Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 18, 1912, Page 6

By MORGAN PROLOGUE. A wonderfully prophetic fic- tion story written fourtcen years ago of the wreck of the TITAN | which, like the Titanic, was the | world’s largest and most palatial | vessel and gencrally regarded as unsinkable and Like the Titanic, too, the TITAN was wrecked by an iceberg tn the month of April when speeding | along the northern lane route | of the Atlantic. The wreck in {the fiction story happened in | about the same place that the | Titanic disaster occurred, and | there were not sufficient life boats and rafls to take off the passengers and crew Read and you will see that there are many other remarkable and startling coincidences between the wreck of the TITAN, the largest steam- ship of the world of fiction, and the wreck of the Titanic, the largest steamship uf the material world. O AAAAAASAAAAAAND O AAAAAANAN. SAAAA~AD [Copyright, 1555, by M F. Copyright, 1412, by Morgan Robertson. All rights reserved | CHAPTER |, The Unsinkable Titan. iTE was the st craft afloat and the gre t of the works of wen I her construction aud niintenance were involv. ed every science, profession and trade or kill them. 1t is very much casier.| known to eivilization On ber bridge were otlicers, who, besides being the pick ot the royar navy, had passed once and buy the window screens and rigid examinations in all studies that pertained to the winds, tides, currents and geography ot the sea. They were sooner or later anyway, Put them in| Dot only seamen, but scientists. The same protessional stadard applied to the personnel ot the euzine room, and gnnoyance and discomfort, the I's department was equal to If your home or business office were to burn up or be looted by a burglar WOULD YOU NOT LOSE VALUABLE PAPERS? Is it not careless for you tc longer put oc coming to us and .enting a private box in our absolutely fire and burglar proof safety deposit vaults® | e Our rent for a private box is only $1 and up for a wholc year. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LAKELAND Under Control of U. 8. Government KEEP OUT THE FLIES instead of trying to drive them out The way to do it is to come here at sereen doors you will have to have| at once and save yourself trouble, that of # tirst ehiss hotel lak | d “ d . Two briss inids, two orchestras and e a“ ar ware Plumh'“g Co. a theatrical company eutertained the e passengers during waking hours, a z T SR — | corps ot ph;~1cnins aduinistered to the temporal aud a corps of chaplains to the spiritual welfare of all on board, while a well dnrlled tive company goothed the tears ot nervous ones and added to the generai ent nment by daily practice with their apparatns, From her lotty bridge ran hidden telegraph lines to the bow. steru, en gine roum, crow's nest on the ftore mast and to all parts ot the ship where work was done, each wire ter minating in a marked dial with a mov able indicator containing in ity scope every order and answer required in handling the massive hulk, either at the dock or at sea, which eliminated FLORIDA to a t eateat the hoarse, nerve racking shouts of oflic d sadlors. From the bridee, enzine room aud a = | dozen places on her deck the ninety- two doors of nincteen water tight com partments couid be closed in halt i minute by turning a lever only is used to make the tour which doors would also close automaticaily in the presence of water compartiments (looded the ship would still tloat, and as no Kkuown aceident cmployed to| of the sea could possibly till this many R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will furnish plans and specifications or will follow any plans and specifications furnished. BUNGALOWS A SPECIALTY. Let me show you some Lakeland homes I have built, LAKELAND, Phone 267-Green. THE VERY BEST WHEAT sees into our bread And thae very best methods ouly are produce both the flour and the bread. practically unsinkable. You'll like the looks of our Dread senger traflic only, she carried no cow. : < = | Dustible cargo to threaten her destruc- when you see it. You'll like its taste| tion by fire, and the immunity from the demand for casgo space had ena still better 4 v i etter when you try it. bled her designers 1o discard the flat, 1 he M ode rn Bakery _Barhlte Bmmers :::'uteheb‘ :1:::‘;‘\ ::-:dlfi‘o::‘:l::? rf::: [ s oo | the keel—of a steam yacht, and this | improved her behavior in a seaway. She was 800 feet long, of 0.0 tons displacement, 40000 horsepower, and | on her trial trip had steamed at a rate of twenty-Gve knots an hour over the | bottom, In the face of unconsidered winds, tides and currents. In short, she was a floating city, conlalnh\z; within her steel walls all that tends | to minimize the dangers and discom. | forts of the Atlantic voyage, all that Live Where You Will Like makes life enjoyable. THEWRECK OF THE TITAN tndestructible | Mansfield. | THE POPULARITY OF IN. MAN BLUNT (15 p is not due to their price Ly «, , quality. Many men who paid a nickel more for tiej, now prefer the Inman Bl ROBERTSON count of the splendid s, they afford. Not to try is treat. |lhc bruut of iie damaze would be | borne lh‘ the other; s¢ cand, that i tie L e Bien . Inman- Cigar Factory * Manufactured by aps damage her 4 ., wiile at full speed she! i # ¢ in 1wo with no more dam- | 8.00000000000000‘1-00& DOOCOVOOOCOCOLOCTOOOO0LOHH L . age to i { tlan a paint brush could 16 VACATION T' ME AND KODAK | remedly. either ¢ is the Im-”.