PREVENTION OF DESTITUTION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 87, 1 June 1911, Page 5

PREVENTION OF DESTITUTION.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE. (Received 1. 9.20 a. J } i London, May 31. One thousand delegates of public bodies and social welfare societies attended tiie National Conference for the Prevention of Destitution. SHIPBUILDING.

MONSTER OCEAX LINERS. < Received 1, 9.20' a.in.) London, May 01. iho White Star liner Titanic Ims been launched. Harland and ’Wolff are building an llainburg-American liner larger than the Titanic. The oU-900-tcn liner which the Haai-b'urg-Arnerika Line is building wall bt the biggest ship afloat. That she will not remain so long, however, is a .■patter already decided by p'-o-grammes of other firms, such as the Lmiard Line, for instance, who were months ago preparing r.lans for a 00-000-ton vessel. Nor does Jie future give. any prospect of these vessels marking the limit; indeed, the 1000 Ft ship and tne 100,U00-t:)nnor will, in the opinion of exports, bo the product of the twentieth centurv. ft i: barely ton years since the 20,000-ton liner, with a 22 knot speed, Jield the record for displacement and speed. A ;ew v ans inter Gonnatiy produced , of maintaining a speed of 2 ) knots. r .l;icn, strange to sav, tlie erm-.e for speed abated to some extent. Liners of 18 and 19 knots have ~hr.ee appeared, but the displacement has been doubled and nearly trebled. J l'9 Olympic, the larger.! vessel mow !!* active service, has -15,000 tons displacement, representing such an increase in size that no dock in the world is capable of accommodating hei. ’! Ins I act brings one to an intaresiiug point made bv a writer in the “Woild’s Work.” 'Em Ilia lard twelve years, he says, two of the main branches of r ivil engineering have been riii'i:ing a 7 great nice. I lie ship designer !nnr set tile pace, and the, liarb'.ur eng is (■'.!_ ha; to toil after him. Ihe shin designer bias bv no means reached ids limit, but few Imi bou;; '•:n accommodate the Enropo, which is probeoly tiio vessel mention’d in the (rabies; recently. Vr-t t! is leviathan is to bo superseded by ever, iu-gcr vessels. I ’ hdon I, ted I v tig’ ha:hour engineer wii! iiavc to follow so bu g as the increase in tonnage do-s----not eyerstei) the mark of commercial iciic-doliiv. iStili. in Ibe light of the prog! css t’init has already bcci medm tiie accommodation of oven tb-' 1 (I9,0!!()-to;i liner d oes not seem i;n-porri,-la.