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...Navy chief yeoman's cap, the chief yeoman of U. S. foreign trade and diplomacy whiled away the cruising days with constitutionals around the deck, reading detective stories, reclining on a cabin lounge to chat with the 20 newsmen aboard, observing naval mysteries such as range-finding and fire-control in the gun turrets, and in dictating memoranda to several stenographers. Mrs. Hoover sat on deck, knitting...
Beam-ends. By dawn Monday the gale was but a whisper, the sun burst through a sky of scudding rain clouds. But passengers on the starboard side, looking out of their windows, could not see the horizon. "It was like looking down a deep well." The deck tilted like a barn roof...
...clock, Captain Carey, hitherto indifferent to pleas of passengers to "do something," ordered women and children on deck...
...cruise we shall take the schooner down the Atlantic coast, around the Gulf of Mexico, through the Panama Canal, and up the Western coast. We shall take harpoon guns, fish lines, nets, rifles, tents for camping on shore, and an awning to spread over the deck, so that we can sleep out on hot nights. If anyone has a good boat, he can bring it along too. We are going in search of adventure, and we shall get some...
Prayers, by 50 passengers wearing life preservers, were offered from the third-class deck of the Roma during a storm so violent that the ship's propellers were lifted out of the water and spun around jarringly. The Roma weathered the storm, reached Manhattan safely...