Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1911 — Life at Sea Is Uneventful. [ARTICLE]

Life at Sea Is Uneventful.

Life at sea is as uneventful as selling groceries, according to Capt. E. J. Smith, who commands the Olympic, the largest steamship in the world, which reached port recently. He doesn't find the romance or the thrill or the sustained excitement in his life’s work that tellers of sea tales do. Of bis forty odd years on the ocean he only remembers that the work was hard and the responsibilities great ‘T have been fortunate, I suppose,” he said. "I have never been in a wreck, I have never even seen d wreck, I have never seen but one ship in distress, and I have never had a serious accident to a ship under any command. Of course, there are storms and calms, fogs and bergs, but they are the Incidents of every-day life on an ocean liner. My life has been com pletely uneventful." ,