PAPERSPAST

"FLATS TO RENT" ON OCEAN STEAMSHIPS.

The .mammoth steamships Titanic : a ml, Olympic, which will be" completed for the White Star Hue by the end of. next year! are to.bo 45,000 tons bur;dcn, 12,500 tons lar^c than the Su- Iperb Mnuretania and/JLusitania of the .Cunard line. /■///' '■■■ The Titanic jtuuT Olympic will be ! 850 ft longjjvitli abo'|m of 90fti. Their; i boat deck' will be ;<soft. ahove the water. .The speed of , these '".'■ great j steamships- will be only/ 21 : knots, so J .that in. that respect tjtojy will not! rival! the Mauritania and > jtlnsitania. But the Titanic and Olympic will compete with the Cunards /in:; stability and of vibration in: Whatever sea 'they eucounter anil in -.spaciousness general Juxury, >" The new ships 'tvHl '■■'. be' capable of carrybi 2 -5,000 -persons; ' including ai brow of 600. The statemrboms will cqu.'il in comfqrt,rconyehiehce and the : •ioocl tafitfe ol tliejr fiiniislnngs the rooms in any of the best hotels in Jjoiidoii and Now York.' ; The staterpoms ,- will" be arranged cii suite so tli'atJ a passenger, "if lie pleasfes and if he has thft money, can rent a floating, flat with all the comforts of - Jiome and it's pnvaoy.:: : r The best suites "Wtne new ntoamers wiill have bathrooms containinK'-fixttires for any variety ojf batb. Bnsfdfis, on each boat Will be a greafr' swimming pool with divijifr, b(»ards anrt a/ well equipped gyiriiiaaiuiH, - r : r ' ■ ''.'.'■*'• - / , The main, dining th^ll each' of "the new steamers wjlt seat .600 passengers There will /be .' three cafes for the saloon pafiseiigers and o grillroom which will suggeist an old English chophouse,- with oak- stalls a-nd broad, lbiv tables" of polished mahagany. The Palm Garden will -be protected: by a :. g!a t ss roof? in %in]ter «if 3 wJll be very much like^aj garden, yritji arbors and growing Vinps and flowers. ' " {Instead of proclaiming, like soma flatowners, "children not. admitted," the White' Star line will iuvite passengers with young children by providing a nursery and playroom on il» own ateamera- " Et>ach boat will : bavf> pfne steel divided into 30 steel Vator tight compartments, whose ■ mawsive bulkheads can all b ficlosed / almultanebusly by />ro lever on tho «hip?s bridge. The engines oh the boat will be of the combination ; turbine /and reciprocating tyfJe ,sb economisiog the consumptiou of coal. . / The Olympic will be launched ue»t September,; it >is .^expected.

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