Mrs. J. b.
Brothers and her daughter, Miss Lou
Use. Mr.. Brothers owns the largest
hardware store in Canton and is a
man of large affairs. Also Mrs. II. +.
Daily, whose husband is the most
prominent insurance man in the city,
and Mrs. J. f. T. Walker and her two
daughters, Misses Justine and Merriam.
Mr. Walker is with the largest bank
ing house in Canton. Then | have five
from FL Paso, Tex.-Mr. and Mrs. Ho,
man Myles and children, Ernest and
Misses Alice and Kathleen. Mr.. Myles
is a banker and millionaire cattle king
of Texas.
This outline will show my friends
what a very fine class of people am
conducting; they are cultured, agree
able and pleasant
Just word about our big ship: II
is 602 feet long, sixty feet wide, forty
two feet deep and has a tonnage OF
1888. She is the steadiest steamer
of the White Star line, which is now
| owned by j. p. Morgan.
There are two other tourist par
ties on board, the University TraveI
Bureau and the II. w. Dunning & Co
of Boston, which is conducted Ey Mr.
| Henry Wood, who two years ago was
the chief reporter on the Omaha Daily
| Post.
Last Sunday we had the Episcopa
church service, as this is an English
manned ship, and | attended the ser
vice, as did most of the passengers
and got real sick, but of course | die
not attribute this to the Episcopa
service.
Other prominent people on board
are DR.. F. j. Kellogg of Detroit, who
is the patent medicine man who
spends S25O,000 yearly in advertising
his medicines; Vicomtesse Benois
day, DR.. and Mrs. H. B. Kurtz o
Cleveland, the humorist-lecturer Prof
Ralph Bingham and his wife. Othel
noted people are on the Cretic also
Then there are a great many bust
ness men who are off for short triI
70 rest and recuperate. | met one
man who said he would remain abroad
only five days, going especially for tn,
sea voyage.
The service on the ship is good ant
all the dainties of the season are fur
nished for the guests. Among those
that attracted me is spring chicken
This big steamer is really like a float
ing city, with all the cOnveniences o
most modern homes. A fine library is
at the service of the passengers. We
have the use of the Marconi wireless!
telegraph and have had message!
from other ships. We more readily
get an idea of how large the world Il
and how wide the ocean when you
have travelled for ten days and have
not even sighted land. On our shiI
are people from almost every lanC
and cline, with their various cos
tunes and different manners, so tina
there is always something new ant
strange. Then the people in the steer
age ever and anon present a constant
study for the sociologist and econo
mist, for among these you will see
the poor, ignorant, the gambler, the
anarchist, the foreigner who has made
his fortune in the United States anC