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` pGallee a pios'peroue Nova Seatia,a,
Ybufl ltntessar amt .,gatvte up the business he
�.6rl t ditetot' is for 21 years, packed his
Vtri;pe "anal 'saildd 3,000 miles in specu-
lative answer' to a Laudon "want ad„”
it. is 'po •'siblle today to tell the 100
ytear story tit the Cunard Line. A
e fiery which WpareReist the larger tale
lot regular transeAtiiantde steamship
:travel, with all that it 'has meant to
the swift growth of . xnerica from a
land • of '17,000,000 'Pe's)l le to one of
130,000,000. p•
Ouaarders have bridged the Atlan-
ti t since the beginning of steamship
travel. It was .an July 4, 1840, that
the first Cunard steamship paddled
out of Liverpool, in the teeth of a
sarong sou' sou' west gale, --bound for
Haitfar and Boston en its maiden
voyage, inaugurating the fine ne'gular
Atlantic steamship schedule.
For •the introduction, to the first and
most important chapben in the Cunard
story, one mist go .back. as far as
1683, when 13 Quaker families from'
Crefeld, on the lower Rhine, embark-
ed on a two -and -a -half months' jour-
ney to' join V4'illiam Penn in the caves
of Pennsylvania. Among the thirteen
was the family of Thones Kuuders,
dyer and weaver.
Foll'owin'g the American War of In-
dependence, .one of Thones Kunders'
great grandsons, whose father had
taken the name Cunard, moved to
Halifax. There he founded a suc-
cessful ,shipping business. His sec-,
and son, Samuel, had a love for the
sea, a eself-made education and plen-
ty of 'ability, plus a goodly propor-
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tion of his ancestors' pioneer tradi
tion. Samuel, at 27, was head of his
fat'her's firm, with Leifficieta faith in
his fleet of 400 eines and their skip=
pers to undertake the conveyance of
His Majesty's mail between Halifax,
Newfoundland, Boston and Bermuda,
at his own financial risk.
Just at this time came the first
puffs of stack smoke which showed
which way the wind lot progress wag
blowing. Shippers in.T.ondon, Liver-
pool, -New York, Boston -and Hali'-•
fax -began to talk of the pos•sibilit'ies,
of er'ossing the oceans by steamship.
These, men were "visionaries," the
butt of those wtho knew better. Nene
more so than young Samuel Cunard
when he believed that "steamers
properly built and manned might
start and arrive at their destination
with the punctuality of railway
trains on land."
Experts of the day scoffed at the
prospect of transrooean voyages. The
celebrated professor, Dr. Dionysius
Lardner, it' will 'be remembered, gave
a lecture in which he declared the
prospect of making regular steamship
voyages aeatoss the Atlantic to be
"perfectly crhitherical•' and produced
figures to prove it. We have now for-
gotten what else Dr. Lardner said in
his, long career, and his name has
gone down to history only for that
one statement, a fact which. should
be a warning to all other experts who
can preduee figures to prove some-
thing can't be done. But there were
many Lardners in those days, and the
only thing, those who believed in
steam could do to shake expert opin-
ion was to take a steamship across
the Atlantic. 'tries they did: In' Aug-
ust,. 1833, the steamer Royal William
left Pictou, Nova Scotia, for London,
whitah,part 'was,...reached after many
hazardous adventures.. -
One ' of the •persons" interested✓ in
this first trans-Atlantic steam cross-
ing was Mr. Samue•1 Cunard, of Hali-
fax. Dr. Lardner still didn't believe
el the thing.
In the same year a far-sighted Eng-
lisfih engineer, Robert Napier.,, pro-
duced' a •len.gthy and favorable report
on the possibilities of regular steam-
sthi.p services 'across th.e Atlantic at
the behest of Mr. Patrick Wallace,
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edle
el Loran w , prielleaetd a 1,1ne "be,
twist: Liverpo01' rand- New YOfie,r"
Wallace, for aentle ream knowuu not
to Mantises; never Meat the Matter
Up.. These two men, at tb.e. same
time, on either side of the Atlantic,
without !mowing one another, ehtotw-
ed their praeti%a1 belief in the needs
for steamships on the Atlantic and
^were eventually to join forces to
build a trans. -Atla'n'tic line wbieh was
to prosper for 100 years.
