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by Janet Spencer On April 23, 1838, the first steamboat to cross the Atlantic Ocean from England to America arrived in New York City. Come along with Tidbits as we remember the contribution made by steamships.

SIRIUS vs GREAT WESTERN • The SS Great Western was the first paddlewheel steamship built with the intention of crossing the Atlantic, and it was the largest passenger ship in the world at the time. Built in Bristol, England, it was launched on March 31, 1838, whereupon a fire broke out in the engine room. Damage was minimal, but fifty passengers cancelled their bookings, leaving only seven passengers to make the trip.

• Taking advantage of the delay, rival steamship Sirius embarked for New York, keen on beating the Great Western across the ocean. The Sirius left on April 4, followed by the Great Western on April 8. Even with the start, the Sirius beat the Great Western by only a single day, arriving on April 23.

• The average speed of the Sirius was 8.03 knots (14.87 km/h) but the Great Western made the trip at 8.66 knots (16.04 km/h). The Great Western went on to make 45 ocean crossings in the next eight years, averaging 16 days west to New York and 13 days going back to Britain, in a day when the journey usually took 40 days on a sail-powered boat.

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Chicken-Spinach Salad with Warm Vinaigrette 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 large red onion, cut in half and thinly sliced 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground pepper 2 packages (4 ounces each) assorted sliced wild mush- rooms (gourmet blend) 1/3 cup cider vinegar 1 tablespoon sugar 2 bags (5 to 6 ounces each) baby spinach 2 cups (1/2-inch pieces) rotisserie chicken meat (about 10 ounces) 1. In nonstick 12-inch skillet, heat 1 tablespoon oil over medium-high heat until hot. Add onion, salt and pepper, and cook 10 minutes or until onion is tender and golden, stirring occasionally. Add mushrooms and cook 5 minutes or until mushrooms are browned and liquid evaporates.

2. Stir vinegar, sugar and remaining 2 tablespoons oil into mushroom mixture.

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• Each serving: About 280 calories, 16g total fat (3g saturated), 62mg cholesterol, 455mg sodium, 11g total carbs, 8g dietary fiber, 25g protein.

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STEAMSHIP BEGINNINGS 2 • Before steamships crossed the ocean, they plied of dough into 12-inch the Lemon rivers. In Icebox 1819 the first piece steamboat its log.

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It was 1 teaspoon baking into 1/4-inch-thick slices. powder hoped this fearful sight would Indians Placeprevent slices 1 inch apart on 1/4 teaspoon baking prepared cookie sheets. soda from attacking the boat. Apparently the ploy 5. Bake until set and gold 1/8 teaspoon salt en brown around edges, was successful, as the boat encountered 3 lemons 10 to 12 minutes, no rotat 1/2 cup butter or mar- ing cookie sheets between trouble. garine (1 stick), upper and lower racks half softened way through baking. With 3/4 cup sugar FULTON’S MONOPOLY wide spatula, transfer cook 1 large egg yolk ies to wire racks to cool 1. In medium bowl, comcompletely.

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The state of New website at www.goodhouseYork granted him speed to low; beat in flour keeping.com/recipefinder/. mixture just until blended. alone the right to operate steam powered boats 3. Divide dough in half. © 2014 Hearst Communications, Inc. All rights reservedfor On waxed form oneFulton then within its paper, boundaries. asked similar rights from other states. All turned him down except Louisiana. Controlling steam traffic in Louisiana meant that Fulton ultimately controlled much of the traffic on the Mississippi, because he could prevent all other steamships from reaching New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico.

• A man named Shreve was also interested in steamboats. To challenge Fulton’s monopoly, he took a boat called the Enterprise down the Mississippi to New Orleans. He put up bail for the boat as soon as he landed, before deputies had even attached it. He then returned north to build a better steamboat, called the Washington.

