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^Maritime Day Recalls Ships That Pioneered in Trans -Atlantic Traffic By elmo scott watson Citizens of New York Gather at The Battery to Welcome the Great Weatern at the End of Her Record-Breaking Trip Acroaa the Atlantic in 1838. (From a Contemporary Print) ?"Whereas in Public Resolu tion 7, approved May, 1933, it is stated that on May 22, 1819, jthe steamship The Savannah, departed from Savannah, Ga., on the first successful trans oceanic voyage under steam propulsion, thus making a ma terial contribution to the ad vancement of ocean transpor tation; and "Whereas by said resolution ithe President of the United States is authorized and re quested annually to issue a proclamation, calling upon the people of the United States to observe May 22 of each year as iNational Maritime Day; "Now, therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by .virtue of the authority vested in me do hereby issue my proc lamation calling upon the peo ple of the United States to ob serve May 22, 1933, as Nation al Maritime Day by displaying ithe flag at their homes or oth er suitable places, and I here by direct that government of ficials display the flag on all government buildings on that day. "In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand. "Done in the city of Wash ington this twentieth day of May, in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty three, and of the independence of the United States of Amer ica the one hundred and fifty seventh." l UCtL was the document which added another red-letter day to oor calendar three years ago and gave us anoth er occasion for an an nual nation-wide cele bration. Since that time the observance of s Tiarltlme day has helped make Americana Increasing ly conscious of their heritage as a seafaring people and of the atatus of the United States as one of the tprlnclpal maritime nations of the world. Although the recent launching of the Queen Mary has placed Great Britain, the traditional "Mistress of the Seas," ahead In the race among (he nations to have the "largest, fin est and faatest" ocean liners, yet the fact remains that all of these 11 iat fng palaces trace back to the prod ucts of American Ingenuity and American daring more than a cen tury ago. For the lie de France, the Rex, the Europa, the Levlatnan and the Queen Mary ? all of them are lineal descendants of those tirst erode little stesmbosts which John (Fitch, Robert Fulton, Ssmuel Morey, William Longstreet, Elijah Orms fcee, Oliver Evans, Robert R. Liv ingston. John Stevens and James 'Ramsey built and operated In the streams of the esstern United 'States. And the captain of a mod ern "luxury liner" who guides Its 60,000 tons of steel across the At lantic ocean in less than a week la but Tollbwlng "ifcsTfsii bliiM Ay a Yankee skipper with his 350-ton boat when he msde his epochal voy age 117 years ago and took three (weeks to do IL That man waa Capt. Moaes Rog ers of New London, Conn., and we .celebrate Maritime day on May 22 ef each year now because on Msy 22, 1819, his ship, the Savannah, de^ parted from Savannah, Ga? "on the first successful transoceanic voyage under steam propulsion, thus mak ing a material contribution to the advancement of ocean transports tlon." Although Maritime day honors primarily the schlevement of the Savannah, Its celebration each year aerves to recall the names of other skips which bsve played a psifl In the development of transatlantic .traffic. Despite the tact tlist Capt. Moses Rogers bad shown tbe pos sibilities of steam transportation across tbe ocean, other Americans were slow to follow bis example. Daring seamen though they were, they clung to their fast-sailing clip pers and packets because they ar gued that such ships were cheaper to operate, since the steamship's fuel and machinery took up too much precious cargo space, and that tbey were safer because of less danger of fire and explosions as was the case on what the Indians bad called the "big Are canoes." The British, however, saw great possibilities In trans-Atlantic steam navigation and since tbey did so much to develop it, it Is only fair, on Maritime day, to take note of their ships which pioneered in link ing America and Europe more close ly