It was .tore voyage of the good ship
Sirius roes 1838, wthen the skipper
burned almost every'tthing-inflam'mable
except the paddle -wheels, so that he
would reach: New York before, his
rival the Great Western, that settled
Glue matter.. Both for those i`es'pons-
ible ' for the speedy conyeyance of
His Majesty's mails across •the ocean
and for Samuel Cunard. Despite the
Duke of Wel'lington's '4 statement that
"he could give no ceuntenanee to
any sehem.es that had for their ob-
ject a changie in the establi•sthed sys-
tem of the country," the Admiralty
adtvestisted in November, 1838, for a'
stea'mtsd,ip to convey the mailer to
Halifax. Samuel -Cunard gave up his
successful business, packed his grips
and went to London to answer the
"want ad." Samuel Cunard believed
in 'himself.
On • arrival, • Ounard sought the 'best
engineer and shipbuilder he •could
find. The East India Company, whose
agent Cunard had been in Halifax,
put him on to Robert Napier, of Glas-
gow. The two enthusiasts liked one
another immediately. They signed a
contract, of which Napier wrote,
"Fnom the frank, off -hand manner in
which he (Cunard) contracted with
me I have given ,him the vessels
cheap and I am certain"that they will
be good and very strong ships." Sam-
uel Cunard was' certain of that, too,
as s'o'on as he had met Napier. He
went straight to the Admiralty and
in Mn•own words. pledged himself
that the vessels would be the "fines•t
and best boats ever built in this
country." He got the Admiralty's•
contract.
When it came to establishing a
company to own the mail steamers',
Napier called in' his great friend.
David. McIver, who was manager• of
a Liverpool steamship line, and Mc-
Iver • called- in his friend, George
Burns, of Glasgow, manager of the
same line. It is to the capability
and understanding of McIver and
Firms that many persons now give
muoh.:.of the credit for the success of
the Cunard Line. Perhaps it would'
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be more true to say Cunard ^Arovislled.
the initial inneule,e,, McIver and Burns
their knowledge of t'he eteen1s'hip
business, and Napier the ships. Nap-
ier, incid'en'tally, also provided the,
Cunard 'Liners, with red funeells,
which the had used Nor the piohee,r
Isle of Man Steam -packet Company
ten years earlier. •
Shortly after a £270,000 co-partner
company had been formed, under the
name The British antd North Ameri-
can Royal Mail Steampacket Com-
pany, four sister ships were ordered,
the Britannia, Arcadia, Caledonia and
Columbia, each of 420 horsepower and
1,140 tons. And on July 4,"1840, lit-
tle more than a year after. Cunard
'shad met" Napier, the Britannia set
forth . for Halifax, and Boston with 63
passengers (fare 34 guineas to Hall -
fax, 38 to Boston).
There ;had been earlier trans-At-
lantic ;companies, but the Cunard
Line was the first to carry the mails
and t'o r•un a regular schedule. None
of the other original lines, remained
ip business long (they 'had no .mail
contract). But soon after the Cun-
ard had started their trips,'the story
of the line became one of rivalry
with other services, 'first American,
then German, then French. And What
'began as rivalry between companies
eventually became (rivalry between
countries, until the (fumed itself was
amalgamated with the '. White Star
Line, as part o;f the British. Govern-
m•ent's terms for financial assistance
in building . the Queen Mary and
Queen Elizabeth.
During the century of .rivalry,
seed records, size records, romance
and. adventure, other companies came
and` went, but the Cunard wentsttead-
ily on. Cunard, Napier, Burns and
McIver left the comtpany their own
pioneer tradition. It was well plant-
ed and it grew.
Tlie Cunard Line was always one
of the first- to adopt "visionary" de-
velopments. It was always ready to
Meet rivals 1?y going one better.
When iron ships were, still eomplac-•
ently ordering huge stocks of wood
for a new naval 'building program;
"The Voice 'With a Smile
JrER and btter mechanical equipmenthas payed a great part in telephone
service. But -the human element -the men''
and women who make the equipment serve
you so quickly and accurately -has been an
all-important factor.
Telephone employees are your friends and
neighbors, fellow citizens -of your local 'com-
munity.' Their most cherished aim is to
piovide'ttelephone service'. that is efficient,
speedy, and as • nearly flawless as it can be
made.
