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Captain Hartley eased the Leviathan out into the stream. The little Clermont, a replica of Fulton's 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...
That which should accompany old age?honor?does not fall to those who go by too many aliases, like the steamship Yankton. She was offered at auction in New York; the highest bid was $2,700; the United States Marshall refused the price; and her sale was put over until another...
...March 4. Soon after that time the Post Office Department discovered that its foreign mails had taken a great increase. But Congress was not in session and there was no means of securing a deficiency appropriation. To meet the situation the Department twice lowered the rates paid to steamship companies for carrying mail?once in March and again in June. The appropriation was nevertheless exhausted before the end of the fiscal year, on June 30. On July 1 the appropriation for the next year became available and shipments were resumed...
Some time ago (as a precaution against having to pay a fine of $200 per capita for passengers brought to this country and denied admission, and to save the cost of returning such immigrants to Europe. British steamship companies and the United States Lines established a registration bureau to count the number of immigrants booking passage and accept no more for a given month than the immigration quota allowed...
...Germany is summoned by the Allies to appear before the Court with reference to refusing to allow the British steamship Wimbledon to pass through the Kiel Canal. (Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles the Kiel Canal must remain open to all vessels of all nationalities at peace with Germany.) The Wimbledon was carrying munitions of war to Poland. Germany contends that to have allowed the ship to pass through the canal would have been an act prejudicial to her neutral attitude. The Allies maintain that a preliminary treaty of peace ending war between Poland and Russia was ratified...