together. There Is a special rea son for doing this in the case of one which can be regarded somewhat as an "American ship" since she was built and operated by our Canadian cousins. That was the wooden pad dle-steamer, the Royal William, which made the first crossing of the Atlantic using steam all the way. The Royal William, built at Que bec, was launched In April, 1831, and towed to Montreal to be fitted with engines developing 200 horse power. Her cost when ready for sea was $75,000. tier dimensions were: length over all 176 feet; depth of hold 18 feet ; breadth over paddle boxes, 44 feet. She was originally Intended to ply between Montreal and Quebec and Nova Scotia, and the enterprise of building her was carried out by a group of Quebec i Early in August, 1833, she left Quebec for PIctou, lo the Northum berland strait, where she remained a few days coaling, storing, repair ing engines, and awaiting passen gers. Eventually, on August 17, she steamed out of PIctou harbor for England. Her master was John Mc Dougall. During the voyage the starboard engine was disabled and the vessel sprang a leak. After 25 eventful days and nights the Royal William arrived at Gravesend. Ten days later the vessel was sold for $50,000 and chartered to the Portuguese government as a troopship. In 1834 the ship was bought by the Spaniards, sent to Gravesend to be converted Into a "war-steamer," and re-named the Ysabel Segunda. Later she retnred to the Spanish coast, and on May 5, 1836, In the Bay of San Sebastian, she earned the dis tinction of being the first steamer of war to fire a hostile shot. I 1840 she was sent to Bordeaux for repairs but was converted Into a hulk. Her engines were transferred to a new ship of the same name, which ulti mately sank off the Algerian coast during a violent storm In 1860. After the voyage of the Royal William, the next important event In trans-Atlantic steamship history was the arrival In New York on April 22, 1838, of the British ship Slrius. for which has also been claimed the honor of being the first boat to cross the Atlantic using only steam for propulsion. (Although a memorial tablet In the Canadian house of commons commemorates the the fear of the Royal William as be PRESIDENT HOOVER (United St?to?) 10.000 torn 705 foot long 1,300 p?isong*r? 20 knot* tp??d ILE OE FRANCE (Franc*) 44.000 ton. 750 foot long 1,250 p?tiong*r? 23 knots tpood REX (Italy) 47.000 tont 865 foot long t,0S0 pattongcrt 26 knoti ipo?d EUROPA (Gorm?ny) 50.000 tont 965 foot long 2.200 pouongort |^^26 knots tpood LEVIATHAN (Unitod $?????) 60.000 ton* I 407 fo?t long I 2.500 p?uong?r? 24 knot* tpocd QUEEN MART (9fM? 71.000 Mi. I.O'I lo^. 2.500 )2 IwH ?p?*d How the Competition to Build the Largest. Finest and Fastest Ocean Liners Has Gone Forwsrd During Recent Years. ana mini merchants, assisted by | a grant of $13,000 from tl>e govern ment of Lower Canada. Among (he shareholders appear (he names of three Cunard brothers, one of whom later founded the present Cunard line. After three moderately successful - -royage* to Halifax and lit _ termedlate ports she Inld up for the winter. In 1ST12. owing to a cholera epidemic, she made only one voyage, and her ownera became bankrupt. In tbe spring of 1SCI a new com pany was formed, which purchased the vessel and. for a time, used her for towing and local excursions. Then In June. 18X1. she sailed on a trip to Boston, where she wss en thusiastically received as being the first steamship Dying the Union Jack to enter a United States port On ber return to Quebec her own ers decided to send her to England for sale. It was on this voyage tbat sh? made history, demonstrating to the world the feasibility of navigat ing the oceans by means of steam propelled vessels, notwlthstsndlng the declaration of critics thst "they might as well talk of making a voy , age from Quebec to tbe moon." log the Drat to "use steam all the way," aome blatnrlara assert that the Royal William, like the Savan nah. frequently resorted to sails.) The Slrlua had left Liverpool on March 28 and put out for Queens town. Ireland, where, after refueling, ahe set out for America on April 4. Hardly had ahe quit Queenstown when her crew mutinied.' Any at- " tempt to cross the Atlantic by ateam alone wa< plain auldde. so