Floating cities supplied with a daily newspaper in wmid-ocean. This is not a fantastic dream of the future, but a solid reality of to-day. In the great Cunard liners the "Daily Mail' Atlantic édition is edited, set in type, and published each day they are at sea.
The linerg which see the publication of this most remarkable product of modern journalism are Berengaria, Aquitania, Mauretania, Carmaia, Tyrrhenia, La-cobia, Caronia, Samaria and! Scythia The Daily Mail" Atlantic edition. is a real daily newspaper, equipped with modern machinery, edited in the big ships by trained journalists from the staff of the "Daily Mail," and produced by} skilled and) seaworthy printers. i Its latest forward step is the installation of linotype machines in! the Berengaria (52,000 tons), the Aquitacia (47,000 tons), and. Mauretania (30,600 tons). In the two; first-named ships the linotype have already proved their seaworthiness.
To appreciate what this means i must be remembered that the linotype is an ingenious and elaborate device combining an immense; "typewriter" with a complex type-foundry. The whole apparatus; weights about a ton and a quarter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.