Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1901 — Getting Away from Nickname. [ARTICLE]

Getting Away from Nickname.

In the future the United States steamship Scindia is to be known as Ajax. The Scindia,. it is said, acquired an unenviable reputation by the amount of soot and cinders she emitted from her smokestack. The men on board the Scindia acquired a disrespect for her and altered her name to the “Cinders.”