the sail ors declared, and they refused to go ahead. But the mutiny was pat down and the vessel continued on her way. The Slrlus arrived off Sandy Hook In the late afternoon of April 22 and ran upon a reef. She had to wait for the Incoming tide to lift her from this reef and It was not until ten o'clock at night that she reached the Battery. Even at that late hour, everybody who waa able to do so hurried to the waterfront to catch a glimpse of the steamship that had made the trip serosa the ocean In the record time of 26 day*. Sailors and other denlsena of the waterfront built hag* pltcb lire* on tbe beach near Jones' Wharf, where tbe Slrlua waa tied np, so that the populace might see her. Her arrival was the signal fur Informal parades and drinking sprees of a kind never before seen In the city. But the welcome given to the Slrlus was as nothing compared to that which greeted another ship when It arrived In New York the very next day, April 23, 1838. That was the famous Great Western, des tined to become the first steamer to . make regular trips across the At lantic and thus Inaugurate a new era In ocean transportation. But the thing which aroused the wildest en thusiasm among the citizenry of New York on that April day 98 years ago was the fact that the Great Western had arrived only 17 hours behind the Slrius, despite the fact that Rhe left England 11 days after her rival. That meant she had made the crossing In 15 days ! Moreover, It had been a "non-stop crossing" and the city staged much the same kind of celebration which it was to put on nearly a hundred years later In welcoming another non-stop trip across the Atlantic. Lieut. James Hosken, R. N? com mander of the Great Western, was the Colonel Lindbergh of his day. i Honors were showered upon him. He and his officers were wined and dined with an extravagance never before known In the history of New York. Guards had to be stationed around both the Slrlus and the Great Western to keep souvenir hunters from tearing them to pieces. There were pitched battles between the police and the revellers who stormed the quays In their attempts to get near the vessels. The Slrlus may have been a won der to behold with her length of 178 feet, beam of 25 V4 feet, tonnage of 703 and speed of MO knots a day. But the Great Western was a mar vel. She was the largest and fastest thing afloat. She was 236 feet long, had a beam of 58tt feet and a ton nage of 1,340. Her two engines were capable of furnishing 7.ri0 horse pow er, Indicated, and she traveled at the terrific rate of 240 knots a day. Before the Slrlus returned to Eng land she advertised her passage rates In the New York newspapers. For a cabin they were $140, "Includ ing provisions and wine," and for ; second cabin $80, "with provisions and wine." James Gordon Bennett went to Europe aboard the Slrius on her return trip, a Journey of which he was always proud. When the Great Western started for England on May 7, New York gave her nearly as great a send-off as Its welcome had been. For every one realized that this marked the beginning of a new epoch in marl time history. Two years later the Great Britain, the first Iron ocean liner and the first steamer driven by a screw propeller across the ocean, was launched In England. In 1840 also the Cunard line obtained the backing of the British government In the form of a profitable mail con tract and In that year the Cunard ship Brlttanla, the first of a line of splendid ships which have since piled the Atlantic, arrived In Bos ton. there to be greeted by much the same enthusiasm as had greeted the Great Western In New York. By 1850 the Cunard steamers had taken the best passenger trade away from the sailing ships and Ameri cans realized that they must also resort to steam If they were to hold their own with the British. 'Their first steamers, built for trans-Atlan tic service, proved to be too slow to compete with the English lines but In the flftjes the famous American ColllnsTli? T>?