Betty B.
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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The elevator boys count on 75 cents to a dollar each.
The lounge steward hopes for a bit more and none but a penny pincher would think of refusing a dollar or so for the band.
I forgot to mention the dog steward who takes care of your bull terrier or police dog in the kennels on board.
We have a score of such passengers, some of them with longer pedigrees than those of their masters.
One ought to give a fee also to the attendant who chalks out the diagrams for shuffleboard or stretches the net across which one plays tennis with his inamorata of the voyage.
A fee is also due to the lady swimming instructor, viewer of her sex, and if not,
you hand over a sum to the muscular half-naked masseur who rubs you down after your plunge in the pool the physical director in charge of the gymnasium on the hurricane deck also has an itching palm and there is a multitude of others whose hungry eyes will fairly hypnotize the dollars out of your pockets as you are leaving the ship speaking of money how the heart of columbus would swell if he could see the fortune seemingly squandered under his eyes
You remember his trials and disappointments in persuading Queen Isabella of Spain to finance his adventure?
The Queen kept him waiting for years, and in despair he had left the court on his mule for France when he was brought back with the word that she would furnish the money.
And do you know how much she put up?
All told, the cash was only $67,500, a little more than small change for the millionaire financier of today.
She took this amount from her own treasury and borrowed $60,000 additional, making her total investment $126,500.
Added to this, Columbus put in about an eighth part of the whole, and $80,000 was subscribed by the citizens of Palos, the port from which the fleet started forth on that memorable voyage.
The ships and their outfits cost $236,000.
I take these figures from Fisk's
the discovery of America, and he believes them too large.
They comprise the total expense of that trip of discovery.
Now let me give you some ideas to the cost of my flagship, the Majestic.
It was constructed by the Germans at much lower wages than those of today, and if built now, would cost between 20 and 25 million dollars.
In order to pay any kind of profit on the investment, she must earn for every round trip nearly twice the cost of the fleet
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