The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-08-13

are two little boxlike affairs, resemb-
| ling receiver to a telephone and
work at all times, even during fog
| and storm Wires from these boxes
run to a dial in the wheel house and
to a telephone earpiece. This little
signalling device is so delicate that il
receives and records wave vibrations
! just as the wireless responds to air
vibrations
Light ships. fog stations, the churn-
ing of the screws of other steamers
can be picked up by this submarine
recorder from three to fifteen miles
away The bell rings either on the
port or the starboard side and in the
fog the navigator is warned or dan
ger
We were also shown the life boats,
which work on pulleys and unhook
themselves when rope is cut. They
are always kept in perfect condition
with food supply and fresh water
enough for thirty days. Large air
compartments are on either end and
although they may be terribly buff
feted by the waves, ii is impossible to
upset them. Each has a compass
and signalling apparatus and sails.
Life preseryers are in each cabin
for use until the passengers can get
in the life boats.
Wireless telegraphy also does much
towards eliminating the uncertainties
of ocean travel and may receive and
believed a method of overcoming sea
sickness has been discovered in the
gyroscope in which water flows in an
opposite direction from the working
OF the boat The wireless station is
located on top the steamer, wires be-
ing stretched from the mast in the
bow to the stern. They have a spe-
cial call as do telegraph stations and
the operator receives the message in
an ear-piece similar to that telephone
centrals wear.
Each day a paper Is published on
the boat in which there is telepraphlc !
news telling all the main events on
shore and giving a good report OF
the baseball games and the league
standing.
The steamer is provided with sails
in case something should happen to
the engines. when the vessel could
etiH reach harbor safely.
The social life Of the steamer is
particularly pleasant. Tables provided
for bridge, forty-two. or any other
game and a big card party is often
i'm progress when the passengers be-
come acquainted There is no dis
order abroad, or rough and uncouth
behavior. the captain having supreme
mower in case of disorderly conduct.
The vessel is kept spotlessly clean
and washed off with ivory soap and
sapolio each day: the decks are scrub
bed twice.
The piano is seldom quiet and in
our crowd we had a mandolin and
guitar to reinforce it.
They set a good table on board with
every delicacy of the season. Just be-
fore breakfast you are served with
coffee and rolls Then you take a
round of twelve times around the
deck, which is mile and are ready
for a hearty breakfast At eleven
o'clock YOU are served with bullion
and crackers and at one O'Clock you
lunch. At six o'clock you have din
ner and a game of bridge or forty-two.
About ten. when you are playing tn"
last hand, you are generally so over
come with hunger that some member
of the party has to "set 'em up
Often in the afternoons the games
are interrupted with the shout from
some passenger. "A whale and the
rails are crowded. while the whale,
totally unconscious of his Importance,
spouts lazily in the distance. Often a.
shark would dart from the water and
give us a good look at his shining
back and his menacing teeth. Whole
schools of flying fish were passed
through and four dolphins had a ma
rathon at the bow of the vessel for
the pleasure of the passengers.
But at last, the day for landing
comes. and we were all up early to.
catch the first glimpse of land and
miss no part of the entrance into har-
Dor
There was slight fog and quite a
merry contest was waged to see which
of us should first see the statue OF
liberty.
New York city, with its horizon
touched with skyscrapers is most i'm