Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1906 — JUMPED OVER CHRISTMAS. [ARTICLE]

JUMPED OVER CHRISTMAS.

How Pacific Steamship Paaaengera Missed the Day entirely. One hundred persons who left Seattle on Dec. 16 for the Orient skipped Christmas day, but the oddest thing about it is that they probably knew nothing of it, but went through the observation of the natal day of the Savior, blissfully unconscious of the fact that the day was dropped from their calendar. Those who were victimized in this way were passengers on the Great Northern steamship Dakota, en route to Japan and China. The ship’s schedule provided that the steamer pass over the day line in the Pacific ocean Sunday night. Vessels going to the Orient from the United States always lose one day at the day line, and the Dakota lost hers Christmas day. She arrived at the 180th meridian just about midnight Sunday. The instant the line was struck it became Tuesday, or the day after Christmas. Passengers on the steamship were kept in the dark as to this conspiracy to rob Saint Nicholas, and an effort was un-