sleeping-car's

Updated: June 1, 2025

With steam, the sailor has become a mere deckhand; the captain a man of business and a disciplinarian, who may not know the names of the ropes on a real ship; the owner a corporation; the voyages mere trips to and fro between designated ports made with the regularity and the monotony of a sleeping-car's trips between Chicago and San Francisco.

Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot - American Merchant Ships and Sailors