^n~bperatIng a fleet" of swift luxurious steamships which outstripped their British rivals and succeeded In recovering a large part of the Atlantic passenger trade. The modern era of ocean liners dates from 1875 when experiments proved that steel hulls were strong er, lighter and more buoyant than Iron. Again the Cunard line pio neered with the Servla, the first steel-hulled trans-Atlantic liner, which was built In 1S80. The next Innovation was the twin-screw ves sels, having two propellers and two sets of machinery. The City of New York, put Into service In 1882, was the first of this type to cross the At lantic. The adoption of the twin screw made sails obsolete and the modem era of trans-Atlantic travel began. C Wntwi Kintw L'akrm. ; STAR I I DUST I * jMLovie ? Radio J ? * ***By VIRGINIA VALE*** JAMES MELTON, one of ra dio's sweetest singers, has fin ished his latest radio assignment and arrived in Hollywood to work in "Cain and Mabel." Before j leaving New York he made in quiries as to his own importance j In the picture ? wanted to know whal sort of breaks he'd get on publicity | etc. He knew that Marlon Darle*. being the star, would come first In the heartt of the publicity men for the company A casual inquiry 'revealed the fact thai j he'd come second, which was all right with him. But for the moment nelthei he nor his informant recalled thai Mary Boland was also cast for thai picture ? and Miss Boland Is pretty im portant, being an excellent actress and a favorite of movie fans as well. Also ? Mr. Melton is, first of ail, a singer. The script calls for a prize fighter as a hero. The question at the moment Is ? if you take his singing away from Mr. Melton, will you have a prize-fighter? Now it's Harold Lloyd who wants to make pictures in color. He has been Harold Lloyd making experiments or his own hook for the last two years, but li not yet quite sura whether or not colot would add to the type of comedies that he makes. Furthermore, be'i through with making Just one picture a year; from now on he'll make two a year, I he thinks, or at least, two every three vears. And with his latest one, "The Milky Way," as an example, that comes un der the heading of good news. Those radio programs of Blng Cros by's are rapidly becoming one of the best of the broadcasts; he is getting really big names, (or rather, his spon sor Is getting them for him), and he makes a delightful master of ceremo nies. Better add this program to the list of those you tune in on Thursday evenings. ? When yon see "The Great Ziegfeld' (and of course you'll see It!) you'll bear "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" beautifully sung. Allan Jones sang It, while Stanley Morner was photo graphed as If be were singing It. Jones did not get screen credit, and Morner, who has a good singing voice, got cred it but didn't sing. ? The youngsters In Hal Roach's "Our Gang" started on a personal appear ance tour a while ago, which has proved so successful that they will go on and on right through the summer. Not only children, but grown people as well, arrive for the first show and then right on till closing time. ? . ? *? As If there hadn't been enough trou ble over Mae West's latest, "Klondike Annie." the Chinese government Is ob jecting to it now, so Mae won't be a welcome visitor In the Orient. Another picture that you'll want to see is "I Married a Doctor" ? which you'll recognize as Sin clair Lewis' great book, "Main Street" Josephine Hutchlnion and Pat O'Brien have the leads, and do ex ceedingly well by them. However, here's a word of warning to young, unmarried doc tors; don't take the girl you hope to mar ry to see this ons, for 1 It may make them feel that doctors don't Pat O'Britn make very good husbands. Staging a come-back In pictures was rather < bard thing for Dolores Co? tello Barry more to do; she was a vic tim of the early days of talkies, when she was given such Insane speeches that audiences Inughed at her, which coat her an opportunity she really de served. But she took voice lessons, and die: tlon lessons, and did sa well la "Little _Lort Fauntleroy" that Paramount has. signed Iter up. "S*ow It looks as If a real career Is opening for her. ODDS AND ENDS . . . tThen people in New York asked Bene Davit if lAfl w a< going to fly bock u> Hollywood the fid. "No; I'm ? tiny, I'll lake the train" . . . At Jolton and Ruby Keeler did I ha same . . . Bui a few accident t not frightened the general public ; plane res ervations still have to be made way ahead . . . Eddie Robinson refused to be frightened; hi % mother was ill in New York, so Vie flew to see her, and flew back . ? . Anita Louise is the latest star to embark for picture-making in England . . , Eddie Cantor's new radio contract calls for something like SISjOOO m week, but he'll have to pay his company him self . . . Ed Wynn will return to NBC soon, and have Graham McNamee with him again. ? WMUn NivutMr Cm**. TALL TALES 85 At Told to: FRANK E. HAGAN and ELMO SCOTT WATSON Blondy by a Tongue! ITITAT back Id 1892? said the Old ? V turfman ? 