The evening world. Newspaper, May 15, 1922, Page 20

{ { Due in New York Wednesday Next on Maiden Trip— 956 Feet in Length, 100 Feet Beam Newest ‘‘Floating City’’ Compared With Famous Transatlantic Giants That Have Set Records in the Past By Harry Cunningham. HE White Star Line steamship Majestic, the world's largest and probably speediest steam- ship afloat, will arrive here mext Wednesday from Southampton via Cherbourg on her maiden voyage. She is 66,000 tons, 966 feet long, with @ breadth of 100 feet, an oll burner, consuming 5,700 tons of oll im a single crossing, with eight tur- bine engines, each weighing 375 tons, for driving ahead anda reversing as many, propellers, 16 fect in diamoter, capable of developing » maximum en- ergy, of 100,000 horse power, suff- cient to drive half a dozen ordinary, steamships. She has forty-eight boil- ers with 240 furnaces, having a heat- ing capacity, of approximately 220,000 square reet, or five acres. With pas- sengers, crew, stores, fuel and fresh water, the Majestic weighs 64,000 tons. The coming of the Majestic put on the ehipping records a new marvel of size, speed and magnificence in the list on which the first place be- longs to the Great Western, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic to New York. The Great Western ar- rived here in 1888 after a voyage of nearly two weeks. She was a paddle steamer of 1,342 tons, 236 feet long with a horse power of 450, and there were grave doubts whether any ves- sel, racked by machinery so heavy could stay, afloat. years later the writers on shipping news drained their inkwells of ultramarine eloquence to describe the swift and graceful might of the Inman liner City of New York (later the American liner New York) tho first of the twin screw express steam- ships, when she came up the bay, 627 feet long, bringing 1,200 passengers, But when the 46,000-ton Titanic, 882° feet long, started from Liverpool on her first voyage, which was to end in the frightful disaster off the Grand Hanks, the suction of her triple screws ‘ore the New York from her moor- ‘ogs in the Mersey, and sent her ca- veaing perilously across the stream. sud the Olympic, built in duplicate of he Titanic, is now in the second class f seu monsters, fe Mauretania, which holds the ecurd of five days, eight hours and ty-six minutes from New York to rbourg, and her sister ship the ania were designed to make ships Vike the New York seem as slow * the Olympic made them look The Mauretania is 790 feet The Vaterland, which became the (United States Transport Leviathan, With @ capacity for nearly 12,000 tr was launched by the Ge man3 in the hope she would surpass al} the world in size, luxury and speed. She reached New York on her first voyage only to be interned, and the ambitions based on her 907 feet of length, accommodations for 3,500 passengers and 54,000 gross ton- nage were never realized by her builders. The Imperator, now being remodelled, wi built to rival the Vaterland. She is sevep feet short of the Vaterland’s length, but has greater horse power and accommo- Cations for 4,100 passengers. On her trip from Hamburg to Southampton, after her delivery by the Reparation Commission from whom she was purchased by the White Star Line, the Majestic made twenty-five knots an hour without being extended. Officials of the line predict that before many trips, when ferns I renner her machinery gets ‘“Iimbered’ up, she may beat that record. The Majestic 1s a floating city of 5,100 inhabitants—that Is the number she can accommodate, including her crew of 1,000, Her interlor could house 400 eight-room city homes or 800 flats of eight rooms each, In luxuriousness, even to the replica of a Roman bath, covering an area of 820 square feet with a depth of from three to nine feet,, the Majestic is complete. There are nine steel decks with an area of seven and one-half acres. The promenade deck, fifty feet above the water is a quarter of a milo in cir- cumference. Five are in the lower part of the vessel, running the full length, subdivided by numerous bulk- heads, which form a honeycomb of compartments connected with water- tight doors. On the upper decks are the cabins and public rooms, occupying what 1s termed the middle third of the ship's length. The bridge deck is 102 feet above the keel, Elevators and stair- cases afford access in all classes to the various decks. The main public rooms are on the two upper decks. One of these is the lounge, having a floor space of 4,000 feet, large enough to hold three Amer- joan residences, Its hand-carved oak panelled walls are twenty-three fect high. Its celling 1s of crystal and carved wood. Tall French windows affofd an abundance of sunshine, This room is used for dancing and con- certs, On the opposite side of the Lounge is the Palm Court, with tal! Corinthian columns, huge palms an/ broad windows, deaped in muslin anf cluny, carpeted and furnished to give the effect of country club piazza, Opening from this room is the a la carte restaurant, done in cedar ma- hogany. Window draperies of ros silk throw a soft light into the room, blending harmoniously with the ros¢ and olive carpet, JESTIC- THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, MAY 15, 1922. peediest An unobstructed view of 250 feet is obtained from the grand foyer through these rooms, due to the man ner in which the smokestacks are constructed near the sides of the ship in two parts, uniting above the prom- enade deck. The staircases are erect- ed on the sides of the ship. The male of the species on the Ma- Jestic is more favored than the female, for the smoking room at the forward end of the boatde just above the reading and writing room, has the best location on the steamship, A clear view of the ocean ahead ts ob tained from this great hall, decorated in Tudor style with its crusaders in chain mail flanking the stone fi place. The rafters, pillars and pan- eled walls are carved oak, A frieze contains t rms of Oxford ana Cambridge, done in thelr proper colors, while numerous pointings adorn the walls, Comfortable arm chairs upholstered in Spanish leather and tables with marble tops give the room the atmosphere of a club. The main dining room, situated on F deck, withh its centra tending to E deck, is 117 feet long and 98 feet wide. It is thirty-one fect high, the loftiest in any ship. Two rows of Ionic pillars support the centrol dome or roof. Comfortable, unfastened armchairs supplant the old 75UN VERANDA IN RDRIVATE SUITE Largest, S 1, Great Western (1838), First Transatlantic Liner, 236 ft—2, New York (1888), First Twin Screw Steamship, 627 ft.—3, Mauretania, 790 ft.—Majestic, 956 ft. RRR ae sega, oem, nN THE POMPEIAN SWIMIMING POOL YOYER.and ENTRANCE TO LOUNGE a stateroom on the steamship that is not plentifully supplied with fresh air. Third class passengers fare better ss there is an Dickens, the novelist, who came here in 1842, and, in his American Notes, describes the first class saloon as narrow apartment, upper end a Gs to-ahe sound 9 “profoundly preposterc smoking room and din three baths, , th staterooms, DINING SALOON He, as well as many ship's personnel, 1s from the Olympic, diva, water supply wud heating applie Ship on the Seas ——— CRs Sm Re ewe wma i}. Tae S2 PTB 2 wstvoore elassy