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...want to bring about a condition that will enable the immigrant coming into our ports to walk right off ship and go about his business...
When friends tell you tall stories of their rough sea passage-how mountainous, star-blotting waves towered "50, 60, 100 feet above our trembling ship," refer them to an article that appeared last week in the Social Politischer Dienst (Berlin). Accurate determination with a special cinema camera had, it was stated, shown that ocean waves in a light breeze were from 2 to 4 yards high (i.e:, above sea level). In a "high sea," waves might rise to 9 yards ; in a "violent gale," to 10 or 12 yards...
...Polish soldier who, when exiled, went to America, joined Washington's army. He distinguished himself in many a battle, was made a brigadier general, raised for the colonists a mixed troop, the Pulaski Legion. Wounded when Savannah was attacked (1779), he died on board ship two days later. In Savannah, General Lafayette laid the cornerstone of a monument...
...Bull Insular Steamship Co., which bought one ship, the Lake Winthrop...
...Civita Vecchia, 38 miles from Rome, the naval school ship Annapolis, with 60 midshipmen, came to port carrying the American visitation to the opposite side of the globe...