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wima V - , H ! V. 7, Y t ' r vf 5 ; X :lliroeeh 1 V S ,..;n:-., nun si ' i r" 'I Latest Addition the Llixuriesgf Travel y Sea T 'HE INVALID, her, hlsband, her . doctor and her nurse hovering solicitously about her steamer chair as she reclined in her appointed place on the promenade deck, while the maid " stood resignedly awaiting any chance to be useful, gazed beyond the smooth green swells to the far, clear.-line of the horizon. She shook her head' fretfully. , : "No," she reiterated. "Nothing tan eat nothing at all. I wish" to her duti ful husband- "our whole ten millions were at the bottom of this wretched ocean and I was. picking strawberries again on the farm." Her face brightened. "I'd. steal them then, as I used to while I picked' Lome and steal some now" suggest ed the husband. "What I In the middle of the Atlantic ocean?" , "Sure! Come on; I'll help you." Her husband on one side and the eager maid on the other, she allowed herself to be supported, protesting incredulity, until she reached what looked to be and really wasa greenhouse on the steamer's sun deck. ,'Theref blushing pink on their vines, xverc plenty of the viost luscious strawber ries that ever tempted an invalid. PLENTY oT other voyagers bound for .Europe this spring and summer have enjoyed the delicious proofs of the senses that money can work miracles in the widest waste of waters. . Palm gardens, truck gardens, fruit gar dens, flower gardens yes, and by one fortunate hap, butterfly gardens the latest floating par adise, that masquerades under the name of the ocean liner, has accomplished this year all of these, and so much more that, unless one experi ences their manifold luxury, he feels impelled to remain a doubting Thomas still. The garden and the truck farm are innova- lions on -the HamburgAmerican liners Amerika and Kaiscrin Auguste Victoria; .but they are far from isolated examples of the amazing lux ury to which transatlantic travel has attained. When the Lapland, the 18,500-ton steam ship of the Bed Star Line, began her voyages between New York and Antwerp, equipped for the accommodation of 750 cabin and 1700 steer age passengers, she had among her officials a totally, new functionary of the sea in the pretty person of Mies Livingston Broom, an American girl,' superintendent of an ocean department ""store. CAN GET WHOLE WARDROBES ..So thorough is. that establishment that, if a. passenger were to come on board in haste and onlf the clothes she stood in, she could purchase and have fitted before the first nightfall at sea a complete and ultrafashiohable wardrobe aiid be in perfect readiness for the evening 'dance in the ballroom, inclosed with glass, on one of the promenade decks.; " The mingling of convergences and gran deurs tebe found on a liner such as the Cunarder Mayretapia has been 'widely heraldeJ, from the series of decks' that use .up the advance guard of the alphabet in their nopenclature to the black-and-gold elevators that insist on completing the illusion of the BoaUng hotel;"" -, ; A floating hotel and that of the most ele-.. gant kind i what the first-class .liner has evo Jutej into this eummer; and, it is -along that t rend of development that- the steamships Jva isenn Auguste , v ictoria and Amerika have carried the elegance of entertainment to a level tihfen has astounded the most wealthv nf " elers not that wealthy travelers have not en joyed uch luxuries elsewhere, but that even THE OREGON; SUNDAY "JOURNAL, v PORTLAND, SUNDAY, '!. - tsinnw fftf-tiwiTFWEZimir ." .v--:'-'i ni "M -I "' t-I: : IMAM fflmiWiSftMilM'fet u m mm m-m m u m mm m v - mr w m -m m mm a a v mt a mm. mi mm ammm. 4 1 a mm mm m . -m a t m 3i. riches have their limit, and Mamtnon is sensible" . enough not to expect strawberries from'the salt seas. ' i ' . 1 '. " A daily; newspaper Mammon learnedto count on as a. sort of curiosity of WaveL Mammon got his first real thrill when his steam-' ship paper appeared with the daily market :re- ports and the exciting fact that Steel preferred had risen two points. . - . Jllrs., Mammon first felt positively safe when' she betoofe .had t K- r,; 2 "a V ' -: ,T ' , "J" -1? , W 7 - '1V . ,' Lumw"-, - 4 V.