The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-03-04
SAVANNAH LINES.
New Mammoth Coastwise Steam
ship City Of Montgomery

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| February 2s at Newport News, Va,
the Ocean Steamship Company OF Sa-
vannah launched their new vessel, City
OF Montgomery" Miss Helen Camp
Steiner, daughter OF Major Robert E.
Steiner, Of Montgomery, Ala, who is
one of the directors Of the Central OF
Georgia Railway, christened the ship as
she left the waye.
| Next month her sister ship, City OF
st. Louis, will be launched and each
steamer will start on her maiden voyage
during the early summer
Only twice in the history Of coastwise
ship-building, namely, the City of At
lanta" and the City of Columbus, 7
and now the two new coastwise steam
ships under construction side by side
for the same company, the City of St.
Louis, I" to be launched thirty days from
now, has been undertaken. These two
steamers, City Of Montgomery" and
the City Of st. Louis, intended for
service between New York and Savan-
nah, Ga, for the popular Savannah
Line are to be the Luisitania and Mau-
retania of the coastwise traffic in the
matter Of size and luxurious appoint
ment. Hitherto the plan Of construc-
ton in coastwise steamers has been a
single steamer now and then with long
spaces Of time between.
The traffic, both passenger and freight,
between the metropolis OF the East and
the metropolis Of the South has grown
SO tremendously that the Savannah Line
found itself hard pressed last year for
tonnage with which to handle its enor-
mously increasing business. Even with
the crack City of Savannah, now
queen Of the coastwise traffic, which
was launched couple Of years ago
from the shipyards at Chester, Pa, the
company found its facilities entirely in
adequate and orders were placed early
last year for two large steamers with the
shipbuilders at Newport News, Va.
The City Of Montgomery has,
therefore, the distinction Of making
her debut first into the waters Of the
Chesapeake.
tits entirely fitting that the Savannah
Line. known Since the early days of
shipbuilding and coastwise service as
the Ocean Steamship Company Of Sa-
vannah, which was the pioneer in the
coastwise service Of the Atlantic Sea-
board, should aspire to the loftiest and
most expressive ideals in the construc-
ton of its vessels. Thus, since the days
OF the famous Rapidan "a wooden
vessel of 1858 tons the succeeding MEM
bers Of the famous Savannah Line fleet
have changed from wood into iron and
from iron into steel and have grown
larger and more comfortable with each
succeeding launching. The acme OF
coastwise shipbuilding has not yet been
but in the City Of Montgom-
cry and the City Of St Louis" there
will be two examples Of luxury ahoat
such as the greatest dreamers Of fifty
years ago would never have even dreamt.
Great, wide decks, nearly fifty feet
across from rail to rail, with dining sa-
looms allowing an unobstructed view of
the ocean, sheltered decks and sun decks
rising forty feet above the surface Of the ,
ocean form only few OF the attractions
81 the City Of Montgomery" and the !
City OF St. Louis. A length Of over Fl
400 feet and tonnage Of 6,200 make |
lhese twin steamers the very essence Of
comfort and safety between the North
sfH-and Southern ports. h