• On her maiden voyage, the Washington set a speed record for travel from Louisville to New Orleans. The lawsuit against the Enterprise was still unsettled, and the Washington was quickly impounded. Shreve countered by getting a court order holding Fulton responsible for loss of income.

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FULTON’S MONOPOLY (cont’d) • By now, people realized it was a mistake to let only one company run steamboats on the river.

Public sentiment was against Fulton. Seeing the writing on the wall, lawsuits were dropped and the monopoly was broken.

• Later Shreve was appointed U.S. Superintendent of Western River Improvements. He invented the ‘snag boat’ which cleared some 300 miles of the Mississippi River of obstacles. Shreveport, Louisiana was named after him.

—Fact— One of Shreve’s tasks was to dismantle a floating, living raft made of logs and live trees, weeds and shrubs. This huge tangled mass of vegetation was 26 miles (42 km) long. Each time the Mississippi River flooded, the raft would be lifted and moved to some other location, blocking shipping lanes where ever it went. It took Shreve five years and $311,000 merely to blast a channel through the center of the raft. It wasn’t until some 30 years later when, with the help of a new invention called nitroglycerin, U.S. Engineers were able to blast away the last of the Great Raft.

BUGS IN THE SYSTEM • Shreve built many steamboats but his favorite was always the Washington. When a boiler exploded on June 9, 1819, Shreve was injured and 8 others died. This was the first in a long string of steamboat accidents.

Besides exploding boilers, another problem was the incredible heights of the boats. At first steamboats were only double-deckers, then a third and fourth deck were added. These towering boats could not hold their own against crosswinds and were often blown into shoals.

Another danger was the fact that the entire boats were made of wood and were extremely flammable.

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Shreve’s snag boats removed 2,245 snags and 1,710 overhanging trees in 300 miles.

A LANDMARK COURT CASE In 1853 the Rock Island Railroad built a drawbridge over the Mississippi River in order to let trains cross the river. When a steamboat called the Effie Afton smashed against the bridge and sunk with the loss of many lives, the owner hired a young lawyer who argued that the railroad was at fault and should be forced to remove the bridge. Although the steamboat company spent $20,000 on litigation, the case was lost. Soon railroad bridges were popping up along the length of the river. The young lawyer, however, went on to greater things. His name was Abe Lincoln.

A NEW PORT In 1851 David Denny and John Low built a cabin on the Puget Sound and started a town. Shortly afterwards the first steamboat arrived, looking for lumber to carry to San Francisco. The pioneers had lots of lumber, but there was no easy place where the logs could be loaded on the ship. The settlers decided to relocate their town to a place where boats could more easily be loaded and unloaded. The local Indians helped them find a new townsite. The new town was named for their chief. Today it’s the largest metropolitan area in the Pacific Northwest, and it the 8th largest port in the U.S. What city is it? Answer at the bottom of the page.

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• Samuel Cunard was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1787, the son of a successful carpenter. He grew up on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the thriving maritime industries of Halifax.

• At the age of 17, he took over management of his father’s large lumber yard. He then spent three years studying the shipping industry in Boston. When Samuel returned to Halifax from Boston at the age of 21, his father built a wharf and bought a schooner, and together they established the firm of A. Cunard & Son as they engaged in trading up and down the coast of Canada. Soon, a second ship was added in order to engage in river trade.

• When the War of 1812 broke out, A. Cunard & Son was one of the few shipping outfits authorized to operate in American waters while flying a neutral flag. When the war ended, Samuel went to England where be obtained the contract to carry mail from Britain to Bermuda once a month. By 1814, Bermuda enjoyed the most reliable mail delivery of any of the British colonies. In 1816, Samuel Cunard was also granted the contract to carry mail from England to Boston.

• When his father died, the company was renamed S. Cunard & Co as several of Samuel’s brothers joined the firm. By now the company owned thirty ships, all of them powered by sail which was the only option at the time. Next Samuel landed the contract to carry tea for the East India Company of London. Then he bought a coal mine in Nova Scotia and started shipping coal.

