WHAT A LINER IS LIKE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 40, 2 October 1911, Page 3

WHAT A LINER IS LIKE.

TEN MILES OF HIDING SPACE

Facts and Jigurps abor.t tl; 3 gigantic liners or the,. AjtjL'.ntic vary in their impressiveness. Tq say, that a ship is 800, foot long, or that she has eight decks, or that ,so many tons of coal are burnt a day, .is arresting, but to those not familiar with ships it is rather vague. , • V/hat is more impressive is that,’ once round the largest dock is equal to an 18-holo golf round or, tliat olectrip, trams run alongside the promenade, deck, or that passengers take then-, motor cars with them, arid go touring, round the ship be- ; titecn lunch a-nd afternoon tea. Some.tliiiig happened on a accent trip of tiic Jbeat \Vliite Star liner Olympic, to [New York, that must have brought home ‘very clearly to the public the size of this, , monster. Two stowaways were found on board soon after the ship left Southampton, and were put in “gaol”—-that is, in a third-class cabin. They > kicked a panel out of tho door, and disappeared in the ten miles of hiding space which the Olympic’s many passages and corners afford. For forty-eight hours the crew hunted for • the men, searching the ship from end to end, but when New York was made, they had not been found. At latest advices, strict watch was being kept on all the exits while the vessel was in port, and the steerage passengers were to be closely watched at the immigrants’ depot, so probably the men were caught. The ollicers believed that some of the steerage passengers were in the plot. The mystery provides the jaded novelist (not to mention -the reader) with a now held of work. A game of hide-and-seek between detectives and criminal in the “streets” and “slums” of a huge ~Atlantic liner, might be made quite thrilling.