Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-31
Ocean Newspapers Are Fast Being
Improved.

Travellers have no need to be with
out the days news OF the world nova
days, says the New York World.
The circulation OF the Cunard Daily
Bulletin on the steamship Lusitania
IS over 1000 a day now, and has
reached $500. This can no longer be
called a little sheet. 1t is quite an
ambitious one. There are 80 pages,
ten inches by six. II Is excellently
printed on fine, glazed paper and sells
at cents. 1t goes to press at 1 a.
m. and is ready for the breakfast table
like the newspapers ashore. Many
passengers have it delivered to their
berths and read the days news before
they get up.
No longer does the ocean daily con-
tain only the doings on board the YES
sci on which it is published. Practi-
cally everything of news value in the
whole world appears in the ocean daily
as soon as it is printed in the dailies
on land. For instance, on the voyage
during the English general election
full returns were printed every morn
ing Of the results announced down to
the previous night
From Reuters London wireless
service the ocean daily editor gets
plenty of material. Stock exchange
quotations are given very fully. All
notable events and the movements OF
famous people are recorded.
Moreover, the ocean daily often gets
news that the land dailies cannot get.
For the liners are in touch with one
another as well as in touch with land
all the way across the ocean and each
vessel supplies items of news about
itself and its passengers.
A very artistic production is the
Journal de PAtlantique, published on
board the steamship La Provence of
the Compagne Generate Transatlan-
tique It has larger pages than the
Cunard Bulletin, and each number is
well illustrated, and the news is pub
lished in both French and English.
During an ordinary voyage this
steamer is In touch with AZ other
liners and II shore stations in addi-
ton to the two regular long distance
stations at Clifden and Cape Cod.
The daily of the steamship Kaiser
Wilhelm II has "a pages, and it has
so many advertisements it can be
given free to the passengers and still
leave the Nordeutscher Lloyd a profit.
Humorous illustrations are in feature
and a puzzle page gives much amuse-
ment on the voyage Much use is
made of the paper to keep passengers
in touch from business point of view.
One of the simplest of the ocean
dailies is the Transatlantic American
issued on the steamers of the Ameri-
can line. 1t is only a four-page news
sheet, but it has editing reduced to a
science. On one day during its last
voyage the steamship St. Louis had
news from the Cape Race land sta
ton, the English warship Inf1exible,
the yacht Iolanda, the cableship Cam
bria and the liner Kronprinzessin Ce-
ellie.
The Atlantisches Tageblatt of the
Hamburg-American line is a 16 page
sheet and makes no pretension to ele-
gance. It is printed partly in German,
partly In English and has a story by
some popular writer. It makes ad-
vertisements of hotels its strong fea-
ture.
On the other hand, the Express Mail
published on board the Canadian Pa
cific Atlantic liner Empress OF Ireland
Is a most elegant affair. 1t has IL
pages and is enclosed in a handsome
wrapper stamped in gold with an en-
blematic design printed in the richest