Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-05-28
First Crossing of Ocean
By St amship Took Place.
Century Before Air I rip
One Hundredth Anniversary Of Pioneer Steamer DIS
parture From America for An European Port. is
Remembered Today. s.

well appointed staterooms. no pas-
! passengers had the courage to apply
for passage in spite Of the fact that
the voyage had been widely advertise
ed in advance ii
When, .the, Savannah reached tho
English channel. people on shore
thought sheswas = shipEo fire, and q
British %rerenue cutter actually was
sent out to rescue her;.heT etas aI :.
strange ship went faster. with bare
poles than VIC could do with all sails
SET "-T
The trip lasted 20 days and n
hours ard was accomplished without
any serious rnishap. The Savannah
anchored on the Mersey river foc q
period of rs days watched suspici-
ciously by the port authorities at Liv-
erpool. Not only was she altogether
the queerest craft that had yer sail
ed the seven seas, but there was the
additional circumstance that the
British government thought It had
reason to suspect that the vessel was
sent to England on the YER impor-
! tant mission of preparing for a fur
Their voyage to st. Helena in an ef-
fort to release Napoleon from captivi-
ty. .. 60
Jerome Bonaparte who lived ia
America, was reputed to have financ-
ed the expedition for the purpose OF
bringing the fallen emperor Of
France back to civilization, but 1t
seems now very likely that this rumor
was fabricated as a link in the chain
of malicious Islander circulated by
enemies of the captain who dared
defy the powers Of the deep sea al
well as Providence itself.
Went on Exhibition.
Whatever stock the English, author
tiles too in the fumor, the Savan-
nah. was permitted to depart from
in Germany. Russia. Sweden and Nor
way. everywhere exciting the liveliest
wonder and as~tonishment, but seldom
admiration, for it most Sassuredly
must be a wicked thing!
1t is one of-the frequent coinci.
dences Of history that the first sue
ccessful transatlantic trip by afrshiI
should be. completed one hundred
years to a day after the departure o.
the first transatlantic steamship. TX
those who like to give their imagi'
nation free reins, this fact, offers al
kinds of opportunities for speculation
and interesting conjectures.
From Papin's experiment with
lCo hCStlS " AC Oli611So VI uAlOI
"Clermont" and those of the Savan
nah is a long step; from the even
which astonished the whole world
hundred years ago today to the vas
ocean greyhounds now floating o,
the oceans, is a still longer STEP,
Yet it will be noticed that this pro
gress was not made at a jump, so t.
say. it took centuries and decades
the present apparently perfec
achievements of ocean travel are du
to a series of developments, goinI
slowly from stage to stage through
process of gradual evolution.
. Science and invention recogniz
, that process, but not the principle o
revolution. 1t is the same every
whore: That development which
/; most certain to result in stable con
. ditions is brought about gradually
> not through sudden and violent jerk.
: This holds true in all fields of hu
: man endeavor. and certain believer
In swift r%adicalism might proftabl
. turn to the pages of that patient his
, tory which records the infinitely slo,
progress of humanity during period
of centuries linked to numberles
' centuries. They might then be i'm
: bued with some respect for hat ma
jestic and impressive carefulnes
: with which mankind goes from on
achievement to the next.