More than that — they lay great emphasis on
courtesy, on being as helpful as they can in
everything that pertains to your telephone.
The famous phrase, "The Voice with a Smile".
expresses their way of work and service.
Bell employees have made a great contribu-
tion to our sixty years of successful opera-
tion.. It ifs to them in large measure, that
Canada owes its world leadership in the use
of the telephone.
HAS BEEN `SMILING'
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`The Preeldent of the U. S. to a big
man, 'huge slhouldereld and long -arm -
red, with sauskage-s0ze fingers en his
freckled', 'hairy han:dist. His greying
,Mair i. thin, little tiholmlotwls dwell on
has massive 'temples, brown shadows
sit under his• deep, narrow -set eyes,
and two big seams book down from
ht's ,clean• -cut' nese to make grim. par -
Cunard brottghtt out the sueeessful
iron Persia (1856). In tlhe 'eighties,
when competltioan was intense, out
Dame two sister ships; Umbria and
Etruria, of 8,00.0. tons, whi leehatter-
ed all s'pee ` records and were, to
quote a, temporary report, '"monu-
ments to the skill of design and the
faithfulness efe the labor that went
to their accamplisi went."
It is said that the Cunard Line
never had a bad ship. They certain-
ly had many fine ones. Consider the
grand old Mauretania, wlhich held the
Bine Riband for 22 years, and got
better and faster as the years wore
'on. Why, on one of her last voyages,
as a 'cruise liner, in 1933, the "grand
old lady -of the seas," designed to do
25 knots in 1907, hit up' 32 knots and
held that amazing speed for three
hours. ..
And now as the 100 -year Cunard
chapter arrives, war bars the great,
centenary celebrations which might
otherwise have been held in Brittain
to Mark the occasion. But perthaps a
celebration is unnecessary. For the
hundredth year is 'marked for the
Cunard Line by an 'adventurous cli-
max. 'To match the picture of the
gallant 1,140 -ton .,Cunarder, Britannia,
plugging its way out of the Mersey
and into the open sea, on July 4, 1840,
there will always remain, the picture
of March 7, 1940, when the 85,000 -ton
Ounarder, Queen Elizabeth -greatest
Ship the world has yet seen -steam-
ed, drably -gray but still majestic, up
the furrowed waters of New York
Harbor, after a :dramatic a n d
secret 'dash .across the ocean - a
maiden voyage ^unnque :in sea history.
-Mother
" Shipton's
Prophecies
Because of the uncanny manner in
which th'e •prophecies of Mother
Shipton have been coming to pass
during recon. years, considerable at-
tentipn has been attracted to this
strange creature of four centuries
ago. Even those who have 'n the
past 'scoffed at 'toe weird predictions
of thpts ancient "witch" are .now stir-
red byc• curiosity to wondter what will
next occur in this' direction.
Mlotther Shiptlon, we• are told, was
born in Yorkshire, Eaiglend, in July,
1488, and died about 1559. In books
of information she ie described as
a ,half_"mythical Englisch prophetess,
baptized Ursula Southied, who later
married Tone • • Shipton, a builder.
Acdording to tlraditions, she- was the
child of Agatha Shipton ands the
• Devil. '
The following extracts from' Mier
amazing ,prophecies were taken from
a scrap book made more thane forty
years ago and owned by a Rochestter,
woan'an, says the Rochester Deme,
crat end Chronicle:
A house of glass shall come to, pass
In merry England,• but, alas!
War will; follow with the work
In the lands of the bloody Turk.
And 'State and State in fierce strife,
Shall" struggle far each other's life.
Carriages wit:haait horses shall gra
And accidents fill the world with woe.
In London, Primrose Hill shall be,.
And the center of a bishop's sea.
Around the world thoiight shall Cly "
In the twinkle of an eye.
Theou'gh the Chills men shall' ride
And neither ho'rs!e or ase bestride;
Under water men shall walk,
Shall t -idle, shall sleep, shell also talk.
Irons in the water sthall. float
AS easily' ae. a wooden boat.
Gold shall be found and shown ..
Ina land that's now unknown.
Fine nisd water shall wonders, do
And England ;shall admit a Jew.
