The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1920-12-24
45,472 MILES
ONONE VOYAGE
OF BIG THRILLS

and supplies the President Grant
| steamed out on the Pacific crossing.
She swung out northward toward
| colder chimes on the northern great
circle route. Before she sighted land
she encountered three very heavy gales
during which from ships all about
her she heard profane radio comments
on the weather which was forcing
them TO lie 10 or steam of their
courses. The President Grant, how
ever, was liner and she kept right
ahead on her eleven knot speed re-
CARELESS of the big swells of the mis-
named Pacific Twice she halted for
short periods for Chief Engineer
Brooks men TO make repairs In the
engine room.
While far from land fire. one of
those mysterious CONGREGATIONS which
break out occasionally at sea, deveI-
oped in hold No. 1, forward. There
was only a quantity of life preservers
in this hold. but the dense smoke that
beloved out made things look bad. In
fighting this fire Boson's Mate Edison
was suffocated in the hold. Ordinary
Seaman Ray went down through the
choking fumes in gallant effort TO
save him. Both men were stified to
death. The hold was flooded and the
voyage resumed
Chance to See Strange Cities.
On March II the President Grant
dropped anchor In Yokohama roads,
after crossing the Pacific In seventeen
days, nine hours. There the liner lay
twenty-one days discharging cargo and
here the crew received generous shore
leave, as they did everywhere else
throughout the voyage. enabling them
to visit many cities and localities rare
~ seen by seamen.
More cargo. was discharged at Kobe.
the next Japanese port of call. where
the ship stayed eight days. After pass
ing through Tsugara Straits in foggy
weather the ship came safely to Vladi-
vostok, arriving April ~
Here the. President Grant took on
board 5.437 troops and sailed for
Trieste. ploughing through fog aud
rain to Hongkong, where stop was
made for coal and supplies. Singapore
was reached May Il, and after skirt
ing Sumatra and entering the Indian
ocean, the President Grant stopped at
Colombo on the island of Ceylon. A
stay of five days was made here
There was fine weather and CLASSY
seas on the trip across the Indian
ocean, but in the Red sea the tempera-
ture rose to 102 degrees and the UNI |
form of the day in the fire room was
one pair of light sandals.
Rid ~, @bA Caroafe
At 1925 a. N. on June 4, the ship
entered the Suez Canal and reached /
Port Said on the Mediterranean sea
the next day. While in this part of
the globe members of the crew had I
an opportunity to try out the camel
as a means of Iocomotion. In Cey-
Ion they had tried elephants. and in T
China rickshaws. and at Venice. which |
they visited after the ship reached /
Trieste they tried gondolas. The ar
rival at Trieste was on June L. more
than four months after the start of |
the voyage.
At Trieste orders were waiting for |
another shipment of Czech soldiers. so |
after twelve days in port, the trans
port steamed on the back trail. AT |
Port Said she caught the United /
States army transport Crook, just sail |
ing for Trieste and hastily transferred I
TO her five stowaways who had crept /
on board at the Adriatic port
Colombo was reached July 16 after
passing through southwest monsoons
and heavy seas in the Indian ocean.
On July 81. after five days at Colon T
DO for repairs TO be made and sup
plies taken on. the ship steamed east T
ward, and five days later anchored I
on very dark night at the entrance
TO the narrow and crooked Singapore I
straits. Next morning the ship pro-
ceeded toward Manila. huggfng the
coasts of Borneo and Palawan TO
avoid typhoons. Manila was reached
August 1. with the crew all very busy
painting and cleaning the ship in
for her next load Of pas
sengers. On August 5 the ship steam
ed for Karatsu. japan, for coal.