Points For Travelers

Here are some facts that prospective visitors to Europe thls summer will find it handy to cut out and treasure up for the time at sea when they want to appear well booked as old tonrists on matters of transatlantic travel. The first steamship that crossed the Atlantic was the Savannah, in 1819, in twenty-five days, and the first regular line established was the British and American Royal Mail and Steam Packet company, in 1840. A knot is 6,080 feet long. The distance froin New York to Liverpool is 3,064 nautical miles by the northem track and 3,139 miles by the sonthern track. From Liverpool to Kew York the distances are respectively 3,039 and 3,109 miles. In estimating records the points taken on either side are Sandy Hook and Daunt's Bock, Queenstown harbor. The first light sighted on the British coast is the Buil, Cow and Calf, Ireland, and on the American coast either Nantucket or Pire Island. The largest passenger steamship in commission is the City of Paris, 10,449 tons displacement, and the steamship carcying the largest number of cabin passengere is the Etruria, 550. The longest steamship is the Teutonic, 565 feet. The greatest day's run record is 515 miles. A big steamship burns about 300 tons of coal a day, and the average expense of a voyage to Liverpool and return is $75,000 for such a vessel. A first class steamship of one of the great lines costs nearly 12,000,000. - Pbiladelphia Eecord.