1 owned as beiutlful ? racing mare as ever was foaled. Her name was Blond; because of her color. My other possession was a farm In the Blue Grass country on which was hung a "plaster" of $15,000. Bad luck cut between me and the purses although Nigger Jim. my train er, would get her cream-colored body In the pink before every race. We taught Blondy a lot of trick*, between losing races. One was to make a face. Nigger Jim or I would hold an apple or carrot so she had to stretch her neck and put out her tongue for It. And she got so she would do this whenever we told her "make a face." We entered the mare In a claiming race at Churchill Downs the spring of '02. It was May 15, to be exact. The mortgage on the farm was due May 16. Nigger Jim had Blondy In great form for the 1% mile race. But the bookies were laying 20 to 1 against our nag. I managed to scare up exactly one thousand berries and placed the whole roll at 20 to 1. It was win the race or Jose the farm. . The horses were away evenly but 100 yards from the start Blondy stum bled and lost stride. We groaned but heartened as she winged away, regain ing loBt ground at every Jump. Then a horse cut In front of her. It, was Dixie Dude, and she bad to be pulled. Down the back stretch and around the turn they came. Blondy was moving np on the outside. When they hit the stretch she and Dixie Dude were running head and head. It looked like a certain dead beat but at the last jump or two Nigger Jim, hanging on the rail, yelled "Make a face, l'o' Blondy I Make a face I" Thank God ! Blondy heard, straight ened her neck, shot out her tongue across the finish line and won the race." Man-Made Mesas AFTER Paol Bunyan finished his work logging oft the Pacific North west he decided be'd become an otl drlller. First thing be did was to go down Into New Mexico and begin drilling a well on top of a mountain. Paul's well was sunk to a depth of 14,006 feet without a sign of olL Funny thing about that mountain ? It was made up of alternate layers of thin rock and dry sand. One night a windstorm came op. And bow she did blow! The next morning when Paul woke up he looked out of the window of his shack and such a sight as met his eyes I There was his hole, standing Btralght up in the air as high as he could see. The , wind had blown all the sandy layers away from It but the layers of rock were hanging around It like washers pushed around a drill stem. Paul was pretty mad about It but he didn't waste any time standing around cussing. He just took a sledge and climbed up to the top of the hole. When he got there, he began pound j lng the hole down Into the ground again. As he did so the layers of rock began to come together and In less than no time tbey made a mesa. That sort of thing happened time after time and that's why New Mexico Is so full of mesas. They're per'petual monuments to Paul Bunyan's unsus cessful oil-drilling operations there. The Squalling Squonk SOME cold, winter night, as yon sit before a roaring fire in a hunting lodge or in the bunkhouse of a lumber camp in the North Woods, you're cer tain to hear outside a long-drawn-out moaning. But if you think it's the wind In the bare branches of the trees, you're mistaken! Tour lumberjack friend will tell you it's a squonk, mourning because It has a warty, ill-Btting skin. That's all a squonk ever does? Just goes wandering among the hemlock trees, weeping and sobbing bitterly be cause its skin doesn't flL When the thermometer is down to nine degrees above tero, yoa can follow it by the little globules of ice It leaves behind ? the squonk's trail of frozen tears. Because it is such a shy, nocturnal animal few men have ever seen a squonk. But once a lumberjack, by imitating I'm cries, ured one into his cabin. The