• By 1825, the Cunard brothers were becoming interested in a new invention, the steamship.

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SAMUAL CUNARD, cont’d • The Royal William ran between Halifax and Quebec. When a cholera outbreak forced the Royal William into quarantine, the company nearly went bankrupt, but Samuel Cunard was convinced that transatlantic steamship service was feasible. To test his theory, in 1833, he took the Royal William across the Atlantic from Canada to England, making the trip in only 17 days. While in England, he sold the ship.

• Five years later, Samuel Cunard was in England when he saw several side-wheel paddle steamships under construction in the race to be the first steamer to travel across the Atlantic from England to America. He followed the story of the race between the Sirius and the Great Western with interest.

• Back in Canada, he saw an ad in the London Times: “Steam vessels required for conveying Her Majesty’s Mails and Dispatches between England and Halifax, N.S., and also between England, Halifax and New York.” Cunard set sail for England at once, where he won the contract. He commissioned the construction of three steamers, knowing that this venture would make or break him. The new firm was called Cunard’s Company, shortened to simply Cunard’s. By 1940, Samuel Cunard had three steamers making regular ocean crossings in only 12 days.

• After establishing an unbeatable reputation for safety, Cunard began investing in ocean liners, dominating the Atlantic passenger trade with ships such as the RMS Queen Mary, the RMS Queen Elizabeth, and the Queen Elizabeth II.

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• In 1851 Prince Albert hosted the Great London Exhibition to showcase technological advances. In conjunction, Queen Victoria invited all nations to participate in the annual 53-mile regatta around the Isle of Wight.

Fifteen British vessels entered, plus one American boat.

• The owner of the American boat, John Stevens, was the first commodore of the New York Yacht Club, and his boat was designed by engineer George Steers, who made his living designing sleek, quick boats. It won by a wide margin. Legend has it that when the Queen asked, “Who has won?” and was told who it was, she replied, “And who is second?” only to be told, “Your Majesty, there is no second.” It was some time before the second place winner showed up.

• The trophy, made of 134 ounces of silver, was called the ‘One Hundred Guinea Cup’ because that’s how much it cost. It was awarded to Stevens and his crew. He donated the trophy to the New York Yacht Club in 1857 with the stipulation that it be awarded to the winner of international boat races held once every three years, in order to stimulate competition between countries.

• The trophy and the race were named after Stevens’ boat, and a race was born. What was the name of the ship, now the name of a famous yacht race? Answer at the bottom of the next page.

A GOOD LOSER • As a young man in Glasgow, Scotland, Thomas helped his parents run their small grocery store. He spent a few years living in the U.S. where his work in a New York City grocery store introduced him to the effectiveness of publicity events and advertising.

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A GOOD LOSER, con’t • Later Thomas returned to Glasgow and opened his own store, which was so successful that he kept opening more. He engaged in innovative marketing techniques including staging parades and hiring brass bands. By 1888 he owned over 300 stores.

• Around the time Thomas opened his 300th grocery store, the price of tea began to fall, and his middle-class customers began drinking more of it. Spotting an opportunity, Thomas opened a tea trading office and established wholesale distribution channels that allowed working-class people to be able to easily afford tea. He bought his tea in such large amounts that he was able to undercut competitor’s prices.

• This was such a successful venture that he began to invest in tea plantations. In Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), coffee plantation owners had recently suffered a coffee blight that ruined their crop, so Thomas convinced them to plant tea instead.

• In a time when most tea was sold by the pound, Thomas pioneered selling it packaged in individual bags.

• Thomas’ hobby was yachting, and he entered the America’s Cup yacht race five times, hoping to bring the trophy home to Britain. He lost every time, but the publicity he got from being ‘the world’s best loser’ caused tea sales to soar.

Today, Thomas’ last name is synonymous with tea. What’s his name? Answer below.

