|
THE NEW GIANTESS TITANIC. ---------------------------------------- First Picture in the Water of the Biggest, Now on Her Way Here. ---------------------------------------- The White Star Line liner Titanic which, for a year at least, will be the largest vessel in the world. Is due to arrive in New York on Wednesday afternoon at the end of her maiden westward passage of the Atlantic. The Olympic, the Titanic's great sister, started from New York yesterday on the first voyage that she has ever made as only the second biggest ship afloat. The tonnage of the Olympic is 45.324, while that of the Titanic is 46.328 tons. When the Titanic steams into the Husdon this week New Yorkers will see a ship that is more than four city blocks long, and which, if stood on end, would be 1817 feet higher than the Metropolitan Life tower and 270 feet higher than the Singer Building. If it were possible to drop the Titanic into Broadway, for instance, at Thirty-eighth Street, she would occupy a space more than 92 feet wide, her rudders would be about opposite the Kniekerborker Theatre, while the point of her stern would extend about 80 feet north of Forty-second Street into Times Square. Twenty-two years ago, when the armored cruiser Saratoga, then the New York, went into commission, she was considered and was one of the crack fighting ships of the world. The Titanic is bigger by more than 5.000 tons than would be a cruiser five times as big as Sampson's flagship at the battle of Santiago. She is more than 6.000 tons bigger than a battleship twice as big as the great department Delaware. The following table shows the tonnage of the twelve largest liners now in the transatlantic trade:
Like her sister, the Olympic, the Titanic is a four funneled boat, the great stacks rising a fraction over 51 feet above the upper deck, while the distance from the top of the funnels to the keel is 175 feet. As for the passengers accommodations, they are among the most gorgeous of any ship ever built. There are also many innovations for travellers. They who can afford it can in the future have a private promenade deck all to themselves. These orivate promenade decks are in connection with some of the liner suites, and the Titanic is the first vessel to offer this additional luxury. Other features are the Parisian cafe and the Palm Room. In the main dinning room 500 passengers can dine in confort at the same time and there is in addition a French restaurant where 200 more may dine à la carte. Then there are Turkish baths, a swimming pool, a finaly fitted gymnasium, and a squash racquet court. Among the passengers who are coming over in the Titanic are major Archibald Butt, President Taft's military aid, Col. and Mrs John Jacob Astor, Mr and Mrs Isidor Straus, W. T. Stead, Alfred G. Vanderbilt (*) and . E. Widener. |
| Début de la page |