ico that the Dollar Steamship Line is to carry out a building programme! involving" $54,000,000 and compris. ing the construction of four electrically propelled ocean liners, pro-
Whether to regard the danger as approaching an end or merely be: ginning. Up to the present the flow of lava has rendered some 5,000 people homeless, but that does not necessarily connote an eruption, fon any large scale, for owing to the very great fertility of the soil vides a fitting occasion to look at] on the lowest slopes of the moun the rise of this company. It was 36 tain, the population is extremely. wars ago that Robert Dol-l dense, in one district reaching to "ts first went steamship many as 3,056 persons to the square
merely as an adjunct sines, and at that time it wis] mite, while below the level of 2,600 interests," The first ship to his lumber] he owned) $t)2¢ n nie Put below the 930 to, the level of sq mile. In the circumstance a flow was the Newsboy, which was a small of lava confined to a comparatively schooner-rigged steamer of about small district might result in the 30 Th fangy and this wax porshased comer mentioned wing made with the idea of carrying lumber! homeless. It is, however, impossible from America to the Fur Bast.
At} egos to build up too great hopes upon that time there were no regular] stich surmises as these, for we are, freights from China to the United dealing with one of nature's forces States, and ax Captain Dollar—has which has broken loose at different, never been abe believer in allowing allowing] periods recorded by history for ships to tray News- over 25 centuries.
Eruptions in the: boy picked bad Bs 8th and Sth centuries B. C. are won and] spoken of by Thueydies, and Livy imilar commudities, The necessity shaven Of by Thacadides, and Fey to obtain. such cargoes Ted to. the) Comm each ae centuries inter. establishment of a merchandising Connection with, the present outs department, but with the growth Of break and which is ten or 12 hours? trans-Pacific trae this ultimately] Soumney from the. suramit, wae Jyeame no longer an essential and vwns discon The venture with the Newsboy wats suevessful, and led to the acquisi 7 and a number of ye: known Dollar boats fence, This was an vance in the history of the company, and it paved the way for the aequis' tion of the President liners in 192 which play so Important a part in the Unde of the Far Kast. The Della Company has now 17 of these, and it is certainly a remarkable! thing that no more than 36. years:
ed from the time when its only jentative on the seas war the R0-ft. Newsboy. Incidentally ni, the steamship business is. no) Toner an adjuney to that of ut is the company's principal con:
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