Three timrs three shall lovely France
Be led to' dance a bloody dance
Before her people shall be free;
Thiele tyrant rulers' shall She see
Each springing from a differei1 dyn-
asty,
And .wIblen the lest great fight is won
England and France shall be as lone:
And now a word in uncouth rhyme
Of what 'shall be in latter time.
In Chaste wtanderful far-off days
.women 's'h'all get a strange new oraze
To dress Pike men and breeches wear
And cut off their beautiful locks of
Mair,
And ride astride with brazen brow
As witdbiss do on broows'ticks. now.
Then love ,s'h'all die , and marriage
• cease
And babes: 'and sucklings sto decrease
That wives shall fondle cats and dogs
And mien 1'iv.e 'much the same se hogs.
In eighteen 'hundred and ninety-six
Build your houses of rotten. sticks
For then shall mighty war be planned
.And fire and sward sweep o'er the
lanai.
And these who live the century thror
In fear 'sad; trembling this will db:
Fly tto the mtountains and to the,glens,,
To -begs and foresterand wild dentis, •
For tempests will rage and oceans
will roam
And '(labeletll stand on sea and Shore;
And aft the totes his wendlronits.,, horn
Old world Shall dye and new be born.
In the air men shall be sieea,
Ifo White, in black and also green,
Now ettrange, .but yet thee shall be
true,
Tho world upside dean shall Wbeai '
And o1v1' shell be Braid at the Mote
• Sf a' tree; .
When pivtutretg lbrok alive With Move -
Matte free,
Whence ship like $rhes swum haler
t el Sea, ' •
'When. Men talistl`.f'ppi 'ifi'rde can
'scour ;the Sky,
Them half the *Mid 'die ip drene lee In
b'loo'd than dile.
entangles auloUDldl mourohI
Last week he Hooked tired. But
wleaatiallebe set. 011 'hin? '.ldgbttiy, !lee a
i11hn of t oiver ar smblidoring fire.
Powerful!, 001141, imeeuit rbabie, he -
sat at bias desk w1it i an ale' of 'utter
cnnfidlenoe- -tThJ i al'ettd, nonchalant con-
fidence of a skilled weer moving
swiftly in a routine task. The crush -
leg reslptotnadibdldtties of 1940 Ire were ars
,6a'mdlilaa+ly, ale easily as hist speckly
seersucker Milt, buttoned into thick
watinkies over bl • paunoh.
Even now be slept well, six or se'v-
'en hones a night. But he slept best
o•:ii; a •boat. At near mbdntigtht after
itis last fireside ehatt he motored to
the Navy Yard in Washington, snit
ed tdlowneiver on the yacht Potomac.
Attloatt, he stleptt ,till 11 a.m. and went
back to the White Haase at noon
with {:tall 'bis, old bounce.
The Prtesident was working hard-
inc'neddbfyl heads -at the job which has
broken so many men. Daily he aver-
aged 15 cabers (on Thursday be saw
40 men, besides a special press con-
ference);
onference); as always, the .did, moat of
tthe talking. To handsome Marguer-
lite (Missy.) Lelihnd, this private sec-
t ediary, he dictated 15 to 20 lettetrs• • a
day. .Constantly reports, documents,
Sttein patplers, cables, digests, conres-
planidence 'streamed over his desk.
There were 'speeches to write,- mes-
stagels to plan, policies to 'determine.
A11txve aril, there was a would to
watch, a 'Weld nn wtb:ich total war
looked more and more like world rev-
olution.
The President waterbed 'the world:
Daily he selanned maps. For three
weeks he has discussed battlefield
contours in military detail with U.S.,
•ex'perts; again and again they have
whistled respectfully at 'his apparent
knowledge of Flanders -.hills, creeks,
towns, bridges. The President's par-
ticuliar forte! is Islands.: 'he . is saidi to
know every one in the world, its peo-
ples,
eaples, habits, population, geography,
econtolmic life. When a ship sank off
Scotland several months ago, experts
argued: Had the ship hit a 'rock or
had it been torpedoed? The Presi-
dent'•pondeared latitude and' lontg•studer-
said: "It hit a rack. They aught to
have seen that rock." Naval Aide
Daniel -J._Callaghan. retailed the -reek,
disagreed: "At ;high tide, Mr. Presi-
dent, that rock is submerged." No
.such thing, said the President, even
at high tidis 4h'at .rock is 20 .feet out
of the water.