little benst seemed per fectly satisfied nnttl be shut It up in a wicker basket Then It began to sob and moan. This went on for hours, then dle<l down. The lumberjack peeked Into the basket to see if the squonk had cried Hself to sleep. But all he found was salt water and a few bubbles. The | squonk had dissolved Itself In its own tears. "I mlghta known better," suld the lumberjack, as -e added one of his own tears to the collection, "than to have shut up a squonk in a basket made from branches of the weeping willow tree." C WMtern Newspaper LnWa. Cactus Cam* From Africa All cactus plsnta now flourishing in northeast Africa and southeast Asia have been developed out of plants im ported from America. Potter* Ravin Daiifni Designs and coloring of old and fa mous English earthenware and china are being revived by potters of Eng land. Goodwill Goodwill, like a good name. Is got I by many actions and lost by on*. The Mind * *" LOWELL Meter ? HENDERSON ? B?U S?ndlc?t?.? WNU S*rrlM. The Similarities Teat In eacb problem of the following test there are three words. The fine two bear a certain relationship to each other. Write In a fourth word which will bear the same relation ship to the third word that the sec ond does to the first 1. Franklin D. Roosevelt, United States; Albert Lebrun, . ' 2. Albany ? New York, Colum bia, 3. Steamboat, John Fitch; notion picture machine, . 4. Inning, baseball ; chucker, . 5. Gobi Desert, Asia ; Sahara Desert, ?. 6. Henry Morgenthan, Treasury ; Henry A. Wallace, . 7. "Treasure Island," Robert Lonis Stevenson ; "The Lady of the ' Lake," . S. Mayor, city; Governor, . 9. A1 Simmons, baaeball ; Tommy Armour, ?. 10. United States, Washington, D. C. ; India, ?? Answers 1. France. 2. South Carolina. 3. Thomas A Edison. 4. Polo. 5. Africa. 6. Agricultnre. 7. Sir Walter Scott 8. State. 9. Golf. 10. Delhi. ALWAY8 CROSS PRAISES CHANGE, NEW BEAUTY THRILLS HUSBAND Her husband marvels at her dear mtrmlcrion. sparkling eyes, new vitality. She is really a dif ferent person ?iirmrmt?H intestinal ?hmishnrss. What a difference a balanced com bination of natural laxatives makrs Learn for yourself I Give Nature's Remedy (NR Tablet*) a trial. Note how naturallv they work, leaving you fedinglOO% better, freshened, alive. Coo FRUITS-VEGETABLES WANTED! * la Track and Oar Lota. Hlg-h Market Prl? s QaUk Balm. Financial r*spoasibiHtjr mow WmM dally ivtaras Our marks t quotation* art ?o( aaao9+ raiod to indnot okipmonU. Writs or win fir tkom. , SCHLEY BROTHERS "T\m DnnndatU Ho urn" IS lut Ctndtn St. BALTIMORE. MO. ? ft? >????* M imn and tM* only WhoUomU Commimion Firm now operating t mpmrata location* and oaloa fore? in Baltimort. Foolish Assumption That reason does not govern love Is an assumption eagerly made by those who want to be foolish. ea a KILLS INSECTS KIL on r VtGE Doiu bottle FLOWERS ? FRUITS VEGETABLES & SHKUBS Dmnatul original seated bottles, from your dealer nvt f We'll Pick th. First Which Is best of the three? -op timism, pessimism or indifference? BILIOUS SPELLS In bilious spells, one of the first things to do is to take a dose of Black-Draught to relieve the attend ing constipation. , Mr. T. L. Austin, of McAdenville, N. C., tells of having used Black Draught for a long time. "There is a box full on my mantel, now/' he writes. "I take it for biliousness. If I did not take it, the dullness and headache would put me out of busi ness. It is the quickest medicine to relieve me." Blsek-Draught is purely vegetable. It Is one of the most economical laxatives. Sold in 25-cent packages containing 25 doses. BLACK-DRAUGHT WNCT? 4 21?30 Rid Yourself of Kidney Poisons p\0 you suffer burning, scanty or J-y too frequent urination; backache, headache, dizziness, loss of energy, leg pains, swellings and puffin ess under the eyes? Are you tired, nerv ous?feel all unstrung and don't know what is wrong? Then give some thought Co your kidneys. Be sure they function proper* ly for functional kidney disorder per mits excess waste to stay in the blood, ?nd to poison sod upset tht whole system. Use Doen's PlUs. Doen's are for the kidneys only. They are recommended the world over. You can get the gen nine, time-tested Doen's at any drog store. Doan SPILLS
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