The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-06-27
HAVE
GREAT TIME ON
ATLANTIC VOYAGE
Editor 'Bilr' Glenn Of the Orlando
Morning Sentinel Writes Inter
estingly Of the Trip Across On
the Way TO the Recent Edin-
burgh World Convention.

Among the Rotarians fortunate in
being able to make the recent trip tc
Edinburgh, Scotland, to attend the
great world meeting OF international
Rotary is W. E. Glenn, editor OF the
Orlando Morning Sentinel. Bill is
sending a series of travelogues to his
newspaper, one Of them being OF such
general interest that The Telegram
is taking the liberty of reproduction,
not knowing Bills European address
nor the cost OF a cablegram asking
permission. His letter is as follows.
Anchor Line, T. S. s. Cameronia,
Thursday, June 8, 1921.
We left New York Wednesday, June
1, and are scheduled to land at Glas-
COW Saturday, June II, at a. N. For
seven days straight the weather was
ideal. Old Sol was hot and everybody
received a fine coat OF tan. Then we
got into the same latitude with Green
land, Labrador and Iceland with the
result that d change felt good. To-
day the good old ship "Cameronia" is
in water to the northwest of Ireland,
and the sea is rough. We are rolling
quite Il bit. The Cameronia is finish
ing her first round trip and the engi-
neers are qnite satisfied with the mi
tial performance although we have
only averaged about 345 miles per
day, or about 14.5 knots per hour. The
original "Cameronia" was lost in the
sub" war and the new ship has just
been completed. Her principal dimen-
sions are SIS feet in length over all
by 70 feet moulded breadth, and AZ
feet inches moulded depth, Her
gross tonnage is about 5000 tons,
displacement about 23,500 tons. The
accommodations are the best and the
newest to be found in ship construc-
ton. There is everything on board
from IA British surgeon to a gymna~
SUM.
The engines OF the Cameronia con
sist of two sets of Brown-Curtiss
double reduction geared turbines;
three double-ended and three single
ended boilers working at pressure
Of 220 pounds per square inch. The
Cameronia is an oil burner and the
first, to enter the Glasgow and New
York route There is virtually no vi
bration on this ship, which is consid-
CEeu Il SItlOUlu IlulLS UOdl'
Captain ]. B!aikie is in command
Of this ship and is hero of the war
He was on the 'Calendonia' when at
tackled by U-boats and was captured
and confined in a German prison for
two years. When threatened with ex-
ecution by the Germans the English
threatened to execute young Won Tir-
pitt, who was a prisoner. Captain
Blake is quite modest officer as all
heroes are, or should be.
Most'of the crew are Scotch and the
rest English, but it is not always easy
to discriminate. The crew is quite
shocked over the antics of the Ro-
tarians, who are cutting loose all the
time, l asked the bath steward what
he thought of the passengers and he
said they were ''rowdy from "the
wild and woody West" Our waiter is
fine looking young man. He looks
about as young as a college freshman.
he said he was SO years old and had
daughter "A years old To verify
his statement he produced a photo of
his wife, daughter and self. He was
| in the war from start to finish, and
wounded at the first battle of Ypres.
In fact, all the crew were in the war
The International Association OF
Rotary Clubs chartered two ships for
this journey-Cameronia and CORONA
Both are loaded with about 900 Rota
r.ans. We were given wonderful
farewell by the New York Rotary
Club, first at the WALDORF at luncheon
and then at the docks the next day