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...invention (the first steamship), appeared and led the way down the bay. Six aeroplanes above formed a guard of honor, and stayed by till the Leviathan passed Sandy Hook. Then out on the open sea, taking a steady pace of 23 knots, the monster laid her course for Cherbourg and Southampton...
After landing at Cherbourg, the group will visit Paris and Versailles, Rome, Perugia, Assissi, Florence, Venice, Milan, Ghent and Bruges, Brussels and Antwerp, the Dutch cities of Amsterdam, Haarlem and the Hague, and finally England. The return voyage will be by the "Saxonia", due to arrive in New York, September fourth...
...announced by Chairman Albert D. Lasker of the Shipping Board that the Leviathan (formerly Vaterland) will leave New York for Southampton and Cherbourg on July 4. Not only will she make her first trip since receiving the $10,000,000 alterations which have equipped her for passenger service; she will go forth now as the largest vessel ever afloat. Hitherto the Majestic, a British ship (formerly the Bismarck) was the largest vessel, with a registered tonnage of 56,551 and a length of 915.5 feet. The Shipping Board announces, however, that on account of alterations on the Leviathan-chiefly because...
Senator Hiram Johnson, making his first trip abroad, arrived in Europe on the George Washington. At Cherbourg he was asked his opinion of the Ruhr. "I am an American," he replied. "I have no advice to offer France and no desire to visit Germany...
...representatives of the commercial and industrial life of the nation, along with the University towns of Toulouse, Grenoble, and Strasbourg, the medieval chateaux of the Loire, and the cathedral towns of Rheims, Amiens, Rouen, and Chartres, will form a prominent part of the schedule. Before the return trip to Cherbourg the party will visit the Pyrenees, the French Alps, the Riviera, the redeemed provinces of Alsace-Lorraine and the north coast of Brittany, including Paris and the battle-fields of the Great...