"The Ship Without a Christmas"

Of all the ships that roam the seas, there rvill be one this year which, beciuse of its position' on the 180th meridian, *itt t. without a Christmas. The SS President Polk, in the round-the-world service of the Dollar l.ine, reaches the 180th meridian on December 24th. The next day will be globe. However, the

December 26th, according to reckoning in her position Westbound between Honolulu and Kobe, JaPan.

December 24th makes her the first in the history of the 'company to bear the title "The Ship Without A Christmas."

Though she is known this year as "The Ship Without A Christmas", that does not mean that there will be no Yuletide celebration. To be certain that the Yuletide 'spirit will prevail, even though the calendar at her location in the Pacific blots out December 25th, R. Stanley Dollar, president of the Dollar Steamship Lines, has given orders that the Christmas tree shall bloom both December 24th and December 26th. Since the Dollar Steamship Lines went into the passenger service six years ago this coming January, Christmas has found its nineteen ships in various spots of the position of the Piesident Polk on

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As the steamers of the rirund-the-world and likewise the trans-Pacific services leave San Francisco in the season approaching Christ,mas they are stocked with Christmas tiels, decoiations, favorS, souvenirs and supplies particularly associated with Christmas, Unusual entertainments are'given aboard ship in the Christmas season. Christmas carols are sung to orchestral accompaniment on Christmas Eve. Santa Claus doesn't come down the chimney but does emerge from an engine room ventilator, unaccompanied however, by the traditional team of reindeer.

It is said that the sun never sets on the Dollar Line's flrg. This year, Christmas will overspread these ships at a variety of spots round-the-world. A list of the various ships of the Line with their Christmas locations follorvs: The Round-the-World Fleet

President Johnson ... .At Nen' York

Monroe. ..At Marseilles

Wilson. .Between Colombo and Suez

Van Buren '.At SingaPore

Garfield ...At Shanghai

Polk . .....180th Meridian-no Christmas

Adams .... .At San Francisco lfarrison ...Between Havana and Cristobal

The Trans-Pacific Fleet

President Jefierson ..At San Francisco

Grant ....Between Yokohama and Seattle

Lincoln. Between Honolulu and Yokohama

Cleveland. .....Between Hongkong and Shanghai

Madison. ' '. 'At Manila

Pierce. .At Kobe, JaPan

Taft.. ....At Honolulu

McKinley. ...At Seattle

Jackson. ..Between Seattle and Yokohama

Hayes. ....Between Honolulu and San Francisco

The shore-side employees of the Dollar Line annually have a Christmas celebration aboard one of the President Liners at dock at San Francisco. It will be held aboard the SS President Jefferson this year, on December 24th' Captain Robert Dollar, founder of the Lines bearing his name, always presides at the festivities and despite his 86 years is as young in spirit as any of the office boys.

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