A Yankee bachelor abroad; a "wee bit" of wit and fun and some sober facts gathered during my fourteen months' sojourn in the British isles and some parts of the continent . Belfast, Wishing Chair, Giants Causeway. A YANKEE BACHELOR ABROAD. 143 t CHAPTER XX. BELFAST. MS one sails up the Belfast Lough which is joinednear the city by the river Lagan, his ears aregreeted by the hundreds of hammers at theQueen Island ship and boiler making and engineeringworks of Harlan & Wolf, which is said to be the larg-est ship building works in the world. They employfrom 7,000 to 9,000 men. Just a fe
A Yankee bachelor abroad; a "wee bit" of wit and fun and some sober facts gathered during my fourteen months' sojourn in the British isles and some parts of the continent . Belfast, Wishing Chair, Giants Causeway. A YANKEE BACHELOR ABROAD. 143 t CHAPTER XX. BELFAST. MS one sails up the Belfast Lough which is joinednear the city by the river Lagan, his ears aregreeted by the hundreds of hammers at theQueen Island ship and boiler making and engineeringworks of Harlan & Wolf, which is said to be the larg-est ship building works in the world. They employfrom 7,000 to 9,000 men. Just a few days previousto my coming from Glasgow to Belfast, they launchedthe Oceanic at these works. The passengers crowdedto the side of our steamer to see this, the largest, craftafloat. She was lying at one of the docks, being fittedup by hundreds of workmen. She is one of the WhiteStar line steamers and is now plying between NewYork and Liverpool. All the fleet of this line werebuilt at these extensive works. One day I assistedin a service at the noon-day meeting held in the largedining room at the works. While some of the em-ployees were attending to the wants of the inner manwe san
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