ANSWERS The new race was called the America’s Cup, after the first boat to win it, the AmericA. And the grocery store merchant who lost that race often but became famous for his tea was named Thomas Lipton. Today, Lipton products are available in over 110 countries worldwide.

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Traumatic. Difficult. Painful.

Those are words that can apply to downsizing when the time comes for a senior to move to a smaller living space.

At the same time, it can be exhilarating.

There are numerous websites about senior downsizing, but they all seem to agree on one thing: Get started early. Beginning months in advance to make the move a gradual process will keep stress to a minimum.

Here are a few hints to help: Write it down: If you plan to give certain treasures to others, make notes about who gets what, or give them the items now. If you’re going to hire others to help with the eventual packing and moving, make your intentions clear, especially if your things are going in a number of directions. Label everything so there is no confusion about whether things get packed or if they’re going to be picked up.

Declutter: If you had children who moved out without taking all their gear, it

all needs to go, either to the child, a charity or the trash. Your own belongings needed to be sorted into categories: definitely keep (heirlooms, expensive jewelry), donations (items in good condition such as clothing and furniture), give to relatives (keepsakes and heirlooms) and throw away (things with no real value that you don’t use). Label your piles and boxes so there are no mistakes with valuable items being thrown away by accident.

When you absolutely can’t decide: Put those belongings in one special box and hold on to them. You can decide later, once the hubbub of the move is over.

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Or Google “senior downsizing.”

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It was 40 years ago today that Henry Aaron taught the world how to play in style.

Four decades ago, Hammerin’ Hank showed us how it was done ... but the record books show that, hey, he had been doing it all along.

Twenty-five times an AllStar, 15 seasons with 30 or more home runs. All-time home-run leader until some guy named Bonds came along.

Consistency was and remains his true mantle. For that, he was honored with nearly 98 percent of the ballot for the Hall of Fame.

Bonds still ain’t there. Neither are McGwire or Sosa.

(And what were the 2 percent of voters thinking?)

But we know all that. The picture of Hank rounding the bases and getting a congratulatory slap on the back from a fan in Cincinnati is etched in our minds. But you know what else is etched in our minds? Of course you do. Racism.

Ironic that on April 15, our nation’s tax day, things got most taxing. It was two days after a shooting at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kan. It was one day after we had to detonate suspected bombs at the end of a marathon in Boston. It was Jackie Robinson Day for some, but for others it was just another day to drag the national pastime back into the mud.

And as Aaron surely knew, he was gonna be in that muck, too. His interview regarding President Barack

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Obama in USA Today all but sealed his fate.

“Sure, this country has a black president, but when you look at a black president, President Obama is left with his foot stuck in the mud from all of the Republicans with the way he’s treated,” Aaron stated.

“We have moved in the right direction, and there have been improvements, but we still have a long ways to go in the country. The bigger difference is that back then they had hoods. Now they have neckties and starched shirts.”

And like his accolades, it’s not necessary to mention how much vitriol and hate his remarks received.

Some thought he was antitie. Others thought he was merely cynical or maybe even a bit stupid for wearing a tie himself.

Symbolism is lost on people, apparently.

Hank Aaron erased the biggest asterisk of alltime when he broke Babe Ruth’s home-run record ... a record made when black folks didn’t even play the game. Yeah, Aaron taught us something 40 years ago. He taught us that for the crime of hitting a ball with a stick you have to endure muggings, assaults, home invasions, thievery and constant threat of personal harm.

Some things, like ignorance, apparently never go out of style.

Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in Kansas City. © 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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If your income is over the limit, you still might get help. Income Verification Office benefits case managers can help find reductions in your income. If that doesn’t happen, or if your income has gone up, you might be required to pay co-pays for the year they’re reviewing. (Unfortunately you might end up owing money back for previous year co-pays as the income information doesn’t get to them until July of the following year.)

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