If their engineers should be called
out, they asserted that they could find plenty of men to fill their
places.
This is all very well from the point of view of the agents seated in
their comfortable offices, but very few of us would be willing to trust
our lives on the high seas to inexperienced engineers. We do not care to
ride on the cars in times of strikes when green hands are put on to keep
them running till the trouble is over, and on the cars we can get out
any moment we feel afraid. But on the ocean it is altogether a different
matter. There is no stopping the car and getting out at the next block,
and it would probably pay the steamship companies better to agree to the
engineers' terms than to run their ships empty.
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The Duchess of Marlborough (formerly Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt) is now
the happy mother of a baby son who may one day be the Duke of
Marlborough.
When it came time to christen the infant, the Prince of Wales sent word
that he would act as godfather to the noble baby.
The child has just been christened, and a grand ceremony was made of the
affair in the Chapel Royal, St.
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