-i i v-vii 'tV!vHl rji&st " 1 A .J.'rlo'i ,-' -A wh w mo , ' .'A'.i.y k '. a r - mm m - aaa ... . i . . m. ' x 1 1- s. a i, J, i i i, vfi 4' ar m mm . , aySy; ' -' own hands put her weaHh oTris in thTs CVe"f 0,000 gardeners lo run on laud.: ; -safe-deposit box of the solid ocean bank vault . -Modestly,, after .their ; triumphs of . system " which was assigned to her suite.. nd refrigeration, the modern Yatels determined " V But along with these things came all the ? take a little .fall out-of Apicius, of ancient comforts and adjuncts of the great hotel- baths Kome, in tho matter of fisk . " , , gymnasia, social ha Us, landsmen's bedsteads in . .. t..,. " ' ' ' place of the seadog'a bunk refined into a berth, v ; ' FRESH FISH AT SEA ; . f-ASTtf f118 en garenemiTher btiih in the Alnerika and the Kaiserin 1DHl S ?d "v9 If -carte 'Auguste enormous tank,,' each 15 feet long, .3 tXS u 1 T10? ,Qat9 If ast, the' feet high and 3 feet wide, located on the' boat Z-..? "ponducted,on the w scale and by ' deck; .divided into two compartments and roofed the same m&nairement as amil e; V.nAUmV :t. ..LT " , sHll t tlm T?;f." .A- xZ,a 7 - VT.WU xar,nat London. A timMn " ;7. 'A.r.. t' ' i , .7, . , . : "u,w,i BwwiiHiig ucDui,; ,- 1 Karaen on xne upper dock est trained fruits, butter, eggs and milk at Cherbourg, and countless tons of ice' always on board, were prac ticable for a steamer wnose voyage might last a week at the utmost. '- '. A Butythere vwere'v refinementsi 'of living to which hotel management' forever . aspires,- even mpugn mey oe lorever, beyoua its. achievement. Mr., and. Mrs: Mamibon musf be convinced that ' not only, is the 'sea safe, but, to their unlimited . enign as.any uaraen ot iidentney "vuw ..wMi-.penwaxea,Bteei Duutneaas .to prevent ; the , escape of . water lu ?re in ; heavy weatner. MORNING, JUNE . 13, -1009 ?s? To any one' f amiliar with the difSculties of applying fresh water on shipboard and of keep ing fresh-water fish- alive ; in , anything except their native streams, the daring of that attempt lordered ,on .the - dive .after the Ehinegold, and Id Apieius must- have grinned as ! he yanked another lamprey out of the waters of the Styx. .But, marvelous to. relate, all the fish lived and stayed fat and hearty, until, figuring at the tables of the epicurean Mammons in the restau rant, they; enabled hundreds of luxurious trav- eers to get fetter and heartier. The adventurers of the table after that vic tory over nature ,'felf like the Wright brothers after their first, glides, downhill.: They engaged a highly, expert gardener named Petersen,, made ium a member of the regular-staff and turned him loose", with carte blancho to spend anything and d6 anything if he would only guarantee to provide, fresh fruits, 'salads and vegetables. -, V Anybody who Imows the difficulties; of flower gardening fid .trucking 'along the-Csefl$lbre can fom some" i4ea , of the courage that attempted. ,to do.it-.with.iand a thousand miles away. - - I ltJias-peenJlone-tniB aeasen and 4one- a hand herself. 1 About themiUdle of -ilaywben .on so extensive a ? scale i that f the r strawberries ? the' Amerika was three' days out on her way! to fresh from the. vines are -mere -incidental of. Xew York," several' hyacinths, taken, aboard at ocean- travel t6day,' although -they are among ? Hamburg,: opened their Duds in' the palm room ".the' newest and most uneSpected of its delights, -of the, restaurant,: - V " V I 'Kighf on the sun. deck of these giant Bteain-" : . A f ew hours, and the jtravelerg beheld, hov ships rises the greenhouse, built of staunch steel, :? ering about thetn,! great' butterflies with darkly "with ! a profusion of v windows equal to that of J-i velvet 'wings spotted with crimson and gold, the any greenhouse ashore., hey can all be opened f and ,.lhe-sunshine. In. inclement, ; - they are .as readily. Itept, closed and .winter: coils of steam pipes convert . S&sjrer-srr caer tho structure into a hothouse quite as effective as any conservatory, on land. : . -.. . There several hundred strawberry plants are installed at the .end of every voyage, so gauged ; in their development that they Tipen-during the trip. There, too, springp" overnight the mush , rooms and various greens that- are ued in the restaurant, including the lettuce, which, supplied 100 orders. during a single trip, and all -the flow era and decoratiYe, plants needed for jthe beauti fying of -tables 'and apartments. . tv i BUTTERFLIES BOBBEO lip : v .;- ; ! i. ; f '. ' ' ' , , Could there possibly be anything else in th way of ruinously ' expensive simplicity - which ' Mrs. Mammon and the "Misses, Mammon might .crave? : s..-- - , -: . -' " ' Ah, yes I Was there hot some Haronn Al i Rasdhid dream of a butterfly dance at the Belle- 'vue-Stratfdrd; in Philadelphia," where 'live, gor i geous : butterflies were . released in . the. 'palatial ballroom to complete the gay anJ picturesque scene? But that, alas lf.vas; a Parnassian flight beyond even Mammon's range. , -C, -. Foolish'desparl ; Nature. perhaps stung to very souls, of animate nature come, by sheer ae- fcident.to'dazzleambitions; man with" .-the love- - . - liness of his own creations,' and a source o ' 'amazed delight until ; the ending ot tlie voyage.
