New-York tribune. [volume], June 29, 1902, Page 2, Image 32

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THt SAD END OF CORONATION PLANS MAY RESULT IN CROWDED STEAMSHIPS THIS WEEK FROM EUROPE
WOMEN OF THE DUST CABIN.
OCEAN TRAVEL COMFORTS.
GYMNASIUM AND THE GItII.T-.ROOM Al>l>
TO JOYS OF THOSE AFLOAT.
The sad ending of plans for the coronation
bf King Edward of England will, it la expected.
result in an Immediate rush homeward of many
Americana and Canadians now in Europe. This
may result in some overcrowding, and some
Crumbling, but so great are th<- comforts of
tcean travel nowadays that people who crossed
the Atlantic a dozen years ago and have not
den- so since would not count as an incon
venit ace at all a little overcrowding In one of
The newer steamships.
As an illustration, the Hamburg-American
tine in the course >>f th<- last few months has
Intn duced on some of its ships such novelties
as gymnasiums and grillrooms. The popularity
of each has been gnat. To the passenger who
i:.v r >-un g«-t enougb exercise a gymnasium of
fers such opportunities as punching bags, paral
lel bars, horses, chest weights, or even Hying
trapezes. These gymnasiums are open to first
cabin passengers, and are furnished with all the
paraphernalia pertaining to a modernly equipped
gymnasium, fur there are also shower baths,
Turkish and Russian baths, bath rubbers and
Ihampooers.
As the gymnasium has been introduced for the
purpose of quieting restless muscles, so the grill
room has been established to meet the whims of
an unsteady appetite. L T p to recent times pas
sengers could only obtain meals at three fixed
times each day, with bouillon or some other
frail BOrt of luncheon in the int. rim. With such
an arrangement there was no means of meeting
the fickle wants of a man who had a supper
appetite In the morning and a tea palate at the
appointed time for a course dinner, with black
coffee and dessert. Stomachs which are most
orthodox on land are likely to become erratic
at sea, and it is for such stomachs that the
grillroom has been established. Both the gym
nasiums and the grillrooms are now features of
the Bteamshlp Deutschland, and the new steam
ships Moitke and Blucher, of the Hamburg-
American Line.
Another new feature which has been Intro
duced by the Hamburg-American Line is the
"deck cosey corner." To protect the passenger
•who desires to get sea air without being blown
off the deck on a windy day bulkheads are
built in a semicircular fashion, which will shel
ter a couple, or even a quartet.
THE NEW GRILLROOM ON TIIK DEUTSCHLANBk
NEW-YORK TRIBUNE ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT.
Besides its many improvements In Increasing
the comfort of Its passengers and the speed of
Its uhlps. the North German Lloyd has recently
Introduced wireless telegraphy Into Its service.
All the big Bteamships of this line are row
equipped with Instruments by means of which
communication can be established with land
nearly twenty-four hours before the time of ar
rival, and messages can be sent from one ship
to another of the line In midocean.
While conceding the fact that wonders have
TIIK PALLID WRECK OK A ONCE HATIT
A.\l> BOASTING BRIDEGROOM.
been achieved by wireless telegraphy, the
French Line, which operates steamships between
this port and Havre, still adheres to the use of
carrier pigeons as a means of communication
at sea. At the present time pigeons may be de
pended on further from land, so officers of this
line say, than the wireless telegraph. Thus. If
is told that when one thousand miles from
shore La Bretagne saved the Bothnia from de
struction. A message was contided to a carrier
pigeon, which arrived at the Paris office early
enough to warn the office in New-York three
days before the expected arrival of the boat.
For the convenience of passengers letters are
photographed upon small celluloid films, which
are attached to one of the pigeon's legs before
its release. When the bird arrives at the office
of the company the photograph of the letter
Is enlarged and then forwarded to its destina
tion.
Before his arrival a passenger is often anxious
TIIH TiMIP BRIDE WHO BROUGHT ALONG A CURE FOR SKASICKNK--
to send a notice of his coming to a friend, or
even to engage rooms at a hotel. Such an errand
can be performed by the faithful carrier pigeon
twelve hours or more before the port Is sighted
by the lookout of the steamer.
Innovations are also being made by other
standard lines, such as the Cunaxd, the Amer
ican, the Red Star, the White Star, the Holland-
Air.erica and the Atlantic Transport. Each of
these h.itt some feature In which it takes par-
THE NEW. 'COSEY CORNER** ON THE DECK OF THE MOLTSE.
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WOMEN OF THK STEERAGE.
ticular pride, and because of which it enjoys
a particular class of patrons. Thus, the globe
trotters who had rather trot than run, and who
prefer ten to twelve days at sea instead of a
lightning voyage of five, prefer the slower sail
ing boats of the Atlantic Transport Line. If
for other n-asons a passenger prefers a ship ia
which there are no ropes up fcr this or that
class, but where everybody has the full range
of the ship, and there is only one class, he may
take passage on certain steamed afl the Red
Star LJne. The man who desires to travel on
the biggest ships of the world sails o.i the White
Mat Line. But on the steamer of any line tl
traveller can find those peculi.sx dr'.ijjhts rt"
spring from a life at sea, and derive amusei. -at
from watt-bins the other passengers. Here is a
typical Incident which amused a M wt viya^cra
the other day:
Almost every one on the Campania kn»w that
they were ou their wedding trip before the big