% e — - of t\\"o ¢ it was best that meio = smaller hull should suffer. A third rea- son was that at full speed sbe could | be more ensily steered out of danger, and a fourth that in case of an end: on collision with an iceberg—the only thing atloat that she could not con- quer—ber bows would be crushed in put a few feet farther at full thao at half speed and at the most three com- partnieuts wouild “be lodded, which would not matter with six more to spare. So it was confidently expected that when ber engines had limbered them- selves the steamship Titan would land ber passenzers 3.000 miles away with the promptitude and regularity of a railway train. She had beaten all rec- ords on her maiden voyage, but up to the third return trip bad not lowered the time between Sandy Hook and Daunt's rock to the five day limit, and it was unofficially rumored among the 2,000 passengers who had embarked at New York that an effort would now be made to o so. Eight tugs dragged the great masd to midstream und pointed her nose down the river; then the pilot on the bridge spoke a word or two, the tirst officer blew a short blast on the whis tle and turned a lever, the tugs gath ered in their lines and drew off. Down in the bowels of the ship three small engines were started, opening the throttles of three large ones: three pro pellers began to revolve, and the mam moth, with a vibratory tremble run ning through her great frame, woved slowly to sea. Bast of Sandy Hook the pilot was dropped and the real voyage begun. Fifty feet below ber deck, b an in Speclal attention ferno of noise and beat and light and | given to compiling city, display and advertising maps. County and State shadow, coal passers wheeled the pick- «0- hiel fromllhe ViR it mepure~ maps kept on hand. Chemically prepared, non-fading blue prints at rea- hold, where half naked stokers, with | gonable rates. Special rates for prints in large quantities. faces like those of tortured fiends, toss: ed it into the eighty white hot mouths of the furnaces. In the engine room You Can't Enjoy Your Vacation Without a Kodak You will always have PICTURES to remind you of those b Baby pictures taken mow will be a great pleasure ten ;. from now. . CENTRAL PHARMACY Quick Service Phone 2 -3 | Booocovooa: DOUBLY DAINTY is the sight of a pretty g'r] buying a box of our contectionery. The ;i and the candy match each other per. fectly in daintiness and sweetnegy Such a scene may often be seen yere for our candies appeal to those o dainty taste, It's surprising (ua you have not yet tried them. H O. DENNY MAPS, BLUE PRINTS —— Maps of any description compiled on short notica, Prompt attention given mail orders. | the record breaker, and the passengers | some paced the deck, acquiring their | in the library, and a few took to their | berths, seasick from the slight heave | ending clenning up at which steamship These | With nine | | the steamship Titan was considered | Bullt of steel throughout and for pas. | oilers passed to and fro, in and out ot soutn the plunging, twisting, glistening steel, 0r a ap an uepr “t 0. with oil cans and waste, overseen by LAKELAND, F1A COOL AIR FOR SALE NOT HOT AIR note in tbe confused jumble of sound Dest Oscilating and Ceiling fans. All sizes at the right prices or a clicking of steel out of tune which would indicate a loosened key or nut. On deck sailors set the trian gular salls on the two masts to add their propulsion to the momentum ot dispersed themselves as suited their tastes. Some were seated in steamer chairs, well wrapped, tor, though it | was April, the salt alr was chilly: sea legs; others listened to the orches- tra In the music room or read or wrote of the ship on the ground swell. The decks were cleared, watches set at noon, and then began the never A complete line of Electric Irons that are Hot Stuff. A classy line | of Electric Cook Stoves that * > cookum sum,” and ary sallors put in so much ot their time. ) . = Hended by a six foot boatswaln, a Electric Applia i j Kang came aft on the starboard side BIVALIS %o omrenianos and beautify the home at a — price that is reasonable encugh for all to be hag, FLORIDA ELECTRIC & MACHINERY.CO. DRANE BUILDING PHONE 298 O ————————— ] M&m«m We Always PLEASE Qgr I’atrons§ We keep everything to be found in an up-to-date book store, and will be pleased to wait on you Your Neighbors We are exercising great care to sell our ROSEDALE lots only to the best class of people. Thus we give you desirable neighbors in addition to ROSEDALE'S other attratcions Wide strects, shade trees, fertilo sail, building restrictions. Inside the city, one block east from Lake Mor- ton SMITH & STEITZ and G C. ROGAN Deen-Bryant Building Whaterer you want in rea lestute we have it Unsinkable, indestructible, she car- | rled as few boats as would satisfy | the laws. These, twenty-four in num- ber, were securely covered and lashed | down to their chocks on the upper | deck, and if launched would bold 50 people. She carried no useless, cum- | bersome life rafts, but, because the law required it, each of the 3.000 berths in the passengers’, officers’ and crew’s | quarters contained a cork jacket, while about twenty circular life buoys were strewn along the rails In vlew of ber absolute superiority to other craft, a rule of navigation thoroughly believed In by some cap- talns, but not yet openly followed, was announced by the steamship company to apply to the Titan. She would steam at full speed in fog, storm and sunshine aud on the wnorthern iane route, winter and summer, for the fu lowing <sod and substantial reas. First, that If another craft sb strike ber the force of the Im would be distributed over a larger . It the Titad bgd fpll headway, ¢ @ B™esNa He Started and Turned Aside as if to Avoid Her. with palnt buckets and brushes and distributed themseives along the rail. “Darvits an’ stanchions, men—never mind the rail,” said the boatswaln “Ladies, better move your chairs back a little. Rowland, climb down out o that; you'll be overboard. Take a ven. tilator. No; you'll spill paint. Put your bucket away an’ get some sand- paper from the yeoman. Work inboard till you get it out o’ you.” The sailor addressed, a slight built n of about thirty, black bearded and | onzed to the semblance of nflmh_v( vigor, but watery eyed and unsteady | of movement, came down from the | ail_and shambled forward with his | (Continued on Page 7.) Lakeland Souvenirs, the Latest Books, and LakelandBookStore All the Popular Xage- e e e Y R RaY e n 2T 2t e Otis Hungerford. Building Contractor Twenty years’ experience. firel- Wwork. Your interests are mine me figure on your building 1are small. A postal will recelve pro= attention. Lock Box 415, or Phone No : Lakeland. Fla