AN AMERICAN LINE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 94, 24 April 1891, Page 2

AN AMERICAN LINE.

THE ATLANTIC TO BE CROSSED INSIDE FIVE DAYS.

New Yoke, March 10. An editorial will be published tomorrow in " The Seaboard" giving an outline of Austin Corbin'e scheme for swift steamers from Montauk Point, L. L, to Milford Haven, England. By the Act recently passed in Congress Mr Corbin has been able to excel all other plans for trans-Atlan-tic steamships, and the editorial says he will begin operations at once. His plan is to build eight first-claes steamships of 1,20 C tons each, all to be of steel, to be constructed in American shipyards and to be capable of making twenty-four knots an hour. By these ships it is hoped to make the distance botween Montauk Point and Milford Haven, 2,791 nautical miles, under five days.

From New York city a train of the finest vestibule cars will take passengers in two hours' time to Fort Pond Bay, where deep water will allow the heaviest draught ocean steamship to run close in shore. Passengers and baggagewill be taken on boardthese ocean monsters and inside ot five days landed iv Milford Haven, one of the finest harbours in England, where another express train will land passengers iq London in two hours.

In order to make the beat possible time these steamers will nob carry heavy freight, but will limit their cargoes to light parcels and mails. Within two years, according to " The Seaboard," the first four of these new steamships will be in commission, and it ie promised that they will eclipse anything afloat in excel' lence, safety an,d speed. By the Postal Subsidy Bill a subsidy of $4 a mile v granted first-class ships of American construction. The four ships already projected will,cost in all §12,000,000.