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"I Christen Thee ‘City of Montgomery’”
Another Modern Palace Launches Out Into the Arms of the Dimpling Sea.
The silvery voice of Miss Helen
Camp Steiner, daughter of Major R.
E, Steinefj a director of the Central of
Georgia railway, rang with an exult
ant note of patriotic pride as she ut
tered the final word: “I christen thee
‘City of Montgomery.’ ” And at her
word a queen of a vessel let go from
the ‘‘ways*’ and plunged into its water
home and wissed with rapturous joy
the face of famous Neptune;
This interesting event took place
on February 28, 1910, at Newport
News, Va., when the Ocean Steamship
Company, of Savannah launched a
new ship, in one month a similar
ceremony will christen “The City of
St. Louis.”
Each will start on her maiden voyage
during the early summer, and a trim-
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met, saucier pair the coastwise sail
ing world has never seen.
They are epoch-making, these twin
sisters of the “Savannah Line" fleet.
In fact, from the days of the famous
old “Rapidan,” about which so much
romance clustered, the Savannah lin
ers have constituted a fleet of which
each one has been a link in the chain
of development in coastwise vessels.
Some day, perhaps, a new Clark Rus
sell will arise to give to the world a
colorful picture of the good old days
of the “Rapidan" and her successors.
Certain it is that the decks of the
good old North-South line vessels
have been the stage on which many
a little drama has been acted, some
grave, some gay, some of them suf
ficiently up to date for Bernard
Shaw’s grim jocosity.
The Hand of Progress Models Anew.
A romance in itself has been the
transition in these coastwise carriers
from wood to iron, from iron to steel.
In her day the “Rapidan” was the
finest vessel in the coastwise trade.
And she was a primitive side-wheeler
of 868 tons. The “City of Montgom
ery” and her sister bud, the “City of
St. Louis,” are 6,200 tons apiece,
quite a “hefty” pair of debutantes,
with their length of 404 feet and their
breadth of nearly 50 feet!
The draft of the twins, when fully
loaded, will be 18 feet 6 inches, and
the holds below the draft-line are di
vided into water-tight compartments,
which make them unsinkable. Alas,
for the new Clark Russell, he must
lose the opportunities of his predeces
sor, for to his pen will fall no oppor
tunities to describe thrilling rescues
by sea. These modern vessels are as
safe as a church, with every safety
device known to Uncle Sam’s Patent
Office aboard them, including wireless
telegraphy, the mere prediction of
which in the days of the good old
“Rapidan” would have consigned its
prophet to the lunacy commission and
a padded cell.
Equalizing the Climate.
Problems of their own had the de
signers of the “City of Montgomery”
and “City of St. Louis.” For the Sa
vannah Line being in the North-South
trade, must face unusual conditions.
At no time in the year do these ves
sels enter or leave the port of Savan
nah in the same feniperaturq that
they do in that of New York. There
fore, in the building of these ocean
going hotels it was necessary to pro
vide for the winter frigidity of New
York as well as for the rose-laden
breezes of the Southern port. Elec
tricity will cool and ventilate the
staterooms in summer, and the heat
ing and ventilating systems for the
winter will be as complete.
A Full-Grown Family for One
Household.
The full complement of passengers
will be 136 first-class, 36 Intermediate
and 57 ih the steerage—quite a siza
ble company.
There will be —-hark, gentle shade
of Robert Fulton —ten suites of bed
room and private bath, the baths here,
as elsewhere- on the vessels, immacu-
“CITY OF MONTGOMERY.”
late in tile and enamel and furnished
with hot and cold, salt and fresh
water. The bedrooms, with their
ceilings so high that they will sur
prise even the seasoned traveler, will
be adorned with delicate tapestries,
furnished with brass bedsteads, set
tees, writing tables, and fitted with
the best of bedding, blankets and
linen, putting them in the Waldorf-
Astoria and Plaza class as far as
ocean-hotel accommodations go.
Snitary lavatories, shower and pri
vate baths are conveniently dotted
about through these luxurious ships,
all equipped with the hot, the cold,
the salt, the fresh running water.
Unlike other ships in the coastwise
trade, these new Savannah liners will
be equipped each with a barber shop,
under the charge of an experienced
artist, also a news-stand, with its in
viting complement of periodicals—all
the comforts of home, and a few
more.
“Ah! Promenade Were Paradise
Now.”
On the promenade deck —ah, what
hosts of airy nothings will be spoken
there! —there will be an enticing
music-room, with its grand piano and
its large,. comfortable tete-a-tete
chairs and settees. Immediately be
low the music-room, on the hurricane
deck, will be the beautiful social hall,
and aft of the abode of music will be
the writing room —a most attractive
place for one-sided chats with unhap
py friends ashore.
The Savannah Line encourages the
devotee of the weed; the smoking
room is forward on the promenade
deck, immediately aft of the pilot
house. Access to this room can be
had from the promenade deck, or if
during bad weather, by stairway with
the hurricane deck below, thus en
abling passengers whose sea legs are
unreliable to go to and from this room
without necessarily encountering the
weather. The table and finishings of
Tetterine Conquers Polson Oak.
I enclose 50 cents in stamps for a box
of Tetterine. I have poison oak on me
again, and that is all that ever has
cured it. Please hurry it on to
M. E. Hamlett.
Montalba, Tex., May 21, 'OB.
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Worm, Itching Piles, Old Itching Sores,
Dandruff, Chilblains and every form of
Scalp and Skin Disease. Tetterine 50c;
Tetterine Soap 25c. Your druggist, or
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The Golden Age for March 10, 1910.
this room will be hardwood, tiled
floors, with large, comfortable, leath
er-cushioned chairs and settees, ad
mirable places in which to burn in
cense to my Lady Nicotine —if men
must smoke.
The dining-saloon will have a capac
ity of 124, and is located at the for
ward end of the hurricane deck-house.
Its location is such that passengers
will be able to have an unobstructed
view of the ocean while at meals, and
the lighting arrangements, by day and
night, will leave nothing to be de
sired. Large air ports, which are
fitted at the forward end of the sa
loon, will enable passengers to enjoy
to their heart’s content the salt sea
breezes.
Everything Furnished But the
Appetite.
As for the culinary department, it
will, be fitted with the. latest devices
in modern equipment, furnishing a
cuisine calculated to make the pas
senger wish to “sail on thus forever,”
with an ocean appetite and a table
fit for the sea gods.
The intermediate accommodations
will consist of twelve rooms of three
berths each, located aft on the spar
deck and especially designed for com
fort and convenience.
The steerage, forward on the spar
deck, will provide comfortable and
neat accommodations for 57 passen
gers—of all varieties.
The sister ships will have the lar
gest cargo carrying capacity in the
coastwise trade, with every device
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A long life and a useful one to the
debutante of February and her sister
bud of next month! Between them
there will be a sisterly rivalry in
beauty and speed, in grace and com
fort as they dance across the waves
in swift shuttles, now north, now
south, a sight to make a landsman
yearn!
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