The family life of the Nation's
First Penall y:nen was in' abeyance.
For the last three Weeks :he has mis's-
edi !the. evening movies in the big'sec-
ond-floor corridor in the White House.
But he averaged' three swims a, week
in the 'pool set between the 'Mansion
and the Executive Offices.
Host appetite was good lbs .. taste
Por game still as keen as ' when Mrs.
Roosevelt said he liked any food
"that flies tlhrough the kitchen." Sea
food was still his favorite dist., ter-
rapin in any form this prime .flavor
ate, with a gastronomic nook always
reserved .fee kedgeree, a dish of flak-
ed white fish, rice, hardboiled eggs.
He is a cheese eonnoisiseur, but likes
ice 'cream to the point of scoed help-
ings. He •honestly Pikes blot dogs.
Onto Scotch, highball et teatime is his
usual nation, but on a 'night out he
ups that emit:: , often at hanque'Cs the
flower vases before his place conceal
as many as four • Old-Fashioneds,
which he. downs before 'one can say
"Jack Garner.' •
Hilg diary ;begins around 8.30 a.m.,
With a leisurely breakfast in 'bed, a
review' .bf news and •tthe day's Work
with Secrefiary Stephen • T. Early,;, a
careful eheck through, New York,
Washington,. Philadelphia and Balti-
mtane newspapers; a look at over-
night cables. Often, these days, there
are also quick aan'ferenceWs with State
Department chiefs. Languid, shrewd
Secretary of Commerce Harry Ho'p-
kinls often, edits in listening more than
talking; unnrendful of settoke curling
ifitkl bat; eyes froiii a forgot eli Dig-
arette When .the gran.dehdldren are
on a visit, one, is usually climbing
around the bed (Franklin III or Sara).
Premed, he s;,its en a little wheel-
chair that lboltis like a typewriter
table no 'Areas or back -and an at-
tentdarnt 'places his• •hand on the Presi-'
dent's'broad shoulders,'•push•es 'him to
the elevator, down the Pillared out-
side passage- (if the •day is fain) and
into the Oval•-Reom tto'thie desk. Walk-
ing is 'still a difficult, lureting task`
to shim, only ,possible with a cane and
en atidete arm.
'At 10 or 10.30 appointments begin.
Luch is at conference over desk trays.
The President is, not skilful With his
hands: they fumble with papers,
with spectacles.:; the wood matches
he `uses often break under his heavy
flingers. When he appears casual,
easy, elhaiming, 'his hands are still.
He likes bo laugh, even these days --
a delighted roar that •shake's hint up
and dbtwn-ants sttll.l l i n . the hoarded
minutes of his day finds time to write
lusty wisecracks in ' memos to his
aides, to think up lithe gage to
opting on, this press eOnfereneee,
In more than seven years in the
White House he.,thasn'.t spent 30 days
in bed• Dr. Re'ss• McIntire vows iris
weed could Pass his' 1930 'life-ins'u,r-
amice examdnatfonts ($560,000) at ''his
1930 ratings. Only his family', anx-
fbuetly aware of .the mortality ,Ante of
Prteeidentg, is not entre he cam beat
theaanerages.
He hale one priceless attribute: al
knack of locking up his and ^ Chet
worldfs Worries in some secret Men-
tal
ental contpartmenit, • and' then enjoying,
himself to the top of his bent. This
quality of survival, of physical, tough-
ness., of ,uhampaigne ebullience, as
one key to the ,big man. Another
key is this: no one 'bas Peer heard
him admit that he cannot walk:
"Are you • am expert accountant?"
Asked the pnostpeotive employer,
"Yes, sir," res'pavldled the applicant.
"Your. written references seem to
be all right, but tel me more about
yourself."
"Well my Wife kept a thousetbold
account for thirty drays•, t One night
after dinner, I stat down and in liens'
than an hour foumdt out how much
we owed; •our 'grocer."
"Hang' up your 'hat and coat," di-
rected
irected 'the employer ewith a glad
smile. "The job is yours."
.
Professor: "Yes, try dear young
lady, but do you realize that Christo-
pher 'Colembus
hristo-pher'Columbus went 2,000 miles on a -
gal'l'eon?"
Girl: "Well, I dare say -but 1
don't berlieve all the tales I hear a..
bout these Anneriean cars!"
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