A NEW EXPERIMENT.
Nervous ocean passenger —' Could not collisions be prevented if outward bound vessels's hould take one route and inward the" other ?' . . . . . . ' Careful' captain—' That would not provent accidents, as fast vessels would run down the slow ones. , Passenger—' Well, how would it do for each line to have its own routo and stick to it?' _ .. , . _. ; . Captain—' Impracticable. , Passenger — 'Perhaps electric lights could —' Captain—' No good. Passenger—' Dear me ! Well, I suppose keeping a man on. the look-out who wouldn't fall asleep—' Captain—'By, Jove, I never thought of that. I'll try it.—Philadelphia Call.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4114, 27 September 1884, Page 6 (Supplement)
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94A NEW EXPERIMENT. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4114, 27 September 1884, Page 6 (Supplement)
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